Richard & Misti's Blog

This weekend has been eventful. We celebrated Jared’s birthday (accompanied by some wonderful strawberry cake, lots of cool toys, and some Halloweenish family members!), I watched a little Farscape, we had some wonderful fish and clam chowder at Skippers, as well as some wonderful Popeyes chicken and biscuits, along with cajun rice, and a [...]

There have been some pretty catchy songs on the radio lately, including stuff by Aqualung and Ben Harper, as well as by people whose first names all start with the letter “J”:
James Blunt“You’re Beautiful“
Jack Johnson“Good People“
Joe Satriani“Always With Me, Always With You“
It was recently discovered that Skype contains a major security flaw. Nice. [...]

Lots of varied things have happened recently. First and foremost, Becky and I enjoyed an Owyhee Idaho Spud candy bar on Saturday (not to rub it in, Brad – sorry), but Misti did not enjoy it. She doesn’t like the “guk” in the middle. Becky, upon hearing this, promptly replied that she [...]

I tried the developer preview of the new Flock browser tonight. Not bad, but it did crash on me (not surprising – it’s not even a beta yet). It looks nice, though, and has lots of potential.
Well, Firefox has had its 100,000,000th download. This does not mean that 100 million people are [...]

The company I work for, Bodybuilding.com, has just entered Inc. Magazine’s Inc. 500 list at #230 today! Very cool. In virus news, there’s now a Skype trojan making the rounds. In Apple news, there is now, finally, a dual-core Mac available. The scandal, though, is that it’s based upon the old [...]

Brad’s second podcast was, of course, very entertaining. Keep ‘em coming, Mr. C.! I added two new maps (Southwest Idaho and Boise) to my Geocaching.com profile. They pinpoint where we’ve found caches locally so far.
I thought it was interesting that MI6 is recruiting for spies on their new website. Could you [...]

Yesterday marked the start of Joe Weider’s Olympia Weekend 2005 Bodybuilding Competition in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Orleans Arena. At work, we watched some of the live Fit Show video feed yesterday – interesting stuff. Check it out this weekend if you see this in time! (Here’s the webcast schedule, and [...]

Well, I didn’t puke. On the contrary, the flight was quite smooth and enjoyable. Ryan’s a good pilot – shocker! J/K. The plane was a Cessna Skyhawk II. Here are some photos:

I also finished reading “A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Reptile Room” (book 2) by Lemony Snicket last night. [...]

Well, since I don’t really have anything too interesting to write right now, I’ll borrow some recent news: Wallace and Gromit’s factory goes up in smoke. Very sad for Aardman fans. The new beta Yahoo! Podcasts search tool debuted, and I’m listed! =)
Speaking of Yahoo, they and Microsoft are now [...]

We saw John “Pressed Sandwich Meat” Prestwich and his family at the park last night. It had been four years since seeing him last, I believe. I tried the new beta Google Reader (feed reader) today, but I’m sorry to have to admit that I really hate it.
Seen in a non-spellchecked LinuxWorld article: [...]

We briefly attended the TVCA Cachaholic’s meeting event cache a couple of nights ago, and got to meet a few local cachers. I finally got to hold the Holy Grail of travel bugs, too: a Moun10bike coin. (I somehow missed the one that made the rounds at the 2004 Fallon GeoRally.) I [...]

Well, my 4-week “vacation” is over – I started work full-time today at BodyBuilding.com here in Boise. I also enjoyed a chicken chalupa this afternoon at Casa Mexico – very tasty, indeed. This “Hail to the prophet” article made it onto Google News‘ front page tonight. Very cool.
In “it’s about time” tech [...]

I finished reading “A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning” (book 1) by Lemony Snicket tonight. Cute. We listened to the rest of Conference today, and it was wonderful. Mike’s Fight for Nevada 2005 started yesterday, and I can’t wait to see what Saturday will bring! Three interesting tidbits I [...]

Microsoft will offer a phishing filter in IE7 eventually. Very cool. We tried some delicious Tillamook yogurts last night – very tasty. The Vanilla Bean and Marionberry flavors are especially wonderful. Mmmmm. We surpassed 70,000 miles (112,654 kilometres) on our car today. Ouch. We listened to the Saturday [...]