Shawn's Journal

Spelling Fail

Shawn — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 19:13:28 +0000

Track 3

Shawn — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 20:09:14 +0000

It sounds like one of those nature CDs outside right now. I recorded the sound from the bedroom window:
rain

Play with some turtles

Shawn — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 18:27:35 +0000

Click on the water to feed them. Click and drag the turtles to move them around. Here is where I got it from.

My favorite commercial right now

Shawn — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:36:52 +0000

The Sharp TV Commercial with Sulu is my favorite commercial right now. Sometimes when I am in the mood to smile, I just play this:

If the player doesn’t work for you, just click this link: Sulu

I’m with CoCo

Shawn — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 06:41:11 +0000

I went to see the Conan O’Brien Tour tonight and it rocked! We got Triumph, Andy, the self-pleasuring panda, and the Walker Texas Ranger Lever (now renamed the Chuck Norris Rural Policeman Handle). We also got a surprise one night only musical appearance from Eddie Vedder. I don’t know how Conan got him, because I know he doesn’t go out much. I really don’t think there will be a better show on the tour than what I just saw. And THEN on his encore performance, Conan decided to run out into the audience while playing guitar. He happened to pick the seat in front of me to stand on! Now I know no one would believe me, so lucky for me my phone takes video! Here you go, enjoy and be jealous:

It’s now a menagerie

Shawn — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:22:11 +0000

I didn’t plan on it, but yesterday I added a pet to my growing animal collection…A little puppy named Bear. So far the kitties are tolerating him as you can see in this picture. Scroll down for more.

Click here to see more pictures.

APRIL FOOLS!
If you believed this you were fooled by my Photoshop skills. Here’s the real picture:

Doesnt sound too appetizing

Shawn — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 21:47:37 +0000

I saw this at the grocery store yesterday. Apparently it is a common item in the U.K. But here it just seems wrong.

My dishes are well read

Shawn — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 04:59:08 +0000

If you read my blog at all, you probably already know of the fun I have with an audio recorder and the Speech Analysis feature of Adobe Soundbooth. I record common everyday things and let Soundbooth try to figure out what it is saying if it were a human voice. Well this time I recorded my dishwasher. Here’s what it had to say:

A,
the likelihood of your,
your your,
your book,
Good book.
Toure you know,
a write a.

(Note, all I’ve edited in the direct speech translation was the removal of duplicate words, and I added the punctuation)

Interestingly, Toure is an American writer! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toure. So apparently my dishwasher is recommending novels. I just haven’t been listening.

PC Load Letter!?

Shawn — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 01:09:30 +0000

Thanks to hackers, it has come to this. Windows 7 has to ask me if I trust my printer:

Well, I’m not sure if I trust my printer. It’s never stolen my money before, or verbally abused me. But it does run out of ink suspiciously fast, so maybe it’s cheating on me with some other user!? I’m just so conflicted.

Cat Tower of Babel

Shawn — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:02:26 +0000

I got bored over Thanksgiving weekend and built an “addition” to the cat tower. The cats were getting so big, they both couldn’t fit on the little top of the original tower anymore. The light-colored carpet is the original store-bought tower. I built the entire dark-carpet side from scratch. Overboard? Maybe. But they love it.