Happy New Year, er, whatever…

Posted by Thomas Fri, 31 Dec 2004 22:12:53 +0000

Since I made neither an obligatory Turkey Day post, nor an obligatory Christmas Day post, it would probably be more fitting that I not make this post, but alas, I suppose that I’ll just have to be inconsistent.

So, for what it’s worth… here it is.

Here’s to 2005 being better than 2004.

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Bax with Blankey 2 B/W

Posted by Thomas Fri, 31 Dec 2004 01:12:40 +0000

Bax with Blankey 2 B/W

On second thought, I think that I like this one better.

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Bax with Blankey

Posted by Thomas Thu, 30 Dec 2004 19:12:19 +0000

Bax with Blankey
Ok, well, I guess that I’m not going to figure out how to get this image’s text to wrap around it. Score one for CSS and score zero for Thomas. Anyway, this picture isn’t too bad, I guess, not horrible, but not great, either. Since I haven’t yet convinced myself to drop $1300 on a Canon Digital Rebel, I shot this using a Sony Digital8 camcorder, which doesn’t create the best snapshots in the world. In fact, the original picture came out so dark that it was unintelligible and required auto levels in photoshop. Yeah, yeah, I know, auto levels aren’t always the best, but I don’t think that it would turn out significantly better if I took the time to actually do it by hand.

I like the fact that it doesn’t look so much like Baxter is a dog, and more like a little kid sleeping with his blanket, mostly from the fact that normally he would sleep curled up or otherwise with his legs tucked in. As Baxter doesn’t consider himself to be a dog, and rather just another human in the family, this really does seem to capture his role in our family.

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Nerd Christmas

Posted by Thomas Wed, 29 Dec 2004 01:12:13 +0000

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Nerd Christmas

Nerd Christmas, originally uploaded by thomas536.

I figured that I should blog what all I got… It really was a Nerd Christmas. 4 power supplies, 1 UPS, the extended edition of the trilogy (LOTR), the silmarillion, and an albert einstein bookmark. I also got (not so nerdy…) some robogrips (the pair that I had disdapeared), a tool belt & speed square & paint (from a gift card from KB and Clay, thansk!) and an edison coin from the us mint. I also got some money, but technically some of it was a “gift card to best buy” (which is totally cool). I figure that it was a pretty good haul, if I say so myself. I’m surely pretty happy.

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Shopping

Posted by Thomas Tue, 28 Dec 2004 01:12:19 +0000

Yeah, so I had to pickup a gift for my sister today (Monday). We’re having Christmas on Tuesday, I think, because my bro-in-law had to work on Saturday. Or Friday, I guess, because that’s when we usually do Christmas. Anyway… I digress. So, I went to Best Buy and picked out what I was looking for like in 5 minutes. Then, for the rest of the night, my mother and sister (Laurie) went shopping. We hit Kirklands, Target, Ross, Bed Bath & Beyond, etc. I was in the car for most of it, but oh well. I remember hearing my sister say, “No, I don’t need anything.” Hey, wait, this trip was for me, but I bought like one thing (save the double sided tape at Office Max). I’m not upset or anything, I just have a short shopping span. Yeah for presents!

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Flickr

Posted by Thomas Sun, 26 Dec 2004 20:12:09 +0000

This is a test post from flickr, a fancy photo sharing thing.

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photo-5-1

Posted by Thomas Sun, 26 Dec 2004 20:12:07 +0000

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photo-5-1

photo-5-1, originally uploaded by thomas536.

Since Marc couldn’t seem to figure out how to post his pictures from flickr into his new WordPress blog, I figured that I might try and figure it out. Since he is currently on vacation in Jamaica, I figured that I would bend to the peer pressure (since apparently flickr is the biggest thing since sliced bread) and get an account, since their support for posting to blogs was apparently only accessible after login. Which, of course, required that I have a login.

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