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Did some skiing yesterday. It was pretty nice. For once there were no lines and on some runs Thigh Deep Powder! The Draw back was the 4hr drive home. Normally for me to get home from Copper Mountain It’s about an Hour and 15 Minute ride but with this huge storm that came in and gave us the lovely powder it also backed up traffic for miles. The Main hold up was the Eisenhower Tunnel which goes through the Continental Divide. To keep traffic from backing up in the tunnel and creating potentially deadly carbon monoxide fumes in the tunnel they we’re only letting a few vehicles through at a time. Along with the near whiteout conditions Traffic was pretty much at a stand still. People were leaving their cars fairly regularly to clean the ice and snow from the windshield wipers. At one point right before the Tunnel a car in the lane next to us was slammed into by a car infront of it that slid down the hill we were stuck on. It was insane!

here is some more Proof that Google is planning to take over the world. Hurdle Number 1 Microsoft.

Google Scholar Beta Launched To Search Scholarly Documents Google Scholar Beta Launched To Search Scholarly Documents On top of that There is a really cool piece of software a colleague showed me the other day called Keyhole Iremember Microsoft terra Server. its like that but on Steroids. And keyhole just happened to be recently aquired by … You guessed it. Google.

I ended up being real lazy last night watching alot of tv. (something i don’t normally do) Kinda hooked on that Billionaire show with Richard Branson (Virgin) After that Fox debuted some Hospital show… which ehh was aight but I won’t make it a point to watch it And then End up on bravo watching a show called Long Way Round I was totally Hooked. Pretty much Ewan McGreggor and a Buddy are driving around the world on Motorcycles and documenting the whole thing on Camera. It seems like its trying to fit in with the reality show that you find everywhere but… it’s more like a documentary you’d find on National Geographic (which I prefer) Good show looks like the next episode is Thursday night which i believe is Mongolia (man I miss my DVR)

Coming from what people here like to call the “East Coast” though most of us know as “Ohio” Every Town seemed to have a very good fairly authentic Mexican Restraunt. Most of you reading this are probably familiar with “The Camp” or El Campesino” At least there once a week I craved that place. But, with that and a few other places that was about it. After moving to Denver I realized that they took their mexican food very seriously. An Annual Chili Harvest festival in Peublo, There is a mexican place on every street corner, the Local paper rates the Areas best Green Chili. I guess it should be quite obvious seeing a decent percentage of the local population is Mexican or of Mexican decent. When I first came here seeing green chili on the menu I expected something similar to what you might find at Wendy’s only green. That certainly was not the case. None the less I am trying to get a grasp on this phenom here. Anyway, this past weekend I passed a place advertised as “foods of New Mexico” Hmm what exactly does new Mecican food consist of? So today I checked it out. I ordered the New mexico Plate. It had a tamale, cheese enchilada, beef taco, rice and beans All covered in Green Chili and on the side a Sopaipilla with honey for dipping. Not bad for 6 bucks! And to me it sounded pretty Mexican. The food was outstanding. But, I’m still not sure why it is “New Mexican” I did a little research when I got back. A colleague at work informed me that Little Anita’s Is a Local chain out of NM who recently expanded into the Denver Area. The following is the best definition of New mexican food I could Find “New Mexican comida, or food, is a spicy blend of cultures: Native American and Hispanic–which has created the most unique and temptingly sabrosa (flavorful) comida under the New Mexican sun. In fact, you will find our chile verde (green) and rojo (red) to be equal to the heat found on the sun, so bring along your own personal supply of H20 if it gets a little too hot for you in the cocina (kitchen). All and all It was still good and I can’t wait to go back… Wait I saved half for lunch tomarrow wohoo!

Just kinda funny, i guess. Yahoo! LAUNCH - News: Famed Rocker Roth Goes From No. 1 to 911

We finally made it out to the resort yesterday. It was okay, Real nice for early season. All in all with the type of snow the crowds and the amout of trails and lifts open it equated to probably an average mid season day at Holiday Valley. So I can’t complain one bit. Quite surreal to be going so early in Novemeber. It was good to get out stretch the legs and what not. Winter Park Opens next week I have yet to ski there, I can’t wait!

So I’m sure most of you have seen that custom motorcycle show with the Dad and the Two brothers that scream at each other. Well they are apparently celeberties now and what does every celeberty need or want? their own line of Cologne! They were being interviewd this morning on the local news show.. i couldn’t believe it but i guess I could. I dug up this article when I got to work. Newstimeslive.com Going ‘Full Throttle’ Also some of the quotes from their press release:

“Fire Up a Top Note: Gear up and feel the freshness of the open road. Set the pace for a wild ride with a black sambuca accord consisting of anise, mint and cooling black licorice blends paired with bergamont, kumquat, juniper berries and an intoxicating rush of white pepper.

“Fuel-Injecting Mid Notes: High-octane sexy clean accord of revved-up lavendar, geranium, hedione and laurel.

“Cruise the Base: The warmth of amber, textured cashmere woods and moss wrapped in a super soft suede accord.”

Pretty funny!

Buddy sent the following site to me. Pixelfest collaborative artwork A bit dorky but I couldn’t pass it up. I snapped an image from the site and noted the pixel I created below.

Katamari Damacy is definatly the oddest, most addictive and fun games of the year. I wrote about the game in this entry Anyway, I finally posted a few captures of the game so you can see how truly an odd but fun game this is. And it’s only 20bux! Game Intorduction Gameplay and of course one of the truly weird Cosmos Sequences

Had some fun at work yesterday. A guy that teaches a videogame theory class, came into shoot a course intro for the website. I took some video of him talking then we got to hook the ps2 up to the editing station to capture game footage. SO we pretty much played video games all afternoon. Wish i could do that everyday I made sure we captured some footage of Katamri Damacy and as soon as I get that posted I will link it here.

I have this theory based on several things that happened in the last year that Google is planning to take over the World. They are starting small by first taking over the Desktop computer and Internet world. To start there is their launch of G-mail (still in beta) The E-mail System that gives all of it’s users 1gig of storage space! It also quite smoothly bases its ads off of the content in your emails. This along withs its easy to use (of course highly searchable) interface and according to This Article pop access soon, is obviously aimed at crushing the big webbased Email providers (Hotmail and Yahoo) Another app they have developed is the Google desktop search. Just like the search function that comes with windows (allowing one to search for files, programs etc on their local machine) only a thousand times faster. Plus The look and feel of google. I find it interesting that google seems to be jumping out early to combat the new windows os (codenamed Longhorn not due out for a few more years) is supposed to center around its search function. Microsoft seems to be getting a bit antsy and has come back with their own in house developed web search engine. Based on This Article explains that microsoft too will have its own desktop pc search engine. On top of that Google in the last few months went on a hiring spree scooping up some of microsoft’s browser programmers. Are they in the process of creating a browser too? Here are some Clues to that. There are several other little things Google has been doing including items like Froogle, their shopping site, and the aquisistion of several smaller software companies, something has to be up their sleeves. By the looks of it, the currently “cool” google may soon turn into this beast slowly swallowing up everything in its path just like Microsoft did in the last 15 years.

The people at FreeHeadset.org are out there trying their darndest to promote safe cellphone use while driving. That is why they give you a free handsfree set for your phone. All you need to do is go to the site and sign up. Slight shipping fee (around 4bucks) and about a 3week wait but that’s nothing to help make our roads safer.

Some individual wrote a real basic non linear video editor in college and has since released it free to the public. This software called Virtualdub looks as if it really only handles very basic funcitons like cutting,splicing, and applying some filters and fades. I remember exploring this software a few months back but recall it’s limiting exporting and importing functions. The newer version has updated this though is still limited to some AVI and MPEG1 files. Personally I may be able to use something like this at home, where i do minor edits for some of my work, but it certainly doesn’t look like it could replace premeire which I use frequently at work. When I get a chance I will try to run this and see what it is all about.

We had a few squash laying around the place that I wanted to use up. But every night I wasn’t in the mood for something sweet I’ve only had acorn squash a few times and every one of those times it was baked with brownsugar and butter. It’s quite tasty and very sweet. I was chatting with a friend the other day and he mentioned a meal that his roomate made. It was baked acorn squash and was prepared in a more savory way than I had ever seen. I told him of my acorn squash laying around so he sent me This recipe Believe it or not it was quite good. Aileen liked it alot too (go figure it was all veggies) I don’t know if it is for everyone out there but give it a whirl you might be surprised.

Well It looks as it’s official now Firefox 1.0 has been released and is out of “beta” I’m not sure what exactly that means because I know there will still be bugs and improvements. As I discussed witha friend earlier, The whole versioning thing is but a marketing ploy. None the less it’s a much cleaner, efficent and faster running browser. I highley reccommend it.

SO I finally get my lazy butt in to the barber shop this weekend to get the hair chopped. No big deal it happens all the time. It’s the response from others that puzzles me. For one, A compliment or criticism would probably be in hand but instead it is a question. Now I could understand if I went in for a trim, but I had a substantial amount removed and still people that I’ve seen the day before begin the conversation with “Did you get your haircut?” I guess its just a way to start the conversation but It should me much more than obvious. SO I’m resonding to such absurdity with comments such as “No That was a wig I always had on.” or “No man, I woke up and it was just like this, kinda weird huh?” Well Thats sume up my weekend.

Lost my bank card twice. Once today (radio Shack) and once yesterday (Flower Store) What up with that? We were sidtracked playing with the mini RC cars at radio shack and some how I just left it on the counter. Oh well At least i was able to retrace my steps and find it. Took the skis and Snowboard in to get tuned for the season.. I’m psyched!!!!!

Nvu - Open Sourse WYSIWYG Web authoring tool This looks to be very promising. Has site management, claims to handle css very well. Included is a css editor and various other goodies. Any one looking for something like frontpage or dreamwever that is completely free, this may be the answer. I still havent used it but like I said it looks promising.