Don't Click It

An interesting site about interface design and clicking.

Moroccan Chicken with Lentils

I made Moroccan Chicken with Lentils tonight. Good stuff! More cinnamon next time I think.

Gas Prices

Here's an interesting perspective on the current price of gas. It's interesting to look at it in a way that actually normalizes it logically.

Just for fun

The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid!
Can yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 out of 100 plepoe can. Aoccdrnig to
rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the
ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer
be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it
whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey
lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? And we awlyas
tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt.

Dresden Codak

Man, I LOVE the Hob storyline by Dresden Codak!

Lentil and Quinoa salad

I just finished making some Lentil and Quinoa salad using this recipe with some minor variations. I am very happy with the results. My replacements were olive oil, key lime juice (awesome!) and a curry paste that I know is delicious all over the place. The key lime sets off the ginger very well, a nice bite, but not overpowering. I pat myself on the back for this one!

Hilarious and disturbing

Some awesome cartoons about warrant-less wiretapping and other wonderful things brought to you by your current government.

Books I have read

From a friend's blog: Bold those you have read and italicize the books you LOVE.

1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter Series – JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials Trilogy – Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11 Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyne Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Graeme
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
34 Emma – Jane Austen
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38 Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh – A.A. Milne
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables – L M Montgomery
47 Far From the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52 Dune – Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time of Cholera – Garbiel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
66 On the Road – Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’ Diary – Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes from a Small Island – Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses – James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal – Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - A S Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White
88 The Five People You Meet in Heaven – Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94 Watership Down – Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

It's mah bike!

Bikes

Hope for the future

Aubrey de Grey and Ray Kurzweil give me hope for the future of the human race.

TED Talks

I've been watching TED Talks most of the evening and ALL of them have been brilliant and/or humorous. I suggest watching as many as you can make time for.

Happiness

I don't know what it is, but I just feel especially HAPPY today. I feel free and light and unrestrained. I have all the furniture I need, spend a couple hours reading at the beach... Life is good. Oh, and I have a bike. :)

Our Condo

Some pictures of the condo. Now with furniture! http://picasaweb.google.com/ChrisCrewdson/OurCondo

Maui Beaches

Just went for a half-hour run on the beach. GOD DAMN it's beautiful here! Now I feel exhausted and relaxed. But I still need a bed damn it.

Safe

Safe and well in my new place in Kihei, HI (it's on Maui!)

Awesome graffiti animation

Wow. http://www.blublu.org/sito/video/muto.htm

Jon Stewart interviews Douglas Feith

A very good interview of Douglas Feith by Jon Stewart.

Powerthirst

Ok, first you have to have seen Powerthirst.
They you may or may not be ready to watch the (NSFW) gay version.
Quality humor in a can.

There will be Milkshakes for Old Men

I don't think the problem is that it's knit. The problem is that it's creepy at some deep level. 
http://tinyurl.com/5sejty

Bwah ah ah! Attn: Pirates!

Molten Core: WoW for the console

The new WotLK class: The Bard!

Awesome.
Nervetapping Neckband

I've added another irrational fear to my list: Straight razors.

CREEPY! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCrGnd3ljqA

A new high for the craziest way to die: http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/20/eagleray/index.html

Feeling slightly better about things. I may have overreacted. 

First post from Dashboard! Woo!

Subcutaneous Display Powered by Blood

The Suntory Mermaid II Wave-Powered Boat

This is fancy. Howl's Moving Castle papercraft

This is Kairn. She's awesome. I made her.

My new plan

My new plan
Originally uploaded by ThatMonkey

To get back in shape

My new plan

My new plan
Originally uploaded by ThatMonkey

To get back in shape

Bad bank

Bad bank
Originally uploaded by ThatMonkey

No cookie. That's a windows login screen.

Alienware Curved Display | Tom's Games: WANT.

Schoolboy hacks into city's tram system - Telegraph: AWESOME!

Wow. WOFL

And to add to yesterdays crap, House approves $70 billion for wars

Ok, good job here. Congress approves auto fuel economy increase
But then.... House and Senate Slash Science Budget Increases
Seriously guys. Really? Gah.

This diagram is full of win.

If you've finished Portal, you will love this. Otherwise, it will probably be funny but make no sense.

The best condoms evar: http://www.abstinencethecondom.com/

WANT.

Bwah ha ha! Hello Kitty bicycle tire

So this is the latest little project I have done: Temperature Monitoring in my house

Built it all from the component level using this guide.

Sweet song. Re Your Brains

In case you've ever been curious and want a quick overview: String Theory in Two Minutes

Because I blog it, does it mean I am a lexiphanes?

From Rowling herself: Dumbledore is gay
Sweet!

Totally sweet internet meme. Im in ur ___, ___ing ur ___z.

Totally sweet. Wi-Fi Detector Shirt

This is a really interesting video: A New Marriage of Brain and Computer
It's talking about a link between quantum effects and consciousness.
Here's the guy's website: http://www.quantumconsciousness.org/
Pretty interesting stuff if you are interested in the roots of consciousness or the complexity of human cognition.

So I was just sitting there watching the Colbert Report and enjoying my La Maitresse du Moine Dark Strong Ale from the Midnight Sun Brewing Company, when this came on: The Craziest F#?king Thing Stephen Colbert Has Ever Heard
I was laughing so hard I had trouble breathing. I could have been the Ale... But seriously, it was funny.

MAKE is always pretty cool, but this caught me. Foxhole Radio
In this digital age, all our devices are complicated PCBs and ICs. It's nice to see a VERY simple circuit that performs a useful task. It sparks something visceral when something simple like this can create a bridge between the evanescent world of invisible radio waves and our senses in the tangible world.

Cute Overload: Make a dog sweater from a sock

This is totally me and John shopping. http://xkcd.com/309/

For those of you who I have not told directly, here is a happy announcement. I recently asked my girlfriend of nearly three years, Sarah "Rah" Rolland, to marry me and she said yes. We have not set a date, but probably next summer in Anchorage, AK. WWWOOOOWOOWWWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

NYC Maker makes 1775 submarine - gets cited by US Coast Guard
and
Undercover NBC Dateline reporter bolts from DEFCON 2007

It's rare that a webcomic makes me laugh every time I look at it. This one does. (This is an edit of a previous post that pointed to a totally UN-hilarious comic. Sorreh.)

Bwah ha ha! The Onion is hilarious. The Internet Crash of 2007!

toys

toys
Originally uploaded by ThatMonkey

Here are some of our toys! Yay!

Originally uploaded by ThatMonkey

I went camping this last weekend. WEeeeeEEE!!!111oneoneone

My new license plate
Originally uploaded by ThatMonkey

My new license plate. I finally got 'em! That's a zero BTW.

A very interesting article, intelligently written. Why Terrorism Doesn't Work.

This is a hilarious and useful re-purposing of the chick tract form factor. Now used for good instead of spreading narrow-minded thinking!

Ron Paul

I've watched hours of video and Ron Paul is the first presidential candidate that I think I could get behind and actually campaign for. Normally I am rather ambivalent about politics, but he strikes so many chords with me it's hard to ignore. He speaks intelligently, he has PhD, he is consistent and he is convincing. Even in the few cases I disagree with him, he presents his case well and I have to think hard to form an argument against his position. That engenders a large amount of respect for him on my part.

Here is the first of a series of videos of him speaking:
Interview 1 of 6

He is a big advocate of small government and free markets. I agree with him on that.
Also, to speak on his stance on personal freedom, here's an interview with NORML.

He has my vote so far.

Some important information about the "Forever" stamp.

Ron Paul seems an interesting fellow.

This is awesome. A great and simple idea. http://recaptcha.net/

MIT Hacks XKCD Talk With AACS key

I am in teh paper! 'Cause I'm famouses or somefings. It's small. Near the bottom. Last article paragraph. You could miss it. Look closer.

DNA replication for $10

09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 is everywhere today.

One of these days....

god@universe:~$ kill -9 -1

PRAM is coming.

"Normal people learn in order to survive. Geeks survive in order to have time to learn."

I believe I am a scientist.

Internet Safety Tips!

Celebrate Pi Day! Also Albert Einstein's b-day. Coincidence? I THINK NOT!

I expected no less.

Dean Kamen is still inventing. This robotic arm looks promising. Soon I will have my prehensile tail. :)

And so it begins. A.I. busted for practicing law without a license

Ah, the memories of college. Gamer TV

Bwah ha ha!

Pirate Toaster!

ZOMG it's like teh most ultimatest l33t gamar chair evar!!!!!1111oneoneone

We're all safe now!

"If you arrange the 7 Deadly Sins around a heptagon label them A-G, and connect each Sin to the others, you get 21 secondary sins. For instance Sloth + Pride = Slackers."
Brilliance. Link. Via Boing Boing.

Get a signed DVD of The Last Unicorn
and
like the biggest heatsink evar.

I have a bit of a stuffy cold thingy. Bleh. Locally brewed stout beer will help.

As of Monday, Rah is here in Anchorage with me! WOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Puppy is here too, although he doesn't seem to be enjoying to backyard too much yet.
I hope he will as he gets used to it. I'm sure he will when the snow melts.
Rah approves of my choice in housing, if not the -15f weather recently.
Generally work is going well. The last couple days have been a little rough because of many diverse issues, but nothing too bad. Generally pretty stress-free.

BTW, totally nerdly, I set up a web page to control my stereo at home.
http://thatmonkey.is-a-geek.com/mpdplayer/
So I can use my mobile phone to control it. :)
WEEE!

VG Cats just makes me smile.

The latest brilliance from XKCD.

Test

Testing my thang

A great webcomic I found:
Digg.com in real life
Macintosh's Witnesses

evapotranspirate - verb : The process of a substance vaporizing and passing through the pores or interstices in its storage medium.
You may notice why I chose this as today's word.
evapotranspirate.

These are neat tables: Fletcher Capstan Tables Watch the videos. Fun times!

I have been watching GVTV. It is a video podcast or vidcast produced by the very fine people at Good Vibes, and it is quite informative and entertaining. As I am sure the more sophisticated and sexually free females know, this is an amazing organization. Check them out if you haven't heard of them (and check them out again in case you've forgotten how cool they are).

ZOMG! Hot Fuzz, from the makers of Shaun of the Dead!

Hilarious! Sexual consent formalities (NSFW)