18 August 2006
SOSALF
Last night went better than I thought. My son knows a lot of the kids in his classes. Much better experience than registration.
I don't think our baby likes me. She has already mastered the look of death and I'm usually the target.
Last Saturday our friends moved into a new home in Kaysville. It is a huge place with an indoor pool, full size tennis court and an unbelievable train set built into the garage and cemented into the yard. They are great people and deserve all they have. While were we helping them move we found out they were expecting twins. Yesterday we found out she lost them both. What a difference a week makes.
I surfed a little today....
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Last month I blogged about Wired magazine's list of the '50 Best Robots Ever'. If you remember I did not like the ranking of some of my favorite sci-fi droids. Today I found an article about '10 Coolest Robots'. I'm pretty sure three or four of the robots from this new article are on the other list, but for some reason 'cool robots' sits better with me than does 'best robots'.
1. ASIMO: the humanoid robot
2. Albert Hubo: an "Einstein" Robot
3. Stanley: the autonomous vehicle
4. BigDog: the robotic mule
5. RiSE: the climbing robot
6. QRIO: the dancing robot
7. HRP-2 Promet: the robotic butler
8. RHex: the Robotic Pooch
9. WR-07: a real Transformer
10. The lego robotic bartender
The best thing about this list is that it included YouTube videos of every one of the 'coolest' in action.
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I found another sweet site called
Included on the site is a section of quotes from Grandpa Simpson.
Grandpa Simpson, father of Homer, can usually be found at The Springfield Retirement Castle, waxing poetic, nostalgic and just plain loony about the olden days. While often lost in his own world, Grandpa can be a sage source of knowledge ... or at least humor.
Grandpa: My Homer is not a communist. He may be a liar, a pig, an idiot, a communist, but he is not a porn star.
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Grandpa: Dear Mr. President, There are too many states nowadays. Please eliminate three.
P.S. I am not a crackpot.
---
Marge: Grandpa, this flag only has 49 stars on it
Grandpa: I'll be deep in the cold, cold ground before I recognize Missourah!
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Lisa: I'm an ugmo.
Homer: Now, that's not true. You're cute as a bug's ear.
Lisa: Father's have to say that little stuff.
Homer: Dad, am I cute as a bug's ear?
Grandpa: No. You're homely as a mule's butt.
Homer: There. See?
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Marge: Grandpa, are you sitting on the apple pie?
Grandpa: I sure hope so...
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Grandpa Simpson: The last time the meteors came, we thought the sky was on fire. Naturally, we blamed the Irish. We hanged more 'n a few.
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Grandpa: Now where's my card. Ok, I'm an elk, a communist, the president of the gay and lesbian comittee for some reason, oh here it is. The Stone cutters.
Homer: Yes thank you dad. Lets go!.... I'll take this communist one too!
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Homer: Hey boy! Wanna play catch?
Bart: No thanks dad.
Homer: When a son doesn't want to play catch with his father something is definitely wrong.
Grandpa Simpson: I'll play catch with you!
Homer: Go home.
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Abe: That doll is EVIL, I tells ya. Evil! Eeeeeeviillll!!!
Marge: Grandpa, you said that about all the presents.
Abe: I just want attention.
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Grandpa: Well, whenever I'm confused, I just check my underwear. It holds the answer to all the important questions.
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Mr. burns: so do you have a way to get rid of the protesters?
Grandpa: One way to get rid of them is to tell 'em stories that dont go anywhere. Like the time we went over to shelbyville during the war, I wore an onion on my belt....which was the style at the time...you couldnt get those white ones, you could only get those big yellow ones.................now where was I........oh yeah, the important thing was I was wearing an onion on my nelt, which was the style at the time, you couldnt get those... (trails off)
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Grandpa: Big deal! When I was a pup, we got spanked by presidents 'til the cows came home! Grover Cleveland spanked me on two non-consecutive occasions!
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Grandpa: Are we there yet?
Homer: No
Grandpa: Are we there yet?
Homer: No
Grandpa: Are we there yet?
Homer: No
Grandpa: ........Where are we going?
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Not to be outdone, There is an accompanying site for South Park.
We thought the hippy subspecies would have died out long ago; a result of one too many acid trips. However, the hippy is apparently extremely resilient. Each new generation seems to spawn new hybrid forms. The hippy counterculture is spooky and will forever be a mystery to us. Peace.
Cartman: Hippies.They're everywhere. They wanna save the earth, but all they do is smoke pot and smell bad.
---
Cartman: Naw dude, Independent films are those black and white hippy movies. They're always about gay cowboys eating pudding.
---
Officer Barbrady: You can't just lock 63 people in your basement.
Cartman: They're not people, they're hippies!
---
Cartman: Drugs are bad because if you do drugs you're a hippie and hippies suck.
---
Cartman: M'am, I'm here to check your house for parasites ... apparently, you have hippies.
---
Cartman: Only three more hours, sea people. Only three more hours and you can take me away from this crappy goddamn planet full of hippies.
---
Cartman: I hate hippies! I mean, the way they always talk about "protectin' the earth" and then drive around in cars that get poor gas mileage and wear those stupid bracelets - I hate 'em! I wanna kick 'em in the nuts!
---
Stan: I don't want to shoot the bunny.
Uncle Jimbo: No nephew of mine is going to be a tree hugger.
Cartman: Yeah, hippie. Go back to Woodstock if you don't wnat to shoot anything.
---
Cartman: I don't hate black people. I hate hippies.
---
Cartman: I've been keeping this place free of hippies since I was five and a half.
What's your favorite quote?
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I found this online mag called 'SEESAW Magazine' which ran a photo spread called 'Katrina - After the Cry and Remnants'.
Most of these photos are not artsy fartsy but there is more here then first appears.
-----------------
I checked out another photographer named Marcio Cabral. Cabral has a great photoblog and a great eye.
[paepalanthus]
[Posts of Brazil]
[baleiamount] - I think this is my favorite.
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Can you remember when I blogged about that guy who played the 'Star Wars Theme' on the banjo. Check out this gut who plays 'Star Wars on Bagpipes'.
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Keeping with the space theme, check out this fun site that features a cartoon that is a cross between 'The Flintstones' and 'Star Trek' called 'Stone Trek'.
The current show is entitled 'Episode 9 - Marooned on Tattooine - Part 2'
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I like to save the games for last.
Hyperjet is a race game that is easy to understand and even easier to win.
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Have a great weekend.
I don't think our baby likes me. She has already mastered the look of death and I'm usually the target.
Last Saturday our friends moved into a new home in Kaysville. It is a huge place with an indoor pool, full size tennis court and an unbelievable train set built into the garage and cemented into the yard. They are great people and deserve all they have. While were we helping them move we found out they were expecting twins. Yesterday we found out she lost them both. What a difference a week makes.
I surfed a little today....
-------------
Last month I blogged about Wired magazine's list of the '50 Best Robots Ever'. If you remember I did not like the ranking of some of my favorite sci-fi droids. Today I found an article about '10 Coolest Robots'. I'm pretty sure three or four of the robots from this new article are on the other list, but for some reason 'cool robots' sits better with me than does 'best robots'.
1. ASIMO: the humanoid robot
2. Albert Hubo: an "Einstein" Robot
3. Stanley: the autonomous vehicle
4. BigDog: the robotic mule
5. RiSE: the climbing robot
6. QRIO: the dancing robot
7. HRP-2 Promet: the robotic butler
8. RHex: the Robotic Pooch
9. WR-07: a real Transformer
10. The lego robotic bartender
The best thing about this list is that it included YouTube videos of every one of the 'coolest' in action.
----------------
I found another sweet site called
Included on the site is a section of quotes from Grandpa Simpson.
Grandpa Simpson, father of Homer, can usually be found at The Springfield Retirement Castle, waxing poetic, nostalgic and just plain loony about the olden days. While often lost in his own world, Grandpa can be a sage source of knowledge ... or at least humor.
Grandpa: My Homer is not a communist. He may be a liar, a pig, an idiot, a communist, but he is not a porn star.
---
Grandpa: Dear Mr. President, There are too many states nowadays. Please eliminate three.
P.S. I am not a crackpot.
---
Marge: Grandpa, this flag only has 49 stars on it
Grandpa: I'll be deep in the cold, cold ground before I recognize Missourah!
---
Lisa: I'm an ugmo.
Homer: Now, that's not true. You're cute as a bug's ear.
Lisa: Father's have to say that little stuff.
Homer: Dad, am I cute as a bug's ear?
Grandpa: No. You're homely as a mule's butt.
Homer: There. See?
---
Marge: Grandpa, are you sitting on the apple pie?
Grandpa: I sure hope so...
---
Grandpa Simpson: The last time the meteors came, we thought the sky was on fire. Naturally, we blamed the Irish. We hanged more 'n a few.
---
Grandpa: Now where's my card. Ok, I'm an elk, a communist, the president of the gay and lesbian comittee for some reason, oh here it is. The Stone cutters.
Homer: Yes thank you dad. Lets go!.... I'll take this communist one too!
---
Homer: Hey boy! Wanna play catch?
Bart: No thanks dad.
Homer: When a son doesn't want to play catch with his father something is definitely wrong.
Grandpa Simpson: I'll play catch with you!
Homer: Go home.
---
Abe: That doll is EVIL, I tells ya. Evil! Eeeeeeviillll!!!
Marge: Grandpa, you said that about all the presents.
Abe: I just want attention.
---
Grandpa: Well, whenever I'm confused, I just check my underwear. It holds the answer to all the important questions.
---
Mr. burns: so do you have a way to get rid of the protesters?
Grandpa: One way to get rid of them is to tell 'em stories that dont go anywhere. Like the time we went over to shelbyville during the war, I wore an onion on my belt....which was the style at the time...you couldnt get those white ones, you could only get those big yellow ones.................now where was I........oh yeah, the important thing was I was wearing an onion on my nelt, which was the style at the time, you couldnt get those... (trails off)
---
Grandpa: Big deal! When I was a pup, we got spanked by presidents 'til the cows came home! Grover Cleveland spanked me on two non-consecutive occasions!
---
Grandpa: Are we there yet?
Homer: No
Grandpa: Are we there yet?
Homer: No
Grandpa: Are we there yet?
Homer: No
Grandpa: ........Where are we going?
--------------------
Not to be outdone, There is an accompanying site for South Park.
We thought the hippy subspecies would have died out long ago; a result of one too many acid trips. However, the hippy is apparently extremely resilient. Each new generation seems to spawn new hybrid forms. The hippy counterculture is spooky and will forever be a mystery to us. Peace.
Cartman: Hippies.They're everywhere. They wanna save the earth, but all they do is smoke pot and smell bad.
---
Cartman: Naw dude, Independent films are those black and white hippy movies. They're always about gay cowboys eating pudding.
---
Officer Barbrady: You can't just lock 63 people in your basement.
Cartman: They're not people, they're hippies!
---
Cartman: Drugs are bad because if you do drugs you're a hippie and hippies suck.
---
Cartman: M'am, I'm here to check your house for parasites ... apparently, you have hippies.
---
Cartman: Only three more hours, sea people. Only three more hours and you can take me away from this crappy goddamn planet full of hippies.
---
Cartman: I hate hippies! I mean, the way they always talk about "protectin' the earth" and then drive around in cars that get poor gas mileage and wear those stupid bracelets - I hate 'em! I wanna kick 'em in the nuts!
---
Stan: I don't want to shoot the bunny.
Uncle Jimbo: No nephew of mine is going to be a tree hugger.
Cartman: Yeah, hippie. Go back to Woodstock if you don't wnat to shoot anything.
---
Cartman: I don't hate black people. I hate hippies.
---
Cartman: I've been keeping this place free of hippies since I was five and a half.
What's your favorite quote?
------------------
I found this online mag called 'SEESAW Magazine' which ran a photo spread called 'Katrina - After the Cry and Remnants'.
Most of these photos are not artsy fartsy but there is more here then first appears.
-----------------
I checked out another photographer named Marcio Cabral. Cabral has a great photoblog and a great eye.
[paepalanthus]
[Posts of Brazil]
[baleiamount] - I think this is my favorite.
----------------
Can you remember when I blogged about that guy who played the 'Star Wars Theme' on the banjo. Check out this gut who plays 'Star Wars on Bagpipes'.
-----------------
Keeping with the space theme, check out this fun site that features a cartoon that is a cross between 'The Flintstones' and 'Star Trek' called 'Stone Trek'.
The current show is entitled 'Episode 9 - Marooned on Tattooine - Part 2'
-----------
I like to save the games for last.
Hyperjet is a race game that is easy to understand and even easier to win.
----------
Have a great weekend.
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