Technodaddy Abides…

This is brilliant music, video, and editing! Can’t wait to buy the album when it’s out!

Found these peepers from circa 1990. Wow. Just, wow.

Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net

You know you wish you were this creative…

Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net

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Yeah, so it was a slow night around the Technodaddy household, and while we mixed margaritas and whatnot, we decided to decide just how powerful our Blentec blender was. Turns out it has extreme blendy powers. Check out the video, yo…

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These guys have truly embraced the Facebook lifestyle… Enjoy!

Thanks to Harry for this… Totally worth the watch and the rebroadcast. I think I missed my calling. I should have been a mall musical theatre artist.

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This week I was in St. Louis on business, and on Thursday, I flew thru Atlanta, as is almost always the case when I travel. The old joke about dying in the South and connecting in Atlanta before your trip to Heaven or Hell is sadly all too true. But I digress.

During my layover I had a little time to kill, so I had a beer and chatted up some folks at the pub in the concourse. On the way to the plane I had to make a pit stop, so I chose a stall and locked myself in.

I had been there for just a brief bit when some jackass in the stall beside me starts talking on his cell phone. And I don’t mean a little quiet, reserved, embarrassed “I’m in the toilet, let me call you back” conversation. I mean a full out conversation like he was on his back porch with a beer in hand talking to an old friend who had just come back from the war. Big buddies, they were, and he was talking energetically. IN. THE. BATHROOM! With washing and flushing and, well, other things going on the whole time.

I understand the cell phone is ubiquitous these days and you can never afford to be very far away from your work or contacts or friends, but DAMN, dude! Take a shit in private will ya??? Or at the least, let me!

So, as I sat there alternately annoyed and amused by this new boorish friend of mine (who, by the way, had met a hot girl in Boston on his business trip who was, to quote his words, “Bangin”) I was pondering how to shut the guy up and make the point that the bathroom is a quiet place without getting in a full on confrontation with my pants down…

So I just started talking loudly too. I reacted to his conversation like *I* was the person on the other end of the phone. REALLY? She was HOT dude? Sweet! Did you get her number? Then what? I conversed with him loudly and breathlessly for a few moments until….

Wait for it…

He said (to his actual phone buddy) “Let me call you back dude, some idiot in the stall next to me is talking on his phone so loud I can’t hear you.”

And then there was silence. Sweet, blessed silence.

I win. Yay me.

(flush)

Well, sports fans, I went on the second cruise of my life last week, and let me tell ya, it was a great time! I went to the western caribbean on the Carnival Holiday with a bunch of ballroom dancers. The cruise was set up by Curt and Wendy Johnson and I was their guest as a “Dance Host.” That’s right, boys and girls, it was my JOB to dance with the ladies. They had to twist my arm REALLY hard to make me do that. REALLY. HARD. Seriously.

There were 2-3 hours of dance lessons every day, and dances in the evening, in addition to the bevy of activities to choose from on and off the ship. I got to drive a dune buggy through the jungle to a secluded beach where I then snorkled in the deep blue water. Magnificent. Did some sunning, some sight seeing, and some shopping in Cozumel and in Calica. Got offered a ton of marijuana… Wow, I wasn’t prepared for that. Every street vendor would ask if I wanted to buy Cuban cigars. When I said no thanks, they would say “something stronger?” and then name off some esoteric names of weed. If I said no to that, they generally offered me the company of “Chicas.” Figure that one out yourself… If I were a pot smoker I’m sure I could have remained baked the entire shore excursion.

All in all, I have to say, I had a fantastic time. While the Holiday isn’t one of the monster ships that the cruise fleet has these days, it is by no means a small ship. There was plenty to do, and our cabin was comfy, and the food and entertainment was awesome. Oh, all my pics are HERE if you care to have a look.

Curt and Wendy said they were pleased with my services, and they have already said they’d love to have me come back for the next cruise, late in the Fall, or maybe this time next year. You can bet I’ll jump on that! Anyone else coming with me this time??? You know you want to…

I was hanging out on Seesmic the other night (btw if you are not on it, you really should request an invite, it’s fun and intellitgent and it will make you happier, healthier, and more attractive to the opposite sex, really…) and made a silly little video demonstrating my superior peeling skillz. You can see it here if you so desire.

Anyway, one of my Seesmic pals, Richard, compared me to Mitch Hedberg, a comic I had never heard of, so of course, I had to look him up on the google machine.

Here’s what Richard said:

And here’s a video of the very funny Mitch:

And here’s my reply to Richard:

The bottom line? I really do sound a lot like a very funny dead guy. Huh.

Deal with it, yo…

Yeah, so one of my daughter’s friends (who shall remain nameless to protect her sanity) is completely obsessed with the mythical land of “Chilondoscow” she saw on an AT&T billboard. This one to be exact.
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I just ran across this post over at ZenHabits and I thought it was well worth sharing. This is the “digest” version of the list (no details) but you should really view the post in full. Now, I have certainly yet to internalize all these pieces of advice, but I agree with all of them in principle if not in action. Have a look… See what you think… Maybe I’ll do a followup post as to where I stand on these.

1. How to control impulse spending.
2. You gotta stay active.
3. How to plan finances.
4. Junk food will come back to bite you in the butt.
5. Smoking is just dumb.
6. Fund your retirement, son. And don’t withdraw it.
7. All the stuff you’re doing that seems hard — it will be of use.
8. Don’t buy that used van without checking it out closely.
9. That guy you’re going to sell your car to? On a gentleman’s agreement? He’s not gonna pay you.
10. Make time to pursue your passion, no matter how busy you are.
11. All that stuff that’s stressing you out — it won’t matter in 5 years, let alone 15.
12. The people you make friends with are so much more important than your job or the things you buy.
13. All that time you spend watching TV is a huge, huge waste of time.
14. Your kids are going to grow up way faster than you think. Don’t waste a minute.
15. Forget the drama. Focus on being happy.
16. Pay more attention to blogs when you first hear about them. They’re more than just journals.
17. Speaking of which, keep a journal. Seriously. Your memory is extremely faulty.
18. Tequila is seriously evil.
19. Yes, you can do a marathon. Don’t put this goal off — it’s extremely rewarding.
20. All these mistakes you’re going to make, despite this advice? They’re worth it.

We went to Chili’s tonight, and wow, was it busy. Guess a lot of people felt like going out on Valentine’s eh? Who would have thunk it? Anyway, the food was great (the Fajita Trio rocked my low carb world) and they were pretty responsive to be so busy. I had to tell the hostess where the available table was so they actually SAT us, but after that, it was aces.

Here’s a little video I took with my new toy, the Flip Ultra Digital Camera. This is my trying to replicate my past glory as a master coaster stacker. In a word…. FAIL.

Hmm, what’s the plural of Grammy anyway? Grammy’s? Grammies?

I love these “in 60 seconds” clips Mahalo puts together. Feels more like “being there” than just reading the highlights from a website, yet I don’t have to endure 3 hours of navel gazing and self aggrandizing by the artists. Mahalo FTW!

There is something to be said for fresh starts, for simplifying things, and for therapeutic reboots. And that something is: Ahhhhhh.

If you read my blog regularly, you no doubt noticed that I don’t post much anymore, and if you’re really observant, you might have noticed that I deleted a whole bunch of stuff a couple of weeks ago, and today I went ape-crazy and deleted the rest. I was just tired of all the stuff I’d written.

So I’ve started over! I’m not promising to knock you out with content or insight, or heck, even frequency, on this blog, but I do promise that you’ll at least get your money’s worth. You get what you pay for in life, right?

Anymore, it just seems like I don’t find the time to blog. That’s partially due to busy life and work, and partially due to “Social Network” overload. If you look at my “Find Me” links, you get an idea why I’m overloaded with social networks. Not that I am all that active on those networks either, but they do all represent some of my online life.

I blast out tiny thoughts on Twitter, post my pics on Flickr, ping my friends on Myspace, share things that make me laugh or think hard on Tumblr, post random videos on Youtube, chat up people on Seesmic, and read all my feeds with Google Reader.

If you really want to keep up with me (and thanks, I’m honored) you should add these feeds to your reader of choice:

• Technodaddy.com
• 29ways.com
• My Flickr Pics
• My Google Reader Shared Items
• My Twitter Feed

That’ll give you a pretty good idea what’s going on with me. Wow, you have to be dedicated to keep up with me, huh?

Ok, that’s all for now. It’s 6:13am, and I’ve been up for two hours thanks to some things going bump in the night and waking me up, good and awake, so I couldn’t go back to sleep. So I made some coffee, and dug into this here website redesign, which I’ve been wanting to do for a while now, just never had the time.