Archive for July, 2003

Redesign
Sunday, July 27th, 2003

As you can see I have redesigned the site. The archives and comments pages are not done yet however, and will look weird for a while until I can fix them. I might have time today to fix them, or I might not. The site is in CSS and XHTML for the most part. Should […]

Final Destination 2
Sunday, July 27th, 2003

We also watched Final Destination 2 last night, which turned out to be pretty disappointing. I generally don’t like scary movies, but I must say I liked Final Destination pretty well, for a scary movie. It was well done and had a good feeling of tension throughout the whole movie, in my opinion.

The sequel however, […]

Donnie Darko
Sunday, July 27th, 2003

Just watched Donnie Darko last night and enjoyed it quite a bit. I’m going to watch it again though, because we had to pause the movie several times while watching it, and this is a movie where you really have to sit down and watch the whole thing and pay attention if you want to […]

Your geek is isn’t showing
Saturday, July 26th, 2003

Just read about this Scott eVest in Entertainment Weekly magazine. It has up to 24 pockets, a built-in key ring, a “Personal Area Network” for you to run wires from the devices in your pockets to headphone loops at the collar of the jacket, a bottle holder, a place to put your laptop, secret credit […]

Gnoosic.com band recommender
Saturday, July 26th, 2003

This is a pretty cool site that is similar to the 20 questions game that I posted a few days ago, in that it is an artificial intelligence that learns as you use it.

You enter 3 names of bands that you like, and based on past responses it has received, it recommends new bands that […]

GIANTT Name Tags
Friday, July 25th, 2003

Since I make name tags at work this caught my eye… An organization called Group for Increased Average Name Tag Type (GIANTT) has just uh… organized a movement to promote the increased type size of name tags. The founder thinks men use her hard to read name tag as an excuse to stare at […]

OneWord: Solid
Friday, July 25th, 2003

I prefer solid deoderant to gels. Gels tend to get messy, and they are cold in the mornings. They also seem to run out faster than a good solid deodorant. I use Old Spice… Fresh scent I think. It’s blue, and solid. But also moist at the same time. It’s not a powdery solid like […]

The Swedish Thumb Player
Thursday, July 24th, 2003

This little beauty is quite possibly the coolest thing since the iPod.

Designed and sold by a company called Jens of Sweden, this thumb-sized mp3 player holds 256mb of data and also has a built-in FM tuner. But the cool features don’t stop there…

Unlike most solid-state mp3 players, the MP110 can hold any kind of data, […]

OneWord: Pitch
Thursday, July 24th, 2003

I can’t think of anything related to Zelda for the word pitch, so I’ll have to talk about when I was helping build my mom’s house in Arkansas, and was working on their really steeply pitched roof. That was some crazy business. Roofers are pretty hardcore guys, working on almost straight up slants 40 feet […]

Fun with Hitchhikers
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2003

I picked up a hitchhiker for the first time in my life last night. Mostly because Jenee’ said that he comes into the store where she works all the time, so we felt ok about picking him up. Plus he just needed to go like 3 miles. But still, it was quite an event for […]