Ancient photo found of my house!

Did you know that you can look up ancient city records from the County Assessor's website? No.... Well you can! I had to look up some information at work today and I thought, "I wonder what results it would query if I looked up my house?" Well.... I found out some pretty cool facts!

• My parent's home is a cape-cod building style
• It was built in 1938
• It would cost $9,720 to replace my garage
• ....and I also found the archival photo after building our site!
  

SUPER COOL! You should see what you can find out about your home!

Ever googled your name?? = discover your online persona

Go here and put your name in the box. Just do it. It’s awesome.

The project, called Personas, comes from the MIT Media Lab. Basically, it takes your name and searches the web for some context around it. It then takes the words and sites it finds to build a profile of your presence on the web. Or in MIT-speak using words like “corpus”:

Enter your name, and Personas scours the web for information and attempts to characterize the person - to fit them to a predetermined set of categories that an algorithmic process created from a massive corpus of data. The computational process is visualized with each stage of the analysis, finally resulting in the presentation of a seemingly authoritative personal profile.

Simply put, Personas represents the way the web sees you (or more specifically, your name). Of course, if someone has the same name as you, the results will vary, but for someone with a name like mine, it works very well. Basically, it says that “online” dominates my life, while I’m also associated with sports and books. Not really sure about the books part, but I am really into movies, perhaps it mistook some of my talk about a certain movie for me talking about the corresponding book (but there is a movies section as well).

from one of my favorite blogs: TechCrunch

Addy isn't much better than Lola

Lola bugs Addy all the time by biting her legs, wanting to wrestle all the time, and running circles around her. But after a while, she gets so crazy.... Look at this video to see what I'm talking about. Haha... Addy goes nuts and bites me!!


-- Post From My iPhone

Lola is a wild, but HUGE puppy

Okay seriously, what is wrong with my new dog?? She is supremely crazy. I guess I was too little to remember how my other dog was as a 6 month old, but no matter what we do, Lola seems to get into everything. And having Addy (my German short hair) being an old grandma dog who doesn't really want to play that much make her more rambunctious doesn't help either. Hahaha. Well, even though she's been in the yard for months now, she decided it was too boring and to do something fun. SHAME ON YOU LOLA. haha. It actually was kind of funny.




UPDATE: Later that day!!!
Well just moments after I posted this blog post from my phone, I heard a loud, long shrill from the backyard and found that my mom was YELLING at Lola telling her "Bad dog, bad dog." My mom and I are in this constant battle of whose dog is better. Whenever Lola does something, I will be like "Mom, look what your dog did!!" and when Addy does something (like digging holes and biting as of late) my mom goes "Randy, get your dog away from mine!!" hahaha. Look what the little tyrant did now though!

She took the bigger of the lawn furniture cushions and CHOMPED them up!

Mom looking baffled and Randy saying "Look what your dog did!!!" hahaha

Video Footage = proof of the event!