May 15
First up, the 2006 North American Wife Carrying Championship:
From there, we move on to MUTO, a graffiti-meets-stop-motion-animation monstrosity of oddness:
MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.
May 06
Alas, it appears that my beloved home state will follow in Pennsylvania’s footsteps. On the other hand, I’m happy to see Indiana with a relevant primary. Here’s to the Hoosier vote!
Apr 14
Improv Everywhere strikes again! This time they turn a little league game into a major event, and by major I mean NBC-Sports-broadcasting-Goodyear-blimp-flying-over big.
Apr 11
Topic #1: how to choose which gang your child will join.
As Commerce City police Sgt. Joe Sandoval tells it, “they have different ideas on how the baby should be raised. Basically, she said they cannot agree on which gang the baby would ‘claim’.”
Kelly and I will be discussing this important topic tonight, in hopes of heading off a video-rack-upending-computer-destroying confrontation on down the road.
Apr 10
“We don’t have a choice when it comes to our relatives. We have a choice when it comes to our pastors and the churches we attend.”
Hillary Clinton, responding to Barak Obama’s decision to continue attending his church despite Pastor Wright’s controversial comments.
“Then he looked at those seated in a circle around him and said, ‘Here are my mother and my brothers! Whoever does God’s will is my brother and sister and mother.’
Jesus, in Mark 3:34
Do we really have more choice about our churches than we have about our families?
Mar 25
I made my own tea today. So fun! This place has delicious tea and I bet mine is great, if there are any tea drinkers out there, let me know and I can get you a free gift certificate so you can try my special blend.
Mar 24
Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency. Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us. Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty. Think big.
Daniel Burnham
Mar 12
With handlebars. It’s straight out of Tool Time.
Mar 07
A co-worker released a new version of the software that I help support; the occasion reminded me of this internet classic:
Top 10 things likely to be overheard from a Klingon Programmer
10. Specifications are for the weak and timid!
9. You question the worthiness of my code? I should kill you where you stand!
8. Indentation?! - I will show you how to indent when I indent your skull!
7. What is this talk of ‘release’? Klingons do not make software ‘releases’ Our software ‘escapes’ leaving a bloody trail of designers and quality assurance people in its wake.
6. Klingon function calls do not have ‘parameters’ - they have ‘arguments’ - and they ALWAYS WIN THEM.
5. Debugging? Klingons do not debug. Our software does not coddle the weak.
4. A TRUE Klingon Warrior does not comment on his code!
3. Klingon software does NOT have BUGS. It has FEATURES, and those features are too sophisticated for a Romulan pig like you to understand.
2. You cannot truly appreciate Dilbert unless you’ve read it in the original Klingon.
1. Our users will know fear and cower before our software! Ship it! Ship it and let them flee like the dogs they are!
Mar 03
I accepted a new job the other day and I am very excited to have this opportunity. I will be a Spectrum Health Nurse Educator. I will be helping lead a unit at the Butterworth campus that sees progressive care patients, much like the patients I see at Blodgett, except no more cardiac patients. I will have opportunities to be a resource to the staff, pair new employees with mentors and monitor their progress, and even do some classroom teaching. It is with a heavy heart however that I leave my friends and work home on 4E who I have been with for the last 5+ years. Moving on is always difficult, but I am confident this is the right move to make!
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