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Archive for August, 2006

want to sleep.

Thursday, August 31st, 2006

i’ve been pretty busy lately - i was out of town twice in the last 3 weeks, i’ve had a bunch of family come to town and leave town (currently they are post coming to town, pre-leaving), and work has been really busy. We’re working on that one thing, and this other one, plus some stuff, and it’s all looking pretty good, but ends up being a lot of work. I’m pretty excited for it to be released though, it’s cool stuff. but it makes me tired and i want to sleep.

random couple articles i saw today -
i know i like sock monkeys (i’ve had one since i was a little kid, and chewed the tail to hell back then), but this is mildly disturbing: sock monkey dress. It reminds me of the T-1000 in terminator 2, or the wicked witch of the west melting. Check out the video for the other dress that was made.

Also, this is really amazing - tiny gear - though i don’t know what they’ll do with it. I think it’s pretty cool they can make a gear 20 microns wide.

tell me why, we got to die

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tuesday is today.

Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006

the girl in the show dead like me weirds me out. She looks like she could be anywhere from 16 to 26 years old. She is actually 24, but I only know that because I looked it up on everybody’s favorite, IMDB. Also the show is rather strange, but kind of appealling. i’ve only watched an episode or two, it’s not bad.

I haven’t felt much like writing lately (like irwin).

I went to my cousin Steven’s wedding this past weekend. It was very nice, and a lot of fun. I didn’t get too much rest since I was helping him out with a few last minute things, arranging stuff, picking things up, errands and the like, but that’s cool, I still had a good time. I’ll put up pictures from the wedding soon at my picasaweb site

people who don’t return phone calls kinda suck.

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Bus.

Tuesday, August 8th, 2006

This morning I took the bus to work for the first time, due to my car being in the shop for some repairs (someone busted my driver’s side mirror off while I was parked) and not having anyone around to bum a ride from that wouldn’t take them 10 miles out of their way. I didn’t want to make any transfers cause that’s annoying, so I ended up walking down to Westlake Center where I grabbed the 545 and took that all the way to the end of the line at Bear Creek.
It was pretty easy, and as long as it’s nice out I think I’ll take it more often now that i know when and where to take it, and the walk is nice. Since I got on the bus relatively early in the route I didn’t have to worry about not getting a seat like the people hopping on at Montlake who all had to stand.

There was one older (50-60 year old) lady who provided some entertainment, for me anyway. She was talking to the bus driver about how it’s bad that sometimes the buses run late and how she missed a connection that only comes every 3 hours once. Apparently she called the Seattle Transit Authority about 15 times to talk to somebody about the problem, but didn’t really get any resolution other than leaving more of a window between the transfers - I think she only gave herself 15 minutes the first time, which is pretty silly to complain about when the bus comes every 10 minutes. I have a feeling she was some kind of engineer in the past since the “sensible” solution she suggested was that the bus system record arrival times at each route’s stops, and then calculate the mean time of arrival, as well as a standard deviation for each stop.

I don’t think that switching from a simple timetable - which does in fact include a note that after a certain the times are estimates - to a graph showing arrival time and the standard deviation from the mean for each stop will be very helpful to the general public who hasn’t studied probability or statistics.

I don’t understand this box & whisker chart!

Next time though I need to bring a book to read, or find some way to occupy my time, it’s about an hour long bus ride (vs. the 40 minute drive).

It was fun.

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goings on

Thursday, August 3rd, 2006

Famous! (mildly)
check it out, i’m on the xbox team blog.

Vegas!
I’m going to Las Vegas this weekend for my cousin’s bachelor part. it’s the first time going, excluding long long layovers. It’s gonna be a fun time, there are about 20-25 people going, and they like to go pretty crazy, so it’ll be quite a ride.

The Amazing Screw-On Head!
SciFi.com has the entire pilot of a new animated show based on the comic The Amazing Screw on Head which is written by Mike Magnola, who also does Hellboy. It’s pretty clever and not your usual superhero comic. Taking place in a steampunk alternate history while Lincoln is president, Screw-On Head is a spy, secretly fighting evil, like Emperor Zombie. The voice acting is really good with Paul Giamatti and David Hyde Pierce. Check it out, and give feedback to sci-fi so that they will make it into a show. WATCH IT!

NetVibes!
A guy who works downstairs showed me a neat RSS aggregation site called NetVibes (netvibes.com) which lets you create a bunch of tabs and layout your RSS feeds how you want, and has a number of different modules you can throw in for things like email, pictures, search, calendar, del.icio.us, ebay, and a ton of user created modules.
it’s pretty handy to have all the stuff you read regularly in one place, accecssible from anywhere.

Stuff!
Stuff is good!

what if all the world you used to know is an elaborate dream?

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Archive for August, 2006

want to sleep.

tuesday is today.

Bus.

goings on

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Blogroll

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i am meta.

iam(still)kevin.

Archive for August, 2006

want to sleep.

tuesday is today.

Bus.

goings on

i am pages.

twitter.

i am comments

Blogroll

i am tags.

i am categories.

i am archives.

i am meta.