Woke up at 4:30am to catch a 6ish flight to Houston. From Houston waited an hour for connecting flight to Ft Lauderdale. Finally got some sleep on the plane because the ocean is nothing to see a mile up. We land and get to the baggage claim and find out that it’s not our carrousel. We find ours and get our bags, get to the shuttle and get packed like sardines. A couple minutes later were waiting in line to get into the customs building. We get through fairly quickly because of the wheelchair that my grandma has.

Onboard the ship is where they give me my room key/id/credit card and then pack us into an elevator to find our deck. We’re behind other, higher deck people so it was fun getting past all the old people (there’s a lot (a lot)).

Found our room, we have a nice view of the other ships (got two videos of one leaving). I go out on the deck to get the cool ocean air and I realize…. I have Internet! I message some friends (carcar (is that ok?), Sey, and Kemp) that IM ON A BOAT.

We pull out of dock around 5:15 and we’re off to sea.

I love this case. Temp3, what the hell is wrong with you?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20100222/hl_hsn/pediatricianswantredesignofhotdogscandytocurbkidschoking

Read it? Good.

“Any food that has a cylindrical or round shape poses a risk,” [Smith] pointed out.

So we’re changing sausages now too? What about suckers?

“There’s a general recognition that more needed to be done to protect children from choking,” according to Smith. “We have a number of laws and regulations that help prevent choking due to toys. There are no such similar regulations for food.”

We don’t make the toy manufacturer’s change the shape of their toys; they just have to have a warning on the label that says some retarded kid can stick a piece in their mouth and potentially die. Thats what’s called SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST.

“I think it’s very reasonable to strengthen regulations to prevent choking injuries for children,” said Dr. Lee Sanders, associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. “The most common cause of death for kids aged roughly 1 to 5 is choking but it’s also one of the most common reasons for visits to the emergency room and, for kids who don’t die of these injuries, sometimes there are long-lasting injuries or implications,” Sanders said. “It’s a significant public health issue.”

Instead of changing food and pussying up our kids, why not just WATCH WHAT THEY DO? Be a fucking PARENT!

What really scares me is this:

What happens when we age, be it if you’re 16 or 60, and some new Hitler or someone appears in the world and our kids have to go fight him? These are the same kids that can’t be spanked, can’t play dodge ball, can’t eat a HOT DOG, and we’re sending them to war. Chances are Neo Hitler’s country of power will not have such stupid limitations on what their kids can do. They’re used to thinking on their feet. They have their head on a swivel. They are better prepared to fight and kill and survive.

“Oh, but we have better weapons!” Bullshit. The only thing that separates us from anyone else are the guys with their boots on the ground putting lumps of metal into someone else. Predator drones are few and far between, and they only relay surveillance. You still have to figure out how to use that information to survive. Tanks, same thing.

Our training is good, I’ll give you that, but how hard is it for most kids learning another language? They have to take 4 years for it, yes? How many kids on facebook cant even get though a sentence without truncating ‘you’ to ‘u’? Do you think they have the mental capability to fire a gun or survive? I don’t.

Pediatricians: Do what you want, but know this: You’ve doomed us all.

If that loaded, then you’re not banned, if you are, contact eegras@eegrasstudios.com so we can get this sorted out.

Thanks
- Travis

Holy crap. I’ve heard of webmasters complain about bandwidth overages, but CPU overages? I think this site is generating upwards of 1,000 images A DAY. Damn. I’ve disabled it for the rest of the month to make the server hosts happy.

Long story short (tl;dr): Donate! If I get donations I can upgrade to a beefier server. If you all donate even $0.10 a month, thats a full 100.00 I can use on the server! All donations to my PayPal account will go to the server, nothing else. So, please, if you use http://sigs.eegrasstudios.com/ and like it, donate. It will help keep this from happening again.

- Travis

Edit: I’ve brought back the script with a few additions to it to possibly help with the load. Still, guys, donate. If this happens again, I might have to think of turning the script off all together…

New look for ES
I just rolled out a new design for EegrasStudios. I’m going back to the black look because it shows off my images a whole lot better. I’ve had some very flexible scripts being used minimally in the old ES that I’m going to be using more extensively in the new one. Case in point, my gallery.

Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.
I got an amazing girlfriend in my absence. She’s the best thing to happen to me in a long time.

360Voice APIs
Rolled out a few new APIs. Check the navigation on the main site of ES

Good night sweet ESRC
With Enigma’s server move, Dash still has yet to recode the ESRC to work. The esrcGUI will still stay up on the off chance of him making it work.

There’s probably more, but I’m forgetting it.
- Travis

Why do women have to be so hot?!