tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293778262009-04-05T02:24:08.992-07:00Did you ever wonder what I do on any given day? You're not alone, nobody does. In case I get in trouble, though, maybe I can use all of this as evidence on my own behalf.Scott Boyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10915001675480634572noreply@blogger.comBlogger99125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29377826.post-18344395724719222322009-04-05T01:12:00.009-07:002009-04-05T02:24:09.000-07:00

I went to the midnight Nintendo DSi launch party at GameStop and picked up my black DSi. Less than an hour after picking it up at the store, I bring you these three choice shots taken with the DSi camera and edited using the software embedded in the DSi. Figure 1: There are many of me, but this one is mine. Or something like that.Enlarge Photo Figure 2: This is the picture with no lens

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What is this? A mystery. It looks like a meal gone terribly wrong. But is it? Figure 1: What is this? A plate of delicious vitreous jelly?Enlarge Photo Figure 2: An alien landscape?Enlarge Photo Figure 3: A packrat's nest?Enlarge PhotoI am vacuuming my bedroom right now. "Well," you say, "not exactly right now because right now you're typing on your computer." No, I am actually vacuuming my

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My nephew Sean went to Lindy's on 4th Avenue in Tucson, AZ and he performed a feat of spectacular consumption. He ate a 1.5 pound hamburger. The burger consisted of six quarter-pound hamburger patties, six slices of cheese, and a big bun. It was pretty impressive to see him do it. You can judge for yourself.If you eat the hamburger, they take your picture and put it up on their wall.Movie 1: Sean

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I drew this picture of a dog the other day at dinner and this is the reaction that I got from my friend, the only other adult present out of four people: "That is the worst picture of a dog I have ever seen." The reaction was swift and definitive. There was no deliberation or hesitation at all. I'm not sure that the picture deserved such a harsh critique, since it is, in fact, instantly

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I'm still aggressively pursuing my dream of achieving the perfect pop, that is, the bag of microwave popcorn that yields 100% edible product with no wasted kernels. The search for the perfect pop has been long and much harder than I thought it would be. In this attempt, you can see by my analysis that I fell well short of my goal.Figure 1: This bag yielded a satisfying volume of edible product.

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I'm on a quest to achieve the perfect pop. The perfect pop is when you make a bag of microwave popcorn and two things happen: 1) there is not a single kernel of corn left un-popped and 2) the popcorn isn't scorched at all. This attempt came pretty close. The popcorn wasn't burned, and as you can see from the detailed graphical analysis in Figure 2 below, there were only 4 kernels of corn left

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I've talked to several writers who would like to send stories out to online literary journals but they are hesitant to do it because they're not sure where to send them. Writers want to place stories in journals that literary agents and writing program directors read and would recognize, but there are so many journals and none of them have been around all that long (compared to print journals) so

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I've been using OpenOffice.org for a few months now and it's going pretty well. One thing I noticed though is that the Find and Replace in Writer is not nearly as robust as the comparable feature in Word. I'm a pretty heavy user of Find and Replace especially when I'm collecting documents from multiple places into one document, or when I'm importing and exporting a document from different

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On a typical day I might use between three and five different computers. Usually four. I own all of those computers and I am responsible for buying the software on all of them. In the course of any given week, I regularly use eight computers, for four of them I have to buy software, for the other four I am not even able to install software if I wanted to.I am getting tired of buying software

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I hope the person who made the sign hasn't graduated yet.Figure 1: My done what?Enlarge Photo

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This is a strange hair tie. It has ribs on it.Figure 1: A very unusual ribbed hair tie.Enlarge Photo

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Easter eggs! William Shatner! It was a great haul this year for Shatner Easter eggs. The rabbit just couldn't lay enough of them.Do you know what Easter Egg means? Lately?Figure 1Enlarge PhotoFigure 2Enlarge PhotoFigure 3Enlarge PhotoFigure 4Enlarge PhotoFigure 5Enlarge PhotoFigure 6Enlarge PhotoFigure 13,000Enlarge PhotoFigure 8Enlarge PhotoFigure 9Enlarge PhotoFigure 10Enlarge PhotoFigure

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This parking lot hair tie has a kink in it. I think the kink in it, and the way it is sitting on the pavement, makes it look sort of like the numbers 13,000.Figure 13,000: This hair tie has a kink in it.Enlarge PhotoFigure 2: I wonder if the kink in this hair tie is due to some damage or if it came like that. I also wonder if the kink is why it either fell out or was discarded.Enlarge Photo

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I saw another hair tie in a parking lot yesterday. This one was special because it was touching the white parking lot lines. As you can see from the photo, this hair tie also looks a lot like the number 13,000.Figure 1: This is a special hair tie.Enlarge Photo

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I watched Charlie and the Chocolate Factory for the first time a couple of weeks ago. Then I watched it again. Then I watched it again. Then I watched it again, an average of about five times every seven days. I made these two commemorative illustrations on my Magna-Doodle which I think look a lot like Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka. Which one do you think looks more like him? Please fill out my

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I was walking into Starbucks today at River and Campbell and I saw this hair tie in the parking lot. It looks like it has light-colored hair on it. I wonder how many hair ties there are in parking lots.Figure 1: This is the hair tie pretty much how I saw it in the Starbucks parking lot.Enlarge PhotoFigure 2: This is the hair tie almost completely desaturated.Enlarge PhotoFigure 3: This is the

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I was walking today and I found this man who I think was probably hit by a car. He's missing a hand and a foot. I'm going to go back maybe on Thursday to see if I can find the missing parts.Figure 1: I found this broken Power Ranger type of guy today.Enlarge Photo

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You know what it's time for. You know what went down this weekend with the rabbit and the eggs and whatnot. It's the best time of year, party people, because the Shatner eggs are back. And it's a good haul. That is all I have to say about that right now.Figure 1: This decorative egg tribute to William Shatner was made using two different dyes and a Sharpie marker.Enlarge PhotoFigure 2: Bill

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Most of the dead rabbits I see were dead when I first saw them. This one wasn't. This was just a little fellow and he seemed sick. He just kind of died over the course of a day.Figure 1: This poor little guy died from something. He didn't seem hurt or anything, just sick.Enlarge PhotoFigure 2: I wonder if maybe he got separated from his mom too early.Enlarge PhotoFigure 3: I don't think this

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I got a note from someone who saw my hair tie picture. She said she had the same thing happen to her, except the one she kept seeing was at the Post Office. While we're on the subject, here's a hair tie that I've seen every day for about the last ten months.Figure 1: This is a hair tie that's seen some miles. I would say about maybe 15,000 miles.Enlarge Photo

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This is a mystery. Or maybe a miracle. Twice a week, I go to the same parking lot. I've been going to this parking lot since January of 2007. The first day I went to the lot in January, there was a little hair tie on the ground in one of the parking spaces. I noticed it on my way in. Then, I noticed it was still there on the way out. Not too big of a deal, I was only there a few hours.

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It must be dead rabbit season again. It kind of gives me the willies. There have been two found this past week. One, the one indicated here, was only about fifteen feet from the original one. This one didn't last long, though. He was gone within a day. I wonder if something ate him.For the first time in recorded history, the pictures of this dead rabbit are too disgusting to show. They

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Check out this lion. He came in a Happy Meal.Figure 1: This lion looks like he is bowling.Enlarge Photo

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Why is the men's room in a chain bookstore bathroom always such a pit? They're universally filthy and heavily abused, at least the ones I've been to. The bookstore can be in great shape and relatively new, but the bathroom always looks like it's ground zero in a gang war. They smell like the ones in a bus station, they're torn apart like somebody locked a gorilla in there, and they're covered

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Figure 1: This is a picture of Barbie. I took it a while ago with an old camera. Barbie is lit with a candle and I used a long exposure to get enough light.Enlarge PhotoFigure 2: This is the same picture of Barbie, but different.Enlarge Photo

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