[youtube width=”320″ height=”264″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IFotfsTNqs[/youtube]I admit it: I watch anime. I watch a lot of anime. I even make it available to a select few people by providing links to full downloads to recent episodes of Bleach and Naruto. I really had no problem with it watching the cutesy stuff, the horror stuff and the fantasy stuff. […]

I took the quiz at Comic Vine (http://www.comicvine.com). Sue Reed! Yay! In the movies, that would be that Alba chick. Meh. The power of invisibility and force feilds would be so cool. We could go to movies half price because she would sneak in! I could pick bar fights and not get punched! Oooh! I […]

I lament the demise of the good ol’ fashioned telephone. So much so that I’ve set my ring tone to be ‘old fashion phone’. I really miss the old phones and I sometimes think that all this technology we’re using today has sort of taken away some of what made the telephone such a grand […]

I was hanging out at home last night searching for anything of redeeming quality to watch on television. After surfing around for a bit I happened to catch ESPN Classic’s airing of the boxing matches between Greg Haugen and Vinny Pazienza. Man. Now there’s some boxing. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find any clips of those fights […]

Well, VD is around the corner. Yes, I meant Valentine’s Day and not Herpes. In honor of this pseudo-celebration brought upon us by retailers I thought I would take this opportunity to share some of my experiences with my lovely wife. When Creative Geeks Collide When Angela and I shared a home office in Northern […]

I went home to Northern Virginia this past weekend. It was quite the time. I met my oldest sister’s fiance and proceded to get rip roarin’ drunk. About 3 Corona’s, a San Miguel, 5 Johnny Walker Blue. on the rocks and, no kidding, 11 shots of Jose Cuervo Especial. I pity my wife sometimes. Oh, […]

I’ll be the first to admit it: my work environment is still iffy at best. I get along better with my clients and every other team except my own. It is a pretty sad existence when your ‘team’ doesn’t behave as a TEAM and really makes no effort to do so. In fact, it is […]

OW. Did you hear that? That was the sound of part of my brain melting. Dear God. I have had so, so, so many hopes for Jaime Pressly. Before I continue, let me say in all honesty that this wasn’t a supremely-super-horrible film. No, this is no Uwe Boll masterpiece. DOA is actually decent if […]

I decided to hop into Second Life from Linden Labs, a place where the motto is “Your World. Your Imagination.” It has been around for a number of years now and people have been flocking to it in droves. Here are a few statistics according to their website at the time of this post: Total […]

Well, here I am. This is me. You’ll be able to recognize me by the bulge on my hip. No, it isn’t some medical device it is my cell phone. Here are a few other tidbits about my life with this phone: * I sorta like surfing the web with this phone. The impressive thing […]

Christmas came and went this year. As many of you know, I spent it in North Carolina with my wife and dogs. The rest of our family stayed in Northern Virginia. Angela and I decided to go ahead and give our Christmas presents to each other early. Ok, I gave hers before Thanksgiving and she […]

So, the New Year has come. Angela has been here since just before Christmas and last night we went to Raleigh to celebrate New Year’s by going to a show called ‘Cirque Dreams’. It was, to say the least, interesting. We had seen several incantations of Cirque du Soleil. This was…uh…close. I’m used to hearing […]

Oy. Today was just one of those days that I’m glad it was the weekend and not a workday. If what happened to me today happened at work, I’d have to quit my job and move to yet ANOTHER state. We’ve all had those days where the world looks you square in the eyes and […]

I keep watching this LifeHacker post (click the ‘read more’ link below). I watch it and I keep asking myself as a web designer/developer “Who wouldn’t want that? Sweet Jiminy Christmas!”. What is it? The new Macs have the ability to run an application called Parallels with a new feature called ‘Coherence’. This allows you […]

A few interesting things happened this weekend and they all seem intertwined with one another. Let’s take things chronologically: WebLizard tells me that she and her husband will be in North Carolina this weekend. She also wonders if I’d like to go out to lunch with them. Yay! Familiar faces! We exchange cell phone numbers […]

I was recently on digg (username: puzzlehead) and I came across this piece about the CNet journalist James Kim. Looking at the path he took and wondering if leaving the car was the best decision at the time is hindsight at it’s worst. I feel so sorry for him and his family. The reports of […]

Home ownership. I’ve had a townhouse built for me before and that was about ten years ago or so. The experience wasn’t bad at all when I had it done. Then again, it may be my memories playing tricks on me. The house that we’re having built in North Carolina is a little different than […]

First things first: I was supposed to write my all new Origins of Thanksgiving Day story last week. And, truth be told, I started to do it. And then I actually read what I started writing. Afterwards, I punched myself in the crotch for writing it. You know how some things seem like a good […]

First things first – the following is a conversation between me and my wife via AIM.  Many of you who talk to me via instant messengers will quickly recognize that, yes, this is how I normally hold conversations online. In an event, this is the buildup for my Thanksgiving story that I’m sure will revolutionize […]

Here is a wonderful little email that I sent to my friend Amy: “Subject:How my day is going…and it is only 7am I’m having a great day today! I took the dogs out on a nice long walk this morning and got them to an elementary school close by where I could let them run […]

Since I’m down here in North Carolina by myself I thought that I would go ahead and try and take care of a lot of the design projects that are sitting on my desk. Me and the Mrs. won’t see each other this weekend so it will be just me and my pooches. Yep. Just […]

November 13, 1997. That was the day my Farley dog was born. He was small, slept a lot and was pretty much a lazy boy. Skip ahead 9 years and things really haven’t changed much. Except for his weight. He’s blossomed from being the 5 pound puppy to being the 68 pound puppy. Still lazy. […]

Tuesday and my body still hurts. For all those interested, here are some of my Paintball Pics: http://www.nest-eggdesigns.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=8595. Face it, I’m not as young as I used to be nor am I as thin. Or nimble. Heck, some would even argue ‘smart’. In any event, paintball was a blast again. We had about 20 people […]

Jinkies. This is the end of my second week here in North Carolina and a lot has happened since I started living here. Angela and I packed me up as best as we could before I left. We rented a cargo van and thought that we could put as much stuff in there as possible […]

Hi. This is my luck – both good and bad. During my trip back to North Carolina my rear, driver’s side tire literally exploded. I have no idea what happened. I was doing 75mph, as was most traffic, and then all of a sudden I hear this soft ‘whirring’ sound. I was on the phone […]

Yeah, yeah. So I cribbed a lyric from Pearl Jam. Big whoop. Contrary to some of your best wishes, I didn’t fall off the face of the Earth and get smothered by a bunch of worms. Or blond women in bikinis. Damn. I would pay good money for that last part. Really. I’m now here […]

Countdown to departure has started. I’m leaving this weekend for North Carolina and I start the new job on Monday. Yeesh. The entire ‘scrape-together-a-place-to-stay’ thing is a real pain. Luckily, I found an apartment that will allow me and my pooches to live together. Another lucky nugget: it will be about 15 minutes from where […]