We Are Wizards trailer: http://www.youtube....atch?v=24fDD-P7iwU (www.youtube.com)
(featuring Brad Neely, of Wizard People, Dear Reader fame)
so, as the result of someone's half-serious comment (at the time) about selling their house at a recent party, and a half-serious response (at the time) from me about buying it, I think I'll be joining the homeowner's club relatively soon. Totally excited. Can't wait.
Pictures from my camera during the Fairchild-Minaei Event.
| 2011 Fairchild - Minaei Wedding (picasaweb.google.com) |
Apparently Louie C.K. produced, directed, shot, made, hammerededed out, flimed, scored, directed, imagined, and is selling a stand up special for $5 on his website:
https://buy.louisck.net/statement (buy.louisck.net)
I really enjoy his TV show Louie. It's kind of like Seinfield as it has his standup in between the main show bits, but generally each episode ends in a lesson learned and so in that aspect leaps bounds over Seinfield.
I just wanted to post this as it's independent of any major producers or companies, and all the profits go straight to him.
Also it has no DRM or region restrictions. Praise Jesus!
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http://community.th...read/59884800.aspx (community.thebump.com)
Actually, I'll give this comment: BWAHAHAHAHA
so i got a shoutout at the company christmas party about how cool my idea was for bringing a trampoline to Flattop.
It got me thinking, what's the next cool thing to do, i.e., what's the next thing to do with something you don't expect to see somewhere?
so....how many of you guys have passports and want to go for a drive?
As per the ancient idkfa tradition, a tradition which I started and which I seem single handedly concerned with preserving, this is the part where we post what we're thankful for. You know, because. Go.
I was driving behind a Plymouth Colt Vista this morning, not the same and the dodge colt I know, but I thought of Josh upon seeing it.
JD. Your idkfa profile picture makes me hungry. It also makes me yearn for the absurd sizes that old Lunchbox provided, but no longer exist today. Oh, longings for yesteryear...
E and I recently watched Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (she'd never seen the remake from a few years past). Since then I've had "He's a real zarkin frood, know what I'm sayin'?" stuck in my head, as well as a Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster. With some clever interweb tricks, I found this:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Bartending/Cocktails/Pan_Galactic_Gargle_Blaster (en.wikibooks.org)
We're making one of these recipes sometime.
http://www.youtube....atch?v=jitDWAx6_eA (www.youtube.com)
I feel like I should have already been watching this show. Anyone do so already? Good? Bad?
This went up on my social media profiles, but I'll put it up here too:
There are 10 piles of gold plated balls. Each pile has 10 balls. Each pile is visually identical to the other.
9 of the piles have balls that are gold plated lead, which are therefore worthless and weigh 10lbs/ball.
1 of the piles has balls that are solid gold, which are therefore worth a lot and weigh 9 lbs/ball.
Your objective is to obtain the pile of solid gold balls. However, your only diagnostic tool is a weigh scale, and it will break after *one* use. Strangely, the weigh scale is of the size and capacity that you can weigh any number of balls from any number of piles.
What's the solution?
Also consider whether or not you want to post the solution and therefore spoil it to someone who's thinking about it.
At a training thing in California this week. Hotel is next to a Whole Foods. My employers have no idea how much dried mango they're going to buy for me.
Also, other photo albums that I've been too busy or lazy to upload:
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| 2011 Jamison's Last Days before School (picasaweb.google.com) |
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| 2011 Bird Ridge (picasaweb.google.com) |
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2011 Hanus-Johnson Wedding (picasaweb.google.com) (the few I had the presence of mind to take) |
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| 2011 Camping after Wedding with Jake and Katy (picasaweb.google.com) |
I had a thought. And it's probably not a novel one, but maybe something I'd want if it's already out there.
I was hiking a few days ago, and found myself asking the question: "If I start hiking now, at one point do I have to turn back so that I can be back by X." The solution is fairly simple: keep track of how long youv'e been walking, and if doubling that time puts you past your return time, you have to turn back.
So it ends up being something like:
if ( now() + ( time_elapsed * 2 ) > start_time+max_duration ) then alarm()
This, however, assumes that it will take you exactly as much time to go out as it will to come back. That's not always the case, though, being that often when hiking you'll be walking up a mountain and then back down. The return trip will probably take 75% as long, or maybe even less. So it might be that your logic is more like this:
if ( now() + ( time_elapsed + ( time_elapsed * 0.75 ) ) > start_time+max_duration ) then alarm()
Maybe this is just a feature I've never bothered to read on for every digital watch made. But still, sort of an interesting idea, particularly if you're worried about getting back to a critical social function or something.
For anyone who doesn't facebook but still wanted to see.
https://picasaweb.google.com/johnlaurance/BabyBirth?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCKO_gOHP8_KX0gE&feat=directlink (picasaweb.google.com)
Deacon Carr Laurance was born at 2:02am September 6th. He weighed 8lbs 1oz and was 20.5" tall. Mom and baby are apparently healthy enough and we were allowed to come home tonight.
Interesting things to note, while watching Katy get her IV put in I fainted while clutching my book I was trying to read to my chest. Deacon was almost too big for Katy and the docs were telling her that if she didn't get him out with 1 more push they'd have to do an emergency C-section. That threat apparently did the trick, but on the way out we found out that Deacon and the umbilical cord wrapped twice around his neck which probably didn't help things much.
