The T3sk3y Defenestrator

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So, this is going to be stream of consciousness.. but there’s some things I just don’t get and I want to vent.

1. Podcasting. Huh? I don’t want to read what you have to say, much less listen to you blabber about it. Okay, this sounds hypocritical from a blogger – but you can look at my page and decide it sucks in 2 seconds and close the page – you have to sit and listen to a podcast!
2. Ipod docks. I dunno – by the time you drop 4 large on an iPod, then $300 more on a dock, why don’t you just buy a bookshelf system with a digital media reciever that has a screen you can see? And a remote you can use? And it sounds good?
3. Balsamic Vinagrette. Okay – I don’t actually dislike it, but you really can’t get regular Italian dressing at a restaurant anymore. Everybody is going ape about brown vinegar and oil. I don’t get it.
4. Coldplay. Coldplay who?
5. Wellstone bumper stickers – especially the WWWD stickers! Again – nothing bad to say about the guy even though his politics aren’t my politics. I’m not putting “Teddy Roosevelt” stickers on my 4Runner – how about we skip the Wellstone stickers?
6. Why Chuck Norris wasn’t in King Kong. He’d have kicked that ape’s ass. Actually, why wasn’t he in the Star Wars movies? Or Pearl Harbor? Or Titanic? (Chuck Norris Facts)
7. Network television. Okay, I’ll admit – I’m a sucker for Survivor and The Amazing Race.
8. Courtesy of Benski – smallish watches. (Jayber)
9. Really really lousy counterspells in recent Magic: The Gathering expansions. Four mana to counter a non-blue spell? WTF?!?! Yeah, Blue mages were out of control 3 years ago – but that really sucks. What’s next – a counterspell sorcery?

Okay.. time to quit. I’m guessing absolutely nobody got #9 outside of like one person.

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It’s a great feeling to be first on something. If all goes well, in six months this baby is going to be all over the popular gadget blogs and available in all major electronic retailers. I’m going to be the first to talk about it on a blog.

Unlike the big gadget blogs, I can’t really say anything about it. That’s because I’m working on engineering it with a dream team of very smart people. I’m just thrilled that it was made public at CES 2006 last week and I can finally tell what I’ve been working on.

Anyway – I’ll let you read about it for yourself. Be sure and try out the demo – it’s very cool.

“VOCO Gets It”

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Several months ago I posted a link to a blog called “Steve, Don’t Eat It!” – a website where the writer found the most disgusting legitimate food products and gave them an objective culinary review.

Steve has added a couple of new reviews to his site – including “Prison Hooch” and “Silkworm Pupas” from Korea. Mmm, tasty. Nothing like a little Sangria from the big house (at 14% alcohol!) to wash down the partially digested moths.

Check it out at: Steve, Don’t Eat It!. Scroll down for the newest reviews.

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For the dollhouse that has everything – some guy in France has too much time on his hands.

He has apparently modeled several pinball machines in 1:10 scale at a very high degree of accuracy. These are really beautiful little models and they had to have taken him a ton of time to create. Once or twice a year he sells one on eBay – and they always go for $250+.

They sure would take up a lot less room than my collection. The irony is that they aren’t much cheaper than the real deal.

Here’s the rest of his collection. Warning: Get your mush-mouth ready.. it’s all in French. Mini-Flippers

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What would Chuck Norris do?

I shot Diet Coke out of my nose reading the list of top Chuck Norris Facts. For example:

When an episode of Walker Texas Ranger was aired in France, the French surrendered to Chuck Norris just to be on the safe side.

Heh. Silly Frenchies. Another favorite:

Chuck Norris does not hunt because the word hunting infers
the probability of failure. Chuck Norris goes killing.

The complete list is here: Chuck Norris Facts

Warning – there are some crass, offensive, and cruel things on the list – not like Chuck cares…

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I’m sure by now some of you have been curious about why the address of the Defenestrator is ‘t3sk3y.com’ rather than the simpler ‘teskey.com’ – or even ‘defenestrator.com’. It’s pretty simple:

1. teskey.com was already taken
2. defenestrator.com was already taken
3. using 3′s instead of e’s is a nerd in-joke

Wikipedia has a pretty good page that discusses leetspeak – the hacker dialect that spawned the spelling of T3sk3y. Click here to get the whole story: Leetspeak

It shows up everywhere!

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Happy 2006 to everyone.. hopefully your New Year celebrations were both enjoyable and safe.

The “Return of the Four Deuces” New Years party was a big success. We hosted a casino night at the T3sk3y compound and had about 20 people attend over the course of the night.

The casino party included a craps table (handbuilt by yours truly) and a blackjack table, both with hired dealers. Both tables were fully occupied all night long – with the raucous crowd loudly making their pleasure known every time a blackjack or a “YO!” was obtained.

Karen apparently doesn’t like the roll

At the end of the night, we auctioned off some door prizes that we kicked in – lottery tickets, DVDs, plants, games, homebrew, and much more. Many people went home with a prize that night. The biggest prize went to Youth Frontiers – since we donated all proceeds to charity. All in all, we raised over $500 for Youth Frontiers.

New Years Day included a brunch with Heather’s egg bake and scratch-made cinnamon rolls. After a round of games, we settled in for a day of watching movies. We ended up getting through Napoleon Dynamite and Sahara during the afternoon. The party finally ended at about 10:30 PM when the last guests went home.

I think Flipper has Paul on the ropes

Of course, no New Years is complete without a resolution. Mine is the same as last year:

Kick ass, have fun.

Here’s a link to all of my New Years Eve photos:

The Return of the Four Deuces

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