Hanna Montana Guitar Piñata

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 [...]

Cinderella’s Castle at night

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.

2007

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, [...]

Happy Thanksgiving!

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.

The 1 billion dollar penguin

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 [...]

WHERE IS MY MOUSE?!?!? Based on a true event

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 [...]