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I often feel like this.

2009-07-30T19:48:00.001-07:00

DJ Kendall by Skyler

2009-07-26T01:10:00.000-07:00

Segue This!

2009-07-20T10:23:00.000-07:00

This morning, I had a dream...

It was family vacation time again, and we had chosen to go somewhere tropical and stay in a nice hotel. Our hotel room was suspended high above the ground and connected to the hotel proper via a sturdy plastic tunnel. Think modern Swiss Family Robinson.

After a long day of activities, several of us were relaxing in the pool. Since the pool was very crowded, "Standing room only", I told Angie I had decided to go outside and have a look around. I wandered around the hotel parking lot, playing with my iPod.

Somehow, I ordered a Segway from Woot. It was very cheap. It arrived nearly instanteously. Did I mention this was a dream? And oh yeah, I was still in nothing but my swimsuit. Not quite a naked dream then...

I tooled around in the parking lot on the Segway and decided to head inside. Like any normal Segway owner, I went right inside on the vehicle. Brandon met us in the lobby. I say us because at this point I think my brain had some how incorporated that I needed to go to work and one of my coworkers was there.

Brandon was very excited about the Segway. So I let him borrow it. He immediately took off.

My coworker and I headed upstairs to the room. I opened the door with my card key and we started down the tunnel. Uncharacteristically, the tunnel was swaying and there was a rush of air. The entire left side of the tunnel and some of the floor had been torn apart. I looked down and saw my new Segway mangled and in pieces.

We raced ahead to the room, careful not to fall out of the tunnel. Brandon was there, seemingly unharmed, lying on a couch.

I screamed, "What happened?"

Brandon started to answer and then everyone was yelling. Slowly, mom calmed things down.

"I have a plan," she said. "The hotel buffet is all-you-can-eat. So, we get some ham and..."

... then I woke up.

Very Apropo

2009-03-29T20:19:00.000-07:00

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.

- Thomas Jefferson

LifeCast Test

2009-03-29T02:28:00.001-07:00

Brought to you by the letters I, P and T and the number 2.

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Ask A Ninja on IE8 and Developers, Developers, Developers!

2009-03-27T02:24:00.000-07:00

Snow Day

2008-12-18T17:07:00.000-08:00

The Seattle area got a good bit of snow today.

Apartment

Downhill Street

Uphill Street

Xterra

The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass...

2008-12-13T18:39:00.000-08:00

Today, while out on other errands I decided to track down a hard cover copy of The Fires of Heaven by Robert Jordan. It was the only book in the Wheel of Time series that I didn't have in hard cover and thus a glaring omission in the set. I even had New Spring, but not book five. Well today I found a near mint condition copy for under $10 in a little used book store nearby.

Legend fades to myth...

Evernote

2008-11-11T20:55:00.000-08:00

I've been using Evernote for a little over a week and absolutely love it. I've dumped all kinds of information and tidbits into it. Despite that, the search capabilities are amazing. I can find information in pdfs and images without having to first tag them with keywords. Instead, those pdfs and images are automatically scanned and indexed for textual content.

1000th Voter at my Precinct

2008-11-04T18:40:00.000-08:00

The MacBook Arrives!

2008-10-28T20:13:00.000-07:00

BrickCon 2008

2008-10-05T20:24:00.001-07:00

This weekend I attended BrickCon 2008 as a visitor. Here are some pictures of some of the sculptures I liked. I actually took dozens of pictures while there. Next year I think I'm going to attend as a participant. I might as well since I have a collection of bricks that will let me build just about anything.

Lighthouse

MegaFig & Segway

Halloween House

Battlestar Galactica Ships

Large Spaceship

Monorail & Skyscrapers

Serenity

Titanic

Dark Tower of Barad-dûr

Mars & Jenny

2008-09-27T23:28:00.000-07:00

Marlon and Jenny stopped by today. They're touring the pacific northwest in their van. In fact, that's where they are right now. In the back of their van. Sleeping. The floor of my apartment just wasn't appetizing enough.

Company Meeting

2008-09-18T22:59:00.000-07:00

I attended the company meeting today at Safeco field. Lots of fun to see everything that is happening around the company. And after all that I saw there today, there is one thing that I can unequivocally declare; summer is definitely over. Regardless, it was a good show.

Thu

68° | 52°

Skyler's Portfolio

2008-09-09T23:34:00.000-07:00

Skyler's polishing a professional photo portfolio. Perfect! Phantastic! Ok, I'm done.

Job Training

2008-09-08T16:13:00.000-07:00

I'm in training every afternoon this week. It's at one of the new buildings on campus, so it took me a while to find the building. I got here a little late and didn't get a workstation. I will definitely be arriving early tomorrow.

Ocean Shores, WA

2008-08-28T16:10:00.000-07:00

The Xterra still smells like seaweed. I really need to thoroughly wash it.

Dr Horrible

2008-08-07T01:13:00.000-07:00

In case you missed the reference in the Penny Arcade sketch below, Felicia Day stars in The Guild, a webshow about gamers. She also starred in Dr Horrible. And if you haven't seen Dr Horrible, well then... you're just missing out.

Yes... that is Doogie Howser, M.D.
(Neil Patrick Harris, NPH to his fans).

PAX

2008-08-07T01:08:00.000-07:00

I'm seriously considering attending PAX, a gaming convention started by the guys at Penny Arcade. It's the 29th, 30th and 31st of August. Unfortunately, I missed 'Pre-Registration', so it's $5 more. Harsh! :-P

Bonus Week Off

2008-08-06T15:24:00.000-07:00

Since our latest bits are shipping this month, management has decided that everyone deserves some time off. Thus the Bonus Week. Everyone in the organization can choose to take off the week of August 11th or August 18th. No need to report it as vacation. Use it or lose it.

I'll be taking mine on the 18th. Mom, Dad and the boys are coming up here to Seattle for a week of fun in the ~~sun~~ rain. We will be visiting Olympic National Park, hiking in the local rain forests, touring several museums in Tacoma, getting lost in downtown Seattle, riding ferries and hopefully having a lot of fun.

The Xterra is all fixed!

2008-07-18T15:38:00.000-07:00

The Dark Knight

2008-07-17T15:31:00.000-07:00

Work took everyone to see the new Batman movie: The Dark Knight. I'll take going to a free movie instead of work any day.

72hr Kit

2008-07-06T22:59:00.000-07:00

Is this blog abandoned or what?

2008-06-21T22:53:00.001-07:00

Mac Mini Setup

2008-05-30T18:05:00.000-07:00

I'm taking a breather from the back breaking house renovation project to get my mother's new Mac Mini setup and ready for her use. Of course the problem with doing this is that I am totally enjoying (for the most part) Mac OS X and now I totally crave a Mac of my own.