[via Reddit] If your barber or hairstylist is adept with the clippers, you too can have the ultimate in hair-based camouflage:
The best haircut ever! Click the photo to see the original on Flickr.
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Speaking of New Year’s, here’s an interesting article courtesy of Joe “JoeThink” Murphy, whom I’ve never met but know by way of Miss Fipi Lele. It’s from good ol’ Modern Drunkard Magazine, and it’s a little tale of how a drinking binge may have changed the course of U.S. Political History.
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New Year’s Resolutions
It’s traditional to list one’s New Year’s resolutions, so here are some off the top of my head…
- Lower my cholesterol. No need for the Lipitor yet — my doctor says it’s a little high, but not so high that it can’t be fixed with some changes to diet and exercise.
- Get back into the shape I was in in 2002. Being single and working at home were great for my gym schedule. I was eating pretty low-carb and working out nearly daily. The gym was also a social thing — in addition to the weights and exercise machines, I joined and became a regular at a couple of classes — BodyAttack and BodyPump — that I don’t think I’d be able to complete at the moment. I’d like to get back to that point because I felt good, and damn, did I look it, too.
- Defeat “Cletus” in Dead Rising. I need to defeat him so I can get the guns so I can give them to the Japanese tourists so they can help me defeat the chainsaw-hurling clown. Is that so much to ask?
- Go on a vacation with Wendy. We haven’t had the chance for a real vacation since we’ve been married; it’s about time. We’ve got a couple of days in San Francisco and the Bay Area in February, and I’d like to squeeze a trip to Montreal in the summer.
- Get more accordion practice! My repertoire’s pretty stale, and so is my playing. Maybe I should expand this to just keyboard-playing practice in general — I’ve had my eye on a USB MIDI keyboard that can plug into my Mac. That, combined with GarageBand would give me a rig ten times better than all my old synthesizers combined.
- Re-jig my savings and investments. I’m doing all right, but I think I get can more bang out of my investment and savings bucks.
- Sharpen my programming skills. It’s been a while since I wrote software full-time, and it never hurts to keep those valuable skills sharp. I think I’ll concentrate on Ruby on Rails, although I could stand to do some PHP brushing-up too.
- Work on one serious software development project. Actually, I’m already doing that…
- Make a serious contribution to the Toronto tech community. I’m also already working on that, too…
- Clear out my junk. There’s a lot of stuff that I no longer use that’s just taking up space at my place or in storage. It’s time to sort through my belongings and sell, give away, recycle or trash anything that is no longer useful to me.
- Get back in touch with some friends. It happens over time — you lose contact with people. There are folks (Hey, Kevin! Hi, Heather!) to whom I owe email, phone calls or visits.
I’m sure I can come up with more once I think about it.
What are your resolutions?
In response to the response to James Brown’s death over the holidays, David Malki drew this comic strip for his often-hilarious webcomic, Wondermark:
“James Brown” comic from David Malki’s Wondermark. Click it to see the full comic on its original page.
Only the first three panels appear here; you’ll have to see the full comic to get the punchline. Go and read the back issues; I think you’ll like it.
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Pardon the Mess
I’m fooling around with the blog’s layout for a new look for 2007. Things should start looking cleaned up on January 1st.
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I am Spider-Man
It’s been a while since I’ve taken one of those silly “Which X are you?” web tests, and the “Which Superhero are You?” one has been making the rounds. Here are my results…
Your results:
You are Spider-Man
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You are intelligent, witty, a bit geeky and have great power and responsibility. |
Click here to take the Superhero Personality Quiz
I’d probably be more than just Spider-Man — I’d probably be the Rephrasing Spider-Man, as shown below:
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Introducing the Tainted Vista Review!
Over at Global Nerdy, I’ve got the first article of a new series: The Tainted Vista Review in which I make reports about my experiences using Windows Vista on the laptop sent to me by the Microsoft-Acer-Edelman troika. As I state in the article, asides from saying “Thanks for the free laptop”, I’m not beholden to them. Simply put, my opinion and the laptop are as out of their control as their PR strategy is.
This first post covers installing XNA Game Studio Express, Microsoft’s tool that’s supposed to make it easy to develop games for both Windows computers and XBox 360 consoles.