Monday, December 29, 2008
Friday, October 31, 2008
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Friday, May 09, 2008
Know what this is?
We are trying to figure out what creature left this scat in the middle of our sidewalk at work in Texas....
Monday, March 03, 2008
Sunday, March 02, 2008
Busy, Busy
Spent a busy, busy weekend playing soccer (http://www.spacecityfc.org/) and not much else. Beginning to really question the value of the advanced level sports. Travel requirements are really crazy and it is of course, expensive. Just three more games and a tournament before the season is over. I need to work on a little more balance!
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Thursday, February 28, 2008
K-Sketch, for small animations
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Going Mobile
I'm going to work on scheduling one day a week where I spend zero to very little time in the office and most of my time wandering around the site checking on things. This is a much better way for me to see how things are working. I'll let you know how well my experiment works out.
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Shuttle and Station Overhead
STS-122 is winding down. Tonight in League City, Texas I will be able to see both the Shuttle (http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html) and the Station (http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html) fly overhead. Heaven's Above (http://www.heavens-above.com) is a great website for looking up visible passes of all kinds of spacecraft. If you live near me the results for tonight are here (http://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=32486&lat=29.507&lng=-95.095&loc=League+City&alt=7&tz=CST), other places can be searched from the home page. I'll try to film the pass tonight and post it if the camera works ok.
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Monday, February 18, 2008
Friday, February 15, 2008
It's Broke For Some Reason
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Come for a Visit
Come see the great state of Texas (http://www.traveltex.com/).
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STS-122
I always like this photo (http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts122/multimedia/launch/index.html) of the aftermath of a shuttle launch (http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/210808main_08pd0219.jpg). The huge beast you were looking at on the pad is gone and all that is left is this squiggly smoke. It's surreal.
Photo from NASA.
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Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Kindle is Coming!
The Amazon Kindle (http://www.amazon.com/Amazon-com-kindle/dp/B000FI73MA) that I ordered on January 29th was supposed to ship today and arrive tomorrow. Right in time for Valentine's Day!
My wife should really like it. She reads a lot and frequently buys whatvere Oprah (http://www.oprah.com/obc_classic/webevent_registration.jsp?promocode=HP31) recommends.
It looks like the e-book prices are at least half-off so I'm hoping that helps justify th ecost!
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Free Night!
Sometimes we get so wrapped up in kid activities That it is a real blessing when bad weather (http://www.accuweather.com/us/tx/league-city/77573/city-weather-forecast.asp?partner=accuweather&u=1&traveler=0) blows in and rains everything out.
Today is me of those days. We were balancing tennis tryouts against baseball practice but lo and behold it
rained! And not just any old rain. Real hard, frog
strangling rain. So now I hav ethe night off!
Most likely house cleaning chores will fill the void, but hey, no driving will be good!
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Monday, February 11, 2008
Nice Day for a Walk
Click on the astronaut dude to get NASA TV (http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html).
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Thursday, February 07, 2008
Trying out Ript
I've been trying out Ript (http://ript.com) for a little while and it is a lot of fun. Wy wife wonders what the Mac equivalent is but I have no idea. Ript (http://ript.com) allows you to "tear off" info or a picture and gather it together on a scrapbook page. It is a neat idea and throws a little "how did he do that?" into a presentation. Try it out. It's fun!
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Friday, January 18, 2008
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Another fun application
It asks "who do you want to Jott?". You tell it a name, or a distribution list, from your contacts group and then speak your message. It translates it into text and emails the person with the message.
You can also have it link to your Google Calendar application, so you can phone-in appointments. You literally just call it and say "Google Calendar, I have a dentist appointment at 3:00 next Thursday". It adds that appointment to your calendar magically. I use it to update my to-do list application "Remember the Milk". I just phone in my to-do's and there they magically are in the software when I get back to my desk.
It's a hoot. You should play with it some.
Monday, January 14, 2008
Sunday, January 13, 2008
Friday, January 11, 2008
Wednesday, January 09, 2008
Monday, January 07, 2008
I'm Back
Now it's back to the salt mines and trying to do two weeks worth of work in one day! All of the things that I put off to go on vacation have now come back to haunt me.
Oh well, LSU will beat OSU tonight and Buckeyes will be disappointed again and 0-9 against the SEC.