Something for My Fellow Men or Toys (and now a movie!) for Boys Remember watching and playing with Transformers when you were a kid? 20 years later, they're back. July 4th, 2007 - what a way to celebrate a day that's about big balls. Check out the official movie site and drool over the trailer.
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The Traffic Never Stopped or Two Salutes First, the proud salute: I don't wax patriotic. It was dull before 9/11 and now it's just irritating. However, as you faithful readers know, I believe strongly in today's holiday. I hope each of us, in our own everyday battles with the world, can and will stand up for what we believe is the right thing to do. Compromise doesn't win wars. Guts do. Second, the not-so-proud salute (and rant): I don't understand how people can fail to be moved by some things. In all the traffic that went by our seats as Sarah and I watched the fireworks, only one car slowed to watch the sight. The rest had their eyes on the road - most of them frowning or honking their horns. Where do you need to be, people? What does it take to open your eyes? Fireworks that cover many square blocks won't do it - what will? I think these are the same people that don't stay up until midnight on New Year's Eve, or take a timeout to watch the...
The Passing of a Legend or Hail to the Chevy As a few of my closest friends have noticed, I've started looking for an automobile junkyard where I can sell off our good friend Scurf. Scurf has served me, my family, and my friends very faithfully over the past 5 years/20k miles. However, the pain of 15 mpg and various bothersome fluid leaks over the past few weeks have spelled the end of our beloved truck. This Wednesday, July 6th, Scurf will become part of a massive auto parts lot on the Westside of Indianapolis, where his parts will be used to save the lives of other vehicles just like him. On Wednesday, I'll be taking a few pictures of him here at the apartment, which I will probably add to this post. In memory of the rolling thunder machine, I invite anyone who has ever ridden in Scurf to leave some of your favorite experiences in the comment box. A few of my favorites: - Racing through the red light at the 2/20 intersection...at 40 mph. - Being heard before being seen (...
Brief Musical Interlude or There Are a Couple Books on This List, Too. Deal with it. Some new releases I'm looking forward to (maybe you too!): May 14th - Glen Phillips, "Mr. Lemons" and "Unlucky 7" June 6th - Live, "Songs from Black Mountain" July 11th - Muse, "Black Holes and Revelations"; Thom Yorke "The Eraser" July 18th - Terry Goodkind, Phantom August 29th - Terry Brooks, Armageddon's Children October 17th - Susanna Clarke, The Ladies of Grace Adieu
The Best Kind of Nerd is Unnecessarily Complicated or Overkill As most of you are probably aware, Sarah and I moved into a two bedroom apartment this past weekend. With all of this extra room, my thoughts naturally went to planning a massive network for Sarah's desktop, my three desktops, and my laptop. [1] I wanted to network as many of the computers above as I could with a minimal budget. So wifi was out; a router and five wireless cards were roughly "way the hell" out of budget. In addition to the computers above, I also had a 5-port ethernet switch on my hands. After scribbling on a few post-it notes, I finally arrived at the following setup [2]: ____| Laptop (XP/FC5) | ...
Even More Proof Than I'm An Ass or Surprised? You Shouldn't Be It amuses me to see how people get to this site. The most amusing readers are usually the ones that come here because a search engine decided I would fit the criteria for which these readers were searching.* Try this one: http://www.ask.com/web?q=Why%20I%20Hate%20whiney%20people&qsrc=1&o=10513 I came up fourth on that search at ask.com. Too funny. In other news, my undergraduate classes ended today. My first wife moved away forever, but not before giving me last year's birthday present. I was extremely saddened by a scary movie. I calmed the wind in my graduation/Jesus robe (see Mt 8: 23-27 for more details). I made koolaid with sugar that I bought in August 2002. I had my picture taken with 5 of the most important people that have been a part of my education here. It was a long day. Somebody told me today that she was sure that I was ready to leave. However, Brilliant Reader, I'm sure you...