Joe Muggs

Joe Muggs in Books-a-Million, which is owned by Borders, which serves
Seattle's Best, which is owned by Starbucks.

From the Blue Ridge Parkway

Why do they call this place "The Vistas"?

Face of a tree

Oktoberfest 2009

Three pretzels

Happy Oktoberfest!

What lies beyond the fog

Actually, it should be called a cloud, not fog, and beyond it is a
golf course.

"Roughing" it

Beware of Youth in Asia

The perfect mix of xenophobia, fear of a black president, and plain old ignorance.

Wacom needs a PR dept

How can a major modern company release a product and not tell anyone?

Kanye Disrespects Scribbles!

Kanye West jumped up on my stage!

Snake with a foot

I am sick of these monkeyfightin' snakes with their monkeyfightin' feet!
http://io9.com/5359538/evolutionary-throwback-snake-with-foot-discovered

Got an award at work

No, it's not in the box.

Cabin John Regional Park

Alexandria arts festival

Giant metal mantis

...with boobs, taking a dump.

What about the R.O.U.S.'s?

Rodents of unusual size? I don’t believe they exist.

Seeing double

The flaw with disemvoweling

Why disemvoweling isn’t a bulletproof means of forum moderation: As cake may dice Ike, I am the roof cooker.

It never fails

I'm on front desk duty at work about two hours a month yet invariably in those two hours, I receive a call that only I can answer, which would be so much easier to do from my own desk. Meanwhile, I get maybe five such calls total during the other 138 hours.

Mushroom family

BuzzBoost Broken

Feedburner's BuzzBoost, what I use to add feeds to the sidebar on Scribbles, is not working correctly. Switching to headlines only until it's fixed.

My daily temptation

Torn between giving this away and keeping it to protect me against a
drink with HFCS.

Orange door

Lunch stop 3: Harry Teets

Lunch stop 2: Petsmart

Lunch stop 1: Robeks

Painted

Today's lunch spot

Primed

Must be nap time

Need to shop for that media PC

Watching video and running backups ate up my PC time tonight (along with watching Burn Notice). Time to start expanding my setup.

Taking it outside

Jeremy Toeman intends to escalate our conflict. I’m actually quite surprised given his humorous approach in his tablet rant, but he wants to take it personally and make it serious. Go figure. However, that puts it outside what I do on GBM, so I’m moving my end over to Scribbles. I’ll hide behind my keyboard there. XD

Not just me: Gawker Media down

Noticed my Lifehacker and Gizmodo feeds haven’t updated in a while. Sites wouldn’t pull up. Turns out the sites are down so it’s not just me.

Patty sitting at (not on) the table

Crayon blogging

Thunderbird Cafe

Southwest-Southern fusion cuisine

McCrappe

Pizza the Hutt

Homer over my shoulder

Homer in a tree

Out front with the cats

Benchwarmers

"Working" from home

Inking All Day!

The Strathmore Music Center

Charging up for a late night

More on Lifestreaming

Must remember to get to take a look at these after tonight’s outing. Lifestream Blog, which is all about lifestreaming, and Kevin Kelly’s Lifestream, which actually aggregates separate blogs into one stream.

You call that a "lifestream"?

Warner at GBM pointed me to Steve Rubel’s so-called lifestream. Steve, per the definition you pointed to, it’s not a lifestream; it’s a blog. You want a real stream, check out my main blog.

At Robeks (again)

All tuckered out

Outside eating watermelon

Games Workshop @ Fair Oaks

Interesting. Games Workshop has their own store.

Damn, that cat can climb!

Best shot I could get of Homer racing up a tree. He's so fast!

Voice memo test FAIL

Neither Blogger nor Evernote posted the voice memo emailed from my iPhone. It seems I must stick with the Evernote app itself to post voice notes.

Voice memo test

What we ate at Lotus Vegetarian

Should have posted this yesterday, but I was too full to think
straight. Also gives me an excuse to test sending multiple photos.

@ The Sterling Farmers Market

I love LZW

If you ever have to work with TIF files, I suggest acquainting yourself with LZW lossless compression. I work with TIFs everyday and regularly see big b/w files reduced down to less than 1% of the uncompressed file size and color files to less than half thanks to LZW. Makes them so much more manageable and with no data loss.

 

Setting up a netbook

So tiny. Makes my external CD drive look huge.

"This IS my comfortable look..."