Asymptomatic

The new Voltron website is pretty slick.

I am not sure. I’ve had the strangest month of days in recent memory. Between jury duty, this crazy sinus infection, the trip to Houston, and the time change, I’m not entirely sure which way is up. I’ve found myself asking, “Food? Is it my feeding time?” And that’s just weird.

I’ve been horrible at updating the site over the past couple of weeks, primarily because I haven’t had both the time and the inclination. I’ve also been sitting on an offensively large pile of email since I finished jury duty, and I’m not even sure where to start whittling it down. Hopefully, I’m able to remedy all of that somehow.

Today, though, I wanted to talk about my trip to Texas. I always like getting to go places on work’s tab, and this wasn’t an exception. If it wasn’t for the nose congestion, it might have been a better trip, but it still wasn’t too bad.

As I grew up I held a great fascination for space. I have a fond childhood memory of using my telescope to look into the night sky for the moon and planets on a very frosty winter evening.

Time progresses, and this fascination starts to work its way through many other interests. I wrote a game in elementary school that used space as its backdrop, with alien worlds and their inhabitants as scenery. I grew to love science fiction, reading classic works of Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, and Jules Verne. Space cartoons were my favorites, like Star Blazers and Voltron.

I tried to convince my dad to build me a space ship. My brother and I had some panels set up in the basement with paper taped to them, and many sophisticated drawn instrucments scattered about them. We were expert pilots.

Using programmable beverage containers, you can push a button to make your soda vanilla, or maybe cherry, or whatever color you want.

As an open-source developer, it would be nice to receive a tax credit for all of the money I spend to support those development projects.