Sunday, October 02, 2005

Corran!

So I'm reading the newest Star Wars book the other day waiting on the guys to arrive so we can go see Serenity, and boy was I in for a shock. They finally promoted Corran to Jedi Master! His children, Valin and Jysella are both well on the way to becoming Padawans.

A hundred pages later, with Luke missing in action for several weeks, the Jedi temporarily elect Corran as the new head of the Jedi Order! It's completely temporary and will go away when Luke returns, but holy crap!

Saturday, October 01, 2005

Picture Galleries

As I listed in the post below this, I've run into some webserver trouble (thanks again Greg) and have been unable to post the wedding galleries and other related pictures. This is just a quick post to provide some raw data.

I have temporarily hotlinked the images here for simple viewing. These are raw pictures directly from Brandon's camera, so I apologize for the huge size and lack of proper filtering. This post will be updated to reflect the proper status once I finish fixing what broke.

Real Nerds Carry Tools

Slight gap here into which I had intended to post some wedding related stuff. Thanks to Greg's recommendation on upgrading some webserver features, my server (and now his!) died. This put a huge kink in the update progress and literally killed my intention to update my page layout.

So onto the topic above. A few months ago I broke my utility knife doing some maintenance on stuff. I went for the longest time without one, but during our recent overnight to upgrade the Precinct at work, I felt the loss pretty heavy. I used Alex's Gerber Multitool several times during the night and was generally pleased with the functionality. Feeling the loss again today, I went out and purchased one.

Several people (Becca!) make fun of me for wearing my flashlight all the time, but I can't even begin to count the number of times that it's been unbelievably handy when I needed it, including during some post-wedding pranks at the reception. However, as a famous MIT nerd once said, 'Real nerds carry tools', and so I find myself now toting a utility pouch and a flashlight, one on each hip. At any given time, you can find me carrying a multi-tool, a flash light, a flash drive with all of the software I'd conceivably need to do just about anything helpful, a pen, a pewter lightsaber on my keychain, and other random goodies which vary.