Random Musings of Brian A. Thomas. Love for Sara and Ari.
Posted in Ari Update, Vids on Apr 27th, 2007
The video quality here isn’t great, as it was taken with a camera phone, but here is a video of Ari, at the end of which he claims he is Darth Maul (lead villain in Star Wars - Episode I, The Phantom Menace. The look on his face was very funny.
Posted in Ari Update, Vids on Apr 27th, 2007
Ari’s favorite music video of late is Kate Bush singing Wuthering Heights. He does it with lots of her dance moves while he watches it and it can be quite funny…
He is also a fan of Ben Harper’s A Better Way, sometimes asking “I want the Better Way song.”
Posted in General on Apr 27th, 2007
Sara started a diet a few months ago and is down 45 pounds to her pre-pregnancy weight. Congratulations Sara!
We wouldn’t be freezing this morning. The temperature in Chandler, AZ right now, according to our friendly Yahoo! front page (they get their info from the Weather Channel) is 57 degrees, with a high of 91… Here the greater Akron/Canton area it is 48, with a high of 67 with strong storms coming. Of course [...]
Posted in Site News on Apr 25th, 2007
If you see something with a double underline, that is a context link, and not a link I manually generated. Context links are generated by Amazon to help provide revenue to pay for the expense of running this site. I’ll see how well they work out to see if we keep the context links or [...]
Posted in Movies on Apr 25th, 2007
The new trailer for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5) is out, and it looks very exciting. Check it out at Yahoo! Movies. Order of the Phoenix may be one of my favorite books in the Harry Potter series, ahead of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6) which has [...]
You may notice to the side that my Now Reading list includes Stardust by Neil Gaiman, one of the world’s best authors. So far, I have to say it is a very good book and an absolute delight to read. There is a good reason it has a 4 1/2 stars (out of 5) review [...]
Posted in General on Apr 24th, 2007
The FDA is considering to loosen what can be called chocolate so the chocolate industry can make chocolate cheaper.
The US Food and Drug Administration is considering redefining ‘chocolate’ to allow substitution of vegetable oil ($0.70/lb.) for cocoa butter ($2.30/lb.), and whey protein for dry whole milk. There are already standard terms to differentiate these [...]
Posted in Site News on Apr 22nd, 2007
Sorry if you tried to access the site from last night to this morning. Last night the host had a server problem so it was down for a while then. This morning I am upgrading to the newest version of WordPress, the Tarski theme, and a few plugins. The main WordPress upgrade happened already, but [...]
While if we do move, we’ll probably move to the Chandler area so that we can work in the Phoenix area. Prescott is the area that appeals to me most, but, unfortunately moving there, or Payson, or anywhere that far seems to limit my career options. Anyhow, here is a little song about Prescott. Not [...]
Posted in Politics, Ron Paul for President on Apr 19th, 2007
Ron Paul, America’s only candidate who’s policies would actually give us prosperity, peace and freedom, has spoke out on the tragedy in Virginia. Pointing out what should be obvious to all, but for a variety of reasons isn’t, that had students and/or faculty had been allowed to have concealed guns, they could have ended the [...]
Posted in Politics, Ron Paul for President on Apr 19th, 2007
A good little video about Freedom:
A reminder, while this isn’t a Ron Paul ad, he is the only candidate that stands for freedom. All the other major party candidates stand for tramping over some freedoms somewhere for somebody.
Posted in General on Apr 18th, 2007
…As if there was any doubt… LOL
This is how Sara scored:
Which fits probably better than mine did.
Here are some directions from Ohio to London, England. Step 14?
Swim across the Atlantic Ocean 3,462 mi
It doesn’t seem to work going across the Pacific, just Atlantic crossings. You can also try going to Paris and a few others.
It is time again. Time to consider relocating from this dying city, and dying faster now that Hoover is closing shop, and move to a better place. Something warmer and sunnier.
Before we go on our tour, make sure you get Google Earth, perhaps one of the coolest tools around, as I’ll have a “(Go there)” [...]
Posted in Humor on Apr 18th, 2007
Here is a funny video starring Will Farrell. Warning it contains Not Safe For Work language coming from a cute little 2 or so year old.
This things starts by itself, so to keep it from starting when the front page loads, I’ll put it below the fold.
Posted in General on Apr 15th, 2007
As a small aside, I thought A4 was 8.5 x 11, but apparently that is just a North American standard. Paper Size at the Wikipedia has more information than I’ll provide here, but it appears once again North America is out of step with the rest of the world on reasonable standards.
Silverbrook Research has came [...]
If you have spent much time reading comments on various sites that don’t moderate them, you’ll see lots of of comments where the first post simply replies “first!” It is perhaps one of the most annoying things the Internet hath wrought as it provides no further insight or anything of use to the original post.
Here [...]
Posted in Politics, Ron Paul for President on Apr 13th, 2007
Ron Paul, America’s best hope for peace, prosperity and freedom, spoke at Farm Food Voices back in February, an event for the small farm lobby. Here is a video of that event:
The organizers note:
Organized by the National Independent Consumers and Farmers Advocates Fund (http://www.nicfa.net ) we came to Washington so that small, independent, sustainable farmers [...]
Posted in Ari Update on Apr 12th, 2007
Sara’s mom took Ari and Sara to COSI yesterday (I had to work so I couldn’t join them). From all reports, Ari had a great time as one would expect of Ari at a science museum like that. Ari was asleep when I got home from work, and I haven’t got much out of him [...]
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