Watch out world - Roy's got a digital camera!

Roy's birthday is coming up (May 30), and last month I got him a digital camera. Now he's snapping pictures left and right. He's even created his own Flickr collection of photos. Below are some of my favorites. (As always, click the image to see a larger view.)

Do you Jaiku?

I posted recently on Edugeek Journal about Twitter vs. Jaiku, and I'm quickly moving over completely to Jaiku. Really nice functionality and just too easy to use and incorporate other feeds. I'm planning on putting a widget to this blog so you guys can get minute-to-minute updates on just what I'm up to ... b/c I'm sure you're just dying to know! :P

Can't Stop the Serenity - June 23!

Attention Browncoats in the DFW area! Be sure to pick up your "Can't Stop the Serenity" tickets soon! Your chance to enjoy "Serenity" on the big screen and support a charity all at the same time!

Catching up... March Dallas Comic Con

I have absolutely no excuse for not posting in such a long time. So, as I sit here at a Starbucks in the Austin Radisson hotel, I realize that I have internet connectivity and time to kill. So, let's catch up...

Back in March (I know, it's been too long...) I attended the Dallas Comic Con fan day, and there were several special guests that were of interest. I originally went to meet Morena Baccarin (Inara, from Firefly), but I ended up getting to meet some other actors. (It turns out I'm much more of a geek than I'd originally realized!)

Morena Baccarin - She was nice, but very rushed. Not nearly as cozy an experience as Ron Glass, but then again there were about 100 folks behind me in line, so I understand.



Clare Kramer - (Glory from "Buffy the Vampire Slayer") At that time, I hadn't yet seen Clare's character in "Buffy", but I decided to meet her and snap a picture b/c I knew I'd end up loving the character. And sure enough, now that I know who Glory is, I cannot believe I actually met her. She's such a funny/interesting/great character in the show. Anyway, she was incredibly nice!



Ernie Hudson - (Winston from "Ghostbusters") I couldn't resist getting my picture taken with a Ghostbuster! He was so incredibly nice, too. And it was cool seeing the various Ghostbuster fans walking around in full costume.



Walter Koenig - (Chekov from "Star Trek") Nice man. Made me realize just how long ago the Star Trek show and movies came out. He seemed very tired when I met him, but then the ST fans that were in the "line" were kind of ... fanatics... so I'd be tired too.



Peter Mayhew - (Chewbacca from "Star Wars") Nice man. It was the end of the day, and he was nice enough to smile for a quick picture as things were closing up.



Good times!

My Heroes Theory....

Damn, I love this show. I have never before speculated so much on the future of characters in a tv show. I was just discussing a theory that I came up with, and I received approval/interest from two friends, so I figure it's legit enough for me to post it here.

*Takes deep breath*

Ok... we know that Hiro from the future goes back in time to tell Peter to 'save the cheerleader...." We find out from the online novels that the reason he did this is b/c when Sylar was about to explode, Hiro stabs him but Sylar heals and proceeds to blow himself up. Hiro says that this is b/c Claire can heal herself and that Sylar got her brain; however, we don't know if hiro knows this for sure or if he just assumes it b/c he knows about claire's ability. However, claire is not the only "healer" in this group. Which might explain why after informing Peter about saving Clair, Hiro goes back into the future and nyc is still leveled. What if instead Hiro stabs Sylar, Linderman heals sylar (we know L. wants the explosion to happen b/c this puts N.P. into office), Sylar explodes, nyc still leveled, and saving the chearleader didn't really help anyone ... except Claire. Maybe Hiro did change history, but Linderman somehow either found out about it and made the future still happen ("you can't fight the future") or just ended up being in the right place at the right time.

What d'ya think??

Very cool "No Cellphones" advert

U2 3D

I can already see Fatima and me at the theater, arms up and screaming. "Booonoooo!"

Supermarket 2.0

Found this on Boing Boing this morning...

glumbert.com - Supermarket 2.0

History of Religion

EduGeek Journal

Great news folks! Matt, Darren, and I just recently started up a blog called the EduGeek Journal, where we'll discuss all things concerning educational technology. (This means many of my "geeky" posts will now go to that blog, which many of you might be happy to hear.) Eventually, we plan on expanding our blog to include a wiki, a podcast, and a Second Life presence ... but all in good time. We already have several interesting posts up. When you get a chance, please stop by and take a look! Thanks!

I'm Willow!

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What really happened...

My faith in American voters has me convinced that this is what actually happened.

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"Back in the day"

This weekend, I was cleaning out a shelf in the office, and I came across a cd full of pictures from "back in the day" when I still worked at Angelo State University with the Lab Assistants ("Lab Asses"), Multimedia guys ("Mmedia Gurus"), and Helpdesk folks. Man, those were great times. My best friends today I met while working there.

Anyway, I uploaded all the pictures to my flickr account. Click here to see the entire set. Below are some of the group shots of us.





















Looking through these pictures, though, I found myself wondering what ever happened to several folks, so I also created a myspace group for us computer lab student workers, past and present.

Ah, those were good times.

Spring Has Sprung

Some photos I took of a tree outside the back of our apartment.

Lovely ladies having birthdays

(This is a few weeks late, but ... well, you know me.) Three lovely ladies I know have had birthdays recently...

February 28: My "baby" sister Lizzie (who's taller
than I am now)turned 17
(Man, I feel old!)


March 2: My cousin Cristina
(who's quickly approaching the one-year birthday
for her babe Gabrielle)


March 2: The Goddess of Blue, Ja'Nate'
(Vicki and I actually flew down and surprised her
for her 30th birthday ...
Click here to see the photo set from our trip.)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LADIES!!!

My Nerd Score

What's yours?

Zeroes

Being a complete "Heroes" junkie, I have to post this. Enjoy.

10 years ago, Buffy Summers came to Sunnydale

A snippet from Wikipedia's front page...
Click the image below to read the clip.



Oh, and an update: Spike is now my favorite character. Love him! (Sorry Xander.)

Spike: "I may be Love's bitch, but at least I'm man enough to admit it."

Xander: "Where is it written that quiet reflection can't be combined wiht cake and funny hats?"

midomi

Heard about this a few weeks back in a SecondCast podcast, but I finally tried it out just tonight. Midomi is a fun website that allows you to sing (or hum) bits of a song, and it searches its database to find matches. It's harder than you think, though -- so far it's only recognized my singing "Happy Birthday to You" and "Friday I'm in Love". You'll get strange looks from your spouse, but it's worth it. Hours of fun!

Memory

Over the past couple of days, I've been listening to a four-part audio-series about memory. How it works, why it doesn't work, and what makes our memories act screwy. It's all really amazing. (That being said, Cognition was one of my favorite classes in school.)


Part 1: What is memory?

Part 2: The fallibility of memory

Part 3: Memories in distress

Part 4: Treatments

Be careful, though. As with reading medical books about various illnesses, you might find yourself trying to label your own memory issues, as I did.