New Tattoo
Just got back from a trip to London and Paris the other night. In Paris I found a cool tattoo shop and one of the artists there specializes in American old school style tattoos. Had to do it. Here's a picture of the new piece on the inside of my right bicep. I'm going to do →
Disney – VD Attack Plan – Venereal Disease Education
OK, this is freakin' rad. It's an OLD Disney video that's their 'Attack Plan' against VD. I've been poking around on Google Video and Archive.org. Founds some great old educational videos. 'A is for Atom', 'Duck an Cover' etc. There is just so much cool stuff. It's so cool that this stuff is easily available →
Cheneys Got A Gun
This is a great little flash animation. Couldn't resist. Cheneys Got A Gun
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Flaming Crap
If you're a Harry Potter fan, do not see this film. If you're a movie fan, don't see it. It was just plain bad. I've read the books and seen all the films. I'm not any kind of big fan, but they're good stories and I've been enjoying them - so this isn't the rant of →
Michael & Christine had their baby!
He was born this early this morning - 5 weeks early! They had a mad dash to the hospital at 4am and this little guy was screaming by 6.
My poor puppy!
One of our dogs, Daisy, tore her ACL in her rear left knee. She just had a TPLO surgery to 'fix' her leg so she wouldn't be a gimp for the rest of her life. What they do is cut the bone just below the knee and change the angle of the joint - then reattach the bone →
Weed makes you smarter?!?
"Chronic use of marijuana may actually improve learning memory when the new neurons in the hippocampus can mature in two or three months" Just the ideas presented by this research will make a lot of people I know very, very happy. It seems that high doses of cannabinoids actually increased the creation of neurons in the hippocampus in the brains →
Such an incredible video!
Man, it has been such a freakin' long time since I've seen a music video that had any sort of depth or substance I almost forgot what it was like. The new video by Audioslave for the song 'Doesn't remind me' is incredible. It tells the story of a kid whose father dies in Iraq. It's incredibly →
AAARRRRRGGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!
Some cocksucker decided that it would be much cheaper to rip me off rather than buy their own fucking iPod. When I went out to my car this morning (a Z3) I saw that some piece of shit had cut out my plastic rear window, broken my plexiglass rear wind screen, used a screwdriver to pry new kick ass →
Tenacious D Movie!!!
Finally, the dream is becoming a reality! http://tenaciousdmovie.com/
Have you ever wondered what popping a water balloon in zero gravity would look like?
"Experimenters burst water balloons in the low-gravity environment produced aboard a NASA Glenn DC-9 aircraft." NASA gets to have all the fun! This is a killer page with pictures and video of water balloons being pierced in zero gravity.
Sometimes I really hate my job…
It's 9:15. I was supposed to be over to visit my grandfather at about 7pm. No such luck. Just finishing up with a BIG client who I couldn't leave in the lurch for even a few hours tomorrow morning. Had to be tonight. Not fun anymore.
Jury duty sucked
Well, I guess I've done my civic duty, but mostly I feel cheated out of about 26 hours of work. I believe that it's important to participate in things like jury duty as a way to contribute to the community I live in. This was a colossal waste of time. I'm allowed to talk about all this now, so →
Apple really is switching to Intel
Here's a summary of a great live commentary on the Apple WWDC keynote by Steve Jobs this morning from Engadget. It's true. Apple is going to transition to Intel chips, and they already have a copy of OSX Tiger running on P4's. This will be very, very, interesting... 10:26am PDT - “Now, let’s go to the big topic: →
The dog powered scooter!
The Dog Powered Scooter is something that has made it's way on to my "I want it" list. Maggie, our Australian Shepherd/Border Collie mix has more that a little extra energy. What I sometimes do is strap her into a harness and have her pull me around the neighborhood on my skateboard. That's the ONLY thing that →
And together we can rule the galaxy!!!
Holy crap the new Star Wars movie sucked balls! We went and saw it Tuesday night. I had high hopes because the buzz around it has been really good. On par with the first two movies they said. Right. It was the worst movie I've seen in a long, long time. If it hadn't →
First things first
Man, I've been so busy I just haven't had time to post. I finally pretty much finished going through our photos from our trip to Europe. I've put them up at http://www.corbell.org/gallery/europe_2005. I tried to filter them so there's not a ton of redundant stuff up there, but I'm sure there's some. It was really hard getting back to →
Bush is looking more like Evil every day… Federal Real ID Act has been passed
OK, enough already! It looks like the Federal Real ID is going to become a reality. That's a Federally approved ID card that will essentially replace drivers licenses. It will contain, at the least, you name, birth date, sex, ID number, a digital photograph, and address. It will be "machine readable" which most likely means RFID. →
I know, I suck.
OK, I suck for not posting, but we haven't had a lot of access to computers for the last week. We've been mostly staying at B&B's in the countryside. Anyway, here's a link to Miranda's blog, which she has updated much more than I have. Be back in just a couple days...
Florence
Well, we made it to Florence. We're going to be here for 4 days. We're staying at a place my Mom recommended with a huge room overlooking a giant piazza. More later...
Beaune, Bern, Venice, Trento
Beaune Like I mentioned in my last post, Beaune is a gorgeous small city of about 25000 people just south of Dijon. We got to go wine tasting in a 12th century wine cellar in the middle of the city. The local specialty is Anise. We went out to a bar and I ordered some - the bartender asked →
Love France! Absolutely love it!
OK, time to organize my thoughts. Barcelona to Nice to Dijon to Bern. So far so good. After we left from Barcelona we took an overnight train to Nice. Paid 14 euro for a 5 minute cab ride to the hotel. The hotel was a kick ass old Villa on one of the main streets near old →
Back to France
Well, basically due to train schedules and timing we?re going to skip northern Spain and head back up to France. Nice is our destination. We?ll be there early tomorrow morning. Barcelona has been just great. The food is awesome, the people friendly, and the city is beautiful. We went to Parc Guell today. It?s →
Adios Madrid.
OK, Madrid sucks balls. I did not like that city much. It was big, dirty, and not particularly charming. I had a hard time eating because all they seem to like is ham. Fresh ham, spiced ham, ham sausage, ham sandwiches, ham and cheese, ham and ham sauce... Yuck. We went to the Prado →