Random Musings of Brian A. Thomas. Love for Sara and Ari.
Posted in General on Jul 3rd, 2008
So Francisco Lorenzo wins via an undeserved disqualification against Humberto Soto, thanks in large part to Lorenzo’s whining and acting as if the glancing blow was an actual hit. Now the WBC has decided to take the title away from Lorenzo. Now I have read some commentators suggest it isn’t fair, that a ruling is […]
Posted in General on Jun 10th, 2008
There are several versions of the following viral video going around where a few kernels of popcorn are popped using cell phones.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg_dyD0Nsjw
Not only is it impossible to pop popcorn with cell phones, they are most likely a viral advertising campaign seeing how many similar videos were posted the same day by a few users. It […]
Posted in General, Geocaching on May 26th, 2008
Okay, a better title would be “Seriously WANTING a Handheld GPS”. My actual consideration levels aren’t all that high… yet…
I was thinking how cool geotagging was, and how it would be nice to add to photos we take. Then there a GPS games, and of course being able to find your way around… Well, […]
Posted in General on May 13th, 2008
According to Yahoo! today’s high is 70° F, with a low of 53° F. The tempature at the moment? 36° F, which is a long ways away from 53…
Posted in General on May 11th, 2008
What follows is a scavenger hunt. I am trying to do it as in character as possible with the the theme of the hunt. All due apologies to the image holders for hot linking to the images, however, I have linked to your page where the image is coming from. This post will likely be […]
Posted in General on Apr 20th, 2008
I don’t wear watches, but if I were to wear one this would do the trick (click for a bigger image):
The time? 8:17. It gets its power via your body’s motion.
A cool ad for it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLTBnIszCLE
Urwerk’s UR-202.
Price? Only $175,000…
While responding to a comment in my Eggs are not Dairy post, I learned that the Food Pyramid, which came along after I left school, so I never really learned it, has itself been replaced by MyPyramid, which addresses several of the shortcomings of the old Food Pyramid.
For me, MyPryamid, based on a 2200 calorie […]
Got to love… “The pitch! And that happened. Apparently it was an S according to the board…” and many other great moments:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lrrx5CgdZaA
To be fair, the English commentator is doing a direct translation of the Japanese commentator… of course with how popular Baseball is there, I have to wonder how the Japanese commentator got his job. […]
Posted in General on Mar 27th, 2008
No, not “Scooter” Libby, but scooters as in a type of motorcycle. I remember twenty years or so ago, thinking that getting a scooter would be a cool alternative to driving a car all the time. You would save on gas, insurance and all that. I never got one obviously.
Now they are coming back in […]
Posted in General on Mar 11th, 2008
This one works for me, as does the full list, though I don’t know enough about Hitchhiker’s Guide to comment on that one and not sure which Galatica it is talking about here. I probably would fit more on Babylon 5 than Moya, but both would be good. The way the questions were going I […]
Posted in General on Mar 11th, 2008
I saw a car transport truck carrying two Smarts, so the Smarts must be officially here. It looks like the Columbus dealer opened on the 20th of February, not sure about the dealer in the Cleveland area. These two were headed South, so my guess is they were heading to Columbus, unless Smarts enter the […]
Posted in General on Mar 10th, 2008
I was thinking of using Joomla! for another website that I was thinking of building, since that website wouldn’t be a full blog. Joomla! is more of a CMS, where WordPress is focused more on blogs, but works okay as a CMS. Joomla! can do blogs well enough however, and overall is more versatile than […]
Posted in General on Mar 8th, 2008
Essential watching for anyone who doesn’t understand the threat to the Internet being raged right here in the US:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JP_3WnJ42kw
It is about stopping you and me from communicating with the world at large, and just like TV, Radio and mass newspapers, limiting peoples voices so only large government approved corporations have a voice.
The corporations like Comcast […]
Posted in General on Mar 8th, 2008
For our friends and family out of state. We have a ton of snow. A ton.
I left work early Friday with my manager’s permission/encouragement due to how much snow was down and coming. I left not long after getting all my work done. Typically I would go to the warehouse and help out there, but […]
Posted in General on Mar 8th, 2008
Remember to reset your clocks this Sunday. That is, change it before you go to bed tonight (the 8th of March).
Posted in General on Mar 6th, 2008
I noticed at work the other day that the new version Microsoft Word had some cool bibliography tools and when I got home I checked out if OpenOffice had something similar. OpenOffice is like Microsoft Office, nearly as powerful and full featured, but free. For 99.99% of users out there, OpenOffice will fit their needs. […]
Posted in General on Feb 16th, 2008
This image I pulled from the auction’s website (Skipco), I’ll post a picture sometime after we get it Monday.
It is a 1998 Dodge Caravan. 134,000 miles.
Sara and I have been married 6 years now.
We celebrated today with a dinner at Mustard Seed Market, where after dinner I got some Mead. We stopped at Borders for a short while and now we are home. Tomorrow we go to the auto auction to try and get a newer car…
Posted in General on Feb 3rd, 2008
A bit late, but Merry Imbolg… Candlemass under it’s Christianized name…
I saw a report that said that Antidepressants may not be as effective as popularly thought. Worse, the studies that prove certain drugs are ineffective are very seldom published in medical journals and literature. This is above and beyond the known side effects of antidepressants, such as them actually increasing the suicide rate among teens, […]
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