Merry Christmas!

If you didn't get anything you liked today, here is a game to alleviate your boredom.

My Mouse

My middle daughter was in the Nutcracker this past weekend. She had a blast.




In the end, we had one tired mouse...

Geography Quiz

Take a geography quiz, and see if you can beat my score.

BTW, this is the first time I took this. If you take it again, the states are given in random order.

HINT: when you are wrong, it shows you in red where the state should be. Drag the state into the red area to proceed to the next state.

Kids say the darndest things

Some kids (ages 10 to 13) were exposed to the video games we played as youth, and their reactions were recorded.
It's pretty funny, especially the one where the kid complains that Tetris is too boring, cause the blocks don't explode. Here's the link.

R U Racist?

The story that this article accompanied was saying that unconscious or implicit racism was still rampant in the US.
Here's a test to see if you are unconsciously racist.
https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/demo/selectatest.jsp
Then choose the "Race IAT"
After some of you post your results, I'll tell you what it said about me.

THE SCREAM

I'm sure you've seen Mrs. Wbobth's final animation project by now. If you haven't, here's the link. Anyway, I was in charge of doing the sound for the project (yes, the world map AND the Sherlock Holmes papers are MORE than paid off) and I needed a crowd screaming when they encountered the hot dog. So, I recorded everyone in the family screaming. I used this awesome free sound editing software called Audacity to do all the mixing and fading. Anyhow, Wiffle (my sister) and the author of the hot dog story came over one night, and I displayed what I had so far, and I was explaining that I needed some more screams. So, Mr. E took his best stab at a scream, and scared the living crap out of me and my sister. We were NOT expecting what we heard. Anyhow, here's a link to THE SCREAM.

Peter Boyle, R.I.P.

Peter Boyle is dead at age 71.
He was the guy who played the father on Everyone Loves Raymond.
The other notable part he played was the monster in Mel Brooks' 1974 classic film Young Frankenstein.
If you've never seen this movie, it is a must see. I nearly peed my pants laughing when Dr. Frankenstein and his monster creation did a song and dance number and the monster shouts "Puttin' on the Ritz!"

3 Million?

3 Million bees removed from couples' apartment.

I uninstalled IE7

Actually, I used the System Restore utility to take my system back to the day before I installed IE7 just to make sure it REALLY got it.
It broke our Movie Maker which was pretty much a deal breaker, since we have been using it so much. If I really want tabs, I'll go with Firefox.

Howly crapolla

I can't believe someone can actually do this.
Wonder how many broken bones the guy got learning how to do this.

You know you're a redneck when...

Your bike has been in your front yard for so long that the tree is hugging it.

Macromedia killer?

Looks like Micro$oft is working the the Macromedia Dreamweaver suite replacement.
It's called Expression Studio.
http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression/en/expression-studio/default.mspx
It has a web designer (similar to Dreamweaver), something that looks like it can do what Flash does, and a graphic designer programer similar to Fireworks or Freehand.
'Twill be interesting to see if it takes off.

He Shoots!

He Scores!

Internet Explorer 7

I installed IE7 on our main home computer just to check it out.
It features a redesigned interface, tabbed browsing like Firefox, an RSS feed button so you can monitor all your favorite blogs.
The only thing bad so far is somehow it broke our Windows Movie Maker.
Here's a screenshot.

(click to enlarge)

Some cool videos

Amazing ping pong...the guy does a somersault and still gets the ball.



Bottle music


Worlds best beatboxer

OK...I'm a geek

I like Fractals. I like them so much that I wrote a program to generate Fractal images with the ability to change the color scheme and animate them.

This is the same fractal image with 3 different color schemes applied.

Blue bug.

Cool Yellow.

Ugh. Headache...


The same fractal zoomed in.


and here's an animation.

Nuclear Holocaust

After all the atomic bombs have finished falling, the only thing that will be left on Earth are ants, cockroaches, and statues of Ronald McDonald asking us if we're lovin' it .