http://esoterik72.net/esoblog My personal blog. An open forum for me to inform family and friends about what's going on in my world... and also to express myself. Feel free to comment, but keep it clean! Thanks for visiting! Cheers!! Sat, 12 Jul 2008 23:12:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As you may have noticed, I didn't write very much at all for the last several weeks. This was mainly due to added stress at work (read: inventory time, again!) and being engrossed in some things to take my mind off the other things that have been either depressing or ... http://esoterik72.net/esoblog/2008/07/12/late-june-and-early-july-updates/ Today, I'm very sad to report that one of our wonderful budgies, Kiwi, passed away. For around two weeks or so, he had not been eating right. We tried to find out what the problem was, as he wasn't eating food out of his containers. He would frequently hop to the ... http://esoterik72.net/esoblog/2008/07/10/kiwi-11203-71008/ This is a response to Friday5.org's recent blog post, in where it has questions regarding our individual tastes. I don't participate in these often but, when I do, it usually pertains to my interests in some way. Sometimes I just think they're good questions. This time around, the questions not ... http://esoterik72.net/esoblog/2008/06/21/q-and-a-too-much-for-my-taste/ Most of you have heard the announcement by now, unless you have been isolating yourself from the rest of the world this past week. Monday, Apple unveiled the next edition of their iPhone, the smartphone-on-steroids that they unleashed upon the world last year. They've christened their newest offering as the ... http://esoterik72.net/esoblog/2008/06/14/why-im-getting-the-iphone/ With my Dad's birthday and Father's Day both just around the corner in this part of the year, I wanted to take this time to thank him in advance with this blogpost. I came across this little blast from the past recently: an article on the Timex/Sinclair 1000! This is what ... http://esoterik72.net/esoblog/2008/06/01/of-dads-and-discovery/ Hat's off to Captain Picard's Journal for posting this question! Either from birth, or somehow genetically imprinted on all of humanity, people are inexorably driven to mindless consumerism. We just can't seem to resist going into the latest or greatest shops, even if just to browse and graze like so many ... http://esoterik72.net/esoblog/2008/05/31/what-are-your-favorite-shops/ An animated short by Dony Permedi. I saw this on YouTube while on a search for animated short films. It seems cute at first, but towards the end you get to realize that the character is doing something monumental in scope. I say monumental, but it's not what one would typically ... http://esoterik72.net/esoblog/2008/05/28/video-kiwi/ Yesterday was Sunday, of course. We did the usual Sunday things that we have been doing for awhile. I went to work early in the morning. Christine got up sometime later and uncovered the birds and started laundry. I got home from work and lounged around a bit with her ... http://esoterik72.net/esoblog/2008/05/26/about-our-sixth/ As you all may know, I've become somewhat of a fixture in the YouTube community. I became a member back in July of 2006, simply to comment on the videos I liked. That same day, I decided to put Emily's Music Video on my userpage. I thought since I had ... http://esoterik72.net/esoblog/2008/05/24/videos-am-i-getting-better/ I didn't mention this over the last several months, but my trusty Fuji A350 camera hasn't been what it should be. Specifically, the video function acquired some nasty recording malfunction. You may recall that I recorded some videos of the house before and shortly after moving into our home. That ... http://esoterik72.net/esoblog/2008/05/23/camera-woes-or-here-we-go-again/