The Same River.

Ran across this on the HomeBrewTalk forums. Absolutely love this. Some guy is brewing beer with an Ovaltine base. The video is pretty cute even if the audio suffers from clipping here and there.

If you’re going to mash up the Beatles, or Queen, you better hope it is quality. If you’re going to mash them up together, it better be phenomenal. This attempt gets pretty close to the mark. There’s really only one awkward moment in what is otherwise a pretty snappy mashup. Pulling in video makes it doubleplusgood.

It’s that kind of week already. Logged into iChat in case Elz was lurking and was immediately chatted up by awesomecoleyxo3 who is, allegedly, a 27F. I don’t remember that MOS but the Internet says that 27F is a Vulcan Repairer. So that’s cool, I guess. Anyway awesomecoleyxo3 might need some better off-duty hobbies.

Here is a transcript of our chat:

awesomecoleyxo3@aol.com: hey you

ME: Yo!

awesomecoleyxo3@aol.com: hey i’ve been sitting around sooo bored and figured i’d say hellooo.. hope i didn’t bother u

awesomecoleyxo3@aol.com: there is like no one around to talk to anymore…. 27.f here how bout u??

ME: Oooh. It’s that kind of chat!

awesomecoleyxo3@aol.com: ohh cool so whats up??

ME: Can you post some shady links and implore me to visit them?

ME: Still thinking?

awesomecoleyxo3@aol.com: well ii have an idea if u wanna have sum fun!!! i was gonna get on my cam and “unwind” a lil u should cum join ;-)

awesomecoleyxo3@aol.com: l joined this awesome sitethat is just like fb but w/o the annoying kidz.. wanna check it out???

ME: I see what you did there.

ME: Clever.

awesomecoleyxo3@aol.com: it only takes asecond to signup and it’s 100% free 2!!! http://badUrlHasBeenRemoved.com/ just click the ‘Join Free’ at the top of thepage

awesomecoleyxo3@aol.com: once you signup u’ll be allgood and u can join my private chat and tell me what 2 do ;)

ME: I think I’ll pass. Can we just chat?

awesomecoleyxo3@aol.com: ya you will need a card of sum kind but they wiII not charge u anything!!!!!

ME: What kind of card?

ME: And, really, I just want someone to talk to

awesomecoleyxo3@aol.com: i can not wait this is going to be sooo much fun… wait till u see what i’m wearing right now lol i think u’ll like it;)

ME: Cinnabon? Cuz I’m kind of hungry and didn’t have time to pick up some peanuts from the Kum ‘n’ Go on the way in to work this morning.

awesomecoleyxo3@aol.com: are u in hun??? i’m going to go get some “toys” but ill brb and hopefully u’ll be in when i get back hurry uppp

ME: Oooh…that hurts. Women should never ask “are you in hun?” because, well, that’s just plain demoralizing.

ME: Also, is your ‘P’ key sticky? My kitteh knocked over a glass of koolaid on my favorite keyboard last summer. No matter how many times I cleaned that keyboard some keys just stick. Especially in high humidity.

ME: Hey. Do you like the silent membrane keyboards they make today or are you more of the old school, buckling spring type?

ME: Because I loves me an M Series keyboard.

ME: They’re more resilient. And the tactile feedback lets you know you’re *typing*. Know what I mean? I really really like them.

ME: Hey. Are you there?

ME: Man….just like my ex. All fun up front but no follow through. Meh.

Gettin’ Lucky in Council Tucky tshirts are going to be all the rage soon. I can feel it.

Is it pretty cool to listen to real-time underwater acoustic observation platforms? You bet it is!

Problems encountered

1. Very few of the listening posts are currently active
2. Some of the listening posts didn’t load in a timely fashion
3. Godforsaken, stupid, Flash-only interface to whole damn site

But the site is probably bandwidth heavy and currently experiencing the Slashdot Effect.

It’s clever. I cannot deny it ranks up with the Lionel Richie “Hello…” flyers in my mind.

Callin’ Oates.

Just doing my part, providing linklove. Pepper Spraying Cop now appearing in an iconic image near you.

For certain values of fun anyway. It’s like going back to school without the [cost|credit] but with a commitment to learn stuff. Seriously thinking of trying to backfill some of my core CS deficiencies as I didn’t do a whole lot of serious CS work in the MIS program. Of interest are:

• Design and Analysis of Algorithms I
• Software Engineering for Software as a Service
• Cryptography
• Probabilistic Graphical Models
• Machine Learning
• Natural Language Processing

From this list I think I could reasonably expect to pick one and follow through with an effort that I would feel comfortable expending. Anyone want to take one with me?

Lilly can MOVE!

This is a horrible place to find one’s self. There are many times this happens in my life.