Poster Boy

The Day the Alien Came

It was a beautiful day

when the alien came.

At first we thought he was going to fight with us,

but when we pulled out the death-ray cannons

he got sad

We tried to console him, but he wouldn't be consoled. All of a sudden, we were swarmed by rabid beasts of prey

that tried to eat Kai

and Keller.

Adam tried to demolish one,

but mistakenly lobbed the holy hand grenade at Gabe, bless his heart. I know from experience that when something attacks you and tries to eat you, the only way to survive is to offer something better

than you as a treat. It worked, and they ran away.

As tall as our buildings are,

they were no match

for what was to come next. Out of no where above the light came evil pterydactyls,

destroying everything in sight - including the people shaped buildings in the ocean. At first we were afraid but soon realized these fearsome creatures were at battle with another foe, the great winged tarantula gypsy.

So we just walked away and let them be. Did you see the fangs on that thing? Just when we thought the day couldn't get more weird, it did. But just a little more weird. A nefarious angel tried to work out a deal

with Jonathan. He wouldn't cooperate, so she sent her personal hashashim

to annihilate him by sucking his brains out.

It didn't work. He had three heads with three brains,

but she defeated him with frosting. Unbeknownst to the nefarious angel, Agent Kai had discovered her secret plan.

In an attempt to thwart her plan, he mesmerized her with his smooth moves.

She was almost under his spell when her other personal hashashim

snatched her away in his mouth before the effects were permanent. She found out

that Kai had discovered her secret plan and began to cry. It was time to take this into her own hands, so she sucked his brains out.

All those that witnessed this horrible defeat hid their faces in fear.

Happy Wedding

This weekend was full of pictures. For the best of the wedding pictures, please visit my gallery. That's all for now.

Stalker Addendum

Click here to see an interactive version of the previously blogged panorama.

I see you, you don't see me

I'm hidden with my telephoto lens up in the tree. This is Anjulie

looking for me. The jubilee practice was fun. I decided to spare you all the gruesome task of sorting through the 528 pictures I took. One of my best friends from the whole thing was this handsome little guy.

He kept everyone away from my camera. And all his friends, too. At one point, ok, the whole time, they had the speakers blasting extremely loud. EXTREMELY LOUD. Just put your hands over your ears and yell that in your head to get the idea. So, Mike Estrada had a simple solution

for this problem. The best part of the trip was the coolest chili's ever. It had a patio that overlooked a river/lake. I made a panoramic picture

for all your viewing pleasure. If you click on the actuall picture, you can see it big and scroll across it. The end.

copy cats

If you like a particular something that someone has, you go buy the same thing because you want it. If you go eat with someone and you don't know what you want, you just order the same thing as your friend. If someone has a cool piece of code that makes the "comments" appear and dissapear instead of opening a new page, you copy it to your own blog (amber). This is all good things to do. However, if you are a TV station, and you like the looks of another TV station's graphics in the same market, you don't copy them. That's just distasteful. Flattering, but still wrong. Here

I have a screen shot of a competing station's "new" graphics with my graphics that I've been using for more than a year above for a Stacked Comparison.

Click on the picture to see it bigger. It is very easy to see that the colors are basically the same. This isn't a problem since it is a common palette and it is probably the best color scheme (duh, why do you think I used it). But the similarities don't end there. Everything from the subtle arc off the right of center to the white frame fading out. So I called Channel 10. I spoke to a fella I know who will remain nameless because he's still a cool guy. I said to this chap, "So, I saw your new supers yesterday. They look beautiful." He said thanks. I said, "They look just like mine." He threw all kinds of diversions but we both know he copied me. He said they were going to have new opens soon. I said, "do you want me to send you my files?" It's pretty sad when the number 1 station takes ideas from the number 3 station.

Happy Mother's Day

aMUSEd

The locus in my head won't stop screaming. Muse

concert was awesome.

Back in the day, people waved lit cigarette lighters around in the air. Now-a-days these kids wave phones

around taking pictures. I'm a tall guy, so I can see the sea of camera phones. Follow the bouncing ball.

Oh boy, getting a little buz from the kids smokin' da weed. Who's your weed man, and how you smoke it so good? Kirby Lane's was packed afterwards. A stretch caddy was taking up too much space, so I squeezed in around it and made a parking space with less than a quarter inch

to spare. The hostess with the maroon shirt and turquois bra was pretty. I think she was a lesbian. I didn't get her number, so lets just say she was a lesbian. I thought it might be the same waitress from a year ago (picture), but I don't think so. This one was prettier. On the way home, we stopped at a shell station for gas and potty. There were two cars with fancy rims in the parking lot. I think they were making a drug deal. Pumped gas and restroom was out of order. So we went across the street to diamond shamrock. I hate diamond shamrock. They had the doors "locked." So our third restroom break was at HEB. Lets just say that 4 glasses of water at chili's, 1.5 liter dasani, 4 glasses at Kirby lanes... nah, we won't say it. A half hour later, 4th potty break at another diamond shamrock. I hate diamond shamrock. I also hate blow dryer hand dryers. Just give me a paper towel. It's faster. Them dryers are sooo slooow. I usually end up wiping my hands on my shirt to finish drying them off. Not tonight. This one was a jet engine. It had a sticker on it that said "Feel the Power."

I felt the power and 4 seconds later, my hands were completely dry. Fifth potty break was at my house just before typing this. I think I'm done.

Tight Wad

I'm so cheap!

The faster, yes.

As a person travels faster... Time actually slows down, resulting in a greater distance traveled in the "same" amount of time. But... still approaching the speed of light, light continues to move away from you at nothing less than the speed of light. Make sense? Good.

wanna be a balla'

I broke my toe

playing basketball at a cemetery in Woodway with my boss.