I am a: Quirky sysadmin. Geek. Gamer. Comic fangirl. My little space, my home on the interwebs. I blog about personal stuffs, work, various coding projects, and anything else I feel like.

Someone once told me that you don’t know what you’re missing until you see it in someone else’s house. That much is true, LOL. The strangest thing occurred to me yesterday. I never knew these things existed until I saw it in one of the house ads on the Remax site. The house had custom […]

I ran across this piece on the Mental Floss magazine blog this morning: How green was my roof As “sustainable architecture” becomes a familiar term to many, we’re starting to hear a lot about green roofing. It’s a concept that seems to have an awful lot going for it, and — added bonus — it […]

Jess and I attended Jeremy and Christy’s baby shower yesterday and had a really good time. I managed to snap off a few really cute pictures (set linked below). I think Jessie had a better time than I did because there was a little girl there about her age so she didn’t feel quite so […]

MentalFloss blog featured a piece yesterday about a dancing robot out of Japan named Keepon (as in “keep on dancing”). This thing is adorable! It interacts with its environment via the cameras in its eyes and the microphone in its nose. Its body is rubbery and (to me) it looks like a gigantic Peep but […]

Smurfed from my adorable sister-in-law. :) You are 75% Optimus Prime! Optimus Prime is the heroic leader of the Autobots. He is the personification of courage, strength, and integrity. His personal motto is that “Freedom is the right of all sentient beings.” Like Optimus Prime, you are good by nature. But beware because mischievous thoughts […]

There’s a house in Gardendale that I have loved ever since it was built and apparently this weekend it went up on the market. (or rather, a Remax sign went up in their yard) I seriously doubt it will stay on the market long enough for us to raise the money to afford it, but […]