Picasa Album!

I just wanted to share with you all that I've added one more thing to the side of this blog. I was realizing recently just how many pictures I've taken over the years and some of them are actually pretty good. It's a shame to have good pictures and keep them all to myself, so I'm gonna post them onto a public Picasa album (program I definitely recommend!). Check out the photos and enjoy my work as I upload them semi-chronologically from when I first got a digital camera. I'm totally all about sharing these around, but please be respectful of my work/fun. I hope you enjoy how beautiful nature looks through my eyes. You'll find the link on the sidebar.

Busy Holidays

I hope everyone is having a Merry Christmas and/or whatever other holidays you are enjoying right now. Wishing you all the best, and I will catch up on here soon but with the holidays and start of school I have been relatively too busy to blog. For now, check out this creative approach to the skydiving experience. Courtesy once again of our ever faithful Google.

Street View

For those of you who aren't yet familiar with Google's "Street View", get familiar. It strikes again with new vandalism in Germany at those people who opted out of being shown on street view. Not much for anonymity if you can't actually keep private who opted out, can you?

Good Weekend

As with any busy weekend, I stayed off the internet for the most part and concentrated on enjoying the time I'd been given, with the full knowledge that come Monday I'd have time to blog again during Stats class. As such, I've got a collection of topics and such so there will be a blog overflow today.

For starters, Louisville and the North American was a great opportunity to lean back and relax just a bit (literally during the accident induced traffic jam on the way back) and a chance for Amanda and I to sleep in and do some fun shopping and roaming together. It wasn't all play, as Katherine and Jacob used our help to get the lambs ready and I did more to get a lamb ready for show than I have ever done in my life before (which was obvious by my lack of experience). The family placed decently with the sheep and showed that we are making progress in our improvements to the flock.

It's really amazing to me that despite the "horrible" economy and all the financial troubles that Americans are experiencing this year, there was little reminder of that down in Kentucky at the show. Things went on just as always with both old and brand new vendors selling lots of great things to many genuinely interested customers. If there was any change from last year, it was the increase in store security to prevent the loss of merchandise and a slight decrease in the number of entries that made the trip. Otherwise, all boded well and a good time was had.

On that note, I include 3 links for big money items that came up in my BBC news today. Megamind
is bringing in the big bucks for the second week in a row, and yet I have minimal interest in seeing it. It would be impossible to top How to Train Your Dragon in my mind, so I'm gearing up to go see a couple of other movies with Amanda in the future instead, including Harry Potter 7.


Secondly on my list is an article discussing people getting bamboozled in an investment scam for treasure recovery. Honestly folks?!? When did you begin to believe that a deep sea recovery was going to pay itself off for you? It's good I don't write for BBC because I wouldn't have taken so much pity on you.

And rumors surround Facebook as they prepare for the unveiling of a new unknown product. No fears Google; I won't leave you.

Videos

Today, having exhausted my recent Colbert episodes, I return to Tosh.0 to find that there is nearly nothing worth putting into my blog. Because of the lack of funniness recently, I think we can agree that this video's at least worth a shot (you'll appreciate the pun later).

In case you're wondering how my day is going, I only need quote my conversation with Amanda on gchat: "She nuked her brain into the stone age". Not that you can guess what it's about, but I think you empathize through your own experiences and I hope your day is looking up. :)

I'd also like to give a shout out to those unfortunate souls who are already starting school. This is probably the longest summer break of my life (May 6 - Sept 20) and I am loving it. Sure, I can't wait to get back to those good old seats that I did so much napping in, but I'm enjoying the sense of accomplishment that comes with doing a good hard real day's... wait. No, that's not what work feels like at all. Ok, I'm jealous of you guys for your school sessions starting early. I'm ready to officially be a grad student, in class and working on figuring out what a project might look like or include.

I just google-mapped where I'm going for work tomorrow, and after it found the location it just started revolving around the globe. In fact, it continued to revolve even after I refreshed the page with driving directions, coming back to rest in Afghanistan, which is definitely not where I'm going to work tomorrow.

And then I found this chicken video on the comment bar of Tosh.0.