weird

If you are at all squeamish you might just want to bypass this post.

This is just plain weird: On one level it makes me cringe and on the other is seems to be an odd study of the human body. Oh by the way, you can move her when she gets stuck.

MIT Survey

Calling all Bloggers.

(Via TulipGirl.)

this is a crazy story

73 year old man kill leopard by pulling out its tongue.

Cardinal Sin

Cardinal Sin died yesterday link

As a Cardinal I'm sure he was never picked on. Oh what, I think I might just have. Oops...

now I'm a liberal

I think a Griffin just called me a liberal. I went from being called a fundie to a liberal in just a few months. Imagine that!

I've never been accused of being a liberal before. I'm not sure how I should take it.

father's day

Yesterday was great. I had a great time with the wife and boys. The morning started off with several cappuccinos while watching Sunday Morning on CBS. They had a great segment on about how on tv the American father is portrayed as borderline stupid and inept. I wish CBS had a better link because they did a great job on that story. I'm glad that secular media is finally talking about this issue. The way the American father is portrayed in sitcoms like Everyone Loves Raymond, According to Jim, Still Standing, and Yes Dear has aggravated me for a long time and I'm glad someone is talking about it. If you still don't know what I'm talking about then check out the movie clip of the Verizon wireless commercial that was yanked after a fairly large uproar by fathers.

Back to fathers day, after Sunday Morning was over Leslie prepared a smorgasbord of homemade banana, chocolate chip, banana chocolate chip and plain pancakes. They were very good! After our 12 o'clock breakfast John David and I took a long three hour nap. Luckily I woke up about 15 minutes before he did so I was able to slowly wake him up with tickles. He thought it was so funny. He just laughed and giggled while trying to get away from me by rolling to the other side of the bed.

Once we had our fill of tickling we headed downstairs for presents. Leslie and the boys got me two gifts. She got me a powerball and a t-shirt. I guess it shows that I have reached a certain level of geekness when the wife starts buying clothes with binary on them. For those who don't know the shirt says DAD in binary. Here is a link to an ASCII chart if you're interested.

After the gifts we headed to Logan's Roadhouse for dinner. I remember Reardo saying in a post a while back that he is always a little disappointed when he goes out for steak because he knows he could have cooked it better himself, and as a grilling fanatic I felt the same way.

We ended the night by watching Finding Neverland . It was a good movie if you could get past Johnny Depp's un-American behavior.

It was a great father's day. I fell asleep thanking God for the family He has given me. I am truly thankful.

Steve Jobs commencement address

Follow this link to read Steve Jobs commencement address given at Stanford University. It is pretty good. link

one more Napoleon Dynamite post

If you did not catch the Napoleon Dynamite top 10 on Dave Letterman then here it is.

Top Ten Signs You're Not The Most Popular Guy In Your High School presented by Napoleon Dynamite
10. Your yearbook photo caption reads, "Unidentified Sophomore."
9. Your only friend is the one you built in shop class.
8. School song includes phrase about how much you suck.
7. Every time you talk to a girl, the conversation inevitably drifts to your frequent nosebleeds.
6. The stupid kid who gets his tater tots stolen every day? He steals your tater tots.
5. Everyone's jealous of your tetherball skills.
4. Not only did you take your mom to the prom, you had to pay her 20 bucks.
3. You can't dance like this.
2. "Lord of the Rings" figurines-50, friends-0.
1. How would I know? I'm like the coolest kid in school.

It is much funnier with Nopoleon doing the top ten. Here is the only link I could find link(please don't visit any other link on this site).

Window's XP bug....i think

So at work I have been bouncing around from machine to machine due to the fact that they wanted all the new contractors we were hiring to have desktop machines verse laptops, so I gave up my desktop for one of the standard developer laptops.

That when the trouble began.

When I was moving from my old machine I created a folder on my C drive called Desktop and I copied all the files and folders from my desktop into the new c:\Desktop folder. Then once I was done with the copy I zipped up that c:\Desktop folder and then burned it to CD.

Once I was on my new machine I copied that zip file to the desktop and extracted it. Several days later after I had gotten everything set up for development I started noticing that my windows explorer would start looking like this (See Figure 1):

The strange thing is that the folder icons in windows explorer would turn to Palm Trees, Search Icons, and a strange host of other images. Then if I tried to open any files I would get this error (See Figure 2): Notice the weird ASCII character in the path.

Well after 4 new motherboards, three reimaged hard drives, 1 new hard drive, new memory, and a host of hardware and software techs working on the problem I was able to figure out the problem.

You can not have a folder called Desktop on your desktop. I am able to reproduce the issue on several other machines and I am extremely curious if others can reproduce the problem on 9x or XP SP2.

This is how I can reproduce the problem.

1. Create a folder called Desktop on your Desktop
2. Open Windows explorer
3. Open either Word, Excel, notepad, notepad++ and save a file to your desktop.
4. Go back to Windows explorer and either hit F5 or just navigate to a new directory.

What happens on your box?

2005 General Assembly

For all those PCAers out there this link might be of interest. The 2005 General Assembly is in ole Chatt this week and the kind folks over at Coptix are hosting a blog. Go check it out.

Senate to Atone for Lynching Ban Delays

I hope that my children live to see the day when the senate apologizes and expresses deep remorse over the years in which abortion was allowed to rob millions of lives.

To be honest this bill seems odd to me and I guess I would need some clear thinking individual to explain to me why the senate would ever need to pass a law outlawing a particular type of murder.

I think it might just go to show how far we've come from being able to call a sin, sin and a murder, murder.

Atlanta Vacation

Well we just got back tonight and everyone is asleep except for me. I took Friday and today off from work for a little vacation. The vacation was taken under the guise of being my birthday, but in all actuality we just needed a vacation.

We headed down to Atlanta to go to the Atlanta Zoo and Stone Mountain. We had a really great time. We got down there on Friday evening and checked into the Holiday Inn express which was about five minutes from Stone Mountain. After changing rooms because the first room was dirty we left because the second room was a bit nasty. We were pretty disappointed because Holiday Inn Express had been our hotel of choice. For the last six or so years we have always sought them out because they were always very clean and they would have a newspaper at your door when you woke up, but this one was really bad. We left the Holiday Inn Express and headed down the street to the Country Inn and Suits. It was perfect.

After the whole hotel change we did not have a chance to do anything on Friday so we ordered a pizza from this little pizzeria in a strip mall. I think I can say that it was the best pizza I have ever had. They also had these baked pretzels, which were very good.

On Saturday we got up and headed to the park. I was pretty excited about going because I have all kinds of fond memories of Stone Mountain from when I was a kid and use to go there with my Aunt Sandy. I was a little nervous because I though it might not be as good as I remembered. It was even better. Well, except for the lasershow. John David totally freaked out when the fireworks started. And there were hicks screaming “The South will rise again” during the show, but I guess that is what you should expect when you visit a park that themed off of President Jefferson Davis, General Robert E. Lee, Lt. General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson being carved on the side of the mountain. I digress.

On Saturday we went up the Mountain, rode the train, did the lasershow(kind of) and went for a swim.

On Sunday we rode the boat, went up the mountain, drove around the park, went to the mill, and visited the plantation. We could have easily spent another day or so just hiking, doing the water slide, and visiting the museums. We will most certainly go back again.

It is getting late and I need to get some sleep before work tomorrow.

...Oh yea, and today we went to the zoo. I've been to better zoos but the Atlanta Zoo beats the Chattanooga zoo by a mile. Though, the Chattanooga Zoo is worth going to just because it is sooo sad. Really it is. By the way, I hope the link I just provided to the chatt zoo is not the official zoo home page because if it is it just proves my point.

amazon delights

I just found this for sale on Amazon. Talk about them selling more than books. Check out the ad.

Drawing connections where there are none

Today I turn 31.
My last post was on the 31st of May.
On second thought I guess this is a milestone for me because this will be the last year in my life where my age will coincide with a day of the month. Well well well, I guess I should make the most of it.