Random Musings of Brian A. Thomas. Love for Sara and Ari.
Posted in General on Dec 28th, 2007
Among the Christmas Presents we got this year was a telescope (a present from Santa for the family). Nothing fancy, but should be functional enough for now, especially for Ari. While we were out Christmas night trying to see something, Sara started asking “what’s that?!” Eventually I looked away from the telescope to try and [...]
Posted in General on Dec 24th, 2007
Merry Christmas Eve, and in the event I don’t login to say it, Merry Christmas itself… and playing the move to New Zealand fantasy out, happy Boxing Day as well on the 26th…
Posted in General on Dec 20th, 2007
In a sad day for the Constitution, Congress passed a bill supported by the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and the National Rifle Association… Just a reminder of the Brady Campaign’s goal according to Sara Brady herself:
Our main agenda is to have all guns banned of course. We must use whatever means possible. It [...]
Posted in General, New Zealand on Dec 16th, 2007
Okay, we are not really moving to New Zealand (aka Aotearoa), but it is fun to fantasize.
Hence I present the pros and cons of each city I am considering in order, and then on the pros and cons of moving to New Zealand as a whole.
Nelson (go there in Google Earth). Wow. Simply wow. So [...]
Posted in General on Dec 1st, 2007
Not just at this site, but every site seems to be down at the moment with their embedded YouTube videos, so it is a YouTube problem. Just click the video directly and it will take you to the YouTube page that holds the video.
Posted in General on Nov 30th, 2007
Okay, let me setup the scene for you. I am on Portage, getting ready to go onto 77 South. For those not familiar with this intersection, let me give you the details. Portage, at this point is a 4 lane road. 77 South exit and entrance ramps meet at this light. Now, I said 4 [...]
Posted in General, New Zealand on Nov 30th, 2007
Here is a great commercial for New Zealand… God I want to visit so bad for a month or two…
The opening scene was done by Weta Digital, the people behind the The Lord of the Rings special effects. Of course as you may know, Lord of the Rings was filmed in New Zealand, though I [...]
Posted in General, New Zealand on Nov 28th, 2007
Since I am in a New Zealand mood here is the New Zealand national anthem (prior to an All Blacks game):
The lyrics (the first part is in Maori…):
E Ihoa Atua,
O nga Iwi Matoura,
Ata whaka rongona;
Me aroha noa.
Kia hua ko te pai;
Kia tau to atawhai;
Manaakitia mai
Aotearoa
God of nations! at Thy feet
In the bonds of love we [...]
Posted in General on Nov 26th, 2007
I haven’t played the If We Were In (insert city name here) Right Now game for a while.
Here the high is actually 46 with a low of 36. By the weekend the temperature will drop to 28 for the low with 40 for a high. Fairly mild for this time of year.
For other cities:
Auckland: High [...]
I’ve been on my new job since Monday, though I had to leave early today as I was throwing up, not cool…
Anyhow, I work in the laser department, I use one program to import data into Excel, then save the data, exit Excel, exit the program and launch another program that does something to it [...]
Posted in General on Nov 11th, 2007
I saw All Climbing added a new comment system, I may add that system myself if it works with the iG:Syntax Hiliter plugin that I use. It looks like this will allow for a nicer looking comment section, with a greater range of power for not only myself as the blog, but for you as [...]
Posted in General on Oct 31st, 2007
To quote the comment spammer: "I couldn’t understand some parts of this article, but it sounds interesting…" The spam claimed to be the "latest book reviews." Now I would think you would have to be a fairly intelligent person/site to review books properly and well with any degree of literary authority anyhow. If the posts [...]
Posted in General on Oct 28th, 2007
Today was the day you would have fell your clocks back one hour for ending Daylight Savings Time and moving to Daylight Standard Time. I was wondering why, when I went to work the clocks were off one hour, I guess the system isn't setup for the new version of Daylight Savings Time. Incidentally that [...]
Posted in General on Oct 22nd, 2007
I just deleted a spam from somebody selling a drug, and they misspelled their drug's name.
Posted in General on Oct 13th, 2007
For these you will need to be at Google's home page, not use your browser's search bars, put these search terms in (I tell you what you should see in parenthesis after the term so don't enter those):
I am vexed over the fact that so many employers need a credit check before employment. Let me get this straight. I work at a job that pays crap, and will never give a raise (there are people there who worked 10 years without a raise), and because of low pay I fall behind on [...]
Posted in General on Oct 5th, 2007
I have had a second Ron Paul sign stolen by kids in the neighborhood.
That's all, nothing to see here citizens...
Posted in General on Sep 11th, 2007
There is a supposed new Bin Laden video out or coming out (odd how the last "new" one that came out last week freezes so you can't read his lips every time when he talks about current events before resuming) where he introduces the prerecorded martyrdom video of Waleed al Shehri, whom the FBI says [...]
Posted in General on Sep 9th, 2007
I went to the firing range for the first time in something like seven years. Back then I took a firearms training class, and all we shot was a .22. This time out, I got a quick refresher and shot a Springfield XD 9mm. The XD is the gun I have been looking to buy, [...]
Posted in General on Sep 8th, 2007
A trailer for Alex Jone's newest film, Endgame:
Imajica: Featuring New Illustrations and an Appendix by Clive Barker