Shawn's Journal

Shawn’s ToiletCam

Shawn — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 22:44:01 +0000

Remember back in the day I used to have my web cam aimed at my living room and then later I aimed it at my fish tank? I’ve decided to re-enable it. Presenting my ToiletCam! Now you can watch my toilet 24 hours a day.

Check out the live stream here:

ToiletCam

Did I hear something about bankruptcy in there?

Shawn — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 19:39:55 +0000

This is why you don’t get a home phone, even if Comcast gives you one for free. I constantly get sales calls from random places. Now it’s extended into random languages too! Have a listen: Voicemail

Watch out Seattle!

Shawn — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:14:00 +0000

An Angry Bird is climbing the Space Needle! If you’re a pig and you live in the metropolitan area, run!

What I talk about

Shawn — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 01:16:21 +0000

The newest Kindle, the Kindle Touch has a cool feature called X-Ray that examines the content of a book and looks for common phrases and people inside that book. Well I turned all my tweets into a book and let XRay run to determine the common things I say. Here’s a screenshot. My favorite is my frequent use of the phrase “Holy crap”:

Fun and games

Shawn — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 05:39:50 +0000

I’m taking a three day weekend this week to kill this:

Happy Birthday Dad

Shawn — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 16:00:06 +0000

Today my dad would have been 57 years old. That’s very weird to think about. It seems so old because in my mind he’s locked into being 46. I wonder if that’s still how I’ll imagine him when I’m 46, or by then will I have artificially aged him in my imagination?

One year (I believe 1986) on Christmas Eve, my dad dressed up as Santa. He knew I was going to immediately go searching for him, either out of suspicion or at least to make sure he didn’t miss Santa. So he made sure it seemed like he was there. How? Here’s how. Take notes all you fathers and future fathers out there, because this is genius:

Step 1: Lock yourself in the bathroom and put on your Santa suit.
Step 2: Get ready to crawl out the bathroom window, leaving the door to the bathroom locked.
Step 3: But before you crawl out, push play on a tape recorder you prepared ahead of time.

A few years ago I copied all the old family audio tapes from cassette to digital form. I was surprised and delighted to find the audio tape from that day in the pile, and I’m going to share it with you now. Listen here:

(Or click here if you don’t see a play button above)

As you can imagine, I was completely fooled.

My random thoughts of the week:

Shawn — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 05:31:03 +0000

Is it just me or are news writers purposely writing double entendres in their article titles for the Congressman Weiner scandal? Example: “Weiner pulls out” “Obama goes hard on Weiner”
JK Rowling is going to make an announcement soon, but says it’s not a book. How long will it take before she changes her mind and writes one? I bet 10 years.
Why is it so difficult to get a DVD movie onto a mobile device? Screw you, copywriters!

Winning, duh!!

Shawn — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 15:47:24 +0000

Take a look at this! I won! If you find a little stack of money over a dollar value, you instantly win that amount!

Click the “Read More below to see some pictures of me cashing in my winnings!

If a psycho killer had indigestion

Shawn — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 06:07:09 +0000

I was playing with my phone and a voice changing app. Here’s the result of my labor:
Killer With Indigestion

Voicemail

Shawn — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 04:38:11 +0000

I got this voicemail today. Can you understand it? I think I hear the words “stuffed animal” in there somewhere.
Shawn’s Voice Mail.mp3