Vitriolic Humor

Melanie and I welcomed our son, Colin David Morrison into the world this Thursday afternoon, March 30, 2006, at 1:20pm CST. During a regular checkup the doctors noticed some abnormalities and admitted Melanie to the hospital with a diagnosis of HELLP Syndrome (a complication of pre-eclampsia, formerly known as toxemia.) The cure for this condition is to deliver the baby, so the decision was made to induce at 38.5 weeks GA. Melanie labored for 13 hours, then pushed for 20 minutes and gave birth naturally (without an epidural!) She's my new hero! Both baby and mother are doing fine! Colin weighs 6 lbs. 10oz and measures 19.5 inches long. Head 12.75 inches, chest 12.5 inches.

You can send Colin an e-mail: colin at transmit.net.
The proud new parents can be reached at proudparents at transmit.net

We'd also like to thank everyone at OB/GYN Associates of Montgomery, especially Doctors Dupre, Waller, and Miller. They helped guide us through a difficult situation to arrive safely on the other side. Every single member of the staff at Baptist Medical Center East made our stay enjoyable and healthy. We'd like to extend a special thanks to LDR Nurses Pat, Martha, and Linda for the great job they did. Trista Griggs and Cher Sealy did a great job teaching our birthing and breastfeeding classes respectively.

Last, and definitely not least, we'd like to thank our good friends, Star, Stella, and Anita for their presence and assistance through everything.

Colin's pictures (chronological)
Colin's pictures (newest first)
Colin's pictures (most popular)

Tags: birth colin david morrison alabama morrison montgomery announce announcement baby colin david

Posted by speedeep at 1:20 PM | Permalink | Comments (6)

One of my favorite comedians that I've heard in the last five years is Phil Hendrie. He does a radio show where he plays both the part of the Host (himself) and the Guests (also him performing voices of made-up, obnoxious characters.) Most of the audience is in on the joke, but a small percentage of the audience honestly believes that his guests are real and call up the show steaming about whatever provocative topic Phil has chosen for the day. Phil eggs the unsuspecting callers on while playing both the role of sympathetic host and the incendiary guest. The results are hilarious and often show what not having a sense of humor will get you. His show is one (funny) Mean Joke. Phil is the anti-PC.

George Noory (host of Coast to Coast AM) had Phil on his show last night, pimping his new comedy, Teachers which will air on NBC tonight, March 28, 2006 (9:30pm Eastern/8:30pm Central), right after Scrubs. They've filmed 6 episodes and NBC is trying the series out. Phil has done a couple pilots for comedies in the past and it's great to see him finally get on the small screen. I hope the series does well, check it out tonight and for the next couple Tuesdays (at a minimum.)

After a quick browse over some of the sample video clips from the show, there seems to be some good writing and good talent on the project. Phil gets to use his voice talents as well (always wondered if he did that live or electronically...) Phil plays the bald, burnt-out PE teacher with a wry sense of humor if you aren't familiar with him.

I (unfortunately) live in one of the few areas of the country where I can't catch Phil on the radio (he's on 100 A-Phil-iates nationwide and on XM Satellite Radio (channel 152)) so I have to settle for catching an occasional show or bit on-line. Find him on a local station and check out his radio show as well. Wikipedia also has a good article and links about Phil.

phil hendrie phil hendrie philhendrie radio comedy talk comedian hdtv network tv television new comedy nbc sitcom teachers teacher school humor hot funny current pilot premiere series scrubs

Posted by speedeep at 5:54 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)

Photo Gallery >> March 2006
sm med lg	sm med lg	sm med lg	sm med lg	sm med lg

Posted by speedeep at 7:33 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

I'm still looking for something that functions as all (or most) of these devices in one small, compact form factor. After seeing what Apple pulled off with their new iPod Nano, this shouldn't be too far off in the future.

This device should encompass the following functions:

• Cell Phone
• PDA
• MP3/OGG (Vorbis) Player
• AM/FM Radio with recording/scheduled recording
• Portable Storage
• GPS Receiver

I'm looking for something based off an open source operating system, like Linux. I'd prefer to have shell access (say, like my Linksys running Sveasoft's firmware.) and the ability to compile and run programs of my own (i.e. openly extend the functionality of this device through software.).

As a consumer, I am not looking for this device to have any sort of camera functionality. I would prefer the capability to transfer digital image files from a camera to this device either wirelessly or through a compact flash media.

This device should have a full mini keyboard (thumbboard?) and ideally support for external USB keyboard and mouse. It should be able to connect to available networks via Ethernet, Wi-fi, EVDO, Infrared, USB (1 or 2), and 1394/Firewire (400 and 800.) It should interconect and share data equally well on an PC/Windows, Apple, and Unix platforms and from digital cameras, digital video cameras and other data sources.

We're getting closer on some of these vectors:
Asus MyPal A636 GPS-Enabled Pocket PC

Does this thing exist yet? Feel free to add a comment...

Tags: open-source compact mp3 multi-purpose geek linux gadget media tool appliance

Posted by speedeep at 7:10 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

Several of us at work have taken to walking for exercise and as seems to often happen, we start to compare notes on routes/times/etc. A few people went out and got pedometers, some of us haven't. I was curious if anyone had worked out a way to measure distances on Google Maps and was very pleased to find the GMaps-Pedometer site, a Google Maps hack that let's you lay out your route, will give you distances in miles/kilometers, shows an altitude graph, and if you include you weight, it will estimate your calories burned on your walk. On top of that, you can create a permalink that will store the route you entered so you can refer to it later or e-mail it to a friend. Definitely a fun and useful Google Maps hack.

pedometer googlemaps google maps hack exercise trails paths mapping tracking estimating calorie altitude distance metric standard walking running walk run calculating

Posted by speedeep at 6:45 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)