He didn't find a cure,
He didn't win a Nobel,
He didn't lead a thousand men,
And yet he's changed the world.

He didn't invent the microchip,
He didn't win a Pulitzer,
He didn't head a Fortune 500,
And yet he's changed the world.

He sat next to you on a plane,
He met you on a bus,
He talked with you in a bookstore,
And he changed the world for one.

He listened to your stories,
He heard your inner pains,
He shared God's love willingly,
And he changed the world for one.

Wherever he went, wherever he was,
God's mission was his creed,
From day to day he served his Lord,
And he changed the world for one.

He raised me from birth until today,
He taught me to believe,
To know God's love is the one true way,
And he changed the world for me.

And one by one, many worlds he's changed,
Thousands now, each now changing others more,
He touched us each individually,
And yet he changed the world for us all.

My dad died today, he left this world for God's,
And yet he's still here, living on in all he's touched,
My children may not know him till they join him up above,
But they'll know the world he's changed.

Whoever made this is my hero:

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Basically, this is something I found on another website that is a "javascript bookmark" that you can use on ANY webpage. You can use it right now on this page, or load up another page and use it there, but this is how you use it. Select all of that text and copy it to the clipboard. Then paste it into your address bar in your browser and press [ENTER]. If you do it right, you should see something rather entertaining.

I forgot to mention this... I've been a member of this site SaySwap that's great for trading games.

I don't know if many of you buy or trade used games at stores like GameStop or EBGames, but I used to. It always drove me nuts though, that I got like $7 for a game that they would then sell for $35. It's just ridiculous.

So I was thrilled when I found this site. Their system it a little complicated (because they have 2 forms of "currency") but the benefits are great. Imagine getting a much more even trade for your game. Yeah, sounds good doesn't it. Basically the site is a game-trading site where they make money off of a servicing fee, not "markups". And since it's all automatic, they don't have to cover the costs of employees, management, etc.

Anyways, here's the breakdown of their "currency system". It's a lot like music CD trading systems, but they had to add another type of currency because any one game is not equal in value to another... it's a lot more varied in value than music CDs. So you have one currency, which is how the site makes money, called "Trading Tokens". You purchase these for $5 a piece ($2.50 for your first one), and they are good for recieving one game. Now for the other currency, "Purchase Points". This is how they value the games. Games are valued at either 10, 20, 30, or rarely 40 (some PS3/360 games) based upon their retail value. When you sign up, you get 30 purchase points to start your trading with, after that you get purchase points added to your account when you send someone a game.

So basically, when you first sight up, you can get any game valued at up to 30 purchase points for $2.50. After that, you spend $5 for each game shipped to you. Oh, and the $5 covers the shipping. When you agree to send a game to someone, they provide you a shipping label that covers the shipping costs and you just drop it in your mailbox. it's that easy.

Anyways, if this sounds like something you'd be interested in, drop a comment on this post and I'll send you an invite to join. You can join through the site directly, but if I send you an invite, I can get a free trading token, so you'll be saving me $5.

Hello LiveJournal. I'm chewie_007. Nice to meet you. Seems like we've met before.

In other words, wow, it's been a while. The last few months have been absolutely crazy with work, my lovely bride in Law School and working at the Attourney General's office, and traveling 1+ hours each day for a good daycare. We see each other on Wed nights and Weekends... while she's studying. The little free time I end up with after all that, I usually spend recovering by watching my way through Voyager or playing the Wii (just beat Super Mario Galaxy, which is teh Awesome, btw). I don't think I've even read anything on live journal in over two months.

Zeke is up and walking around now. Not quite talking in words yet, but definitely "talking." He's still a wonderful spring of joy in my life.

I am very lucky as my wife has been very understanding as I learn to be responsible and put in my due diligence around the house. It's been tough on her, as she's been in Law School, because my work life about tripled in stress level around the same time. I don't know how many of you know this, but when I get stressed, I just tend to trim off the less important (in my mind) responsibilities to maintain sanity. Well, some of those happen to be cleaning up the house. I know, I know, all you girls are cringing now (and probably akelavincent too, but you have first-hand knowledge, so it shouldn't suprise you), but it's just not that important to me. However, I am learning (however slowly) that it is important to me, because it is important to her. Ah but I wish I could flip a switch and be the husband she needs me to be.

Okay, enough rambling for now. Here's to hoping that this is not a fluke posting, and I actually get back to posting every once in a while.

One late comer to the last posts is this video (mainly because it was recorded after the last post but I couldn't wait to post it).

Videos are from Halloween, Photos are from Halloween/Birthday Mixed






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I give you a [very] short one outside the cut, and three more inside.



Zeke figures out how to crawl with a sippy cup. Look ma, no hands!

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This is just awesome. Bring on the Nuclear Energy Age...

Radiation Absorbing Mineral Discovered

How do I know this, you ask? (well, in all likeliness, you all probably wouldn't ask that, since most of you would agree with that statement without hesitation, but humor me, as it serves a good introduction to the little story I shall now tell... actually, I wouldn't be surprised if the story end's up being shorter than the introduction at this rate...)

I know this because I actually used JavaScript to solve a puzzle that I encountered while playing through Super Paper Mario. Not only that, I used the binary AND and XOR operators to do it. Which, in the end, showed me that there were actually two solutions to the problem. Anyways, the problem would have been a lot easier if I had remembered something from the last time I had played the game, but since I hadn't I already screwed it all up. Basically the puzzle is a set of 8 blocks in a row that can be lit or unlit. Anyways, whenever you hit a block, it and some of the other blocks will change from lit to unlit (or vice versa). Each block will always change the same set of blocks. So the point is to light up all the blocks. So yeah, I got that all messed up from it's original starting point, so I created a way to solve it from the point I had gotten it too. If you are curious as to the full depth of my nerdiness, the following cut will contain the script I wrote.

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