Author: cosmo

“Eagles may soar, but weasels don’t get sucked into jet engines.”

— John Benfield

Mmm… I finally got out on my bike today, after several months of it sitting in the garage getting rusty. The weather was pretty nice (50ish) and I had a dentist appointment across town, so I pumped up the tires, hopped on, and enjoyed the ride.

Well, this is a new one for me. I’m building a web application that presents a form entirely in Japanese.

The funny thing is that I have no idea what these fields say, and I can only hope that the first Japanese guy to come to the site and use the form doesn’t laugh his head off or get offended because I messed up a verb tense or something and insulted his ancestors.

I took a fun picture of my new Google lava lamp warming up:

President Bush is now down to a 19% approval rating.

What’s most incredible about that is the fact that if I picked five random people on the street, one of them would actually think Bush is doing a good job!

Behold the power of the internet… already there are hundreds of eclipse photos on Flickr. Here’s one that’s a bit fuzzy, but I liked the wispy icy clouds:

And here’s one that was actually taken last year but is an impressive shot:

It’s amazing how nature is so beautiful at times.

Sadly, tonight’s lunar eclipse was marred by cloud cover. Around 8:30 the clouds cleared a bit, leaving some wispy ones floating around the moon, and I was able to take a few pictures.

It’s always cool to see the moon turn red (apparently a result of sunlight refracting through Earth’s atmosphere) and even cooler to see the curve of Earth’s shadow. The photo doesn’t really do it justice, but I enjoyed the sight anyway.

I’m listening to Joga’s “Dam Dariram”, which is a song included on Dance Dance Revolution Ultramix 2 and has a great beat. The lyrics aren’t too bad:

But then you get to the refrain:

Whoa. I guess they couldn’t think of any words so they sort of threw together a bunch of syllables that sounded catchy.

Mmm… today marked my return to ultimate for the year. I haven’t played since November (when the weather was amazing) due to weather, trips, work, illness, and general laziness. So I hit the field today, along with a dozen other guys who also haven’t played for three months, and we had a good time in the (relatively) warm weather.

Of course it reminded me how out of shape I’ve become during the course of the winter…

Here’s a cool photo from our trip to Idaho a couple of weeks ago. There were some pretty serious blizzards in northern Utah, but on the day we drove through the area it was a beautiful (but cold) sunny day.