September 2005

The Incredible Zombie Machine

Now this is amusing. This little interactive Java applet simulates a zombie infestation in a town.

Fruit Slayer Movie

While tearing down a storage shed for our father's birthday, my sister Gretchen decided to do something a little more ... recreational. Click the pic to get the quicktime movie in a new window.

Stuff On My Cat

http://www.stuffonmycat.com/

My mom sent me this. It has a huge archive filled with lots of cats with lots of stuff on them. Dresses are only the start of it - you would be surprized at the kind of crap some people are willing to put their pets through.

I've Been Scanned

A while back I went to my doctor complaining about some chronic abdominal pains. He prescribed antacids.

The antacids did nothing.

I went back in, and he referred me out for an ultrasound to get a better idea of what was going on inside me.

He said "ultrasound." The referral form said "ultrasound." When Kelli called them up to schedule it, she told them "ultrasound."

What the overpaid secretaries heard, however, was "CT scan." And that's what they scheduled me for.

Oblivious to this development, I took the two containers of barium sulfate and drank them at the specific times they told me to drink them. Barium sulfate, for those of you who have never had the pleasure, tastes something like kool-aid mixed with milk and then left out on the counter for a month. The instruction sheet they gave me said I couldn't eat or drink anything for 3 hours before the test, so I couldn't even wash the taste out of my mouth.

Imagine my surprise when I got there and was told that I had scheduled myself for the wrong test (because they SURELY couldn't be the ones at fault...). They couldn't even do the ultrasound now because apparently the barium sulfate made ultrasounds hard to read. They called up my doctor and got permission for the CT scan, and I went in to take the more expensive and invasive test.

I say invasive, because ultrasounds don't require you to sign a waiver before being injected with iodine to make sure you light up like a Christmas tree while you go through a machine shaped like a giant doughnut from the future.

So, that was my day so far. How was yours?

Photos from back in the day

I'm not done with this yet, but I thought I would share it anyway:

Back when I was starting to become interested in digital photography but still to cheap to buy a digital camera, I used to get all of my photos developed onto a disk as well as photo paper.

The other day I searched our apartment for as many of those yellow-clad disks as I could find and moved them all onto my hard drive. Since then, I've been slowly uploading them to my Flickr account.

I still have a ton of pics to upload (I haven't even touched our wedding photos yet ... maybe I'll just let Kelli put them on her own account), but you can check out my journey into the realm of nostalgia here. I must warn you that not all of these pictures turned out artistic or even nice. Still, I felt the need to upload them for posterity.

If you like them, check back in a couple days. There'll be more then.

Ad Perpetuam Memoriam

Redesign

Ok, so I played with the CSS for the site and made it into a 3 column blog rather than a 2 column one. To fill up that new empty space on the right side I moved over my "Blogs I Like" list and added some links to some of my favorite items in my store.

I think I need to add more designs to my shops. I've got enough pictures, but it takes some time to make each shop. I might also change the color scheme - the blue's getting a little old.

FF VII fan song

I've been a fan of Nellie Melton's art for a while now, and every now and then she does some work with Flash that's equally high quality. Why don't you go see for yourself?

Freedom!

Kelli's orthopedic "goth boots" are off for good.

Thought you might want to know.