May
31
Installed Google Gears today. The install asks you if you want to “restart your browser” – much as many firefox plugins conveniently do, which is great if you want to start using your new functionality right away. However, beware, as the Gears install doesn’t restore your windows/tabs upon re-opening the browser. Kind of annoying if you have multiple browser windows open with other sites that you weren’t ready to close just yet.
May
28
I saw Terminator: Salvation today. It was pretty cool. Not having seen the other movies, I am new to the franchise, but I enjoyed it. They had a little intro at the beginning that filled everyone in (so that even if they hadn’t seen the others at all, or in a long time, they could follow the storyline). It was an action movie – lots of explosions, guns, and fighting – so overall pretty cool. Christian Bale played the main character, and used his “angry Batman” voice a lot, but it fit the situations his character was in, so it was ok. 
The computer graphics were phenomenal – you would think they actually built these machines for the movie. In the end, I’m glad I saw it in the theaters, because the action/visual/sound/music experience wouldn’t have been the same at home.
Here’s a clip from WB:
And the official trailer:
May
12
Get a free Garmin® nüvi® 205W GPS ($160 at amazon at time of posting) when you open a Key Bank checking account before May 15, 2009. Just open the account with $50, make two direct deposits and one debit card transaction before July 17, 2009, and you’ve got yourself a free GPS unit! More details here…
May
04
I registered for the St. George Marathon again – hopefully I’ll make it in this year! The lottery is this Friday 8 May, with results posted on Monday 11 May…
UPDATE:
I got into the marathon! There were 7200 runners selected out of 10,510 applicants, which means that there was ~68.5% chance of getting in. Let the training begin!
Apr
21
A new study just published by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine discovered that “overweight people eat more than thin people.”
Apr
07
My roommate sent me this great quote. It was composed during the Great Depression, but still has great applicability today.
“You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.”
–Adrian Rogers, 1931
Adrian Rogers served three terms as president of the Southern Baptist Convention (the largest American Protestant denomination).
Mar
27
As time marches on Americans see more and more of our civil liberties disappearing at an alarming rate. Dallas is considering becoming the next in a string of cities to make it illegal for teenagers to be out in public during school hours. The claim is to try to reduce crime, especially burglary, but that end is not worth it if it means that Americans lose their freedom of movement. Of course, this alienates the 300,000 home schooled children in the Dallas area that would be constantly considered guilty until they can prove their exemption from the law by virtue of their home schooling, as well as make it so much more inconvenient for all teenagers to go on doctor and dentist visits, as well as the occasional day out of school to get other stuff done.
