I am sooo ready to take my vacation now.
...Drives along the Maine coast; trekking through Acadia National Park; walking along the rocky coast enjoying lighthouses...Can't wait...(http://www.visitmaine.com/home.php - a little taste).
I'll have to buy a couple books of stamps so I can send out postcards along the way.
Anyway, I just saw the King Kong trailer on tv and downloaded it from Volkswagen's website and it looks pretty damn cool. I think Jack Black is going to be great.
I started a beginning German class this past Sunday. I think it will meet 10 times, of which two I will have to miss since I'll be gone. Mainly I'm taking it because it's free, except for the books, plus I want to take an intensive Japanese course, offered by the same person, in the autumn which will meet for 2 hours a day, Monday through Friday for 10 weeks. I am looking forward to that. So, the German class will give me a feel for how he instructs, which so far from Sunday seems like it will be very good... (that didn't make much sense grammatically, but whatever). Plus, it will be nice to know a little German and a friend of mine and her daughter both know some German so there will be some incentive to keep learning.
Now, if I could just do something about this damned heat.
Monday, June 27, 2005
Thursday, June 16, 2005
Brother, can you spare a dime...or 50,000 dimes?
Nothing much new.
I'm trying to get my web site finished, or at least mostly to the point that I can open it to a usable level. I'm pushing for July 1, but it depends on how much I actually work on it in the next couple weeks. I've still got a lot to do.
I'm trying to get my vacation planned too so I can start to make reservations soon. Probably will be ging in early to mid August so I need to get that done too.
I really do want a new DSLR too so I can have very nice, high quality photos from the trip. But that requires more money...
*sigh*
Anyway, here's a few links that are interesting, funny, stupid or all of the above.
NASA's next moon landing
Earth-like planet found outside our solar system
China says cigarettes are good for you!
Hypnotist puts gamer in real FPS (interesting if it is real, but doubt it. I mean, even if "hypnotized" the guy would have to realize that he's shooting a frickin paintball gun and that he's not reloading after blasting off so many shots even if he doesn't realize what kind of gun he's holding. Anyway...)
Infant daughter while couple plays online game
Women wanted to test sex machine
Man amputates own penis and kills "sex crazed" wife
Enjoy.
I'm trying to get my web site finished, or at least mostly to the point that I can open it to a usable level. I'm pushing for July 1, but it depends on how much I actually work on it in the next couple weeks. I've still got a lot to do.
I'm trying to get my vacation planned too so I can start to make reservations soon. Probably will be ging in early to mid August so I need to get that done too.
I really do want a new DSLR too so I can have very nice, high quality photos from the trip. But that requires more money...
*sigh*
Anyway, here's a few links that are interesting, funny, stupid or all of the above.
NASA's next moon landing
Earth-like planet found outside our solar system
China says cigarettes are good for you!
Hypnotist puts gamer in real FPS (interesting if it is real, but doubt it. I mean, even if "hypnotized" the guy would have to realize that he's shooting a frickin paintball gun and that he's not reloading after blasting off so many shots even if he doesn't realize what kind of gun he's holding. Anyway...)
Infant daughter while couple plays online game
Women wanted to test sex machine
Man amputates own penis and kills "sex crazed" wife
Enjoy.
Wednesday, June 08, 2005
I'm thinking of upgrading my digital camera to a DSLR this summer before I go to Maine so I've been spending more time in the forums of one of my favourite sites, Digital Photography Review. In my opinion, it's one of the best sites around and the caliber of the amateur and professional photographers that hang out in the forums is phenomenal. So, I came across a post that looked promising in which someone wanted posters to show their photos that had a sense of "strong feeling and mood". I'm always looking for some kind of everyday inspiration in my relatively uninspired life so the first photo I looked at caught my attention and I thought it was wonderful and one of the responses from another veiwer really summed up what I thought of it too. Here's the photo, the comment and a link to the photographer's website in which he has a special gallery section dedicated to his son.
"I looked at this picture and felt as if I read a great book in seconds."
- Yousef Rifai
Photo by Dave Van Artsdalen - http://www.pbase.com/dvan
"I looked at this picture and felt as if I read a great book in seconds."
- Yousef Rifai
Photo by Dave Van Artsdalen - http://www.pbase.com/dvan
Monday, June 06, 2005
Sunday, June 05, 2005
Is it October yet?
90 degrees.
45% humidity.
Feels like 93 degrees...
I really do hate summers in Ohio.
45% humidity.
Feels like 93 degrees...
I really do hate summers in Ohio.
Sunday, May 29, 2005
Injen SRI & Columbus Asian Festival
Yeah, so it's been a couple weeks since I've posted anything here so here's a little update on what I've been up to (not that much really).
A couple Wednesdays ago the Chinese Culture Club had Dr. David Wang come and give a talk and demostrations on different types of acupuncture. That was interesting.
I still haven't seen Star Wars Ep III, but would like to. But, honestly, at this point, I'll probably just see it on DVD unless someone asks me to go see it. But, then, most everybody has probably seen it already so whatever.
After a bit over a year of owning my car I finally did my first performance mod to it. I bought an Injen stainless steel short ram intake (SRI) and installed it in my car just this past Friday night.
If you have no idea what that is, it basically replaces the stock, plastic air box that contains your air filter in your engine bay. The stock system is poorly designed for performance because of it's closed design and location of the air inlet, it pretty much sucks in hot air which goes into your engine. The SRI for the Tiburon is designed so that its cone filter is positioned just behind the corner of the drivers side headlight and over the fender well. This placement allows it to take in cooler air than the stock setup and feed that cooler, more compressed and oxygenated, air into the engine for combustion and creating a little more horsepower. Plus, it sounds frickin' cool when you hit the throttle. My next item will be an Ark Speed Racing single exhaust. With the larger pipe diameter over the stock system and the straighter, less restrictive pipes it gives the engine and exhaust system less back pressure to allow the exhaust toexpell the eninge waste fumes more freely and efficiently which results in a little more power as well (listen to me, like I know what I'm talking about). ; ) Plus, it has a damed cool low rumble sound. Not annoying though like so many other exhausts that kids (and adults I guess) put on their cars that sound likr lawnmowers. Hopefully, I'll have that in about a month or two. Definitely will have it installed before the S3 Tuner Challenge event at Mid-Ohio in August.
Lastly, yesterday and today was the 11th Annual Columbus Asian Festival at Franklin Park. I went for a couple hours yesterday after an arts event at OSU in which a friend, Karen, was performing. She is a dance major and that was the first time I had seen her perform. There were two other dance performances, 5 or 6 musicians and bands and visual art pieces displayed. It was pretty nice.
So, the Asian Festival was fun. Lots of food vendors with so many excellent aromas...mmmmm... There were many martial arts exhibitions, musical performances, dance perfomances and so much more. 
One of my favorite dance performances was done by the Ballet Manilla Company who opened their '05 U.S. tour with the Asian Festival. So, that was cool in itself but their performance was vey nice. The weather was great too, which made the event that much better. I will definitely be going again next year and I'm sure it will be even more fun.
That's about it. I'm still trying to plan my vacation and need to work more on my website so I can get that up and running too. Hopefully I'll be able to get some of it done this weekend since Monday is a holiday.
Hope everyone has a great weekend.
A couple Wednesdays ago the Chinese Culture Club had Dr. David Wang come and give a talk and demostrations on different types of acupuncture. That was interesting.
I still haven't seen Star Wars Ep III, but would like to. But, honestly, at this point, I'll probably just see it on DVD unless someone asks me to go see it. But, then, most everybody has probably seen it already so whatever.
After a bit over a year of owning my car I finally did my first performance mod to it. I bought an Injen stainless steel short ram intake (SRI) and installed it in my car just this past Friday night.
If you have no idea what that is, it basically replaces the stock, plastic air box that contains your air filter in your engine bay. The stock system is poorly designed for performance because of it's closed design and location of the air inlet, it pretty much sucks in hot air which goes into your engine. The SRI for the Tiburon is designed so that its cone filter is positioned just behind the corner of the drivers side headlight and over the fender well. This placement allows it to take in cooler air than the stock setup and feed that cooler, more compressed and oxygenated, air into the engine for combustion and creating a little more horsepower. Plus, it sounds frickin' cool when you hit the throttle. My next item will be an Ark Speed Racing single exhaust. With the larger pipe diameter over the stock system and the straighter, less restrictive pipes it gives the engine and exhaust system less back pressure to allow the exhaust toexpell the eninge waste fumes more freely and efficiently which results in a little more power as well (listen to me, like I know what I'm talking about). ; ) Plus, it has a damed cool low rumble sound. Not annoying though like so many other exhausts that kids (and adults I guess) put on their cars that sound likr lawnmowers. Hopefully, I'll have that in about a month or two. Definitely will have it installed before the S3 Tuner Challenge event at Mid-Ohio in August.
Lastly, yesterday and today was the 11th Annual Columbus Asian Festival at Franklin Park. I went for a couple hours yesterday after an arts event at OSU in which a friend, Karen, was performing. She is a dance major and that was the first time I had seen her perform. There were two other dance performances, 5 or 6 musicians and bands and visual art pieces displayed. It was pretty nice.
So, the Asian Festival was fun. Lots of food vendors with so many excellent aromas...mmmmm... There were many martial arts exhibitions, musical performances, dance perfomances and so much more. 
One of my favorite dance performances was done by the Ballet Manilla Company who opened their '05 U.S. tour with the Asian Festival. So, that was cool in itself but their performance was vey nice. The weather was great too, which made the event that much better. I will definitely be going again next year and I'm sure it will be even more fun.
That's about it. I'm still trying to plan my vacation and need to work more on my website so I can get that up and running too. Hopefully I'll be able to get some of it done this weekend since Monday is a holiday.
Hope everyone has a great weekend.
Friday, May 13, 2005
To Boldly Go
Well, it goes without saying but I'm going to miss Enterprise. Tonight's episodes were good and a nice send off too. I'll have to download them and watch them again, and again...
Thanks Paramount!
Thanks Paramount!
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