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Lickin

Lickin

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This past weekend Kevin and I flew out to Colorado to surprise my little sis for her birthday. Weekend was a little too short but a lot of fun. We got in late friday night and then dropped in on her at around midnight (thanks to her boyfriend Nick’s scheeming) and surprised her in her bunny slippers (or – rather – snow man slippers)…

The next morning we got up and had brunch and then spent the rest of the day driving up in the mountains. We went up Flagstaff mountain first to show Kevin the view of Boulder. After that we headed up to Estes park and saw a freaky Elk with mutant horns (see the flickr photos for more)…

Saturday night we went out to dinner with our brother Jason and his wife Jacki at a restaurant near our hotel – after that we had WAY too much to drink at the bar in our hotel (the St. Julien).. Was a lot of fun as you can see by the picture…

Sunday we had a hangover lunch and then went out to Erie Colorado to see Jason and Jacki’s new house as well as Jacki’s mom’s new house…

We then ended the night with dinner with Katie and Nick and crashed early so we could make a REALLY EARLY flgiht back today..

Weekend was a LOT of fun – sometimes I really miss Boulder and REALLY enjoyed spendin time with Katie and Nick…

Me and Kevin

Me and Kevin

Originally uploaded by SwimFinsSF.

This was one of the pictures in a collection of pictures we took over the weekend while we were in Colorado.. Thought it was a cute one of us so I figured I’d share! 🙂

Don’t be a Dumb ass

I’m sorry.. I know I’m biased.. But this just pisses me off… For christ sake – just turn the damn things down.. Its not like they don’t have a volume dial on them. When I notice its too loud thats what I do. These people shouldn’t be pissed at Apple – they should be pissed at their Mothers for not telling them to turn their music down when they were in high school. I distinctly remember mine doing that more than once (I also remember blowing out the speakers on our Ford Probe – but thats another story)…

I’m sorry – but people shouldn’t be able to sue because they can’t use common sense.

Happy friday! 🙂

Good faith my ASS

Just read this about the ejection of two people (Cindy Sheehan and the wife of a representative) for having shirts with war messages in the state of the union…

Briefly: Capitol Police drop charges over T-shirts

WASHINGTON The Capitol Police have dropped a charge of unlawful conduct against the anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan and apologized for ejecting her and a congressman’s wife from President George W. Bush’s State of the Union address for wearing T-shirts with war messages.

“The officers made a good faith, but mistaken effort to enforce an old unwritten interpretation of the prohibitions about demonstrating in the Capitol,” the Capitol Police chief, Terrance Gainer, said in a statement.

I’m sorry but I find this all too convenient. I totally understand allowing vocal protesters inside the state of the union address. However what I can’t abide by is arresting someone based either on presumed intent (I’m wearing something hinting I might have an intention) or based on the content of the message. If its on intent then that is clearly illegal and if its the political content then I’d argue that they should have kicked everyone out with a democratic or republican lapel pin…

But the worst part is the apologizing after the fact for being wrong. Well thats all well and good but they still missed the event. It doesn’t seem inconceivable that this could have been their plan going in, especially knowing one of the attendees would be Cindy Sheehan…

Sorry… I don’t buy it and it irritates the shit out of me..

Anyway… nuff ranting – I have work to do! 🙂

Gobble Gobble

Ok… This little video is just too damn funny for words…(though it would be even more funny if it wasn’t kinda true)

Frank Caliendo’s Bush Routine

Captcha

Ever wonder what the deal is with these things are called or whats behind them. Had a friend of mine ping me asking how to get information on them. I know what they’re for – they allow computers to detect whether input is from a human or a computer – humans can read these but computers generally can’t. They deter spammers and other software based attacks from doing things like automatically posting blog comments or applying for email accounts. But I didn’t know what they were called or where they came from and, being the curious fuck that I am, I had to find out… So after some clever dissection of a site that used them (in this case, blogger) I found a term that looked odd to me in the right spot.. A quick google search of that term landed me right where I wanted to be…

So here are the fruits of my labor. From Wikipedia:

Captcha

A captcha (an acronym for “completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart”) is a type of challenge-response test used in computing to determine whether or not the user is human

And from the Captcha site:

Telling Humans and Computers Apart

(Automatically)

A CAPTCHATM is a program that can generate and grade tests that most humans can pass, but current computer programs can’t pass. For example, humans can read distorted text as the one shown below, but current computer programs can’t:

So there it is.. more than you ever wanted to know… 😉