weight loss update…
Just referencing back to previous posts and other bits of correspondence, here’s where we stand:
begin: 235
May 14th: 228
May 21st: 225
June 15th: 222
June 19th: 219
target: 185 (which equates to a Body Mass Index of about 25 – “desirable” for my height according to this)
A little over a third of the way there – woo hoo!!! Almost enough encouragement to actually want to hit the gym after work tomorrow… 😉
frogs and bears
a bit of comedic genius from the late Mitch Hedberg…
I like to talk about the differences between frogs and bears…
…like when there’s a frog around, I don’t have to hang my fucking sandwiches from a branch…
…the frog knows that they are for me!
He’d rather have a fly, because a fly zig-zags…and my sandwiches do not.
One comic whom I really didn’t even recognize until after that fateful news report…
for the music enthusiast
This Day in History…
1948 – Columbia Records publicly unveiled its new long-playing phonograph record in New York City, which turned at 33 1/3 revolutions per minute.
Hmmm…
In paying bills tonight, I realized that I now only require three stamps per month…the other eight or nine I can either pay online or directly in person…and really, the only reason that I still send the three through the mail is because 37 cents each is cheaper than the five dollar “convenience fee” that those guys want to charge for online payments.
This seems amazing to me, when a couple of years ago I used to go through a book a month easily…but then again, I do seem to be easily amused this evening… 😮
That is all.
go look at pictures!!!
Ok, so the rest of the site still isn’t finished, but the galleries are finally the way that I want them…baby steps, folks…baby steps…
http://www.comedic-genius.com/gallery/
Many very nice shots from Disney – enjoy!
WANTED: entertainment for bored audiophile…
I need some suggestions of new stuff to listen to at work…music is ok, but preferrably more of the spoken word variety. The bulk of my day is spent staring at a computer screen and if I don’t have something to keep my mind occupied, I start to go off on tangents (today’s discussion included determining the radius and eventually also the internal temperature of the Earth’s core…I know, we’re all a bunch of dorks…).
So far I’ve been living off a steady stream of catch-up with This Week in Tech, The Chris Pirillo Show, and occasionally The Sean Kennedy Show when I’m feeling particularly damn-the-man-ish, but at this point I’m up to current and am now in desperate need of new listening material!!! Right now I’ve got about six hours worth of old BBC broadcasts of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy that I’m going through, so perhaps someone might suggest some more audio books for me to acquire? I’ve already got the Harry Potter books on my list to search for, in preparation for the new one coming out next month…maybe I should look for The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings, too?
My only requirements are that I can save them onto CD in wmv or mp3 format to save space…no streaming audio while I’m at work, but I’m open to suggestions for around the house, too. Somebody throw me a bone here!!!
geek crap resolved???
- Who knew that DHCP could be such a pain in the ass?! Almost followed the suggestion to replace cables for any bad connections when I opted to just try out the other NIC in the offending PC first…so far, it’s now working. I don’t know what the problem is – just both my laptop and my server sometimes don’t get an IP from DHCP, so they now give themselves private IPs instead which effectively does, well, nothing. Both seem to be back online now, so we’ll see what happens, but after reading the mass of DHCP issues that folks have been having with Linksys – since 2001– I’m about ready to exchange this thing for something else…
- Received the LNP documentation from VoicePulse today to effectively boot Verizon from my life – just cross your fingers and let’s hope that they can get this right the first time! You’d think with what I do for a living, this would be a shoe-in…but then again, all I can really do is print clearly on the forms – the rest is up to them…
- Cleaned up a bunch of stray programs from both PC and laptop this evening – systems seem to be running a little smoother now. Laptop is still beggingto be reformatted (after three years…), but I just don’t have the time to take that plunge right now. Maybe I’ll play the scandisk / defrag game before going to bed tonight.
- Photo galleries on comedic-genius.com are almost the way I want them now – had to trim away some text to make them fit properly with the new layout, but such is life. After spending a good couple of hours actually writing and formatting for the “new site,” it just might actually get put up sometime this year after all!
- Pile of old NES games and other pitiful computer junk keeps looking more wasteful and makes me wonder if I should just skip eBay and go straight to the dumpster…at least the dumpster doesn’t charge me listing fees…
Either way, it’s all good now and I’m going swimming – please try not to crash anything while I’m gone… 😛
happy thoughts…
I don’t know what it is, but I’ve just got a good feeling about this week – like something wonderful is going to happen. Hopefully one thing in particular that comes to mind, but I don’t want to jynx anything at this point…
Hmmmm. 😉
Voicepulse, go!!!
Alright, dudes – for the very few people who actually ever call me, my answering machine is hooked up to the VoIP line now so you’ll want to call my cell if you need to leave me a message. I still have a regular phone hooked up to my normal home phone line, but it doesn’t have a machine and I’m rarely home to answer it.
Will shoot to start the whole porting process next week and begin preparing to say bye-bye to Verizon for good, unless something goes horrible wrong in the meantime…but so far, very satisfied VoIP customer!