Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Code Monkey

One of the guys on my team linked me to this video. It is a claymation video set to "Code Monkey", by Jonathan Coulton that his younger sister made. I'm friggin' impressed.

Update (April 30 - 6:01 PM UTC):
Indeed, as Colin mentions in the comments, the creator is his sister, and not Jonathan Coulton's. Scope resolution is easier when you can see the curly brackets.

Monday, April 28, 2008

MoOM

The Museum of Online Museums! Fantastic!

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Still Alive

It's been a busy few months for me, and my blog has suffered for it. It looks like the last time I posted was - holy crap! - January 15!

Sooooo... here's the round-up of what's going on with me (in order of descending importance)


  • Ashley and I got engaged on the 11th of January, and we'll be getting married in September of next year on the lawn of the Morton Arboretum's Thornhill Education Center

  • I signed up for the Masters program at North Central College, and I should be finishing up my degree somewhere around the end of the decade.

  • I went out to the MIX conference back in March, and had a rockin' good time out in Las Vegas.

  • I got a bitchin' new camera that I'm really enjoying.

  • umm...

  • Got my taxes done just under the wire today... okay, that's boring...



I also got a big box of old family photos from my grandma and grandpa that I've been scanning in and uploading to my Flickr page. I'm planning on building a Silverlight application that allows you to navigate a family tree and browse pictures. I'll post some code as I get into it.
John and Minnie Nieland
This is my favorite picture from the lot. These are my great-grandmother's parents. The picture was taken some time in the late 1800s.