Friday, June 25, 2004

Rebuilding Iraq

A classic from Kieran...

Just For Shan...a nice Halbadiri

A Tanzanian member of parliament has threatened to place a death curse on all ministers if the government does not do more to fight corruption.

Can I just say that I wish I had the title "Minister of State for Good Governance"? We need one of those here.

Thursday, June 24, 2004

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Bob Bermer the inventor of ASCII passed away today.

This reminds me of one of the all time best signs I've ever seen.



For those of you who aren't fluent, here's a cheat sheet.

Sunday, June 20, 2004

Too much time...

Someone with WAY too much time on their hands. Then again, what's it say about me that I read the entire thing.

BTW we went out last night to see The Terminal. Personally I (and Jen, Anna and Carla...my lovely dates for the evening) all gave it the big two thumbs down. My comment as the credits rolled was: "There's two hours of my life I'll never get back..."

Friday, June 18, 2004

True Illustrators

I can't draw to save my life. I've always wanted to be able to draw, but for some reason I just have never been able to accomplish anything more exciting than a stick figure. Maybe I enjoy my work so much because enabling others to do amazing work is a sad attempt to make up for my lack of drawing talent. This is a small portfolio of some of the amazing things done using Illustrator.

Technical Drawings
Drawings done for architectural or design work

Realistics Drawings
These are not photos...these are drawn by hand from scratch

Artistic/Stylistic
Drawings showing how to duplicate natural media or more traditional artistic techniques

Let me know if you enjoy this type of posting, and I'll keep my eye out for other nice images. I'd like to thank Todd Macadangdang for Illustrator World.

Women Drinking Tea! Crazy Talk...

Praise Allah for teleconferencing.


The last quote is the best though...



It's easy to laugh and/or cry about some of the "antiquated" ideas in that article. We shouldn't laugh too hard though. This article is an interesting study of how much bogus-science we're being fed each day. I hear people (myself among them) quoting some of this stuff like it's gospel all the time too...

Wednesday, June 16, 2004

Just for my wife...

Neat Horse Pictures!
What could be better than that?

Actually I found them through this: The LinkSquare Project. Thanks Noelle!

Monday, June 14, 2004

Cool Commercial

Not the I want to be pimping for Nike, but this is a pretty cool commercial.

Also, added another shot to the SJMB Tri collection. Thanks to Deric and his wife. Click on the small image for a larger one.

Sunday, June 13, 2004

SJMTB Pics!

Added some pics (and did some editing) for my latest race. You can check them out here.

Saturday, June 12, 2004

Dave's Big Score!

Recently we had another supermall open in the area. Gilroy is just 40,153 people according to the Jan 2000 census, but it has a massive outlet shopping area, a Costco, a Walmart, a Home Depot etc. Just about every large warehouse type shopping experience can be had in Gilroy, except an Ikea. For some reason there is only one Ikea in the entire bay area, which seems weird. Getting back on subject, the new supermall is a little more upclass than some of the previous shopping areas that have recently opened in Gilroy. It includes some nice restaurants, a Best Buy, a SportMart, a Target (pronounced Tarjet by the discriminating shopper), and a Barnes & Noble. I'm actually excited about the Barnes & Noble, as until now, the nearest decent bookstore has been in San Jose, and shopping for books online, while convenient, just isn't quite as much fun as perusing the shelves to see if any of your favorite authors finally came out with a new book. George...I'm STILL waiting! It also has a Maui Taco stand, which in my book is one of the finer burritos to be had around, and it's right beside the Jamba Juice and the ColdStone Creamery which means Jen is happy to head down there as well.

San Jose Mtn Bike Sprint Triathlon Take 2

Just finished off my second San Jose Mtn Bike Sprint Triathlon. There's no pictures yet, but the details are here.. Hopefully we should have some pictures up soon.

Sunday, June 6, 2004

Busy Weekend

It's been a busy weekend. We went and saw the new Harry Potter at an early morning showing that Adobe had organized. I get a laugh everytime we go to one of these movies, because the movies start at 9:00, and that's an earlier time than most of the geeks I work with show up to work on a weekday.

Friday, June 4, 2004

From the "It's-the-spirit-of-the-law" dept

This is right up there with the Church of Holier than thou!

Since when does notepaper make anything valid? (read the second last paragraph).



Just in the spirit of things, here's the lyircs to The Huntin' Song

BTW kudos to the Flames for yet another excellent game. Of course going into overtime interfered with the run I had been planning to do, so I'm stacking my workout today, but it was worth it!

I think this article says it all though. Saturday night should be pretty cool no matter which way it goes.

Wednesday, June 2, 2004

New bike trail

if you wanna check out the bike trail that I have been working on click here! I have made some changes to it, so that it is more rideable...the entry is still pretty challenging...I need to put some grip tape on parts of it so it isn't too suicidal. And in case you are curious...its not all that obvious from the road...well unless you walk past. But driving past you can't see it! I dunno...maybe it will be torn down in favour of somethinge else...I hope not...lots of work went into it.