I was thinking today that I’ve never actually had business cards before (never really needed them). But sometimes it might be handy to have them (I dunno… maybe you need something to write on real quick…)
So I decided if I’m going to get business cards, I’m going to make cool ones. But then […]

I went VIP style to the Buick Invitational golf tournament today (thanks to Bank of America). It was pretty fun to lounge on the 18th green/fairway with all the food/drinks you want.
I’m sure you must find that terribly exciting (whoever is reading this), eh?
Me and Tiger Woods are […]

Been seeing some interesting pictures floating around the last week or so where people take a picture of a real scene, but it’s done in a way so it looks like a very detailed model.
For example, check out the pictures on these sites:
http://www.metropolismag.com/cda/story.php?artid=1760>
http://blog.so-net.ne.jp/photolog/archive/c22183

Being a dork, I started digging into the “how-to” side of things […]

A group of 10 drunk friends went to In-And-Out Burger and demanded a cheeseburger with 100 patties. Aaauuuggghh…
http://whatupwilly.blogspot.com/2006/01/in-n-out-100×100.html
I need to stop right here. Please take a CAREFUL look the picture on the right. There is a common misperception that the 100×100 has a hundred buns. No, that’s not true. It’s one set of buns […]

I have no idea what it says, but it has lots of links to tools I’ve created, so you know it must be an excellent article (heh).
http://www.computerra.ru/focus/249041/
I bet that the next time I’m in Russia, people will be asking me for my autograph… or not. {shrug}

Last time I was deep sea fishing, I swear I caught one of these, but threw it back because it seemed a little small. God dammit… if only I knew it was fully grown!
The tiny, see-through Paedocypris fish have the appearance of larvae and have a reduced head skeleton, which leaves the brain unprotected […]

Why in the hell would anyone buy this? Actually, a better question would be why in the hell would anyone MAKE this???
http://www.etsy.com/view_item_sold_anon.php?listing_id=69369&transaction_id=16776

I just found out today that the house I’m building is going to have fiber to the door from the phone company (SBC/AT&T), so there will be no old school twisted pair copper wires coming into my home.
The downside to this is the temporary construction trailer is going to need special equipment […]

An interesting read… all things considered.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060124-6036.html
If that digital version turns out to be a DVD, the MPAA could also find itself in hot water for violating the DMCA. Oh, the irony! Either way, the MPAA can’t be happy about being put into a position where they are forced to justify the same actions they decry […]

If you ever need to figure out what is eating bandwidth on a server, tcpdump comes in handy…
tcpdump -n -i any
That will spew out everything, so you might be able to find anything that looks suspicious in there. Say you find the IP address of 1.2.3.4 doing something suspicious, you can zero in […]

Time to invest in the stock market!
http://money.cnn.com/2006/01/23/news/funny/super_bowl_indicator/
The National Football League playoffs produced a Super Bowl matchup that suggests a winning year for stocks is now a lock.
When the Pittsburgh Steelers upset the Denver Broncos Sunday, it meant that neither team in the Feb. 5 game will have American Football League roots. The […]

I get very few phone calls on my cell phone… maybe 3 calls per week or so. Anyway… sitting in the car with my roommate, I started singing my ringtone (which I don’t do normally). And 10 seconds later my cell phone started ringing. My roommate had a pretty weird look on […]

Teach ‘em young! At this rate smokers might die of lung cancer before they are legally allowed to buy cigarettes.
Maybe Gerber should just make tobacco flavored baby food.
I can just see this kid on Santa’s lap… “I’ve been a good boy, I would like a carton of Marlboro […]

Looks like Adam Sandberg did a followup to the widely popular “The Chronic - what? - cles of Narnia” Saturday Night Live skit. Not quite as funny, but still funny. Especially with all the Chuck Norris hoopla going on lately.

Someone pointed out to me that the day after my NY Times article came out, someone went and registered shawnhogan.com.
Now *that’s* pretty funny if you ask me.
I hope they put it to good use and start the official fan club. hahahaha

Be sure to strap in your dog when doing parabolic maneuvers in a plane for weightlessness.

You know a site has gotten pretty popular when you happen to find your mom on it (in addition to the millions of other people)… hehe
http://www.myspace.com/robinq

Was at Mammoth mountain the last few days and the day we left (this morning) it was snowing pretty good. Got a half day in before driving home. The mountain got about a foot of powder overnight and was snowing hard enough all morning that when you went back up the lift, your […]

Not to be outdone by his brother Wiggly, Yashi decided he wanted International fame… Today Yashi is in the New York Times business section (online and print edition).
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/01/17/business/ecom18.php
I look kind of funny, but it’s because I was trying to keep from laughing while I’m pretending to actually do something on the […]

Wait, what? I don’t even know what to say about this one, but Jonathon “The Impaler” Sharkey is running for Governor of Minnesota in 2006.
The picture I have was taken from his campaign website. hahaha…
http://www.jonathonforgovernor.us/Home_page.html
Honesty is very seldom heard nowadays, especially from a politician. So, I am going to break from political tradition. […]

I got a new snowboard (and some other stuff to do with it today)… I ended up getting a Burton Custom 154, Flow bindings some new boots and some *really* nice gloves (having cold or wet hands SUCKS!).
Anyway, just in case whoever stole my previous gear out of the back of my truck is reading […]

The 2nd (of 3) design reviews by the design board (for the HOA) where my house is going to be built is done. It was approved on the first try submittal (yay!).
I think the final submittal is basically just the working drawings (same thing you submit to the county to get permits). If […]

What’s the deal with Chuck Norris lately? I seem to run across his name everywhere these days…
From http://www.chucknorrisfacts.com/

Crop circles are Chuck Norris’ way of telling the world that sometimes corn needs to lie the fuck down.
The Great Wall of China was originally created to keep Chuck Norris out. It failed misserably.
There is no […]

Okay… well *I’m* not big… but my forum is. In the first 21 months of it being around, its received over a half million posts. 500,000 posts puts you into the “big-boards.com” listing of big forums.
http://www.big-boards.com/board/1676/
Should probably break 1,000,000 posts by June.

I was in Mexico on Saturday helping give out gifts and feed kids (I never want to see another hot dog or piece of carne asada in my life), and we took a break to play a little street football.
I never realized how awesome I am at football… I caught the only touchdown for our […]

Wow… I was starting to think that no car stereo company would “get it right” and give me exactly what I wanted. Not only did they get it right, but it’s better than I wanted (detachable GPS for example)…
I wanted a double-din deck with a touch screen (I even tossed around the idea of […]

Okay, I finally sat down tonight and figured out what I *think* I need (at least it’s a start so the experts have something to start with) to do centrally distributed audio/video for the house.
Audio
So I’m thinking every room (minus bathrooms, except for master) should be an audio “zone” as well as the pool house […]

If you have been living in a hole the last couple years and you have never heard of Dane Cook (comedian), you need to go check him out. Funny.

Check out his site over here.

eMagin is making a wearable iPod video screen. Apparently they didn’t realize iPods are more about their “cool factor” than anything else… But for those that want to walk around town looking like the borg, now you can!
“Suddenly you’ve got this big-screen, movie-screen, home-theater experience, wherever you are,” said Gary Jones, […]

Last night when I was at Shawn and Allison’s apartment for New Years Eve, somehow we ran across something that I never knew existed… Amputee porn.
I don’t remember how we ended up finding it, but uhm… wait… amputee porn? People pay a membership fee to look at naked chicks with no legs/arms?
After that, no […]