The guys at ThinkGeek.com appear to be ahead of the game this year!
Friday, March 31, 2006
Thursday, March 30, 2006
Isn't it BEAUTIFUL?
So, Katrina was doing paints at Grandma's house today. After she painted the above shape, she pointed out to her mommy, "It's pi mommy!"
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Friday, March 24, 2006
Red vs Blue
Simmons: Do you ever wonder why we're here?
Grif: One of life's great mysteries isn't it? Why are we here? I mean, are we the product of some cosmic coincidence? Or is there really a God, watching everything. You know, with a plan for us and stuff. I don't know man, but it keeps me up at night.
Simmons: What? I mean why are we out here, in this canyon.
Grif: Uh... Oh... Yeah...
Simmons: What's all this stuff about God?
Grif: Uh... um... Nothing.
Simmons: Seriously, though. Why are we out here? As far as I can tell, it's just a box canyon in the middle of nowhere. No way in or out.
Grif: Mm-hm.
Simmons: The only reason that we set up a Red base here is 'cause they have a Blue base over there. And the only reason they have a Blue base over there is 'cause we have a Red base here.
Grif: Yeah. That's because we're fighting each other
Simmons: No, but I mean, even if we were to pull out today, and they were to come take our base, they would have two bases in the middle of a box canyon. Whoop-dee-@$&#* doo.
Simmons: His armour is PINK.
Church: Pink? I wouldn't say pink. More of a... slightly less red.
Simmons: It's pink, okay? I know pink when I see it!
O'Malley: I agree! Except, replace the word "non" with "extremely".
Sarge: May I introduce the our new light reconnaissance vehicle! It has four-inch armour plating, mag bumper suspension, a mounted machine gunner position, and total seating for three. Gentlemen, this is the M12LRV! I like to call it the Warthog.
Simmons: Why Warthog, sir?
Sarge: Because "M12LRV' is too hard to say in conversation, son.
Grif: No, but... Why Warthog? I mean, it doesn't really look like a pig.
Sarge: Say that again.
Grif: I think it looks more like a puma.
Sarge: What in Sam Hell is a puma?
Simmons: You mean like the shoe company?
Grif: No. Like a puma. It's a big cat. Like a lion.
Sarge: You're makin' that up.
Grif: I'm telling you, it's a real animal.
Sarge: Simmons, I want you to poison Grif's next meal.
Simmons: Yes, sir!
Sarge: [Points at front of the Warthog] Look, see these two tailhooks? They look like tusks. And what kind of animal has tusks?
Grif: A walrus.
Sarge: Didn't I just tell you to stop makin' up animals?
Sarge: Simmons, Grif, we're out of luck. Get ready to open fire. Today is a good day to die.
Grif: Wait! I think today is actually a good day to RETREAT. Can't we push dying to a week from Friday?
Simmons: Yeah... let's all take dying as an open-action item, and come back with suggestions next meeting.
Caboose: [Trying to calm Andy down, to stop him from exploding] Come on Andy, think of a happy place. What makes you feel happy?
Andy The Bomb: ...being in the middle of big explosion!
Church: Less happy place, less happy!
Simmons: A good password should contain at least one letter and one number. For example, your password would be '2dumb2live'.
Grif: One of life's great mysteries isn't it? Why are we here? I mean, are we the product of some cosmic coincidence? Or is there really a God, watching everything. You know, with a plan for us and stuff. I don't know man, but it keeps me up at night.
Simmons: What? I mean why are we out here, in this canyon.
Grif: Uh... Oh... Yeah...
Simmons: What's all this stuff about God?
Grif: Uh... um... Nothing.
Simmons: Seriously, though. Why are we out here? As far as I can tell, it's just a box canyon in the middle of nowhere. No way in or out.
Grif: Mm-hm.
Simmons: The only reason that we set up a Red base here is 'cause they have a Blue base over there. And the only reason they have a Blue base over there is 'cause we have a Red base here.
Grif: Yeah. That's because we're fighting each other
Simmons: No, but I mean, even if we were to pull out today, and they were to come take our base, they would have two bases in the middle of a box canyon. Whoop-dee-@$&#* doo.
Simmons: His armour is PINK.
Church: Pink? I wouldn't say pink. More of a... slightly less red.
Simmons: It's pink, okay? I know pink when I see it!
O'Malley: I agree! Except, replace the word "non" with "extremely".
Sarge: May I introduce the our new light reconnaissance vehicle! It has four-inch armour plating, mag bumper suspension, a mounted machine gunner position, and total seating for three. Gentlemen, this is the M12LRV! I like to call it the Warthog.
Simmons: Why Warthog, sir?
Sarge: Because "M12LRV' is too hard to say in conversation, son.
Grif: No, but... Why Warthog? I mean, it doesn't really look like a pig.
Sarge: Say that again.
Grif: I think it looks more like a puma.
Sarge: What in Sam Hell is a puma?
Simmons: You mean like the shoe company?
Grif: No. Like a puma. It's a big cat. Like a lion.
Sarge: You're makin' that up.
Grif: I'm telling you, it's a real animal.
Sarge: Simmons, I want you to poison Grif's next meal.
Simmons: Yes, sir!
Sarge: [Points at front of the Warthog] Look, see these two tailhooks? They look like tusks. And what kind of animal has tusks?
Grif: A walrus.
Sarge: Didn't I just tell you to stop makin' up animals?
Sarge: Simmons, Grif, we're out of luck. Get ready to open fire. Today is a good day to die.
Grif: Wait! I think today is actually a good day to RETREAT. Can't we push dying to a week from Friday?
Simmons: Yeah... let's all take dying as an open-action item, and come back with suggestions next meeting.
Caboose: [Trying to calm Andy down, to stop him from exploding] Come on Andy, think of a happy place. What makes you feel happy?
Andy The Bomb: ...being in the middle of big explosion!
Church: Less happy place, less happy!
Simmons: A good password should contain at least one letter and one number. For example, your password would be '2dumb2live'.
Tuesday, March 21, 2006
Did he just say what I think he said?
(warning: more tech humor)
Today in class I had a student that was asking me about XML and how it differs from HTML. He noticed that the tags in his XML didn't look anything like the HTML tags that he had used before. I explained that each XML page has a schema that defines what each tag means in an XML document. So XML is "Extensible" (what the X stands for) where HTML is more well defined. So, after his "ah-ha" moment he looked at the XML that he was looking over, chose a tag at random and clarified with me: "So <fu> might mean something totally different in a different context?!" Hm - yeah - it might.....
Today in class I had a student that was asking me about XML and how it differs from HTML. He noticed that the tags in his XML didn't look anything like the HTML tags that he had used before. I explained that each XML page has a schema that defines what each tag means in an XML document. So XML is "Extensible" (what the X stands for) where HTML is more well defined. So, after his "ah-ha" moment he looked at the XML that he was looking over, chose a tag at random and clarified with me: "So <fu> might mean something totally different in a different context?!" Hm - yeah - it might.....
Monday, March 20, 2006
So, that must be what I'm doing wrong...
"There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself."- J. S. Bach
Sunday, March 19, 2006
My favorite word
I have been waiting to hear it from somebody official for two days. I finally heard it on tonight's Web Forecast by Dave Aguilera on cbs4denver.com:
Upslope
*Sigh*
Upslope
*Sigh*
Saturday, March 18, 2006
Microsoft and Viruses
Why does everybody focus on Windows when they write viruses? I have a couple theories.
- Writing a virus for open source is too easy - there's no challenge in finding vulnerabilities. Instead of writing viruses, people use Linux's vulnerabilities to do direct assults on other machines.
- If a person writes a good virus for Windows, it can cripple entire enterprises, businesses and government agencies. Writing a virus for OS X might affect 10 people. Of course it also has the potential of collapsing elementary education, but that's about it.
Monday, March 13, 2006
Saturday, March 11, 2006
42
I just realized that I have 42 entries in my blog. And I still haven't found the question to life, the universe, and everything. That's okay - I'm still not panicking.
Tuesday, March 07, 2006
Living a Parable
So, a short summary of my life:
Tonight, my son was having trouble falling asleep and, of course, only I could attempt to comfort him. It was obvious that he didn't want me, he wanted mommy. It was obvious that his eye was bothering him. It was obvious that he wanted to be moving around and not lying down.
I found myself saying, "If you would just slow down and rest here with daddy, you would realize that everything is going to be okay!"
hmm...
- Our school district is switching student information systems in less than a month. Part of my job description is to support the whole school staff through the whole process. Part of my job description is to train all of the teachers at my school how to use the system - most importantly, how to take attendance on April 3rd. (It's also a personal goal to train a few other people in just a little more than just attendance to make my life easier in the long run.)
- The staff meeting where I was planning to introduce everyone to the primary concepts of the new system got cancelled today because of a pep assembly.
- I had a four day training on the new product about three weeks ago - I have yet to recover from taking four days off.
- On the last day of that training, I received notice that (thanks to decisions at the district) Apple Computer was shipping almost 100 new computers to my school - to arrive within the next week. I don't have storage space for 100 computers.
- My son had surgery on a dermoid cyst last Wednesday. All went well, but I missed yet another day of work and he seems to only feel the pain at bedtime. He also learned two tricks this week: crawling and pulling up. These are two really fun tricks for a child with eight fresh stitches over his left eye. He likes to practice these at bedtime too...
- The bookkeeper is ending the budget cycle next week so that purchases have time to amortize by the end of the fiscal year. Suffice it to say that I still have budget money to spend.
- Today, I got a call from my wife while I was at work saying that she had thrown up and that she would like me to come home as early as possible.
Tonight, my son was having trouble falling asleep and, of course, only I could attempt to comfort him. It was obvious that he didn't want me, he wanted mommy. It was obvious that his eye was bothering him. It was obvious that he wanted to be moving around and not lying down.
I found myself saying, "If you would just slow down and rest here with daddy, you would realize that everything is going to be okay!"
hmm...
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