I neglected to mention that the love cube (our Honda element) is now repaired… they replaced the whole hood – BHK think that it may be from a different model, and she might be right. I haven’t seen…
Monthly Archives: August 2008
Neko Case – Outro With Bees
Neko Case – Radio DJ Speaks
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet – 13
Cheap Trick – Hello There
Mike Post – Doogie Howser, M.D
Saturday – 9399
Yesterday’s Anniversary supper went well – Today after my shots, BHK and I pretty much hung out around the house and chilled out. I installed the new ram into my system, and it chugs nicely thus far.
Once it got cool enough outside, we went for a long walk – from out house down to the bay, along the boardwalk… and then we stumbled over the in-law’s BMG… so we gave ’em a ring to ask where they were. There was a classic car show at the “Worstlawn” Inn. Thankfully, the in-laws have the same opinion of the place as BHK and I do… so we went to Thursday’s for dinner up the road. We parted company – BHK and I walked back to our place and the in-laws tooled off home.
A few pictures from the day – They can’t capture how stunning a pink moon over the blue bay can be.
[I’ll insert flickr pics here- after they’re uploaded, and link back from a future entry.]
Some very interesting research out of the University of Washington that employs a method of using high quality photographs to enhance a video taken of the same subject. The project page gives a good overview of what they are doing and the video on the page gives some really nice examples of how their technology works. Hopefully someone can take the technology and run with it, but one thing’s for sure: this could make amateur video-making look even better than it does now.” And if adding mustaches would improve your opinion of the people in videos, check out the unwrap-mosaics technique from Microsoft Research.
via spence –
A great warrior wanted to test his manhood. Every opponent he faced fell before him. He heard of a fighting monk, an enlightened warrior who lived alone at the top of a mountain in a secret temple. He resigned himself to practice, perfect his skills, then find and face this monk in battle. It would be the ultimate validation of his mastery and abilities.
When it was time, he climbed the mountain and searched for the secret temple for seven days. All the while, he thought of the boldest, most offensive challenges that he would use to inspire the fiercest battle from the monk. On the last day, he came to a clearing and there he saw the steps of a small temple. On the steps sat a formidable man with the clothes of a holy man and a serene smile on his lips.
The warrior puffed up his chest and, with no introduction, began hurling insults upon the monk. The monk only smiled at him. The warrior redoubled his efforts, berating the monk for everything from his appearance to his mute stupidity. He questioned the virtue of his mother and heaped insults upon the sacred temple. All the while the monk sat smiling. After a time, the warrior became hoarse and enraged.
“Why do you just sit there like an idiot? Why do you smile when I insult you? If you were a real man and a worthy warrior, you would stand up to me!”, cried the warrior.
“May I ask you some questions?”, inquired the monk.
“Ask what you will.”, said the exasperated warrior, hoping that the monk’s sudden breaking of his silence was a route to engaging him and moving him to anger.
“If I give you a gift, and you refuse to take it, to whom does it belong?”
“It still belongs to you.”, replied the warrior.
The monk smiled, “To whom do the insults belong?”
When it was time, he climbed the mountain and searched for the secret temple for seven days. All the while, he thought of the boldest, most offensive challenges that he would use to inspire the fiercest battle from the monk. On the last day, he came to a clearing and there he saw the steps of a small temple. On the steps sat a formidable man with the clothes of a holy man and a serene smile on his lips.
The warrior puffed up his chest and, with no introduction, began hurling insults upon the monk. The monk only smiled at him. The warrior redoubled his efforts, berating the monk for everything from his appearance to his mute stupidity. He questioned the virtue of his mother and heaped insults upon the sacred temple. All the while the monk sat smiling. After a time, the warrior became hoarse and enraged.
“Why do you just sit there like an idiot? Why do you smile when I insult you? If you were a real man and a worthy warrior, you would stand up to me!”, cried the warrior.
“May I ask you some questions?”, inquired the monk.
“Ask what you will.”, said the exasperated warrior, hoping that the monk’s sudden breaking of his silence was a route to engaging him and moving him to anger.
“If I give you a gift, and you refuse to take it, to whom does it belong?”
“It still belongs to you.”, replied the warrior.
The monk smiled, “To whom do the insults belong?”
1 year ago – went to ER / pic
2 years ago – 1 week until I go north to BHK, fine for misuse of wifi , Doug and Gamer babies, password bypass, secret life of walter kitty, why the middle east isn’t really about terrorism
3 years ago – german link issues, hillbilly Kung-Fu zombie movie, Magda, free wifi, Abednego, bro release coming
4 years ago – Alabama Opens, local eats, fortune cookie, free fonts, how to build a universe, Florida weather/FEMA, Hurricane Disney prep, Oriental, Indian Circus-folk, lj-stats
5 years ago – Sleepy newtpic, I hate the diamond industry, Idi “VD” Amin dead, Crocodile men form the congo
6 years ago – day in chunks, Arnold sells some crazy Japanese thing, twee
7 years ago – pet/work poll, epenthesis
8 years ago – ebooks, hungry
Eric Burdon & The Animals – Sky Pilot
Friday 9398 –
I neglected to mention that the love cube (our Honda element) is now repaired… they replaced the whole hood – BHK think that it may be from a different model, and she might be right. I haven’t seen any good photos of 2006 vs other element hoods online yet, but we’ll get to the bottom of it, if it requires us to go to a car lot somewhere and look in person.
Last night at about 5:30ish, there was a storm that knocked out power to both Chesapeake Beach and North Beach… not to mention the surrounding towns, too. No juice means no oven, and since I was still dressed from work, I figured it’d be nice to take BHK out to dinner, seeing as she’s been craving meatballs all day. We tried Ledos, Asia Cafe and Mama Lucia’s north to no avail.. apparently everyone else had the same idea about eating out… even mexico was too mobbed, so we continued onwards to Mama Lucia’s south – The service was a bit on the weak side until BHK politely asked the waitress (while I was washing my hands in the men’s room) . Service improved after that…. we got home and both towns were still dark, save for places with generators.
I used the flashlight on my key chain to get us inside, and we lit a few rechargeable candle-style lamps for some ambient light. We have access to a lot of battery-powered light – cell phones, pda, laptops, flashlights… I think we could go days without running totally out of lamp-juice. That said – I want to recharge the candle-lights, since we hadn’t done them fully beforehand.The emergency flashlight and radio lit up the bathroom area nicely as a night lite – we opened the bedroom windows and went to bed, hoping that the heat wouldn’t be too bad… it wasn’t… but poor BHK didn’t sleep very well… I was snoring big time, as the CPAP runs on juice, too. Next time, I’ll bring the UPS from the computer room in to run it.
So, power was restored at about 2am this morning, and we were all able to get an hour or two’s rest before it was time for me to get up and get rolling to work. I hope to catch a little nap sometime tomorrow in order to try and catch up.
See also – BHK’s version of what happened –
Today is Chris and Larry’s 33rd wedding anniversary, and plans are to hit Selby Sub Shop for a nice little nosh. We’ve got to pick up a lemon meringue pie and sneakily get it past the parental guards.
The longest service disruption in Netflix history has apparently been resolved, with normal service resuming today. The company will compensate affected customers by adding a 15% credit automatically to their next bill. via Physorg
Random pictures from the pyecam archive. of particular interest to me are the leaping/motion ones. No special preference is being given to Newt – he just goes on cam more.
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1 year ago – train issues, farewell to R & P, tasty supper, covenant
2 years ago – raccoons, giant ants, moldy bread and freemasons make me smile, movies, geocaching, lj on venture brothers, gentle morning off, quotes meme
3 years ago – greasemap, foreign ducktales, apricot scarves… Tony Randall and vanity, Jean Charles de Menezes, bckev’s keeno covers, kayla/susie drama, hugs, top 20 pics, elvis the robo-cat, newton nibble pic, tubby newt pic
4 years ago – AvP movie. bus schedules switch, walkabout pics, Punta Gorda – Yikes
5 years ago – last skeletor and gang, insect macro photos, apartments made from text,hello kitty warhammer, human/rabbit chimera, scotto is a fuzzy monkey,frankie knocks, wondering about crusaders planting vinyards, drunkensailor quiz, complete sherlock holmes, some detective work, pursecontents, fun with google calc
6 years ago – both machines upgraded and cleaned up, fun linkies, MRE talks about writing his junk, signage systems
7 years ago – eye dialect, latitudinarian, weird dream poll, set up alternates to LJ, Newt comes to work, cool news, freaky dream
8 years ago – loony, first hints suzy using, foodies
0815081457.jpg: bhk’s version of last night
Thursday 9397 –
Power out at the house tonight, so we’re off to Mama Lucia’s for dinner! Looks like strong rains and downed trees knocked out all of North Beach and Chesapeake beach! [edit – power came back up at…
Thursday 9397 –
Power out at the house tonight, so we’re off to Mama Lucia’s for dinner! Looks like strong rains and downed trees knocked out all of North Beach and Chesapeake beach! [edit – power came back up…
Thursday 9397 –
Power out at the house tonight, so we’re off to Mama Lucia’s for dinner! Looks like strong rains and downed trees knocked out all of North Beach and Chesapeake beach! [edit – power came back up…
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pyecam (07.39 AM Aug 11, 2008): leaping back down