Portrait

People keep asking to see a picture of me on my blog here. I couldn't find one, so this will have to do until I can find the camera.

Update

My wife thought I should point out that, in fact, no one has actually asked to see a picture of me posted here (or anywhere else). So, my secret identity continues to be safe.

Having Fun With the PSP

I was given a Sony PSP (PlayStation Portable) for Christmas. Yay! It's been a lot of fun so far.

Normal people use a PSP to:

• play video games desgined to run on PSP, and/or
• watch movies designed to play only on PSP (using special discs).

I'm not normal.

Please stop laughing.

Since I know you're wondering what things I do with my PSP, here's a list:

• copied my mini-intranet web site (mainly just a collection of organized bookmarks)
• added to that a web page that runs a little javascript keyboard for PSP (can sometimes be easier to use than the PSP's own keyboard app, which is only fun to use if you like typing text messages on cell phones)
• decided that the PSP's web browser doesn't implement javascript and CSS very well, and really needs a way to use memory stick storage to augment main memory
• downloaded demo versions of some games; played them for about 2 minutes so far
• loaded with various mp3 files
• practiced converting video files into one of the two video formats the PSP will play (side note: the PSP can play many different music file formats, and display many different image file formats, but it can play just two video file formats)
• used as portable storage (Windows and Linux see it as being just another USB file storage device)
• discovered that it really doesn't like playing flash videos, so no Homestar Runner (can only do this in its web browser mode, and there it just runs out of memory too quickly)

Still have not played a regular (non-demo) video game or watched a movie disc.

The next thing I want to try with it is running VNC. If I can get that to work, then I could use the PSP to control another, regular, computer. Now that would be cool!

First Snow 2007

We finally got some snow a few days ago! And it's actually cold enough outside for the snow to stick around!! And I'm using a lot of exclamation points!!!!!!

Winter has finally arrived in West Michigan. Huzzah!

Cry of the Hunter

We were sitting in our family room watching TV when we heard the cry of the hunter:

"Rowr! Rowr! Rowr!"

I looked around for the source.

Then I found it.

TJ, our home's head cat, had pounced on and caught an errant hair band, her prey. TJ saw me looking at her and cried out, "Rowr?", and ran off, freeing the hair band.

I walked out to the hallway to pick up the hairband. As I lifted it, I thought I might have heard a small tiny voice saying, "Help me!" . But, I'm pretty sure it was just my hallucination imagination.

White Day-After Christmas?

It's snowing!

Well, so far just light flurries, but I'm hoping for more!