Vote for somebody, anybody … just go out and vote!

Tomorrow’s election day and it looks like there will be record turnout. Hopefully that is the case, here in FL early voting has proven to be very popular but the lines have been long. Anyways, happy voting day!

Today is the International Talk Like a Pirate Day! I guess a lot of people still are not aware of it because I was talking to a co-worker and he thought I was drunk! Anyways, this day gives me the perfect excuse to link to one of my favorite pirate songs. If you have kids, [...]

Monica’s latest party had a fun “super star” Hanna Montana theme, and I made her this electric guitar piñata. We had a lot of fun making it, because of the shape there was no need for balloons or any messes with flour. I basically just used a box from one of my RC [...]

We all went to Disney’s Magic Kingdom last weekend, and I like this picture we took of the castle at night. Makes it look a bit spooky.

Last post of the year. I haven’t updated the blog in a while, had kind of a longish vacation from work and was taking a bit of a break from the internet. In the middle of that, I had a very good trip to Panama and spoke at the corresponding JUG over there about JavaFX, [...]

Hope everybody has a happy thanksgiving. After a long year of working, we’re finally getting to the holidays, so I’m really looking forward to spending to more quality time with the family. That and of course eating some turkey tonight and my favorite, leftover turkey sandwiches.

I was on the way back from a trip, and at the JFK airport I decided to buy a couple of things for my girls. I picked an origami book and a plush “emperor” penguin doll. The lady at the counter just rings up the penguin and it comes up as totaling a billion dollars [...]

This actually happened to me recently in real life. It was so bizarre I just had to capture it in cartoon form.
Click on comic strip to get the (readable) larger version …

Just to clarify, the last panel showing me being attacked is not literally true, but in a funny way very close to the actual [...]