tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-320410482011-12-27T01:31:09.278-08:00michaelkurodahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05787688273340374473noreply@blogger.comBlogger1611100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32041048.post-2480468685706938442008-07-11T12:36:00.002-07:002008-12-08T23:20:21.339-08:00

Today was mainly spent looking at the Volcano for the Kilauea eruption. We headed over to where the lava was flowing into the ocean to see the steam. On the way, we stopped at the Lava Tree State Park. We then got lost trying to find where to go to view the steam near Kalapana, but we finally got there. I wanted to see some lava, but we were no allowed to get close enough. We could stick

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Day 7 was mainly a day of rest even though we woke up early so we could get some breakfast and head to the airport with plenty of time to hop over to the island of Hawaii, aka the big island. We arrived around lunch time in Hilo and meet with my aunt. For lunch we headed over to Cafe 100, one of the places we go at least once. They have local food and was even in a show on the Food Network

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Our last full day on the island of Oahu. This day we visited the Polynesian Cultural Center. We ended up arriving a little late so we only visited 3 of the 6 "island" areas; Samoa, Aotearoa (New Zealand), and Tonga. We missed going to Fiji, Tahiti, and Hawaii. In Samoa, we saw how they make fire, use coconuts, and a guy climb a coconut tree. In Aotearoa they performed some different

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July 6 started off very non-vacation like with mom and I doing laundry. Because of the new regulations and fees being implemented by the airlines, we decided to pack less clothing so we would have a smaller number of luggage bags to check. However, my mom's eyes were all puffy and it was concerning me. We looked in the phone book and saw that there was an urgent health care in Waikiki just

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Most of the day was spent walking here and there. First, we tried to find a place to eat breakfast and figured it would be easier to walk down 30 flights of stairs than wait for the really slow elevator. I think this was a mistake since that tweaked my leg and I had a slight limp for the rest of the day. After walking down what seemed like 300 stairs, we walked about a mile until we found a

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The third day of vacation saw us attend the Ihori family reunion, the main purpose for us going to Hawaii. My mom is the coordinator for the event so she was rather busy and I tried to help where I could. Before heading to the park where the reunion would be held, we stopped off at McDonalds so mom could have "fast food Hawaiian style breakfast." McDonalds in Hawaii servers food like spam

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Day two in Hawaii, ended up sleeping in a few hours since we did not get to bed past midnight (3:00 am Washington state time). However, I ended up waking up in the middle of the night, so I wandered down to the hotel lobby to see if I could get free WiFi internet access (I could only get fee based access from my room). Luckily, there was one open network available! (Hence how I am able to

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My mom arrived at my appartment the evening before so we could travel together to Seatac and fly out to Honolulu, HI. Our flight did not leave until 5:20 pm (done on purpose so I could sleep in a bit and not have to wake up before 4:00 am). We landed in Hawaii at about 8:30 pm local time (11:30 back in Washington). We got our rental car and headed to the hotel. After we got settled into

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Well, it looks like my website in my apartment is not working correctly... great timing since I'm in Hawaii on Vacation. Well, in the mean time, I will use this old blog to post pictures from my trip until I get back and restart my server.

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Well, it has taken many hours of work (mainly because I have spent more time watching T.V. than actual development), but my new blog is now complete. The last few pieces were completed this week with a new layout and some head scratching over how to correctly generate an RSS Feed. I have moved over all the old posts from this blog and my older blog. I have implemented standard features

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I borrowed a spare video card from work today and when I got home I plugged it into my computer and everything worked! So I hurried out the door and drove to Silverdale to pick up a new part for my aging computer from Best Buy. Best Buy, for some reason, has decided to make it a pain in the rear to purchased video cards. They are now all in the "Geek Squad" section of the store, so you have

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Well, my computer is still down but in the mean time I have setup my really old computer (300 MHz) as a web server. I posted earlier about installing linux on the computer and having lots of problems, which was close to a year ago. I still had problems with getting Linux installed, this time Puppy Linux, but I am able to run it from a Live CD (seems like Grub still wont work correctly).

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Last night, Tristan was over and we were playing WoW for a few minutes. Then all of a sudden my computer monitor went wonky and turned all purple. I turned off the computer and restarted it. Again, a purple screen. It seems that my computer is down for the count at the moment. I am not sure if the problem is with the video card or the mother board's video capability. At one point I was able

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The last week had been rather busy. I found out that my Aunt Violet, who is visiting from Hawaii, would be visiting me over the weekend. This was late Tuesday evening. My apartment was a mess and I knew she would criticize a lot of things so I decided to do a major clean up. I spent most of my free time on Wednesday and Thursday cleaning and they arrived on Friday. During that time I have

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Before my trip to San Diego, CA a horrible thing happened. My iPod died.     (there was much sadness) I ordered a new hard drive and took my iPod apart.     (there was much hope) Turned out UPS does not know how to correctly send something from Florida to Washington State, my package is delayed 2 days.     (there was much annoyance) Package arrives and I hook up the new

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I was checking my e-mail this morning through Google's Gmail service and had something from my mother. Google displays little advertisements off to the side that are supposed to be related to the e-mail received. Well, the last ad really surprised me: "Are You Johnny Depp?" The description for the link is "It's Scary Accurate To See What Celebrity You Are. Find Out Now!" Out of curiosity I

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Once again I headed up to Bellingham, WA with Tristan, Amanda and Ryan. This time it was to see the new Harry Potter movie and play some World of Warcraft. It took me a little bit, but I just posted some pictures from the trip and they can be seen in the following links: PT Waterfront Whatcom Community College Journey from Bellingham I have also decided to keep a small log of my

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Before heading off to San Diego, CA last week I ended up brushing up on my Ray Tracing knowledge since one of the meetings was with some very informed people on the subject. I dusted off my notes from school and started to code up a Ray Tracer in C#. I have continued working on the application now and then over the past week and finally reached a point where I have some decent results being

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Happy fourth of July! I arrived back from San Diego last night. Overall the trip went well. Although I spent more time at the airport than in meetings. The flight back home was very nice since it was clear skies out and I got to take a couple of pictures. I hope to post them online at some point but I will probably be doing some touch-ups to enhance them beforehand. Stay tuned! "

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Work has me traveling again. This will be the third trip that I go on and this time it's back to San Diego. It will be short since I leave tomorrow in the afternoon and am back home Wednesday. This ended up being a little last minute since I did not find out that I would be going until Friday as I was leaving work.

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I went home for lunch and was flipping through the channels and I noticed that some things had changed. I got really confused. I wandered over to TV Guide listings online, and sure enough the channels that are available were modified. Lots of new things were added like Comedy Central and Food Network (one of my favorite shows is Good Eats, a sort of mix between cooking and science). Yay!

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I just realized earlier today that I have now been working at my current job at Mobilisa as a software engineer for almost two years. I hunted around in my boxes of filed papers and found the acceptance letter. I started on June 27, 2005. So it is just over 2 years. Boy, time sure has gone by fast. I almost did not end up working there. When I originally submitted my resume I had

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Nothing too exciting has been going on with me lately, but I thought I would post a little project that I started yesterday. At work we use Microsoft's SQL Enterprise Manager to update and change the databases we use. One of the neat features is the ability to open a table and do "live" edits to the data without having to write SQL Statements to perform additions, updates, and deletes. At

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This weekend my mom came to visit and I took her out for Mother's Day lunch at the Spruce Goose located at the Port Townsend International Airport and dinner at the Olive Garden in Silverdale. Here are some pictures from the Shine Tidelands State Park near the Hood Canal Floating Bridge and the 29th Annual Rhododendron Arts & Crafts Fair in downtown Port Townsend.

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As I mentioned earlier, I have been working on a little web based application to calculate the distances between airports. Well, I finished the beta version and put it up on my website. There is not a lot of features yet, but there is a nice hook into Google Maps.

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A bunch of stuff has been happening to me recently. A lot of it I do not really want to put online since it is not that interesting. So instead I decided to start writing a journal. I am on day two. Actually, today is the first day but I added an entry for yesterday. One thing to note recently is that for the first part of this month I have been on jury duty. I ended up having to report

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My whirlwind business trip around the country finished with me arriving at my apartment in Port Hadlock after 1:00 in the morning on Saturday. Overall the trip was okay. Not as productive as I was hoping, but it went well. One downside was the flight from San Diego to Washington D.C. The flight was delayed a bit so the amount of time we had for our connecting flight in Houston, TX was

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Know when I'll be back again... Today I am off to San Diego, California for a meeting tomorrow morning. The flight takes off around 5:30pm. And that is not all... Tomorrow we leave San Diego for Washington D.C. to catch a plane at 2:30 or so and land around 1:00 in the morning East Coast time. Meeting on Thursday and one on Friday than finally head back home. Once we get back (I

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I was at the local grocery store after work today and I spotted these little gummy treats. What a great idea! Of course, I had to buy some. I wonder if they will work with regular Lego bricks?

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Yep, I have another online quiz. Totally unoriginal and not that exciting, but that is how it has been lately. I have been very busy at work. So, without further ado... This time, it is the The Ultimate Star Wars Personality Test. This one is a little annoying since it is all flash and there is an advertisement at the beginning (but you can skip it). Here are my results:

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I have not really been posting much on the blog since nothing too exciting has been happening (and I am also lazy). I have been doing some work on my website and folding some origami models. I have also done some work on my Lego Robots website section and have included a posts section about different robots that I find information on. That has been fun doing a little bit of research online.

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In celebration of today being April Fool's Day, go check out the The Museum Of Hoaxes' Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes of All Time. One of my favorite is #4: In 1996 the Taco Bell Corporation announced that it had bought the Liberty Bell from the federal government and was renaming it the Taco Liberty Bell. Hundreds of outraged citizens called up the National Historic Park in Philadelphia

michaelkurodahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05787688273340374473noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32041048.post-10794921166689001262007-03-31T14:51:00.000-07:002007-03-31T15:38:33.870-07:00

So I had a great idea to fix the problem of having decent reception in my apartment at only one location for a rather inexpensive price. Bluetooth. When I got my phone, I decided to "splurge" and pay an extra $40 to upgrade to get a phone with a camera and support for this wireless technology called bluetooth. I figured I would never really use either but they would be nice to have in case

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I've been a user of Flickr, a photo sharing website, for a few years now. I don't use it that much since I created my own photo album section (basically because there are some limitations to Flickr). Well, I logged into my account the other day for the first time in many many months. And to my surprise one of my pictures was used in an online web comic. It's somewhat geeky which makes it

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I received a call at work today telling me that the washing machine on the second floor sprang a leak and apparently there had been over an inch of water that accumulated before the property manager was told. Well, I went buzzed home at lunch to check out if any damage was done to the stuff in my storage room located near the laundry room. Luckily it did not seem like anything was wrecked,

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I decided to pick back up one of the few hobbies that I have done off and on for over 15 years, the art of Japanese paper folding called origami. A few years ago I purchased a few books, which I believe I obtained in Hawaii, that deal with geometric shapes rather than the normal animals or flowers. I had done a few of the models in the books, but nothing too difficult. I hope to fold at

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I was driving home from work wondering what to have for dinner yesterday evening. Then I remember I had a meal that has been in my freezer for many many weeks from a service called Dinners Ready. Ryan introduced this to me and picked me up something when he visited his sister a while back. Dinners Ready provides meals that you can freeze and then easily cook at home later on. The dinner

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Another item that I purchased over the weekend was a little cordless vacuum cleaner from Eureka called the Cordless Quick-Up. I acquired it from Sears and it was on sale which was a nice bonus. I was in the market for something to cleanup the dirt that was collecting in my new car. Since I am unable to easily run an extension cord out to my parking space it had to be something that was

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I have just updated my Photo Album site. For the past few weeks I've been spending a bunch of my free time playing around with PHP and applied some of this knowledge to my photo albums. One of the new features include a calendar that allows you to view albums by month and by day. This was one of the harder ones and is not 100% completed. It is a little slow and I hope to make it better soon

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As of today, I'm finally connected back to the world with a brand new cell phone from T-Mobile. I used to have a cell phone during my last years at Western Washington University. However, when I moved over to Port Hadlock and my current residence, I had horrible coverage so I decided to cancel the phone. I still have no real reception in my apartment except for a little bit near the sliding

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I went to Longview, WA this weekend for a birthday celebration and to show my mother the new car. I left right after work on Friday and arrived in the late evening. On Saturday, I went down to Beaverton, OR and did some shopping at Uwajimaya. Uwajimaya is an oriental store that sells a lot of Japanese, Chinese, Thai, etc... types of foods and house wares. They also have a book store and

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I took a few more pictures of my new vehicle today. They can be found in the associated photo album.

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In celebration of this time of the year, I apparently purchased myself a 2007 Toyota Rav4 as a birthday present. Yep, today is the day that I was brought into this world in Honolulu, Hawaii back in 1981. A few months ago, I stumbled upon a Birthday Calculator by Paul Sadowski. After enter the day, month, year of when you were born, it spits out a bunch of information including celebrities

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Well, I picked up my new 2007 Toyota Rav4 today! Things did not go exactly as I expected, but it was smooth overall. I wrote up a little time line to recap the events that occurred. There is also a new photo album up. I will hopefully take more pictures tomorrow since by the time I arrived home there was not much sun light left.

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I added a new photo album of cars. Included are pictures of my old vehicle that I took to preserve my memories. The other photos are of those that I looked at while searching for a new car. At the end are pictures of my new car right off the truck. Tomorrow I go to get my new car. Tristan is going to pick me up at the rental car place and then take me to the dealer. How exciting!

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To start off my car hunt, I decided to get a rental car so I could go around to different dealers and look at what was being offered. Ryan was nice and drove me over to Poulsbo to get the rental. Afterwards, I headed down to the Toyota dealership in Bremerton, WA (Heartland Toyota) and checked out the Rav4. I did a test drive of two different versions (the basic and the sport). The next

michaelkurodahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05787688273340374473noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32041048.post-38351405264523418282007-02-14T20:07:00.000-08:002007-02-18T20:36:13.005-08:00

So I called the repair shop yesterday and they had bad news, which is what I expected. The guy looked at my car and it appeared to him that it was a blown head gasket or maybe a crack in the head. He also mentioned that the car has a specialized motor or something. In all, he was estimating the cost to be $3,000 to fix it. Since the engine already had about 200,000 miles on it, repairing the

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I decided to go over to Silverdale today for some shopping. Along the way, I noticed that all of a sudden my car was emitting a white smoke from the exhaust. I pulled over at a gas station on the other side of the Hood Canal bridge. The smoke was rather bad, hopefully I didn't damage anything. I then called AAA. 45 minutes later a tow truck came and picked me up. It drove my

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I'm flipping through the TV channels this evening and stop on the show "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" to see what difficult questions they might be asking. The next question that comes up is "Which of these square numbers also happens to be the sum of two smaller square numbers?" for $16,000. When it first appeared I was wondering if they were going to be tricky and do really large numbers

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Today I got the opportunity to go out in the field and do some testing for one of our projects with the Washington State Ferries. We headed out a little after noon and carried our equipment on board the Klickitat ferry going from Port Townsend to Keystone. We maneuvered towards the front of the vessel and went to the employees only section and up the narrow stair and outside. We stayed

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Tonight I decided to work some more on my photo album and created a new section for my mom's pictures. She has been going out on these trips with Discovery Tours and sent me some of the pictures she has taken. I thought I would put them up online so she could easily share them with friends and family. Hopefully more will be added during the week and more changes to the photo section of my

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Tonight I had the gang from work over for pizza from Ferino's and a movie. We watched Big Trouble Little China which I had never seen. What an odd film! They had seen the movie a few years ago before I started working at Mobilisa. Somehow we decided that there will be a viewing of the movie every year that's an odd number. And every even numbered year we are going to see The Last Dragon (

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Tonight, I finally completed the entire game of the New Super Mario Bros. for the Nintendo DS. The game is a throw back to the original Super Mario Bros. for the NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) and is a side-scroller. It took me a while to reach 100% since each level contained three star coins to try to discover. Some of these coins took me multiple passes until I found them all. A few

michaelkurodahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05787688273340374473noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32041048.post-34979137357489556832007-01-09T19:19:00.000-08:002007-01-09T20:37:24.507-08:00

I recently caught a really neat commercial the other day. I waited to post this until I found a copy of it online. Apparently it debuted on January 6 and I could not find it on the net when I saw it the following day until now. (Surprising to me since it seems like things are usually placed online rather quickly, go figure) What makes this commercial great? Well, how about the fact that

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Once again, there is some rather bad weather heading our way in the Puget Sound area. The wind was rather strong as we looked out the windows at work. The trees were being pushed this way and that. When I finally left work around 6:30, I noticed that power was out as I headed into Port Hadlock. I figured power would be out at my place. As I got closer to the center of town via Ness Corner

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Here is an interesting little quiz to see if you really are a gamer, The Ultimate Game Quiz. Not sure how accurate it is, but it does cover a very wide range of games including the new and some of the old. I'm not all that up to date on the latest games, but I did get a respectable 72%.

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Tonight was the Seahawk's first playoff game. What a crazy few hours. It didn't look like they were going to win, but by some miracle they pulled off a 21-20 win thanks to a slip up on the winning field goal. The hawks didn't play that well, but at least they are moving on. For the excitement, I headed over to Steve Zehm's house just a few minutes from me in Port Hadlock with his family

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Tonight was another fun time at Ryan's place playing the new Nintendo Wii console that was released just a few months ago. This was the third time that I have had the chance to play this console. Tonight Tristan and Amanda were also there. They picked up chinese food from Joy Luck in Port Hadlcok. I arrived early and wihle I waited for the food I looked around at the weather channel and

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I recently stumbled upon these two quizes that tell you what "popular" comic book super hero and super villian best matches you. Here are my results: You are Spider-Man Spider-Man 65% Superman 55% Green Lantern 55% Robin 47% Iron Man 45% Hulk 45% Catwoman 45% Supergirl 43% The Flash 35% Batman 35% Wonder Woman 33% You are intelligent, witty, a bit geeky and have great power and

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Recently, Ryan sent me a little clip (that he was forwarded from Kevin) from Saturday Night Live on Nick Burns, Your Company's Computer Guy. The skit is about an annoying computer technician and how he is rude to the other employees when they ask for his help. It's rather funny and accurate as far as the references to technology. There are five "episodes" in all and I was able to find them

michaelkurodahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05787688273340374473noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32041048.post-21370238026864923582006-12-31T22:48:00.000-08:002006-12-31T23:12:37.405-08:00

Well, here we are at the end of the year 2006. What a neat year it has been! I got to go sailing a few times on Tristan's boat, The Blow Me Down. I started this little blog. Two of my cousin's were married. Went to Hawaii and visited some relatives. I setup a photo album. Went to Bellingham, WA for some pumpkin carving. Built a bunch of Lego robots. Got my MCP. Experienced a lot of

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Today I went over to Ryan's place and helped pull some speaker wires. His sister, Jessie, and her husband, Rick, were also there so I got to meet them for the first time. It went rather quickly and smoothly. It was nice to get out of the appartment for a bit. Afterwards, we went to Macadoos. Yum! I have a few pictures of us in action that you can see here.

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Most (if not all) geeks enjoy Star Wars, especially the original trilogy. A lot of geeks also enjoy Legos. And of course, don't forget video games. If you combine all three, you get Lego Star Wars 2: The Original Trilogy. I ended up picking this up on Tuesday using an old gift card that I received last year. Tristan had shown me the first game and it looked rather neat. I had thought

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This post right here is the 100th post on this blog! It has taken longer than I originally planned. Initially I was going to try to post everyday, but it just didn't work out. After 146 days we are finally to the 100 entry. In "celebration" I've updating the look. Nothing too fancy. I just changed it around so there are now links on both the right and left hand sides. I'll probably be

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Today at work, I received a few more early Christmas Presents. Steve, a senior programmer at Mobilisa, had a white elephant type gift exchange for the rest of us software engineers. I ended up with a rather nice hot chocolate set that included two mugs and mini marshmallows. Later in the afternoon, Tristan handed out some presents. I ended up getting a Serenity comic book. Rather cool.

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One of my favorite TV shows is Mythbusters on the Discovery channel. It is a good mix of science and fun. The hosts have an extended background in special effects so each episode seems to include at least one explosions of some sort. Yesterday they were airing the Holiday Special and one of the myths they investigated was is if you dropped a frozen turkey on your foot, would it break. To

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I found this little game called plane charter yesterday. It has an outline of the USA and you are tasked with placing all 50 states. I didn't do nearly as bad as I had thought I would have. I ended up getting 42 of the states correctly, although it gets much easier towards the end as you have already placed states. My final score was 82%, an average error of 52 miles and took 366 seconds

michaelkurodahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05787688273340374473noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32041048.post-25655483675217413232006-12-19T19:19:00.000-08:002006-12-19T19:32:55.734-08:00

I finally broke down and bought an iPod Shuffle over the weekend. One of the reasons for this is that the iPod that I have had for a few years has been acting up (and even broke). If you move it around while it is playing, often it was "skip" and pause the song. It's rather annoying. I had been looking at the new iPod Shuffle when it first came out since it is so small and would be

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When I first saw Google Maps, I thought it was really neat. The user interface was much more intuitive than other online maps that I had used like mapquest since it allowed interactions with clicking and dragging. One of the features that also stood out to me was it's ability to overlap street maps on top of satellite imagery. Even though the satellite maps was nice, there were very limited

michaelkurodahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05787688273340374473noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32041048.post-28436911949218389552006-12-17T16:26:00.000-08:002006-12-17T16:37:17.409-08:00

My second Christmas party of the year occurred yesterday at the Blood's (Brian Blood is one of my co-workers). I arrived around 6:15pm and enjoyed a lot of food and sweets. A lot of families showed up with their young children including Cory Fisher from work and his family. Later in the evening, we had a white elephant gift exchange. I ended up with a Dr. Laura board game. I later traded

michaelkurodahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05787688273340374473noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32041048.post-65307437757683699762006-12-16T09:57:00.000-08:002006-12-30T18:37:28.065-08:00

When I was home for Thanksgiving this year, my mom and I took pictures for the family Christmas card. Also, I made an online version of the family Christmas letter

michaelkurodahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05787688273340374473noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32041048.post-14227522145451216772006-12-15T17:46:00.000-08:002006-12-15T18:11:09.439-08:00

Yesterday, Ryan had to go to Silverdale to pick up a tux for a wedding he is in this weekend. Tristan also needed to go to buy some Christmas presents. I decided to go along for the ride. There was a storm warning and there were worries about the Hood Canal Bridge being closed in the evening, but we ended up going anyways. Tristan ended up driving. As we headed to the other side of the

michaelkurodahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05787688273340374473noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32041048.post-20685505663510799542006-12-13T21:43:00.000-08:002006-12-13T21:48:09.437-08:00

Today was the company Christmas party. Good times were had by all and lots of family were on hand for the celebrations. The festivities started Monday when people started to arrive from the Washington D.C. office. Tristan brought in some apple cider and there were also doughnuts. Today we had the annual secret santa gift exchange. I ended up getting a neat calandar, which I really like.

michaelkurodahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05787688273340374473noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32041048.post-39062354403524488412006-12-12T22:33:00.000-08:002006-12-12T22:37:55.320-08:00

So my mom is visiting me and she brought her computer, which she usually does. I hadn't been using my wireless network, so I had turned it off (unplugged it) to save some power for the last month. Well, when I fired it back up, her laptop would not connect to the network. Arg! I have it secured and that seemed to be the cause of the main problems. I did finally get it working. For

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I saw the new James Bond movie, Casino Royal, tonight. It has been playing in PT, so no long drive to see it, which was nice. It was good, better than what I had originally thought when I first heard about the movie. There were a lot of twists and longer than I was expecting. My mom is in town, so I ended up going with her to the Rose Theatre. My mom had never been to a small theater

michaelkurodahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05787688273340374473noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32041048.post-17156858949192582182006-12-11T18:37:00.000-08:002006-12-11T18:52:13.146-08:00

As I had posted earlier I have been reading The Lord Of The Rings trilogy of books after enjoying the movies. On Saturday I read the final 100+ pages of the last installment, Return of the King. Its ending is rather different than the movie and was rather enjoyable. I'm not sure which I really enjoyed more, the movies or the books. I had never read the books before watching the movies, so

michaelkurodahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05787688273340374473noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32041048.post-30647703930599443072006-12-07T22:46:00.000-08:002006-12-07T22:51:07.269-08:00

Well, it has taken me a while but I have finally updated my photo albums. I have changed from using static pages that I created by hand to a dynamic system that pulls data out from a database. This is still in development, so sorry if there are any problems(there is still a bunch of work I want to do, but it is a start). It is now easier for me to add albums so hopefully a bunch of new ones

michaelkurodahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05787688273340374473noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32041048.post-62332975934195374782006-12-05T20:36:00.000-08:002006-12-05T20:44:03.956-08:00

I have been spending time for that last few weeks working on making different robots with my Lego Mindstorms kit. Well, this hobby all started thanks to a course that I took during my last quarter at Western Washington University. This was the graduate level robotics course. I have finally moved over the information on this class onto my robotics website. There are pictures and a few

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I'm continuing my fun with Legos and building more robots using the Mindstorms Robotics Invention System 2.0 kit. My latest constructions are a robot that can walk and another than can climb over obstacles. Both of these models are from Joe Nagata's Lego Mindstorms Idea Book. I also recorded some short videos of these robots in action and posted them on Google Video, you can view them on

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A few weeks ago, Tristan announced to us at work that he proposed to his girlfriend Amanda. Yesterday was their engagement party. The party was at Tristan's parents and a lot of people came. It was lots of fun. My Pictures

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The Global Rich List is a website that allows you to enter in an annual income and see how rich you are compared to the rest of the world. If I had gone to work at Microsoft and made the initial $28 per hour I would be ranked as the 55,829,822 richest person in the world. (That is $58,240 annual income). At this rank, I would be in the top 1% of the wealthy population. Next, I decided to

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Well, there hasn't been any more snow, but some of it did melt yesterday afternoon and it turned to ice over night. Because of the slick roads it's rather dangerous to drive and we got the day off from work. It's a nice 18° F right now. burrrrr Since I'm stuck at home, I decided to catch up on some video games that I haven't yet finished. The first is the New Super Mario Bros. for the

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There was a bunch more snow today. I still had to go to work, but we were let out two hours early so when I got back home I walked around town for a bit and took some more pictures and made a snow man. My Pictures

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When I arrived back in Port Hadlock yesterday afternoon, I was taken aback by how cold it was. Well, apparently it was cold enough for snow! I woke up this morning, looked outside, and there was snow falling. I'm very surprised. It's a slushy snow/rain mix and not sticking to the roads, so that is good. However, since it is very watery, if it gets cold over night it might turn into black

michaelkurodahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05787688273340374473noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32041048.post-23660671028685711312006-11-25T22:36:00.000-08:002006-11-26T09:39:27.818-08:00

Thanksgiving Pictures, click me!

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Tonight, Tristan and I headed over to Ryan's place to play the brand new video game console from Nintendo that was released yesterday, the Nintendo Wii. Unlike other video game system, the Nintendo Wii uses a motion sensing controller to control the characters on screen. Ryan ended up camping out at a Fred Meyer to buy the system at midnight. I'm amazed at how well the idea works. I

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As I mentioned earlier, I recently passed a Microsoft exam. Since I passed, I am now an MCP (Microsoft Certified Professional). I went online afterwards and ordered a Microsoft Welcome kit. Well, it arrived today. Included is a lettered signed by Bill Gates! Well, at least a copy of his signature. The kit also contained a pin (shown) and an id card. It's offically offical, I'm moving

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I've been sick, and it's been terrible. Not sure what I've had, but I'm almost over it now. Started with a congested nose and sore throat on Wednesday afternoon. I almost called in sick on Thursday, but we were supposed to have a demo over the web for the project that I'm lead developer for at 8:00 in the morning so I ended up going to work. Of course, the meeting was canceled. I ended

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This weekend I went to Silverdale, WA for some shopping. While I was there, I bought a couple CDs. I have been meaning to get them for a while and finally purchased them. The Beach Boy's "Pet Sounds" from 1966 and the new releases from Weird Al Yankovic and Everclear. Weird Al's "Straight Outta Lynwood" is very good. It's a dual disc and contains a bunch of music videos on DVD. The

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This evening I was doing in laundry and in the apartment's laundry room I found 95.78 cents. Okay, so how do I get a fraction of a cent? Foreign currency of course! In the washing machine was a penny and a nickle. The drier contained a dime. And on top of the coin slot for the drier was a coin that I had never seen before. I had no idea where the coin was from. It had "1 Fr." listed

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I finally got back to making some robots with my Lego Mindstorm kit. What fun! Currently, I'm being un-original and just going through one of the books I purchased a few months ago. The first model is a rolling car and I created some stuff on my website for it. I also took a little video of it and uploaded it to Google Video. It's currently being processed, but once it's up I'll put it

michaelkurodahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05787688273340374473noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32041048.post-73594423628626954322006-11-04T14:47:00.000-08:002006-11-04T14:51:19.009-08:00

My phone rang recently and I picked it up. Who was it? Well, it was President Bill Clinton! Oh shucks, it's just a recording. That's like the 15th political recording that I've heard during the last few weeks from different senators and other people. I can't wait for the elections to be over. No more stupid political phone calls. No more smear campaign ads on T.V. Well, at least none

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As most people know, I am currently working at Mobilisa as a software engineer. Basically I do computer programming in C# on a few of the different projects we have. During my later years in high school (starting in 1998) and during college I worked at Vernier Software & Technology during breaks as an intern. I first worked on their website and learned how to program by teaching myself some

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Today I found out the sad news that my old baby sitter, Mrs. Boehl, had passed away at the age of 96. She took care of my as a baby while my mom was working and looked after me along with many other kids through my early years in elementary school from what I remember. I have many found memories of her and the fun times I had with the other children. This picture is from February 21,

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I totally forgot to post this earlier (probably because of my recent head aches), but while in Bellingham this last weekend we spotted a guy dressed up as Super Mario from those great video games by Nintendo. He was waving and having fun outside of Bellis Fair mall to promote a sale of some kind for a car dealership or something. Also, Zach purchased a new car two days before we went up

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I'm not sure what it is, but for some reason I decided to make today's post about kiwis. Maybe it's the fact that I'm not feeling to well (have had head aches on and off for the last few days) or maybe some subliminal message. Now, I'm not talking about the bird, New Zealand or shoe polish. I'm talking about that ovalish green fruit. This odd food originated in China and was called the

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During my trip up to Bellingham, WA the gang had breakfast at the "OCB" (Old Country Buffet) at the Bellis Fair mall. While there, we noticed a store called Glowgolf. Zach told us that it was a mini-golf course in the 'dark' where things glowed. Finally, Bellingham had a mini-golf course! In the 6 years that I was up there, I kept wanting to go to a mini-golf course but there was none

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This weekend I went with my co-workers Tristan and Ryan up to Bellingham, WA for a pumpkin carving party. The gathering was hosted at Amanda's appartment. The visit up to Bellingham marks the first time that I have been there since I graduated in June 2005. Not much has really changed. Good times were had by all and seven of the nine people ended up cutting up a pumpkin. Good food

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My favorite TV show of all time is Futurama. It was cancelled in 2003 and aired on Fox. To my surprise though, it has been picked up by Comedy Central and is slated to start up again next year! Since it has been off the air, I bought the complete series on DVD. I have also been snatching up any memorabilia that I could find related to Futurama like comic books, magnets, and coasters.

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For those that have gone to my real website lately (which I don't think anyone really has) you may notice that I have a list of books that I have recently read. At the top of the list is the current book in progress, and since May 29th of this year it was The Lord Of The Rings - The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien. Yes, I started reading The Two Towers almost 5 months ago. Well, tonight, I

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