Last week I spent 6 days on a cruise ship completely disconnected from the web, the news and the world in general.
It was fabulous!
But now I’m back and hope to crank the blog back up and post a few things I’ve had on the back burner for some time now about jQuery, Ant and a few more Developer Toolbox applications… stay tuned!
This week is the infamous Plane on a Treadmill episode of Mythbusters!
I’m so looking forward to this one. I see in the pics Adam is playing with a RC plane – I can’t wait to see how their experiment goes. I REALLY need to get my plane back together and in the air. That looks like some kind of GWS model they are using… the wing looks almost exactly like my Slowstick wing.
I think it’s going to take off. I don’t really see this as any different than a plane sitting on a patch of ice. The plane still moves forward as it’s pushing against the air, not the ground. But we’ll see… :)
Update:
Oh man. Oh man. Oh man. Look at this set list!!!!!!! Found this on the NME site.
Good Times Bad Times
Ramble On
Black Dog
In My Time Of Dying
For Your Life
Trampled Under Foot
Nobody’s Fault But Mine
No Quarter
Since I’ve Been Loving You
Dazed And Confused
Stairway To Heaven
The Song Remains The Same
Misty Mountain Hop
Kashmir
Whole Lotta Love
Rock And Roll
Looks like a blues heavy set! Sweet! Oh I hope this was recorded in some form or fashion…
Page looks AWESOME.
Knee deep writing some jQuery Ajax code today and I have my MP3 player fired up….
My first record (yes as in vinyl) was Cheap Trick’s “Live at Budokan”. I can remember bringing it home, unwrapping it and plopping it on my folks ancient TV/HI-FI set. Firing up the volume I promptly blew out one of the speakers listening to “Surrender”.
Mommy’s alright, Daddy’s alright, they just seem a little weird
Surrender, surrender, but don’t give yourself away
28 years later, listening to that song on my MP3 player, I realize the tide has turned and now I’m a little weird. Time to go find Mom and roll around on the couch. :)
I was having some fun this weekend digging though the Wayback Machine. It’s neat to check out what I’ve run my ‘blog’ on over the years:
I couldn’t imagine going back to hand-coding! I have considered switching from WordPress to Movable Type again now that it is free but I’ve gotten comfortable with hacking on WordPress so really have no reason to move other than the geek factor of trying out something new.
What a crazy week!
Last weekend I went to Myrtle Beach to see Megadeth! Dave and crew put on an awesome show. Checkout the Megadeth site for some great concert videos! I’m sure I lost a bit more hearing but it was well worth it :)
Turns out it was also the last weekend of Bike Fest so I managed to check out some of the zillion bikes before I had to come back home Saturday. Sweeeeet! Unfortunately I only had my camera phone and the few pics I did take sucked but there were some incredible bikes.
This week I’m swamped at work digging through an older MVC Fusebox app. Since I’ve done Mach-II going back to Fusebox has been a challenge. I definitely prefer the event driven Mach-II.
Tuesday at our latest TACFUG meeting I volunteered to do a presentation on using Selenium to test your web applications. Will certainly post presentation files afterwards! I also need to give my Ant presentation on Meetup.com for Charlie Arehart.
And finally I’m helping my wife setup a site – more on that soon!
Les Paul is on PBS tonight – featured on the American Masters.
If you like guitar – you must watch! His influence on the modern guitar and multi-track recording is inspiring.
And best of all – he’s 90 and still jams.
When it’s 60 degrees in January – what to do on a Saturday? How about going to the zoo!!!!
