tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51588462007-12-11T11:05:28.718-08:00spacestationBrianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17452822274986589452noreply@blogger.comBlogger58125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5158846.post-1126928101696939492005-09-16T19:59:00.000-07:002005-09-16T20:35:14.360-07:00I took my son out for Daddy-Cooper night on Thursday (our regular night) and we went to Burger King for dinner. My son is all about Burger King. It's understandable, really. They give you a crown, you feel like a King and the food isn't half bad. And to top it all off, most of them have a monstrous playground inside that is immune to rain and is the saviour of many a stay-at-home mom.
However...Brianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17452822274986589452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5158846.post-1126925895444707272005-09-16T19:51:00.000-07:002005-09-16T19:58:15.446-07:00I've decided to move to Fiji after reading this book.
Now all I have to do is get a job there, convince all of my family to move there and I'll be set.Brianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17452822274986589452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5158846.post-1126925464420213742005-09-16T19:47:00.000-07:002005-09-16T19:51:04.420-07:00Why doesn't Raid make bug killing infused door sweepers? You know what I mean? Those little strips of plastic or furry things that attach to the bottom of a door to give it that *whooosh* sound?
Or maybe Raid infused caulk for bathroom tile or moulding strips. Hell, why not build the whole house out of Raid infused wood?
That spray stuff is for amateurs.Brianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17452822274986589452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5158846.post-1126925187782873392005-09-16T19:10:00.000-07:002005-09-16T19:46:27.786-07:00Well it happened. I've finally joined the masses. I can now be reached at any time of day, in any corner of the civilized world. My voice leaps out over radio frequencies. I can send text messages over Mt. Everest. I can coordinate multi-million dollar deals in Tokyo from my bicycle.
I now own a cell phone.
I bought the Treo 650 since I figured noone would ever call me and I might as well get aBrianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17452822274986589452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5158846.post-1125979937188938682005-09-05T21:03:00.000-07:002005-09-16T19:09:38.870-07:00I was checking my website statistics today and noticed an interesting trend. The pictures I have up of my miata (2001 Special Edition) are some of the hottest parts of my website. The fact that my car is more interesting than these ramblings of mine is no big surprise.
My little BRG baby is really becoming somewhat famous. If you go to http://images.search.yahoo.com/ and type in "miata" my car Brianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17452822274986589452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5158846.post-1113151893492187532005-04-10T09:41:00.000-07:002005-04-10T09:51:33.493-07:00I've recently grown some significant facial hair. The first time in my life really that I explored what my face could grow. I had the standard goatee that is all the rage these days nothing wacky. But I soon grew tired of it. It's getting warmer and for me spring brings allergies and nose blowing and a moustache can really get in the way like you wouldn't believe. So today I decided to shaveBrianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17452822274986589452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5158846.post-1112844019480090692005-04-06T20:14:00.000-07:002005-04-06T20:20:19.480-07:00Sleep. I want sleep. Lots of it.Brianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17452822274986589452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5158846.post-1112691996074859012005-04-05T02:01:00.000-07:002005-04-05T02:13:37.573-07:00As a researcher in robotics, I often tell people that I believe we are in the age of robotics. That in the near future, say 50 years, we will find that the robots in our everyday lives will become ubuitious. This is a good thing in most respects...
But, HOLY CRAP this is spooky: http://ndeaa.jpl.nasa.gov/nasa-nde/lommas/EAP-video/android.mpg
And this: http://ndeaa.jpl.nasa.gov/nasa-nde/Brianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17452822274986589452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5158846.post-1112582039871123702005-04-03T19:24:00.000-07:002005-04-03T19:33:59.873-07:00Forget chinese water torture, the rack, thumbscrews, bamboo shoots under the nails...the real way to torture someone is to play a tape of an infant crying. If you add to that the screamings of a two year-old, mixed with a healthy dose of sleep deprivation and nicotine withdrawal you've got all the torture you'll ever need. After a few hours of that, I would admit to being at the center of any Brianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17452822274986589452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5158846.post-1112581441620816632005-04-03T19:22:00.000-07:002005-04-03T19:24:01.620-07:00I would love to hear that some fool actually fell for this and paid these guys half a million to transplant their brain.
http://216.247.9.207/ny-best.htmBrianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17452822274986589452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5158846.post-1112581350185546432005-04-03T19:20:00.000-07:002005-04-03T19:22:30.190-07:00Now I have seen everything.
http://www.knitty.com/issuewinter04/pattwomb.html
Brianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17452822274986589452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5158846.post-1112157066305453782005-03-29T20:29:00.000-08:002005-03-29T20:31:06.306-08:00Money sucks.
Correction: A lack of money sucks.Brianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17452822274986589452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5158846.post-1111550943596919272005-03-22T20:08:00.000-08:002005-03-24T19:13:25.956-08:00As an old-time Star Trek fan this caught my eye. I want one for my sons. :)
http://web.media.mit.edu/~lifton/Tribble/Brianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17452822274986589452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5158846.post-1111550889528273452005-03-22T20:07:00.000-08:002005-03-24T19:14:05.103-08:00This is a really interesting idea, that a robot (or computer) could have a "dream". Check out the still pics or the video if you can...
http://halo.gen.nz/robot/Brianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17452822274986589452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5158846.post-1111550811341073942005-03-22T20:05:00.000-08:002005-03-24T19:15:19.193-08:00These stories had me in stitches many times...
http://www.zug.com/pranks/credit/
http://www.zug.com/pranks/credit_card/Brianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17452822274986589452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5158846.post-1111460493583912142005-03-21T19:01:00.000-08:002005-03-21T19:01:33.583-08:00blog email testWow, nifty feature whereby you can update your blog via email. This
is pretty cool stuff. Man, technology in the 21st century is amazing
isn't it?Now if they could only get my order right at Wendy's the world would
be a utopia.Brianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17452822274986589452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5158846.post-1111338866273464852005-03-20T09:07:00.000-08:002005-03-20T09:14:26.273-08:00I can't get Mary Poppins music out of my head!!!!
My son has become obsessed with the movie and the music. At first it was cute. Watching him do a dance along with the movie or being amazed at how he learns all the words to the songs or even the different scenes.
But now it's become my personal hell. Being forced into someone elses obsession is not very fun. And music of all things...it Brianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17452822274986589452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5158846.post-1111027145529907212005-03-16T18:25:00.000-08:002005-03-16T18:39:05.530-08:00I'm so sick of the show Survivor. It's seems so lame to me, so petty.
Here would be my version of Survivor...
Drop the same twenty people in a dangerous remote location with a rough map of the area and designate a goal that is 30 some days away by foot on the map. The first person to get there gets one million dollars. No runner-up prize.
The rules:
No outside help.
No contact between Brianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17452822274986589452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5158846.post-1110948608571847432005-03-15T20:36:00.000-08:002005-03-15T20:50:08.573-08:00I absolutely LOVE the movie the Royal Tenenbaums by Wes Anderson. Everytime I watch it I laugh and see/hear something new, it's one of those kind of movies.
One of my favorite lines is:
Well, everyone knows Custer died at Little Bighorn. What this book presupposes is: maybe he didn’t?Brianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17452822274986589452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5158846.post-1110947793201058162005-03-15T20:25:00.000-08:002005-03-15T20:36:33.203-08:00I'm thinking about starting a secret society. I want to be a part of something, be the head of it, know lots of powerful people and potentially make lots of money. It might work.Brianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17452822274986589452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5158846.post-1110945975350267242005-03-15T20:03:00.000-08:002005-03-15T20:24:43.813-08:00Wow, nearly a year to the day since my last post. So a new year and a new blog template. Time for a few changes around here I would say. Some spring cleaning if you will.
This new template has a new comments system too, hopefully it will work as well as the last one, not that anyone ever left any comments :)Brianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17452822274986589452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5158846.post-1079492341046514082004-03-16T18:59:00.000-08:002004-03-16T19:02:13.280-08:00So the DARPA Grand Challenge was this weekend. If you hadn't heard of this yet here's the gist: DARPA awards one million in cash to the team that can make a ground based robot that will travel across the desert autonomously (that means no human control) for 150 miles from Los Angeles to Las Vegas. Pretty good deal right? Wrong. The teams spent ten times that in research dollars pusuing that Brianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17452822274986589452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5158846.post-1076296198758288592004-02-08T19:09:00.000-08:002004-02-08T19:12:22.700-08:00We just bought my wife a new car. It's called a Scion and it's a new division of Toyota. This thing rocks. HARD.
It's only $14k, comes with a Pioneer cd/mp3 player, room for 5, gets 30/35 mpg and feels like a cathedral inside there's so much room. I hope it's good to her and my son, I have a lot riding in that car.
Brianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17452822274986589452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5158846.post-1074903110953227332004-01-23T16:11:00.000-08:002004-01-23T16:13:53.546-08:00Does this makes sense? Some 92 year old dude robs a bank, unarmed mind you, and gets 12 years...meanwhile this 64 year old politician who KILLED someone by driving drunk is getting 100 DAYS. Seriously...there is no sense of justice in the U.S. courts.
Brianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17452822274986589452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5158846.post-1073603615209401992004-01-08T15:13:00.000-08:002004-01-08T15:15:17.983-08:00socks are like mittens for your feet.
Brianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17452822274986589452noreply@blogger.com