Will Chatham

This is pretty cool. I have wit­nessed spi­ders being rean­i­mated after being frozen in a sty­ro­foam cup inside of a freezer (thanks to Chris Lay­ton). I didn’t know you could do it with flies too.

In other news, I think we have decided upon a name for the new boy when he decides to come out of the womb.

What is it?

I will tell you what it is not:

• Bono
• Scrimshaw
• Adolph
• Kat­rina
• Brown
• Restric­tive Fur
• Whimpy
• Fleg

That should pretty much nar­row it down for ya.

Count the num­ber of cricket chirps in 14 sec­onds and then add 40. The num­ber will be very close to the air tem­per­a­ture. An alter­nate approach is to note that they chirp 72 times per minute at 60F. For every addi­tional four chirps, add a degree to 60F, and for every four chirps less, sub­tract a degree for 60F.

Ahh, the things you learn work­ing at the Air Force Com­bat Cli­ma­tol­ogy Cen­ter, sur­rounded by meteorologists.

I’ve slacked off here on the old blog lately. Sorry ’bout that.

So what’s been happening?

Well, I’ve redis­cov­ered the joys of Winamp. I stopped using it a while back when iTunes came out because at the time, I thought iTunes was cooler. For a while it was. But I down­loaded Winamp last week because I saw Chaaa using it and it looked like they had beefed it up. The amount of free TV, video, and radio they have added is great. Plus there is a free plu­gin that allows me to use my iPod with it, which was the key ingredient.

I broke 100 for the first time when play­ing golf on fri­day — I scored a 97, which on my 8th time ever out on the links was pretty excit­ing. My buddy Paul hooked me up with a set of clubs that are longer than most, and it had an imme­di­ate impact on my game. The prob­lem I have is that because of my height, the clubs I was using were too short, and most of the time the ball would just go rolling across the grass. Now though, I am get­ting under the ball and dri­ving it much better.

We went to the mid­wife today for Alicia’s appoint­ment and things are look­ing good. We are about 4 weeks from the due date, still with no name cho­sen for the boy that will soon emerge. We do have some ideas, but noth­ing set in stone. Gray seems to think his name should be Ian. Gray also seems to think he has a baby in his belly too.

Other than that, I’ve been super-busy with side jobs, which is good. Need a web site?

I bought this domain name a while back, and I think it has poten­tial, but I don’t know what to do with it. So I am turn­ing to you dear read­ers to give me ideas (pre­ferrably lucra­tive in nature) for a web site to put there.

The domain? GoogleMeThis.com.

So far, all I have thought up is some kind of Google trea­sure hunt game, but I’m not sure how it would work.

Ideas?