I pre-ordered the new Zelda sometime last May. I pre-ordered it from Best Buy despite Rob reminding me of the pain I went through with pre-ordering “Zelda: The Wind Waker” a few years ago. ( The Waiting ) Speaking of Mario Kart, Glynn and I played some on the projector at the church last night, and that [...]
BigCat’s Blog of DOOM
My name is Ben Catlin, and this is where I rock out on topics like my life, technology and faith.
Browsing Posts published in February, 2006
Since no one seemed really interested in my Computers 101 idea from before, I’m just going to go ahead working on my project in my spare time. But, Josh 3 seemed interested in taking a look at how Linux installs and what-not, so tonight I’m planning on using a little of my free time to [...]
The updside to the sub-zero MN temps is that when it jumps back to above 10 F again, you step outside and think “This ain’t so bad.” The new building totally rocks, it was way cool to get to have time to hang out and pray for people after service without tearing down or getting [...]
Trying to effectively criticize Google right now has to be something like trying to be Micheal Jacksons PR guy. But that won’t stop congress. [Slashdot Link] [Google Blog of the Transcript] Congress even got stupid enough to envoke Godwin’s Law today while talking with Microsoft. (If you don’t understand what I’m getting at after reading [...]
I applied for Googles Adsense program yesterday, got accepted, and now I’m in the process of augmenting my WordPress theme to add Googles little text-only adds to the sidbar of my page. ( Need Ideas for what to blog about )
I have parts laying around for somewhere from 2 to 4 computers at my house right now, and as soon as I get a case from a guy at work I’m going to build them up. I was wondering if it would remotely interest anyone if I turned that into a little info session. I [...]
http://www.2loop.com/3drooms.html Cool stuff, I want to do that some day to a room in my house.
I mentioned once (either here or to someone I was talking to…I can’t remember now) that when I’m depressed I get annoyed because I can’t describe what is bugging me, or exactly how I feel without defaulting to using the broad term “depressed.” ( Respect is / is not the answer ) And when people ask me [...]
In the open source world there are some great benefits you gain from having the community able to add to your software. But there are downfalls to hiring people to work with you on a project. I found this article to be very interesting, which discusses a particular failure of one such project. Check it [...]
http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/~rdivecha/archives/2006/02/the_world_of_sm.html This is a fun video based on some research some people have done with touchscreens that can sense multiple points of input. It ends up looking a lot like the computer interface from “Minority Report” About the most interesting input device I’ve seen in a long time.
My Brother is OK, his tests all looked good. No brain tumors, or clots or anything. He just had a freakish migraine, and he feels better today. I’m really happy that things turned out well for him, and hopefully he will be back running track in a few days.
Apparently my youngest brother, who is a scholarship track athlete, has been having migraines since Sunday. The kind where you see lights, and weird shadows and stuff. He went into the doctor for a stress test he has to do a couple times of year for an unrelated heart issue they found in high school, [...]
In most of our lives we have seen certain phrases turn into said by Christians turn from meaningful, to cliche, to hypocritical precursors to irrational condemnation and judgement. This saddens me, because it makes it hard for us to simply express complex emotions and feelings that result from interacting directly with God, without also carrying [...]
