Dr. Pontius

A good guy.

And something I bet you didn't know about him.

Crazy Pool

Crazy Pool is a pool like game where you try to get the same colored balls hit each other. There is a certain time limit to each level and you must make all the ball disappear before the time is up. Each level takes only a minute, so it is very easy to keep on playing this for 15 or 20 minutes after you told yourself to stop, if you are into that kind of game.

The highest level that I have finished is 20 with a total score of 3545. Common, give it a try.

Best Picture Ever found!

*UPDATED*

The contest is over! Here is the Best Picture Ever:

An email I wrote to Jason:

Hi Jason,
I ran a little contest on my blog where I found the top image results on various search engines for the term "best picture ever". Then the readers of my blog voted on what they thought was the best picture ever.

Well congratulations! Your picture of a guy at a Burger King (http://gohlkusmaximus.com/last11months/last11months-Images/30.jpg) has been decided as the best picture ever.

You don't win anything, and you do not get anymore fame than you currently have. But I did make a little icon for the award, and you have the satisfaction of knowing that you have the best picture ever.
If you want to stop on by my blog and accept your award you are free to do so: kinross19.blogspot.com.
Thank you for your time, and congratulations again,
Shannon (Ookami Snow)

Now lets see if he accepts this award and this rocking icon I made to commemorate this wondrous event:

***UPDATE***
Jason has spoke:

Well, I'm just blown away. I'm honored. I'd like to thank everyone involved.

Seriously, though, thanks, that's hilarious. I really did think it was the best picture ever, and apparently image search results and your readers agreed. I'll put up the award with pride.

(I don't know what my friend who's in the picture will think, but, you know, I'm sure he'll be honored too. If I tell him.)

It looks like the Best Picture Ever contest was a success. Thanks for everyone's help.

24 Skinks 1 Day

Paint 24 Skinks in one day. That was my goal when I picked up a box of skinks from Patch and Crow's Nest on the way home from school on Friday. Unfortunately I got too distracted on Friday to get even close to done (I got them put together) but for most of Saturday I was devoted to painting all the skinks that day. I finished up at 4am and was basically done, all that was needed was a matte finish. So I was able to get done with a box of skinks in two days. Not too bad.

Today was Rzan and Steff's wedding party. (they got married in Hawaii, and didn't offer to pay for ANYONE to come with, humph! See if I offer to buy them a Play Station 3 when it comes out.) It was a good time and we also got to eat dinner with Newgen.

Oh, also we played disc golf this weekend, I got a -10 and Chris got -11, the best scores ever for our campus course (prev. best was -9). And I can say that it is the best score ever because some of the holes we made up, so we are the only people that play "our" disc golf course.

So yeah, it was a good weekend.

hitching rides with buddha

First let me say that I do not read books. But Charity let me borrow Hitching Rides with Buddha by Will Ferguson (also called Hokkaido Highway Blues) and after just the first couple of pages I was hooked. This true story is about Will as he hitchhikes through Japan following the cherry blossoms one spring. If I were to write a book it would turn out like this -if I was funny, witty, and a good wordsmith, all of which I am not, atleast compared to Will Ferguson. The book is very funny one page and very insightful the next, with glimpses about the truth of himself and Japan throughout the book. Now, I don't really read books, but I do suggest this book to everyone, even those of us who don't read books. Not many things make me laugh out loud (LOL for you younglings); I did many times with this book.

(Thanks Charity for letting me barrow it!)

Picture Siren

We just had a pretty big storm roll through. There was lots of rain, lots of lightning and even tornado sirens, although it must have been a false alarm because, as Chris put it- "it just didn't feel like a tornado". But we still headed on down to the vet med building in case there actually was a tornado (that is our Apts. designated storm shelter). Even though there wasn't a tornado, the trip wasn't a compete wash as we went up to the third floor balcony of the building and watched the lightning. I took some pics and one of them turned out to be interesting:


But that was my adventure for the night. Soon I will be off to bed, it's not even 12 and I am already tired, dang you school!

Super Mario and Zelda Cereal

I don't even know where to start with this one. Yes, I begged and begged until I got this cereal. Yes, I bought it only because it was Mario and Zelda. And no I never finished a box of it. But I have a reason for not finishing a box of it; the Mario cereal was good (as judged by me at the time, like when I was 9 or so) but the Zelda cereal tasted like berry poop. So I would eat all of the Mario cereal, open up the Zelda cereal, let it get old and then beg and beg to get another box. Great marketing on their part.
I also used to eat Pac-Man cereal which was like Lucky Charms but with marshmallow ghosts and Pac-Men, and cereal dots. I would also eat all the marshmallows out of the box and then want a new one.
Oh, while we are on the subject: for awhile I only ate Lucky Charms for breakfast, and I would eat everything except the blue diamonds, which I would take out of the bowl and place on my body as some sort of 80's-marshmallow-y style bling. I got quite sticky from doing this, and I did it all the time. What was I thinking? (This was around kindergarten age)
Anybody else have crazy cereals when they were growing up?

OK Go - Here It Goes Again

I first saw OK Go on K-State's Cable channel, the video that I saw was A Million Ways which is an ok song, but what caught my attention is that the video was just them dancing all done in one take. It was impressive.

Now OK Go has a new video out for their song Here It Goes Again, this time they do the video in one shot dancing on treadmills, and it is pretty nifty. Observe:



Spiff ne?

Dot

Dot is a really unique game. The object is to get all of the colored balls into the black hole and turn them all black. The way you move the balls is what makes this game different, and, at least for me, very addictive. You have a bigger white ball that draws the smaller colored balls to it like balloons to a fuzzy fuzzy sheep. You must drag the colored balloons up with you toward the black hole, but if you go too fast you will drop some balls. You are in a race against time, and so far my best is 5506. You really should give this game a whirl.

("You" total for this post: eight times, a new record)

Best Picture Ever (cont.)

Well apparently people were not happy with my efforts of just using Google to find the best picture ever, so i will include the following images in the voting for my struggle to find the best picture ever, as determined by search engine.

The rules are (and were when i started this) that i will use a search engine's safe setting and use the first two images that pop up as candidates for the search "Best Picture Ever". So here we go:

Google's:
Pilsner on a Hilsner
Burgers for Breakfast

Yahoo's:
Goat C (No you don't want to see this one. Do you want to know more?)
Oh yeah

Ask's:
Pilsner on a Hilsner (again)
Water, Gravel, Ponder

Flickr's:
Charles loves unicorns with wings
Happy Fing Birthday

Picsearch's:
Bug Jar
Oh yeah (again)

Lycos':
Bug Jar (again)
Best Christmas Ever

There, now you have more options. Be sure to let me know which one you think is the Best Picture Ever.

Patrick Stewart Alphabet

Need a smile?

Now why didn't that make it into an episode?

Tama (Kodama)

Feel like throwing things? Then Tama is a game for you. All you have to do is get the ball into the red pool for 100 points or the blue pool for 500 points. If you throw it into the black pool you lose a life. There are a total of 20 levels but I can only get to level 14. My high score so far is 2100. Tama is a hard game to play, but it is also one that is hard to stop playing. Check it out.

The end of Summer.

Oh it was a good one. Tomorrow I go back to school, back to teaching classes, back to taking clases. Summer #26 down.

I had a good one; posted Mad, learned how to program in Processing, redid a backyard, got my own domain name, LAN partied it 100oz. style, got a new laptop, had a rocking July 4th, and a very pirate-y 6th, met new friends, kicked it with old, listened to Jupiter Sunrise acoustic style, retreated to Colorado, listened to Jupiter Sunrise electric style, Estes-ed, and went to Snakes on a Plane.

As with all good things in life I would love to relive this last summer, but I am actually excited to getting back to teaching because I get to teach both of my classes in a new technology classroom.









Actually, I hope that I TiVoed my life, because when it is over I will want to relive it all again. Unfortunately, I don't think that is possible... Oh well, I'll just have to remember to rock it out all the time (sometimes that is hard to remember to do).








See you on the flip side of summer.











p.s.

Snakes on a Plane on my Blog

I just got back from watching Snakes on a Plane, the feel-good movie of the summer. Let me give you a run down of the plot. Ok, so there is this plane, and then there is a guy that put a bunch of snakes on it, go.

If you go into the movie with the knowledge that they made this movie to be corny then it will really be an enjoyable movie. If you think you are going to see a serous action thriller, well you may need to watch James Bond to get something a bit more realistic.

But yes, this movie is worth seeing. If you need something to bring a smile to your face go see this movie.

Don't believe me? Maybe this will convince you:


Still not convinced? Let Samuel L. Jackson tell you about Snakes on a Plane:


No? Daily Show maybe?


More of a Colbert kind of person? Here is his take:


OK last one:

Best Picture Ever?

Among the many things that I am responsible for, I take the honor of the official "Best Picture Ever" finder as the most important job that I just made up. How did I get this job you ask (besides making it up) ? It went like this:

Me: Hi, I'm here for the job of "Best Picture Ever" finder.
Tutrle: Yeah.
Me: So what do you need to know about me?
Turtle: Know Google?
Me: Yup.
Turtle: You are in.

So with this new assignment I went off the Google to find the Best Picture Ever. When I did an image search for "Best Picture Ever" I had the following two images as the top results. Now I need your help, I can't decide which one of the pictures is really the Best Picture Ever:

Picture 1

Picture 2

If you look at the pictures I think that you can agree with me that this is a hard decision. Please let me know what you think, and I'll declare a winner soon.