Friday, September 26. 2008Thursday, September 25. 2008Comments (5) Trackbacks (0) See AoD, I told you I was in New York.
I spent my first day here in New York. What a city. I am going to try and write up a full report of all I did but the
camera I borrowed from Jon doesn't have a cable port for me to download the pictures I took, so I can't do it now. But
to prove to AoD that I am for certain here in New York, I present this evidence.
Lettuce
from my salad at Serendipity (in honor of our blog). You should have seen the pitchfork I had to eat this
with. Thursday, September 25. 2008Comments (2) Trackbacks (0) Blog Spotlight: New York Maria
To carry on my fledgling tradition of sharing good blogs with you, I present my friend Maria. I have known Maria now for about 4
years. She is extremely intelligent, hard working (her hours sometimes rival mine), and attractive. She is also quite
funny. She has a dry wit about her that can sometimes catch you off guard if you aren't ready for it.
Recently she moved to New York for work. Everyone was sad to see her go because they enjoyed her company so much. I was worried New York would either change her, or chew her up and spit her out. Maria does not post to her blog very often but when she does it can be quite entertaining. Here are a couple of posts that are worth reading: -The toughest Part of the Day -Chatting And my personal favorite: -Get back in your Car I mention all of this mainly to say thanks to Maria. Why you might ask? I am currently in New York writing this blog entry!! Maria has graciously allowed me to crash at her apartment in downtown Manhattan for the next few days. I arrived in JFK airport last night and took my first NY cab ride. I got to walk down Wall St. last night when she showed me around. The city smells wonderful!!!. More later. Thursday, September 18. 2008Podcast. Is this a whale thing?
As you all know I like Star Trek. My friend Jon Madsen also
likes it. He has been doing a podcast for some time now with his friend JR. To give you some background on JR, he is a
long time friend of Jon Madsen. JR always made fun of Jon because of his interest in Star Trek. One day JR decided
that he needed to find out about it and give it a fair shake. Thus was born the blog: JR Watches Star Trek for the First Time.
They started with The Original Series by watching all of the episodes and doing a podcast to discuss what they thought. I listened to a couple of their podcasts, but was basically uninterested because of the fact that they were discussing The Original Series. I have never really enjoyed the early episodes. But I have loved the movies and almost everything since (except Voyager). Well the good news is that they finally finished the Original Series and have started in on the movies. Jon invited me to join them for their discussion of Star Trek the Motion Picture. Here is a link to their blog post where you can download the podcast. Or for those itunes subscribers out their you can download it here. I have not yet listened to it, but I had a lot of fun participating in the podcast. Take a listen and let me know what you think. Saturday, September 13. 2008Giddy Up
Some of you may or may not know, that my Bree, as well as my mother, aunt, and cousin all competed in the Utah State
Fair Gaited Horse show.
Here are some of the pictures from the event. Also in case you are wondering Bree went 4 for 4 getting a ribbon in all of her classes (1 2nd place, 2 3rd place, and a 4th place in the grand championship class she competed in.) Meanwhile my Aunt went 6/6 including 3rd in the same grand championship, and 4th in another grand championship. My Cousin won 2 ribbons, and my Mom won 4 ribbons, including 3 1st place ribbons, including one grand championship. Friday, August 29. 2008Where I Boldly Went
I am not ashamed to admit it: I love Star Trek. I can't remember a time when I ever thought it was dumb, silly, or
worthless (yes, I did watch Voyager). I have been watching Star Trek for most of my entire life. I always dreamed
about what it would be like to in that world. I craved it. But I was careful never to become one of "those" people.
Well this last weekend I came as close as I have ever come to stepping in to that magical world.
I entered the world of The Star Trek Experience. (warning this is a long read - If you would prefer a video wrap up by Jon, that is far shorter, click here) Continue reading "Where I Boldly Went" Thursday, August 28. 2008meh
I'm not sure I like the color scheme on this one.. I don't know. I'll make any changes that any one suggests.
Full version here It's huge so I'm only putting the thumbnail in this post. Continue reading "meh" Monday, August 25. 2008Comments (2) Trackbacks (0) Blog Spotlight: Melanie and Skyler
As I mentioned a week ago, I am going to be featuring some of the blogs I read. This week's introduction is Skyler & Melanie. I have known them for about 3,
maybe 4, years. Both were in my ward for quite a while. Both basically lived around the corner from me. I was lucky
enough to be invited over to Melanie's home a number of times for dinners and get-togethers. It was always fun (and
always delicious). She and her roommate, Courtney M, were fantastic hosts. Melanie is one of the funniest people I
know!! She always has something funny to say, or is in the middle of laughing at something else. If any of you listen
to the Nightside project, she is the sister of Alex Kirry (the only funny one on that show - I hate Ethan Millard).
Melanie and Skyler got married about 8 months ago. Which is basically about the time they started writing their blog. Melanie is the main writer (actually, I don't know if Skyler has ever written anything). She usually posts at least once a week, sometimes more if the fancy strikes her. I highly recommend adding this to your reading list as you won't be disappointed. Here is their most recent post, that you absolutely need to read. I laughed my head off!!! Here are a couple of other worthwhile entries that you will enjoy: Hated it Hotel Room - kind of NSFW Sunday, August 17. 2008Blogs, blogs, blogs...
It seems like nowadays whenever people meet invariably this question will come up: "So do you have a blog?" Everyone
has one. I used to think we here on the Homestarmy were special because we had this blog for more than 4 years. And I
suppose we still are as I have never seen anyone else doing what we do. But the fact remains everyone seems to have a
blog. Good for them.
I like blogs. It gives me a chance to keep in touch with people (mainly because I am rather anti-social). Some people are really funny. Others have really poignant and intelligent things to say. All of them keep me reading. I have added a new folder to our Handy Links section (on the right column of the site) called Radar's Endorsed Blogs. This contains links to all of the blogs that I read on a regular basis. Some you already read. Others will be new to you. But I put them up on our blog to encourage all of you to check them out (and comment on their posts as I know they all like that). I also encourage each of you to put up your own folders with readable blogs as I would be interested to read them. Look for me to feature some of them in the coming weeks. Below is a list of all of my recommended blogs and a very brief intro about them: Continue reading "Blogs, blogs, blogs..." Friday, August 15. 2008Who am I sir? "UTAH MAN"VERSE I am a Utah man, sir, and I live across the green. Our gang, it is the jolliest that you have ever seen. Our coeds are the fairest and each one's a shining star. Our yell, you hear it ringing through the mountains near and far. CHORUS Who am I, sir? A Utah man am I A Utah man, sir, and will be till I die; Ki!Yi! We're up to snuff; we never bluff, We're game for any fuss, No other gang of college men dare meet us in the muss. So fill your lungs and sing it out and shout it to the sky, We'll fight for dear old Crimson, for a Utah man am I. Continue reading "Who am I sir?" Wednesday, August 13. 2008Thanks joN
From time to time some of my friends post something to their blog that I think is fantastic. I used to wonder how to
tell other people about it. I thought that I could just copy the post verbatim and then be done with it, but that just
doesn't seem right. So then I realized (I don't know why it took me this long) that I could just link to it. I think I
am going to come up with a better way to share some of my friends blogs. Look to the near future for an addition.
This was Well Said! Tuesday, August 12. 2008coLinux grows up.
So, Ancient of Days told me a while back I should try coLinux rather than struggling with a dual boot, VMWare, or KVM
solution to that age old problem: How do I run Linux and Windows on the same desk?
I've struggled for a week now trying to get coLinux to do what I wanted. I didn't have a lot of time until today, when I was assigned a new PHP project to work on. Seeing that I now had the needed justification for investing time into this technology, I set about trying to read through the documentation. To my surprise, I found that several people were packaging "out of the box" solutions that installed a windows manager and a bunch of commonly used applications - and they use Ubuntu Linux as their distro. I ended up going with andLinux since it was available from sourceforge. I installed it and after a quick reboot, it started working like magic. Continue reading "coLinux grows up." Thursday, July 31. 2008Quote of the Day
I know most of you already get Quote of the Day, but I really liked this one.
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. Tuesday, June 24. 2008Comments (8) Trackbacks (0) The Miracle of Ice Cream
Thanks go to thRhett for his recommendation of Farr ice cream.
Continue reading "The Miracle of Ice Cream"
Friday, May 30. 20081337
As you can see if you hover over the title, this is the 1337th article on this blog. It's possible that we lost some
articles to server issues, but that doesn't matter, because it's in the URL.
To celebrate this historic moment in l33tness, I've decided to pull something out of the archives. The old archives. That's right, from back when I was a bachelor and this was a website for party announcements and beard growing activities. Continue reading "1337"
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Mon, 06.10.2008 18:47
VERY entertaining. and for the record, that original video i s one of my favorite three min utes of video EVER.Comments ()
Mon, 06.10.2008 15:56
Kermit > Radar. Kermit work ed with Sideshow and myself af ter you abandoned us to work o n the project of Inconso [...]Comments ()
Mon, 06.10.2008 15:51
Who is Kermit?Comments ()
Mon, 06.10.2008 15:49
Mythbusters would definitely b e on my short list of coolest jobs ever.Comments ()
Mon, 06.10.2008 15:24
If you liked that, you might l ike this moment from the 3rd s eason of Mythbusters, where th ey VAPORIZE a cement m [...]Comments ()
Mon, 06.10.2008 14:47
That was really interesting. I'm glad they mentioned that h umans couldn't survive the imp act at the end.Comments ()
Mon, 06.10.2008 14:22
That was cool.Comments ()
Mon, 06.10.2008 12:29
Hate mid-week games
Mon, 06.10.2008 10:40
And if anyone is interested, I have leftover black facepaint since it's the blackout.Comments ()
Sun, 05.10.2008 09:25
What an incoherent collection of comic moments. Was there a n actual theme to that? I got the impression the clos [...]Comments ()
Sun, 05.10.2008 03:13
you're right. i couldn't just gloss over it quickly. disappo inted in #1. makes me think th e author doesn't actuall [...]Comments ()
Fri, 03.10.2008 15:12
Naw. Benno is an infrequent c ommenter who doesn't have an a ctual login to post stories.Comments ()
Fri, 03.10.2008 12:11
Is It Mr. Iggy?Comments ()
Fri, 03.10.2008 11:12
I've noticed Reader has some o dd hiccups like that where the sidebar doesn't always update correctly.Comments ()
Fri, 03.10.2008 10:22
I know who Benno is. He can't seem to find a nickname that he likes though.