Thursday, September 29, 2011

Happy Hoosier Hawaiian Day !

Three years ago today I moved here. Hawaii. I'm so glad I did.
:-)

Friday, September 23, 2011

Code MENT



Each episode just keeps getting weirder and funnier.

Oh I'll forget about it... WHEN I CHOKE YOU WITH YOUR OWN TRACHEA !
Hat Tip: Daily Bento

Windows 8 in 8 Minutes



After watching for eight seconds, I already hate it.

Hat Tip: Geeks are Sexy

Eink



This technology is amazing !

Hat Tip: Geeks are Sexy

Monday, September 19, 2011

Happy International Talk Like A Pirate Day !


























I celebrated by listening to my favorite radio station, KHNRrrrrrrrr.

Saturday, September 17, 2011

Heartbreaker

Heartbreaker tried to friend me today.
Yeah right.

DIAF.

This is for you LBC.

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Thursday, September 15, 2011

La Brea Tar Pit Squirrel



And upon release it jumped back into the tar pits.

Hat Tip: ArthurK

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Let's Go For A Stroll


I think I'll go for a stroll… along the steel cables of Kiev’s Moskovskyi Bridge.

Am I the only one that gets sweaty palms watching this ?

How the heck did they get down ?

Hat Tip: The Daily What

gspot65hotmaildotcom said, "They didn't ... they are still up there :)"

The Town Where Everyone Wears A Gas Mask













The age old adage home is where the heart is finds its true meaning in Miyakejima, a small island located in southeast Japan. Despite the high level of volcanic activity that causes poisonous gas to leak from the earth that forced the 3,600 island residents to evacuate in 2000, the citizens just won’t stay away. Thus, the self-appointed gas mask town rose from the, very literal, ashes.

Follow the link. Quite a few awesome pictures and more detail on this amazing place.

Hat Tip: Daily Bento

Bystanders Lift A Burning Car To Save A Biker


Sometimes the human race makes me proud.

Bystanders save trapped motorcyclist in Utah
The rescuers are being called "heroes" and "angels"; the footage of their few minutes of heroics was captured on video and has gone viral on the Internet. The man they saved, a 21-year-old Utah State University student, is grateful.

"I'm just thankful for everyone that helped," Wright said by telephone from his hospital bed. "They saved my life."

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/09/13/MNKO1L44RU.DTL#ixzz1Xu4biPWA


Hat Tip: Bits and Pieces

Gamer Commute



A normal morning for FreddieW.

Hat Tip: Geeks are Sexy

Water Clock



A water clock at the Osaka station in Osaka city.

Hat Tip: Geeks are Sexy

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Saturday, September 10, 2011

Kitten Watching Nyan Cat



As a commenter said,
I FINALLY TRANSLATED THE LYRICS: KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL

Cat Watches Kitten Watching Nyan Cat.


Cat thinks, "Humans are idiots."

Spider-Cat



Spider-Cat, Spider-Cat, does what ever a Spider-Cat does.
Happy Caturday !

Thursday, September 08, 2011

Pega

So I was "volunteered" to take training classes and participate in a project using something called Pega. The company that created this system is Pega Systems, get it ? Anyway, I'd never heard of Pega and had no idea what this project was about. It turns out that this may be the best thing to happen to me in years ! The system is Übercool and I will finally be a Programmer/Analyst/Developer again instead of cranking out boring SQL Scripts and Stored Procedures. The team is very enthusiastic and happy. I should finally find some of the camaraderie that has been sorely absent in my current team. The entire way of thinking and doing is totally different from everything else at the place I work, more like things are done in for profit business. They do code reviews ! When I heard that I said, "Finally". The head of the project asked me, "What ?". I said, "Finally. It's driven me nuts since I started here that you have five or six people reviewing and double-checking everything EXCEPT the code !" Plus I learned today that expereince in Pega is in VERY high demand. I'm talking six figure income demand. I really think this is going to work out great !
:-D

LOOK AT IT !



LOOK AT IT !!!!!!!!!!!!1!!!


Hat Tip: Daily Bento

Stay the HELL away from Tennessee !



When Cops become Thieves legally.

Highway Robbery, by "Police Officers"

Hat Tip: Bits and Pieces

Wednesday, September 07, 2011

Tonight's Republican Debate

I don't know if anyone "won" the debate.
There were too many candidates.
I know who lost the debate:
  • Brian Williams.

  • The MSM.

  • Obama.

That's all that matters.
Especially being hosted by two liberal rags like POLITICO and NBC.

Letting those liberal scum into the Ronald Reagan Library ? WTF.
Still, what Democrat candidate would allow Fox News to host their debates ?
None.
They have got to stop allowing the liberal press dictate where the debates happen and who moderates the debates. Right off the bat Brian Williams set up the premise that today's economic problems were the fault of Republicans. No bias there. Screw the MSM. We do not need them.

House For Sale



Maybe my Mom should do a commercial like this... or not.

Hat Tip: CDR M

0bama (Zero-bama)






Employers added no jobs in August -- an alarming setback for the economy that renewed fears of another recession and raised pressure on Washington to end the hiring standstill.

Worries flared Friday after the release of the worst jobs report since September 2010. Total payrolls were unchanged, the first time since 1945 that the government reported a net job change of zero. The unemployment rate stayed at 9.1 percent.

The dismal news two day before Labor Day sent stocks plunging. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 253 points, or more than 2 percent.

Analysts say the economy cannot continue to expand unless hiring picks up. In the first six months of 2011, growth was measured at an annual rate of 0.7 percent.

SCOAMF.

Thursday, September 01, 2011

Happy Hoosier Hawaiian Day !

It was three years ago today that I first came to Oahu.

Yelle "Que Veux-tu" (Madeon Remix)



The YouTube link seems to take an extremely long time to buffer.
Here is a direct link to my copy.