What's that smell?

Jess and I are walking down the street in China Town in San Francisco and I spot the following license plate.  I got my phone out and Jess knew exactly what I was going to do.  The other night I saw one that said, "LiL Terd" but it was too dark to get a clear shot.

What is the weirdest plate you've seen? Would you get a vanity plate? If so, what would your plate read?

Always buy the PRO version!

Somehow I think a small change was meant to be removed before the release version went out!  Another error that appeared in a project that I took over was, "Show me the money!!!"  Do you think developers should put these kinds of errors in their messages?

Hidden Images

What do you see in the image below?

How many do you see?

Vista SP2 Available

Microsoft has a new update for Vista. How many things will it break in the process of fixing issues?

Spinning Girl

Look at the spinning girl.  Which way is she spinning, clockwise or counterclockwise?  Based on how you look at the image, you can make it go the opposite direction!  Don't get discouraged if you can't see it right away.

Where is My Mind?

If you've lost your mind and are having trouble finding it, then there is still hope. Google can help you find it!  After you find your mind, try entering, "How to " and see what you get.  Or even, "How not to."

What kind of weird searches have you done?

First U.S. Face Transplant

Connie Culp, shot by her husband in the face was the first face transplant in the United States.  The husband received seven years for the shotgun blast that nearly killed her back in 2004, but she had years of recovering ahead of her.  As you can tell by the before and after photos that surgeons did a great job with what they had.

I admire the strength it took for her to come forward with her story and know that it would be difficult for many to face all the gawking and pointing.

Do you think that seven years was enough?  And secondly, would you go through a face transplant if you were in the same situation?

Headache Remedy

Jess and I were waiting around after basketball practice and decided to kill some time with an iPhone app.  As you can tell, her 10 year old won this round.  I don't think that tylenol will help in this case!

What kind of cool games do you have on your phone?

Texting Bus Driver Crashes

It is against the law to text while driving in California but people still do it anyway.  This bus driver from San Antonio was caught on video texting and getting into a traffic accident on the freeway.

Do you text while driving?

The Swine Flu

Are you concerned about all the coverage on the swine flu? I've seen reports of people buying up masks and hand sanitizers.  I think that people are going to flood the emergency rooms soon at the slightest sign of the flu just to be safe.

Will the standard measures: washing your hands, covering your mouth if you cough, and practicing standard hygiene, work in this situation?

Quick, Quick...what company makes Tamiflu?  Not that anyone would try to profit off this.

The Chase

I know what I'm having for dinner!

Air Force One Low Flying Stunt Goes Bad

Fom the  AP Story 
Why the Defense Department wanted to do a photo op right around the site of the World Trade Center catastrophe defies the imagination," Bloomberg said. "Poor judgment would be a nice ways to phrase it. ... Had I known about it, I would have called them right away and asked them not to."




Would you have authorized this?

Chat With Strangers

I heard about site that allows you to chat with strangers. The purpose is:

Omegle is a brand-new service for meeting new friends. When you use Omegle, we pick another user at random and let you have a one-on-one chat with each other. Chats are completely anonymous, although there is nothing to stop you from revealing personal details if you would like.

There is a  New York Times article about it so I tried it out.  The site randomly picks one of the 2400 anonymous people that were online at the time and asks you to say, "Hi."  I went through several chats and found out that that it is exactly what you would expect from a random anonymous chat.

At least it makes it much easier to disconnect from the chat since your name is: "Stranger."  You don't have to worry about going invisible or blocking anyone.  This might be good for a post secret type of thing if you need to get something off your chest but that's about it.

What does this mean to you?

Is anyone even surprised by any of this? Imagine what it truly means when your kid says, "I'm bored!"

Fart Loading

I went to Wings N Things for lunch and noticed that the place was packed with many people standing even though there was a seat by the window!  How lucky of me, so I took a seat after ordering.  After a few seconds, I look up and see a big guy sitting in front of me and then notice what his shirt says, "Fart Now Loading..."  Now I know why nobody wanted this seat.

Should I have moved?  Luckily, nothing was in the air!

Instant Tan

"Honey, the bottle says, 'natural looking tan.  Nobody can tell the difference!' Whatcha think?"

Have you ever used a "bronzer?"

Huge Rat Attacks Park

How would you react to the huge rat?

Optical Illusion

Tell me what image you see on the left.  Don't answer too quickly as you might miss something! :)

I haven't done one of these in a long time and my daughter likes these so don't be surprised if you see more on here.

thepiratebay.org crew found guilty!

All those in the torrent scene were waiting to see what the verdict would be in the thepiratebay trial.  Although polls by those that use torrents overwhelmingly thought they would be found not guilty, they were found guilty in Sweden.  Of course nothing really earth shattering happened and here's the press release from the pirate bay.

The four:  Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi and Carl Lundstrom were sentenced to a year in jail and to pay about 3.6 million USD.  The huge media companies celebrated a big win since this service has almost 4 million users.  A never-ending cat and mouse game between the media giants and file-sharing community.

Note that the pirate bay doesn't have any copyrighted material but downloading a file from the site allows those using p2p to get the desired copyrighted material.

The case will be appealed, and this will drag on.  You can still get to http://thepiratebay.org/.

... is too long a word. Try using a shorter word.

10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

I was trying to see how many entries there were for 1 followed by a bunch of zeros by using google.com. That number you see above is 1 zero short of the max before you get the error: "... is too long a word. Try using a shorter word."

There are now 51 people with that number indexed. Yes, I'm the 51^st. See what I resort to when I'm bored?

Ashton Kutcher versus CNN

In the blue corner we have Ashton Kutcher, and in the red corner we have CNN. Who will be the first to get 1 million followers?  I thought so, you don't care either!  :)

I think that Ashton has a good chance for being a single entity and not a giant media company but I guess the internet is a great equalizer, right?

Do you have a twitter account?

Don't Judge A Book By Its Cover!

Did you hear about Susan Boyle? She's a 47 year old that hadn't been given the chance to be a singing star so she went on the TV show in Britain, Britains Got Talent with that Simon guy from American Idol.

She's never been kissed and self-proclaimed ugly duckling. The reaction from the audience before she starts singing is "Ewwwww." But just watch what happens after she starts singing! Check out her performance here (YouTube) The song is: "I dreamed a dream", from Les Miserables.

Tell me what you think.

How to File for an Extension

The April 15th filing deadline surprised you this year and you're wondering how to file an extension.  What to do?  You can go to the IRS website and download form 4868 (Application for Automatic Extension of Time To File U.S. Individual Income Tax Return) and mail it in.  That's it.

There are several e-file methods that you can use and most will let you do the 1040 basic stuff for free but charge you to send in your state forms.  All require you set up an account and fill out the basic information.  Information easily transfers to other forms including the extension.  You'll get a confirmation that your filing was sent and you should go back to the site you used to e-file and confirm that the IRS accepted it.

If you're in the state of California then you can get an automatic extension until Oct 15th, 2009 to send in your forms.

If you owe money, then you better pay by April 15th, because you're still required to pay up regardless of the extension.  I'm not a tax professional so don't blame me because you waited to the last minute!

Easter Eggs

I can't really remember going on an Easter Egg hunt but this year, I helped fill some eggs for the kids.  Somehow a few sports eggs managed to sneak into the basket!  Can you spot them?

My girlfriend used this photo as her phone wallpaper.  :)  Are you or did you go to an Easter Egg event this year?

Out of Bounds Photography

I stumbled across this website, Out of Bounds.  If you like photography and photoshop then you'd appreciate how cool this is.

I have enough photoshop skills to do this so I'll have to round up a photo and try it for myself.

What do you think of the gallery?

Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace University

If anyone has taken this class, the one thing that you'll always remember is: "SELL THE CAR!"  I wonder how much this poor guy will get for his?  Or maybe he's driving this so that in 50 years by the time he's retiring he'll have 12.5 million dollars. $x.xxx invested at 12% compound interest for 50 years.  You'll have to take the class to see what I'm talking about!  :)

Do you drive a car you can't really afford to impress your friends or keep up with the Jones'?

GPS Navigation - Unknown Road

It's a little after 10:00 p.m. and we want to get home after a long day of volleyball matches.  Heather loads up the GPS and taps on current location in the start field and our hand-held tells us that we're on an unknown road.  After a few minutes it finds us and we're on our way.

Here are some of the things I'd like to see in the next version but doubt that they'll get implemented:

Turn-By-Turn.  As cool as the radiating little blue dot is on the purple road is, this is the most requested.  Touching the phone could be seen as texting and get you a ticket.  My friend got a warning so it does happen.  Version 3.0 maybe :)

Next waypoint signal.  This would let us know via some sound or vibration that we were approaching, and let me know the distance.  Maybe allow me set the distance.

Re-calculate route.  We missed our turn, or needed to stop somewhere off the route.  Let me get back on track.

ETA Display.  This would be for fun and the it would show based on our current speed what our ETA is.  Either setting average speed or actual would be nice.  A setting or toggle would suffice.   As it is, the display says something like, "1 hour 45 minutes with traffic."  "@78 mph: 1 hr 12 min."

What do you want to see?

It's Final

What am I talking about?  Many of you know and many wondered what took so long, but everything was signed  this afternoon.

Starting New Business

Today is the first day of my new business venture.  Let's see how it goes!  :)

Can you hear it now?

I found this test on one of my friend's facebook profile today and took the test even though it was meant for teenagers. Since I'm slightly over 25, I didn't expecting to hear anything but boy did I hear an annoying high pitched noise.

Let me know if you hear something.