brewing blog on the way

I'm starting a blog about home brewing soon. Stay tuned.

Feeling a bit proud

Last night I spent a manly hour drinking beer, listening to rock music, and sewing. That's right, sewing. A couple of months ago I returned home to realize that my jeans felt a bit draftier than before. Upon further inspection I noticed they had a 6" rip from the waist and down the right rear pocket. While classy, this is not the fashion statement I wanted to start. For the past two months these jeans (only a couple of weeks old at the time) have been draped across my office chair begging for attention which they finally received last night.

Now, you must keep in mind that I haven't stitched anything since, well, ever. Both my mother and my sister are excellent with needles of all sorts, but my throbbing thumb and index finger from countless stabbings tell me I am not.

The first several minutes proved to be quite unproductive, but after some practice (and more beer) I started to get the hang of it. I'm not sure what sort of stitch I used (wikipedia's articles on the matter don't show pictures, so it was difficult to identify), but it seemed to do the job well. Observe!

Tagged by my family

Both my sister and cousin tagged me for this weird task:

1. Find the nearest book


2. Name the book & the author


3. Turn to page 123


4. Go to the fifth full sentence on the page. Copy out the next three sentences and post to your blog


5. Tag three more folks

Don't think of me as a nerd, but...

Book: Python in a nutshell: a desktop quick reference by Alex Martelli.

The sentences: "However, removing circular dependencies is almost always easier than ensuring bomb-proof ordering while keeping such circular dependencies. sys.modules Entries The build-in __import__ finds an entry that is already in the sys.modules, it will try to use that value, whatever type of object it may be. The import and from statements rely on the __import__ function, so therefore they too can end up using objects that are not modules."

I tag Nick!, Jacob and Heather.

Bob Loblaw law blog

Since returning to Blacksburg from Boston, I realize that I have nothing to talk about... so I have decided to completely change the way I think about blogging. Most people I know have a purpose for creating a web log or journal. I, however, do not. Nothing about my daily life is interesting or meaningful. As a result, this blog will change. It will no longer have any content of relevance or value (which isn't a big step up from before). I therefore leave you with a conversation I had with a friend of mine had online the other day. It's cheap and provides mild thrills.

monkey1: are you coming in for that jesus' birthday thing ?
canadahauntsme: yeah. it's a surprise party, right? moses is going to jump out of a cake
canadahauntsme: the thing is, i just don't know what to get the son of God. he just doesn't need anything
monkey1: its hard to buy for sombody who created everything.
canadahauntsme: exactly
monkey1: its like hmmm god, can you mayby NOT create something today so i can get you a present.
canadahauntsme: but then, like, how can you get it? cuz if he didn't create it you sure as hell aren't going to find it anywhere
canadahauntsme: and even if you did, all the stores would be out of them
canadahauntsme: you'd go to wal-mart and ask the clerk "do you have a frazmajam?" and they'd be like "dude, we sold out of those a week ago," and then you just end up buying jesus a snow globe or something...
monkey1: well maybe he can create a machine that will create one thing that he never created and then you can give it to him
canadahauntsme: hmm... I think you're on to something

Projector for the wvu louisville game

Best weekend of the year

This is a bit depressing, but I just had one of the best weekends in, well, months. Want to know what I did?

Nothing.

I turned off my phone, stopped checking email, and didn't go anywhere. I stayed at home, rented movies, ate frozen pizza and Halloween cookies, slept way to much, and enjoyed every single minute of it.

Bit o' luck

This weekend was really crumby and today started out no different; I overslept and wound up snapping at some of my co-workers (or at least being disagreeable).

To make things worse, I got home at 5pm only to realize that my car wasn't in the driveway! *GASP* I instantly remembered that I had driven it to school to move some computer hardware. *SIGH* Then I remembered that I don't have a weekday parking pass! *GASP* Then I remembered that it's Columbus Day. *SIGH* This all happened within the course of several seconds, mind you.

When I returned to school a few minutes ago I found my car ticket-free and looking oh so snappy. I guess even bad days can turn out ok in the end sometimes.