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I was watching the stand-up acts on comedy central the other night, and found Frank Caliendo pretty entertaining (here’s the actual show with some additional clips). To me, the reason he is so entertaining is because he can mimic just about anyone (including facial expressions). Some of the people in those videos include John Madden, Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro, Robin Williams, George Bush, Chris Farley, Seinfeld crew, etc. It’s funny stuff.

“Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.” In general, that’s a pretty good rule of thumb. That’s a lot of why software often gets bloated with unnecessary features. Here’s an example of when applied to a light switch: complex lightswitch. I wonder if the engineer is still proud of that, or if he/she now realizes it may be just a little too complex for a light switch.

I’m really not concerned with SEO, but every now and then I’ll type my name in Google to see what comes up. I could care less if I’m even in the results to be honest, but once I began to hold a solid position in 5th place, I started wondering if I could raise the bar a little. A recent search (Valentines Day) shows that I’ve managed to move up to 3rd, while displaying my true incompetence!

What a lovely time for Google to update its indexes. I am an application error.

I think I’ve come across the most ridiculous video ever. If you know what this is about, and why in the world it exists, please enlighten me. With this kind of strange creativity, maybe they will grow up to do great things. But right now, I don’t get it.

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Welcome to the most atypical habit I’ve yet to form. My glasses are slightly crooked (maybe 5 degrees off), but it’s just enough for me to notice. They are the frameless glasses, but I can still see the outline of the lenses. Subconsciously, I think I’m trying to adjust to the crooked glasses, but not by turning my head in the opposite direction (to make them straight), but by turning my head the same direction as the tilt. I guess I’m accomodating to the glasses instead of making the glasses accomodate to me. Well, trying to align the glasses with my eyes that way is like chasing my shadow. Lately I’ve been catching myself with my head further and further to the right, to the point where I think someone would question what I was doing if they saw me. I’ve tried bending them back myself, but I’m a little nervous because it’s about 5x more $ to repair glasses with no frames, because the only connection to the lens and the ear bracket thingy are two little screws. If they snap, the lens will crack. Anyway, I’ve been putting off the fact that I need to take my glasses in for repair. It’s such a small issue, but it could be the reason my neck has been sore, which often causes my head to hurt. Now it’s to the point where I’m afraid I might tilt my head to the right without having glasses on. Wouldn’t that be wonderful. Maybe I could lay sideways on the floor and put book’s under my laptop to angle it as needed… or I could go get my glasses fixed.