| This is so funny I have to share |
[Aug. 26th, 2009|12:23 pm] |
I love my wife, and I feel for her. Really, I do. She has to put up with me.
Here's a conversation we just had:
Amy: Also, this looks like a neat idea - http://www.yankodesign.com/2009/08/24/getting-lost-is-not-so-trendy/
Matt: oh wow
Matt: that's awesome
Amy: That's what I thought :)
Matt: I'm still not sure I believe it though
Amy: lol, well it's just a design idea, i think?
Matt: ah
Matt: yeah
Matt: I could design one of those
Matt: except mine teleports you wherever you're going
Matt: and it's housed in a spaceship
Amy: That might be more noticeable than a chapstick sized gps projector :-P
Matt: sure, if you disengage the cloaking device
Amy: I love you
Amy has left the conversation. |
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| This. |
[Apr. 23rd, 2009|09:51 am] |
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| Sort of occasional "Random playlist selections" entry |
[Apr. 10th, 2009|01:53 pm] |
Ryan on twitter asked about a random sampling of my iPod playlist after I spent all night adding wacky 90's music to it. Here goes:
1: I Can't Dance - Genesis (1992)
2: I Hate Everything About You - Ugly Kid Joe (1992)
3: Rhythm of my Heart - Rod Stewart (1991)
4: All I Wanna Do - Sheryl Crow (1994)
5: Hold My Hand - Hootie and the Blowfish (1995)
6: I Can See Clearly Now - Jimmy Cliff (1994)
7: Please Forgive Me - Bryan Adams (1994)
8: Shine - Collective Soul (1994)
9: Jumper - Third Eye Blind (1999)
10: Baby I Love Your Way - Big Mountain (1994)
BONUS: Mambo #5 - Lou Bega (1999) |
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| Stress |
[Apr. 8th, 2009|02:02 pm] |
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This is not an excuse to show off my new userpic |
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| More Star Trek |
[Apr. 1st, 2009|10:24 pm] |
S02E22 - Shades of Gray
The official "Riker gets a lot of tail" episode |
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| My new column is up! |
[Feb. 27th, 2009|08:46 am] |
My second article is now up and available at Simple Talk: Exchange.
It's entitled A SysAdmin's Guide to Users, wherein I discuss methods of interpersonal communication and policy writing.
Please check it out, and if you'd rate it, I'd be very appreciative!
Also, if you haven't subscribed to the newsletter, you can do that
here. There are a lot of very informative articles which come out each month, and you don't get spam from it. At least I haven't yet.
I actually wrote 75% of this article in the middle of the night while on my cruise. I woke up at four in the morning, and for some reason I wasn't tired. I wandered down to the all-night restaurant, got an iced tea, and started writing. This is the result.
Oddly enough, a lot of the first article was written at Grand Central Terminal, in the dining level. So apparently to write, I've got to be in a strange location, or a restaurant? My waistline hopes for the "strange location" option.
Thanks! And please check out the article and let me know what you think. |
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| Success! Muahaahagaha |
[Jan. 7th, 2009|07:11 am] |
I've told lots of people so far so if you've already heard, forgive me. Yesterday my first column was published after several months of incubation. You can find details at my blog. Posted via LiveJournal.app. |
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| If you drink water from the Chattanooga River, you might want to consider moving |
[Dec. 24th, 2008|02:21 pm] |
So....if you've listened to the news, read CNN, or visited any one of the other major news sites, you're probably completely unaware that yesterday one of the country's worst toxic disasters ever happened. Because no major news network is covering it.
A coal ash pond's retaining wall broke yesterday and sent 500 million gallons of coal ash sludge into the tributaries to the Tennessee River. Coal ash is what you have left after you burn coal. It contains all of the harmful components of coal that power plants aren't allowed to send into the atmosphere, like mercury, arsenic, uranium, and lots of other fun things. And it's not being reported. No one. In fact, I searched "coal ash" on CNN.com and the first result was a link to an article stating that Coal Ash is more radioactive than nuclear waste.
Why isn't this being reported? This is a major disaster, not a false alarm. It needs taken care of now. It's polluting drinking water supplies. Seriously, the EPA and FEMA need to respond.
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| Long Holiday Weekend |
[Nov. 27th, 2008|07:25 am] |
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For Thanksgiving, Amy and I will be going to Cinci to be with her family. We'll be staying through Monday, actually, so I'm getting 5 whole days in a row off work. I might forget what to do when I come back! |
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| Post on evolution |
[Nov. 25th, 2008|10:26 am] |
A blog that I typically read for IT content posted an article today about evolution. Interestingly, that they don't believe in it.
They don't even bring any monkey->human into it, just things like tiger stripes and leopard spots. I really didn't think that anyone /didn't/ believe in evolution in that scale. Well, except hard core bible literalists.
( Here's my reply )
Did I explain it ok?
I used to think that the human race wasn't going to have much more evolution physically, just because we've got no physical pressures (unless we start pulling oxygen out of carbon-monoxide or something), but this has me thinking. People with money can afford to cosmetically fix any appearance issues, but they still carry the genes to their children. We've seen this with beautiful celebrities and ugly children, but there are a lot more interesting genetic qualities out there than just ugly. Prehensile tails and the like. Wouldn't it be funny if the future ended up like some sci-fi dystopia with all the rich people living above world and the troglodytes living below, except the rich people are horribly deformed because of their genes while the troglodytes are beautiful because they still suffer the pressures of evolution?
I think I need more sleep. |
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| OSU/Michigan game |
[Nov. 22nd, 2008|12:49 pm] |
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It's the end of the 1st quarter. The game is brutal so far. Wells rocks. Go Buckeyes |
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