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Google Chat vs. Skype
Recently, Google Chat is consistently better in terms of voice and video; this was not the case a year ago. I wonder if switching to a dedicated Jabber client would yield even better results, and might enjoy having Google Chat and Facebook Chat accessible from a single dedicated app, but at the same time I’m really enjoying the simplicity of the Google Chat setup.
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Battlestar Sabotage
…or Those Frakkin’ Beasties? Anyways, this is a fine mashup of two of my favorite things. The author notes: This transformative work constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of U.S. Copyright Law. //////////////////////////// UPDATE: The obligatory side-by-side with the original.
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Mina chanbo
This was a few weeks ago, when she still wasn’t very cute at all.
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A respite from hot season
Yesterday was positively cold and today was as pleasant a day as it gets here; cool enough for long sleeves in the morning and warm enough for short sleeves in the afternoon. I don’t know what I did to earn this respite from what should be mind-shockingly hot days strung together into weeks into months into… but I’ll take it.
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max on the wall
Those are newfangled, lightweight building blocks made of some porous, anechoic material (I yelled at ’em and they didn’t answer back.). They’re predictably better at insulating, but much weaker than good old red bricks – they’re only used for top story walls on a two story houses (or everywhere on a single story).
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Stone Cold Killer (part 2)
A few years ago, I posted a photo of a praying mantis catching a hovering dinner. Well now somebody has caught a similar attack on film:
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Mina has peed on me four times today
The good news is, we’re saving heaps on disposable diapers. Also, baby pee is good luck (in many of the obscure cultures flourishing, chiefly, in my head).
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star fiction / pulp wars
Pulp Fiction otaku factoid of the day: The nickel-plated 1911 (Star Modelo B) Jules carried throughout the film was chambered for 9mm, not .45. ///////////////// This design is from a totally kick-ass t-shirt.
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baby update via chat (i am sooo lazy edition)
me: whats up M: yo you on skype? me: nah, I’m at work M: you suck! me: next time we skype you’ll freak out though M: i want to see the baby!!!!!!!! me: mina can talk now M: and the max!!!!!!!! wtf me: not with words but with cooing and gurgling M: are you serious? me: yeah she’s a trip i just dropped off max at school i just realized that we sent him to school a lot earlier than they do in the states M: um YEAH me: but there was nothing really that rushed about it he was bored of being with us all day i even stopped…
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over yonder
Max in the sandlot near home. Taken with Samsung J700 phone (crappy camera BTW).
