Month: February 2009

Kids Are Funny

I rarely talk about my kids on this blog, because I’m not really into getting into personal stuff too often (maybe personal stuff about me but not necessarily my family). But I had to laugh at this.

Today my youngest daughter had library day at school. She’s come home with some random books before, but usually there’s a reasoning for the books she picks out (she’s in kindergarden, after all, so it’s not like she really knows what she’s doing). But I really had to laugh (and wonder) when she come home with this oddball book.

If I could read the mind of a five-year-old, I’d be a rich (and probably very confused) man.

White Wedding: Literal Video Version

What would Billy Idol be singing if he just sang what was happening in his videos? It might look something like this:

Be sure to watch some of the other literal videos, like this one.

Getting Organized For The NCAA Tourney Pick ’em, Looking For Prizes

I’m working on getting things setup for our annual pick ’em, and am looking for prize contributions. It’s a casual tournament, and prize contributors cannot win their own prize (but can win others). As usual, all prize submitters will get text link on the tourney page (which will be linked from the front page of my site), but as an added bonus, I’ll rotate a 125×125 pixel ad banner for your company or blog or whatever during the duration of the tournament (where you see that Kindle 2 ad right now), if you’re interested.

Anything can be submitted for a prize, as I’m pretty casual, as are the readers of this site, so if you have anything fun, weird, cool or downright strange you want to throw into the prize pot, by all means comment here or e-mail me privately (utterlyboring [at] gmail [dot] com). This is just a fun casual tournament, so I do my best to keep it that way.

Look forward to more tournament information coming soon, along with registration information (I’ve already sent invites to last year’s participants). Do know in advance, I won’t be able to award you a prize if your email address isn’t published somewhere on the tournament page on Yahoo!’s site, so I know it’s you. I had to move down and up the brackets last year because the bottom and top folks didn’t have a way for me to get ahold of them, and didn’t read my final post. That’s the one catch: You actually have to read this blog now and again to keep up with announcements — I can’t be held responsible if you don’t.

The Future Is Retarded

Time Killer For The Day

While there’s no real point to this game, it’s still fun trying to collect all the mindless achievements.

More Megapixels Does Not Make Better Pictures

I get annoyed with folks who are bragging that their compact camera has 10 (or more) megapixels and the Canon I use here at the office only has eight. But my pictures come out a hell of a lot better. Why? Because not only do I know how to take decent photos and how to use my camera (which is another thing entirely), but because the image sensor is a hell of a lot bigger and bigger sensors generally mean much better color and lighting. My sensor is more than triple the size of some of those things. Hell, I’d take a full-frame six-megapixel camera over any compact double-digit camera any day.

So folks: When shopping for cameras, megapixels are nice and all, but be sure to compare image sensor sizes. If they’re not published on the box and you can’t find it online, you shouldn’t be buying the camera anyway (nearly all reputable manufacturers publish them on the box).

Busy Weekend

If anybody’s trying to get ahold of me this weekend, I wish you luck. I’m playing with the Central Oregon Symphony this weekend (www.cosymphony.com) and I have rehearsal tonight and then concerts the next three nights. The show is going to be great, even if my parts are boring. If you do make it, make sure to come find me and say “Hi.”

(This was posted from my mobile, so pardon spelling errors and lack of links.)

Time Killer For The Day

Manifold is a simple little game where you create orbs to launch your little dude past things that can kill it. And it’s horribly addictive.

Bill Watterson Predicted the Future

Fifteen years after it was written, Calvin and Hobbes seems very relevant today.

Is This Kid On Acid?

Nothing like going to the dentist to trip you out: