Last Updated 10/09/07
Marcus
Alexander
Wedding
Hawaii
HOBBIES
Building an Aliens Powerloader
Costume
Pneumatic Fun (aka, the flamethrower)
Begin: A Tactical Starship Simulation
I'm a software professional living in the Springfield, OR with my family. Me, my wife, and our two young sons Marcus and Alexander.
I switch hobbies regularly, much to my wife's annoyance. For your entertainment, I have compiled a short list. I will attempt to keep it up to date.
Content
- 10/09/07 - Starting this year's costume at the last minute. Will it blend be finished in time? Ask the cowboy riding the big lizard.
- 7/21/07 - A new method for cooking steak I learned from a friend. Instructions and photos.
- 5/10/07 - Wardriving is old hat. Warflying is the new hotness.
- 5/07/07 - Flew the plane to Columbia, CA for Canards De Mayo. It was a great trip, and a lot of fun, even if my airplane has the engine on the wrong end for this crowd.
- 5/02/07 - I bought a plane! It's a 1975 Piper Cherokee Warrior. Here are some pics from my purchase flight and my first trip home. (Update: As of 10/6/2007, I've put almost 90 hours on it. It's been fantastic.)
- 3/9/07 - Could it be the future of portable audio entertainment? Introducing the Audio Sombrero! Surround sound with style.
- 10/31/06 - The costume turned out good, check out the page for pictures.
- 8/31/06 Time to build a new Halloween costume. This year, I'm doing a PowerLoader from Aliens.
- 1/10/06 I'm going to build a plane. Here's my page with more info.
- 8/22/05 My long awaited treatise on receipt checking at the door. By 'long awaited', I mean of course 'self important'.
- 8/19/05 Building an APU Costume - Just started work on my Halloween costume. This year, I'll be (and be riding) an APU from The Matrix.
- 5/19/05 Adventures in Coffee - I just discovered coffee... and learned to respect it as an enemy as well. Click here for more.
- 4/30/05 Some
photo albums - I've recently uploaded some photos.
These go back a few months.
A training flight back in January - Flying over LAX, having the time of my life.
Flying to Mojave, CA - My last, pre-pilot solo XC
Last pre-exam solo
Marcus's 3rd birthday
Flying over our house in Oregon - In a sporty C-152. BTW, I got my pilots license. Tremble before me, for I fly a plane that weighs less then a Geo Metro at speeds approaching... that of a Geo Metro. - 2/10/05 Holy crap, I'm on slashdot! - The tank cam page was just posted on http://slashdot.org. I wonder if the web host will survive it? I was planning on celebrating my son Alex's first birthday tomorrow, maybe I'll be shopping for a new hosting provider instead... Update: Gate.com was great, no complaints about the level of service they provided during this and other spikes.
- New 12/31/04 - I put a camera on my R/C tank. In progress.
- Every few days, we try to put up a new video of some wacky or cute thing the kids do. The videos are made with our Canon S400, a very good little camera.
- Here are pictures from the trip we took to Hawaii in April of 2003. It only took us a year to post them.
- Begin: A Tactical Starship Simulation - This is a shareware game released about 15 years ago that I play. It's a fast, fun little game that you can play without investing hours.
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My Mech
Costume
- I built a neat costume for Halloween 2004,
check it out.
- Our old apartment- We bought an apartment building and took some pictures of some of the changes we made to the unit we moved into. Nothing too terribly interesting, probably, just something we put up for our family. Here's Stage2 of our move. We've since moved, and this page is retained only because this, and the 'fixing the floor' page seem to get a lot of google traffic.
- Here's our brave fixing the floor of our bathroom. Interestingly enough, it seems to be the highest trafficked page here because of the disgustingly moldy floor we found under the linoleum.
- The Pizza Place - At the end of 2003 we bought a small pizza franchise. Here are some pictures. Hey, don't you feel... hungry? Update: We've sold the restaurants. Wanna know how to make a small fortune in food service? Start with a larger fortune.
- Future War - The future of battlefield power plants, my opinion. (in progress)
Obligatory links to 3rd party websites
- RateMyKitten.com - This is very neat, it's like hotornot.com, except with kittens instead of ugly generation X-ers.
- Fark.com - Great new aggregator. Perfect for people with attention deficit dis- hey! a kitten!
- Slashdot.org - News for geeks and fans of Natalie Portman/hot grits.
- Google.com- Just helping their pagerank*. *It's like a joke, only smaller.
- News.Google.com - A great place to search 20 years of Usenet for all manner of absolute blather.
- Glassmementos.com - Urns are so 1950. Molten glass, now that's timeless. I like to think of them as 'Balls of Death'.
- beyondthedock.com - Endor Search & Rescue. Some friends of mine from work are for hire in Star Wars Galaxies. Hire them and support their quest to remain undesirable to women.
- a-human-right.com - Great website from a Russian immigrant who understands the value of freedom better then many people born in this country.
- The World's Smallest Political Quiz - A very interesting 5 minute quiz that can be a useful tool to help you label your political beliefs. "Crazy" and "Super Crazy" not among the offered titles, sadly.
ben@vipmail.com or kaydee@vipmail.com
Marcus 5.5 years
Alexander, 3.5 years
Trip to Hawaii 2003
Our Wedding