Weird Al has a great song out now called, White and Nerdy and while I never really considered myself nerdy the song does brings up a few incriminating references.
After hear the song a few times I thought I'd download the lyrics and turn it into a ...
While I'm not a die hard fan of South Park, it's cut from construction paper style has always fascinated me and I've often thought about trying to put together a short cartoon together in Flash.
The thought resurfaced recently when I ran across a site that lets you design your own ...
Never Call it Tissue Paper
Vellum is the magic paper used by architects, designers, and engineers for drafting their designs.
Unlike a digitally created print, after a hand drawn print is completed it's treated like a piece of film and is only touched to make changes or copies. If ...
Scared the crap out of me
Sometimes the knocking was so loud it sounded like a troll was trying to get out of the computer case, but I had problems with the case's fans in the past so I just smacked the side and the knocking stopped.
For a couple days the ...
I've noticed a few things recently...
I should really post to the blog more often,
Most of my posts seem to be rants,
I think I need a man-bib
Normally I'm a pretty clean guy, but yesterday it was a leaky burrito and today it was a loose coffee cup cover.
To prevent future stains ...
It's Friday the 13th and I'm suppose to flying back to Buffalo for my cousin's wedding later today.
How does mother nature welcome me back to Buffalo? With 2 1/2 FEET OF SNOW in the middle of October!
350,000 people without power until early next week,
Trees are down everywhere,
The Hotel, Church, Reception ...
Flashing back to the "Invest in Iraqi Dinars" post... Recently my mother called and asked me to lookup the exchange rate to see if the Dinars have gone up.
With all of the talk of government wiretapping she nervous about saying Iraq or Dinars over the phone and would only ...
A few days ago I found out that some scam artist convinced my grandmother to invest in Iraqi Dinars (because they can only go up!).
No one in my family knew about this until recently when my grandmother passed away and each of my aunts and uncles received their lot of ...
This weekend I learned that my proud German surname, Schrock, isn't German at all — its Swiss (derived from Schrag). While that might not sound like a big deal, it's been bugging me ever since.
All my life I thought I was 7/8 German and 1/8 English. Being nearly all one ...
Why the hell are we still using Fahrenheit?
Today we had a wind chill of -40°F here in Rochester and I had a flashback to my old high school chemistry days. -40° is that magic number where the temperature is the same in both Fahrenheit and Celsius.
When I was a kid ...
