3/27/06

It's Monday...

I had a great weekend, but had a hell of a time getting into work today. Friday we had a little celebration for a large work project at the Wave House in Mission Beach. We got to ride the wave for an hour and man was it fun! It's not at all like surfing as the boards have no fins and it probably takes more than an hour to really learn to ride. I'm terrible at it, but I'd totally pay to go back. There are some ridiculously huge pics here.

On to other things,

Sleep is bad for you
Brain cells fused with microchips
The Marines don't want body armor
and Muslims are crazy in India

Out of the Deep Blue - Photography by Elijah S. Woolery - powered by smugmug

I took a quick weekend trip up to Monterey to visit Eli and Courtney last month. Eli and I took a little dive at lover's point and he snapped off a few pics:
Out of the Deep Blue
That's me in the pics. Don't I look cool? ya, that's cuz it was like 48 degrees.

Check out the rest of Eli's site because it's really good. OutOfTheDeepBlue
While you're there, buy some pictures, he's got a wedding to pay for!

Atheists identified as America’s most distrusted minority, according to new U of M study : News Releases: UMNnews: U of M.

Atheists identified as America’s most distrusted minority, according to new U of M study : News Releases: UMNnews: U of M.

Jesus!!! This is scary. Remind me not to go to this so-called "Midwest." The people there sound scary.

Conservation of the Great White Shark

Here's an article from Africa Geographic all about white sharks. There are some amazing pictures of the researchers sitting in kayaks with large whites swimming around them. I gotta do stuff like this! Those sharks are soooo pretty and so interesting.

White Shark Trust for Research and Conservation of the Great White Shark (Carcharodon carcharias)

Best Censorship

Here's a hilarious clip from Kimmel.

WARNING: Not for people who get offended by words like "$#@$" and "@#$%"

Best Censorship

Underwater gliders follow whales and hurricanes : Mail & Guardian Online

hm... Maybe I could be an underwater pilot!

Neat stuff:
Underwater gliders follow whales and hurricanes : Mail & Guardian Online

Meade mystery

So I just noticed someone who goes by the name "Meade" posted a comment to one of my pictures. The interesting part is that s/he posted the comment to an image of my condo being built, but the comment is about Clyde's Ride. So, I had to dig. Checking my logs, I can see that he found this old story about the band from an old version of my site. His search engine didn't provide a referrer so I can't tell where he came from, but I can see that he found the pics from the band's last show and then had a whirlwind tour of my other pics, assuming looking for old friends, or perhaps just admiring the beautiful people.

Well Meade, sorry there aren't more UCSD alumni in my photos, but I am a late comer to the digital camera revolution and most UCSD'ers that I knew have long since left the sunny beaches of San Diego. Looks like you're still around, we should start a Damnit-Clyde's-Ride-Quiting-Foolin-And-Play-Some-More-Shows club. We can meet once a month, share bootlegs and stories of the good 'ol days, and drink beers. Or just drink beers...

PUMPKINS!!!!!!

The Pumpkins are getting back together!!!!!

I'm so happy.

Smartboards

The World of Smartboards, Sympodiums is about to change

Quick link pointed out by Roman. Neat stuff. Now perhaps we can all get tennis elbow instead of carpal tunnel...

Zillow.com

Here's a really darn cool site. It's using google map's API and they actually draw property lines and estimated values on homes! It's pretty darn amazing.

My house is not on the map yet... but my parent's and my friend's houses are.

Zillow.com - Your Edge in Real Estate

Homestar Runner Wiki

Pure fun!

They have all the old scroll button songs! Pick your favorite.

Main Page - Homestar Runner Wiki

Verizon Blesses Phone-As-Modem Plans

Verizon sucks! This sounds like a good thing, but no, Verizon just found another way to rape you for an additional $60/month.

Verizon Blesses Phone-As-Modem Plans

In short, you can now use your EVDO phone as an EVDO modem, for $59/month on top of the plan you already pay for. That's no deal at all, especially since an unlimited data plan for a PDA phone is only $44/mo.

ah... yes...

Too funny


Too funny

NO SURGERY!!!!

Just saw my knee surgeon (for my second opinion) and he thinks everything looks ok and I don't need surgery!!! He thinks that, due to how the injury happened, I dislocated my kneecap. This in turn caused the swelling, pain, discomfort, etc. I have dislocated my kneecap on my left knee about 7 times and the pain is similar to how my right feels. It obviously wasn't bad enough that it stayed dislocated.

The ding that shows up in the MRI is not significant in his opinion to warrant surgery. He gave me another brace to hold my patella in place and sent me on my very merry way. If in 6-8 weeks I have any popping, clicking, or locking, they will still need to scope it, but let's hope that doesn't happen.

I feel pretty darn good right now. And due to the miracle of positive thinking, my knee feels better. I may still have damage in there, but at least I have a stay of execution.

Retired United Pilots Endure Severe Pension Cuts

In case anyone doesn't know, United Airlines is a pile of crap, filled with giant corn filled turds called management.

Oh, and my Dad was on TV.
abc7news.com: Retired United Pilots Endure Severe Pension Cuts

Making diamonds from ashes

Saw this on Pirillo's site. He's not kidding, this is creepy.

This company takes ashes from any dead thing (person, pet, amputated leg) and for a nominal fee turns said ashes into diamonds.

Welcome to the LifeGem Home - www.LifeGem.com Memorial Diamond

Upgrading home computer...ug

So I've been thinking about my home computer a lot lately. It's in dire need of some work. I spent a few hours this weekend cleaning up spy/mal/junkware on it and it made me realize what a POS it is.

It's one of those cheapo Dell machines and I think the multiple power outages at home have done some damage to the harddrive. I've been thinking about putting an additional drive in there (for mp3's and images), but now I'm thinking I need to throw together a RAID or buy some NAS device. ug... That's going to hurt the bank.

How is everyone else dealing with backing up data and the wonderful world of failing hds? Do tell!

In the process of upgrading, I think I need at least 2 more LCDs and some sort of ethernet mp3 device to connect my mp3 collection upstairs with my stereo downstairs. oh, and maybe a water cooled overclocked cpu... and a robot... that does massage...

Sex before stressful events keeps you calm

New Scientist News - Sex before stressful events keeps you calm

The Navigable Atlas of the Human Brain

dude, today the internet is rocking!

I just happened across this site, The Navigable Atlas of the Human Brain,
while looking up a technical definition of sagittal for Anne. This site would have helped me a ton in college!

Physician Compensation Report

Holy COW!!! I was checking the spelling of orthopedist and google suggest popped up "orthopedist salary" I had to take a look.

Physician Compensation Report: Merritt, Hawkins survey: pay hikes slowed down in 2001-2002

I'm really in the wrong job. I think it's great that doctors make salaries in the 300k range, don't get me wrong. I just need to be one of them.