Chopstork

Yahoo! News picked one of my VA Tech pictures for their 2007 Best of You Witness. Neat. And the Best Of is linked from the Yahoo! News front page! (It’s a tiny link over in the right column, but it’s still linked from their front page!)

If you’re like me (and I always assume that you are), then you’ve probably been disappointed by clicking in-vain on one of the random and tantalizing thumbnails displayed within the Chopstork Banner above. Fortunately, my flight to Seattle was delayed by 3+ hours, so I had some time on my hands to add some new fancy features to the banner. Go ahead…hover on a thumbnail. Go ahead…click on a thumbnail. Glorious.

I’ve tested the new fanciness in FF, Safari, IE7, and Opera, but please let me know if things don’t look right (screen shots are helpful).

Old Man, do you still find time for Line Rider in between your constant sessions of Desktop Tower Defense? Check this out:

via Urban Retro Lifestyle

One year ago today Laura and I left San Francisco to come back to Virginia. It’s been a year already?!

I’m in Munich. I was gonna have dinner at the Hofbrauhaus. I got distracted by the Japanese restaurant next door. Food I know with a waiter I can speak to. Too hungry to decipher a German menu. Except the staff were the wrong variety of Asian. So I still got my Japanese meal, with a German beer, but with a Vietnamese atmosphere.

Stopped in at the Augustiner Bierhalle after. I don’t know an Ale from a Lager, let alone a Vollbier from an Edelstoff. The first thing on the menu would be too obvious, so I went with the second - Dunkel Radler. Was pretty sure Dunkel means dark. Waiter said, “Radler?” I said Ya. Beer came, all frothy on top. And then it was sweet?!? Uh, what did I just order? One of those fruit beers? Kind of. I consulted the trusty phrase book. Radler is “biker.” “Radler is a refreshing mix of beer and lemonade, invented in Munich for cyclists on hot days.” It was pretty good actually, once I got over the surprise. Refreshing indeed. Black Adders are too sweet for me, but this was just right. I’m gonna compete with little Timmy’s lemonade stand this summer.