Patrick Havens on December 19th, 2008

Sorta.
Dave DiLeo wanting to try “rotoscoping” decided to take a scene from one of my favorite movies “The Princess Bride” and give Inigo Montoya & The Six Fingered Man Light Sabers. The feeling just works… and makes you wonder why you didn’t see at least a little of something like this in Star Wars… [...]

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Patrick Havens on December 5th, 2008

Here we have a case that a dog got hit by a car.  And his buddy (another dog) decided that he needed to save his buddies life, and went out and dragged it to safety.
BTW: The dog DID survive

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Patrick Havens on November 13th, 2008

The Chicago Tribune posted a story about a local girl who decided to find out how tolerant supporters of Obama who was preaching tolerance was.  Click to read the story by John Kass (Click read more in case it gets wiped after a short time… ie. not archived)
Quote:
Catherine never told us which candidate she would [...]

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Patrick Havens on October 28th, 2008

I just got this message from a friend of mine.
Dear Patrick ,
Your friend Julie sent you the following video from CNNBC: “Obama’s Loss Traced To Patrick Havens”
Watch it here:
http://www.cnnbcvideo.com/index.html?nid=Csjt59Ls83DFuKcZjQ7ITjY1Njc0Nw–&referred_by=12106434-tAnXQPx
And the video was this.

FYI - I had already mailed in my vote FOR Obama.

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Patrick Havens on October 20th, 2008

At Red Flag, the international training exercise for air forces of allied countries, many of the world’s best pilots meet for the most challenging flying of their careers.
This is a feature length film in a world (The Internet) of short fluff. If you like flying… if you are curious about Red Flag… then watch [...]

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Patrick Havens on October 16th, 2008

When one wants a cartoon that can make you think, laugh and then tease you with more humor when you hover over the comic and get “punch line” of sorts, then you read XKCD, the cartoon for geeks.  In it you may be given a math problem that if solved answers how to deal with [...]

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Patrick Havens on October 10th, 2008

With few exceptions, there’s really no reason to venture any further east than Papillion, Nebraska, because the best beers in the nation – maybe the world — are made in Colorado, California, Alaska, Oregon and rest of the West.
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On the other hand, California turned in a typically magnificent performance. Breweries like Stone, Sierra Nevada, Anderson [...]

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Patrick Havens on September 24th, 2008

I was passed this video and even though I am not from Nashville… don’t recognize some of the comments. I wanted to chuckle, and was forced to watch it all of the way through. For one reason. I like the idea, and wonder what other mashups we’ll see. What this video [...]

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Patrick Havens on September 7th, 2008

What do you do after living for a few years in your 1500 square foot house, and not liking it?  How about simplifying down?  This isn’t the first small scale house I’ve seen, there was a push to build similar size homes in San Francisco as fill in.

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Patrick Havens on August 29th, 2008

Nvidia hired Jaimie and Adam from Mythbusters to explain the difference between a CPU and a GPU.  In it they used a paintball gun (computer controlled) to paint a face.  That in itself sounds cool… but the monster they created to compare to a GPU “painted” the Mona Lisa within milliseconds.

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