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Vacation Ideas anyone?

Anyone have an idea where I could go and kill a week? It turns out that, in my furvor to ship this silly product, I forgot to take a break - and, as such, I’ve maxed out my vacation time and i’m loosing it.. So I need to split for a while.. And the shitty part is kevin has been good about taking his and, as such, doesn’t have left over right now… So I’m solo for my vacation time…

Here are a few criteria:

- Not at home (if I stay home I’ll just sit on the computer and thats LAME)
- Need to relax - been working my ass off and 9 countries in 8 days probably isn’t the best Idea
- Needs to be relatively cheap: My money right now is largely targeted to pay for new electrical stuff and a new deck… Got SOME money to spend but not LOTS
- No Gay cruises - This is on orders of kevin (and expensive)..

Here are my ideas right now:

- New york city / Fire island
- LA / So Cal - meet friends and play in the sun…
- Burning man…

But I’m running out of ideas and I need to do it soon… Anyone wanna go on a trip with me? :):)

huh huh huh.. Fire…

Pic from Memorial Day BBQ ( see Lessons Below )… Scary part is that is after it went down a little.. Guess I should add to those lessons “Match light charcoal doesn’t need lighter fuel”

Some Geek Stuff

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One of the things I do for a living is to make Final Cut Pro/Express work in multiple languages. This involves both the engineering work required to translate the User Interface of the Application into languages such as German, Japanese, and French as well as the work required to let people use the application in their native language regardless of the language of the application. For example, even if the application is running with an English user interface, a user who speaks Arabic, Hebrew, Japanese, or Korean should be able to use Final Cut and enter text in their native language for movie titles, file names, or whereever.

To make this happen I implemented support for Unicode Text in the application. I won’t go into details of what unicode is or how it works - if you want to know more check out this page. But as part of this I’ve been trying to get my blog supporting international text too and I’ve FINALLY got it working…

The entry below is a cool page I found here that demonstrats functional unicode text… If your browser is showing garbage below then it isn’t unicode savvy.. I’d be curious to know who is seeing garbage and who is seeing what looks like arrabic or hebrew text…

Nuff geek stuff… for now… ;)…
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People Are People…

So Saturday night we watched this show called Sex 2K on MTV… The episode we caught was on a Gay Cruise and it was totally silly… It followed 3 gay guys as they got ready for and went on a Gay Cruise… I’ve known LOTS of people that have gone on those and haven’t heard a single person say they hated it… but I’ve also not heard a single person that said they got a lot of reading done and had plenty of quiet time either.. So the whole time i’m thinkin ‘GOD - I hope my mom and my sister aren’t watching this’…

Turned out the show wasn’t that scandelous. I’m sure there was plenty in there that would have horrified the christian coalition (or thrilled them to provide more fuel - who knows - who cares) but there wasn’t anything that surprised me.. Actually looked like fun. Still didn’t want my mom and sister catchin it though..

But then I watched a couple more episodes of the same show… One on ‘Speed Dating’ and another on ‘Sex Doctors’ (dating coaches)… LORD… They made the gay episode look like no big deal.. In the grand scheme of things none of the shows were that big of a deal in my mind.. but the straight scenarios were JUST as tawdry, tragic, tantelizing, and wierd as the gay one.. probably more so… All of the shows, gay or straight, showed people trying to find the loves of their life, and occasionally being complete tragedies or whores in the process..

Just funny… not a big deal.. but did feel better about the gay ’scene’… Just goes to show that people are people.. gay or straight… we all have our skeletons in our closets… all lookin for similar things… there are odd balls everywhere..

just made me giggle so I had to share… check out that show some time… not a good show mind you.. but it is fun..