The Morning Loot Christmas morning is presents with my immediate family: my parents and two younger sisters. Here’s the rundown: Soft mints. Yum Crayola coin bank. We’ve had a pink one since we were kids that I took over for use as my own personal bank back when I had my first girlfriend – she […]
Entries Tagged as 'Personal'
Exercise and Teenagers
December 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Personal
Exercise is an important part of keeping teens healthy. Encouraging healthy lifestyles in children and teens is important for when they grow older. Lifestyles that are learned in childhood are more likely to stay with the child into adulthood. Some changes in lifestyle can be harder to make as a person ages. The best way […]
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Meteor shower heads up: Geminids
December 11th, 2009 · No Comments · Personal
Shower Alert! This weekend will see the peak of the brilliant winter meteor shower the Geminids – Sunday night/Monday morning to be exact. Conditions look to be ideal with a sliver of a crescent moon leaving the sky nice and dark, so your only danger is cloud cover. As usual, Space.com has a great writeup […]
Interesting emails
December 8th, 2009 · No Comments · Personal, Software
Two emails dropped in my Inbox this past week that were rather interesting. The first regarded Galaxy Conquest, an old game I worked on with some friends back when Blade Edge was considered to be a software company. The guy apparently owns the copyright to Galaxy Conquest, which he was planning to make in an […]
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#childhoodtweet
December 4th, 2009 · No Comments · Personal
So a few days ago I suddenly thought “Gee, what would I have been tweeting if I were like, 13 years old? Or younger?” Several amusing tweets immediately filled my head and I wanted to just dump them out to the world but a) I didn’t really want to unleash them all at once and […]
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Waiting on hexacore
December 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · Personal
So I was considering upgrading my PC from a Core 2 Duo to a Core 2 Quad (among other things) this holiday season to blow some of my leftover cash from the year. I knew the more recent i7/i5 CPUs would not work on my socket LGA775 motherboard and I didn’t want to buy a […]
The TV is complete!!
November 30th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Personal
Forgive me, but I’m still totally geeking out over my new HDTV, especially since it’s now finally completely setup the way I always imagined it. Details follow! The only real problem that arose was the fact that the TV only has optical out for audio, which isn’t something I considered when purchasing the set, I […]
Merry Xmas to Me!
November 26th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Personal
Every year around Thanksgiving/Xmas I buy myself something extravagant – and don’t deny that you don’t do it either. It’s my way of blowing any leftover money I may have at the end of the year and also congratulating myself for both making it to the end of the year in one piece and having […]
Facial Asymmetry
November 20th, 2009 · No Comments · Personal
A few friends of mine tweeted (and retweeted) about this article on facial asymmetry. I thought it was pretty cool so I dug through some of my pictures to find one that might be suitable. I didn’t spend too much time searching and the one I chose is me looking just slightly right of the […]
Leonid Watching and Finding Dark Sky
November 17th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Personal
I’ve talked about how to find stellar objects, how to watch meteors, but never where to watch the skies for best effect – that is, where is light pollution less of a problem? In solving this problem, I got to watch a stunning Leonid shower and plan a trip into Canadian back country. So I […]