I thought this was an awesome picture I captured out in front of Wal-Mart today in the parking lot with my cell phone. It's a Mustang car's emblem in the front grill under a sheet of ice from this winter's freeze. The picture turned out just perfectly.. I invite you to click it for the full size:

I am looking for specs on the Odyssey 500 game machine by Magnavox.  Years ago, I had searched the web high and low, to no avail.  I am wondering what voltage is required (A/C. I believe!), and what channel to put the machien on.

This two-player, quality game machine has six paddle sticks, three for each player, and has selectors to mash up three games with three game boards with three game types: tennis, pong, hockey.  It plugs into the wall and TV.

Here's a picture of the Odyssey 500 game machine:

Clearing out an old space in Mom's garage where I had stored some things from college, and, apparently, all the years prior, I came across a fun gem that I thought I'd post for Google's consumption.  I've reconnected with one friend this way, and maybe I'll catch a few more.

This is a sun visor, decorated by Mrs. Betty Munion's 1985-1986 4th grade class. It has the names of all my classmates whose names follow:

Brandie, Stephanie, Allison, Angela, Kelisha, Michael, Carolyn, Roxanna, Steven, Jackie, Laura, Anuraj, Kristi, Pat, Charlotte, Suree, Danielle, Tyson, Mitzi, D.T., Kent

Thanks to the fact that rather than receiving a call which didn't come this morning, I listened to the last 5 min of a short story on NPR about a guy who thought he had met his "musical soulmate" because of a mysterious shared music folder that popped up on his desktop. Because of that, I've got that song "Mad World" stuck in my head:
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I’m dying are the best I’ve ever had

which I recognized from Donnie Darko. Eerie song.. thick movie.

While looking for those lyrics, I stumbled across this poem based on the first line:
http://poetry.tetto.org/read/32115/
I think this one would have been a really appropriate backdrop for the NPR story! ha

Wow. This looks more like a blog post than an email again. hhhmm.. don't mind if i do- do you? (ah and so I have)

Oh Where to begin!

But I had already begun-- last year. I made a prototype Christmas yard decoration which spells out a backlit "JOY," and, on Christmas Eve, even the Baby Jesus' silhouette illuminates. It was constructed out of cardboard, lights, and lots of duct tape. It turned out pretty decent, but alas, it was not weather-worthy, and it was too late in the season to rebuild it properly.

Today I struggled with Adobe Photoshop CS2's Shape Tool. When I first mocked up a website layout for later slicing, I had nice, crisp, rounded rectangle background shapes as expected. However, after receiving some super tips from a talented graphic designer, I decided to revisit my original site layout and remove the rounded corners. I was disappointed to discover that my shape tool (rectangle in this case, but lines, circles, etc), when in the fill layer setting, was automatically anti-aliasing all my edges (not just the rounded corners as expected). I called a fellow web developer, and he saw the same results. Crisp in Fill Pixels (with option to antialias), but fill layers refused to draw crisply. Another bright designer we consulted suggested importing Illustrator ai's as smart objects...

We had a nice media event at the County Courthouse to show off some of our recent achievements in IT. The bulk of the presentation was for the public wireless access blanketing the courthouse and online legal library access offerings, but the wiz-bang that shone for the media was my docket scroller*. Cool stuff-- incidentally, my big mug takes up half the screen in this KBTX video clip:

See the article at KBTX.com

See the video clip directly (media player)

So I'm sipping some icky morning tea.. It's a lemon tea that Julia bought yesterday while out shopping-- it just doesn't make the cut. I tried oversteeping last night-- too bitter. I tried understeeping this morning, too bland (with a hint of bitter).

I once had a really decent lemon tea at Square One restaurant in d.t. Bryan-- that was my primary inspiration. It was a cold April day when I met with the Executive Director of the downtown Bryan revitalization effort for lunch. We both ordered cups of tea, and they really hit the mark, and since that meeting, I've always enjoyed a delicious cup of lemon tea with a slice of lemon on the side.

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