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Search and replace gone awry

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:48:00 -0500

As someone who writes a lot of search and replace code, I found this tidbit from ScienceBlogs.com particularly amusing:

This is absolutely hilarious. The American Family Association has a policy at its new outlet, OneNewsNow, never to use the word "gay" but to replace it with "homosexual." And that works absolutely perfectly until they write an article about an athlete whose last name is Gay, as in Tyson Gay, the fastest man on the US Olympic track team. And then you get this:

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Amazing catch

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:51:00 -0500

UPDATE - 6/25@12:48PM: Hoax... still cool though. :)

Continuing on yesterday's minor league baseball theme, I bring you this video of a very talented ball girl. Sign her up for the Indians!

http://view.break.com/524970 - Watch more free videos

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Ambidextrous pitcher, switch hitter, chaos

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:12:00 -0500

I've never seen a switch-pitching pitcher in baseball before... until now. And when you put one up against a switch-hitter you get chaos:

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Lightsaber movie swordfight mashups

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:23:00 -0500

These are very cool. Here's a sample but make sure you check them all out.

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Misleading headline of the day

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:52:00 -0500

Lesbians like straight men, researchers find. I'm confused.

Black Belt Jones intro

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:53:00 -0500

Someday I hope to be as much of a badass as Black Belt Jones.... someday.

Creepy

Wed, 4 Jun 2008 11:09:00 -0500

Giant pencil with a lude grin meets girl ... creepiness ensues.

Random kid images

Tue, 3 Jun 2008 10:59:00 -0500

These are some random kid images from the last year or so. I know ... I have a lot of catching up to do. Bear with me.

Congratulations

Tue, 3 Jun 2008 10:53:00 -0500

Heh heh.

Thanks to Brendan for the heads up.

The Phoenix has landed

Tue, 27 May 2008 10:17:00 -0500

Check it out. The Phoenix lander made it.

Japanese Prank

Tue, 20 May 2008 13:36:00 -0500

Those wacky Japanese...

Whatever you do...

Fri, 9 May 2008 10:02:00 -0500

... don't press the big red button. Don't do it.

How I spent my vacation

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:32:00 -0500

So the first week of this month my wife Jean took our 2 monkeys (Zach and Ava) down to Louisiana to visit family. I stayed home by myself to get some work around the house done. My assigned task was to paint our (rather large) master bedroom. Easy.. right? Not really. I always seem to underestimate how much work it is to properly paint a room. Most of the time is spent in prep, cleanup, and painting the trim. The walls were in bad shape, so they needed a lot of prep work. The ceiling hadn't been painted in ages, so it needed a couple of coats. And our room has 5 windows, 3 closets and a door - which means LOTS of trim to paint. Throw in all the cleanup and 2 coats on everything and you get 5 day's worth of solid 10 hr days of work. Not much of a vacation .... the room looks nice though! So that's why I didn't post much late last month or early this month. My excuse for the last couple of weeks is that Rush kicked off their 2008 tour last Friday and released a new live album earlier this week. So I've been busy with the Rush site. That's all for now.

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Stonehenge 2

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:32:00 -0500

This guy is recreating Stonehenge using surprisingly simple methods. He may have just discovered how the original builders did it. Very neat.

5 years later ... war still sucks

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:37:00 -0500

Wow. It's been 5 long years and 4000 dead soldiers since the start of Dubya's war. Wow... how time flies. One great thing about having a blog that's 6 years old is that I can search back through my archives to see what Ed-from-the-past was doing/thinking. So I hunted through my archives back to March of 2003 and checked out some of my War-related posts. Guess what... I was right - though I wish I'd been wrong:

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RIP Arthur C. Clarke

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:39:00 -0500

Arthur C. Clarke, 90, Science Fiction Writer, Dies
One of my favorite authors Arthur Clarke died yesterday at the age of 90. Next to Isaac Asimov, there's no other author I admire as much as Clarke. He was a brilliant man and a great human being. The New York Times has a great obituary for him up on their website. The fact that both Asimov (died in 1992) and Clarke are now both gone is huge blow to the world of science fiction and marks the end of an era for the genre I believe. Luckily there are still some great sci-fi authors like Orson Scott Card and Charles Stross around to pick up the torch.

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Catching up, part 1

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:32:00 -0500

First off, I have to wish myself and my wife a happy anniversary! Today is our 8th wedding anniversary. Jean and I aren't into huge celebrations for these kinds of events; we went out to eat a couple of weeks ago and declared that our anniversary dinner. That's probably about all the celebrating we'll do. We'll do something more special for our 10th I think.

I also hope everyone had a great St. Patrick's day. I wore green, but didn't celebrate otherwise. My big excitement for the day was that I had to take my car in to get a flat tire fixed. I went out on Friday night with some old school friends; we shot some guns at a gun range (yee haw!) then went out for burgers and beers. Shooting guns was a blast (pun intended). I haven't done much shooting since I moved out of my folks house in the country (a looong time ago) and I'd forgotten how much fun it is. It was also the first time I'd ever been to a gun range. When I was a kid all I had to do was step out into my backyard; instant gun range (we have 50 acres). Anyways, when we left the place I discovered I had a flat. It's a new car - a 2008 Honda Fit - so that was a real bummer. I didn't even have 3000 miles on it yet. And what really sucked is that the spare tool kit was missing from the vehicle! Luckily my bro - who has a Honda Civic - was with me and I was able to use his toolkit. Needless to say the dealer is going to get me a new kit for free.

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I'm back!

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:37:00 -0500

Yes. I finally got the site back up and running. At times it seemed like it would never happen, but I had some extra time recently and just decided to throw it out there. It's not perfect, but it's much better than before. It doesn't look much different - most of the changes are under the hood. I essentially copied the underlying code from my Rush site because I had made several enhancements on that front already over the last year. That made things a bit easier. The main thing users will notice is that you now need to register an account to post comments. Designwise I kept things essentially the same although I did add the 3-heads-of-Ed image to replace the old square-head Ed picture. The 3 pics are me as a baby, a teenager, and an old 30-something respectively. I also added my Rush starman YinYang image that I often use as an avatar on various messageboards. I integrated all my old book and movie reviews into the regular blog and the quote-inator is still around. I'll be adding features as I get time - such as a blog roll and a site search. I have a lot of catching up to do so I'll be putting up a series of posts letting you know what I've been doing for the past year.

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Still here... no site yet

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:00:00 -0500

UPDATE - 3/12@3:10PM: Here's the separate post with the Traveling Music review.

It's 2008 now and still no estenger.com. I had figured that when Rush finished their tour in October I'd finally have some time to sit down and do something about this site. But alas, Rush went and decided to continue the tour into 2008. For the past few weeks I've been working like a madman on the RUSH site, trying to keep up with all the ticketing/tour information. It doesn't look like I'll be doing anything with estenger.com until later this year.

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Shutting Down Temporarily

Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:00:00 -0500

Due to my horribly outdated code and design, not to mention time constraints - I am shutting down estenger.com for the time being. I certainly plan on relaunching at some point but right now I just don't have the time to make the necessary changes to the code and design that I need to make. I had to shut down comments a few weeks ago because of an inundation of spam and my code is very old and in need of an overhaul. More importantly, I don't see the point of keeping the site around if I'm not going to update it. I had been in the habit of posting something at least a couple times a week. But over the last few months that fell off significantly to the point that I was lucky to get 1 post in a week (and nothing at all in the last month). The main reason this happened and the reason why I don't have time to redesign the site right now is because of the effort I've been putting into my RUSH site. It's taken off in popularity the last few months and requires most of my free time. Like I said, I will be back at some point with something better- you can bet on it. Until then, go visit RUSHISABAND.COM! :)

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