Month: August 2008

World’s Largest Record Collection

“Paul Mawhinney was born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA. Over the years he has amassed what has become the world’s largest record collection. Due to health issues and a struggling record industry Paul is being forced to sell his collection.”


The Archive from Sean Dunne on Vimeo.

*EDITED* Drive-In Premier or Clone Wars Animated Movie

The Raleigh Road Drive-In put on a “Meet R2-D2 and C3PO” event for the premier of Lucasfilm’s Clone Wars animated movie. My kids, and their cousins, got to meet, C3PO, R2D2, Boba Fett, Darth Vader, Darth Maul, Kwi Guon Jin, and a couple of Stormtroopers. They had a blast. sadly, I couldn’t attend because I had a gig that night. Anyway, here’s the movie I put together from the footage Chrissy taped.

***Flickr only allows movies up to 90 seconds in length. So, you can find the high resolution version of the video HERE. ***

Laid Off Today

Well, I got laid off from StrikeIron today due to cut-backs. So, if anybody knows of any open positions for a QA Engineer with LoadRunner and Linux expertise let me know!

Strongbad’s Cool Game for Attractive People Released!

Stongbad’s Cool Game for Attractive People has been released to WiiWare today, and on *cough* PC. I’m going to have to purchase this for my Nintendo Wii as soon as I get home. It’s only 1000 Wii points! ($10) I’m make sure to review it as soon as I get some quality play-time.

From the Nintendo site:

“As the star of the Homestar Runner web cartoons, Strong Bad has been answering emails (in boxing gloves), pranking his friends, pummeling his enemies, and making people with questionable taste snort milk out of their noses for years now. And he’s branched out to star in Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People, a monthly 5-episode series.”

Ruby’s Sick but Will Be Okay

I’ve alluded to this on my FaceBook page, but not with much detail so I figured I post something about it here.

We noticed over the last couple weeks that Ruby would have bouts where her breathing would become fast and shallow. We didn’t think much about it at first because Toy Poodles have windpipe issues anyway. Late last week though, her “funny” breathing became the norm, so we got worried. We took her to the vet, and come to find out, she has a heart murmur, pneumonia, and an enlarged heart. The vet put her on antibiotics for the pneumonia, and on Lasix for the fluid in her lungs and heart. Needless to say, she’s MUCH better. Once these rounds of meds are done, she’ll go in for another check-up and then she’ll be put on a daily medication for her heart murmur. So, she should be fine, she’ll just need to take her murmur pill for the rest of her life. Thanks to everyone who expressed their concern!

Charvel Announces New Line of Guitars

Charvel has announced a new line of electric guitars at the $1,000 price point. The models are the : San Dimas Style 1, San Dimas Style 2, and the So Cal Style 1. My favorite of the 3, the San Dimas Style 1 is shown in the image below. I dig these guitars!