I\’m back in my Edmonton home. I received a rather red farmer\’s burn (for the colorists out there, let\’s say C0 M71 Y60 K0 compared to my regular C0 M25 Y11 K0.) For the layman, I\’m a redish pink, as opposed to barely pink toned white.

Outside, and physical activity are officially covered for the year. I can just stay in my little cave and get more pasty white until next year rolls around.

I played some very physically demanding sports this weekend. If you know me, you know that \”Dean\” and \”Sports\” are rarely uttered in the same sentence. Unless the sentence is \”If you know me, you know that \’Dean\’ and \’Sports\’ are rarely uttered in the same sentence\” or… \”Dean doesn\’t like/play sports\”

So here\’s a list,
I played this game, where you have to like chase a ball around and put it into these little goal things and let me tell you… this \”Croquet\” is about as tough as sports must come.
When I had rested and recovered from the Croquet-ing. I played the slightly less demanding \”Bocce\”
and when I was completely bushed, We rounded the day off with a nice, refreshing, good-for-what-ails-you, game of involving an oddly shaped ball. Relaxation, thy name is Football..

Oddly enough I didn\’t bludgeon myself with the croquet mallet, or Drop a Bocce ball on my foot, or even take many footballs in the groin. But I did slam my leg pretty hard into the outer metal bar of a trampoline, in exactly the place my deck always accidentally kick flips into. My shin is a massive bruise center.

Met some neat geeks and Russell\’s family at Russell\’s place. Met some new boyfriends/girlfriends of family members at my cousin\’s. Threw Bryson into his pond. Saw some cool birds in the country trees. Scared a beaver when I was checking out it\’s dam, Set up Dad\’s computer, read some comics, a bit of my book, and some magazines,saw some fireworks. Ate half a bufallo, ate half a vegetable garden, Drank half a pepsi tanker, played with some kittens, Saw the Kucherawys, the Dies, John (and the cool store he\’s fixing up in Camrose) and Dr. Hynydyk, hung out with the crew, Drove around the countryside a bunch (largely where the burn came from, it\’s mostly on my driver\’s side arm) .

All in all, The weekend was pretty good. Now, hopefully my new processor, and iSight come in and my laptop comes back fixed and I figure out a way to use less ands in my sentences, and all will be great.

-Dean

I\’m home in Vegreville visiting Mom and Dad right now. So of course, by \”visiting Mom and Dad\” I mean, I\’m Still glued to a computer, it\’s just My parent\’s computer. I\’m switching Dad over to OSX (From OS9) on the laptop I gave him. At this very moment, I\’m downloading over 100Megs of software updates OVER A DIALUP! I think I\’ll just leave the computer running, and go read a book or something.

On the plus side, This 266 G3 laptop is surprisingly peppy and responsive under OSX. I don\’t imagine I\’d want to run Photoshop on it or anything… but I bet it\’ll work for Dad\’s purposes. (Dad\’s purposes being using the freaking spam filter built into apple\’s mail.app. Amazingly, Dad gets more junkmail than I do.)

OH NO! I\’m talking to my cousin Ben on iChat and apparently I messed up in one of my AIM posts! it would more properly be \”BOSH! FLIMSHAW!\” and I put \”BOSH! FLIMFLAM!\” What a mockery of the Old timey speech I have made! My life is a horrible confidence act! (hmm… though I seem to be making up some ground, by typing out the old timey \”Confidence\” rather than just \”Con\”)

Incidentally, since I was going to go on a link rampage tonight, I did a search for Ray Welsh hoping to come up with a link to someEdmonton Journal article (I think he had another letter published on tuesday) I didn\’t find dad, But I found my Uncle Roger. If Roger thinks Boron hardening is a good deal then, it must be a-ok. I probably could have looked harder for pertinent info on dad, (and maybe even have started the search for references mom) but, you\’d be amazed how much less useful the internet seems at these country acreage dial-up modem speeds.

Ok, Ladies and gentlemen, I\’ll be without net access for the next few days, So, behave and stuff, I\’m sure the world will survive without my updates for a moment. The ibook\’s in the shop (powermanager went kaboom, hooray for applecare protection plans) besides that, It\’s Steph\’s birthday (happy birthday steph), and Also Megan\’s Birthday (you as well), so we\’re going to head off into the wilderness to celebrate with Cake, tents, lawndarts, and Barbeque. (I\’ll post pictures if i remember to take some) In the Meantime, uhm… I guess you could like… look at my Coppermine gallery. There\’s nothing in it really so far, except a picture of a spider I found in my tub. Toodle-oo!

-Dean

It\’s a not -really-kinda-sorta-new DESIGN! LOOK! randomly loading animal in the bottom right! SEE! searchable newsposts! REGARD! Radar, my teddy bear has finally been given a glorious position at the top of the page. CRINGE! at the fact that the new design doesn\’t fit onto smaller screens. (I\’ll fix that eventually) MARVEL! at the curious lack of archived newsposts (I\’ll re-add more old posts Daily.)

yeah… so… new backend on the site, it\’s powered by b2 now instead of blogger. I was having trouble with my archive templates so I made the switch. It was kinda painful. Apparently it would have been an easier migration if my blogger account was working properly, but, it\’s not, and that\’s the reason I\’m switching in the first place… such is life.

I\’ll add the new whacky, automatic gallery within the next couple of days.

-Dean

Remember boys and girls, Clean out your junkmail regularly.
This is my ebay account, the only e-mail that comes through here is from people who I\’ve bought or sold things from or to on ebay. I have a feeling someone sold their e-mail list. Cause look at all that wonderful spam! can you spot the ONE actual relevant e-mail of something Steph bought? I bet you can\’t! I highlighted it to make it easier.

LOOK HERE!

of course… as I was posting this, I received 5 more junkmails. Whee!

-Dean

I found this mitten under my couch. Will anyone claim it? It has a neat goggle lens Squeegee blade on it. I\’m betting it\’s Russell\’s. It has the label \”DC\” and the name appears to say underneath \”Dead Cow\”. So who knows, maybe it\’s Jeremy or Gregg\’s?

-dean

I\’m a blog hobo. Panhandling my way across the internet.

-Dean

Even when you say stuff like that, they keep sending you the porn sites. When, oh when will this be made illegal? Maybe the legal eagles can crack down on those damn chain letters too, that\’d rock.

-Dean

Since I\’m starting to give some people the impression that I might be cool, I needed an exercise to prove the contrary.

Have you ever read Fahrenheit 451?
no? Doesn\’t matter. For our purposes I\’ll just let you know it\’s the title of a Ray Bradbury Science fiction book.
So eat this geekery.

451 degree Fahrenheit = 232.7777778 degree Celsius
451 degree Fahrenheit = 910.67 degree Rankine
451 degree Fahrenheit = 186.2222222 degree Reaumur
451 degree Fahrenheit = 505.9277778 kelvin

Lets just pretend that the next part all works out (we\’re just playing afterall ). It actually doesn\’t, because a Celcius Heat unit is in fact a unit of heat energy equal to the energy required to raise the temperature of one pound of water by 1?C at standard atmospheric pressure. Now you know.

232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 442,068,394,208,868,864,672,680.420683942088689e+23 attojoule
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 0.122797 Board of Trade unit
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 418.999974 Btu
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 419.28038 Btu [thermochemical]
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 105,586.221985 calorie
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 105,611.446846 calorie [15? C]
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 105,656.881981 calorie [thermochemical]
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 232.777778 celsius heat unit
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 44,206,839.420887 centijoule
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 0.166957 cheval vapeur heure
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 4,420,683.942089 decijoule
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 44,206.839421 dekajoule
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 12.279678 dekawatt hour
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 0.000419 dekatherm
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 2,759,172,747,041,597,928,400,920.759172747041597e+24 electronvolt
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 4,420,683,942,088.688 erg
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 0 exajoule
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 0 exawatt hour
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 442,068,394,208,868,800,136 femtojoule
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 326,052.926583 foot pound
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 10,490,442.341248 foot poundal
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 0.003355 gallon of automotive gasoline
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 0.003355 gallon of aviation gasoline
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 0.003017 gallon of diesel oil
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 0.003017 gallon of distilate #2 fuel oil
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 0.003109 gallon of kerosene type jet fuel
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 0.003301 gallon of naphtha type jet fuel
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 0.003109 gallon of kerosene
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 0.002797 gallon of residual fuel oil
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 2,759,172,747,041,596.5 gigaelectronvolt
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 0.000442 gigajoule
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 0 gigawatt hour
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 105,611.446846 gram calorie
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 101,397,689,483,275,424,648,488.0139768948327541e+23 hartree
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 4,420.683942 hectojoule
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 1.227968 hectowatt hour
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 0.164673 horsepower hour
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 0.004066 hundred cubic foot of natural gas
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 62,602,159.798484 inch ounce
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 3,912,634.94585 inch pound
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 442,068.394209 joule
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 105.611447 kilocalorie [15? C]
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 105.586222 kilocalorie [I.T.]
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 105.656882 kilocalorie [thermochemical]
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 2,759,172,747,041,597,928,400.759172747041597e+21 kiloelectronvolt
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 105.611447 kilogram calorie
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 45,078.430882 kilogram meter
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 45,078.430882 kilopond meter
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 0 kiloton
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 0.122797 kilowatt hour
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 4,362.875837 liter atmosphere
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 2,759,172,747,041,597,928 megaelectronvolt
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 0.442068 megajoule
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 4,420,683.942089 megalerg
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 0 megaton
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 0.000123 megawatthour
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 45,078.430882 meter kilogram
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 442,068,394,208.86895 microjoule
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 442,068,394.208869 millijoule
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 0.01228 myriawatt hour
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 442,068,394,208,868.9 nanojoule
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 442,068.394209 newton meter
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 0 petajoule
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 0 petawatthour
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 442.068394 kilojoule
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 0.166957 pferdest‰rkenstunde
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 442,068,394,208,868,864 picojoule
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 0 Q unit
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 0 quad
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 2,759,172,747,041.597 teraelectronvolt
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 0 terajoule
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 0 terawatthour
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 0.00419 therm [Europe]
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 0.004191 therm [U.S.]
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 0.105611 thermie
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 0.000106 ton
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 0.000015 tonne of coal equivalent
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 0.000011 tonne of oil equivalent
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 122.796776 watthour
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 442,068.394209 wattsecond
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 442,068,394,208,868,864,672,680,920,312.420683942088689e+29 yoctojoule
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 0 yottajoule
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 0 yottawatthour
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 442,068,394,208,868,928,208,544,656.42068394208869e+26 zeptojoule
232.7777778 celsius heat unit = 0 zettajoule

A few things I\’ve learned from this exercise:
Having no Q Unit Comics is just as good, in the grand scheme of things, as having a copy of Fahrenheit 451 apparently.
The Thermie is about the cutest measurement of energy around.
And Pferdest‰rkenstunde is actually a word.

-Dean

So I\’m at Bonnie Doon Shopping center (a couple blocks away from my house) I need to fax off my pro registration for San Diego Comic Con International. (between Steph and myself, it cost $12 to send! The Fax software for my laptop was worth about that much… I don\’t know why I didn\’t just buy it instead.) Anyway, for those who don\’t know, Bonnie Doon Shopping Center is right in the middle of old people central, So the stores in this mall are seriously like… mostly Wheelchair shops and pharmacies. Keep this in mind as I relay this story.

Guy walks up to me, looks about 20ish, wearing a hoodie, messy hair, big wide paranoid looking eyes.
\”Hey man, I\’m looking to buy.\” he whispers (I think, I\’m not sure if that\’s exactly what he said cause he was speaking so quietly).

\”Pardon me, I didn\’t quite hear you?\” I respond in a low voice, assuming he\’s making a snide joke about someone nearby that he doesn\’t want overheard.

\”I want to buy some stuff\” he barely more than whispers

\”Stuff? And what sort of \’stuff\’ are you looking to purchase?\” I ask in slightly less than a normal volume.

\”Just a little Weed\”he whispers.

\”YOU ARE ASKING ME IF I WILL EXCHANGE QUANTITIES OF MARIJUANA FOR CASH? PRESUMABLY BECAUSE I HAVE DREADS AND AM THEREFOR LIKELY A \’Dope Fiend\’ (big exaggerated quotation hand symbols on that) I AM CERTAIN THAT THIS TRANSACTION YOU WISH TO UNDERTAKE IS AN ILLEGAL ONE!\” I say very loudly.

\”Yeah, uh… never mind\” he says, looking kinda stupefied for a second, Then he skitters off out of sight.

hehe, I\’m such a dick.

-Dean

YAY! I rock, I added comments to this blog. Now all you super great peoples who read my page can let me know how awesome you think I am.

Who will be first to comment? Will it be George (who\’s homepage opens directly to DeanWelsh.com)? OR will it be Scott (seeing as how George is at work, and won\’t be able to post for a bit?) Will it be some totally random person, whom I wasn\’t aware read my page? Will it be Gregg saying \”SWEET! Set this up on my page now!\”? Will it be Jeremy (who may just be enticed to post, because it will make him the first, and therefor, the Conqueror?) Could it be Pyle saying his inevitable \”GRUUUUUUUUU!\”? Will it Be Megan, or Perhaps Russell (2, count em, TWO \”L\”s) with a message far too dirty for the eyes of my gentle readers? Will Dave McCaig tell me to add more blasphemy to the page? Will Chad… uh… do his Chad thang? Will Rheanna twist what I say to the point that it sounds like I speak of Pirates? Will Niffers talk about Gekkos? Do Kris or Nate or Shane or Caroline or Al or Malcolm or Buck or any of the other Daves ever read this page? Do my family? Melanie or John Campbell? Rob, I\’m counting on you to tell me just how homo you think my new comment system is.

Steph, if you\’re first, your post won\’t count because you know I put this up.

-Dean