The Lewis Show

is also full of obnoxiously cute videos. Oh, that internet! H/T Blogkitten

is hilarious! 

I forgot to post again yesterday so I'm doubling up again today. My punishment? Opeth's Bleak in 8 bit. Serves me right for skipping a day during my month of blogging which is practically almost over! Serves me right...

Alright, I don't just like Opeth , they're one of my top three favorite bands. This is why: Opeth - Bleak (live)

I will have to admit this daily blogging venture all month has been fun. Granted it does not look like I've spent a great amount of time in pushing original content, most of it has been videos or pictures, but I have taken a lot more time this month into my blog than any other month. It's good and I feel at home again because before the dawning of these myriads of social networks, if I saw anything worth sharing, I'd share it right here. Once I started posting regularly on places like Twitter or Tumblr this became more and more difficult because those little ha ha sharing posts were pushed out there, instead of in here. I wanted to list those other services in this post, and hopefully in the passage of time, I'll figure out how and what to post here and when, but here's primarily how I post, where I get my information from, and how it all flows together. I'll start my internet day going through my now well refined Google Reader items. In fact, you can see ...

I spotted this on Digg earlier. I always believed the characters on Winnie the Pooh all had modern behavioral issues. Now I know my thoughts were neither original nor was I alone in my reasoning.

My father always said, "Plan your work, and work your plan". This has to be one of the best worked plans ever. Hilarious? Understatement! John Mulaney - Best Meal EVER (some language, blah blah)

Had to get the Maude off the car. Helped update Kelly's phone to 2.1. Drove home through Friday traffic. Summer drivers... Have a good weekend!

I'm reminded of snow shoveling and frostbite. It'll be back.

As we wind down the week, I remind you all to laugh. Yeah, there's some language, but this revisited classic was not possible to pass up. H/T @zoeythegreat

Since I'm on a roll and feeling like sharing a few laughs, I wanted to post this story from the prolific tech reporters at The Onion. This has been out for a few weeks and I was ignoring it mostly because I just thought it was true. So because I was zinged, I figured I'd share in the zingeration. New Apple Friend Bar Gives Customers Someone To Talk At About Mac Products

My review best said by a strip from Scott Johnson  

I really try not to do this often, but every once in a while, I look back at my timeline on Twitter and think, I'm a funny fella. Let's see if I can regurgitate my tweets onto my blog just to show how clinical I am. Enjoy! I think I have enough rubber bands to take up bungee jumping. Janine is watching Evita. I keep waiting to hear Mighty Mouse bust out and sing Here I Come to Save the Day!! Look clouds, rain or rain not, there is no dry. Upgrading the radio on my phone...because I am a nerrrrrrddduhhhh. Saw Inception, left with a concussion. Its that freaking good...and painful. Go get your concussion. I 'm declaring naked cell phone weekend. That is if your phone works without a case...   #waaawaaa My memory has gone MIA, so I'm either going to call the FBI, CIA, or HPD to find it. Just hoping it's not DOA, SOL, OTL, or AFK. TGIF & ZZZ. And before I go, Bazinga!

I realized I missed a post yesterday. So after doing some cleaning and streaming Pandora on the TV, I figured I'd share some needed relaxation.

On more than one occasion over the past few months, I've been asked, "What apps do I need?". A lot of people are buying these various Android phones that are now flooding the market and I'm apparently accessible to questions like these. I want to mention three easy ways for these new users to find applications that they'll both want and need. My first solution is more familiar to those who are used to iTunes and having that desktop client central to their app discovery and syncing. DoubleTwist is a desktop client for Windows and Mac users which has that similar look and feel to iTunes. From doubleTwist, one can discover applications, browse for music in the Amazon MP3 library, and search for podcasts. One of the biggest benefits is that this software can burrow into your iTunes and pull in my playlists along with grabbing my computer's photo, video and audio libraries. This is very handy for those that like to use their desktop as their main hub for s...

The best part about blogging? This is my platform. I get to say some things no matter how trivial or trivia inducing they may be. I will admit this is pretty trivial, it's also smartphone market related in light of today's Apple press conference. Deep breath, and begin. Steve Jobs, Apple CEO and apparent lone spokesmen for the company came out today to apologize and offer free bumpers for owners of their newest line of iPhone hardware devices. The back story is here . Basically the antenna on these new phones face interference from human contact and apparently putting the antenna connection point on the lower left of the phone may have been a bad idea. These bumpers place enough of a barrier between the human hand and the air to prevent it from losing signal strength. To me, this sums up the problem most people have with Apple products. They work great on their own. They are used by creative people to do amazing things. Their fans love the way things work in OSX and now in...

You may want to find some Bach on your iPod when reading this post. Alright, it won't be that bad, but I decided to get a little culture tonight. The Tiffany: Color and Light exhibit has been going on at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts all summer and I figured it was time to take Janine. She is a huge fan of Tiffany artwork. More about the art and the artist can be read here, I'm far from any kind of expert.  The exhibit itself is very well put together. I recommend it highly to anyone and it's worth the price of admission, just think of it as a splurge. I enjoyed it all, but probably not for the same reasons as most. I was most caught by the flaws of the work rather than the exquisite craftsmanship that goes into making these pieces. I guess it's the human element in otherwise perfect works. It's also worth checking out the other exhibits in the museum and also checking out the rest of the great things in the museum district of Richmond. I practically enjoy...

I've had a lot of fun posting every day this month. The creative thoughts flow, when I'm away from a computer.  So how about a picture of a cat?  Young Dexter, the prince of darkness and fruitbaskets.

I posted this picture earlier on my Posterous  account. I wanted to share with with my blog too for posterity. So here's my day in review: I woke up as usual, ten minutes later than I had to be up, completely dragging arse. I felt kind of weird though. I felt dizzy. I figured maybe I slept wrong but I didn't have that tell tale sign that I slept wrong. Sometimes I'll wake up with my head at a 90 degree angle from my neck and wake up with a terrible crick in my neck, but I felt fine. So I went into work but now on top of the dizziness I felt completely nauseated. I figured if I ate maybe this will all go away, but it only felt worse because now I felt as though I had given my stomach ammunition and reason for ejection. I decided to call it a day after lunch. I go home to lay down. Not twenty minutes after I put my head down I hear a succession of loud popping sounds. I thought for some some idiot wanted my foot shoved in unmentionab...

Janine suggested I share and post about her own personal cake disaster. So this was her idea, and no attempt on my part to tease. The post will speak for itself. She's still the best ever and this disclaimer should keep me from getting glares, pokes, or even food throwing. She made an awesome cake yesterday. I'm just now reminded so after this post, I'm going to sneak a piece. She reminded me of the last cake she made a while back. The saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words, but this picture is worth about eight large pieces of cake. She had basically just layered and iced the cake when I heard a frantic call for help from the kitchen. I sprang into action only to find the cake slowly starting to lean and fall apart. We both ended up holding portions of the cake trying to keep it all in one piece. One of us had to break away long enough to grab plates to catch this now crumbling dessert. As one can see, it ended up in a few large pieces and to this day I'm...

I will admit I cheated on my insomnia. I don't know what's been wrong, but over the past month, sleep has been hard for me. I don't get a deep sleep. It's almost like I'm in a quasi trance all night. So last night before bed I took a couple Advil PM's (no, this is no ad) and fell asleep. I slept like a baby! I'm hoping this rebooted my sleep cycle and I'll get back into the cycle for deep, wonderful sleep. So what's up today? Janine is finishing her bookshelf project. We needed four shelves so we set out over the past couple weeks to get some good shelves, some paint, and those little brackets. She did a great job matching up the paint and the only thing left to do is put her books away. I hope one day we end up with a very large, exhaustive book collection. Reading is one of the few analog things I enjoy doing. I still may end up buying an e-book reader though, I gotta keep my digital cred strong. My mini project today between trips to the har...

So now I even get anxious. What am I going to post? How about a picture of the cats doing pretty much the same thing I was doing today. No, I can't do what Dexter is doing, he'd probably bite me. Maxing and relaxing. It's still hip to say that, right?

Since there were no posts yesterday, this one puts me back on track for the month. It's obvious I've been stalling by posting videos and some pictures, but creating content is a talent that few have. I am not one of those people. The purpose of posting every day this month is to get me out of a comfort zone of web consumption and transfer the few brain cells I have left and use them for web creation. I'm reminded that I still need to work on getting my other sites up and running and then need to figure out how to let things flow. At the end of the day people do not have time to read about other people's lives unless there is some serious interest. I know I had lost interest over the past few months. I think the popularity of social media, news, and networking sites is proof that we've all become more of a consumer class and less of a creative one on the intewebs. There is a place for all of that and goodness knows I'm involved with it all, but there really i...

I forgot! So to punish myself I'm subjecting myself to this kazoo cover of Metallica's "Enter Sandman". Serves me right...

Just wanted to share this really cool camera..motion...tracking, whatever it's called video: Super Mario Bros. from Surfap on Vimeo .

Very pretty. Behold my commode!

For Janine and I, the 5th marked a day off from work. I made the most of it by doing as little as possible, but yesterday we noticed an anomaly in nature and I figured per Janine's suggestion I'd share it. Last night we traveled to her Mom's house to pick up a bookcase for our living room. We (by we I mean Janine) took our current bookcase apart and fashioned it as a TV stand. So we were left with a large stack of books. During our trip home, I had the brilliant idea of finding a parking spot near the Diamond with our bookshelf in tow. After finding our spot, we left our exposed SUV to find a spot to watch the fireworks. We noticed later before the fireworks show a van parked in front of our vehicle. Near this minivan was a father and what had to have been at least six children raging from ages two to ten. We both did a double take not because of the ratio of children to parent, but because of the tight and organized positioning of each child. It appeared as though the ...

Kind of a long post, and also not my material either. Today we remember some very brave patriots who risked everything they had for an intangible birthright. Freedom. Here's their Declaration. God Bless those that continue that fight today: When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — Tha...

Figured I'd pull this from something I was reading in my feeds a while back. Hat tip to Sean Michael Ragan at MAKE magazine for posting. This is not a spiral : " Slightly off-topic, here, but I see lots of these optical illusion posts on the web, and although some of them are pretty impressive, this one borders on voodoo. I had to run my mouse pointer over the blue traces a few times to persuade myself.  [via Neatorama ]

It's hard to believe that just last week it was 100 in the shade. I wish I could bottle this weather and use it the rest of the summer. Here's a shot I took of the sun setting on Chamberlayne Farms.

Post one in my July of blogging extravaganza! Last weekend, Janine and I were thrilled to catch the latest and potentially one of the last Toy Story movies. Toy Story 3 was all in all a great movie. We laughed yeah, but lately, and especially with Pixar flicks, we cried. We really, cried. Girl quality crying. Lifetime movies wish they could spur this kind of emotion. The next night, we caught Monsters, Inc on Netflix. Now I'm secure enough in my manhood to admit that lately their movies have left me a blubbering mess. I have to hand it to them, creating a bond with the characters on screen is the best way to ensure people really enjoy a movie. We've all seen too many high budget flicks that were majestic visually or had fun, surprising plot twists, but without getting the audience to really connect with the main characters, it becomes difficult to create TV or movie gold. I recommend everyone get caught up with all of their movies. I'd just ask that you not get so...