Oktoberfest was great!
How to make an Oktoberfest at Mt Angel, Oregon.
First, a dash of evening prayer with the monks:
Then a deep-fried twinkee:
Then some chicken dancing:
Mix with meeting up with many old friends and a great time was had by all.
Wanna visit the Titanic?
You can take a submersible with these guys and visit the bow, grand ballroom, and other sites at the wreckage. Cost: $40,000 USD for about 5 days of activities and one submersible visit to the Titanic wreckage.
http://www.deepoceanexpeditions.com/titanic.html
With this company you can also visit: the Bismark, undersea volcanoes in the Azores, or other under-sea adventures.
Update 2024: Wow – did this all end really, really tragically. Link to Internet Wayback of original site.
Lightpainting with an iPad
Simple technique, interesting result:
Making Future Magic: iPad light painting from Dentsu London on Vimeo.
Tower climber
When I was a kid out in rural Indiana, we didn’t have cable. We also didn’t do the satellite thing – so we only had over-the-air TV. Well, you also need a pretty good sized, and tall, antenna to get a decent set of stations. I still remember putting up our antenna tower. It was probably about 50-75ft tall and assembled in 3 sections bolted together.
I remember my brothers and I taking climbing excursions up the tower, to test your bravery and see how high you’d get. Back in the day, I actually wrote up the idea for a game called ‘Tower Climber’ based on this. Back in real life, I was small as a kid and could climb inside the tower until the 3rd and final section. But once you got to that third section, you had to go outside the box and climb outside. The tower would also start jiggling more and since the sections tapered inward, your hand-holds also got narrower. I never made it all the way to the top but got within 2-3 feet at my best – though 2 of my brothers did (though at least one *smartly* used a climbing rope around the tower).
Anyway, when I saw this, it brought it all came back…
Unbelievable opportunities – for this weekend Sept 18th+19th
Just when you thought summer was over! No excuses about not having something to do this weekend…
Mt. Angel Oktoberfest – Sept 16th-19th
Portland Pirate Festival
Talk like a Pirate Day is Sunday, along with the annual Portland Pirate Festival where they will seek to get the world record again for most pirates in one place:
http://www.portlandpiratefestival.com/
Pendleton Round-up!
Willie Nelson
Saturday at the Edgefield
AND
The Portland Retro Gaming Expo
Wanna climb Everest
Current rates for the 2010 Season are: $65,000 USD
Samuel Cockeday
Samuel Cockedey’s photography floors me. Inspires me to get out and do more shooting of this great outdoors here in Oregon more…
Here’s a time-lapse collection of Tokyo – beautifully done.
remanence : variance from Samuel Cockedey on Vimeo.
OMG – Nostalgia time
Green Jellö, or previously, (Green Jellÿ) who had a lead singer and drummer who later joined Tool. I remember playing this album continuously as a kid and loving it. Read more about the band on their wikipedia article.
Little pig, little pig let me in!
Not by the hair of my chiny-chin-chin!
Seriously…what?
Rant mode on:
Microsoft, we’ve been friends. Good friends in fact – for many years. And that one time we got drunk at the bar and … well. But you’re doing me wrong. Not just wrong, your KILLING ME. WHAT THE F* IS WRONG WITH YOUR SEARCH IN WIN7 (and to lesser degree Vista)???
Why is it if I want to find a real, honest file, I need to open a command prompt and type: ‘dir fileIwanttofind.dae /s’ to actually find the thing? Why is it if I type the filename in the ‘search’ box of my file explorer YOU NEVER SEEM TO FIND IT. EVEN IF I POINT YOU TO THE RIGHT DIRECTORY. EVEN IF I GO TO ADVANCED AND SELECT ALL THE CRYPTIC OPTIONS. What. The. Hell. You can’t even find a file anymore.
I was trying to walk a friend through a virus attack the other day (which turned out just to be a HORRIBLY written app), and needed to delete an auto-starting program called foo.exe. I had her type it into the search dialog. No luck. I had her open the advanced options and select system+hidden files – no luck. We tried wildcards like foo.* and so forth – no luck. I had her open the dos prompt and type the search in – bam – answer in 2 seconds.
You have this crazy service running constantly scanning and indexing my drives, you have search helper services running all the time and chewing up resources – but you can’t find a single file when I look for it. I ALWAYS end up resorting to a seperate tool or command prompt.
How did you get so messed up? Are you drunk? What’s wrong with you?
