Owen and I had a great weekend. His class is learning about rockets, and for his show and tell we had to make one. So we spent the weekend building this replica Saturn rocket (the one used in the Apollo missions) out of paper maché.
When we were done, we celebrated by watching Apollo 13!
My pal Steven Baker just filed this bug with the Rails team - #10919 (incorrect pluralization). Pretty funny stuff - check it out!
This morning while at my favorite coffee house, the cute young barista walks over to my table and says “I really like your sweater”. At this point I’m thinking cool! Then she follows up her compliment by asking me where I bought it because she wants to get one just like it for her dad!
Holy smokes - when did I get so old!
Looking for a cool and unique Christmas give that will have everyone talking about? FlipClips is a cool online service that creates Flip Books from your digital video clips! A 75 page Flip Book costs $8.99 and a 150 page Flip Book will run you about $18.99.
Googler and author Dustin Diaz will be presenting at the Better Web Posse tomorrow night, Tuesday October 30th in Victoria, B.C. The event will be held at the Sticky Wicket at 7:00pm (map). If you live on Vancouver Island, this will be a great opportunity to learn some markup, JavaScript and maybe even get the scoop on working at Google.
While this blog has been somewhat inactive, I thought I’d share some sites that I’ve been enjoying.
Flex Examples is a nice blog that posts daily (and sometimes multi-daily) Flex tips and examples. What I really like about this site, is that each post concisely solves a problem using Flex. Check out the archives, there is lots of really good info to be found.
Atomeo is the blog of one of my co-workers, Ron Schouten. Ron really likes Ubuntu and other open source projects, so you can expect to find some good coverage on working with Ubuntu. His latest post shows you how to use Gimp to make your photographs look like pictures of miniature models.
NullCreations is the blog of a former co-worker, Jerrett Taylor. One of his passions is Ruby (and Rails) and you’ll find some great post on Ruby, Rails, NetBeans. His other passion (I’m sure he has others too) is photography so be sure to check out his photo section.
TreeHugger - who isn’t interested/concerned about our environment? Treehugger has tonnes of daily posts that show you what other people are doing to help the state of our planet. From suggestions to tips to product reviews, this is a good start to living an eco-friendly existence.
Factory City is Chris Messina’s blog that has good coverage on a wide variety of Web 2.0ish topics. Be sure to subscribe to his feed as you’ll also get his awesome links and screen captures (I think Chris calls it a lifestream).
LifeHacker’s Mac OSX feed is also interesting to follow - lots of links to tips, tricks and software that will make your Apple experience rock!
Lego Millenium Falcon Stop Motion - people who put this much work into something deserve to have it viewed. Watch it - link to it!
The Official Parallels Virtualization Blog has produced a number of excellent “I’m a Mac, I’m a PC” spoof ads. Titled Coexist with Parallels, the four ads show what good things can happen when Mac’s and PC’s live together - on a Mac of course!
Totally off topic, but I feel compelled to share this story…
While I was waiting in the doctor’s office today, an elderly lady walks in and sits a couple of seats away from me. A minute later, her husband hobbles in and sits right across from her. She says “Why don’t you come sit next to me?” to which he replies with a large grin “This way I can look at you!”
The fine people at TechTV and the Lab with Leo have uploaded my segment to Google Video. You can watch it right here…
