Monthly Archive for September, 2006

Anousheh Ansari Blogs from Space

How do you actually leave a comment on that? What can you say to a person who’s been to the space.

Man.

Ms. Ansari is a major backer of the X Prize.

We just got back from seeing Little Miss Sunshine. I seriously SERIOUSLY recommend you go and see it. It’s an incredibly intelligent, heartfelt, and witty film about a family’s drive across the US to get their daughter to a beauty pageant. Pure genius.

Also… I’m working on 2 new websites! First of all, I’ve got a new jpuddy.net in the works. I’m hoping to have it complete in 2 weeks or so. It’s pretty exciting, as it’s going to be a “real” web “site”, and not just a blog. It’ll have a blog, naturally, but that’s not all.

The other site I’m working on is a bit too secret for me to reveal to you just yet… but it’s an interesting project, that’s for certain. Those who know too much must keep quiet. For at least a little while longer.

Enjoy the waiting.

It was one year ago yesterday, since I got out of bed and played video games for the last time. The last time as a single man, that is.

We were at our Italian best last night, and went to Alice Fazooli’s out at Square One. Big thanks to the couple who ate there recently and saw fit to give us a gift card :) From there we drove to Aeilli’s on the Lakeshore, for desert and cheese.

Had a wonderful time. Pictures and links coming.

We just got home. It’s 5:47am Helsinki time.

Goodnight.

I paid 2 Euro for 15 minutes (we’re boarding now anyway), but the internet speed is pretty fast.

I’d like to know how they have their system set up. I connected to the wireless network, and when I tried to browse I was taken to a page informing me that I had to pay. I could enter a prepaid card number, or by via credit card or SMS on your cell phone. I chose credit card and it took to a quick little credit card window, I entered the details, it processed, and then let me browse. Cool stuff.

See you in 9 hours or so…

We’ll be leaving for the airport in about an hour. I had to flex my mighty packing muscles to get everything into our two suitcases… 50€ worth of chocolate alone (plus new shoes, clothes, and other gifts) made for a tighter squeeze than we had coming over. Jeremy, we’re still using one of the suitcases you gave us.

Oh yeah… and 110€ worth of vinyl! That precious cargo has been carefully stashed inside Maija’s carry-on. I spent 3 hours record shopping last night with Juice, a comrad of Tastyfresh.com. Maija drove out to Porvo with her girls and forgot to take the camera, because she was fussing with the iPod. Pitty the forthcoming Zune (which looks pretty sweet) doesn’t have a camera built-in either.

So, we’ve had an awesome time. I’m sad to leave our old and new friends, but we are both look forward to different things at home. Maija looks forward to our kitchen, and cooking herself a meal. I look forward to finally cleaning off our balcony an purchasing an automated machine gun to take care of the pigeons. And yes… I do look forward to going back to work; I’ve been thinking of all sorts of interesting things I’ll change when I get back, particularly security related. You can thank the copy of TQ I brought with me for that.

:(

Steve Irwin was killed by a stingray earlier today. He was filming for a new TV show, and was stabbed in the heart by a stingray. Something about the words “stabbed in the heart” always makes me giggle… but I’m actually quite sad about this. We used to watch Steve Irwin on TV all the time. He’s done some great things for Australian wildlife, and awareness of animals and the like, but he’s never come across as out-of-touch-with-reality like PETA does.

Lots of news sources for this one. Here’s a couple:
Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin dead
Steve Irwin is dead
‘Crocodile Hunter’ Steve Irwin is dead
Croc Hunter Steve Irwin ‘died instantly’