Author: todd

After playing some TFC with my 30+ buddies, I’m now re-scanning the photos from our wedding album. The first time I did it, it took me about 2 hours and then I found that the photos looked like crap. So this time, I’m scanning at higher resolution and saving as PNG files instead of JPG… Continue reading Untitled

Wow, I haven’t written much here lately. Let me try to catch up on things. Last Saturday, Beth and I went to Colorado Springs to visit some friends who have a very nice home theater. They invited us to watch the new extended version of Fellowship of the Ring. It was great. And they made… Continue reading Untitled

Today marks the 9th anniversary of Frank Zappa’s death.

Yahoo! News – First Dutch Cannabis Cafe Marks 30th Anniversary – Happy birthday! Or perhaps I should say…CONGRATULATIONS! In other news, I just spent the past two hours scanning every single photo in our wedding photo album, only to discover that the scanner settings were messed up and every picture looks like total crap. Oh… Continue reading Untitled

In other news, Beth is in Kansas City this week for the funeral of her aunt. She was originally planning to go to Arizona all Thanksgiving week as part of the Traditional Support Caravan. But we got news on Friday (after the truck was loaded with 800 pounds of flour) of her aunt’s death. So… Continue reading Untitled

I came across this article in the Rocky Mountain News this morning, talking about a proposal to ban smoking in restaurants and bars in Denver. Of course there’s an outcry about it, and I thought to myself… This is all so predictable! We’ve seen this same sequence of events in every city that proposes an… Continue reading here we go again – smoking ban in Denver restaurants and bars

I am at what I hope is the end of a long and frustrating ordeal with my home PC. This kind of thing happens more often than I’d like, and is the main reason I have so often considered just giving up on Microsoft Windows and switching to a Mac. It all started when I… Continue reading Untitled

Have I ever mentioned that someday I would love to have a late 60’s model Buick Electra 225 Convertible? I’ve wanted one of those cars for years, even though they’re terrible gas hogs and probably pollute 100 times as much as my current car. Here are a couple I found online for sale: Buick #1… Continue reading Untitled

I read a news article earlier this week based on an interview with Al Gore, and I’m increasingly impressed with the guy. Plus, last week I read that John McCain was the only Republican to vote for a bill that would gut the special interest riders on the terrorism bill that was ultimately passed. That’s… Continue reading Untitled

Intuitor Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics – Ever notice how many cars in movies blow up as soon as (or even just prior to the instant) they hit the bottom of the canyon when plunging off the highway? Me, too. And the person who made this website also has noticed.