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  1. Sketchfest ‘03

    As you may or may not know, I’ve started up a small sketchbook online. Today, I went sketch crazy during classes, and came up with a few pieces I like, and felt worthy to post. Here’s a full linkset to each one, because I’m sadistic like that.

    David West
    Ken Ingham
    Cris Pedregal
    Some guy’s head (read [...]

    January 30, 2003UncategorizedNo comments
  2. What OS are you?

    Which OS are You?
    In some ways, I feel offended, but the description, if applied just to me, is fairly accurate. At least, I like to think so.

    January 27, 2003UncategorizedNo comments
  3. Dial-up

    So, I’m currently at my in-laws. I love my in-laws, they’re great. However, where they live, the demand for broadband isn’t as high, and so it isn’t really available. I’m sure if they hunted and were willing to pay a ton, they could find it.
    However, that hasn’t happened, as so I sit [...]

    January 26, 2003Uncategorized2 comments
  4. Long Night

    So, tonight was a long but quite fun night, not at all what I expected of the evening.
    My wife and I got home today around 4:00pm, and my friend Anthony had called to say Hi and see what we were up to, so we called him back and invited him over. We’d gone the [...]

    January 24, 2003UncategorizedNo comments
  5. Bridging the gap

    So, I think I have it working now. If you add the user brianatrt to your Friends list (assuming you’re an LJ user, and I think you might even have to be paid, not sure) it should eventually start pulling my blog content. If it doesn’t, and you click the userinfo and it [...]

    January 22, 2003UncategorizedNo comments
  6. Finally, an MT to LJ cross?

    So, I think I’ve finally got it figured out, at least based on some things I’ve read.
    You see, I guess LiveJournal supports reading syndicated sites via an RSS feed, so I tweaked up a custom RSS feed to be generated by MT just for LJ, and set up a new LiveJournal user. Should it [...]

    January 22, 2003UncategorizedNo comments
  7. Growing Old

    PvPonline.com – Aging
    Sadly, this is becoming all too true for me. Of course, I’m not 32 like the one character, but I turn 24 on the first of February, and I find myself thinking and saying things more and more like this character.
    On a side note, PvP is a riot. Highly recommended reading. [...]

    January 22, 2003UncategorizedNo comments
  8. Statistics

    This morning, as I was checking my e-mail I felt motivated to look at my website’s statistics. I really enjoy looking at these, as it gives me a myriad of information regarding the number of hits I get per month, averages over time, and things of that nature.
    One thing that makes me sad in [...]

    January 22, 2003UncategorizedNo comments
  9. Awesome Gift

    One of the things that I love about being a student on campus is that people hand out stuff for free, especially around this time of year. Any time that students return to campus, people show up handing stuff out.
    Usually it’s somewhat lame, things like fliers cover campus, maybe a button or stickers. [...]

    January 22, 2003UncategorizedNo comments
  10. Productivity

    Today was the first day back to classes at UNM, and let me tell you, I was stoked. Well, that is, after I got past the whole issue of being to an 8:00 am class, which for me means being at the bus stop at 6:50 am. It’s cold.
    First class of the day [...]

    January 21, 2003Uncategorized2 comments
  11. Banana Extinction

    Edit on 27 June 2003: The link below is striken because Yahoo takes down their news stories, apparently, so here’s a link to The BBC’s banana extinction story. There is a post regarding this change, but I wanted to update here as well, so that people who find this page via a search engine [...]

    January 15, 2003Uncategorized2 comments
  12. Which way?

    Courtesy of the Bonehead of the Day awards. The quote in the e-mail newsletter:
    Bonehead award four, a “government as good as it gets” bonehead award
    goes to a highway department responsible for these signs:
    http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/dah18/america/Image20.jpg
    Thank you Brian Munier for sending this!
    An added note: I’m not Brian Munier, it just happens that we have the same first [...]

    January 14, 2003UncategorizedNo comments
  13. The Food Patch

    Transdermal Nutrient Delivery System (TDNDS)
    This is crazy – essentially, a food patch. I could use some of these when I’m doing my homework late into the night.

    January 13, 2003UncategorizedNo comments
  14. Calculator!

    Kind of a big image, but oh well. I’m working on a calculator for a project in a VB class. The one on the left is my Calc, the one on the right is Windows’ Calc. Neato! For Windows-specific project, I must admit that I like VB. It’s pretty easy [...]

    January 13, 2003UncategorizedNo comments
  15. $95,093.35

    $95,000 Adventure @ Goodthink.com
    This story, while it takes forever to read, is worth it. It’s about a guy who took one of those fake checks you get in junk mail and actually cashed it, and the hilarity that ensued. I quite enjoyed the read.
    On a side note – I can’t believe I actually [...]

    January 11, 2003UncategorizedNo comments
  16. Darn

    I go nuts posting on the third, then wind up missing posting on the fourth by minutes. Go figure.
    Today was quite fun. We slept in, got up and ate leftover Chinese for breakfast (feel the nutritional value), then I dropped my wife off at Chile’s to have lunch with her sister, her mom, [...]

    January 5, 2003UncategorizedNo comments
  17. Art

    Yesterday, during part of my day I spent some time sitting in a Barnes & Noble. Most of that time was spent sitting and reading some books on cartooning.
    As I’ve mentioned a time or two both here in my personal blog and on the group blog I used to work on, I’ve been interested [...]

    January 5, 2003UncategorizedNo comments
  18. Whoa

    Wow, this is amazing – so many posts in one day. I think my head is going to pop!
    Seriously though, just been around the PC a lot today. I got on to do my diet journal, so I figured I’d post here.
    I was reading the MoveableType support forums earlier, and some people have [...]

    January 3, 2003UncategorizedNo comments
  19. Insane Shockwave Demo

    lecielestbleu.com : oeil complex demo
    Becky sent me this – it’s simply amazing. When you click, it changes. Have fun, play with it.

    January 3, 2003UncategorizedNo comments
  20. New Diet Journal

    I’ve started up a new blog on here, that’s really more for me – it’s a dietary journal. Part of my being a better husband resolution was to go to the doctor, and she wants me to record my eating habits as well as how I feel and react afterwards, so that’s what I’m [...]

    January 3, 2003UncategorizedNo comments