Friday, April 06, 2007
Tag Me With a Spoon
I got tagged by Brian and Dean. I will relent and provide the required information (five things you didn't know about me). I am not tagging anyone. This insanity must end now!
1. I hate sour cream -- makes me gag. Why would you eat something that has been labeled "sour", as in "hey this milk is sour -- I just gagged".
2. I scored a perfect 7 points in a tuba competition at the state level in Indiana when I was in seventh grade. The composition was In the Hall of the Mountain King. My late mother accompanied me on the piano at Butler University. It was our finest hour together. There really is nothing to compare with a tuba solo in a quiet room.
3. I love collecting and listening to original music scores for movies. There is nothing like writing code to a great film score. I have over 300 scores in my collection. This is one reason I am obsessed with iPods and iTunes.
4. My ancestors can be traced to the American Revolutionary War. Possibly on both sides (one is confirmed).
5. I was once in the Silicon Graphics developer program. There was no cooler place to be in the mid 90's as a software developer. Big iron hardware right on my desk. Used an SGI Onyx with "dual reality engines". I wrote the user interface and 3D visualization software for a really cool mechanical engineering software package called Passage back in the 90's. Check out the animations. These are live screen demos -- not frame by frame renderings (Pixar style). Ten years after leaving the company they still try and sell it. 100,000 lines of C and Motif baby!
1. I hate sour cream -- makes me gag. Why would you eat something that has been labeled "sour", as in "hey this milk is sour -- I just gagged".
2. I scored a perfect 7 points in a tuba competition at the state level in Indiana when I was in seventh grade. The composition was In the Hall of the Mountain King. My late mother accompanied me on the piano at Butler University. It was our finest hour together. There really is nothing to compare with a tuba solo in a quiet room.
3. I love collecting and listening to original music scores for movies. There is nothing like writing code to a great film score. I have over 300 scores in my collection. This is one reason I am obsessed with iPods and iTunes.
4. My ancestors can be traced to the American Revolutionary War. Possibly on both sides (one is confirmed).
5. I was once in the Silicon Graphics developer program. There was no cooler place to be in the mid 90's as a software developer. Big iron hardware right on my desk. Used an SGI Onyx with "dual reality engines". I wrote the user interface and 3D visualization software for a really cool mechanical engineering software package called Passage back in the 90's. Check out the animations. These are live screen demos -- not frame by frame renderings (Pixar style). Ten years after leaving the company they still try and sell it. 100,000 lines of C and Motif baby!
Tuesday, April 03, 2007
Thinking Outside of the Box: Kids Say the Darndest Things
After enjoying some fine BBQ at Smokey Bones last night, I asked my 4 year old,
She replied:
I asked:
She replied:
"did you like your pork sandwich?"
She replied:
"Yes."
I asked:
"Do you know where pork comes from?"
She replied:
"Porcupines?"
