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Reporting from 36,000 feet!

Kooz — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 05:23:42 +0000

Hey! I just wanted to drop everyone a quick line. I’m flying back from my vacation in Ocean City, MD. I joined my mother and my sister, Debbie’s, family in visiting my aunt, cousin’s family, and grandmother. We had a fabulous time! Check out my flickr account in the next couple days to see all the pictures! I’ll also post some of the videos I took with my new Canon 780IS to youtube! The videos from it are very crisp at 720p, and all it’s only a pocket, point and shoot!

Speaking of pictures. Check out the picture below. I’m writing this as I’m flying over southern Utah! Virgin America has wi-fi on their flight for 12 bucks. Well, I’m getting my money’s worth! The cabin is pretty cool, and each seat has a little video touch screen attached to it. I can watch CNN, a movie, play games, check out our position on Google Maps, and order a beer! If VA flys to where I want to go, I’ll probably go with Virgin!

St. Louis’s Sexiest Geek: Guess Who Was Nominated…

Kooz — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 06:24:38 +0000

Not that I need a bigger ego, but I was nominated for St. Louis’s Sexiest Geek at Toastedrav.com. Click here to vote for me! It’s quite an honor, and I would like to thank my friend, Chip, for nominating me! I wonder what the duties of the Sexiest Geek will be…

My Halloween

Kooz — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 05:07:32 +0000

You know, I forgot to post pictures of my awesome Halloween costume on Kooz.net. I thought I made a great Rick Astley for Halloween! Who? You know:

You’ve been rickrolled! It’s an Internet meme that started on photo and video sharing websites. You post a link, and describe a really cool video. For example, “Hey! Check out this video of a lion eating a water buffalo!” You post the link, your marks click on it, and up pops the worst video of all time: Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley. Granted, I think the song is great and I’m envious of the dulcet tones Rick produces. But, damn! His video is wretched! Technically, I didn’t Rickroll you because you knew what you were getting into.

Anywho…I decided to dress as the red headed English crooner, and here is the result:

Rick versus Kooz

Not bad, eh? Since this was taken at work, I had to wear a name badge. It said, “Rick: Gallery Leader of Never Gonna Give You Up.” I also placed two diminutive speakers connected to my iPhone in my coat pocket. I would then roll up behind people and do my best Rick Astley dance: if that doesn’t scare you, you have nerves of steel!

I’m Back to Embarassing Myself!

Kooz — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 03:06:08 +0000

Here I am last weekend at an 80′s Party. I spent the day watching 80′s movies, and I was torn between Robert Downey Jr from Weird Science or Marty McFly/Michael J Fox from Back to the Future. So, I went shopping that day, and what’s really sad: I only needed to buy shoes as I already had the other clothes lined up. Actually, that’s not true: I lacked the suspenders for the Marty McFly outfit. But, what really put the nail in the coffin of the McFly outfit was the fact that a pair of Chucks (you know, those canvas high tops) were $40 and a pair of decent loafers were $10. Weird Science wins! Actually, I thought it turned out rather well. Here are the results:

I think this comparison between my outfit and Robert's character is pretty tight. I obviously forgot to roll up my sleeves...

I think I pulled it off! I want to give a shout out to Sarah for inviting me. A big “Happy Birthday” to Maggie, and a “Thank You” to Lori for hosting the party!

Whoo hoo!

Kooz — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 04:06:12 +0000

Just upgraded my WordPress installation (i.e., my webpage’s content management system) to 2.6! Everything seems to be going smoothly, and I hope there’s no bugs hiding in the corners of the code! The user interface from the administrator’s point of view seems to be a bit sharper!

Also, check out my flickr.com website because I’ve added more photos to it! I added some pictures from the Foo Fighter’s concert, the 80′s party I attended yesterday, and more photos from Maryland!

I’m not a big fan of Radiohead,

Kooz — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 03:55:24 +0000

But, this video just rocks! Unfortunately, I can’t embed it into my website because YouTube/Radiohead doesn’t allow it with this video. You can find the video here. http://code.google.com/creative/radiohead/

Correction: Here’s the video!

I like the song. It’s rather haunting and very poetic. But I’m really fascinated by how they made it: using short and long range lasers. No other form of light or traditional video cameras were used! A computer reads in the data from the lasers (in this case, distance data) and translates it into a 3D form: aka data visualization. What’s even cooler, Google and Radiohead have a basic application that lets you play with the 3D visualization while the song is playing! http://code.google.com/creative/radiohead/viewer.html I really recommend it to everyone (well, those who have high speed internet)!!

More Flickr Photos!

Kooz — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 05:29:58 +0000

I’ve added a lot more photos to my Flickr webpage! A lot of old school kooz and some Truman State U pics! Lots of old and good memories! Yea, I sure was a cute kid then an ugly teenager. But, I don’t regret it because that’s what made me who I am today! Enjoy. You should have a big laugh.