What kind of cereal do you want to eat?

This is really funny, from neatorama

=WANT!!!!!!!!!

please feel free to buy a pair of shirts and have them shipped directly to me. thank you.

=please??

Cherry, my good friend, can you get started on one?
Now You Can Crochet Your Own Snuggies At Home I prefer a yarn that is both bullet-proof, and also is adaptive to render me invisible in the visible light and infra-red spectrum.

Thanks!!

=Welcome to Florida. We would like for you to stay a while.

=EMPAHASIS MINE=

Florida: QUARANTINE DETENTION ORDER

Department Of Health
__________ County Health Department
QUARANTINE DETENTION ORDER
By authority of Chapter 381 and 252, Florida Statutes
and Chapter 64D-3, Florida Administrative Code
_____ CHD Order #____________.
Pursuant to the authority vested in this office by Chapter 381, Florida Statutes, and by your refusal to comply with the Orders of the _______ County Health Department, you, __________ _(name)____________ are hereby DETAINED under QUARANTINE in the following

SECURE

facility, ___________________________. You are further classified as non-compliant with quarantine because after you were counseled about a communicable disease or unsafe condition that poses a threat to the public health, and methods to minimize the risk to the public and, despite such counseling, you indicated an intent by (words or actions) to expose the public to ________________. All other reasonable means of obtaining your compliance with quarantine have been exhausted; no less restrictive alternative exists.
You shall remain in detention from the date of this Order until (date) or until released from DETENTION QUARANTINE by the undersigned, such determination to be made upon the recommendation of the State Epidemiologist or State Health Officer.
While in DETENTION QUARANTINE, you shall comply with all orders of the detention facility regarding your medical care. You shall cooperate with the detention facility’s access to you and access to your medical records for purposes of delivering or monitoring your medical care.
Other Requirements/Orders:
1
Reasons For Above:
DONE and ORDERED by the ________ County Health Director/Administrator this ____
day of ___________, 20___.
By order of:
___________________________
________ County Health Department
_________Area Code & Phone Number
(for quarantine review requests, contact person)
DUTY TO COMPLY: This action is taken under the police power authority of the health department and your cooperation is required by law. Violation of any term of this Order or failure to comply during the life of this Order with the above-stated directives, including any attempt by a person to enter, exit or behave in a manner prohibited by the Order, is a CRIME.
RIGHT TO REVIEW. Upon request to the CHD, this Quarantine Order will be reviewed on an expedited basis. Review can be initiated by a phone call to the telephone number of the official whose name appears on this Order.
RIGHT TO CHALLENGE: This Quarantine Order may be challenged, such as through petition for writ of habeas corpus, Ch. 79, F.S., following the procedures set out in Rule 1.630, Florida Rules of Civil Procedure (extraordinary remedies) or by Petition For Administrative Review, sec. 120.569 et seq., F.S.
If you have concerns or questions regarding this Quarantine Order that you wish to discuss with your attorney please do so by telephone. Do not go to your attorney’s office or break this Quarantine in any way.
Legal Authority: s.381.0011(4),(5),(6) and s.381.0012(5), and s. 252.36(2), F.S.; Rules 64D-3.005 and 64D-3.007, Florida Administrative Code

Florida: QUARANTINE TO RESIDENCE ORDER

Department Of Health
__________ County Health Department
QUARANTINE TO RESIDENCE ORDER
By authority of Chapters 252 and 381, Florida Statutes
and Chapter 64D-3, Florida Administrative Code
_____ CHD Order #____________.
You, _________(name)_____________________, are hereby quarantined for protection from ________________________________, an unsafe condition or communicable disease that poses a threat to public health. You are QUARANTINED to your residence at __________________________, and shall remain there from the date of this Order until (date) or until QUARANTINE is released by the undersigned authority. YOU ARE NOT PERMITTED TO LEAVE YOUR RESIDENCE.
While in QUARANTINE, you must wear a surgical mask at all times while in the presence of any individual, including any caregiver. Your visitors and/or caregivers also must wear surgical masks at all times when in your presence. The County Health Department (CHD) will call your residence daily to obtain your temperature record, which you must take and record two times daily.
You must comply with all orders regarding your medical care. You must cooperate with the CHD including CHD access to you and access to your medical records for purposes of delivering or monitoring your medical care.
Other Requirements/Orders:
Reasons For Above:
2
DONE and ORDERED by the ________ County Health Director/Administrator this ____
day of ___________, 20___.
By order of:
___________________________
________ County Health Department
_________Area Code & Phone Number
(for quarantine review requests, contact person)
DUTY TO COMPLY: This action is taken under the police power authority of the health department and your cooperation is required by law. Violation of any term of this Order or failure to comply during the life of this Order with the above-stated directives, including any attempt by a person to enter, exit or behave in a manner prohibited by the Order, is a CRIME.
RIGHT TO REVIEW. Upon request to the CHD, this Quarantine Order will be reviewed on an expedited basis. Review can be initiated by a phone call to the telephone number of the official whose name appears on this Order.
RIGHT TO CHALLENGE: This Quarantine Order may be challenged, such as through petition for writ of habeas corpus, Ch. 79, F.S., following the procedures set out in Rule 1.630, Florida Rules of Civil Procedure (extraordinary remedies) or by Petition For Administrative Review, sec. 120.569 et seq., F.S.
If you have concerns or questions regarding this Quarantine Order that you wish to discuss with your attorney please do so by telephone. Do not go to your attorney’s office or break this Quarantine in any way.
Legal Authority: s.381.0011(4),(5),(6) and s.381.0012(5) and s. 252.36(2), F.S.; Rules 64D-3.005 and 64D-3.007, Florida Administrative Code

Florida: QUARANTINE TO RESIDENCE ORDER (NON-COMPLIANCE)

Department Of Health
__________ County Health Department
QUARANTINE TO RESIDENCE ORDER (NON-COMPLIANCE)
By authority of Chapters 381 and 252, Florida Statutes
and Chapter 64D-3, Florida Administrative Code
_____ CHD Order #____________.
You, __________ _(name)____________, have been identified as a person classified as a _______________ “contact,” or identified as a confirmed case, a probable case, or suspect case of ______________________________, a communicable disease or unsafe condition that poses a threat to the public health. You are further classified as non-compliant with quarantine because after you were counseled about a communicable disease or unsafe condition that poses a threat to the public health, and methods to minimize the risk to the public and, despite such counseling, you indicated an intent by (words or actions) to expose the public to ________________. All other reasonable means of obtaining your compliance with quarantine have been exhausted; no less restrictive alternative exists.
YOU ARE NOT PERMITTED TO LEAVE YOUR RESIDENCE. You are QUARANTINED to your residence at __________________________, and while QUARANTINED there shall continuously wear an electronic monitoring ankle bracelet on your ankle, or alternatively ________________________________________, from the date of this Order until (date) or until released from DETENTION QUARANTINE by the undersigned, such determination to be made upon the recommendation of the State Epidemiologist or State Health Officer.
While in QUARANTINE, you must wear a surgical mask at all times while in the presence of any individual, including any caregiver. Your visitors and/or caregivers also must wear surgical masks at all times when in your presence. The County Health Department (CHD) will call your residence daily to obtain your temperature record, which you must take and record two times
daily. If you do not answer your telephone or are not at home during two consecutive contact attempts, the CHD may order you to wear an electronic monitoring bracelet to ensure that you do not leave your residence. If you leave your residence while monitored, the CHD may forcibly detain you in a quarantine facility.
While in QUARANTINE, you shall comply with the orders of medical personnel regarding your medical care. You shall cooperate with the County Health Department (CHD) and with CHD access to you and to your medical records for purposes of delivering or monitoring your medical care.
Other Requirements/Orders:
Reasons For Above:
DONE and ORDERED by the ________ County Health Director/Administrator this ____
day of ___________, 20___.
By order of:
___________________________
________ County Health Department
_________Area Code & Phone Number
(for quarantine review requests, contact person)
DUTY TO COMPLY: This action is taken under the police power authority of the health department and your cooperation is required by law. Violation of any term of this Order or failure to comply during the life of this Order with the above-stated directives, including any attempt by a person to enter, exit or behave in a manner prohibited by the Order, is a CRIME.
RIGHT TO REVIEW. Upon request to the CHD, this Quarantine Order will be reviewed on an expedited basis. Review can be initiated by a phone call to the telephone number of the official whose name appears on this Order.
RIGHT TO CHALLENGE: This Quarantine Order may be challenged, such as through petition for writ of habeas corpus, Ch. 79, F.S., following the procedures set out in Rule 1.630, Florida Rules of Civil Procedure (extraordinary remedies) or by Petition For Administrative Review, sec. 120.569 et seq., F.S.
If you have concerns or questions regarding this Quarantine Order that you wish to discuss with your attorney please do so by telephone. Do not go to your attorney’s office or break this Quarantine in any way.
Legal Authority: s.381.0011(4),(5),(6) and s.381.0012(5), and s. 252.36(2), F.S.; Rules 64D-3.005 and 64D-3.007, Florida Administrative Code

Florida: QUARANTINE OF FACILITY ORDER

Department Of Health
__________ County Health Department
QUARANTINE OF FACILITY ORDER
(Hospital/Medical/Security/Parts Thereof)
By authority of Chapters 381 and 252, Florida Statutes
and Chapter 64D-3, Florida Administrative Code
_____ CHD Order #____________.
Due to an outbreak and/or the high volume of ______________ cases which is a communicable disease or unsafe condition, you, _____________(name)_______________, as the administrator, authorized representative, or person in charge of the ________________________ facility are hereby notified by the _______ County Health Department (CHD) that ___________________ of your facility is placed under a QUARANTINE. This order is in force from the date below until (date) or until QUARANTINE is released by the undersigned authority. No person shall be allowed to enter or leave your facility without the written approval of the undersigned.
While this QUARANTINE is in effect, you shall comply with all orders of the _______ County Health Department.
Other Requirements/Orders:
Reasons For Above:
1
2
DONE and ORDERED by the ________ County Health Director/Administrator this ____
day of ___________, 20___.
By order of:
___________________________
________ County Health Department
_________Area Code & Phone Number
(for quarantine review requests, contact person)
DUTY TO COMPLY: This action is taken under the police power authority of the health department and your cooperation is required by law. Violation of any term of this Order or failure to comply during the life of this Order with the above-stated directives, including any attempt by a person to enter, exit or behave in a manner prohibited by the Order, is a CRIME.
RIGHT TO REVIEW. Upon request to the CHD, this Quarantine Order will be reviewed on an expedited basis. Review can be initiated by a phone call to the telephone number of the official whose name appears on this Order.
RIGHT TO CHALLENGE: This Quarantine Order may be challenged, such as through petition for writ of habeas corpus, Ch. 79, F.S., following the procedures set out in Rule 1.630, Florida Rules of Civil Procedure (extraordinary remedies) or by Petition For Administrative Review, sec. 120.569 et seq., F.S.
If you have concerns or questions regarding this Quarantine Order that you wish to discuss with your attorney please do so by telephone. Do not go to your attorney’s office or break this Quarantine in any way.
Legal Authority: s.381.0011(4),(5),(6) and s.381.0012(5), and s.252.36(2), F.S.; Rules 64D-3.005 and 64D-3.007, Florida Administrative Code

=why i've never been in this store up until now

So anyway, I'm looking for a job, and I've been putting out applications left and right, for whatever I can find: warehouse jobs, custodial and maintenance jobs, jobs in big electronic box stores, whatever, right? So Monday night at 8:29 pm I get a call from a number I don't know and I'm in the middle of something, so it goes to voicemail and my Google Talk transcription, which I now have my phone forwarded to. It's someone from an electronics store, not Best Buy, but the other one, you know that sounds like "HaichHaichGarayegg"

And this is a portion of the transcript of the voicemail: "Hey Andy, It's, Robert you applied for a warehouse position and set up interviews for tomorrow you're available. Gimme a call. The number here is (407) xx3-xxx1 your spot of for 10 AM. As of right now and that would be at 322 East Colonial drive, but either way. Gimme a call so I know if there'll be there. Thank you. "

But keep in mind, I also played it to listen too it right? So I figure "ok, I'll call him at like 9 tomorrow and let him know I'll be there." I get up and get ready and get on the road and call him. I go straight to an automated reply at that number saying the store is open from 10 till 9, call back when the store is open. So ok, I'll just show up and be there at 10, no big.

I get to E Colonial, which my GPS takes me to what seems like a valid address in an empty lot next to 310 E Colonial. Not what I was expecting, I was expecting some storefront, but its for a warehouse job, so maybe they have an offsite office that they do hiring out of or management or something, who am I to know? So ok, I walk into 310, just to ask, just in case like theres an office in the same building with the next address up, you know. And they have no idea. Its now 9:50. I call Dee and have her look up the address, and she describes it off of google maps sat view, I can see I'm where she's describing, but the addresses go from 310 to 400somthing right next door, with an empty lot between.

At this point I'm starting to chastise myself, telling myself I've fallen too easily into the trap of being suggestible, that maybe the transcription screwed up, and maybe he said "West Colonial" for real but I heard "East" because that was what was typed. So my gps also has what seems to be a valid address for 310 W Colonial. So I head there, and its in the approximate area of the on-ramp for West-bound I-4. I call Dee again, and she looks it up, and theres an "HaichHaichGarayegg" at "3332 East Colonial." So I start driving there. Its now 10, so I call the number to let them know I will be there in 5 minutes, and get through to a person and ask for "Robert, please." . . .

She says "Who?" "Robert." "Do you mean Richard?" "Um, no, he said his name was Robert." "We don't have a Robert" (Thinking to my self -"Just bail, I'll be there in 3 minutes anyway") "Ok, thank you."

So I call Dee back and ask her to please play the voicemail off of my computer, because there is no way this guy not only gave me the wrong address, but also gave me a name of someone that doesn't work here. After all, he gave me the right phone number, Google Talk MUST have screwed it up, and because I was reading one thing and hearing another, I must have filled in the blank mentally and made myself hear what was written. So Dee plays it. And I can hear it. And he said "322 E Colonial." And he said "Robert."

So I park in front of the store at 9:08 and go in. Someone greets me and congratulates me on being the first customer of the day in this store that is empty save for the 10 employees standing around. And I say "Robert gave me a call yesterday about a job in the warehouse and asked that I be here this morning at 10." "Do you mean Richard?" "No I'm pretty sure he said 'Robert'" "Well, we have a Richard" "Ok, yeah, may I please speak to Richard?" "Yeah, why don't you have a look around, he's running late this morning."

So I have a look around, and at 9:30 Richard asks me very politely who I had talked to and why I was here. I told him, and he had no clue. So I gave him my resume and left. And by the way, not trying to be mean or anything, but Best Buy has everything this store has and more. They didn't have much at all for computer components. They had a lot of appliances and some TVs and dvd/vhs tape combos and blu-ray players but no game hardware and software section, and no movie or music section that I could see. So you are supposed to go to a store to buy a TV and a blu-ray player, but that doesn't sell any blu-ray movies? I don't get it. And I probably don't need to go back into another HaichHaichGarayegg.

Hubble Ultra Deep Field in 3-D flythrough

make sure you hit the high quality button

=BREAKING news

Snuggie For Dogs Strains Human-Canine Relations Nationwide

theres a snuggie for DOGS!

how i see it, its an actual innovation, since its not like theres dog robes readily available that you could just put on them backwards

The Solar System to Scale, both size and distance.

This is a project Sydney and I did yesterday. I would like to also thank my wife, @deedmeyer, who affixed the planets to their stands and also filmed the travel between points. I would also like to thank my son Bryson for riding along, and my other daughter Bailey for spending the entire time in the back saying "How many more are there? What are we doing? What are we doing after this? How many more are we doing?" :) If i hadn't shrunk the time on the travel and added other music, thats the soundtrack you would hear. Enjoy.

The Solar System to Scale from unknown quantity on Vimeo.

The Solar System-to scale

Syd and I are doing a project on solar system scale, did some preliminary prep work today, which included spray painting a 59.875inch circle on my front lawn to represent the sun.




The grandiose ideas in my head on how i'm going to film and produce it will more than likely fail, but i'll put more info up after we do it.

I created points on a google map to indicate where we will drive and place our scale size pictures of the planets. If you are interested in seeing the scale distances,

go to this map and zoom in.

Also, please note that (mind blowingly) at this scale, with our sun being just under 60 inches in diameter and Pluto being just over 4 miles away from it, the distance to the galactic center of the milky way galaxy would be 177,981,081.6 miles away. almost 2x the mean earth to sun distance!

=something else to make

DIY Steadicam Provides Scorcese-Like Smoothness for $10

=will do

this is just lazy. posting to my blog to try to remember something? yes.

Create Your Own Sun Jar: Lifehacker Edition

This happened to us once, the bank trying to clear a $10 check for $10,000

Unruly Teen Charges $23 Quadrillion At Drugstore

i guess 10k is a different scale tho

=CREEPY

ok, so good job at getting me to repost it evian, but why do these dancing babies creep me out so significantly? ?

=LAME

I'm sorry Mr. Bono sir, but that fact that Bono Gets Laser Jacket, Public Probably Gets Eye Damage is just sad. Because you are a flipping rock star, and even I could do this for a couple hundred bucks. Go big, sir. You need 240 of these fricking lasers strapped onto yer jacket sir. Not only would it look and be much cooler, but $192,000 for lasers for your one song use jacket is much more impressive. I'm sure you could get a discount. And a heck of a lot of geek points from thinkgeek. you could get yourself a "there are 10 types of people. . ." t shirt

time lapse

dee was marveling at how fast these were popping up this morning and had the idea to film some time lapse.

seedlings growing from unknown quantity on Vimeo.

a very reasonably priced very cool item

=want

In the intersts of proper attribution

i found the wipe stick video (that sounds really nasty) on consumerist.com , and i just saw this comment under their story. very very funny:

NoWireHangers commented on Comfort Wipe: When You Just Can't Wipe Yourself Anymore

""Being a big guy certainly has it's advantages and disadvantages" Advantages: You are large. Disadvantages: You are too large to wipe your own fat ass."

http://consumerist.com/5287396/#c13550984 5:46 PM on Jun 11

In the toilet

Please dont buy me this:

Buy me this. You can come over and use it.

Chalk this one up as "Holy Crap, this IS NOT the answer I expected. . ."

Can men breastfeed a baby?

please nobody tell my wife.

this is an awesome game

coming to xbox 360! in HD!

Another Panoramic Shot

It looks like maybe 270 degrees. I dont know why I didn't take 4 or 5 more shots to make it 360

http://www.virtualblueridge.com/parkway_tour/overlooks/00424a.asp

Herrin Knob on the Blue Ridge Parkway.

More pics from NC last week

The Devils Courthouse

The automatic stitch on clevr.com didn't like the trees apparently, and the automatic stitch and blend in photoshop elements did an amazing job. from 12 photos.

let me know if you want it, i'll send you the bigger version of the stitched photo, or the individual photos.

by the way, we walked from the parking lot, you can see our red van parked. it is at an elevation of 5462 feet, and where the pics are being taken is an elevation of 5720 feet. my calves still feel tight.



This is from the parking area, towards where we walked up:

Pictures will follow

So, to make up for the fact that I never blog anything, and the "pictures > 1000 words" deal is still valid, here goes making up for the past 6 months. Don't say I didn't warn you. Although I did in fact not warn you. and i decided i'm lazy. ill put pictures up soon

We just got back from spending some time in training in Charlotte, then driving across the beautiful state of North Carolina to visit the Denardo family in Sylva/Balsaam. Seriously, this is dangerous stuff. I'm not kidding. We are going to have to move. Thirty years in one house be damned. Sorry, but how am I supposed to fight the view? and the elevation? the actual execution of it is in the details.

Seth Green's Crib

Un-Broke: The Seth Green Cribs Edition - watch more funny videos

Astrophotography is the cool,

This is the space shuttle and hubble telescope transiting in front of the sunMake sure you click on the pic to make it bigger, and make sure you click on the link to visit the artist's website. Thank you.

The Halcyon Days of Youth

So I was showing Sydney some of my stuff I still have knocking around the house from when I was in high school. That would be in 1991. Not even this century. Or millennia even. So, this was a drawing that was obviously inspired by Matt Groening (who had just started up some fly by night cartoon show on some new tv network) and his "Life in Hell" characters. He drew a bunch of businesses with these guys. My friend Nick and I drew one and mailed it to him (i think it was for a skating rink (which i unfortunately don't have a copy of)) and he send us back some nice words and a calendar for each of us. But anyway, this is another one we wrote and drew, I don't know when, it's not dated. Enjoy.

Mom and Dad at the Memorial

White water rafting in Natahala NC

This is a Kodak photo kiosk copy from 10 years ago off of my sisters actual photo from (???) 14 years ago? I think the pic was taken in May of 1995? I should really know that, because of everything else going on then. Hmmm. Yea, 1995. For definite sure. So the color is whack, and elements is not helping at all. Sorry William. It is what it is. Hope you find your original copy. (Its funny, you can see where the pic was shielded from the light by the frame around the edge.) So, video of the trip, and the rest of the story. . .some other time.

Bailey

Ok, i twitpic'd this, but i have to put it here too. This is Bailey, getting ready to go to Kendra's party, dressed up as "Super Leia"

Memorial 2009

google ads

i would like to point out that the google ads (all 6) on my site have turned into clogged toilet ads because of the post from syd's blog :0 thanks syd :) better than last time at least

The view from the room at the Blake Hotel

Ok, so yea, theres a lot of parking lot in the scene. I wish I had remembered to shoot some photos from Black Mountain, but I didn't.

Panorama of Floor 12 from the Blake Hotel on CleVR.com

toner

This is from Sydneys Blog

She typed this all in, I am presenting it here, just in case you dont have access to her blog. Enjoy. . .

Okay, me, Mom and Dad were sitting at the kitchen table with Bailey and Bryson, filling out this sheet of paper I made for our Friday Activity at the Comic Circle, whitch was entitled: Lame Heroes or Villans plus Sidekicks. We had to think of six names: 2 for Villans, 2 for Heroes, and 2 for Sidekicks, all lame. They were so funny I had to tell you them and their discriptions! Here they are! Villan: The Procastinator: Do you know what the word 'Procrastinate' means? If you do, you'll get this. Hero: Mr Slip: He give people a slight lunge forward with his power. Not garunteed to make them fall of drop their stuff, but still might. That's all he can do. Sidekick: Trip Boy: Same power as Mr Slip, only with tripping. Villan: Coffee Thief: Steals coffee. Hero: Action Phrase: Just shoots action phrases. Like "I'll be back!" and "Let's roll!". Just like a talking doll, you know? Sidekick: Pun Boy: Tells puns. Everyone gets so sick of his puns, they turn themselves in. Villan: Toilet Paper Thief: Steals Toilet Paper. Hero: The Plunger: His catch phrase is "Unclogging the toilets of evil of sinister poop!". Sidekick: Lego Lad: Shoots legos at people. That's it. Group(because they're all connected): Villan: The Copper Thief: Steals copperfrom air condisioner coils. Hero: Evaporation: He makes it so that like half of a villans drink disappears and they have to go get another one and get distracted. Sidekick: The Condenser: His job is to basically put the drinks back. Villan: Laxman: Makes people have diarrhea. Hero: Mylantaman: Cures the diarrhea. Sidekick: Peptokid: Just in case Mylantaman doesn't work. Alternate suggestion for a sidekick was 'Bidet Boy' Villan: Q and AAAH! Man: Asks everyone annoying questions and drives them crazy. Hero: Lazy Lad: Just sits around and does nothing. Sidekick: Jerry Noodllegg: Is it pronounced 'Noodle Egg' or 'Noodle Leg'? Nobody knows. Not even Jerry.

So, I've done a lot of stuff

And in typical fashion, the only way to find out what that stuff is is to just read the twitter timeline. So i'm lazy, that something i already know, so you telling me doesn't teach either of us. :) I have some pictures from NC! and they are on twitpic, so already available, and time coded thanks to the twitter timeline

so, my work here is done. thank you and good night.

And seriously. Guy in the hot tub, thats just freaking creepy. And, to elaborate on something i mentioned in tweetspace --twitter---Hot tub guy is in our class and is gonna be mad at me cause i stole his elevator. And then i spilled apple juice
10:34 PM Mar 30th from txt --end twitter--- i had gone down to the lobby to nuke the calzones, and while there, mr hot tub came and filled his water bottle with apple juice. i said to myself "hey, free apple juice" so i filled up a cup, finished up with heating up the calzones (he looked at mine and said "my, doesn't that look good") and then he goes to the elevator. he pushes the button and then goes to the front desk and says "i notice the pool says it opens at 8 but our class in there starts at 8 is there any way i can get it opened up early?" so i walk into the open elevator as i hear him say "well, thats suprising. . . " because the front desk clerk had apparently said "no" and i pushed the button for floor 2. as the doors close i hear hot tub guy say "ok, thank you" and i realize he had pushed the button, seen the open elevator, and then walked off and i stole his elevator. i figured it was going to now be an uncomfortable day in class the next day. we were sitting in the front, so theres no telling when he might throw his leg up on the table between me and simone and demand to know why i stole his elevator, and why i felt i had the right to tweet about his private activities (because of course he uses twitter, and nightly does a search under the term "hot tub" just to see whats going on).

So anyway, the elaboration of the story hasn't actually happened yet. that was the lead in to the elaboration.

so i had two take away boxes stacked on top of each other, with my calzone box on the bottom, simone and connies box on top. on top of THAT was a full glass of apple juice. and as the doors closed and i realized i was going to have to keep my guard up in class the next day, and as the elevator got to floor 2 it does some weird kind of drop that tips the cup of apple juice toward my shirt. so i get bathed in apple juice (instant karmas gonna get you, if i dont get you first) well not bathed so much, i got some apple juice on my shirt. unfortunately, most of the apple juice went down the cracks on the side of Simone calzone box and i had to (i'm sorry housekeeping staff, that was me) tip up the box and dump like 7 ounces of apple juice onto the floor of the elevator. and Simone enjoyed an apple-juice infused calzone. well, maybe enjoyed is too strong a word. sorry.


so then the next day, hot tub guy is sitting across the aisle and one row back. we happened to being going back into the classroom at the same time sometime in the morning session (he was eating heck out of the hotel apple supply) and i said to him "hey, i'm sorry i stole your elevator last night" <----- thats me trying to make things right. trying to be an honorable man. taking responsibility for the course i chart in life and the human wreckage the lies in my wake. and guess what? he looks at me like i'm some old guy in a black speedo standing with one leg on the floor of the hot tub and the other leg thrown over the edge doing creepy leg stretches. IM NOT THE WEIRD ONE FOR APOLOGIZING FOR STEALING YOUR ELEVATOR. i guess i shouldn't have mentioned it. so then later ---twitter-----Getting gas somewhere sc
10:13 PM Mar 31st from txt ----end twitter---- and ---twitter---Walterboro
10:14 PM Mar 31st from txt ----end twitter---- i'm coming out of the gas station and simone is doing weird leg stretches on the thing that keeps you from driving into the gas pump outside. so, when the CDC traces the epidemic back (of the leg stretching thing) thats the point of orgin. Quality Inn and Suites Biltmore South in Arden NC -----twitter----Guy doing odd looking leg stretches in the hot tub with connie and simone
10:07 PM Mar 30th from txt ----end twitter----

and its funny with the calzone connection because simones last name makes me think of cheese

wow, this is awesome music

Sound Waveform Bracelet

As someone who is very interested in sound and sound related vibrations, this is really cool, check it out its a sound waveform bracelet. Basically you go to their website, record some vibrations from behind your teeth, and they turn the picture of those vibrations (peak, trough, frequency, amplitude, propagation) into a bead bracelet! way hoopy cool! and its like 18 dollars from your own six seconds. its build as like an anti-drug bracelet you can give your kids so they can always have your sage words close to them, on their pipe arm, but they don't discriminate if you just want to make fart noises for your bracelet. Seriously, you can even pick what color you want your exhalation to be represented as and what color the string that reprents the baseline is. I wonder if they would just send the string if you wanted to do like a tribute to Simon and Garfunkel or something. or maybe you are a fan of Lamentations 3:28. thats really cool/weird. I know there is some song called "(i cant remember the duration) of silence" where, the (i cant remember the duration) part is a duration that i cant remember, and i thought off the top of my head it was 3:28. but when i google "3:28 of silence" it pointed me to lamentations 3:28, which has an admonition for silence. so that worked out. if the song isn't really called "3:28 of silence" (consisting of 3 minutes and 28 seconds of silence) that would have been a much better name and duration for it. i think at least. check out the bracelet link, then a good use i think would be to generate the DTMF tones for your phone number and make a bracelet out of it, that would be cool. so if the technology ever comes out to transform a sound wave representation made out of beads into actual noise you could dial your own number from your bracelet. not useful AT ALL, but thats why its a cool idea, and thats why it escaped from my head.

Cool Free Fonts

Ok, if you are as interested in installing 309 fonts that are super awesome and free and that you will probably only use 2 of twice each, but that are super cool and free anyway, go here and get them. they are theme fonts, so like the font from the matrix, or lego, or pez or you get the idea, super cool

Ok, everybody calm down.

Did a Senator actually suggest AIG bonus receivers should kill themselves? Really? Seriously, what is the major disconnect here? If AIG gives out millions, who cares? What percentage of 170 billion is 165 million? Because thats what the "Federal" Reserve gave AIG. So who cares what they do with it?

By the way, 165,000,000 is what fraction of 170,000,000,000? .09 percent or so. who cares

oh, hang on a second, i'm sorry, what am i doing talking about a mere 170 billion?

The Federal Reserve still refuses to answer specific questions about where $2 trillion in bailout funds has gone, a subject that Bloomberg News sued the Fed simply to try and discover.

so, 2 trillion compared to 165 pitiful million? its 12121.2121 times bigger. Thank you Mr Bernake.

Whoo hoo!

I just passed my course for insurance. Now I have to wait until i'm cleared by the FBI based on my prints, and I have to somehow pass the actual licensing test, not just the 40 hour schooling test. Also, please look at the Vimeo video feed on my blog page for bailey's "yoda dance" its very funny

Space Shuttle Discovery Launched

Whew! Heres a question for you? What is the next thing NASA does after they launch what they announce is "the last night launch ever for the Shuttle program?" Answer: they do another night launch. This one was originally supposed to go up wednesday at like 9:30 but was scrubbed until tonight, and its a TWILIGHT launch, not a night launch. Most of the pictures are as per expected, blurry crap, but i've got one that i imagine that i can see the shuttle and the two external tanks separated after they dropped off. thats what i'm saying it is. at least its not a street light.

Pi day!

Hope everyone has a good one! We will possibly be having 13 or 14 people over to enjoy some pie later on. Wish you all could be here!
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pi day

if you follow @khakitaco or @piday2009 on twitter, you are sick and dang tired of hearing me talk about it. but, its pi day tomorrow. happy pi day.

make sure you click the HD button

Our backyard. I need to do some work, i just wanted to show everything dead. So when the leaves come back you can see the difference.

Panorama of Backyard with the winter kill. on CleVR.com

Bryson

Ikea. URBANCAMOUFLAGE

Also. . .

I signed up for online training today for Florida Life Health and Annuities training. Its a different pretest training resource than Dee used, and it seems much better (sorry Dee!) Good thing she called our agency and asked about it and stays plugged in for new info :0 So anyway, i'm trying to cram. I hate testing for licensing. I tested for and got a Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) designation back in the stone ages of 1999, and seriously learned more on a job in a week than i did in all the time cramming to get certified. Oh well, I have the benefit of my loving wife and partner to help me learn. So, you don't want to buy life insurance do you?

Not much to see, but this is the Kepler liftoff from Central Florida

Again, not much to see, but this is the best of my hand held photos I took in regular camera mode, no flash, 10x optical zoom, infinite burst. i took 50 pics, and they all blow. Oh well, i was like 60 miles from launch site

Wow, good writers.

Remind me not to stand up Mr. Stewart for my interview.

The Daily Show With Jon StewartM - Th 11p / 10c

CNBC Gives Financial Advice

Daily Show Full Episodes
Important Things With Demetri Martin

Political Humor
Joke of the Day

OMG!!!!?!!!!!!!!!

TWO SNUGGIES! TWO BOOK LIGHTS! ONLY 15 DOLLARS US!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


i've got my robe on backwards to prepare for their delivery.

Happy Square Root Day!

its 03/03/09.

More panoramic pictures

So, i've been wanting to create and post a crapload more panoramic pictures, but our Park Friday got washed out because the kids were sick, and Bailey still coughs through the night and Bryson is still super mommy-needy, so hopefully they will be feeling better in the next couple of days and we can get out of the house.

New Pics, Same Subject

But I got out earlier, so they are closer together.

The Moon and Venus. Really far apart in the sky. And some power lines.

Ok, teh clevr thing is super awesome.

Ive always wanted to build these, and you cant get any easier than this free tool! and they have a twitter you can follow! double plus gold! now i have to go back to north carolina again.

Panorama of nighttime on CleVR.com

Cool free panoramic photo stitching site.

Panorama of Kissimmee Lakefront on CleVR.com

Insult to injury

Ok, I know its not in the best of shape, but do you have to put this in the windshield of my van parked on the street? Is it really neccesary?

Nigerian scam.

Ok, so, hanging around this internet thing, you're gonna hear about nigereans. I know there are beautiful people in Nigeria. I know there are. But the internet lore attached to the Nigerean scam is unending. Is there anyone who can navigate to this page, who can end up here on my blogger page that would or could fall for the Nigerean Prince routine, even after it has morphed into a Canadian or Antarctican Princess? I suggest that if you employ Citibank to manage your money, you ask for a refund.

For my brother, Quinn

DTV switch doesn't kill TVs, drunk septuagenarians with guns kill TVs

Interesting Article

talking about vitamin A in oranges. not that i thought a "a", i thought of "c" with oranges, but
"you would have to eat eight oranges today to get the same amount of vitamin A your grandparents got from a single orange. And you would need to eat five to get the same level of iron"

Some pictures over the past I don't know when in various places weve been.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail- funny yes! and in Japanese? funny^3

video stream

I know. I'm sorry. you have to scroll down to even get to my latest post. bad design. But I have to make the vimeo video thing visible. So check it out, videos i've uploaded. Thanks!

The weather

Wow, it is so nice out right now. A little odd that its the low 80's and last week we froze, but oh well. This is the time of year thats so cool because it lets you think of the possibilities. Which is kind of odd. Why is it only this time of season that makes me more optimistic? It would be a lot nicer if it carried through all the time, but you take what you can get. It's much more fun to spend your life convinced that anything is possible, and that change starts now. And its true all the time, but the "heel" does a pretty good job most of the time. So, here's to deciding to get out from underneath the "heel", whether it's from outside, or inside our own heads. Cheers to my friends and family of humans.

Scene It 360!

My sister bought us the Scene it Box Office Smash for 360, and they are coming out with a ton of new content, that brings questions up to super recent date. Looks worth 560 points to me!

Shrubbery!

Wow, great article.

Do you have a passport? Do you know if someone has a copy? This is an article from over on engadget about a guy in san francisco rfid wardriving. If you dont know what wardriving is, its fun (i've only done wi-fi) and if you dont know what rfid is, you should find out.

John Locke. From Lost. The t.v. show.

Is now portrayed in cube-e bend your own paper form. Sweet!

For my friends and family.

I would like to state for the record that the google ads box on the left side of the screen put up an ad with the word "nipple" in it before I ever mentioned them or used them in a sentence. In fact, thats the first time i've used that word on this published work, and it will probably degenerate my ads further. For this, I apologize.

1474 megapixels, not from one shot, obviously

ok this is way freaking cool. a 1,474 megapixel picture, of the obama inauguration, you can zoom way in. here is an info link to the artist.

heres some more pics

of the trip we just got back from. i need to just dump them all online somewhere, this is too much work.