Matthew used to get mad when it was bath time, but I think he really likes it now. Here’s a perfect picture of him right after a bath a few days ago:
He splashed in the tub with his feet a little last night. I’m sure it won’t be long until he’ll be splashing water all over the floor.
I’m always looking for better ways to organize my stuff. The problem is, I have lots of it. I have bookshelves and boxes overflowing everywhere.
What I would really like is a nice system of shelves that could possibly cover an entire wall. That way I would be free to organize things however I wanted while keeping everything within reach.
Finally, someone came up with the perfect solution for me. And, they made it extremely geeky:
That’s right, Tetris Shelves. Why didn’t I think of this. There is one unfortunate drawback to these shelves – they cost $7,000 for 10 pieces.
Oh well, maybe I’ll get inspired this summer and build a few of these myself…
It seems like I’m on some kind of strange “how we talk” trip lately. Anyway, here’s my Liguistic Profile:
Your Linguistic Profile:
50% General American English
30% Dixie
10% Yankee
5% Midwestern
5% Upper Midwestern
Find out how you rate at What Kind of American English Do You Speak? Yes, I have been known to say ya’ll. I’ve even uttered “fixin’ to” on a few occasions…
Now I just need to go back through the test a few times and figure out what I’m supposed to be saying in those situations. Doesn’t everybody push a buggy, bring home groceries in a sack, and drink Coke (even if it’s Dr Pepper)?
Yes, April 15th was Paige’s birthday. Thanks to everyone who bought her things from her wish list. It’s much shorter now than it was before, and she got lots of nice gifts.
We spent most of yesterday in Dallas. For her birthday dinner, we went out to eat at Arcodoro & Pomodoro. This was, without a doubt, the nicest restaurant I’ve ever been in. Paige had the Ravioli Arcodoro, voted the best ravioli in the world. It was stuffed with a mix of cheeses and seafood and topped with crushed pistachios.
I had the Stinco di Vitella Logudorese (yes, I copied and pasted that from their website). It was the most amazing veal shank. The waiter told me that the proper way to eat it is to scape the marrow out the bone when you’re done and mix it with some of the risotto. He even brought out a little marrow scraping fork. Paige and I both tried it, but I’ve got to say that the meat was much better than the marrow.
I’m sure we looked totally out of place in that restaurant, but everyone there treated us very well. I’m sure we’ll go back from time to time since the food was so good. Unfortunately, a meal there costs about as much as we usually spend on groceries for a week, but I think it’s worth it. You’ve got to live a little sometimes.
Dude, this is like the coolest site ever – Eighties Speak.
I can’t believe people used to talk like this. Thank god I never talked this way. Psyche!
Matthew is getting pretty good at rolling over now. Here he is practicing on his cloud blanket.
If he keeps going at this rate, he’ll be crawling soon.
There used to be something else here, but now it’s gone. Sorry about that. I’m afraid I linked to a site that was a little undesirable.
Let’s just pretend this never happened…
I’ve recently updated my tutorial Managing Game States in C++. I added a port of the source code to Object Pascal provided by Marko Peric. Also, I have a link to the French translation of the tutorial provided by Ceasy. Thanks to both of these guys for their hard work.
Also, due to quite a few e-mail requests, I’m in the process of writing another C++ game programming tutorial. I’ll hopefully have it done in a week or so. In the mean time, you can check out my other tutorials on Game Programming, Lua, and SDL if you’re interested.
Now this is what I call a game room. It looks like he has at least one of every game system I’ve ever seen, along with enough games to fill every free moment for the rest of my life. Be sure to click around on his home page and see what else he’s up to.
This is why I try not to collect things. Once I get started I just can’t help myself. I have two closets full of vintage computers that will probably just collect dust until the end of time. Even worse, I tend to collect things in cycles. About 10 years ago I sold all of my comic books, then about 5 years ago I became obsessed with buying them all back.
I am, obviously, no fan of golf. As a matter of fact, I don’t really care for any televised sports, or television in general. But occasionally, I will see something that impresses even me to the point that I feel compelled to share it with the world.
I think that everyone can recognize a fantastic play even if they don’t care for the sport. You know the type – an outfielder who snatches the baseball from just over then fence and turns a grandslam into the game winning out, or the basketball player who throws the ball from half court just as the buzzer goes off and score the three points that win the game.
There’s a video clip of Tiger Woods demonstrating just such a play going around today. I’ve heard this is from the 16th hole at the Master’s (whatever that means). Anyway, a clever guy named Joseph Jaffe converted this into a Nike commercial and posted it on his website. You can see it for yourself at Jaffe Juice. The 60 second version is 4 MB, but it’s well worth the download.
This is almost as impressive as my amazing hole in one through the blades of the wind mill and up the hill. Unfortunately, I never could master hitting the ball into the clown’s mouth…