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Dirkus Maximus |
Hacker, Husband, Daddy and Alpha Geek
Thursday, 27 April 2006 | ||
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Wheeeeeee!!! | ||
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The word "Weeee" has become farily common here at the office lately, for two reasons: the first is this fanboy ad for Firefox.
The other is the fact that Nintendo has made the probably-fatal decision to call their next-gen console the "Wii" (pronounced WEEEEE!). I was wondering... If they make memory modules that had a keyring on the back, would it be called the "Key-Wii"? If they came out with a miniturized version, ala the PS One, would it be the "Pee-Wii"? So, if you get another one, and want to get the official Nintendo direct-link cable, would it be called the "Wii-wii"? If you got pwn3d in a direct link head-to-head game, you it be reffered to as getting "Wii-Wii slapped"? If you were playing a head-to-head game, and the neighbors got pissed at all the noise you were making and called the cops, would the cops cut your wii-wii off? If you kept playing after the cops left, and then your neighbor got so pissed they broke into your house and threw your console into the ocean, would you be "Sea-Wii'd"? Just thinkin' out loud. | ||
Monday, 24 April 2006 | ||
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Momma got a new car! | ||
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We sat down the other day and added up what Wes was spending monthly on gas to drive her '95 E-150 Econoline conversion van to Virginia and back every day. When the calculations passed the $500 mark, we knew we had to do something. As counter-intuitive as it sounds, a new car note plus gas costs came up significantly cheaper than the gas costs for her paid off vehicle alone. Now she's sportin' in an '05 Ford Focus ZXW wagon. Dig the pics: | ||
Wednesday, 19 April 2006 | ||
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Pics of Natalia | ||
| Finally got around to getting the pics of my new niece Natalia off the camera. I'll spare you from the pictures of her covered in that white gunk, but here are several pics of her with my daughters and her mom (my sister-in-law). | ||
Monday, 17 April 2006 | ||
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True suffering | ||
| Once upon I time I liked camping. I really did. It was fun to get out in the woods and rough it for a weekend, making fires by rubbing two sticks together and whatnot. I even tried getting my son into by going with him on a yearly camping trip right around the time of our birthdays in early April. This years trip, however, was an exercise in stretching the envelope of human suffering. Never in my life have I had a reaction to pollen this bad. You athsmatics out there can appreciate what a bad attack feels like. You have to struggle to breathe, you lungs hurt from trying to pull air through the ever-tightening sippy straw that is your esophogas, and you can't speak for lack of air and an overabundance of phlegm trying to plug up what little airway you still have left. Now, imagine that sensation lasting for three days straight. I was coughing so hard I could taste blood. I'm still coughing up chunks of mucus from the bottoms of my lungs, and I think I'm fighting an ear infection too. I'm going to see a specialist Real Soon Now to see if I'm eligible for the alergy shot. Anyone who knows me knows I hate needles with a passion, so voluntarily asking if I can get an injection is damn-near like watching the four horsemen of the apocolypse saddling up and the devil himself stocking up on Ice-Melt for his driveway. Wish me luck! | ||
Tuesday, 11 April 2006 | ||
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Happy Birthday to Natalia! | ||
| At 00:08 this morning, my sister-in-law, Lucy, had a happy 5lb-and-some-change baby girl. I'm sure Lucy's peeved that she decided to come on the same day as my birthday, she kept saying over and over that she really hoped that wouldn't happen. >:) I'll post pics as soon as I can get them here at work. | ||
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Happy Birthday to Me! | ||
| 28 years ago today, there was a great disturbance in the force, and I began my plot for world domination. What have I gotten for my birthday so far? Some gift certs, some cash, some auto parts for Das KrautWagen (my ailing VW Golf) and threats of public humiliation and cubicle vandalism from my co-workers. (we're all insatiable pranksters, especially around people's birthdays) If... no, WHEN they prank the hell out of me I'll be sure to get pics to post. | ||
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ATTENTION! I was born April 11, 1978 in Pascagoula, Mississippi. I've lived in Virginia most of my life, but have spent some time in Northern California, North Carolina, the Virgin Islands and Kansas while in the Coast Guard. Now I've settled down in Elizabeth City, NC and don't plan on moving for quite some time. I'm happily married to my high school sweetheart Westly Anne, and we have three children that are all cuter than yours. I currently work for Canon Information Technology Services, the company that handles all the tech support for Canon (the electronics and imaging giant) for the entire US. I'm the lead technical trainer in the cameras department. I've also worked for Exis.Net, as cheap labor in a chemichal plant in Portsmouth VA that makes the absorbent powder for baby diapers, and as an "Interpretive Ranger" (AKA Tour Guide) at a state park in Virginia. -= Friends' Blogs =-
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