Hey all,
I’ve almost got the redesign finished. Err…well, that is to say I have made great progress anyway. You can scope out a sample by going to the top level of the site:
And you can check out what this weblog will ultimately look like:
Comments welcome on this one. First radical change in over a year, let me know what you think.
Ok so since I caught grief for not mentioning anything…I’m heading off to the docs today. I had another episode last night and this time I couldn’t breathe very well. I still think it is like a muscle or tendon pull or something but it’s time to get it checked out, I thought it was getting better but it seems like I was wrong. Just FYI for you whiners who think I play it too close to the chest 😉
…which in the end makes me laugh.
Saturday night I am changing the sheets on my futon when suddenly I get two intense pops in the middle of my chest. Felt like a 2 x 4 snapped in half inside my chest. I was like ‘shit, this is it, heart attack!’ I coudn’t believe it. While I am not the most physically active person I am basically a healthy guy, I kayak, I run a couple of miles every other day in the winter, I tend to eat well. So I collapse onto my bed thinking something like ‘fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck, 35, thats it? What a gyp!’ no life flashing before my eyes or anything, I was just pissed. After a few minutes I realize ‘hey I’m not quite dead yet, what the hell is going on?’ So I gingerly get up and try walking around the room. Instant chest pain. So I collapse back onto the bed, befuddled.
I spend the next several days in various degrees of discomfort. I don’t tell anyone because I had sort of concluded I must have had a minor stroke or something and I am completely embarrased about it. But I am feeling otherwise healthy (no weakness, sweating, stomache problems, anything like that) so I’m still puzzled. What the hell is wrong?
Long story short, I talk to my friend Paul, turns out he had a very similar episode, went to the doctor, and was told people pull tendons in their chest all the time and confuse it with a heart condition. So here I am walking around wondering if I am about to keel over from a big heart attack and it turns out I have a tendon pull in my chest. Huge relief, let me tell you. Now I’m off to the store to get some Motrin.
Check out this puppy. I can turn my ps2 into a tivo on the cheap. I will definitely be watching this closely. I haven’t bought the ethernet adapter for the ps2 yet though I do plan to get one as soon as there is a compelling use for it, which includes tivo functions on my ps2 😉
Finally! After a multi-year quest I have found the ideal image gallery software. This will allow me to get images posted much faster than my old approach, and at much higher resolutions. You can check it out here:
I’ve loaded it up with photos of the kayaking trip on the Delaware River I went on earlier this summer. Note how you can post comments to your heart’s content, view the images at different sizes, send them off to be printed, and more. I’ll continue to populate this with all the images I have sitting around on my various computers as time permits. And of course new stuff will be flowing in as well.
It’s Monday Night Football’s season opener tonight. That means I had time to work on the photos I’ve taken since I last posted an image gallery while I watched all the pre-game hype.
First up is the shots I took while Nick and I were out kayaking two weekends ago. You can check those out here
Next up are photos I took at Kevin and Marcia’s place this weekend. They had a barbecue on Sunday that I went to. You can check those out here
…looking over the next several days. I’m working on a redesign. Please bear with me. I hope to have everything straightened out by Monday.
The headline says most of it. I was pleasantly surprised last night. I thought the Giants were going to lose by 3 touchdowns, instead their secondary did an excellent job smothering one of the league’s most potent passing attack, and the new offensive line did an ok job protecting the quarterback. There were some definite breakdowns on that but overall given their youth the did ok. Other positives included the passing attack – when Collins had time to throw he was picking apart the San Fran secondary. He threw three picks but really only 1 was his fault, the other two were tipped balls.
The major major downside was the completely ineffective running game. They simply couldn’t move the ball on the ground. That needs to get fixed or like I predicted they will end up at 6 and 10. Given the youth though there is hope for the future that I did not have until I saw the game last night.
One other complaint. I wish the press would stop hyping Shockey. Yes, he looks promising, but let the kid play and shut the fuck up about him. They could not keep their mouths shut about it all damn game, meanwhile he had a couple of catches and a few tackles (yes tackles, on interceptions!) and he dropped a couple of key balls. Let him mature before you start proclaiming him the second coming of Bavaro.
Since the last one got such favorable feedback, here’s another image that should make you laugh. Feel free to invent a caption. Me, I feel sorry for the dog.
Check this out: a clever british carpenter designed and built This contraption. It’s a floating island made from plastic bottles and bamboo that he built a landmass, house and other structures on. It’s brilliant! I’d love to retire to such a structure. I originally found the link on the mostly excellent BoingBoing. Start saving bottles, I’ll be looking for them in the years to come.
