TwoTallSocks

I’ve only warn a formal tuxedo 4 times in my life, which might actually be more than a lot of people now that I think about it. One was my mom’s second marriage where I walked her down the aisle. Then I wore a tux to two “banquets” at school (it was a religious private school, so we didn’t have a prom, just a banquet), and once when I got married. I found them to be pretty uncomfortable. It also takes a really long time to put them on and take them off. You have the cufflinks to deal with, then the weird buttons on the shirt, the cummerbund, the weird buckles on the pants… Phew. Glad my normal clothes aren’t so complex.

OneWord

When I was a kid my grandparent’s house didn’t have central heating, so they always had a kerosene heater in the kitchen to keep the house warm. One day when I was staying with them because my parents were out of town or at work, my uncle and I were playing around on a scale […]

Rotating and sorting through your pictures is much easier in the new iPhoto 4 thanks to the new slideshow controls during the slideshow. You can flip through all of the pictures one by one, rotate them, rate them, or delete them, all while seeing them in a full screen preview rather than a little thumbnail. […]

My wife and I watched Showgirls the other night… One of the repeating scenes was during their show when the “Goddess” would pop out of a volcano to make her grand entrance. Man that was a terrible movie… One of the worst I remember seeing… Ever. I think I saw parts of it when I […]

I think the word precision is quite underrated these days. It’s a good, unique word to use to make something sound “elite”. Most adjectives these days like “cool” and “awesome” and “bling bling” are so overused…

Here are a few examples of how to use the word precision to make your job title sound really cool…

Precisioneer

Vice […]

I just downloaded the demo for Uplink tonight and played it a little bit… It’s a fake hacking game basically. You are given missions by the corporation you work for and you have to spoof IP addresses, break passwords, bypass proxies and firewalls, delete log files, decrypt files, delete files, edit files, change databases, etc. […]

Why does anyone use Windows? That’s what I’ve been wondering since I got my Macs. I recently visited my dad and his computers, and heard him tell me how the computer repair shop had completely rebuilt his computer, trying to figure out why it was constantly slow and crashing frequently. They formatted the hard drive, […]

I was always interested in the game Thief on the PC… it focused on extreme stealth, forcing you to walk quietly, and in the dark so the guards didn’t see you. You had to think more than just have quick reflexes, time you moves perfectly so you could sneak into the next alley before the […]

At one point in my “professional” web design career, my dad and I were quoting a job for the Chattanooga Symphony & Orchestra web site. It would have been a fun project, lucrative too, if they had taken our bid. But they didn’t. But I probably didn’t know enough back then to do the site […]

I think I have pretty good balance, some people don’t. When I was a kid I was in gymnastics, and I pretended to be a ninja a lot, so that took some balance. Then there are other people that lose their balance just from turning around too fast or reaching for something. I don’t […]