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Eyes
I think it’s pretty interesting that my eyes can see without seeing. For example, when I’m walking through the hallways at work, my eyes often end up in collision-avoidance mode. That is, I don’t see through my eyes because I’m busy seeing something else in my mind’s eye. So my eyes become visible-spectrum sonar and…
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Introspection
My blog has always contained some degree of introspection. It has varied based on my interests at the time. While it’s not impossible to include some self-examination in a Linux review, it’s certainly not par for the course. But, recently, reading Min and Kailyn’s blogs recently has inspired me to try and include some more…
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Hawaii Day 1
Last week I boarded a plane on a business trip to Hawaii. This time my wife couldn’t come along so all I had to do after work was attend to my photography. Let me back up for a second. I was supposed to leave on Sunday, so I got up at 0500 to be to…
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Another Reason The Web Rocks
A while back in time (but only two posts ago) I wrote about my first bike ride on the BWI trail. A few days later I got an email on Facebook: My name is Marty and I happened along your BLOG about biking at the BWI trail. My first time riding the trail was Saturday…
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A pretty short post: Family and Distance
It really sucks that I’m so far from my family. My sole living grandfather, pictured here, is turning 70 this year. Although I’ve always been closer to my mom’s family – I really, really love my grandfather. His humor, which was passed on to my father and which I hope to pass on to my…
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Starting New Projects
It’s been 16 days now since I started taking part in flickr’s famous 365 Project. Well, flickr has many of them, but the most famous one most people partake in is the one where the photographer takes 1 self-portrait per day for 365 days. The reason for the popularity in the self-portrait 365 project is…
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Hawaii Trip and Pictures
During inaugural week I was in Hawaii. Given how cold it was in the Balitmore/DC area that week, I can’t say I wasn’t happy to be there. I stayed at the Embassy Suites Beach Walk in Waikiki and I cannot say enough good things about the hotel. When we first checked in we were offered…
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Flood Part 2
Here are some pictures of the flood & damage:
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Floods
The sewers backed up in my apartment flooding my bathroom via my bathtub and toilet and my living room via the front door with water full of excrement and urine. However, even in these horrible and anoying times, you still have to look at it positively. Our neighbors got flooded throughout their entire house. For…
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Quote of the Day
Background: I’m feeling a little under the weather, so I’m staying home today. Danielle: “I want you to rest today, ok? I’ll send you a list of chores later.”
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what a long week….
I’m glad the weekend is fast upon us…..
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My Pathalogy
According to the latest issue of IEEE Spectrum, I suffer from completism. Completism is when you have to have all of a collection. It’s true I’m always get annoyed whenever I have only one DVD of a Tv series or if I have 9 of 10 DVDs or something. Feel the same way? Now you…
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First, about the weekend, then some more progress on “Sugar”
This weekend was pretty great. I got to spend a lot of time with my wife. They were supposed to call her in on Saturday, but it got canceled, so that made our time together more enjoyable. Dan came over and we watched him play Guitar Hero 2 on the PS2. I gave it a…
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A brief respite from computer animation
I’ve spent a pretty good amount of my free time to try and finish Jose’s Dinner. Now that I’m done, I am taking a bit of a break from animation to do some of the other things I like to do, such as play civ4. The new expansion pack is coming out and I’m extremely…