My, it's been a while, hasn't it?
I guess I could recap the past week, what I've picked up, news, and what not....
My stock picks don't like me any more, A Collision by David Crowder Band, Thrive by Newsboys, The Eleventh Hour & Christmas Songs by Jars of Clay, I'm not nearly as upset about the Louisiana Republican party subverting my Huckabee vote as everyone else (electability, hello), and who in 1968 knew Fidel Castro would last this long?
There, with that out of the way....
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Hello. Remember me? I used to be a moderator here on these boards, but life has happened over the past 7 years. If I hadn't rotated off the forum circuit by the time Katrina hit, I was awfully close to doing so. I'm thankful, however, for the time I've gotten to know people with color-shifty masks. I'm honored to have been one, and I do not regret the time spent, for more reasons than making friends scattered throughout North America and beyond. Gee, it sounds like I'm leaving the site. I'
I've been hit by the nostalgia bat recently. A few weeks ago, I was tagged (on the book of faces) in an 18-year-old photograph of my senior homecoming, well, a homecoming alternative put on by those of us (and our parents) at the church I attended at the time. I was about to turn 17 (if I wasn't already) at the time of the photograph, and I'm now more than twice as old as I was when that photo was taken. Something else I saw on the book of faces recently: an update to something I posted 6 year
The end of September is always a favorite time of the year for me. Not only because September 25 is my birthday, but because Olive Garden always has their "never-ending pasta bowl" special. All you can eat pasta and sauce for $7.95$8.95...I think. For $2$1.50$1.95$2.95 more, you can get meatballs or italian sausage (like the pizza topping) or chicken with every fillup.
I like pasta. I'mI was OCD over my wire-mesh colander, because I like my pasta. I tinker with cans of tomatoes, fresh onions
Hello there. Have we met? For the many here that don't know me, I go by KIE on these boards, which is short for Kopaka's Ice Engineering. I derived the name from the bridge Kopaka built at the end of the first BIONICLE comic so many years ago. I am a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Louisiana, though right now, I live and work in Illinois. Within the next two months, my family will be moving back to NOLA [greater New Orleans], more properly, the north shore of Lake Pontchartrai
For entertainment purposes only.
New Mexico
Texas-El Paso (+11½) over Brigham Young
BYU 52, UTEP 24
Humanitarian, uh, MPC Computers
Northen Illinois (-2½) over Fresno State
NIU 40, FRES 17
New Orleans
Troy (-1½) over Ohio
TROY 48, OHIO 21
St. Petersburg
Southern Mississippi (+3½) over Louisville
LOU 31, USM 28
Las Vegas
Boise State (-16½) over Utah
BSU 26, UTAH 3
Poinsettia
United States Naval Academy (+1½) over San Diego State
SDSU 35, NAVY 14
Aloha, er, Hawaii
Behold, the end of C. Ray Nagin's trial on counts of bribery during his term as mayor of New Orleans. ...courtesy WDSU, NBC affiliate in New Orleans, LA (and whose offices are catercorner from my office (parking lots both open to Carondelet St)). I've wanted to post about my computer for a few weeks now, but I haven't gotten around to it. This, this is something I couldn't delay in posting, not when I borrow one of his most famous lines to entitle my blog. It would behoove me to learn more
I can't exactly say that I'm a fan of Semisonic, or any of the other bands who may have covered the song "Closing Time", although it is a very appropriate lyric at the moment. We have just gotten back from a whirlwind trip to NOLA, only to be thrust into more acceleration. It is the endgame of my time in Morris. As of 12:30, my wife & I now own (well, mortgaged) a house outside Covington, Louisiana. Yesterday, the Army Corps of Engineers completed the dredging beneath the new bridge, widen
Ever since I moved out from under my parents' roof in February 2005, Thanksgiving has involved traveling. I [and later Amanda] jumping in a car and driving an appropriate amount on I-10, I-20, I-55, or US 165 and arriving at my parents' [or her parents'] home for a Thanksgiving meal. (Except in 2007: that year we were on baby watch for Oliver in Baton Rouge.) Not so this year. For the first time, family is coming here for Thanksgiving dinner. Our cozy little house of 3 will become 11 in a fe
Packing is a most arduous task with a 9-month-old in the house. One person must always be parted off to entertain the girl, and sometimes, one isn't enough. This is a new feature against the 3 previous moves in the past 7 years, and it's a bit of a trip. One that has been constant through the past three moves has been a 10" non-stick skillet. A relatively heavy aluminum number done by Invitations, and I don't know if that's a store brand or what. All I know is that I've had it since my mom gav
I saw my first snowflake yesterday.
I've mentioned before that it will snow on rare occasion in south Louisiana. While it did snow two weeks before Christmas 2008 in New Orleans, it also snowed on Christmas in 2004, and to ring in the new year 2001. Before that, maybe something in the late 80's. I'm too lazy to look it up in an almanac now, anyway.
Those of you who know the story that brought me to BIONICLE may also know that I passed a semester of graduate school at The University of Akro
My my, what have we here? So much dust; so many events; so much life has happened here, I should think I ought take a moment to catch you all up. However, that moment is not immediately. Expect more soon.
One of the things about being a reporter, that I've caught on very quickly, is that I'm bound to get a lot more email. In fact, byron@bzpower.com is a whole new email account I set up exclusively for BIONICLE News.
Unfortunately, news travels quickly... Before I go off on the miscapitalizations and the butchering of "Israeli", I'd like to comment that his is the first time that a copy of the "Nigerian" scam (Also called a 419 scheme, after the related Nigerian penal code under which this type
Hi.
Wow it has been a long two weeks.
Well, nearly two weeks: I just got my computer back online last night.
In any case, I hope to catalogue the past two weeks in multiple entries, starting with BrickFair.
Thursday saw me flying off to Washington, DC, ahead of the inbound Hurricane Gustav. Setup went fairly well, given the help I had. (Thank you, Roa & DV, for being my stand-in helpers, as well as bringing the great MOCs.) As anyone who attended the open fair Saturday or Sunday
<image to be added at a later date> This time I'm walking to New Orleans I'm walking to New Orleans I'm gonna need two pair o' shoes when I get through walkin' these blues When I get back to New Orleans I got my suitcase in my hand now ain't that a shame I'm leavin' here today yes, I'm going back home to stay yes, I'm walkin' to New Orleans you used to be my honey 'til you spent all my money no use for you to cry I'll see you by and by 'cause I'm walking to New Orleans I've got
Ladies & gentlemen, my fiancée, Amanda Weems.
Plan C evolved and came to fruition over the course of about 54 hours, from mid-day Thursday through Saturday evening. A too-clearly drawn line to December removed plan A (where we first met), and Ike washed away plan B (Dickens on the Strand, in Galveston, TX).
Suffice it to say, the giant cheque in the back of the car was all I needed to distract from the jewelry box in my pants pocket. After one presentation, I deftly (for as much as A
One of the most thrown-out-there quotes is "Art imitates Life; Life imitates Art". There's a measure of truth to it, too. For instance, I give you a scene from both Bleach 19 and 211: Bakudō 99. It's funny, in that the first time it is introduced, the ultimate manner of restraint is rendered insufficient. In a similar manner, I've seen intangible things grow lives of their own, even recently. That the hype around some things can grow and build and compress and concentrate and...compress, it is n
"Pigs have flown. ###### has frozen over. The Saints are on their way to the Super Bowl." -call from Jim Henderson on the Saints Radio Network
Somewhere, if only on the front page of the Living section of this morning's Times-Picayune, Buddy D is wearing a dress.
Euphoria is running rampant in Chocolate City. I swear, but nothing else of relevance happened in the world except that the Saints are going to the Super Bowl. being the 1 in Tampa's 1-26 franchise mark Bum Phillips not figuring o
What do the Buffalo Sabres, Oakland Raiders, Silkeborg, UMass Minutemen, Lille, Αποελ Nicosia, LSU Tigers, the Ohio State/Michigan game, Mississippi State Bulldogs, and Maurice Jones-Drew have in common? If you said "sports" or "athletics," you're about as close as I would expect anyone to get. For the past two years, I've been playing a game called Streak for the Ca$h on ESPN. It's a simple little game: select one from a series of offered props on sporting events. Sometimes it's a simple as
Amanda & I went to see The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian tonight. Well worth the wait.
Even saw some cosplayers.
Or, more likely, just dressed up in an old Halloween getup. For shame.
Anyway, we're both looking forward to The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, for whenever it comes out.
-KIE
As the temperature cracks 60 degrees of Fahrenheit for the first time since November, I have to comment that I'm glad that the snow is gone. Yes, I understand that the snow isn't gone for good: Chicago has seen snows as late as May, but, at least now, everything outside is brown as it should be [for January, not March], not white.
I want to go back to a world where a "Blizzard" is something you go to Dairy Queen to get.
I have had the pleasure of digging out a snow drift, shoveling the dri
Yes he did and no one had better let him out of it!
Wow, BrickFest was a blast. It's all mish-mashing in my head right now, so I'll make with the quick-hits before I forget everything. 50° F (10° C) is an overnight low, not a daytime high, for March. Geez, Oregon. It's spring. Get with the program. The scent of a Randazzo even before the bag is opened is as hypnotic as ever. TLG has to open a LEGO store at some point along the Gulf coast. I'll drive to Gulf Shores if necessary; I just can't
Dear 52%:
I have a proposition:
Three years from now, if my life and my surroundings are better off as a direct result of Barack Obama being president and his policies becoming law, I will vote for him in 2012. If not, I will vote for the Republican candidate.
Now please quit chanting "Hope & Change" and "Yes We Can." so loudly into my ear. I need to get busy at work.
-KIE
