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 August, 2007

A Very Cool Proposal

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Someone said that my little puzzle-piece scavenger hunt was setting the bar too high when I proposed to Lauren. Well, as far as I’m concerned this guy wins in that category. That is freaky crazy amazing, and a retarded amount of work to go along with it. But also very very cool.

New Camera Pictures

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A while back Lauren put a camera on her list of things she would like when we had the money, and a couple of weeks ago we decided to go ahead and get it. So, we have taken some pictures of random things and stuck them on my website. http://www.bencatlin.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=1454 We have some pictures of [...]

Current Mood:  excitedVery, very excited about Mario Kart for the Wii. I’m wondering if the remote as a steering-wheel mechanic will enhance or detract from my general 3D Mario Kart Badassery. http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=169996 There is a nice little preview to get your mouth watering if it wasn’t already from E3 this year when they announced it. [...]

Current Mood: nerdyNow that MythTV works (but alas, it still doesn’t output to my TV, and the HDTV signal is choppy as hell on the P3 1GHz machine), I am thinking beyond it to move my home to the next level. For a while now I’ve talked about home automation, integrated with the computer network, [...]

Weird Neighborhood

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Current Mood:  scaredMy neighborhood is a weird mix. I really like that most of the time. But one of the things I don’t like is that pretty regularly someone at one of the houses / apartments south of us is regularly screaming at someone else (not every night, but it is pretty regular on the [...]