My blog. Personal thoughts, anecdotes, and musings.
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In George Washington’s days, there were no cameras. One’s image was either sculpted
or painted. Some paintings of George Washington showed him standing behind a
desk with one arm behind his back while others showed both legs and both arms.
Prices charged by painters were not based on how many people were to be painted,
but by how many limbs were to be painted. Arms and legs are “limbs” therefore
painting them would cost the buyer more. Hence the expression “Okay, but
it’ll cost you an arm and a leg.”
Those of us who grew up in a small town will laugh when we read this. Those
of you who didn’t will be in disbelief… but trust me… every one of these
are true. Thanks to Anita for this one… sometimes it is nice to be reminded
of where we grow up…. not always… but sometimes.
Soon
Published July 22, 2003
Another Week Begins…. but soon…. vacation!
Peer-to-peer users who swap copyrighted files could be in danger of becoming federal felons, under a new proposal backed by Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Finished Harry Potter: Order Of The Phoenix
It only took me a few days to read it, but it was really good. Unfortunately, I can’t write too much more about it because everything I write would ruin the story. So just go read it yourself. You’ll love it.
Progress
Published July 16, 2003
We are making progress. Some of the programs I’m working on are done and I’m finishing up my user documentation. I’ll be so much more relieved when I can write some of this off.
As of yesterday, I’m boycotting Rosebud, a chain of resturaunts in Chicagoland (No link). They fired a friend of mine in a rather crappy way, after she had put in quite a lot of effort there for almost three years.
Damnit
Published July 15, 2003
Another week of work starts off with a bang. I had the most frustrating day at work today. Several of the projects I have been working on stopped working properly and the development server seems to be developing some sort of cancer or something. I’m encountering more problems than I ever thought possible.
To top that off, I’ve been having difficulties with my contact lenses which is obscurring my vision and causing me to make some really embarassing mistakes with my code.
Flash stuff
Published July 10, 2003
Pacman I shouldn’t laugh at this, but it’s too funny. Lots of violence. Connect 4
I’ve been spending some time on the karate pages on this site and I’m working on some animatons and videos for demonstrating the various techniques. Other than that, there’s not too much going down.
Wedding Pictures In case anyone’s wondering, there’s some communication problems with our photographer. I won’t put his name and address on here – yet… but he had better play nice. I paid $1000 for my pictures and I don’t have them yet.
We bought a patio set last night and so I decided to sit outside this morning with my lunch and paper and enjoy the nice morning. Not more than
one minute after I had settled into my Best Buy flyer, I heard a rustling in the bushes on the hill across from my house. I looked up and saw two fawns running around in the bushes looking for food. One of them came down about 15 feet away from me. I raced inside and grabbed my camcorder. I got a few minutes of footage of the fawns and their mother getting their grub on.