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After much planning and hoping, I finally launched the Romance Life channel on Live365.com!!! Live365.com is the world's largest Internet radio network, with an audience of more than 3 million listeners each month.
In my never-ending quest to improve my golf game, one of the strategies I pursue is the elimination of variables. A golf variable is something like choice of golf club for a given distance, positioning of feet for a swing, grip on the club, and...choice of golf ball.
The IMAX version of the Matrix Reloaded opens on Friday! For those of you thinking you should probably see the movie again to figure out all the confusion, this is the perfect opportunity! What did actually happen there at the end with Neo and the Sentinels??? Just who is this "Bane" fellow and why is he not a nice guy??? The special effects have got to be incredible in the IMAX format. You can buy advance tickets at Fandango.
Am I the only one who was paying attention to the news when a research expedition off of the coast of Cuba last year reported discovering a series of underwater monoliths at approximately 2,000 feet in depth? At the time, National Geographic reported on the story. A few less-scientific minds took interest also. Another article here and the most interesting article here.
This is a handy little map of my travel plans and travel history. I will update this as often as I can but in general it will show where I've been in the last six months and where I will be in the next six months. Clicking on the destination will navigate your browser to something related to that destination, either the hotel we stayed at our an image gallery or something like that. Thanks to Bryan Boyer for this excellent "Indy Junior" Flash control - only $5!!!
Today I realized that the floppy disk is truly a thing of the past. I frequently move files between my computer at home and my computer at work using FTP over the Internet. Today, when leaving to go home, I wanted to send myself a Word document to work on over the weekend. When I went to FTP it, I found the network was down for maintenance. Naturally, I thought of the floppy disk drive since the file in question was only 350K in size. Unfortunately, after looking all over for 15 minutes, not a single floppy disk was to be found. I did have a CD burner available and a CD-R, but wasting a 600 MB CD on a 300K file seemed quite the waste to me. Finally I ran into a colleague who had a Sony Micro Vault. The Micro Vault is essentially a MemoryStick with a USB connector. The device appears to the computer as a slick, 128 MB hard disk. I put the file in the Vault and took it home, easily transferring it to my PC. The Micro Vault weighs the same as a single floppy disk and is smaller - it fits in a shirt pocket. It also holds the equivalent of approximately 100 floppy disks. It can transfer the file in a second as opposed to waiting a minute or so for a file to load off of a floppy. The disk is done - long live USB storage! In the future, laptop designers should just leave out the floppy disk drive. It takes up space, drains the battery, and provides minimal benefit. Time for the world to move on.
Good God, man, are you crazy??? AtariAge has a running set of articles on how to program the good ol' Atari 2600. With a focus on game programming, it is very interesting to compare the programming techniques of today against the hoops they had to jump through back then. It's hard core stuff and not for the faint-hearted. Try writing code to send each scan line to the television or try working with 128 bytes of RAM...
I have discovered something truly remarkable. As anyone who knows me knows, I am a big Chipotle fan. My Chipotle of choice is a Chicken Fajita Burrito. Of course, this type of fare is not what one would usually consider "diet food". I think a Fajita Burrito weighs in around 2 lbs. At least it feels like 2 lbs. in your stomach once you've eaten the Fajita Burrito.
I am an ice cream junkie. I admit it. I am guilty. I love ice cream. But I have found that I love frozen custard even more.
Just got back from seeing the Jim Carrey's new movie, Bruce Almighty. With Jim Carrey in the lead role, they should have called it Bruce Alrighty Then. Not a bad movie and there were several very funny scenes, although the funniest was not even Carrey's. It's good to see Jim Carrey get back into comedies after attempting the whole drama thing with The Majestic and The Truman Show). The Truman Show was an excellent movie and Carrey's acting talent showed through but Carrey's true gift is his plastic face and quick wit. There is an underlying theme in this movie which embodies Carrey's reacceptance of the comedy genre.
