Dear Soup to Nuts fans

OK. I'm sorry. My blog has been neglected (don't bother counting all the "I haven't blogged enough lately" blog posts out there... there are millions) and I have nobody to blame but myself and that guy sitting over there. I am still posting but mostly to Twitter (please, don't hate me). Check it out here: http://twitter.com/jhaugan

I'll get back to here soon...my 8 years of sporadic blogging shall not be in vain!

Signs from the Eston Rink

My personal favourite.

Haugan Christmas Letter 2008-ish

Yes, at long last, it is here! This year's edition of the Haugan Christmas/New Years-ish letter for your enjoyment.

First if you want a hard copy mailed to you instead of this newfangled interweb pdf thingy then just email me and we'll mail it off (feel free to include an optional cheque for $500 to cover postage, ink, paper, copying, mocha cappacino's for the next 3 years).

We've got two versions for you to download... the high quality one is 8mb of goodness and the low quality one is 135k of goodness with grainy graphics (for those on dial up).

High quality version click here

Low quality version (for the bandwidth impaired) click here

If you can't get them to open then try right clicking on the link and selecting "save as" or "save target as" and save it to your desktop... then open it from there.

If you still can't get it to work then click here.

If you still can't get it to work then call someone to take your computer away from you and replace it with a fish tank.

If you want to read older ones (and why on earth would you want to do that) then please click here

I told you life made sense in Swift Current

How to Change a Tire Without Stopping

How to treat your enemies

The gang at xxxchurch.com show us how to treat those who are, technically, our enemies!

Refreshing our short memories. XP's woes worse than Vista's.

Vista is actually miles ahead of where XP was one year after it's release. Those of us who can remember XP was a disaster when it came out with huge security issues and compatibility problems. Vista has been a cake-walk in comparison. Give you head a shake and remember the "good old days"!

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Sarcastics Anonymous

My Trip to the Philippines.... 1986!

Just Won Baby!!!

It's a great day in Rider Nation. Congrats to the boys for a job well done. We may not have won pretty... but we won and that's the whole point!!!

You Say Saskatchewan is What?

Wait a minute... those extra 14 pounds aren't going to kill me?

So having a little of that "baby fat" hang around until you are in your 50's maybe ain't such a bad thing after all! Isn't great to live in such mixed messaged times! :)

Please take a few moments now for your daily devotional

Yes, it's the unofficial Franzl Lang Appreciation Week.

It doesn't get any better than this.

Darwin was Wrong - It should be Survival of the Community-est

How to Be a Hobo

Finally, an article for a career choice that many teenagers should consider considering their complete lack of initiative!

Finally, the Emergent Conference That Makes Sense

Blast from the Past: The Time Ryan Falls Off a Horse...and Doesn't Break his Arm

No Wonder I'm in Last Place in my NASCAR Pool

A rare two post day. WOO HOO.

NASCAR Coach Reveals Winning Strategy: 'Drive Fast'

The Internet Has Crashed!

Breaking News: All Online Data Lost After Internet Crash

Houston, we have gotten rid of Vista!

OK. So I installed Vista on my sweet LG S1 laptop (OK, it's not mine... but I like to think it is).
This list of problems forced me to go back to XP!

1. Somehow Vista sucks video signal out of the machine making our 100ft run of VGA cable from the projector suddenly too long. Vista magically sucks bandwidth out of the signal going out on the external video port. Weird. (Yes, I turned off all of the eye candy on Vista to no avail). The projector image was glitchy every 3 seconds or so... and, sometimes, Vista would go nuts blinking on and off trying to find the external monitor and then not finding it and then finding it... etc. When I put XP back on.... everything was fine again.
2. Video editing sucks. My Ulead software just wouldn't work (I have subsequently found some updates that I could have tried). Nero 6 just plain won't work (7 apparently does but I don't want to buy it). Windows Movie Maker looked promising but it won't accept MP4 videos! Unreal. So I installed some codecs to make it work and all exported video was garbelled and useless. I quit trying right there.
   
3. File transfer speeds were slower! Whether I was copying across the network or on the hard disk things were slower.... noticeably slower.
   
4. My webcam didn't work.
5. My office printer kept saying it was "unavailable"... I quit right there.

There are some things I liked too... but, unfortunately, these were game breakers. Now, do I try to send it back and get my Shipping and Handling back?

Houston, we have Vista!!!

Yes, it's true. My Vista disk came today.... 6 months (almost) after I ordered it. Next time I'm gonna walk and get it myself.!

When the Artist gets Attacked by the Art

I can't tell you how many times this has happened to me!!




Animator vs. Animation

Vista Upgrade from LG... and waiting.

Still... we have no joy with our Vista upgrade from LG and Microsoft's folks at Moduslink. We're now well in to the fifth month and they still have my $68.

I did call LG today, yet again and they promised an email response tomorrow.

In the meantime.... enjoy this:

Carrot Juice is Murder

Building the better Motorcycle

Yet another video that answers life's toughest questions. This time... "how do they build a Rocket 3 Triumph motorcycle?

Yo Yo My!

To the Victors... the Spoils

Way to go Anaheim. The team formerly known as Mighty and pulled it off. Makes me proud to have recently lived only 3000 kms away in Kitimat. Wow. So close.

How to cross the street in India (and most other nations)

This looks harder that it is. Or... it looks easier than it is. You pick!

The Prairies Rejoice!!!!

While the popluation of Saskatchewan continues to hover just under a million people... the population of gophers continues to skyrocket!! WHO WILL SAVE US?

My buddy Lee has invented the better gopher trap. Easy to use. Humane. Works! Farmers are starting to the light at the end of the gopher tunnel as people snap up Lee's gopher traps as fast as he can make them.

Check Lee's Gopher Trap out here.