Rejuve

2005-12-26T23:57:00.000-06:00

I'm posting here for the first time in over two years. In that time I have had two kids. I've changed jobs. My wife has changed jobs. Family members have moved. Friends have moved out of town, and other friends have moved back into town.My oldest child - who was born two months after the previous post in this space - can run and jump and speak in full sentences. She likes to watch the robots

2003-10-17T13:25:00.000-05:00

The Other Side of Country :: "Somewhere in all the hype of the hard times this country has gone through recently, this band of overpaid bastards has become synonymous in some peoples' minds with the spirit of America. But, if you take away Posada, Jeter, Soriano, Williams and Rivera, the rest of this squad is the worst kind of mercenary piece of shit. This highly paid band of knuckleheads who

2003-10-14T15:39:00.000-05:00

Google Toolbar Installed Now that I'm using the Google Toolbar. Maybe I'll make this my more personal site.... I got rid of the Google toolbar in favor of the yahoo toolbar under the impression that they were mutually exclusive. That was a long time ago. I'm much more free thinking now.

2003-09-23T11:56:00.000-05:00

Speaking of getting old. This website is getting way old. I have a new one at http://radio.weblogs.com/0129150/ It may move soon to my own domain, we'll see.

2003-07-02T18:39:00.000-05:00

I'm starting to get bummed out that I can't figure out why only one posts shows at a time... I really haven't put any work into it. It should be obvious. I guess I'm just waiting for the answer to come to me....

2003-06-26T13:41:00.000-05:00

Has anyone else noticed that Rice's stunning victory in the College World series has been a headline on Google news for like a week straight. I've heard more about college baseball this year then ever before, which is odd considering my interest has moved not one iota from it's historical place at zero. I can't even find very many people interested in real baseball never mind college baseball.

2003-06-22T17:40:00.000-05:00

1)In a fit of nostalgia, I downloaded an Apple IIe emulator. And Bolo. And... Apple IIe's are shokingly hard to use. I couldn't even get bolo running before I gave up. The main problem was I couldn't find documentation for Apple IIe syntax, and I got a lot of Syntax errors. It doesn't take too long using a different operating system before I'm all "Windows rules, and for good reason".... 2) My

2003-06-20T23:45:00.000-05:00

I was in a real funk yesterday. Today, not so much. I like a friday night, drinking beer and playing darts. That's alright with me. Ok as for Italy... I am going for two weeks to Florence, well just outside Florence anyway. It's called the Vespucci summer school, named,I presume, after Amerigo Vespucci for whom America is named. I will be studying Location Based Services the first week. And

2003-06-18T08:20:00.000-05:00

I may as well not even post. THis is the second long hiatus I have been on. blah blah blah having a baby, lah blah blah going to italy, blah blah blah came in third in the urban challenge. However. Mike, or Mick, as he seems to be calling himself, started a blog. Which makes mine worthy of an update.

2003-05-17T08:18:00.000-05:00

High comedy at the household this morning. Kara made breakfast and brought it to bed. Scrambled eggs and toast. Kara pushes the plate on me, while hopping out of bed faster than I've seen her move in a long time and says, "I think I'm done with breakfast!" She runs down the hall to the bathroom and makes a long distance call on the porcelain telephone. She says "Eggs! Ohhh" and barfs again. "No

2003-05-14T23:06:00.000-05:00

I am watching the goofiest movie I've ever seen. Remo WIlliams: The Adventure Begins. It's some kind of proto Action movie. It's from 1985, and Wilfred Brimley is the head of a super secret agency. He has what can only be described as what someone imagined the internet would be. "I just spent the morning being chased around the Statue of Liberty by a bunch of goons." The main character is

2003-05-13T23:19:00.000-05:00

This summer I'm going to do a couple of things. One of them is update this site so it's a little nicer. I also want to do a geoblog from Italy. That would be nice. If I'm slick enough, I'll be able to update with my mobile phone. Kara went to the doctor today and got the ultrasound. We did it before and saw the heartbeat. But Kara got to hear the heartbeat today. Whoosh whoosh --- whoosh whoosh

2003-05-11T20:49:00.000-05:00

No matter what. They always manage to make the end of the semester suck hard. The kind of sucking that makes me want to drop out. Drop out and scream at people. I've got a final on tuesday a final on wednesday, and a big project due tomorrow. It's not all that bad sounding, but I really don't want to be a part of any of it. I'm just a whiney bastard. I installed Microsoft Visual Studio

2003-05-05T18:08:00.000-05:00

I took an IQ test at www.iqtest.com. You know, to round out my battery of tests. I'm preparing to buy a gun, and I figure they are going to want to know this stuff. Anyway, I got so mad because there after going through the whole thing, they wanted me to pay for my results. That's fine and all, but they should have let me know up front. Well, today I got an email from them with a link that

2003-05-04T18:27:00.000-05:00

OK, now I'm looking at some old personality tests I have taken. The religion test at Beliefnet. This quiz reveals that my beliefs are 100% in-line with Neo-paganism, 89% in-line with Mahayana Buddhism and Liberal Quaker (how come they don't call it quakerism?). I have taken the Myers-Briggs personality type test several times, always administered by different people and I always come up INTP .

2003-05-04T18:07:00.000-05:00

I've taken a few quizes on the web. Here is the most recent. I follwed the link I found from Irish-girl... It seems like I'm pretty normal I guess, at least there is nothing too extreme. Indeed that is what my psychiatrist told me when I got sent there after being booted out of college. Thank you, doctor. DisorderRatingParanoid:LowSchizoid:ModerateSchizotypal:ModerateAntisocial:LowBorderline:

2003-04-30T18:08:00.000-05:00

Well it finally worked. I wonder what set it off... You don't believe me, but the thing (the thing being this blog) wouldn't update. Class starts in 4 minutes. I'm thinking of skipping. I wish I could get that damn posuers thing off my comments. I have to go back in my mind 6 months to when I set that up. Enetation? Sounds familiar. I bet I have some kind of account there. I'll go there, and see

2003-04-30T16:49:00.000-05:00

I'm going to freak OUT!!!

2003-04-21T16:40:00.000-05:00

WHy isn't it posting!!!

2003-04-21T08:44:00.000-05:00

Oh yeah... Another reason, I had my floors redone and I moved my computer to the basement. It was so cold, dank, and dark down there all winter, i never wanted to go down. When I did, my hand got so cold on the mouse. One time I started looking for a heated mouse. I found this site, EZ Anesthesia.com, for doing surgery on rodents. The little bed is heated to keep their little bodies warm for

2003-04-21T08:40:00.000-05:00

Sorry, it's combinatino of things really. All those things that Tim pointed out. Plus the new administration and paranoia about blogging at work. I just have no freaking time... But I will make time. So, just to prove it. I'll tell you about the depressing Checkov play that I went to on Saturday night. Three Sisters. Three hot sisters from Moscow stuck in some shit town in Russia... I was

2003-03-31T12:57:00.000-06:00

Guess who's back. Back again. Guess who's back, guess who's back.

2002-10-22T21:46:00.000-05:00

I guess it should be no surprise. After writing about Arsenal, my long secret obsession, they are pulling a vikings-esque plunge. After not losing a single league game since last december (30 something games) they have now lost two in a row. WTF. It's like the sports gods read my damned blog. Why would they do that? They actually lost a few "Champions League" during that streak, but that would

2002-10-19T01:17:00.000-05:00

I just saw a very weird movie called, "The Wrath of God" on Turner Classic Movies. It was kind of a western shootup, but goofy at the same time. Robert Mitchum plays a priest who carries around a Tommy Gun in his bag. Every once in a while he uses it to spray bullets into crowds of evil Central Americans. There is an Irish guy with a surprising temper who falls in love with a mute woman dressed

2002-10-16T23:55:00.000-05:00

My wireless bus schedule application is turning into a Master's Plan B. Here's how I see it breaking down. There are three phases to complete implementation. The first phase is partly complete. It involves creating a mapservice that fits on mobile internet devices. Through this mapservice users can get their bus schdule by clicking on a bus route and basically creating a query on a bus schedule

2002-10-13T23:29:00.000-05:00

How 'bout them twins? Certainly not going to steal my heart from the Red Sox, although it was a fairly good imitation. That brings me to an issue I've been meaning to discuss for some time. Not an especially important issue, the "My teams" section of links on my blog. Two teams each with storied pasts, the Boston Red Sox, the heir to New England's hate-thyself origins, and Arsenal, my private

2002-10-09T23:35:00.000-05:00

Monday, I saw an eagle on my way home from work. Today, I saw a big dead crow on my way to work. I also saw some protozoa and amoebas. I haven't seen those things since the 7th grade. I don't feel like writing about why. I gave up my car today. It didn't make me feel nearly as good as I would've expected.

2002-10-08T21:31:00.000-05:00

Now I've decided to do some research while Mays battles Spiezio with two out in the bottom of the 7th At this site http://www.tiktok.org/shamrock/info.htm they want to bring back the "Shamrock Shake" with Uncle O'Grimacey clearly the mascot. I don't know if that's an official McDonald's mascot, or if they had the same idea that I did.

2002-10-08T21:22:00.000-05:00

The last time I sat on the couch and blogged, I did it just for the sake of it. This time, I can't pull myself away from the ALCS. I'm watching Bud Selig chow on some chicken wings with Carl Pohlad. With apologies to the Beastie Boys, How can you be so skinny and live like such a fat bastard? Has anyone seen that new McDonald's commercial with Donald Trump and Grimace? What the hell happened

2002-10-07T23:46:00.000-05:00

"TOM CRUISE AND GENERAL SIMON P. ('PETE') WORDEN JOIN NATIONAL SPACE SOCIETY BOARD OF GOVERNORS The National Space Society is very pleased to announce that actor Tom Cruise and General Simon P. ('Pete') Worden have been elected to the NSS Board of Governors. "I am delighted that both Tom and Pete have been elected to the Board and have the greatest respect for their work, they will add a new

2002-10-07T22:36:00.000-05:00

Sitting here... Trying to get some perspective on the day at your expense. It went something like this. I brought the van back to work, the one we took to Duluth for the weekend. I tried to return the keys, but no one would take them. About an hour into work, I had the vague notion that I was supposed to be somewhere... Oh yeah, I signed up for that class in Eagan... Frantic scrambling... Long

2002-10-05T10:28:00.000-05:00

I edited my last post - took the swears out. Why? I don't know. Profanity doesn't have a very long life span I guess. Anyway, the presentation went well, I'm encouraged to try and make it a useful site. Today, I'm going to watch the Twins play Oakland. Can they win one at the dome? Only time will tell. I'm looking for a gem by Eric Milton.

2002-10-01T23:38:00.000-05:00

Hooah. Thursday's the day. Making the presentation. I couldn't ever get my home web server to correctly work with Mapserver, so I ended up putting it back at the U after all (not like I've been documenting the happenings on this front). Long story short. It was erased from the U, I put it back up on the U. Oh, but there was so much in between! The Dynamic Name Servers! Apache httpd.conf!

2002-09-29T18:25:00.000-05:00

diepunyhumans contains links to the Comicbook bondage cover of the day and mk12.com. Warren Ellis, you are a Web Ninja.

2002-09-29T16:26:00.000-05:00

According to my firewall logs... c-24-245-36-163.mn.client2.attbi.com, has done an HTTP port scan on me 28 times this weekend. What does this person want? Two other things are worth noting. The first two parts of the ip address are the same as mine, I am also a "mn attbi client" so that's not surprising. The other thing is that the Black Ice log also shows "URL contains UTF-8 encoding" alert from

2002-09-27T22:51:00.000-05:00

Check out Robbery Homicide on CBS next Friday night, that is, if you don't have a life. I watched it tonight, and I couldn't believe it was on tv. They played Deltron 3030 for god sakes. My mapserver website is running. I'm not going to post the URL though because I don't know jack about securing my website. Besides I took it down for now. My little Windows ME box can't handle the stress. It's

2002-09-23T09:58:00.000-05:00

This is just a work related blog. I have to do something exiting tonight. I have to set up a Dynamic DNS, Apache, and Mapserver on my home computer. Can it be done? We'll see. That wireless router is going to be more handy than I imagined.

2002-09-21T14:22:00.000-05:00

This morning, I went to Generalnanosystems. I bought a wireless Acces Point Router. It took me about 20 minutes to set up. Now I'm sitting on the porch... easy as sunday morning. People will be arriving soon. We're having a little Bar-B-Que. All the college friends. Which isn't many anymore. Thursday night Kara and I said goodbye to Dan and Maggie who are moving to Seattle. Is there a word for

2002-09-20T21:31:00.000-05:00

Tim and I went warchalking this afternoon. Good fun. This is Tim in front of Dunn Bros. in downtown St. Paul. It's the only network that we found that we could actually get on. All the other one required a password, or just didn't let us get on the internet for some unknown reason. Maybe because these networks themselves weren't connected to the internet. That was our best guess anyway. By

2002-09-18T17:45:00.000-05:00

THIS IS AWESOME! I am connected wirelessly to the internet with Kara's new ibook's Airport card at the Carlson School of business. It feels really cool, and it's as fast as I could want it. wow. I checked out some cool things today such as blackbeltjones. and Twin Cities Wireless User Group Tim and I are planning on going war chalking on friday. Yeah!

2002-09-17T22:36:00.000-05:00

I am web-tarded. I can't get comments to work. Why!? WHY!? I noticed Layne uses Haloscan. She probably uses Blogger Pro. Maybe that's my problem, no Blogitemnumber without blogger pro. I feel like nothing I'm writing is very interesting tonight. You don't know what I'm talking about because I haven't posted it. I have deleted about 4 paragraphs so far. Maybe I should just go to bed. Uh oh. Kara

2002-09-17T00:09:00.000-05:00

I tried enetation after Haloscan didn't seem to work. I think I am having a problem with <$BlogItemNumber$>. In that it's not generating one. I don't know. Now's not the time for such issues. We got a wedding present, sort of, in the mail today. I say sort of because the person who sent the present already sent us a generous cash gift. This other present were childhood pictures of me. Pretty

2002-09-15T00:42:00.000-05:00

Well it looks like the comments aren't coming up. Maybe Haloscan hasn't found me yet... I'll give it a couple of days.

2002-09-15T00:20:00.000-05:00

Anyway, My Sister in Law, Kate, suggested I add comments to my blog. I knew I needed them, but I couldn't make the effort until it was suggested by someone else for some reason, probably laziness. They haven't shown up yet. I went to Haloscan, and followed the directions there. By the way the reason nothing showed up before is I forgot to close the comments tag. See what I mean? this is all

2002-09-14T23:46:00.000-05:00

Oh crap. My page is blank. What happened? I tried to add comments, and now the page is completely blank. Oh no!!!

2002-09-12T00:18:00.000-05:00

hmm.... I tried to get some links up finally. Hopefully it worked. It's not September 11th anymore. I guess I can addess it now. My mind just seized up, and would not allow myself to consider the anniversary as anything more than a media explosion to be ignored. Let me just say that at about 8:00 AM last year yesterday, unbeknownst to me a woman I went to high school with was a stewardess on a

2002-09-11T23:37:00.000-05:00

Kara was just reading my blog. It gave me the creeps. Everything is giving me the creeps today, and god is freaking me out. While kara was reading my blog I stood in the doorway and wagged my head back and forth really fast causing my limp tongue to make wet slapping sounds inside my head, and I gurgled a bit just to distract her so she wouldn't read. She's pretty good at blocking such antics

2002-09-10T23:00:00.000-05:00

By the way. Did anyone read the article about the Ramsey County District 5 Primary in the paper the other day? There were three people running, a democrat who basically said he wanted to raise taxes, a republican who wanted the state to pay for everything, and a caddy named Charles Barklind. The caddy's platform was space migration. He's worried about the sun blowing up or something and wants all

2002-09-10T21:57:00.000-05:00

Well. If anyone is still reading this thing it's been a while since I blogged at ya. In my last entry I professed that I was hooked on blogging. Then I didn't write again for several weeks. That's the way things go for me. I reach a point where I'm comfortable with something, then I let it go. Fortuneately I'm too stressed out to care. I need to vent. Really I shouldn't be stressed because I

2002-08-22T22:40:00.000-05:00

I think I've gotten past the tentative beginning of this blogging thing. I mean, I'm hooked. I've always been slightly confused by the online socialization thing. It just never made any sense. How can you meet somebody online? I've been in chat rooms. Once I decided I'd check out the online soccer community. Some jackass was on there talking about how soccer is for fags. Another time a guy from

2002-08-21T21:50:00.000-05:00

It dawned on me today that I'm so screwed. I submitted an abstract for a "Project Demonstration" at the MNGIS/LIS conference in Duluth, October 2-4. They accepted it. Now I have to put the damn thing together. And I hate this desk. It's too damn small!!!!!! The project involves many technologies on which I'm a rank amatuer at best, or completely unfamiliar with at worst. Let's run them down.

2002-08-20T22:16:00.000-05:00

I guess I'd like to add comments to this blog page. Now that I'm linked to on a couple of blogs(McGyver5, Plain Layne, and I was on The Usual Noise for a while), I'm afraid someone might be reading this. If so, I'd hate to come across as anti-mormon or something and have people come to my house to question me about it just because I'm not savvy enough to have comments available. in the meantime

2002-08-20T20:54:00.000-05:00

I've recovered somewhat. I went to lunch with Tim and Kara. We had sushi, delicious sushi. Tim was hoping for "Celebrity" sitings in front of MPR. Alas, Katherine and Gary were nowhere to be found. I don't know if he's mentioned his desire to log sitings of all the MPR talent to anyone else but me. Anyway at lunch Tim said I had to write about something in my blog... I'm not much of a story

2002-08-18T22:07:00.000-05:00

I have just returned from an exhausting weekend. My dad threw a party for me in Massachusetts. I also fit in a bachelor party. A "blessing cermony" for my new nephew, and two trips to the mall. I can't usually sleep on a plane because of the general uncomfortableness (I'm 6'5" and I don't fly first class) but today I slept on the plane. It was in the high 90's all weekend, and humid, brutal,

2002-08-10T08:59:00.000-05:00

We got a cantelope from our CSA this week. It was devoid of sweetness. The texture and juiciness indicated that it was at the peak of it's ripeness. This thing wasn't going to get any juicier, or tastier apparently. Quelle domage. I have big scratches on my face. I also have a twisted ankle. I had been playing basketball for a couple of hours on thursday. My legs were starting to cramp up. I

2002-08-07T13:23:00.000-05:00

Matt's Dieting tips. 1) Don't eat as much as you can and/or as much as there is everytime you sit down to eat. 2) Just because people some people eat a lot of something doesn't mean you should. (i.e. When you start pulling whole leaves out of your ass, it's time to ease up on the greens) 3) Chew more.

2002-08-05T22:31:00.000-05:00

My fiance answered the quiz on girldetective's blog correctly. *********read no further if you don't want a spoiler to the quiz.************ At least it was a variation on correct. She said the reason was that the guy was the undertaker, which means, in effect, that the reason she killed her sister was so she could see the guy again. So I'm marrying an axe murder. or a potential axe murderer

2002-08-01T20:53:00.000-05:00

Metrotransit serves me well. But their web site, in a word, stinks. The pdf schedules are useful if you need to print out a schedule, which I rarely do but if you just want to know when the next bus is... Man it's a pain in the ass. Thankfully, I have a better solution. My solution is a Palm application built by a guy named Mike Koehler called Commute Which kicks butt as long as the schedules

2002-07-31T14:05:00.000-05:00

Still a newbie, but now I'm going to try to expand. Theshiftedlibrarian categorizes all his/her blogs. Many of the categories I have professional and/or personal interest in such as GIS, PDAs, Wireless, XML etc. McGyver5 posted about blogmapper. That seems like a relatively easily implementable function for a travel blog. I'm thinking about doing it for my upcoming honeymoon to Banff. I'll

2002-07-30T22:46:00.000-05:00

More basketball. Today for the first time I cherished the game. I realized that I don't have an infitite amount of games left in me. I've felt old and creaky while playing before, but today I felt smooth. And I really enjoyed it. This summer is the first time I've played basketball since I tore my ACL. I had surgery to repair it 4 years ago, and I never felt the confidence to play on it. I

2002-07-30T11:29:00.000-05:00

I just returned from the bathroom. I was washing my hands. One guy was at a urnial. Another guy comes in takes the other Urinal and asks the first guy, "Is that my lunch there?"

2002-07-29T22:46:00.000-05:00

Nothing interesting happened today. I went to work. I got a ride from Kara, I thought while we were driving, "I should have ridden my bike". I went to work and spent all day learning ASP. Lunch was a proscutto (sp?) and turkey sandwhich. I took a walk after lunch. The park was packed with office workers. I took another walk two hours later. There were maybe 3 or 4 people in the park. Sometimes

2002-07-26T19:28:00.000-05:00

Fuck. My last blog didn't get posted! That pisses me off cause it was the most interesting one so far. I don't have a lot of interesting thoughts. That really sucks. Here's part of it. I managed to cut some of it. Ok. That's enough. Any other public transit fanatics out there? How 'bout my new fighting technique. It's fucking unstoppable. The guy who writes that makes fun of blogs, I know. But

2002-07-19T23:50:00.000-05:00

The shadow grows longer, blocking out more and more of the light until complete darkness covers the water. Then the great beast falls from the sky... Kerr plunk. And all is once again washed in light.

2002-07-18T23:34:00.000-05:00

I played basketball for nearly three hours today. That's the most I've played since high school, no doubt. I sat on my steps afterward, enjoyed the buzz, then briefly thought I was hallucinating when I saw my first firefly. That was nice. Now reality is setting in. I can't walk. That's an exaggeration. I can't walk well. Tomorrow is going to suck, dance lessons. That sounds like a joke. But it

2002-07-15T22:04:00.000-05:00

Now I'm quite tired. I played a softball game and we got whooped again. I went ofer. But I played a decent first base. We even turned a double play. I'd been reading so much about Teddy Ballgame, I felt sure that I would hit quite well. I drank two beers after the game, and heard Terry Gross interview the Constant Sorrow guy. I felt that I was man of constant sorrow, which gave me much pleasure.

2002-07-14T16:10:00.000-05:00

So, here is the first entry in my blog. Huh, feels ok. Suddenly I have nothing to say. I just returned from a week in San Diego. I was there for a conference at the humungous SD convention center. It was my first time anywhere in Southern California, and I thought it was a fair place. The weather sure is nice. The town is a bit Disneylandish for me, and quite segragated (I don't know about