The Adventurers Club

Season's Decorating

2007-12-07T15:07:52Z

I put my Christmas tree up at work today.

HiBearNation Weekend

2007-11-14T12:14:08Z

Eric and I had an awesome time in St. Louis at HiBearNation this past weekend! It was great to see a bunch of you LJ folks again too! My fav experience outside of the bar was a trip to Jilly's Cupcake Bar. They had some amazing food. You'll see some of their offerings in my pics from the trip...

Oh Hell No! Miss SC Teen USA Fires Back...sort of

2007-08-30T20:07:16Z

People.com has posted a video geography quiz featuring Miss South Carolina from the Miss Teen USA pageant. You know, the chick who says we need more maps, and such. At least it seems she can read. LOLz!

Talk Derby To Me!

2007-08-29T22:50:43Z

ZOMGs!!!1!! The Naptown Roller Girls are starting their season early! I am sooooo there! Road trip! Would love to see some of you Cincinnati and Columbus folks there too!

It takes a lot of money to look this cheap

2007-08-28T13:05:35Z

This past weekend, my buddies JohnJohn, Gregg, and I headed to Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, TN for some backwoods good times. The park really impressed me. It's more of a theme park than an amusement park, and 90% of it is done-up exceptionally well. As for thrills, I think Thunderhead has taken the #1 spot on my list of wooden coasters...that thing seriously rocks. The new Mystery Mine ride was loads of fun as well. Oh, and there was lots of good eye candy!

Bacn. Pass it on.

2007-08-22T18:30:42Z

New internet term: Bacn - Notifications you want, but not right now...like an email msg notifying you that someone's commented on your LJ post, that someone new is following you on Twitter, or a friend has marked one of your Flickr pics a favorite.

Bacn. Yum! LOL!

History:
http://grasshopperfactory.com/cbc/bacn-a-new-internet-term/
http://techburgh.com/blog/2007/08/18/what-is-bacn/
http://www.bacn2.com/

Lego Assembly Line

2007-08-21T17:07:20Z

A Lego assembly line building little Lego cars. I wonder if the Lego factory is made up of machines like this...
;-)

State Fair Eat-A-Thon

2007-08-10T15:47:53Z

Last night, some buddies and I ate our way around the Indiana State Fair!

LOLcub_steiger - Teehee!

2007-07-19T13:40:28Z

Gakked from psifire

Your Score: Sad Cookie Cat

64% Affectionate, 50% Excitable, 53% Hungry

You are the classic Shakespearian tragedy of the lolcat universe. The sad story of a baking a cookie, succumbing to gluttony, and in turn consuming the very cookie that was to be offered. Bad grammar ensues.

To see all possible results, checka dis.

Link: The Which Lolcat Are You? Test written by GumOtaku on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test

I'm (Mostly) Free!

2007-06-25T14:43:27Z

The last month has been a l-o-n-g stretch. Not a day went by when I wasn't in the office or at least perched in front of my laptop, pounding away at work's big project. I was stuck in my own little world of work/twitter/eat/sleep for the last month...totally detached from just about everything non-work related (I did manage to catch a sneak preview of Ratatouille last weekend - cute, cute, CUTE!) We finally hit our beta milestone last week, so I got to enjoy a free weekend hanging out at the family farm, playing Wii with my youngest niece most of the time.

Tucked into the crazy month, a promotion and salary bump came my way - Associate Creative Director, Web & Media. Wooohooo! To celebrate, I'm planning to make my way out to San Francisco for the iPhoneDevCamp event. Any other LJ geeks attending?

Also, I currently use a pair of Sony MDR-EX51 headphones. They're great for complete isolation, but it's too easy for people to sneak up on me (a fav. pastime of cow-orkers.) I'm looking for a good monitor-style set. Recommendations?

Bear Pride Photo Roundup

2007-06-02T13:03:47Z

Sheesh. Has it been a week since I was having a great time at Bear Pride? I guess it so. Talk about a wonderful time with old friends, new friends, and a few complete strangers! This was my first big bear run, and I had a really great time. I had some preconceived ideas on what to expect, but the real thing blew those notions out of the water.

The Sunday night dance at Vision gave me flashbacks. You see, over the summer of '93, after graduating from college and before starting my career, I spent many a night getting my groove on at that place. It was known as The Dome Room back then and played more industrial than anything else.

It was great to see some of you LJ folks in the flesh again, and to meet a few of you for the first time! Strangely, most of you eluded my camera. Hmmm. Anyway, PICTURES...

Weekend Recap: Cedar Point

2007-05-22T15:53:45Z

First trip to Cedar Point for '07
Originally uploaded by richevers.

Headed up to Cedar Point this past weekend with buddies JohnJohn, Brian, Eric, and Scott. I booked this trip back in October, expecting the new coaster, Maverick, to be up and running. We knew last week that it wouldn't be ready, but decided to go anyway. (Rumor has it that the heartline roll was throwing too many G’s, so it's being replaced with some curves.) Glad we did - good times had by all! Pics from the trip

I'm totally looking forward to Bear Pride in Chicago this coming weekend and can't wait to see a bunch of you there!

Joost Beta

2007-04-25T01:52:32Z

Oooo w00t! I've been invited to take the Joost Beta for a spin! So far, the wow factor is fairly high. Interactive factor is a bit of "WTF were they thinking." Video quality depends on the channel being watched — in my random samplings, it's gone from "OK on a regular TV" to "looks better on my iPod." They're gonna have to improve the quality if its ever going to go head-to-head with broadcast TV.

What's Joost? (Is that Mr. Wizard in the video, or am I imagining things?)

Pumper Pull Friday - or - U Stoled Mah Glitterthongs!

2007-04-20T18:36:29Z

I'm excited! This afternoon is the annual Indy Pumper Pull Challenge...where firemenses (yes, I meant to type "firemenses") from all around the country come to grab a rope and pull fire engines down a street. Think tractor pull, but with firemen instead of tractors. You can bet where I'll be: standing somewhere along Mass. Ave.; camera, beer, and brat in hand; watching them pull their pumpers (sounds kind of dirty doesn't it?) It's hot. It's fun. And you cannot beat the eye candy!

In unrelated news, the I Can Has Cheezeburger? site has been down for the last few days — *sigh* — due to a server move. To get us through these tough times, the good folks over at Gawker Media came up with a series of LOLgays. Embracing stereotypes yes, but funny nonetheless. By far, my favorite is this gem:

Someone needs to whip up a bear-themed one for them.

Sylar is coming to Indy

2007-04-10T16:28:05Z

Last year we had Rachel Ray as the Grand Marshal for the 500 Festival Parade...and, boy, did "Queens Corner" go crazy when she went by! (Almost as crazy as when the royal court of the parade passes and a couple hundred of us chant "elbow, elbow, wrist, wrist, wrist" at the betches on the floats.)

This year, among others, we get Sylar from Heroes. He's not Grand Marshal (that'd be Peyton Manning), but kind of exciting. Too bad it's not Claire.

Oh, hold on. I'll be in Chicago that weekend for Bear Pride so I'll be missing the parade. I'm OK with that!

Planet Earth

2007-04-10T02:27:45Z

I just finished watching two episodes of the Planet Earth mini-series. Wow! It's a feast for the eyes and some seriously fascinating subjects...and it's narrated by the always-fabulous Sigourney Weaver. Definitely worth making some space on the TiVo for!

Episodes premiere Sundays on Discover Channel, but are re-shown during the week on the Science Channel.

Supermarket 2.0

2007-04-03T14:46:48Z

I have laughed out loud! Supermarket 2.0 is complete web geekery overload...jokes are everywhere. The egg scene at the end is priceless!

In other news, Erasure's new single I Could Fall in Love With You is finally out. HOORAY!

Is that Miss Piggy!?

2007-03-30T12:56:21Z

Is it just me, or does Mika sound a little bit like Miss Piggy when he sing/talks his way through, in mega-falsetto, the chorus of Love Today? The song's one of my recent favs, but I can't help but laugh when i hear it. LMAO!

bTALK Shout-Out!

2007-03-29T21:13:38Z

OMG! I got a shout-out from my chat buddy (and total mega-cutie) Kurt in this week's bTALK episode! It totally made my day!

This bud's for you!

2007-03-21T01:54:40Z

I was greeted by this when I got home from work today. Hooray!

Twittervision

2007-03-20T13:28:59Z

I mentioned playing around with Twitter last week...and am now officially hooked. Now there's Twittervision that maps out where all the public timeline tweets are coming from. I'm mesmerized!

My Twitter home

What's the big deal about Twitter, anyway

Goodbye Austin

2007-03-13T18:37:17Z

Wow. I'm exhausted. These last few days at the SXSW Interactive conference have been a whirlwind. Some highlights:

Having a super great time hanging with pupcubtx2k and his boss
Watching the bats at the Congress Ave Bridge. Creepy, but darn cool.
Kevin from eBay/San Jose...Grrr! Woof! Thanks for the good times, buddy!
Dining and having great discussions with other company folks from far off lands
Losing my Twitter virginity.

Goodbye Austin. See ya next year!

Hello Austin!

2007-03-10T00:49:25Z

Me and several coworkers and I arrived in Austin, TX for the SXSW Interactive conference earlier this afternoon. Woohoo! It totally feels awesome to be driving around with the windows down.

I've been seriously craving some good BBQ for the last two weeks, and finally took the edge off with a lunch stop at Iron Works BBQ just around the corner from the Convention Center.

Registration for the event was a madhouse, but went surprisingly quick. And hooray for the beer tent and free beer tickets! There were a ton of big name web geeks hanging out in the welcome tent when we walked in...it was a little bit like being back stage at a mega-concert.

On tap for tonight: Dinner with the coworkers and meeting up with pupcubtx2k for a little rebel rousing!

I Think You Really Want a Donut

2007-02-18T17:01:43Z

Thanks to jchbearin28 for pointing out this silly quiz...

Eden McCain
You scored 41 Idealism, 62 Nonconformity, 33 Nerdiness

I think you really want a donut. Congratulations, you're Eden McCain! You've got a colorful past, and your persuasive abilities are second to none. In addition, you're a quick thinker with a solid amount of guts. Your best quality: The art of persuasion Your worst quality: A fondness for some stereotypically "bad" behavior

My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 99% on Idealism
You scored higher than 99% on Nonconformity
You scored higher than 99% on Nerdiness

Link: The Heroes Personality Test written by freedomdegrees on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test

I Need a Stinkin' Badge

2007-02-02T17:57:40Z

The gang at work is now all registered and travel arrangements are made for SXSW coming up in March (look out Austin!) Now, it's time to pick the photo for my badge. I made a little love to the camera, but now I need help deciding which pic I go with.

BTW: I'm going to kill the background in these, so don't worry about that. Maybe I'll Photoshop out some of those wrinkles too...

A. The basic head shot

B. Hooray!

C. By the hair of my chinny chin chin

D. Chubby cheeks

E. The Princess Di — looking up while looking down

F. Are we done with this?