Lost in OK

But I’m a creep I’m a weirdo What the hell am I doing here? I don’t belong here…

So I turned 30. Well, they say that 50 is the new 30, and that 40 is the new 20. So I guess that 30 is the new 10. This explains my dating life to a tee. To be perfectly honest, adulthood really hasn’t hit me. At 30 you should feel like you are a full fledged adult with real expectations and responsibilities. Yeah, I have a mortgage and car payments, but I still feel like I’m late to 3rd period geography. I stammer like a hormone ridden 15 year old when I meet a pretty girl. I still don’t know how to fix a carburetor. I’ve always felt like a punk kid.

Well it’s been a fun weekend spent working on Radical Wacko.  I’ve been wanting to be a bit more active on the site for awhile now, but technology was holding me back.  After a couple of years of tinkering, hacking and patching, the site had become an almost unmaintainable mess.  Even my WordPress installation had started giving me trouble with unexpected plugin errors.  I was scared of making the simplest of updates on the fear that the thing might finally just break down completely.  Additionally, a bunch of legacy code was laying around doing nothing but cluttering up the place.  Therefore, it felt like the perfect opportunity for some real house cleaning.

The site will be going down this weekend for a complete redesign.  I’ll post again when the upgrade is complete.

I don’t know how I missed this, but for the first time since I’ve been on Flickr, I finally had a picture make it to the explore section!  I know it’s only on page 35, but for me it’s a big achievement.  Plus I really like the photo.  Here’s the winning entry:

Well, I actually sat through the President’s speech tonight.  I didn’t find much interesting in the speech due to the constant leaks of the details.   There were no changes in the rules of engagement, no direct strategies to demoralize the enemy, etc.  However, one thing really caught my ear:

To establish its authority, the Iraqi government plans to take responsibility for security in all of Iraq’s provinces by November. To give every Iraqi citizen a stake in the country’s economy, Iraq will pass legislation to share oil revenues among all Iraqis. To show that it is committed to delivering a better life, the Iraqi government will spend $10 billion of its own money on reconstruction and infrastructure projects that will create new jobs.

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This will crush the last remnants of Christmas Spirit out of you:

Thanks to Andy.

Treo Sketch

After millions of deaths, it’s finally great to see some sense returning to the world. The world’s greatest and safest insecticide has finally been cleared to return to saving lives:

The U.N. World Health Organization (WHO) reversed 30 years of policy yesterday, giving DDT a “clean bill of health” for controlling malaria, and it asked environmental groups to support limited use of the insecticide to save the lives of African babies.

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I decided I needed a little time out of the house.  It’s been quite a few years, but I decided to check out the State Fair of Oklahoma.  Now I’m at home with a nice belly ache.  Apparently gyros and funnel cake don’t mix.  In any case, I snapped a few pictures while wandering around:

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I usually don’t post forwarded emails here, but this one was just a bit too accurate not to share:

When you call us to have your computer moved, be sure to leave it buried under half a ton of postcards, baby pictures, stuffed animals, dried flowers, bowling trophies, and children’s art. We don’t have a life and we find it deeply moving to catch a fleeting glimpse of yours.

Don’t Write anything down. Ever. We can play back error messages from here.

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