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Long time no update!

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Okay, well first off Sara and I changed our phone numbers, so if you don’t have my new one give me an email and I’ll give it to you.

Second off, I know I’m pretty late on this one, but Neil Patrick Harris came out last week.  There must be a lot of upset ladies out there!  I don’t know if you’re watching How I Met Your Mother or not, but the show is fantastic and NPH’s character Barney makes the show.  If you don’t watch it you should really check it out.

So where to start?  How about with this:

Tell me that is not a fantastic costume!  I crack up every time I look at that.  Even now I’m laughing!  Oh man.

Now that the humor is out of the way, let’s get serious for a second…robots think people taste like bacon!!!  This is the begining of the end for us folks.  I like the comment below the article, “Well at least we don’t taste like chicken.”  Sara pointed out that we’re too fat as a species to be anything so lean as chicken.

Speaking of eating the flesh of the living, it looks like I missed The Monroeville Mall World Record Attempt Zombie Walk in Pittsburgh.  It’s billed as a world record attempt for “The Most People Participating in a Zombie Walk.”  Basically you show up at the mall where they filmed the original Dawn of the Dead (one of my all time favs) in makeup and shuffle around for a few hours.  Sara’s favorite part was the zombie food drive.  “All zombies are urged to bring donations of non-perishable food items.”  Like brains-in-a-can?  Do zombies eat anything that is non-perishable?  Also enjoyable is the advice to “Stay on the sidewalk unless crossing the street. When crossing, it’s OK to “break character” and cross quickly. Think fast “New Dawn of the Dead” zombies verses the slower “Old Dawn of the Dead” zombies when crossing the street.”

In other record-breaking zombie news, someone is attempting to break the world record for number of people reproducing the zombie dance from Michael Jackson’s Thriller video.  150 in case you were wondering.  I guess the previous record of 3 people at our wedding reception isn’t going to hold. 😦

That is all.

Ho hum

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Create your own “motivational” poster.  Oh, the possibilities!

Not much to report here.  Things are definitely slowing down now that it’s getting colder!  Saturday night we went to a Halloween/Chad-going-away party.  Sara and I didn’t have costumes and when we got there we were the only ones!  It was fun, we haven’t been to like a party in a long time.  Dan and Dave L. came from Ft. Wayne.  Stayed up until like 2 a.m.!  Amazing.  Then Sunday we helped Chad move, then went out to eat.  Sunday night I fell asleep on the counch watching Children of the Corn at 8 p.m.  Sara woke me up and made me go to bed and I fell asleep at like 9.  I was worried I would wake up early or something, but I slept until 7 a.m. the next morning!

P.S. I’ve got my vacation all planned out for next year…the 4th 2nd Annual Grilled Cheese Invitational!

Pirate Laws

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This is required reading for all of you out there in Internet land.

Pirate Laws – The ancient laws of the pirate as written by Blackbeard himself

Some of my favorites:
23. A pirate does not “go shopping”. Unless by “shopping”, you mean “killing”.
25. Real pirates have chest hair. If you cannot grow chest hair, you may be a cabin boy.
27. No pirate may ever change his shirt because it is “wrinkled”. A pirate may only change his shirt if it is completely soaked in blood.
29. No pirate shall ever drive a minivan, unless he drives the minivan into a tavern, for the purposes of looting barrels of rum from said tavern. Upon completion of this task, the minivan is to be burned. No exceptions.

And remember, #44, When swimming, pirates do not dive. They cannonball.

Grab Bag

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If you liked the Bacon Snack Bars, then you are bound to like Bacon Caramel!  Something about the picture is just so disgusting to me, I can’t even contemplate what it would taste like.  WHY WOULD YOU RUIN PERFECTLY GOOD CARAMEL??

So, since it is close to Halloween and all, and since if you can’t do it on a computer it ain’t worth doin, why don’t you carve a virtual pumpkin?  Fun for everyone!

Finally, I will leave you with an excerpt from an article you would not find interesting, except for this part:
“Myhrvold then makes an interesting point about the amount of storage required to capture human diversity. If..

    * the human Genome is approximately 1 gigabyte of data;
    * the individual difference between any two humans is 0.25% of their Genome;
    * we assume a lossless compression rate of 2:1;

The individually unique part of the human Genome can be stored in ~1.2 megabytes. Thus, you fit on a 3.5″ floppy disk.

In fact, the entirety of human genetic diversity for every living human being could be stored in a 3.7 terabyte drive array. And the entire genetic diversity of every living thing on earth could be stored in roughly the size of the internet circa 2001.

I’m not sure what that means, exactly, but I love the idea that I can fit myself on a 3.5″ floppy disk.”
(Thanks to Sylvain for that)

Weekend update

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So we want to Casey and Margaret’s wedding this weekend.  Fancy Fort Wayne wedding!  The ceremony was at the Catherdal downtown and then the reception was at the Summit Club which is on the 25th floor of a building downtown so you have a nice view of the city.  The only problem was that we went to find our table (lucky #13) and it was already full!  It turns out there were two tables worth of 13’s so they had to set up another table in a different section from everybody else.  Later we found out no one was sitting at table #3.  Mystery solved!  Since Casey and Margaret both went to Dwenger and Casey and Margaret’s sister (and Casey’s dad for that matter) all worked at Dwenger, it was like a Dwenger reunion!  It was great to see everybody again though.  Schafer lost a TON of weight!  He looked like a Greek god!  He said he was under 200 lbs.  It’s definitely the first time he’s weighed less than me.

Then, after we came home, I attended the self-proclaimed “largest booksale in the midwest” at the Hyde Park co-op.  It was okay.  I only bought 6 books (for a grand total of $3.75!).  There were a lot of books there, but I was spoiled by the Wayne library’s book sales, where the selection was much better.  In particular, the sci-fi section at this book sale was pretty much non-existant, the fantasy section literally was non-existant, and what little horror there was was just mixed in with the fiction!  Since that pretty much encompasses all I read, it wasn’t that great for me.  To be fair though, this was the second day of the sale.

So, if you recall, we were trying to lose some weight between Jeremy and Casey’s wedding (61 weeks).  Sara and I both blew our goal’s out of the water!  My starting weight was 219.6 lbs. and my goal was 209.0 lbs.  Here are the final statistics:
                   Original          Final            Difference
Weight:        219.6 lbs.      204.6 lbs     -15 lbs (6.83%)
Upper arm    36 cm           35.5 cm       -0.5 cm
Forearm       29.8 cm         27.9 cm      -1.9 cm
Thigh            67.6 cm         64.7 cm      -2.9 cm
Calf              39.0 cm         38.0 cm      -1 cm
Chest           113.7 cm        110.6 cm    -3.1 cm
Waist           100.6 cm        96.2 cm      -4.4 cm
Low waist     105.8 cm       102.0 cm    -3.8 cm
Hips             114.3 cm        111.9 cm    -2.4 cm
The whole thing went pretty well.  Aside from working out more (which I kind of slacked off on at the end), it was really just eating better.  I watched what I ate some, but also we just started making more meals at home and making healthier things (read not 100% frozen food).  So that’s that.  After seeing Schafer at the wedding I’m sort of inspired to try to lose a little more!

Okay, check this out, here’s an honest to goodness serious science article about teleportation.  I mean, it really sounds like they’re actually making advances in that field!  It’s not a joke, check it out!  That just blew my mind, very strange.  Speaking of which, way to go America!  Sweeping the science Nobel prizes for the first time since 1983!

And finally, here‘s a nice time wasting game.  Basically, you are a stick-figure archer.  Click and shoot the bad guys.  Straight forward.  Just the way I like it.