So today I took Becca to this weird industrial park thing down the street from where I live, because I saw it yesterday and it had some neat looking stuff and we were over that way and had time.

Anyways, right as we are pulling up this toad man security guard was walking out and getting to his car. We ignored him and took some pictures of the place, and then drove around the side to look at some odd half fork truck things with cylindrical horn things. So here we are looking at these weird vehicles when Officer Toady rolls up in his smoking hot 1986 vehicle. So we flip a U and drive off.

However, we still had some time so we decided to jokingly wait for the security guard and act like we are heading back to the industrial park place. So right as we pull up to turn back on to the street, the security guard drives by. He was not very pleased with our decision. He honked his horn, held out his arm in a pitful attempt to stop us, and tried to block our way with his car.

We smiled, waved, and bolted in the opposite direction.

Moral of the story: Be careful around toads cause I hear they can give you warts.

Around 2 years ago I customized a theme for JacobAllred.com, but then never really got around to using JacobAllred.com. It is a pretty nice theme. Looks pretty sharp, has a custom made language translation tool (I’m pretty proud of it), has page tabs, etc etc. I figured no point in wasting the effort, so I’ve copied the theme to this site.

The translations are provided by Google and probably suck, and I doubt any non-English people care to read my random rants and crap, but whatever, it’s a neat feature.

So Becca and I had a baby. Pretty surprising considering Becca wasn’t pregnant, no?

There is an app on Facebook called Make a Baby and so Becca and I decided to practice some parenting skills on a virtual kid before ruining a real one. So far, things aren’t going terribly well.

First of all, the kid is pretty bipolar. One minute he hates bubble gum flavored toothpaste, the next he loves it. What is up with that? Who doesn’t like bubble gum flavored toothpaste?!

Second, Quinten is a bit of a wuss. I keep taking him to the sandbox so he can play with other kids, but they keep throwing sand at him. I haven’t found the “beat up the bully” button yet, so hopefully Quinten will toughen up and take care of the bullies on his own.

Last, and most important, I didn’t get a Father’s Day card, a Father’s Day hug, a Father’s Day tie, or anything! I realize that he is only a week or two old, but this is pretty basic stuff. Even a phone call would have been enough…

Becca and I were going out yesterday evening, so I drive up to her dorm and park on the side of the road, completely out of the way of traffic/vehicles/etc, to wait for her to come down. Becca ends up breaking a bottle in her room so she takes a bit longer than originally expected, so I lay back in my seat to take a little nap.

All of a sudden *BAM* someone smacks my car. I’m thinking, dangit Becca why’d you run up and hit my car? But then I look over and see a girl in a car starting to drive away from my car. I’m like, what the freak? So I hop out, and the girl doesn’t stop. I memorize the plate number and then chase the girl’s car into the road and then have to pound on her windows before she stops. Finally she rolls down her window and is like “oh I didn’t think I actually hit your car”. I’m like riiiggghhhttt..

So anyways she finally drives back to the scene of the crime and is all “like oh my gosh I totally have never had this happen before” and gives me her insurance information. She then tries to assure me that she wasn’t trying to just drive off, but somehow didn’t notice the giant jolt of her car hitting mine.

So she dented on of my door panels and pretty badly cracked the panel that wraps around the doors. I’m not exactly sure what the next step is. I left message with my dad so hopefully he’ll call me back and tell me what to do. The girl wants an estimate so she can decide whether to pay out of pocket or claim it on her insurance. My guess is it will cost more than she’ll want to pay out of pocket. The panel she broke is pretty big so its like half the car is damaged.

Anyways, moral of the story: Don’t hit a car and run! I was already whipping out my cell phone getting ready to report the hit and run. I don’t know what the penalty in Virginia is, but in California it is normally 6 months in jail.

Anyways, I guess I’m off to the dealer to get an estimate on the repairs.

So I’m testing out a version of the Fake Name Generator for the mobile web.

I tested it on my PDA phone and it worked well, so we’ll see if it gets any usage.

Unfortunately, the FNG is a good source of income for me, so if having it up lowers my bottom line, I might have to get rid of it.

Anyways, give it a look and let me know if it looks alright on your mobile device!

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So I acquired part of a Nomadic Display today. Basically its this giant expandable metal thing that is used at trade shows and stuff to show off your goods. Sort of like the top two parts of this picture here.

So Joey and I are trying to brainstorm some good uses for it, and this is what we’ve come up with so far (obviously it needs some sort of tarp or something to go over it for most of these):

• Hang glider, or maybe a kite or something
• A tent or lean-to
• Some sort of backdrop thing behind a couch (add a few lights and speakers)
• A crazy bookshelf of some kind
• A torture device of some kind (although this would require finding someone to torture)
• A trade show display of some kind (real original, eh?)

Got any ideas? I plan on taking lots of pictures of whatever it is I end up doing with this contraption.