August 4, 2008
This past Sunday, I went to my aunt’s house on the west side for a family picnic and to try to get to know some of my cousins again (long story on that one, maybe I’ll tell it one day)
As a result, my girls got to meet and play with their second cousins in a pool for the afternoon. Cousins soon became friends and a grand time by five three year olds was had.
We need to definitely get together more often and its nice to rediscover family after all this time.
July 19, 2008
When as a consumer did I lose the ability to buy something and not be able to use it the way I want?
The other day, I bought the 3 part Dr Horrible series off iTunes. Its a very funny series, but I’m limited to watching it on an Apple device. I want to watch it on my TV but I can’t until they come out with a DVD. So I pay for it, and can’t use it except on my computer. The 20 inch screen on the max is nice size and all, but pales when compared to the 50 some inch TV and the stereo connected to it.
DRM basically gets in my way. I’d pay a few dollars more to not DRM the damn things. Embed my name in it, I don’t care, not like I share anything. So now instead of me going, that was a good show, I should buy a dvd or 2, now I complain about DRM.
And while I’m on it, why do software companies make me have a cd in the machine to play a game. Again they get in my way. And why do I need to go to a store to buy software? Just let me download it. New game is out, great, download it while I’m at work. New movie I want, let me download a DRM free version I can play anywhere in my house. The days of tying an asset to a specific piece or brand of hardware should be over.
Right now, I have 2 xbox 360’s, a PC or 2, my mac and an ipod. Lets get the open exchange going. Stop punishing the consumer, its just greed.
Bah
July 2, 2008
Jelly One, originally uploaded by Dave Kekish.
Well as promised, we went to the zoo and now, some pictures. Jelly fish are very hard to photograph, since it really dark in the aquarium.
Unfortunaly a large number of photos ended up being over exposed since i changed settings for the above shots and forgot to set it back. I’ll learn next time.
I managed to come up with a few, and I like this one
June 29, 2008
Did you know that peanut butter gets rid of hiccups? Works like a charm on the girls, doesn’t work for me, so I don’t know if its an adult vs child thing, but. I find it interesting at least.
June 29, 2008
Seriously, Its July almost and this blog is wasting away. Well hopefully I’ll have more pictures to put up soon and who knows what my foggy brain will decide to type.
I’m currently on vacation (it actually started last Thursday and goes through the 4th) and I’m attempting to relax. Relaxing is not one of those things that comes natural to me.
This coming week will include trips to the various parks surrounding the lovely Geauga County and we’re planning on going down to my mother in laws for a trip to the Akron zoo.
Cleveland’s zoo is really top notch, but a) its huge, hard for little ones to stay interested for more than 2 hours and b) I swear the thing is built on the side of a mountain. To many hills for hauling kids in a wagon.
Akron’s a lot smaller, the whole thing can be seen in about 2 hours, and instead of bars and distance between you and the animals, its a thick piece of plexy. makes for nice viewing.
I’ve been playing a lot of warcraft lately. My mage is in a raiding guild, for which I am still woefully unprepared. They seem to be good folks, time will tell. I sometimes think I play to much, which could be a reason I don’t post more. Eh. I don’t know.
Work as always is work. Working on some new entity framework stuff, but I frankly don’t have a firm grasp on it yet. I also find my self working on a 3rd party app in which I add fields to a form. To put it bluntly, it thrills me not. Seventeen years of development work and I get to drag and drop to build a form. Boring it is.
But its work, so….
I’ll post more this week at least. Some photos hopefully if nothing else.
June 1, 2008
Shudder, originally uploaded by Dave Kekish.
Not ready at all for this image. Thankfully that day is still a long way off.
March 4, 2008
D&D creator and all around good gamer Gary Gygax has died.
As a long time player of D&D and other games (I still play to this day), this is a sad day. When my kids get old enough, I plan on introducing the game to them.
D&D is still the best-known role-playing game, with well over 30+ million people having played the game and more than $1+ billion (USD) in sales.
Thats Gary’s legacy to us. Grab a die, and remember him won’t you.
February 26, 2008
Where to start, hmm. OK, today it is. Today is my birthday, happy birthday to me I guess.
This past Sunday we had the memorial for mom. It was nice, saw some relatives I don’t normally see, some dear old neighbors from when I grew up, etc. The priest was very good and I liked what he had to say about mom, even though he had never met her. I’m not a very religious person by my own choice. Its not a belief thing, its an organized religion isn’t for me thing. But listening to him talk (last time I was in church was about 5 years ago) made me understand what it is that makes people want to believe and want to belong.
I’m sitting there in the front row, next to my dad with one of my daughters on my lap and I wanted to belong. It didn’t last for more than the memorial, but there was a definate power in the prayer with the audience reciting back. I don’t think I’ll forget it easily.
We buried mom in a cemetary close to home. She had always wanted to move to Cleveland and in death, I was able to give her that. Up to the moment when I placed the flowers on the grave, I had been holding up. The walls finally fell though.
I can’t help feeling that I’ve been changed somehow now, what direction it takes me, I don’t know.
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