I was cutting a board for a friend recently and she commented on how crazy I was about being safe with my table saw. I tried to explain to her that I view power tools the same way some people view guns, I always assume they want to hurt me badly or at least remove my ability to count to ten.
Anyways it reminded me of this segment from the movie UHF:
and just to drive home the point, the data in that torrent is about as dangerous as this:
Everybody’s PIN number
Check out this afgan that Jen just made for Connor! It’s crazy to think that somebody could bust something out like that in a few weeks is crazy. Hell I don’t think I could even tie a tie anymore.
We’ve had all this hardware for a number of years but I finally did a mockup because I wanted to make sure there would be no problems with the shower pan I plan on making.
You know I was just thinking that it’s funny how the cell phone companies have got us all by the short and curly’s and nobody notices.
Upgrading a smart phone every year now seems like a no brainer. They’ve created this whole market out of thin air where nobody keeps what they have. New processors, fancier screens, better apps, etc….there’s always some kind of reason for us to give them more of our money every year. Heck they’ll even give you a discount if you lock into a 2 year contract.
Heck I’m still rocking an iPhone 2g I bought used off somebody a few years ago when he got a 3gs. Makes calls and surfs the web…heck I can even facebook and post to my wordpress blog. I certainly don’t need to upgrade something like this every year. In fact I wouldn’t want to…I like my personal electronics to work, replacing them constantly is to much effort.
If I had to compare the current situation to something I’d use the real estate market a few years back. How many times can a single person upgrade a phone yearly before they go into smart phone burn out? I just don’t get it.
There are a lot of funny things hidden on Amazon. Sometimes it’s just the item and other times it’s the reviews. Here are a few links of what I’ve found:
Bic Crystal Pen (read reviews)
Parent Child testing product (read reviews)
Fresh Whole Rabbit (read reviews)
Uranium Ore (Doc was right, this stuff is available at 7-11′s now)
JL421 Badonkadonk Land Cruiser/Tank (both crazy and read the reviews)
Guardian Angel (wtf is that thing supposed to go?)
Tuscan Whole Milk (this one is a classic)
Oh man it has not been a good year for my website….almost 10 years of being out here on the internet and 3 server crashes within the first 6 months of the year have really taken a toll. Not to mention switching from Movable Type to WordPress was a bit of a learning curve.
After the latest crash nothing I could do would get wordpress 2.9.2 working properly with wordbooker 1.7.8. At first I was just getting a blank page after pressing publish but then after messing around I was getting class-json.php fatal errors. Oh and I was having issues with the wordpress app for my iPhone.
So I just said screw it and upgraded to wordpress 3.0 and a new install of wordbooker 1.8.10 (which is a great program btw). Of course I updated my suffusion theme and completely borked every custom thing I had done to get the layout the way I wanted. Let me tell you they make it hard as hell to modify the default 55px header size in the css…had to use firebug in firefox to figure out that some default setting was overwriting my changes to the style.css. argh!
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On a side note the other day our sony stereo A/V receiver decided to shit itself and stop working. All it would do is flash “protect” over and over….I tried disconnecting all inputs, all outputs, blowing out the dust and even tightening all the screws incase there was a bad ground triggering it…no joy. So we went to ABT to buy a new Sony STR-DH710 (which hopefully won’t f’king die after 6 years) which actually works out because it has 3 component inputs instead of just 2, so now I can hook up the Wii again and at least get 480p out of it.
Anyways here are some pictures Jen took while we were there.
Let me tell you something…ABT is hella busy July 5th. Never gonna do that again if I can help it…of course we needed something pretty much that day since we couldn’t watch TV at all (and the kids love Yo Gabba Gabba and Dinosaur Train).
Not quite sure yet, so that’s why I’m making this post.
So yesterday we celebrated my second birthday. We were planning an outside party so thank goodness the flash flood downpours ended early and the backyard had enough time to dry out. Lots of my friends were there. Violet came with her mommy, Melissa. Arabella & Colin came with their mommy& daddy, Kristin & Rick. Aunt Boo Boos (aka Terri) and Uncle John came. And of course we skyped with Grammie as I opened my presents (via laptop outside on the deck). Here are some pictures of the event:
Since the party was outside, mommy & daddy waited until today to give me my “big” present. It was a kitchen. now I can help mommy make dinner:
And lastly a picture of my giant birthday cookie. I liked the icing the best:
Thanks to everyone that came! I love all of my new toys, books and clothes. Can’t wait until next year to do it all over again!
