brian boyer

today is the first day of my three week west coast tour! i slept almost the whole way to pdx, but woke up in time to take a snap of mt rainier hood! i’ll be posting more pics as i take ‘em.

finally got around to posting my other nola pics.

so… chris turned a gorgeous, 205lb, berkshire piggy into pork chops, and i got to watch. not for the faint of heart, but deliciously educational.

i didn’t save my recipts!!

sending a republican delegation to iraq, in total secrecy, wearing bulletproof vests, accompanied by 100 troops, three blackhawks, two apache gunships, and god knows what else, to tell us all how safe it is!?! in iraq!??!! on APRIL FOOL’S DAY!!?!?!?!?!?!?!!!!!!

am i the only one who feels like i’m being made fun of?

and my (yet unpaid, yeah yeah…) tax dollars covered the tab. i suppose i shouldn’t be surprised anymore that it’s the republicans that make that itsy bitsy little bit of libertarian left in me scream… gunships. awesome.

in other news, mccain’s website is looking pretty evil (we like evil) in black, plus a bitchin star icon. totally not valid xhtml, tho. when will they learn that voters love web standards?

in other other news, the new york times link generator is badass.

google calendar quick add rocks my world. it’s how software is supposed to work.

i type in “Lily Allen at The Vic 5/31″, it adds an appointment, at the correct location and date. i type in “Lily Allen tix on sale, 10am Friday”, it still does it correctly.

add voice, fuck that, thought recognition, and we’re on our way to the future.

all software should work this well. all software should not feel like software. it should feel like your little electronic buddy who knows what you mean when you say something.

bad fucking ass.

took some pics on the city of new orleans today - left the windy city last night and arrived in the crescent city this morning. forgot the good camera at dinner, doh, but i got a phonecam pic of my excellent mother’s po’ boy. mmmmmm tasty!

for train pics - i highly recommend using the machine gun setting on the cam - with a huge memory card - i took 160 photos today, most were duds, but i got a few winners.

rocky’s boots was a badass apple ii game that i remember playing in the computer lab in grade school.  you connected logic gates to create a specified output.  it’s basically what i had to do the first couple of weeks of my first computer engineering class.  it’s probably been 20 years since i last thougth about it….  then a little while ago, i stumbled across a vague memory that i had to research, and found it!  neat!!

was this blog dead that long ago that i never posted my mac pics?? ugh. i suppose so.

if you hadn’t heard (and if you’re reading this, you’re probably a friend, and therefore probably had…) i started sailing again this past summer.

it was a fantastic experience, culminating with running the chicago-mackinac race! that’s three-plus days on a boat, racing non-stop. totally badass. i’m gonna do this the rest of my life.

the firefly is a replacement lid for your nalgene (or other standard 63mm lidded vessel) that turns your beverage into a reading lamp!