http://jodag.net/wp Extensive excursions into stupidity, documented for your enjoyment. Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:41:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Jacob had his EEG test today. He is five years old, his teacher thinks he might have had a seizure at school The instructions were to keep him up late (11pm) and wake him up early (4am) so he would fall asleep while the EEG was recording. The nurse ... http://jodag.net/wp/2010/02/jacobs-eeg I'm so excited that I've got half a mind to scream out loud. I'm excited about photography again recently. There is a photo contest coming up, specific to and located in Death Valley. I'm trying to figure out which photo(s) to enter. I'm limited to two ... http://jodag.net/wp/2009/10/motivation You may remember a spanking I received a year or two ago at the SCVPA photo contest.  Time marches on, my tears have dried and my wounds have healed and I entered another local gallery's photo contest.  As you can probably guess by the title of this post, I did ... http://jodag.net/wp/2009/08/1st-place-photo It was announced today that the remains of Lt Cdr Michael "Scott" Speicher have been located and returned home. He was the first American casualty during the first gulf war when he was shot down over Iraq. I remember when he was shot down, and the stunning realization that despite ... http://jodag.net/wp/2009/08/welcome-home-lt-cdr-speicher Lots of new stuff. http://jodag.net/Media/Movies/mystary.wmv Direct link, rather than embedded due to IE's failure to respect HTML standards. http://jodag.net/wp/2009/05/new-stuff So, for 5 years I have been on satellite Internet. For those who are unfamiliar with this concept, it blows. The latency is obscene, which makes any form of online gaming impossible and the speeds are equivalent to that which you would see from a tortoise with only two legs, ... http://jodag.net/wp/2009/04/technology This was my second consecutive Death Valley Marathon/30k (first one here) and it was just as good the second time despite; pouring rain, mud, the use of the alternate running course and a lack of my running companions from last year. A few days before the race the race director sends ... http://jodag.net/wp/2009/02/death-valley-marathon-2009 I seem to have had an odd effect on my last two employers.  You may remember in April of '04 as Interplay was seemingly in the final throes of a long, drawn out death I quit.  Mainly because I had my current job lined up and finally ready to start, ... http://jodag.net/wp/2009/01/paychecks-shrinking-bouncing-and-a-visit-from-the-irs I met up with a very old friend of mine, Vu Bui who I haven't seen in about 4 years.  He asked me, "So no more APM's?"  I had to explain to him how it has been more of a posting malaise, since I have been keeping active these last ... http://jodag.net/wp/2009/01/vu-and-hugh My adventure for October was a visceral visual event.  I saw my first rocket launch the other day.  Those of us living in southern California have our own launch pad at Vandenburg AFB.  Vandenburg is involved in most of the testing of the ballistic missile shield, launching in conjunction and ... http://jodag.net/wp/2008/10/rockets-red-glare