Some ESPN watching…

I was watching ESPN today and noticed a few things that are ridiculously stupid. The first is the pathetic B-list writer’s room series called E:60. What a circle jerk of wanna be writers. Michael Smith is such a boring TV personality, I’m surprised they even let him open his mouth. You sucked on ATH, you sucked as a SportsCenter reporter, you still suck here.  Move you face muscles for god’s sack, I’m concerned you may have Bell’s Palsy. Besides this, during a story about Michael Vick in prison there was a reference to Vick being “all time quarterback” during pick up games, to which Rachel Nichols replied, “What is all-time quarterback?” Are you kidding? Take away the fact that you are reporting on sports and know who Michael Vick is, know that he is unfairly better than anyone in prison, is a quarterback on a professional team, and that this is something any sports fan, much less reporter, should learn at age 5. Let’s use some logic. All-time means that you are doing something all of the time. I didn’t even need to use my four years of college to figure that out. Good work on edumacating her Northwestern.  Maybe she went to the Northwestern School of Driving. Even the other “reporters” were trying not to laugh as they explained, “he’s quarterback all of the time for both teams”.  Not to mention half of this show is spent with the writers giving their own stupid opinions on their own stupid stories. I don’t care what you have to say cookie-cutter reporter who can’t get his own show. Shut up already.

The other ridiculousness I saw was while watching SportsCenter. They have this crazy interruption called Right Now. Stay with me here. They interrupt what they are currently reporting on, to let you know what stories they are currently reporting on. I half expect them to say “Right Now on SportsCenter, we interrupt Right Now to bring you Right Now.” Now this isn’t a simple update of a score that is currently ongoing. They actually interrupt a story they were just talking about to tell you about the story they talked about right before that. Nice work ESPN, you have actually induced ADD in my previously healthy brain.

Some HDR experimentation

A few pics I took recently. The first was on my trip to Utah, the second was taken from the top level of the parking structure at The Grove. Enjoy. Click on the images for full size. These are HDR images and were not put through photoshop. They are composites.

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Animated Graffiti

Not much else to say about this than wow. Like a really cool acid trip. Lots of time to make this, and cool as hell. This one is called Muto. Check out the site HERE for a few more graffiti animations.

New pseudo-untooning

From the same guy that made the lifelike painting of Bowser, here’s his real life version of Sonic the Hedgehog.  He used Photoshop and painted the whole thing, unlike Pixeloo who uses real life textures to make his creepy images.  Link HERE Also, check out Worth1000’s Photoshop contest.  If anything it proves that while cool, untooning is not easy at all.  Very few quality submissions, though Alfred E. Neuman sufficiently creeps me out.  HERE

Funny interview to waste time with Solitaire Creator

This link is for an interview with Wes Cherry.  You may not know him, but you definitely have utilized his programming skills before.  This is the guy that created the version of Solitaire for Windows that I’m sure you’ve spent countless hours playing.  This game has been played by almost every single person who has a computer.  And he made millions in royalties from it. Wait did I say millions? I meant nothing.  That’s right, he didn’t sign any royalty deals or anything of the sort so other than his commission he didn’t make anything for the gajillion clicks of bored stock brokers and housewives.  But he’s definitely not bitter. Check out the interview, he’s actually pretty funny.   Check it out HERE

“Exactly how much time and money has been wasted globally as a result of office workers playing Solitaire?

There was a global recession in 1991/1992, just after Solitaire was released. Thank you very much. Oh, and you can’t have your time back.”

An avalanche of posts soon to follow…

I’ve got lots of good stuff saved up to start posting about that I didn’t have time to put in while I was planning my proposal weekend. But before that stuff goes up, here are a few pictures from Zion, Utah over the weekend.

That’s right, I’m engaged

I had to put this on here in case there is anyone who reads this that didn’t know.  I doubt that.  Anyways, here is the picture of the ring I got for the most amazing beautiful woman in the world, my future wife Dana.

Another new project for a different day… dorodango

This is another project I will do, though much sooner than the last one I posted.  Actually, I may do this in the next few weeks since I’m not currently working.  This is the Japanese art of Dorodango.  According to the website www.dorodango.com, Dorodango is….

“A traditional pastime among the children of Japan, the exact origin of hikaru dorodango is unknown. The tradition was dying out until taken up by Professor Fumio Kayo, of the Kyoto University of Education, as a means to study the psychology of children’s play. In the course of his research, Kayo developed a simple technique for creating dorodango. With the help of Japanese media, Kayo has revived and extended the popular reach of this tradition to the point where it is now an international phenomenon.”

Basically dorodango are dried mudballs that are polished to a shiny piece of art. Check out the pictures.  It’s pretty wild to imagine they were just balls of dirt that were polished and dried out.  Hopefully my balls turn out as shiny as this dude’s.  Yes, I know what I just said. Check out the site HERE. And don’t miss the galery, some really cool dorodango.

Awesome new project…some day

This is an awesome thing to put in an office, bedroom or somewhere that has no windows…like my bedroom my junior year of college. Of course, it would have lost the allure of the Batcave, but its all good. Check out the website HERE

The Simpsons Couch Scenes…all of them

Here is a compilation of all of the Simpsons’ couch gags. These are the little stories that takes place for about 3 seconds at the end of each opening credits to the Simpsons.  I’m pretty sure that this is all of them up until March 9, 2008. Enjoy….