In no particular order, here are some of my favorite memories of being a very small child. Blue toilet water The theme song to Bewitched Catching Locusts (Ciquadas) Eating angel food cake made by our neighbor Beverly Going to the Great Sand Dunes with my parents and thinking the clouds were where we were going. Getting a TCR track delivered by Santa after Christmas Catching lizards in my neighbor Betsy’s back yard Looking for snail shells with my Unc...

This is the chair I want.

Sometimes you get pictures from friends and family that really do justice to the phrase “a picture is worth a thousand words”.

Now that I can stream movies in HD, I just don’t have it in me to go out and go to Blockbuster anymore. I can’t find Gran Turino on Zune (xbox360) or comcast so I’ll just go without it.  I’m just that damn lazy now.

Coming up with crazy new hobbies in your mid-30s provides an interesting challenge. 2007: Radar Detectors / Radio scanning. 2008: Beekeeping. 2009: Dietary Supplements So looking forward, I have some new hobbies I’m looking at taking up. 1. Bats.  That is, putting up bat houses and such. 2. Gardening. Though more specifically, conservation and natural restoration. 3. Guns.  I’m having a hard time with this one because in the age of video games, guns l...

Tomorrow is the 20 year class reunion for my high school. I can’t believe it’s been that long. For me, high school was not fun. Even with the benefit of hindsight the best I could describe the overall high school experience was “horrible”.  That it was horrible wasn’t due to my classmates (though certain classmates did make a bad situation worse but my main pain from high school is in prison serving a life sentence) but just the situation overall – I was a total nerd and HS isn’t...

I was too lazy to do a clean install of Windows 7 on my Thinkpad T400.  I didn’t want to monkey arounhd with reinstalling all my software.  In hindsight, I probably would have been better off doing so as there’s so much crud on my system sucking away its life that I am regretting my decision not to just start from scratch.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091103121605.htm So it increasingly looks like sugar is really really bad for you – at least in the quanitites that the typical American now consumes. I consume more than my share of sugar and I hate to sound unconcerned about my own health but you know, I might lose some years of life becaue of my love of sugar but I’d rather have sugar than a life lacking in sweetness.

I’m still waiting to get a decent, non-windy weekend to go up north before Fall.  It ain’t looking promising.

When JoeUser first started, we had the concept of audiences where we could have a friends list and decide who could see our posts.  This system became very database intensive once we decided, after the fact, to integrate blog posts and forum posts together to optimize the overall database performance. The problem, however is that there are posts that one would make for family and friends and ones for the general public.  As I’ve learned the hard way since the change over, public s...

It’s been a tough first half of the year. Now I can finally look forward to some Summer R&R at the cottage.

So I got a scanner recently (Uniden 396XT) and it’s amazing how professional the police are despite having to deal unbelievably stupid people. Tonight I had it on and the cops were reporting on a lady who was running down the street screaming (while naked) that she could fly. The police reporting this remained calm, cool, and detached. That’s an extreme case but they deal professionally with all kinds of crazy or stupid people.

At the Game Developer’s Conference. This is a view from my hotel window.