Skylark Widget!!

I loaded Leopard on to the old G5 last night and have been having some fun. I backed up my Tiger system but everything seems to be running smoothly. We have it running on an Intel-based iMac at work. Having it at home makes me more appreciative of some of the new features in Mail and iCal. I don't really use those apps on the iMac.

I also built myself a little widget that loads pics of the Skylark from my Flickr RSS feed. Not perfect yet, but not too shabby for about an hour of work in Dashcode. Check it out:

Download the widget here

Skylark Update

Kelsey and I went down to the body shop and visited Betty Buick. She is doing fine. Making friends and looking better everyday. The pictures here don't tell the whole story. If you look closely you can see a lot of improvements. She didn't have any really HUGE dents. The small dents she had are getting smoothed out.




You can see one of the major dents here has been totally smoothed out. The last set of pics showed the same area with fiber glass. The fiber glass has been smoothed out and sculpted now:

Revised Charlotte

Flash really butchered the illustration I did for the "Charlotte Hearts Bacon" tee I did for Threadless so I revised it. Hopefully that will change anyone's mind if they were rating low because of quality.

Threadless Design

One of my designs made it in to voting on Threadless! Check it out and vote for it!

Painting the Skylark

The Skizzer is finally getting painted. It has been down at Superior Performance for about 2 weeks and they've made some progress. I went down today and picked up my wheels (I'm restoring them while the car is in the body shop). I also snapped some pics while I chatted with Rene, the body guy working on my car.

Here are a few:

The green moss looking stuff is fiber-glass. They are using it to fill in a bit of body damage:



Some sanding. Rene says the car is an extremely straight car. Well worth the investment.


Rear shot. You can see they have removed the bumpers and all the glass:


Front shot. You can see I've put the original steel wheels while I restore the rallyes:



Rear. I kind of like her with all the stuff off. She looks tuff:

HD-DVD vs. Blue Ray vs. HD-ADD

HD-DVD will lose. It will lose for the simple fact that it is easier to say Blue Ray. Who the heck thought up HD-DVD. I mean, come on! What is wrong with DVD-HD?? It at least rolls off the tongue.

I think I have HD-ADHD or HD-ADD. My learning disorder is in HIGH-DEF!!

Anywhoo, I'm putting all my money on Sony and Blue Ray. That is, if I had any money. Speaking of spending money, I am painting the Skylark. I am going to try and blog the experience. I am very excited. It has been a dream for so long.

David

Pigs = Bacon

I don't hate pigs.
I just love bacon.

BK Stacker!!

Dude!! King Stacker!! 4 beef patties, 4 cheese slices, 2 slices of bacon all between to sesame seed buns! Yeah!!

The design team at McAfee was poking around on the Burger King site, checkin out the flizzash, and came accross this 1000 calorie, 68g of fat (30 of which are saturated) beastie. We were so amazed/disgusted/etc that we had to see it for ourselves. So we got in Ryan's A4 and sport-shifted it down to the local BK. We had some lunch (whoppers carried the day I recall) and got a Quad Stacker to go.

We brought it back to the office and sent out an all-call challenge. Whoever ate the Quad Stacker got to be the Burger King for the day! With a crown too. A foam-core septer was suggested but in the end we decided it was too ambitious. Here is how it went down:

The King Stacker:

Bring it King Stacker!


AAHHH!!! Too much meat!! I hope I didn't anger King Stacker with my posturing!


WTF?

What? Yeah, I do look pretty hot in this crown!


If you want a King Stacker eaten, sometimes you gotta do it yourself:


Holy! When you zoom in close enough, you can see satan.

Flew to the Beach with Joe

Flew with Amy's Uncle Joe to the Air Museum in Tillamook. Flew in a Cesna from Salem and landed at the museum. Lots of fun! Here are some of the many pics I took:

The Plane:
The Pilot:
The Destination:

One of the many planes I saw:

Top Gun Quote Generating Plane:


A plane tyring to eat Joe (he escaped, dodged to the right at the last moment):

Cougar!!:


Naked women on side of plane that is offensive to my daughter:

Sweet:

Holy Crap on Your Mom's Shoes!

Wow. I jhust spent the last hour listening to the non-stop knowledge pouring out of Ze Frank's mouth (which happens to be connected to his ass). Wow.

I've been following along with the whole Amanda Congdon vs. Rocketboom saga. It's actually been kind of boring and immature. The good thing is Amanda's blog, Amanda Unboomed. That's where I saw the link to the Ze Frank show.

Cool.