Baby Violet

Baby Update... 4 and a half month old drool machine.

Pimp My Video

Ladies and gentlemen... I give you the original video...



And the all NEW PIMPED OUT VERSION.


That is UNCANNY!!!!

Touch the Rainbow!

I am not an avid eater of Skittles candy. It stems from my already being sick the first time I tried them, and puked a rainbow. But when I was shown the following video, I couldn't help but laugh.

glumbert.com - The Modern Day King Midas

I guess thats pretty awesome.

Birthday Bash!

Well, my birthday is less than 2 weeks away. My beautiful bride asked me this morning what I would like to do to celebrate it. So I have been doing some thinking. I really enjoyed what we did last year, which was the subject of my first official post on this blog, going to 1984 arcade. A few years ago, I had a small get together, and had a poker tournament. I was pretty good friends with the "trophy and plaque" department then, and had some custom plaques made for 1st, 2nd and 3rd. They were a big hit, and more coveted than the prize money (in my mind, at least).

While I enjoyed both of those, I was trying to think of something new. But then the thought hit me to sort of combine the two. A Video Game Tournament. Everyone comes to the arcade with me, and we keep track of your best scores of the night, on about 10 games. Come up with some sort of ranking system to determine the winner. That way the wives and/or kids could be part of it too. The poker tournament somehow was a "guy only" thing. It wasn't designed that way, it just worked out that way. I would try to work out some "old school" design for plaques and see if my connections still work. OR..... set it up as a "Beat the Geek" style format. I would play the games and set a score that everyone would have to beat on each game, and then people would get prizes and rewards for "Beating me at my own Game". This would, of course, require me to go to the arcade a few days before hand and see where the bar should be set for each game (double arcade bonus!) You know.... for research purposes.

Been There, Done That

I have often daydreamed about making a list of all the roller coasters in the United States, and then seeing how many I could ride in a year, or if I could ride all of them during my life. I remember Jerry Jacob ( the news anchor that resigned and is becoming a Military Field Medic) taking a couple weeks vacation, and visiting all the Springfields he could. I want to say he made it to 14 of them. I thought that was pretty cool. A friend of mine sent me a link to this guy, and I thought it was worthy of sharing here. 171 Starbucks in 24 hours. Repeating only 6 stores is quite impressive, but damn that's a lot of caffeine.

The World Series of My Wife is Awesome!

My beautiful bride and I are addicted to VH1's World Series of Pop Culture. We are pretty good at it. Admittedly, my bride is better at it than I am. ( She got 9 of 11 on the original cast of Beverly Hills 90210, I got maybe 4) This season, after every new show, you can go online and compete against thousands of other trivia buffs, and try to win $2500. You get 25 questions, miss one and your out. Fastest to answer the 25 wins the dough. Last night, she was one of 11,000 competing. She answered #25 correctly in 4 minutes and change. Only 12 other people, TWELVE!, got all 25 right. So, now she had to wait to see if her time would hold up. Unfortunately, some trivia robot finished all 25 in just under 3 minutes. But my beautiful bride got 6th. 6th out of 11,000. She is wicked smart.

More News from Planet Obvious!

Study: Multiple Stab Wounds May Be Harmful To Monkey
Looks like my friends over at "The Onion" feel the same way I do, about stupid research.

And not quite along the same lines, but I can't Stop looking at this picture, even though it freaks me out. No so much planet Obvious, as Planet Moron!
Jumpin' Jesus on a pogo stick!!! You're going to want to put some peroxide on that.

Thanks Dr. Obvious!

Women drawn to men with muscles

No SH!T?!? Chicks dig good looking muscular men, over us butter trolls? Thanks for the NEWS!

Seriously, this is what Researchers are studying? Did we CURE CANCER?? WHO THE HELL IS GIVING THESE PEOPLE MONEY FOR THEIR WORK??!!??

Hey, I just did a study that shows plants grow faster during the DAY! Give me a GRANT!

BAHHH!!!!!!

And who is the lazy ass reporter that decided this was news???

754...755!...756?

I don't know why, but part of me hopes that when Barry Bonds gets to 754 home runs, that opposing pitchers either intentionally walk him for the rest of the season, or bean him. The man just doesn't seem to have the graciousness that I would like to have in a Major Baseball Record holder. Big Mark had respect for Maris' record, and Sammy seemed to as well. Hank Aaron went through some serious issues with other people not wanting him to break Ruth's 714, but at least that showed that he had a human side to him. I don't care about the "Steroid" allegations either, just show us some emotion over one of the greatest records in sports.

I LIKE what I like

I was recently told my taste in art is too "Kitschy". I wouldn't mind that, but it was the condescending tone that it was said in that bugged me. So what, if I like my Mass Media Andy Warhol art work, my Keith Haring non-controversial prints, my simple primary Mondrian paintings, and the wackyness of Miró. I also think velvet elvis paintings are kinda cool, and giant tapestries of "Dogs Playing Poker" should be publicly displayed in the best of homes. I love movies about Baseball, even though I hardly follow baseball at all (I blame that on being raised a Royals fan. Ah, 1985.) I eat my sandwiches plain, and my hot dogs cold. While I like all the ingredients in a KFC Mashed Potato Bowl, but I will never order one, because I don't like my food all mixed together. I don't mind if they touch, but that bowl has too much intermingling going on.( I don't like my corn getting to 3rd base with my potatoes, if you know what I mean) I don't drink beer, but can tell you blindly the difference between A&W, Barq's and Dad's Root Beers. (IBC is highly overrated, and priced BTW.) I also like my soda a bit flat. It is not uncommon for me to open a bottle, drink a bit, and then put the lid on it and shake it vigorously a few times. I have left entire 2-liter bottles of Root Beer open all night, just to lose most of the carbonation. A hamburger should NEVER cost more than $4, maybe $5 with bacon and cheese ( I am looking at you, Red Robin!) I have learned the ways of charcoal, and regret not learning them sooner. Mayonayse is the devils condiment, followed closely by mustard. and nothing make me happier than a nice bag of Red Hots. But thats just me. If you dont like what I like that is fine, just don't try and tell me in a way that makes it sound like your half-dead Beatles are better than my Still Rockin' Rolling Stones! (ya, I said it. Suck it, Trebeck)

3 words...

What. The. F@&%!!!

I am speechless... absolutely speechless.

Motivation...level... critical

The reason for my lack of posts lately has been my utter lack of motivation to do ANYTHING! I don't want to type, I don't want to do laundry, mow the yard, nothing! It's not that I don't WANT to, it just getting the momentum going to do it. I actually like mowing the yard, but its the weed whacking, and trimming, and all the extra stuff that puts me off about it. Even WoW can't hold my attention lately, unless I have something very specific in mind to do. ( Yeah, I am playing again, and forgot how much I love playing. Thankfully for me, my beautiful bride likes to play too.)

I could post about the wonderful get together my family went to this weekend to see my best friends from high school. But that post would be full of inside jokes, and lots of "I can't believe that was 20 years ago". It was a great time, and really nice to be able to reconnect with people who know all about me, and just laugh.

I could post about how this is one of the biggest movie summers of all time, and I haven't been to see any of the 3's (spiderman, pirates, shrek, oceans) Although, I have promised my beautiful bride I would take her to see 1408. Because we haven't seen a GOOD scary movie in a long time.

I could take the easy way out and post about some of the YouTube videos I have been watching lately. I frequent SomethingAwful quite regularly, and on their forums, someone created a thread for people to just post videos of other people doing AWESOME things. There are some incredible videos out there. Skateboarders, guitar players, video game players... everything! I stayed up until 2am on a couple of nights just watching these people and what they can do.

Since I don't feel like posting anything, I guess I won't.

The little things

I had a very good Father's Day, thanks for asking. My day began with big hugs and kisses from my beautiful bride, and my 4 year old. My 3-month old (ya, 3 month old! jeesh) tried to give me kisses, but more just drooled on my cheek, which still counts. We got up, and got ready for church. My beautiful bride tells me that she will drive today... but instead of driving to church, she surprises the girls and I by taking us to Cracker Barrel for breakfast. Mmmmm.... ham and biscuits. Very yummy. My 4-year old hands me my father's day card. The card was very cute, and obviously picked out by her, as it was a purple "My Little Pony" card, with stickers for her inside. The stickers all said "I love Daddy", and "Daddy's little girl" on them, but as long as she was going to get them is what mattered to her. I think I could by a box of Avery Labels, and she would go nuts because "Stickers I can COLOR?!?". The girl loves her stickers. Anyway, the card was cute, and signed from all my girls, but that wasn't the real gift. The thing I enjoyed the most was the envelope the card came in. Plain and white with "D A D" written in little girl letters. I looked at that all day long, and just smiled. I really do love being a D A D.

More Nestle Love

I had a very interesting thing happen to me today. I was out taking pictures for work, and needed gas for my car, and gas for my belly. I stop at a gas station and fill up my gas tank and go inside. Remembering that I have one last free coupon for a Nestle crunch bar in my wallet ( Part one, Part two of how I got the coupons). Grab a soda, and cruise over to the candy aisle, find a Crunch bar and notice that they have some other contest going where you could win a share of 5 million dollars. Go to pay, wait for the guy to call his manager over, get my stuff and leave. Driving back to work, I down my delicious candy bar, and look in the specially marked wrapper... there, on the inside... "Congratulations... you have won a FREE Nestle Crunch Bar" (see details). I smile quietly to myself, again, and contemplate how the simple things in life make me happy.

Celebrity News

I don't like celebrity news. I don't care about it, don't need to know it, and try to avoid it. I don't really care who is dating who, who got drunk and flashed the cameras, or any of that. But I can't stop myself from posting this because it makes me giggle like Dakota Fanning.


(Oh, Nelson. How I love thee.)

MAME Plans

I have been wanting to build a MAME Cabinet for quite some time now. The biggest thing stopping me was the Size of some of the actual cabinets. I don't really want a huge monstrosity of a thing just sitting in the corner of the basement. I have been looking at plans after plans for them, and I think I may have found a nice compact design.

I like it for a few reasons. First, its not very big or intrusive. It could easily be disguised as an end table. Second, it wouldn't require mounting a huge TV or Monitor in the cabinet... the guy that build this one used a 17 monitor. You can get those anywhere, CHEAP!. Third, the realization that I don't need a control panel where 4 players can play at once. I will most likely be playing this by myself, and if friends come over, they will just have to share.

I will change the control panel a bit, I don't need the roller ball. There are only 2 games that I would want the roller ball for anyway, Centipede, and Missile Command. I was never really good enough at either of these games to justify dropping $160, just for the roller ball. I may invest some of that money saved into an extra 4 way stick. Just to get that authentic Pac-man stick feel.(The 8-way joystick gets hung on the diagonals, and screws with your game experience.) I will also increase the number of buttons to accommodate my Asteroids fix. Because playing Asteroids with a Joystick is Arcade Blasphemy.

Night at the Museum

Went to the museum with some friends this weekend... they didn't let us stay long. I don't know Y.

Here he comes...here comes Speed Racer!

My heart is pounding as I type this... I had heard that they are making a live action Speed Racer Movie, and I was hoping that who ever was doing it would NOT screw it up. It turns out the guys making it are the same guys that did the Matrix Trilogy, the Wachowski brothers.

More than anything I hoped that they wouldn't bastardize the car by making it more "modern". Well they did modernize it a bit....
To quote Sam Elliot: "Sweet Mercy!". That is the most awesome use of metal I have ever seen.

Hi, Gene!

My sugar filled world has finally taken its toll on my beautiful bride. After almost 10 years together, she found out this weekend she has a cavity. Her first one, EVER! She is very upset about this, and was almost in tears about the fact when she told her mom about it. Her Mom was not too happy about the whole thing. God forbid, she ever gets a long look in my mouth. I have more porcelain and metal in my mouth than a Chinese History Museum.

Speaking of Zen

I received news today that the Logo from Hell, has officially been chosen. I know many of you have expressed your concern over my well being, and I really appreciated all the kind words, and monetary gifts of consolation you have sent. For those that did not send a gift of any kind... may God have mercy on your souls.

Without further ado, I present the (hopefully) final version of the Logo from Hell:
Wow.... Clean and Simple... whodathunkit. I think I am going to celebrate with a Free Nestle Crunch Bar". (I got my coupons in the mail yesterday!)