Happy Birthday to Me!

28 years ago on this day I was born. On our Jason and Jen website I did a lil bio of me if you wanted to do some catching up. Its geared more towards my professional life but well, that is me in a nutshell.

Slanket

I watch TV with a blanket, I don’t usually get cold except for when I’m sitting on the couch. My mom made me this MASSIVE blanket for Xmas that is almost 2 times as long as I am (and pretty damn wide too). She calls it a Quillow

The Onion has a podcast now!

The Onion one of the nets best news satire sites now has a podcast!  Add it to your list of podcasts you listen to. (What your not listening to podcasts? WTH is up with you? What do you do with your mp3 player anyhow? Oh mu….sic.. your one of

DDO (Dungeons and Dragons Online) Preview

They launched DDO Preview last night. I grabbed the updates to the client and proceeded to log in. At first the game was sluggish, (I downloaded the Standard version and not the High Quality one) I run a 3ghz P4 with Hyperthreading as well as 1gb of ram and a

Bios upgrade

So I installed a copy of SiSoft Sandra on Tuesday and had it do a diagnostic on my machine just to see what sort of performance I am getting. Sandra indicated that my system bios was old and that I may benefit by upgrading it. I abliged and went to

Error when loading Outlook

I reinstalled all the apps on my laptop and I loaded Outlook and got this error message: “The add-in could not be installed or loaded” error message when you start Outlook What to do? Do a search for Extend.dat, it should be in the same folder that your *.PST

Dungeons and Dragons Online Billing Stress Test

I signed up yesterday for the DDO Beta test. Yesterday was their download test and today is their billing test. The beta is free and Xinu and I are going to give it a shot. Below is my screencap of the billing working fine:

Results from surname

TUCKER English – Occupational Name; Ending in -Er; Manufacturing Occupation I did an animated gif showing the difference of the presence of Tucker’s in GB.

What’s in a surname?

From BBC: Everyone’s got a surname, but now a website which maps names against areas of the country where they are most common helps shed light on where our families come from. See how Tuckers, Walkers and Fullers have dispersed Its weird to see your last name on a

Damn you google video

Chronic-als of Narnia http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4245337360492479670

WoW Machinima

Xinu got me looking for this stuff, so heres the ones I found. The 3rd one is awesome and quite funny (even if you dont play WoW) http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1556648313270791252 Zinwrath http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5159433011414846088 Zinwrath2 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4446981554735098778

Softball tryouts & Saturday planning

It started to rain at 10:10am this morning, Caitlin has tryouts at Noon and the leagues website says “In the event of rain, please check the LHGSA Hotline at (XXX) XXX-XXXX for revised evaluation dates/times or check the website.” I called and it looks like they didnt do