So Steph had a Bunko party Friday night in honor of the upcoming inauguration the theme was red-white-blue / presidents / politics etc. I’ll take credit for coming up with the idea of Steph going as Monica Lewinsky. I gave her the idea but she took it an ran with it. The best part was Thursday when she asked me to make her a prop cigar. And yes, she won best costume.
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Lately I’ve been having a lot of those moments when multiple events coincide with each other thereby causing new analogies, thoughts and ideas to form. Mostly this occurs because I have a habit of reading 4 or 5 books at a time. Inevitably these books tend to overlap in content even if they do not at first appear to. There always seems to be a connection, a common thread or an augmentation and compliment to each other. Today I had another such moment but with today’s news and one of the books I’m currently reading, Alan Greenspan’s autobiography “The Age of Turbulence”. If you haven’t read it I highly recommend it. Greenspan’s life spans most of a century and he provides his perspective on the economy and the famous people he has met throughout his life. To top it off his personal style of writing makes for an entertaining read. Keep reading →
Last night we went to fill up the car and ended up 
paying under $2/gallon.
I was so happy I had to take a snapshot of it as proof.
The sad side was that our little Hyundai Accent would only take about 8 gallons of this “cheap” gas. I guess I should not complain since that will last us about a week of commutes.
Overall I would say that my feelings on this matter for today could best be compared to that feeling you get after you go to the bathroom after being constipated for days.
Living in the great blue state of Washington I knew there was no chance that a vote for McCain would matter in any manner at all that mattered and I was confident that Obama would win by default. Facing this I was further confronted by the fact that in most elections the choice one makes in the polling booth is often less a reflection of one’s true desire for one candidate as it is more a fear of what “the other guy” (otherwise known as the guy that all the idiots are voting for) will do if elected. With these two realizations I was confronted with a sudden freedom. Since my vote would have been primarily be a vote “against” a candidate that would hence be swallowed up one way or the other in the winner-takes-all electoral process I felt no need to express my choice by the commonly accepted terms of “this guy or that guy”. So as to exercise my own desires I chose not to be constrained by the presumed duopoly. I in fact did decide to vote for a third party candidate. Keep reading →
Watch for Wil! …
His bit made it into both the 30 sec and 15 sec spots.
My first patent was issued today from the US Patent and Trademark office. Patent number 07380665 issued June 3, 2008.
It might not mean a lot to many people but for as long as I can remember I’ve had ideas and inventions floating around in my head. A couple years ago I decided to start patenting my ideas…
McCain wants to temporarily suspend the federal gas tax during the summer is on the face of it not a bad idea. Many economists agree that gas prices will rise above the $4 level for much of the country during the summer… in that light while an 18.4 cent savings would be small it would still be welcome by many households across the country.
The down side is being touted in many parts of the media and in some respects I must agree with The New York Times on this one:
“The problem is that lowering gasoline prices at the pump would encourage more consumption. So in the long run, it would push prices up….. Keep reading →
I finally did it… I got tired of paying for my crippled ColdFusion hosting account so I’ve moved my blog over to wordpress. I have also taken the extra step of splitting up my personal blog from my programming blog. I have gotten increasing amounts of traffic for both areas and felt it was just time to separate the two out. Officially the URLS are now:
For my programming blog: http://blog.flexuous.com/
For my personal blog: http://blog.justinohms.com/
In one of my future posts I plan to include my methodology for moving my blog over including redirects for search engines so that I don’t loose my page rankings and any other links that are out there.
Well here it is… the plaid wall that I’ve been working on for the last few weeks. It took a lot of work and about 5 rolls of masking tape but I am rather pleased with the final result. Which is more…. Wil loves it.
How to paint a plaid wall…..
1: Paint your base color (blue)
(let dry)
2: Tape off in both directions with 2 inch tape, leaving 4 inch squares… paint your square color (green)
(let dry and peel tape)
3: Using 1 inch tape, tape off for double stripes in one direction here the gap I left overlapped both the green squares and blue lines so that the red would hide the transition. Paint with the double line color (red)
(let dry and peel tape)
4: Repeat step 3 in the other direction
(let dry and peel tape)
5: Using 1 inch tape, now tape off for the single stripes in one direction. Line this stripe up with the middle of the green squares. Paint with the single line color (yellow)
(let dry and peel tape)
6: Repeat step 5 in the other direction
(let dry and peel tape)
7: Using four small art brushes and 4 small containers of paint (one of each color) touch up anywhere that needs it.
Just some video of part of our Christmas vacation in SanDiego. The boys loved the dolphins.
