Ah, the Red River Shootout. The UT/OU game is the only game I’ve ever been to, and the year I went, UT lost 12-0, so I have yet to see UT actually score in person. shrug =)

On the plus side, this weekend we watched the game at my place and made lots of yummy food (I only have picture of corn, but we made burgers and steak too):

I also got some remote controls for my Alien Bees, so I tested them out a bit with one light. Sam, graciously, decided to be my model (perhaps not too graceful for you):

Oh yeah, show me some leg, Sam:

Andrew, joined in, and thus there are now more homoerotic pictures of the pair:

Obligatory bad Nancy shot:

Obligatory bad Viraj shot:

Speaking of Viraj, he tried to pull some lame germophobic move and decided to waste a tissue by putting it under his cell phone on the ground.

Mark alerted me of this fact, and I would have none of it, so we had to fix it:

Rest of the photos are here. Enjoy!

I woke up super early (7AM, gasp!) to go to Carolee and Christopher’s place to participate in a monster shoot. I took some video with my 5D MII, which I hope will be useful (still getting used to video on it), but I also took a few still shots beforehand:

See Flickr for more Monster Shoot photos.

My house work is almost done. Mostly all that remains is adding the trim between the tile and wood and just general cleaning. It’s looking pretty nice. =) I was worried about what tile/grout to get but I think it worked out well… it’s very hard to look at one piece of tile and than extrapolate it across a large portion of your house. Here are some shots, starting with the bathroom door I got added to the master room.

Now I’m debating a bit about what to do with the former “breakfast nook” area. I’m thinking about turning it into a clean “table games” area and going with a predominantly white+wood look with clean white lighting. We’ll see…

“Sometimes I wanna give up
I wanna give in,
I wanna quit the fight
And then I see you, baby
And everything’s alright,
everything’s alright

When I see you smile
I can face the world, oh oh,
you know I can do anything
When I see you smile
I see a ray of light, oh oh,
I see it shining right through the rain
When I see you smile
Oh yeah, baby when I see you smile at me” - Bad English

Contractors put down most of the tile today, then I went to help Chancy move into their new house for a while. Tomorrow, it’s the Bazaarvoice Technical Services Diablo II LAN party at my place! Woo!

They also did a pretty good job installing a door for my master bathroom, but I was too lazy to take a pic of that. Maybe tomorrow after everything’s done. Have a good weekend!

I had contractors over at my place today to take down a wall and replace some wood flooring with tile. Here’re some mid-progress photos:

Tomorrow, the tiling starts! Yaaaay!

“If you leave, don’t leave now
Please don’t take my heart away
Promise me, just one more night
Then we’ll go our separate ways
We’ve always had time on our sides
Now it’s fading fast
Every second, every moment
We’ve got to, We’ve got to make it last

I touched you once, I touched you twice
I won’t let go at any price
I need you now like I needed you then
You always said we’d still be friends someday” - OMD

I grabbed a few old photos and uploaded them to Flickr, mostly for back-up’s sake. I’m not entirely sure where the full size ones are, but I’m sure they’re somewhere. Here’re a few notable ones:

The Barbie Hummer!

Viraj, beautiful as always: :P

Mark attacking Olivia:

Crazy Andrew:

A classic:

I love this guy! (he’s in San Francisco):

Fobby Chancy:

3D-Loser!

She let out a fart ghost:

Unhappy Mommy:

Pig vampire:

So… I had to do a ridiculous amount of work to get these images to work with my Flickr stuff on the site because apparently if your original image is the size of the Flickr “Large” image (1024px width or height), Flickr doesn’t generate a Large image so I can’t count on that URL existing. Also, the original image URL is obfuscated (I assume so you can’t easily download someone’s full-size image if they don’t want you to). I eventually had to get my own Flickr API key and write a server side service to find out the Large (or equivalent) image URL to use. whew It works though! Let me know if you have any issues.

Today, I met up with Tiff, Jon, Carolee and Blythe to take some hobo shots of Jon before he cut his hair. Here are some of the results:

And as usual, the rest are here.

I finally got around to setting up a personal subversion repository on my Slicehost box. I’ve been meaning to do that for a while, but never got around to it. I’m currently in the process of checking in 600MBish of files from OliverWEB… I’m not entirely sure what takes up all that much space, but I guess I’ve accumulated a decent chunk of stuff over the 10ish years I’ve had it around. =) I really wish I still had a copy of my old Geocities account.

I’m going with coworkers to the Video Games Live & Blizzard Live concerts in Houston on the 18th. Anyone else want to come? To prepare for it, Tiff has convinced me to host a Diablo II (I’ve never played) LAN party at my place on the 11th. Should be fun! =)

I can’t make another post without putting up a photo to make use of my flickr code, so here’re some old ones:

Oh, and these are dedicated to my lovely littlest sister who will love me even more after this…

:-)

Oh yeah, and on a work related note, it’s cool to see Bazaarvoice mentioned in articles alongside Twitter, Facebook, and/or other much hyped sites:

• AdAge


• MSN/Forbes

… there also seems to be a trend developing with people getting creative trying to get hired at BV:

• HireMeBazaarvoice.com


• YouTube video

“We’re talking away
I don’t know what
I’m to say I’ll say it anyway
Today’s another day to find you
Shying away
I’ll be coming for your love, OK?

Take on me, take me on
I’ll be gone
In a day or two” - A Ha

So what I had thought was the fault of the lens at the end of this post was actually more the body from my very rough testing of shooting 5D MkII vs 50D in my backyard. The 5D2 just has a lot better contrast and color vibrance straight from the camera, which I would guess is attributed to its larger full-frame sensor.

This is a bit disappointing to me as now I’m less inclined to bring my 50D around, but it’s still a pretty good backup body and I can still use it for its reach. Oh wellllll….

Last Friday at work, our team had Moustache Day where many of the “non-sissy boys” had moustaches (I was a clean shaven “sissy boy” :-():

Today, I went on a boat today with a bunch of chumps: