January 06, 2010
May 13, 2009
August 10, 2008
new pics!
I've been taking pictures and posting them and not saying anything about it. Some of the more recent ones are Roller Skating 80s Party and OSCON 08. Whee!
April 15, 2008
new pictures!
Posted some new pictures finally, from closing day at Vail. Whee!
February 01, 2007
Boston, you are retarded.
So if you haven't heard, Boston got its panties in a bunch over some LED signs that were part of a guerilla marketing campaign for Aqua Teen Hunger Force (ATHF), which is one of the most bizarre (and amusing) shows on [adult swim]. Then [adult swim] goes and puts this shit up on their website, completely validating Boston's reaction. Unbelievable. Boston can kiss my fucking ass. THEY'RE LEDS. Good lord.
Tell them they suck for apologizing. I did:
I don't appreciate you validating the city of Boston's knee jerk retarded reaction to a harmless advertising campaign. I also don't appreciate you selling the advertising firm down the river so quickly. I realize you have a bunch of pussies in suits upstairs telling you what to do, but for $deity's sake, a disproportionate response to a bunch of LEDs doesn't require you to put on the kneepads and apologize profusely to a bunch of morans.
November 13, 2006
WHEEEEEEEE!
"those parquet floors are like the worst possible mix with new shoes and alcohol" -mia
"heh. *looks up parquet*" - me
August 10, 2006
more pics
So there has been a lot of the picture-taking in the last month or so, but not a lot of the picture-posting.
Here's some: Salt Lake City, Stiffler's Mom, LA & a whale's vagina, The Monastery, and a Rockies game.
July 29, 2006
new gallery
So just now I noticed that the link to my gallery is sort of out of date. I've been gradually migrating my pictures from phortawesome to this server, and while I'm not quite done, all my new pics are here, not there. So the links are updated. Enjoy that!
Some recent stuff I just uploaded (yeah, yeah, I know it's been a while) are pics of my going away (from Maryland) party (who took all those pictures of Karen?!), Climbing at Animal World in Boulder Canyon, Kyla and Dylan's wedding (in a skate park) and reception at the Boulder Reservoir, biking (ok not really, but we were biking inbetween all the pics) at Heil Valley Ranch and more...
June 09, 2006
November 21, 2005
less should be more
I went to shopper's food warehouse this weekend to prepare for a potluck. This is what I saw.
Mad props to Evan and Leah for the gory gummy cupcakes also.
I think this next image can speak for itself.
November 01, 2005
chevy chase, you jerk!
Saw this guy on the train the other day. He doesn't look so feisty at first glance...
But if you look at him long enough, you can tell it's an optical illusion!
Then after a while, it just gets ridiculous...
October 13, 2005
scary baby
I've got a bunch of old family photos that I am currently the caretaker of. Some of them are pretty darn amusing. I think I've gotten less photogenic with age. Decide for yourself...
September 21, 2005
penguin suit
I picked up my tux last night for Brian's wedding. The guy who took my measurements gave me the wrong size shirt, though, and I couldn't even get the top button buttoned. Worked out ok, I got a new shirt out of the deal, out of the bag new. In the spirit of "Take a picture, it'll last longer", here you go:
August 19, 2005
August 06, 2005
trading cards
Hello. So, I was talking to this guy in a bar. And he was all "You should make trading cards of yourself." But then I was all "But that's SO pretentious." And then we got into this whole long discussion and our waitress ended up punching this guy, in the bar. Ok, that didn't really happen. But I had you going there! I went to Chuck E Cheese's, for a thing:
They have this REALLY AWESOME thing where you sit in a little open booth thing and put in 1 token and it takes a picture of you, which it then converts to grayscale and applies a pencil effect. And it simulates Chuck sketching it while you wait, and he even makes a mistake that he has to erase! Then he tells you that you look good, even though that huge ZIT he just drew and erased was actually there and you really look like crap. I want one of those machines, and then every time someone comes over, I can make them get their picture taken and I can hang it up on the wall like they do in restaurants, and then I can say "Look over there, on that wall, that's everyone who has been in my house. I drew those. That's right."
June 08, 2005
November 04, 2004
November 02, 2004
how to use chopsticks
props to Darrell, I'd link ya if I knew where you were buddy
October 28, 2004
October 19, 2004
stuffed full of sushi
Several intrepid diners converged on Benihana's anoche for sushi and good times. We stumbled out the door several hours later, feckless and delightfully turgid with fish, eel, roe, and wasabi, speculating as to what percentage exactly of our engorgement we had craftily avoided payment for by opting for the $27 all-you-can-eat plan. Nobody puked either.
September 03, 2004
strike a juxtapose
busy busy busy, huge image backlog! here's a couple from the last SOTG movie this year:
July 16, 2004
ghetto popeyes
I find inspiration in the strangest places...
I'm Popeye the Sailor Man,
I eat from the Popeye's dumpster when I can
I've got a strong ticker
Cause I drinks malt liquor,
I'm Popeye the Sailor Man!
Lots of random source images for you to see.
Mad props to the GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program), because it's almost just like Photoshop, without all the piracy.
July 12, 2004
dodgeball fun
Recently I've been playing dodgeball on tennis courts on Sunday afternoons. Lightin' bastids up is always fun. Yesterday was a watershed event, though—we had almost twice as many people in one game as we'd ever had before, and that was even before the Washington Post article on our group came out today! Here are some pics from the article (links go to a scanned version of the article):
I played dodgeball a lot as a kid, in what I like to call "church Boy Scouts", but it was a different type of dodgeball usually. Every man for himself, 2 or 3 balls. You had to sit down when you got hit, but you could still get back into the game by hitting or catching a ball thrown by someone who's still in.
Our group plays what strikes me as a modified version of what I knew as greek dodge, which works really well on a tennis court, because instead of just having people on the far end once they get out, you can be on all sides of the other team. I think it also works better with a lot of people (20+ total) and a lot of balls (3+). There's a lot more strategy involved than you might think, mostly centered around keeping control of the balls and keeping your opponent moving and/or off-balance.
Good times—If you're in the MD/DC/VA area, check out the Yahoo! group linked above and come get your ass handed to you. It'll be fun. Just don't expect us to go easy on you, Nancy Boy.
May 29, 2004
May 21, 2004
May 14, 2004
April 24, 2004
this underappreciated guy...
should write for SA:
Walt Whitman
Jimmy McPerson
Future Jesus and the Dragon Slayers
US History
April 18, 2004
April 15, 2004
April 09, 2004
March 19, 2004
randobracket liiiiiives!
I don't really follow college basketball that much. It's fun to watch with fun people, but there is already fun happening there, so the basketball is just a nice touch. Anyway, I started making my NCAA bracket selections for the pool that I'm in and, while doing so, got really bored. So instead of picking teams, I wrote a randomizer. It was harder than I thought, but the hardest part was the design.
When I write things like that (I also wrote a brute-force solution to Drive Ya Nuts), it's hard to get an algorithm that's flexible enough to cover the entire problem, so the working result tends to look like a piece of crap and be really hard to debug. When my QA team of one (props to Rico) pointed out an intermittent error, I briefly cursed creation. But it's fixed now. You may stop panicking.
Ah, randomness:
March 15, 2004
my first graphs
Graphs are cool. They help people understand things that are hard to explain in other ways or they organize information differently in order to try to infiltrate your brain.I like video games. First Person Shooters, Real Time Strategy, Turn-Based Strategy, Role Playing Games and almost any combination of those. The problem with a lot of video games (especially RPGs) is that they are so complicated that it's hard to remember all the information you need to know in order to play the game effectively.
In particular, I'm playing Final Fantasy Tactics: Advance right now. The character progression is cool, but it's hard to remember all the different dependencies and all the abilities associated with each class. So I graphed them. Woo! code warning:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use GraphViz;
open F,'<races' or die "couldn't read races: $!\n";
my $fc;
{ local $/ = undef; $fc = <F> }
close F;
# race -> base -> child
# split on 3+ "blank" lines
my @races = split /(?:\s*?\n\s*?){3,}/, $fc;
for my $race (@races) {
my $g = GraphViz->new();
my ($r,@r,$flag);
$r = $1 if $race =~ /=.*?\n(.*?).\n/s; # grab race name
$g->add_node($r);
$race =~ s/^.*?\-\s*?\n//s; # only keep ability information
# iterate over abilities, saving class and prerequisite
while ($race =~ m|^(\w+(?:\s\w+)?)\s*\-\s+(.*)$|gm) {
my ($class, $prereq) = ($1, $2);
$g->add_node($class);
if ($prereq =~ m|N/A|) {
# print "base [$class]\n";
$g->add_edge($r,$class);
} else {
# print " child [$class] "; print "(multiple) " if $prereq =~ /,/;
# print "dependency [$1] " while $prereq =~ /(\d (\w+(?:\s*\w+)?))/g;
while ($prereq =~ /(\d) (\w+(?:\s*\w+)?)/g) {
my ($label, $dep) = ($1, $2);
my @options = (style => 'dotted', fontcolor => 'red', dir => 'both');
$g->add_edge($dep, $class, label => $label, @options);
}
# print "\n";
}
}
$g->as_png("$r.png");
}
March 11, 2004
March 02, 2004
sesame street terror alert scale
http://www.geekandproud.net/terror/
all the colors of sesame street to let us know when to panic!
current terror alert level is:
March 01, 2004
February 19, 2004
super snazzy
i think this sweater is the most yellow i've worn out in public in a very long time. probably since i was a kid, even. i used to have some really weird clothes. dammit, i forgot about my Waffle World t-shirt. it's still more body coverage, though. i got it at this thrift store that i forget the name of across from the Brooklyn Brewery. thanks Anna!
February 17, 2004
image backlog
cleared:
Theme: Superpowers used in everyday life. Difficulty: Unobvious | seen on a menu at the Colulmbia Hard Times Cafe... drunk cub scout |
February 05, 2004
whistler & pics
i vacationed (hehe) in whistler recently (Jan. 22-31) and it was awesome. awesome, but incredibly tiring. we stayed with some of Brent's college friends for the first three days instead of backcountry camping like we had planned (which would have been even more tiring).
after that we stayed in Tantalus Lodge, which was walking distance from the slopes and had a hot tub and heated pool. we happened to meet some people from Laurel, MD in the hot tub, which was quite weird. i never thought i'd be throwing PG in canada and having people understand me...
i had a whole ski availability fiasco, too, but randomly ended up scoring free rentals, which was nice. the snowboarders rode for 6 days straight, but between my ski problems and twisting my knee because my pansy girl quads were tired, i only made it 4 days in a row. still well worth it, and i got to check out the climbing gym.
i kinda blew my wad early the day i went bouldering cause i didn't notice the house rules that said i could put my feet anywhere unless otherwise noted. so i made the climbs a lot harder than they were meant to be. it's good to be home.
the comments in the gallery are pretty informative too, so check that out if you haven't already.
February 02, 2004
whistler warning signs
I just got back from a ski trip to Whistler, BC (that's in Canadia, for the unwashed masses) and one of the most amusing things (to me) was the warning signs. There are several things you have to watch out for in Whistler that you can pretty much count on never happening in Maryland. And they have warning signs for them. Here they are, listed in ascending order of danger.
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January 02, 2004
December 30, 2003
December 23, 2003
December 17, 2003
December 10, 2003
gallery
the pictures i took this weekend are now online! our net connection at work died today, and for some weird reason, i could still access my website... so i threw together a little gallery script, which you're looking at right now if you clicked that link. enjoy!
November 03, 2003
PANTS!
I especially identify with this picture because of my Halloween costume, which included breakaway track pants. I was a Disco Cowboy, but then people told me I looked like Kid Rock, so I took that ball and ran with it. Couldn't find anyone dressed as Pam, tho. More pictures to follow, as soon as I don't forget my camera cable.
October 10, 2003
did i do thaaaat?
drunk dialing is a bad idea...
BEFORE:
AFTER:
my bad, lo-lo!
