Wow. I totally want to do this with sidewalk chalk.
MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.
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What’s Round On The Side and Mah in the Middle?
In Ohio, there was a song we sang in school that had the line “What’s round on the sides and high in the middle? O-HI-O!” In fact, that may be the whole song. Not sure. It’s all fuzzy.
But what’s not fuzzy is that by 8pm Nebraska time tonight, I will be in Omaha, NE, prepared to geek the hell out.
It’s only just dawning on me that I will be without a computer for more than 48 hours! Unless you count a Palm! Which I don’t! Because it doesn’t have internet access!1
I will have a trusty Moleskine Ruled Notebook and Mini G2 Gel Pen, which means that all the notes I take will be Hemmingway quality, except more gel’d.
I will be sure to give Warren and Charlie a big hug from all of you.
And pick their pocket while I’m at it.
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1 Yes, I’m spazzing out.
Foolin’ with the Fools
As an added bonus, I just got an email from one of the editors of the Motley Fool newsletters to let me know they’ll be holding a Fool event at the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting. How very, very cool1 will that be?
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1 Cool in the geekiest sense of the word, of course. I hope my shipment of monogrammed pocket protectors arrives in time.
And I thought Line Rider was cool.
If I owned it, I would no doubt lose 3 months of my life to this game.
A Long Way To Go For A Coffee Table
I have a plane ticket to (and from) Omaha, Nebraska.
I have a car reserved in Omaha, Nebraska.
I am anxiously awaiting a phone call from a nice lady who will book me a hotel room in Omaha, Nebraska.
I have a request for credentials about to go in the mail, which will get me into the Qwest Center in Omaha, Nebraska.
This trip is 8 years in the making. What will I be doing in Omaha, Nebraska?
I will be sitting in an auditorium with 27,000 people listening to a 77 year old man and an 84 year old man talk about life, investing and business.
I will be walking around, admiring the products of all the many, many businesses owned by the company that the 77 and 84 year old men run.
I may tour private luxury jets that I could spend thousands of dollars to buy a small percentage of.
I will be shopping for a coffee table in the largest single-building furniture store in the world.
I may watch a 2 time U.S. Chess champion play chess against 6 opponents simultaneously, blindfolded.
There will also be a magician.
Why am I doing this?
Because I am such a geek I even shun myself.
Also, so the Dragon*Con folks can have someone to roll their eyes at.
Oopie from the past
Remember that Oopie craze from the early 90’s? That wacky unbalanced inflated ball that took the country by storm, kind of like a modern hula hoop?
No?
Probably because it never happened. I can only blame myself. And stronglanguage. And a college friend of mine who went on to become a film editor in L.A. Led by that editor, we created and entered the video below in a contest sponsored by the company that made the Oopie (Nerf? Can’t remember) and won a projection TV for our dorm. Our video highlighting the mad, crazy fun that could be had with an Oopie did not, however, succeed in convincing anyone. Possibly because of the foreboding Frankensteinian message contained therein.
That editor posted the video on YouTube a while back, and I recently received the link. I am the one on the baseball mound, being much skinnier than I am now.
Revitalizing old, tired comics
It’s been shown that Garfield is funnier if we can’t hear what Garfield is thinking.
But via The Comics Curmudgeon, I have seen the way that Garfield can become the ultimate strip… by removing Garfield.
Fishing the Friends List
By some chance, does anyone out there know of a tax attorney, preferably in Atlanta but not necessarily?
Never hurts to ask, I say.
Libertarian Democrat… That’s About Right.
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An Open Letter To My Schematic Capture Software
Dear Mentor,
If you think petty error messages can dissuade me, no matter how obscure or how little information given, you are sorely mistaken.
I will connect the underlying schematic through this hierarchical block like an underlying schematic has never been connected through a heirarchical block before.
And your momma, too.
Regards,
ElectricRocket