Archive for March, 2008
Carmel weekend & New job
I spent the weekend in Carmel with my girlfriend. I should have some photos posted later this week. I’ve been really bad about uploading photos, even though I’ve taken hundreds (possibly thousands) since I last posted some photos here. You can always check out my Flickr stream in case I might have posted something new [...]
Carmel-by-the-sea
This should have been dated around Sep 10, 2007. I just got lazy and never posted it.
We started our four day weekend in Carmel-by-the-sea by taking a trip along 17 Mile Drive. Here we got to see some interseting things include some local wild life grazing on the grounds just off the golf course greens.
We [...]
Nifty modelling tutorial
Since I’ve chosen Tyranid as my starting army, I’m looking for ways to add effects to my models to make them fit in with the nature of Tyranids (which is slimy biological weapons that I’ve heard called “giant dinosaur insects,” which while fairly wild is somewhat accurate in appearance.)
One of the very appropriate effects for [...]
Worldly things
Lyrics from a song a friend of mine wrote, copied without permission (and Copyright Eric Odegaard):
Worldly Things
I don’t need to have a soul
It’ll only get abused
I don’t need to play a role
and proselytize to you
I don’t need your profiteers
to sell me diamond studded rings
I don’t need your crucifix
nor other worldly things
I don’t need to be [...]
Signing for new property
I went with my girlfriend today to sign for the rental property we’re getting together. While the kitchen could use some improvement (by my girlfriend’s standards it’s acceptable, my only objection is that the cabinetry is “well loved,” which is a euphamism for “old and in need of a re-finishing.” I’m honestly startled that she found [...]
House cleaning and comics
I found a number of comics while cleaning my house, Excalibur (which I mentioned yesterday) being one of them. Well I just found a few Atari comics that either Atari put out, or they worked with DC Comics to put out for some of their cartridge games back in the early 1980s (set your way [...]
Comic Archive
I used to collect only one Comic. Excalibur. The fact is that I like collecting series from the beginning, and I always abhored trying to start X-Men or one of the other longer run comics. I’d never collect them all, even reprints. Because in comics, there are no reprints. I’ve collected over 80% of the [...]
Warhammer 40k
I’ve been playing Dawn of War on Steam lately. Many years ago, a friend of mine from highschool (a DJ buddy who I took a bunch of photos of last year and posted on Flickr) used to play with Warhammer 40k, specifically he used to play the Orks. It sort of shaped a lot of [...]
Wine tasting anyone?
I’ve been toying with the notion of creating a website for wine tasting notes, and while I’ll almost certainly complete this project for my in-house database, I realized after coming across this article, that extending this project to anyone beyond my home (i.e., me and my girlfriend) would be difficult to complete in a commercially [...]
More poetry…
I found some poetry written by a friend of mine in my library of old notepads, the following poem is by Eric Odegaard (posted without permission.)
To my love
I am a boatman.
I sail. I know there
are many boats
yet there is only
one sea.
I am a flower.
I bloom. I know many
people enjoy my smell,
but there are those
who do [...]
