Sean’s Blog

I really like the word whinge. As an American you can’t use it without sounding like a college kid who just came back from a week in London (or Madonna), but it is a good word.
Google defines it as:

whinge:
To complain in a particularly annoying manner.

Actual Poll at MSNBC

I’m really busy today, but I ran across these and I thought they were great.  I totally want Mr Giggles to play with my kids…

Many, many more (14 pages) here.

I’ve always loved astronomy.  I never had the discipline for descent practice of it and my math skills are kind of shaky, but as something casual, i find it a lot of fun.   BoingBoing has a link today about an awesome picture taken from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter looking back at the moon and the earth.

Link to the NASA page with details and a larger image.

So Saturday night Jess and I went to see Iron Man. You know what I thought? Meh. That’s right I said Meh. Now I didn’t go in expecting high art ( the art not the terrible movie), but I had some expectations since THE ENTIRE INTERNET said it was “teh awesome!1!”

I thought that the first part in Afghanistan was really good, but it just kindof went downhill from there. Maybe I’m just not that into superhero movies. I liked the X-Men movies, the Batman with Christian Bale, and Hellboy (but that’s probably because I am a Guillermo Del Toro fanboy), and that is about it. Did I miss something?

I am really looking forward to Hellboy2, as well as The Happening, and I will probably see the new Indiana Jones, but so far the summer movies have left me, well kind of meh.

Tip of the innuendo to aboutcolonblank

It’s 80 degrees and sunny outside and I am stuck at work. Ahh, the joys of being part of a 24X7 operation. Besides working today, it was a pretty good weekend. We spent along time in clearing out the the ivy that has slowly been trying to consume the house and then mulching the flowerbeds in the back yard.

We also walked down to the ice cream place down the street since I have been on a milkshake kick for the past couple days. Last, but not least, we installed a squirrel bungee, which has the potential to be INCREDIBLY AWESOME.

So I get to be at work on a day nobody is updating their blogs, going through back issues of xkcd (which is just brilliant) and I ran across a great commentary on the whole “managing your image online” debate :

I found these two things today that were just hilarious:
You almost feel sorry for the telemarketer:

Much more geeky, but still as hilarious:

I keep going back and forth on how to run this blog.  I want something that isn’t constrained to a topic and is just generally about me, but I also like to write about technology and would like to make an attempt at running a serious blog (ie by serious I mean getting more professional about it, not tone).

When I started out I had two blogs.  This one and a technology focused blog.  I sortof lost interest in the tech blog because I was still learning about blogging and how to best do it.  It ended up going under, but I think I am going to give it another shot.

In the last year I’ve learned a lot about blogging and social media in general and I think that this will help me to write a much more value packed and professional blog since I’ve been around the corner and have made a lot of mistakes that I’ve learned from.

What that means for you is that I am going to take this blog as really a personal blog.  A sort of catch-all that random things I’m interested in will show up on.  It probably means that i won’t be able to blog on this site daily, but who knows.  Over the last couple of months I’ve found that I really enjoy writing again and posting isn’t the chore that it was when I started.

Keep an eye here for when I officially kick off the new site.  It should only be a couple of weeks from now.  I really want to have some great content lined up before I start and am working through a couple of ideas now.

Friday night, Jess and I went to see Flight of the Concords. Having told a good amount of people, I was kind of shocked that not many people know who they are. they have a show on HBO that just finished up it’s first season and I’d totally recommend it. I generally am not a fan of musical comedy but…

IT’S BUSINESS TIME!