I attended Comic-Con International in San Diego last weekend and boy was it crowded. Rumors were circulating that it will be moved to Los Angeles or Las Vegas in the future and that may not be a bad plan. Even with all the masses of people, it was still pretty enjoyable. My favorite thing about the show was seeing all the clever costumes folks were wearing. In the photo, Jenn the Sim is about to get shanked by the Team Fortress 2 Spy. How tragic!

After watching Robert Llewellyn’s “Making Do” videos about his year-long boycott against consumerism, I thought it would be “fun” to try it myself for a month. Well, folks, here’s the first casualty: broken sunglasses. These $19 sunglasses from REI have lasted me about two years and the screws have been coming loose off and on. Today I totally lost the screw, so I could find a matching screw… but I was quite tempted to just buy another pair. I was reminded by Jenn that I shouldn’t be so consumerific, so I just popped a paper-clip into into the screw slot for the drive home.

File this under “First-world problems.”

BREAKING: Matt has kindly volunteered to fix my sunglasses. Woot.

I snapped this photo of the Ubuntu Hair Studio from a San Diego, CA deals and coupons magazine. Odd. It appears Mark Shuttleworth is expanding the original Ubuntu Linux brand name to the beauty industry. Actually, this makes perfect sense. Although geeks tend to thrive in dark environments, constantly clenching their computers, they need to be treated like queens every once in a while too.

Huge coffee cups are wonderfully versatile. I like to put soup, rice, water, juice, and soda into mine. I use it for nearly any humanly edible or potable item… except coffee. It also provides a low intensity workout for us skinny-armed office-workers.

At lunch today, when I lifted the sleeve of my shirt to scratch my upper arm, Jennifer remarked at how white the clothed portions of my arms were. That quickly resulted in me and Matt comparing our Programmer’s Tans with the requisite manly scowl.

Flight of the Conchords - truly the best thing that has come out of New Zealand since, well, Lord of the Rings. Ashley, a fellow New Zealander has posted up a moving rendition of “I’m not crying” from ep 1, season 1. Take a peek

I made a road trip up to Monterey to visit Annie about two or three weeks ago. Now I’m writing a post about it >_>
Better late than never, eh eh?

Pictures are worth a thousand or so words, so I’ll let them do the talking.

I’ve finally uploaded the photos from the Laguna Campgrounds, Cleveland National Forest trip. Also, while we’re on the topic, I’ve decided to plunk down the 25 dollars a year and go Pro with Flickr.

Click here to see the camping photos.

There you have it. You’ve watched it. You can’t unwatch it.

Oh, and if you fancy that music in the background, take a gander at the full song on good ol’ YouTube. I’m Not Crying by Flight of the Conchords

On the surface, it’s an idea I can get behind - dynamic wallpaper that is pulled automatically from everyone’s favorite photo site, Flickr. Upon further examination, I found the description rather off-putting. This guy used “sexy” four times in that tiny block of text describe software. Someone, get this man a Roget’s!… or some female companionship.