zeroasterisk blog – alan blount & friends
Posted in look at this on Dec 29th, 2008
This is an absolutely crazy base-jumping video, with wing suits. If I didn’t have the life and family I have now, I could see myself wanting to do this, but there’s too much risk involved for me and I’ve got too much to loose. Still – it’s awesome to see.
wingsuit base jumping from [...]
We went to Houston this year, for Poppy’s first Christmas and spent almost a week with my family. Everyone loved and was amazed by Poppy, of course and she did splendidly. She traveled quite well, sleeping for the first part of both flights and playing quietly for the second. She also did a remarkably good [...]
Posted in event/news, political on Dec 21st, 2008
Helping to Write HistoryBy Eli SaslowWashington Post Staff Writer Thursday, December 18, 2008; Page A01
During the campaign, the buzz-cut 27-year-old at the corner table helped write and edit some of the most memorable speeches of any recent presidential candidate. When Obama moves to the White House next month, Favreau will join his staff as the [...]
15 Ingenious Humanitarian Subvertisements: Creative Advertisements that Advocate Global Causes
more: http://weburbanist.com/2008/02/05/15-ingenious-humanitarian-subvertisements-creative-advertisements-that-advocate-global-causes/
Posted in alan, anita, event/news, general, look at this on Dec 17th, 2008
We have refinanced (or at least started the process) and locked in at 4.96 after paying a point (it was 5.6 without the point, lenders wanting up-front money and assurance in today’s market). We are rolling in the point and closing costs into the new loan and we’ll still be saving $140/month over our [...]
A very funny post for the programming nerds out there:
If programming languages were religions…
By amz – Monday, December 15, 2008 at 14:52
PHP would be Cafeteria Christianity – Fights with Java for the web market. It draws a few concepts from C and Java, but only those that it really likes. Maybe it’s not as coherent [...]
We were talking about this recently and we realized that in the past two years:
We have lived in 5 different places (our apt in Columbus, Anita’s mom’s for a few months, Chili’s house for almost a year, Houston with my family for a couple of months, and finally our new house)
I have worked 6 positions in 3 [...]
Posted in general, look at this on Dec 13th, 2008
There’s a great video done by Dan Harris of ABC news on the Mates of State and what the family does when they go on tour.
I love the wholesomeness of it and it fits right in with what I think they would be like. This band is one of my absolute favorites and that’s only [...]
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