Life
Why don’t I have this much spare time?
Seems like I fill quite a few of these roles… so how come I don’t have all the spare time these guys do? Maybe I need to have a single role, so that instead of switching roles while one is “busy” I can have one role with blockers. Hmmmm…. Only one I’m missing from below [...]
Cool parking system
This is perhaps one of the coolest things I have ever seen: http://www.woehr.de/en/projekte/budapest_m730/index.htm. I wish I could embed it but I can’t (sadly, you need flash to watch it). It’s the parking system in Budapest. I can see this solving all kinds of parking issues. And the geek factor is way too cool. I would [...]
Merry Christmas everyone!
Merry Christmas to all my compatriots, friends, and (strangely enough) the folks who find my blog interesting enough to read! =) Got spoiled something fierce this year. Feels nice. =) wOO! 25th anniversary Transformers boxed set! I’ll be reliving my childhood for a long time to come… I have no idea how many hours 16 [...]
Time to catch up
I’m in crunch mode right now… wrote 2400 words today, another 4300 to get back on target (need to write 1167 words per day to make the 50k target at the end of the month). Not an excuse, really, but this was a stupid work week with stupid little things going on that totally distracted [...]
NaNoWriMo: take two
So last year I participated in National Novel Writing Month but didn’t pull it off. The idea is to go nuts and write a 50k word novel during the month of November. People all around the world do it, and it’s quite fun but very time consuming and pretty crazy. Last year there was too [...]
H1N1: Some perspective
Every time you turn around someone is posting about, talking about, writing about, or otherwise having something to do with H1N1. While I get this is a new flu, and the media have a job to do in increasing sales and readership, the sheer volume of “OMG! H1N1!” is frightening. Found this good graphic that [...]