Perfect Little App

Do you ever wish that there was a nice little functional app that just did that one little thing that you need it to do? For free? And I don't mean a "free download", which we know just means that you can get the trial version for free which will do 90% of what you need it to do and then require you to register the product for a one-time fee of $14.99. Or maybe it will do 100% of what you want it to do but leave a big, fat watermark in the middle of the finished product, which won't go away until you buy the stupid software.

This evening I realized that something has been bothering me for some time now. Whenever I walk away from my workstation for any time at all, I lock my workstation (WindowsKey + L). And this always brings up a standard, ugly Vista whooshing-lines background which I just don't like. Why doesn't it post my desktop background up there? Wouldn't that be nice?

Well, let me show you the hotness that is now my logon screen background:

I can now lock my workstation with great joy. And here is the streamlined, free, wonderful little application which can change your logon screen graphic (and this is ALL it does).

Wooden Bike

Yes, I know--for you hardcore bloggers out there, all of my constant linking to other interesting webpages is a kind of cop-out. Well, here's another pretty cool cop-out:

This kid created an entire bicycle made only out of wood and glue--including wheels, spokes, chain and gears. And it actually works. Pretty amazing.

Winter Wonderland

How did you do in yesterday's snow?

I was trying to drive home in the worst of it down 148th and got stuck at an intersection when I had to stop and lose my momentum. Esther Maria had mentioned to me that the Mazda3 doesn't handle well in the snow... and I've discovered that she's absolutely correct. Plus my tires are at the end of their life with little tread and that doesn't help. So I was stranded at a Shell station, not wanting to risk the drive home, wondering how I would make it the rest of the way home. All I had was a T-shirt and fleece, no jacket, so I bought a pack of trash bags and put one on like a jacket and stood outside at a bus-stop, hoping to hitch a ride on a Metro bus. I had a nice chat with Cesar who was also waiting for the bus and spoke absolutely zero English. Cesar is from Guatemala, so I blew the dust off my Spanish speaking abilities and discovered that he works at McDonalds down the street and is going to school to learn English.

Ultimately it quit snowing and the roads looked a smidge better so I wish Cesar well and was able to drive home without further incident.

Now I'm at work and this is the view in front of me out the window:

2008

It's a new year! And a new season! And I'm turning over a new leaf! And under this particular leaf, Tim Davis once again blogs regularly!

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Memory Lane

Sometimes I randomly click on archived months from years past. Here's a particularly interesting post about having my wisdom teeth removed from January two years ago. Fun times!

http://timothydavis.blogspot.com/2006_01_01_archive.html

This Guy Had Too Much Time on His Hands over Christmas Break

A re-creation of the battle of Minas Tirith from Lord of the Rings... in candy.