I’m not sure where I got this white board quip. Good thing I have skills other than a good memory.

At least I have good social skills, dipweed!

This is the week before the Spring musical. In other words, it is the week in which I will not see my apartment other than my shower and my pillow.

I’m going to try and bring the same diligence and urgency of the show to my day job and get a lot of stuff done. Cuz, you know, that is what they pay me for.

I tell you this because, if I stick to my guns, this will be the last post I make this week. Nothing personal. It’s not you. It’s me! But we can still be friends!!

For once, this week’s white board quip came from recent reading and not from my ever-growing database of quips. This one was from a great post on RealLivePreacher’s blog.

God knows we pick our noses.

I’m typing this entry in Notepad2 because our office’s internet connection is down. This event has lead me to a sad realization. (Trint turn’s on Word Wrap. Grr.)

During my usual work day I have a lot of short delays. Getting latest from source control. Compiling my project. Copying large amounts of files to the live web server. These are just a few of my daily twiddle-thumb events. It’s during these brief bursts of inactivity that I do most of my web surfing. Consuming the web 90 seconds at a time.

But today, with the net inaccessable, I am going nuts. What is wrong with me? Have I become so dependant on a constant stream of input that I can’t sit for two minutes without some stimulation? Seriously. I’m not making this up. Within ten seconds of staring at the little hour-class icon, I start twitching like a crack baby. I think I need to go on a nice long camping trip. I need stimulus-detox.

Okay. My deployment is done now. Hopefully the web will be back up before I have to do another compile!

My friend and Mac evangelist, RandyPants, (and probably every other Mac person in the world who shows off their MacBook to their friends) introduced me to PhotoBooth. It’s the photo software that comes pre-installed on macs and, based on this video that Randy linked to, it is probably the biggest selling point in Mac stores across the world.

As you can see on my “about” page, I too am a victim of PhotoBooth.

It totally sucks that stamp prices are going up again. I like to buy my stamps in those huge roles so that I only have to go to the post office once a year. But they keep creeping up the price so I have to keep adding more and more of those pesky two cent stamps to get my stuff mailed.

Anyway, if I have to pay 41 cents for a stamp it can at least be a cool stamp! The USPS has put up a pretty cool Star Wars web site where you can vote on which Star Wars stamps will be issued. Go vote!* (But if anyone votes for the lame prequel stamps, you will be banned from my blog in perpetuity! Queen Amidala? I say, “Nay! Nay!”)

*Be sure to use a real email address (You do have a “junk mail” account, right?), because for your vote to count, you have to click a link in an email.

I was just thinking about all the reasons I don’t want to see Rudy Giuliani as the next president, and I had an epiphany.

Gun control stops gun crime the same way speed limits stop high-speed police chases.

On a related note, I got this delicious quote from a link of a link (It’s a good read if you’ve got time.):

[Al Gore] got C’s in Yale in political science — a type of science — and is angry at the world not submitting unquestioningly to his wisdom [on the “science” of global warming].

Ever wonder…

Why are there handicap parking places in front of a skating rink?

We got back Friday night, spent Saturday doing laundry and trying to edit three hours of video into something useful. The laundry got done. The video did not. Sunday was back to the usual grind with church and musical rehearsal. Now I’m back at work and trying to get my brain back into programming mode.

I hope to have some pictures and stories later. For now, I’ll just leave it at this: New Orleans is a mess and needs help. It was a hard week, exhausting both physically and emotionally.
It was hard to come home when there was so much more that needs to be done.

Things are picking up around our house. Rehearsals for the spring musical have begun. We’re working hard on a short schedule, meeting four times a week for three hour rehearsals. This year’s musical “A.D.” is very different from previous shows. It’s very… um… abstract. Curious? Come check it out. We’re performing at 6:30 pm on Saturday, April 14th, and in both Sunday morning services on Sunday, April 15th.

Something new this year too. During spring break, March 11th through the 17th, our church is doing a “family mission trip”. So, no particular age group. We’ve got people signed up from age 6 to age 77. We’re taking about 150 folks to New Orleans to do demolition and construction in the 9th ward.

I’m on a team with two other adults (including Tammy) and five teenagers and we are tasked with tearing down two houses (to the frames) in a week. It’s going to be hard, nasty, and potentially dangerous work.

Please pray for both the stage performances and the trip. We’ll need all the help we can get.