Scott Francis Baker

TMZ: bringing families together

2009-12-17T21:37:04Z

(01:35:48 PM) Angela: Why no I am not checking TMZ when I could be folding clothes
(01:35:50 PM) Angela: how dare you ask
(01:37:10 PM) Scott Baker: That's good of you to stay on task
(01:37:44 PM) Angela: lol sorry taking some mommy time :P I mean it is important I keep on the Tiger woods inspired porno being filmed

I didn't ask, this was unprompted :P

I'm officially in debt

2009-12-04T22:53:37Z

Yay I own a house again! I only have to live with the in-laws for another week and then I'm free!

Civil War game summarized

2009-12-04T16:41:57Z

(08:36:20 AM) Scott Baker: How about a that local sporting event
(08:36:25 AM) Scott Baker: that one team really whooped that other team
(08:36:33 AM) Scott Baker: that was some serious playmanship
(08:37:39 AM) Dietz, Jason: Yes. I was quite enthralled buy the display of one college sports team pitted against another.
(08:37:58 AM) Dietz, Jason: Neither of which school I attended.
(08:38:09 AM) Scott Baker: Did you see the part with the ball? Traveling from one player to another across that arbitrary line?
(08:38:13 AM) Dietz, Jason: But still felt emotionally involved in at least one of them.
(08:38:42 AM) Dietz, Jason: Yes. That certainly seemed to gain them some other position in the game.
(08:39:58 AM) Scott Baker: The crowd was really cheering on their team favorite and the mascots really got involved too
(08:40:33 AM) Dietz, Jason: I loved/hated how the team I was "cheering" for won/lost.

Federal Budget

2009-12-03T17:38:19Z

(09:23:36 AM) Ben Mabbott: NASA is .00006% of the Federal Budget
(09:23:55 AM) Ben Mabbott: Astronaut Ice Cream alone is worth that

Top 20 Unfortunate Lessons Girls Learn From Twilight

2009-11-25T21:59:48Z

1. If a boy is aloof, stand-offish, ignores you or is just plain rude, it is because he is secretly in love with you — and you are the point of his existence.
2. Secrets are good — especially life-threatening ones.
3. It’s OK for a potential romantic interest to be dimwitted, violent and vengeful — as long as he has great abs.
4. If a boy tells you to stay away from him because he is dangerous and may even kill you, he must be the love of your life. You should stay with him since he will keep you safe forever.
5. If a boy leaves you, especially suddenly (while telling you he will never see you again), it is because he loves you so much he will suffer just to keep you safe.
6. When a boy leaves you, going into shock, losing all your friends and enduring night terrors are completely acceptable occurrences — as long as you keep your grades up.
7. It is extremely romantic to put yourself in dangerous situations in order to see your ex-boyfriend again. It’s even more romantic to remember the sound of his voice when he yelled at you.
8. Boys who leave you always come back.
9. Because they come back, you should hold out, waiting for them for months, even when completely acceptable and less-abusive alternative males present themselves.
10. Even though you have no intention of dating an alternative male who expresses interest in you, it is fine to string the young man along for months. Also, you should use him to fix things for you. Maybe he’ll even buy you something.
11. You should use said male to fix things because girls are incapable of anything mechanical or technical.
12. Lying to your parents is fine. Lying to your parents while you run away to save your suicidal boyfriend is an extremely good idea that shows your strength and maturity. Also, it is what you must do.
13. Car theft in the service of love is acceptable.
14. If the boy you are in love with causes you (even indirectly) to be so badly beaten you end up in the hospital, you should tell the doctors and your family that you “fell down the steps” because you are such a silly, clumsy girl. That false explanation always works well for abused women.
15. Men can be changed for the better if you sacrifice everything you are and devote yourself to their need for change.
16. Young women should make no effort to improve their social skills or emotional state. Instead, they should seek out potential mates that share their morose deficiencies and emotional illnesses.
17. Girls shouldn’t always read a book series just because everyone else has.
18. When writing a book series, it’s acceptable to lift seminal source material and bastardize it with tired, overwrought teenage angst.
19. When making or watching a major feature film, you should gleefully embrace the 20 minutes of plot it provides in between extended segments of vacant-eyed silence and self-indulgent, moaning banter.
20. Vampires — once among the great villains of literature and motion pictures — are no longer scary. In fact, they’re every bit as whiny, self-absorbed and impotent as any human being.

Stolen from wired.com

Star Trek Extravaganza

2009-11-24T21:57:59Z

Look at all the fancy new VOD that just hit our server! Woohoo!

Found: "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" (PG)
Found: "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock" (PG)
Found: "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home" (PG)
Found: "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier" (PG)
Found: "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country" (PG)
Found: "Star Trek: First Contact" (PG-13)
Found: "Star Trek: Generations" (PG)
Found: "Star Trek: Insurrection" (PG)

Stephen King to write a new Dark Tower book!?!

2009-11-16T23:17:12Z

Apparently at a talk/book signing for his newest, Under the Dome, King was asked about revisiting the Dark Tower universe and he said he wanted to write one more book that takes place between Wizard and Glass and Wolves of the Calla.

The moderator of the Stephen King message board confirmed this and elaborated:

Stephen has given me permission to pass along that he has an idea for a new Dark Tower book, the working title of which will be THE WIND THROUGH THE KEYHOLE. He has not yet started this book and anticipates that it will be a minimum of eight months before he is able to begin writing it.

Busy day...

2009-11-10T23:49:48Z

Busy day... bank is finally willing to work with us a little on the house we want to buy. They're giving us until December 4th to close. Not even a full month, but I think we can do it. I scheduled power/water/gas to be turned on Thursday (tomorrow is Veteran's day). I scheduled a home inspection for Thursday afternoon at 2pm. The inspection lady was super nice, and said if the utilities aren't on by 1pm to call and reschedule for next Tuesday.

My fingers are crossed that this all falls in to place. I've been living with my in-laws for far too long now.

Old stuff!

2009-10-17T05:12:22Z

I watched a guy open a Zendikar booster tonight an pull out a Mox Ruby. Pretty nuts.

Of geekdom et all

2009-10-05T21:31:12Z

None of my geek friends, or I had ever played D&D before. I don't know how we truly called ourselves geeks not having done so. We sough to remedy that a couple weeks ago and have been playing once a week since. I thought it would be "too much" geek, but it turns out to be a lot of fun. I think the part that's most appealing is sitting around the table with my friends again.

What started out as a trial, has turned out to be pretty fun.

Windows

2009-09-30T15:14:15Z

Everyone knows Windows is awful. Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it. - The Guardian

Windows 7 parties!?!

2009-09-30T15:00:33Z

Is this for real? Do they really expect people to have Windows 7 parties to show all their friends how nerdy they are?

Spam subjects

2009-09-23T20:20:47Z

Spam subject of the day!

Have a concrete thing in pants!

What's he smoking?

2009-09-22T22:09:04Z

"MySQL and Oracle do not compete at all," Ellison said, "If you look at where we compete it's with DB2, Microsoft's SQL Server, Sybase, and a long list of others. We never compete against mySQL, it addresses very different markets." Ellison is worried about the delays, explaining it only hurts Sun. "The longer this takes, the more money Sun is going to lose," he said. - OSNews.com

I heart crazy people

2009-09-16T20:39:14Z

Usain Bolt

2009-08-28T15:30:04Z

Usain Bolt, who holds the world record for the 100 meter dash can run 23 miles per hour. Last night while biking home from work I decided to see if I could match his speed (on my bike). There is a stretch of straight road with no traffic that is about 300 meters long between Ivy and Fir street. From a complete stop I hammered my bike as fast as I could get it, I hit top gear and pedaled until my legs ached. I hit 21.1 miles per hour.

Sad.

Western Digital TV-2 Media Player

2009-08-19T21:07:53Z

I really really really want one of these! I have the original WDTV and I love it. It plays media off of USB stick or HD. It will play any media file you can throw at it. Output is full 1080p via HDMI. It's a really solid box. The only thing it's missing is an ethernet port, which it looks like they've added in this revision. I can't wait until this comes out!

Life choices

2009-08-19T16:13:26Z

David Brooks' Advice for High School Graduates:

The most important decision any of us make is who we marry. Yet there are no courses on how to choose a spouse. There’s no graduate department in spouse selection studies. Institutions of higher learning devote more resources to semiotics than love.

The most important talent any person can possess is the ability to make and keep friends. And yet here too there is no curriculum for this.

The most important skill a person can possess is the ability to control one’s impulses. Here too, we're pretty much on our own.

These are all things with a provable relationship to human happiness. Instead, society is busy preparing us for all the decisions that have a marginal effect on human happiness. There are guidance offices to help people in the monumental task of selecting a college. There are business schools offering lavish career placement services. There is a vast media apparatus offering minute advice on how to furnish your home or expand your deck.

Well said!

Chilly!

2009-07-27T22:55:06Z

Thank goodness for the windchill... according to canbyweather.com it's only 98.8 with the windchill. Otherwise it would be 101.9.

We've found USPS's weakness

2009-07-14T23:18:55Z

The USPS apparently won't ship anything that's in a box that says Whiskey on it. We have a bunch of booze boxes that I got from the liquor store (to move) but USPS says no go.

Volume

2009-06-09T03:20:30Z

Only on Linux does 0% volume not mean mute!

Jason on Boxxy

2009-05-27T15:44:31Z

(08:39:55 AM) Scott Baker: I dare you to watch the whole thing without slitting your wrists - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yavx9yxTrsw
(08:40:32 AM) Jason Dietz: Is it worse that pickle surprise?
(08:41:16 AM) Scott Baker: kinda
(08:41:37 AM) Jason Dietz: I only made it a minute and 2 seconds.
(08:41:53 AM) Jason Dietz: I'll probably die tomorrow like in that movie where they watch that VHS tape and die the next day.
(08:42:10 AM) Jason Dietz: I think part of me just died.
(08:42:17 AM) Jason Dietz: I've never wanted to kill someone so badly in my life.
(08:42:42 AM) Jason Dietz: When shit like that ends up on the interent, the terrorists have won.
(08:43:06 AM) Jason Dietz: That's like the video equivalent of brown noise.
(08:43:13 AM) Jason Dietz: I literally just shat myself.

Kool-aid vs Coca-Cola

2009-05-16T18:32:33Z

Kool-aid consists of 2 quarts of water, kool-aid mix, and 1 cup of sugar. 1 cup of sugar is 196 grams. 2 quarts of water is 64 fluid ounces. That means that Kool-aid has about 3 grams of sugar per ounce.

An eight ounce can of Coca-cola has about 27 grams of sugar. Which works out to about 3.4 grams of sugar per ounce.

Kool-aid is usually made from real (cane) sugar not corn syrup, and doesn't contain any caffeine.

New house

2009-05-13T17:23:39Z

A good chunk of the stuff in our house is packed and in the garage. It makes our house less "full" but it just makes me want to move more!

Sony on Sony

2009-05-12T15:39:32Z

"Sony hasn't taken open technology very seriously in the past. Its CONNECT music download service was a failure. It was based on OpenMG, a proprietary digital rights management (DRM) technology. At the time, we thought we would make more money that way than with open technology, because we could manage the customers and their downloads," Stringer said, "This approach, however, created a problem: customers couldn't download music from any Websites except those that contracted with Sony. If we had gone with open technology from the start, I think we probably would have beaten Apple Inc of the US." - OSNews.com