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Now with FREE TV GOODNESS!

just added the Hulu widget to the sidebar (under my zunecard)... this is still in beta for me but go ahead and check it out... you can watch a ton of shows like family guy and the simpsons all for free right here...

all you're going to need is the latest flash player. a browser with a powerful javascript engine (re:Chrome) won't hurt either... just click on the thumbnail and watch (mouse-over to get a description of the clip)! you can also sort the content or search for your favorite show.

check it out and let me know what you think...

~m

Maybe I Need To Do This

i just re-read my last real post. man i wish i was that guy again. so truly content and happy with how things were. i wish, for just one minute, i could be him again, live his life.

such a fragile illusion isn't, life?

~m

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all kinds of bad

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31 and Android

so... 31... who'd a thunk? 

it seems to me that if one could plot out the the perceived magnitude of getting older,  versus ones actual chronological age, i believe one would come up with something kinda sorta resembling that of a sine graph... with all the peaks corresponding to "milestone years". it is this arbitrary set(usually something like:  16, 18, 21, 30, 40, though yours certainly will vary...) that then determines the amount of  excitement/joy/stress/anxiety one experiences as it relates to ones own birthday (or that of a loved one). thus defined, this birthday was to me... well... meh. 

i already know that i am getting old. i already know that i will never again experience the wonder that is the blissful ignorance of youth. i already know that i am jaded.  

this being said, if i were to take a couple of steps back and look at the past 31 years in the perspective it deserved (hopefully, under the influence of some really good single malt...), i am definitely humbled by the view. all in all, i have a pretty freaking sweet life. so i am not gonna complain....

also (file under: A for Awesome), B got me the T Mobile G1 for my birthday... and all i can say is dude. "this shiot be bangin"... or some other urban colloquialism for absolutely, and incomprehensibly awesome. infact, if the ethereal properties of awesome could be shaped, formed, molded even, into a mobile communications device, it would be the G1. being the tech junkie that i so unapologetically am, it is a cruel, painful and on-going joke that i am always behind the curve for the latest and greatest cool new toys. well not this time baby! i got my sweaty brown hands on one of the coolest gadgets this side of CES!

now you can, i'm sure look up the spects and various reviews for this puppy all by your lonesome, but i gotta say, the responsiveness of the touchscreen, the vastness and variety of the app store combined with the speed, stability and intuitiveness of the Android OS really make this the smartphone on the market. oh, and lets not forget the sheer gravity which is google... man i love this phone!

 out for now...

Obama '08

Here is the victory speech for those who missed it:

Dinosaurs

this is awesome:

"I need to know if she really thinks dinosaurs were here 4000 years ago. I want to know that, I really do, because she is going to have the nuclear codes" 

Hilarious, but painfully true.

~m

Chrome pt.2

there are some definate hits here ... so far i am loving it.... but there is at least one area that isn't doing it for me: bookmarks.... 

here's how i see it, Chrome lets you import all your settings and practicall everyting else from IE or Firefox right on install.... but for the life of me i can't seem to figure out how to import a folder of links (say from another computers' Favorites' folder)

this is of course only my preliminary thoughts. let me play with it for a few more days and i'll report again.

Chrome

everyone needs to, at the very least, check out google's latest offering: Chrome. i just installed it and have been playing with it for a about an hour.... i post my thoughts tonight.

This Is How I Roll

test for yourself by clicking on my stats:


here is my summary page, click to see full size...

In The Meantime

check out this video by the band needtobreathe. not only is it a really cool song, the video kicks ass too...

~m

Updates

"i am going to make an effort to post here regularly" this phrase is often uttered on this blog... but as you may (but probably not because i never update this damn thing...) have noticed.... i have not been keeping my word. for this i apologise.

but give me one more shot... you know i am good for it right?

~m

First post this year...

sorry for the long absence... lots has been going on... will try to post soon...

~m

Fatherhood

well i have been looking after William full time now for about 3 weeks ... so far things are going great... he is a ball of fun and just a pleasure to be around... that is not to say that there are times that i get frustrated and stressed... but the great stuff out weighs the tiring stuff infinitely...

he/ we are starting to settle in to our own little routine and getting more into the groove of it.

that's about all for now...

here he is just being himself...

Back to the Blog

wow

it has been a while since i have posted here...i actually need to post about not knowing how to get started.

some really great stuff though. our son was born on the 26th of september and he is doing great. there were some issues after we got back from the hospital but all's good now... i am going to upload some pictures to flickr and then i post them here.

out for now

~m

Omnia mutantur nos et mutamur in illis

this past week Bridget and i celebrated our 2nd anniversary as a married couple. it was very nice, in that we had a great time at dinner whilst reminiscing and marveling at how our lives have progressed since we started dating almost 8 years ago. i love her. truly.

it is strange, in retrospect i should have done so many things different... so many tangents where i should have stayed on the straight and narrow...

i don’t know, they say that hindsight is 20/20 or maybe my saying this is a defense mechanism to help me accept ‘my reality’ or maybe it is true, i don’t know nor do i care really, but I can’t help feeling that any one of those, supposed missteps, being redone, would inexorably alter where i have ended up... and i just can’t bear to think that i might be somewhere other than here.... i’ve got it pretty sweet here... wonderful, loving wife, a child on the way, pretty great family and friends, etc, etc, ad infinitum.

now i’m really not trying to get all Robert Frost or anything really, conversely i guess i’m just marveling at how times have changed and how i too, have changed accordingly. and relishing every minute of it, every pungent, sweaty, teary eyed, blood caked moment of it. and it in light of my impending fatherhood, hard as i try, i can’t seem to find any reason now too.

how ‘bout you?

~m

Erie Man discovers how to 'burn' Saltwater!!!

i had read this article this morning but this video that engadget put up is really exciting:

could this be the end of high gas prices?

~m

HA. HA. HA.

i am sure all of you think this is real funny....



~m