Search my posts all the way back to April 2003
The search is a little quirky, so being creative helps.
For example, a search for slumber party night will find ANY ONE of the words, while "slumber party night" (in quotes) will only find the exact phrase and I don't always use the complete phrase and sometimes I abbreviate it to SPN.
Therefore, a search for slumber spn with no quotes should find every post that mentions our little ritual.
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the day my relationship with Terra changed
It’s fun and even useful to have a personal site that archives all my social media updates – Twitter, Flickr, Facebook and such – and then is searchable so I can go back and see things in the past.
Yesterday, I came across something interesting.
See, Terra and I were friends for a long time before we became . . . → Read More: the day my relationship with Terra changed
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Oaty Veggie Meatloaf – a recipe to perfect
So, I start with 2 or 3 pounds of whatever ground meat…
Then I add lots of oats and finely diced (we’re talking relish) onions and peppers until it looks right – But it’s ALOT – maybe a fourth of the total mixture and I always wish I’d added more. I don’t ever measure so I’m . . . → Read More: Oaty Veggie Meatloaf – a recipe to perfect
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2009 Movies
#=my first time, &=her first time
*=spn, @=psp
t=with terra, m=with mom, w=with wesley
*t…Raising Arizona
t&…A Scanner Darkly
mt…The Family Stone
t*…Better Off Dead
&*t…Mixed Nuts
t&#…Millions
t&#*…Christmas Vacation
: : : : : : : : : : : : : DECEMBER : : : : : : : : : : : :
t&…Planes, Trains and Automobiles
twm…Pieces of April
#t…The Family Stone
#tw…Bring It On
twm…Up
t&…The Godfather, . . . → Read More: 2009 Movies
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2010 Movies
*=SPN %=PSP $=cinema +=bedroom
B=Blu-ray N=NetflixIW V_=Vudu(x/h/s)
t/T = with terra / her first time
m/M = mom, w/W = wesley
C = my first time
*T…It’s A Wonderful Life
tB…Fargo
tB…Boogie Nights
…Primer (my new dvd)
*t…Christmas Vacation
VxWt…Edward Scissorhands (first Vudu)
t…The Royal Tenenbaums
t…The Family Stone
Nt*…Funny Farm
NCT*…Black Christmas (1974)
Bt…Crash
W…Scrooged
TB…Eyes Wide Shut
t*…Mixed Nuts
: : . . . → Read More: 2010 Movies
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A quick rant on why I am so against a Blade Runner franchise
This is a comment I posted on Facebook that I’ll lazily paste here, rather than write an expansion.
I began by posting this to Twitter: “Building a franchise around Blade Runner is like building an amusement park around The Smithsonian.”
And then, here is what I followed up with on Facebook…
It’s what I’ve seen happen to Alien.
The franchise . . . → Read More: A quick rant on why I am so against a Blade Runner franchise
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If there's anything else on the site that you wonder what it is, where it came from, or how it's done, feel free to contact me.
This site, and all similar endeavors, are dedicated to my dad, who always encouraged my growth as a techie.
Samuel Truman Cornelius
July 23, 1945
December 16, 2007
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a tour of my desktop
By christopher, on July 4th, 2009
(originally posted on Flickr – but, i wanted it here, too…)
(click the pic to view original size)
first i want to point out that this is on a 42" lcd hdtv in the living room and i use a wireless kb and mouse…
second, pretty much everything you see is Yahoo! Widgets, Rainmeter, ObjectDock, and Stickies… if you want your desktop like mine, just google those names…
on the left is our budget for the month using Stickies, but, if you look, it is a bit transparent and you will see it is actually the top sticky atop a few others, but this is the only open one – they roll up… (i hide windows desktop icons under my sticky notes…) you can see i have another little note in the middle of the screen, at the top…
beneath the budget are a couple icons of stuff i need to do – check out the PlayOn app, put Iron Man on my mom’s psp, etc…. it’s sorta’ my to-do stack… and the bottom left hand corner – that little blue thing – i can drag a file onto that and it will auto-magically upload it to the ‘stuff’ directory on my website…
ok, at the bottom edge is ObjectDock – ya’ know, like the dock on a mac… it is hidden until i hover my mouse at the bottom of the screen and, as my mouse moves, the icons under it enlarge… in this pic, i clicked on ‘APPS’ and it opened the assortment of apps i keep handy… not pictured is the other ObjectDock, which i have set up as the system tray/task bar – it’s hidden on the left… i have used ObjectDock (paid version) for years and can’t live without it… it does many more tricks i won’t get into here…
ok, the news headlines are Rainmeter – which is like a widget engine, but not for the faint-of-heart – it is very complex to customize and you need to have some coding knowledge… as you see, i have rss feeds from home-barista for coffee geek discussions, playstation lifestyle for ps3/psp stuff and google for "real" news…
in the middle, since i love love love photography, a Yahoo Widget showing recent popular photos posted on DeviantArt on the left and another Yahoo Widget on the right with recent popular photos posted to Flickr… they are set to change every few minutes… i leave room since the photos come in all shapes and sizes… both have very impressive customization settings as far as what kind of content to show… for instance, the deviantart widget, of course, has tons more types of art than photography and the flickr widget can show your own stream, favorites, photos from groups and/or contacts, and you can even use it to upload to flickr…
at the top, pretty obvious, Yahoo Widgets for date/time, cpu usage, and upload/download speed…
which brings us to the right edge… i have been a webcam junkie for years and this is a Yahoo Widget called WebImages – several instances of it, of course… i have used several methods for desktop webcam monitoring and this one blows all the others away… the depth of options and customization can be intimidating at first and there is a bit of a learning curve, but it is SOOOO worth it… the radar is the local weather radar, of course… the rest are cams that update once a minute… i have each set up to sort of a theme and each contains more than one cam – when it updates, it switches to the next cam that one monitors… for instance, the top is local – alternating between a cam in cloudcroft and one in las cruces… the next down is home – albuquerque – four different cams and once a minute, it shows a different view… the next three are assorted cool/interesting places – cams in las vegas, italy, california, and others – all three contain a list of all my favorite cams around the world and, once a minute (or whatever i choose to set it to from once a second to once a day) it cycles to the next cam in its list… or, if one of them has something really interesting going on, i stop the cycling and set it to update in near-real-time and each one has a button when you mouse over it to enlarge it as big as you like… you can hit another button to save the current image, even…
but, now i’m gushing ;P
oh, and the very bottom one is NASATV – the widget can stream the video, but, i just have it set to show a still every 15 seconds…
anyway… that’s my desktop…
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Christopher
aka Zane, aka insidious_plots, aka jesusfreakgeek, aka ABQChristopher
Life-long movie lover and LaserDisc collector, computer user since age ten, Bible thumper and Jesus freak, coffee snob and hobbyist barista, learning to cook, seasoned fledgling magician, wannabe photographer, reformed drug addict, disc golfer, Psion 5mx user, PS3/PSP enthusiast (but only a casual gamer), amateur nurse, city guy temporarily stuck in a very small town and rarely stops complaining about it…
ya’ know… the usual stuff...
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If you want to know what's going on in my life, reading my Twitter timeline will keep you updated on the day-to-day stuff (and, yeah, I'm on Facebook).
If you want to see what's going on in my life, I regularly post pics and videos from my phone to my Flickr photostream and my YouTube channel, respectively.
(I have reluctantly given up on Zannel for fear of them folding like so many other social media services recently, but I still have countless pics and vids there. And I think my Dashwire and TwitPic days are over.)
I love photography and I also use Flickr to show off my photographs and snapshots, though I don't update it often enough, but here's my personal faves I've taken and here's my faves I WISH I took.
Wakoopa knows all about what desktop software i use, Del.icio.us is where I keep all my favorite bookmarks, and I am always adding interesting news/blog items I've read to my Google Reader shared items.
Mom, Terra, Wesley, and I share a Netflix profile so you can see what kind of stuff we watch. And yes, I own about 350 LaserDiscs and they are all listed on my LDDb collection page.
I don't listen to much music but I go through phases when I look to Last.fm and/or Pandora to try to satisfy my needs.
Btw, people complain because I never use my MySpace and I usually don't even remember I have an account on StumbleUpon and I haven't gone to my LiveJournal in years.
I also own insidiousplots.com,
jesusfreakgeek.com, abqdiscgolf.com, nmdiscgolf.com, and baristopher.com.
Aaaand, for years, everything else kind of ends up in the old stuff directory. live upates from my cell phone
random favorite photos i’ve taken
and from my coffee bar...
Films I Can’t Live Without (as of January, ’11)
interesting things I’ve read on my phone/PSP recently
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