Category: Miscellaneous
Life is not only work.
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Baby Lund
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MX Revolution USB mouse repair
Most people know me to be cheap. How cheap? Well, I somehow see the logic in buying a broken USB mouse on eBay in the hopes of fixing it, rather than paying full price for the mouse new. Don’t laugh just yet. I fixed it.
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Dead man walking!
“Arrrgh! I’ve got the bones of a dead man in me leg!” (to be said to future children with a pirate’s voice) So the fog of knee surgery #2 is wearing off and I’ve got the pictures to prove it. Fair warning, some are a bit gruesome. Arrgh.
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Knee, round 2
Just when I got back on my feet, they drag me back down. I’m going to get another surgery on my knee today. Should be better and stronger than ever. I’m like the $6M man. Only with cadaver bone implants instead of robotics. How cool is that?
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Lux Aeterna
Sarah and I just came back from our Maundy Thursday service. Our choir sang the Rutter Requiem. It was my first time and I’ll never forget it. Here is the final movement, Lux Aeterna. Here are the lyrics. The soprano soloist (sung by our associate pastor) part is in English, while the choir is in…
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“Credit Crisis” (the movie)
This is a great visual primer explaining what the heck is going on with the credit crisis:
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How Madoff did it? Cake futures.
So by now, everyone knows about Bernie Madoff, the most successful con man in history. His Ponzi scheme has left countless investors bankrupt as he stole about $65 billion dollars. Billion. So just how in the world Madoff made off with all your money? He’s a child and so are we. Here’s the perfect analogy.
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The pinnacle of achievment
Fact: I invented brakes. With my own two burly man-hands. I climbed Mount Everest barefoot to forge brake pads in the lava pools of the mountain’s inner molten core. I drank fire and breathed madness in the heart of the abyss’s blazing belly. And I made them for my woman. Translation: I replaced Sarah’s brake…
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What is manhood?
Julie posted a response to my review of Gran Torino and I began writing a response. But the comment became too big, so I turned it into a full post. Let the discussion begin!
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O great mystery
Last week our choir sang Morten Lauridsen’s composition of O Magnum Mysterium. To say it was moving puts it lightly. It was ethereal.