I used to get really into Halloween, mostly because of its proximity to my birthday. In particular I used to really enjoy pumpkin carving, and would spend hours doing Shepherd Farey-style renderings of Vincent Price or Darth Vader. These pumpkins make mine look like child’s play. Ridiculous.
This was something that you might have already had circulated to you, but it was new to me and I thought it was hilarious.
Dear Pets:
When I say to move, it means to go someplace else, not switch positions with each other so there are still two of you in the way.
The dishes with the paw print are yours and contain your food. The other dishes are mine and contain my food. Please note, placing a paw print in the middle of my plate and food does not stake a claim for it becoming your food and dish, nor do I find that aesthetically pleasing in the slightest.
The hallway was not designed by NASCAR and is not a racetrack. Beating me to the bottom is not the object. Tripping me doesn’t help, because I fall faster than you can run.
I cannot buy anything bigger than a king size bed. I am very sorry about this. Do not think I will continue to sleep on the couch to ensure your comfort.
Look at videos of dogs and cats sleeping, they can actually curl up in a ball.
It is not necessary to sleep perpendicular to each other stretched out to the fullest extent possible.
I …
See? I really did go to the Grand Canyon. I also finally got around to putting some of the trip images on Flickr, and added them to the Grand Canyon microsite that was formerly a rarely updated blog. Now I think I’ll just let the pictures speak for themselves instead of a bunch of boring writing.
Just looking through our Apache server logs… Ivory has been downloaded 10,000 times in the last 24 hours alone (and it’s been almost 3 days since we made it onto Apple’s software site). It’s only October 4th and we’ve blown through 75% of our bandwidth for the month. Trying to quickly figure out what to upgrade our hosting package to in order to avoid disaster. Stay tuned, it’s quite possible that all of our sites may go down tomorrow, including this one.
We submitted our 1.0.0 release of Ivory to Apple this week, and lo and behold here it is!
Just donated $50 for this book by photographer Iain Crockart. It’s a photobook of his motorcycle adventure across the Himalayas, and all of the money from the books goes towards his Enduro Africa charity ride in Africa in October of this year. Just wanted to give him some link love as I had thought I lost the link and couldn’t find it through Google, not remembering Iain’s name or the name of the charity ride.
If you’ve got a few bucks laying around, the book is available for whatever amount you have, as the printing was donated by Quadracolour, London. You’ll get a nice book and help out children in Lesotho and South Africa.
EA Games is one of the worst game developers out there when it comes to DRM (and treating their employees well too, from what I hear). Their new much talked about game Spore is the latest victim in their DRM rampage—if you install the game more than 3 times it renders the install CDs useless. Think that deterred the pirates? Think again.
“There are two types of gamers - paying customers, and pirates. No matter what kind of security measures a company puts on softwares, the pirates will pirate, and the paying customers will pay. There really is very little swing to this. There may be a few iffy people who go, “Meh, it’s unhackable and I really want to play. I’ll buy it. ” But very, very, rarely. And, it doesn’t even matter now because Spore is cracked anyway. Pirates win.”
So, we’re heading to the Grand Canyon in 2 days. I’m incredibly excited, because although it’s the same distance as the Yukon trip, this one is packed with way more sights, and about 80% of the landscapes we’ll be traversing are completely new to me. I’ve actually started a blog just for the trip, but it will be interesting to see how much connectivity/desire to post I’ll have while I’m travelling. At the very least I’ve unprotected my Twitter and I’ll probably be using that the most.
If you’re at all interested, stay tuned! I’ll have access to a laptop and occasional wifi the days we’re in hotels, so I hope to post some images as well. See you on the other side of the canyon.
Congratulations to Kevin and Jane on the birth of their beautiful baby girl, Caia Jane Broome!
