Category Archives: random

history lessons are invaluable

Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it
Mark’s Corollary
Those who learn yet still insist on make the same mistakesare uniquely qualified to predict the future

From the “Blowing Your Mind” Category

Check this out!  This guy is simply a freak of nature.  That is some serious force perspective stuff!
Along the same lines the French artist Felice Varini (more here) does some incredible things as well.  I think a lot of his stuff could be acomplished with a laser leveler, but it is still quite remarkable.  It [...]

Lewis Black!

Ann and I saw him in concent at the Warner Theater last night, where he was taping for an HBO special. Just the right about of indignation, rage, equal-opportunity offender for an absolutely fantastic night of comedy =) I think the HBO special is coming out in June (I don’t recall the exact date). [...]

Deep Thoughts in Advertising

Ok, so Microsoft officially made their stripped down IDE set free "forever." However, if you look at the web page, check out the following two banner images they used to advertise a programming tool…
I’m not implying that women are not good programmers. I just don’t think a girl with a laptop on a [...]

I welcome our 2006 overlords…

Need to get to sleep, now… Will have to wake up at 4:00am to get on a 6:00am flight out of Oakland tomorrow. Yuck.
“The Redesign” is coming. I have to translate all my old pages into Wordpress “pages.” It just seems like a better CMS system than a roll-your-own each time. January [...]

Sick

It has been a long while since I have been really sick… Needless to say… oh it sucks. Sick on the couch all weekend, and still not better come Monday… arg.
Duke Basketball starts today… Game 1 of the preseason NIT tournament on ESPN2. This should be a great year! Solid senior player [...]

It’s All Gone

Shaved off.
In case you are wondering I’m refering to my goatee that I had for about 6 months now. I already new that I would shave it off for the wedding. However, I must say (and Ann agrees with me) that I look about 5 years younger without it. While that will [...]