Last minute, I told TiVo to grab the All Star game tonight... not that I usually watch it, mind, but seeing as its being held in New York, I figured it was a great opportunity to see Yankee Stadium in...
The Root: Although I didn't think it was possible, the latest Don Imus controversy is almost as ridiculous as the first one. Imus recently made an off-hand remark on his radio show about Adam "Pacman" Jones' string of arrests, noting...
Decided to go to the Fremont Fair with some friends this weekend... shot for Saturday but after circling for parking for a while (and still not finding a place to park within 1.5 miles) plans changed to Sunday. Parking still...
Today, I spent over $100 on gas... yes, this is one of the pain points having of having two cars: they can sometimes cycle together and you have to hit the gas station twice in one day. The Jeep was...
Totally missed the WWDC... yes, I said I was looking forward to it - in hindsight, I don't think I missed anything, but you see... I've been in training for the last four days. And not just like "10am-2pm" training....
This is where I was today, saying good bye to an old friend... I'll be much closer to this very building in a year from now. By the way, does anyone have the address for Safeco Field? I feel that...
True, it's the middle of May and I'm sweating in my house. Yes, yesterday was supposed to be the hotter of the days this weekend. Indeed, the forecast screwed the pooch again, seeing as it's 94 degrees in Redmond right...
MSNBC: Microsoft abandons bid to buy Yahoo Wow. I mean, wow. The only other time I can think of Microsoft walking away from a proposed merger was way back, for Intuit (Quicken)... to be honest, I think it's the right...
I had to laugh at a recent news story on TV... it's not often that the local news is forced to admit that what might be "good for the environment" might be "bad for humans." A story a while back...
Furrygoat: Q: What do you get when you cross a browser application with the ability to go offline? A: A client application without any the goodness that the platform (be it Windows or OS X) has to offer. What's wrong...
Has it occurred to anyone else that in The Breakfast Club is the fact that the Geek doesn't end up with one of the women? I mean, the Burn Out gets the Princess; the Jock gets the Headcase. The Geek...
MSNBC: "I send a message to Tibetans in the San Francisco area 'Please do not make any violent activities,'" the Dalai Lama said Thursday morning during a stopover in Tokyo. "Of course, this is an expression of their feelings... No...
Why should people be leery of blind faith in anything, including religion? It's through blind faith that this snaggle-toothed fucker horded 555 women and got laid at will. I have no other explanation - do you?...
ValleyWag: Cheerleader's mom blames YouTube, MySpace for her daughter's beating The 'goat just send this to me via IM, but I heard about it on the radio and I have to say... I look forward to being able to blame...
Mayor Nichols of Seattle is trying to impose a $0.20/per bag surcharge for each paper or plastic bag people use while shopping at food, drug, or variety stores. He pitches this to the public a meer week after wanting to...
KCTV: Man Shooting Hole Through Wall Kills Wife - Deepwater Man Fatally Shoots Wife While Installing Satellite TV How can anyone like this be trusted with a weapon in the first place? Somehow I think this negates natural section, since...
MSNBC: Addicted gambler files $20 million casino suit Her case? Casino management "had a duty to notice her compulsive gambling problem and cut her off." I call bullshit, just on principle alone. True, when she went on a multi-day bender...
*sigh* Props to the guy for taking time to chat about the trade on KISW this morning... based off the story he tells, I'm inclined to believe it. He simply got a better deal from the Rams (and it's a...
Consider this... the KKK has a legally arranged a public protest for something - whatever, it doesn't matter. A counter-protest springs up. At some point after the protest, a hooded KKK member is isolated and beaten by one or more...
Toady via MSNBC: If women ruled the world, everything would change, according to former White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers. Politics would be more collegial. Businesses would be more productive. And communities would be healthier. Empowering women would make...
MSN: Are Starbucks' 'skinny' drinks offensive? [...] Much of the controversy focuses on the use of the term skinny to describe the fat- and sugar-free drink. One blogger, "SassySexyShapely," questioned whether people should be offended by the word. As reported...
International Herald Tribune: Excerpts from Castro's letter [...] For many years I have occupied the honorable position of President. On February 15, 1976 the Socialist Constitution was approved with the free, direct and secret vote of over 95% of the...
I just want to send a big ol' Thank You to the New York Giants for their performance in Super Bowl XLII. Without their help, there would have been a cache of smug and strutting sports fans in Boston and...
MSNBC: Giuliani dropping out of Republican race Meh. Now I have to go take yet another bumper sticker off my Jeep... pah. Either way, this country deserves whatever it gets, after this election, be it the anamatronic whitehead, the "new"...
MSNBC: Sen. Kennedy, Rep. Kennedy endorsing Obama - Ted Kennedy's support was sought by all the Democratic hopefuls Um. Really? I mean does the endorsement of a Kennedy really matter? Teddy is so pickled at this point he could be...
I finally got a chance to see Clerks II last night. Gotta admit it: it was weird seeing Randal and Dante in color but I still enjoyed the movie. The ties to Clerks and Dogma (as well as the other...
oO, a yummy collection of words I get to eat! I took some advice from Steve and ordered the HDMI->DVI cable from XtremeMac, even though I didn't want to. Even though it shouldn't have mattered. Even though I had an...
I'd been putting it off for a while, but I finally went ahead and picked up an HDMI Switch Box. Wait, didn't I already have one? Yeah, I did, but that was for Component inputs... since I got that back...
Just poking my out of my vacation long enough to give a Happy Holidays to y'all... I've been shunning almost all email - work and personal - over the last four days in an attempt to get clean go analog...
Ooh you tasty little things...:Experiments in deliciousness: Bacon chocolate chip cookies with maple cinnamon glaze. Just another example of why bacon should be revered. Oh, and for good measure, I've heard really good things about Bacon Salt. (Yes, they're both...
PCWorld: The 15 Biggest Tech Disappointments of 2007 These much-ballyhooed products, sites, and services, it turned out, left much to be desired. PCWorld should be embarrassed to call themselves a publication house... I haven't seen facts this abused in support...
Perspective is a powerful thing... Normally, I'd be convinced that someone or something is out to get me, yet I'm feeling a little lucky in some ways and uberlucky in others. It all depends on perspective....
Fox Sports: Taylor's death a grim reminder for us all. There's a reason I call them the Black KKK. The pain, the fear and the destruction are all the same. Wow. I mean, consider what happened to Imus, when he...
Spotted at the local Sanrio store, I saw this new character from the Hello Kitty universe: Kuromi. You mark my words: when Sanrio gets tired of us and finally decides to take over the world, this will be the soldier...
For reasons that remain unclear to me, I decided to have some carpet replaced with hardwood in my house. The work was originally supposed to be done in October (during the quiet caused by the reorg) but there was a...
Hartford Courant: [...] that was the story out of Australia Thursday, where a firm that trains Santa Clauses reportedly told recruits to avoid "ho, ho, ho," in part because it conjures American slang for a prostitute, according to The Daily...
Gizmodo: In an effort to combat rampant piracy in China, Paramount and Warner Brothers have begun selling legitimate DVDs there for only $3. And these titles are not some bargain bin Steven Segal DVDs either, rather new releases that are...
Seems that a previous Rant about how dating sucks has been highly ranked by the major search engines. What I mean is that if you search for "dating sucks" using any of the three biggest search engines, you'll end up...
MSNBC: A 19-year-old man suspected of killing a woman who answered an online ad for a baby sitter was charged Tuesday with second-degree murder. [...] Olson had gone to Anderson's home Thursday to inquire about a baby-sitting job she had...
while (life) { if (rand() == GetCurrentTicksFromBirth()) break; years++; } Should be as simple as that, but it never is. Sorry - I've just been rather... reflective lately. Changing things around my house. Toying with shaving my head for Halloween....
Ah, there's nothing like the crisp air of autumn to make you truly enjoy a re-org within your own team. Yes, there's been a shuffle which now begs the big question of now what is Randy doing?...
Meh. I was going to post a whole long diatribe about some rock guy that was on KISW this morning, calling for the removal of our electoral college system of electing presidents (something about "who are these guys anyway?" and...
Number of days since contacting your publisher about re-printing your book so it sucks less: 365 Cost of re-printing the book: about $200 Number of pages changed in the year long re-printing effort: 0 Years at current sales rate before...
I wanted to take a moment to thank the Yankees for winning on Sunday night. After the Seahawks put up as many points as I had in football on Sunday morning, I fully expected to have a day of nothing...
I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker! This Online Poker Tournament is a No Limit Texas Holdem event exclusive to Bloggers.Registration code: 9473447 [needed for validation purposes - regular readers, feel free to...
Now that PGR4 has been released there will be a number of new screen shots available for Sony to try and pass off as Gran Turismo 4. In all honesty, PGR4 has surprisingly impressed me. The weather alone is pretty...
Halo 3 is a convenient scapegoat... the truth is that I haven't had much to talk about lately, work has been keeping me busy, and I just finished H3 on Legendary last night. Don't worry though: this is no extended...
I realized something odd about The World According To Garp. In spite of it being such a dark movie, it somehow reminds me of another dramatic epic even thought it was released a full 12 years later. Does anyone else...
I'm officially boycotting the EU. If I want to experience the UK, I'll eat a crumpet and go to Australia. Need the green of Ireland? I live in the Evergreen State - I'll play golf and have a mint shake...
I had trouble sleeping last night... my face was sore from smiling all night. While my soul was at peace, my mind was racing with visions of broken Red Sox fans as they watched a glorious rally in the 8th...
I got a new leather sectional less than a year ago. Ordered it on September 3 but it took a couple of months for it to get here from Italy. Was a simple set up really: seats six people if...
I went to our company meeting yesterday. Someone at Windows Live must have worried about us finding our way to Safeco Field - I noticed this by the home plate entrance: Today, I returned to my office......
Wow. Been over a week since my last post. Am I bored of blogging? Nah. So busy that I haven't had time to blog? Something like that. Busy with school work? Nah - BioShock, actually... which is kinda funny since...
If you are paying $180 for cable and Internet access do you think it's a good or bad idea to screw up your product offering enough that a customer has no alternative but to call for customer service, reminding them...
Has anyone else noticed that Forrest Gump is consistenlty wearing blue in every scene in the movie? Well, except for the scenes that require an army uniform... Every scene that he is dressed in his own clothes, it's always a...
MSNBC: Debate on lower drinking age bubbling up Proponents say current restriction drives teen alcohol use underground. Over the strong objection of federal safety officials, a quiet movement to lower the legal drinking age to 18 is taking root as...
omg!: Danica McKellar has a message for girls: Cute and smart is better than cute and dumb. McKellar, who played Winnie on the 1990s television show "The Wonder Years," is coming out with a book, "Math Doesn't Suck," to encourage...
I never thought I'd get to this level of frustration with an online company, but I getting extremely close to activating my "legal benefits" package at work and suing Expedia.com for the on going debacle that was my vacation. Updated:...
CNN.com: Lindsay Lohan arrested again I don't know much about Lohan. Maybe it's because there were enough Paris headlines in the news that as soon as I saw that smug blonde face I clicked away a page or changed a...
It's not often that I ask the question "Why me?" because I usually know why things happen to me. A bad decision. Not checking the expiration date on a carton of eggs. Picking blue instead of red. Moving too quickly...
MSNBC: Diet pill’s icky side effects keep users honest [...] Threat of embarrassment forces Alli users to eat healthy — or else [...] "(I)’ve pooped my pants 3 times today, and sorry to get descriptive but it even leaked onto...
Happy Fourth of July. And Happy Post iPhone Launch weekend. Sorry for the quiet time too lately - I finally got to take the vacation that got postponed from the end of April. The recap follows......
This was a real subject line from a piece of SPAM that I noticed while cleaning out my Junk Mail folder. What a hoot. In other news, Trixie tells me that if I persist in wearing on wearing denim shorts...
YouTube: The Price is Right - Wardrobe Malfunction This is something out of the late 70's if I had to guess, considering the clothing, the hairstyles and that Bob Barker's hair is naturally dark. And since Bob left the show...
Ken Levine: If THE SOPRANOS were on a major network The finale would be at least two hours. There would be a one hour clip show hosted by Bob Costas preceding it. There would be live coverage of the cast...
Rudy: Rudy's 12 Commitments To America Ambitious, I'll say that. What I like about it more is that here's an itemized list of "what I plan to do, if you elect me" which is something that I don't remember seeing...
During high school, did you ever date a chick for a while and never get her into the sack? Come close, have some good times, but ya never get her into bed? And then one night, she hops out of...
CNN.com: In a rare public discussion of her husband's infidelity, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday that she probably could not have gotten through her marital troubles without relying on her faith in God. Translation: "I want to...
How do you know you're devoted to a TV show? When you watch the low-def version of the penultimate show on the east coast feed, rather than waiting another three hours for the HD west coast feed. I won't say...
CNN: Religious conservative leader James Dobson will sit out the 2008 presidential election if former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani is the Republican presidential nominee, he wrote Thursday in an online column. In a piece published on the conservative Web...
I've gotten a few people that have forwarded emails about how to "boycott" gas on May 15, in an effort to protest high gas prices. Seems the same thing was done on April 15, and someone somewhere thinks that it...
Last August, Amazon listed the Ambient Stock Orb for sale at $20. It's a neat little thing, the Orb. Especially at $20. At its MSRP of $150, it's not all that compelling. I ordered one. A couple of days later,...
A week of family stuffs, most of it sad or at least worrisome... Too many days of work in a row... 60 hours of work already this week if you exclude Sunday... overloaded. Mini-break coming up this weekend sans notebook...
Looking over this week's ads from Target - and debating on picking up a copy of Pokémon before flying to Vegas this weekend - I noticed a "Diet Coke Plus" on one of the pages... what's the "plus"? That's what...
Wired: 'Several Korean youths who knew Cho Seung Hui from his high school days said he was a fan of violent video games, particularly Counterstrike, a hugely popular online game published by Microsoft, in which players join terrorism or counterterrorism...
I'm at Borders, in their cafe section. I'm reading a book I ordered years ago at Amazon while I wait for my Jeep to get repaired up the road. On my table are three books I bought and a ColdBrewed...
Actually, yes, I did. In light of the fallout of the Imus Debacle I'm reminded just how much I dislike Media Whores of all race, gender, and creed. Consider Al Sharpton. The last time I looked, Al Baby doesn't play...
The other day I was reading something about how some guy was in trouble for using the N-word on air. MSNBC just the other day posted something about about a pilot that got suspended from his job for "dropping the...
After over seven years of waiting, the end of The Sopranos is at hand, starting with the first episode of the second part of Season 6. Hell yeah, I'm excited. For those of you that have missed the entire series...
Meh. No, no, really - that's what my shirt says today. And it's spot on. I feel totally randomized today. Like late to work, got the wrong coffee, picked out the wrong breakfast, drove the wrong car - even blew...
Just noticed it's been almost a week since I posted something... I've been somewhat busy with work related items - which will get rolled into a future post, of course - but one thing that caught my eye has been...
MSNBC: A passenger in first class woke up to a shock when he found himself sitting near a corpse on a British Airways flight, British newspapers reported on Monday. Paul Trinder, 54, said cabin crew moved the body of the...
Ugh. I'm sick. And yes, as a guy, if I admit that I'm sick, then that means it's rather real and moderately serious. Got a Venti tea at Starbucks today, instead of coffee. Been craving ice cream and milk -...
I ask you this: how can San Francisco had good [New York styled] Italian food while most of Washington (or Oregon for that matter) doesn't? They have some semblance of Italian and some items are good, but navigating a menu...
Word on the street is that CompUSA is closing over half their stores, starting tomorrow. I went over to their locations page: if it's accurate, the only store staying in WA is the one in Spokane. The only surprising thing...
MSNBC: Report: Family ties Al Sharpton to Thurmond Paper: Civil rights activist descended from slaves held by late senator’s kin [...] NEW YORK - Genealogists have found that civil rights activist the Rev. Al Sharpton is a descendent of a...
I have no words... what can you say about a dog that was so sweet and got terminally sick so suddenly that the vet cried when it was all over? So very, very wrong....
CNN: The House of Representatives passes a non-binding resolution rejecting President Bush's plan to send more troops to Iraq. And now, a memo to a higher office; open letter to the powers that be: Get back to work you hosers!...
Ah, well... Baka suffered The Big Flush last night. Something about seeing a fish lying on the bottom of a bowl like a sleeping pup for 12+ hours and no missing food tells me his race has been run. And...
Say you were standing behind a younger woman[1] while in a long line at a coffee shop and you noticed a nickel-sized hole in the back of her jeans, up in the corner where the back pocket is sewn. A...
Personally, I think could overload this server with the pitfalls and perils of dating. A chunk of my book tells a small part of the pain that I've had to endure over the years... the planned second edition of it...
CartoonBank: New Yorker Cartoon (Next to Starbucks is Starbucks Kids, with kids jumping all over the place.) I said it first: now that non-smoking sections are moot with most restaurants going entirely smoke free, there are some places that should...
This made my entire day. MSNBC: Giuliani: ‘A real good chance’ of 2008 bid. Former New York mayor said he is leaning toward presidential campaign I don't care which party he runs for - I'm all in. In fact, if...
I've been seeing a good deal about the war in Iraq and how Congress is up in arms about sending more troops to Iraq. Do you see the point? I hope you do. The point is a simple one... Re-Election....
Seattle PI: A man who tried unsuccessfully to buy an assault rifle pleaded not guilty Monday to charges that he stalked and threatened to kill a teenage barista [at a Starbucks in the Westwood Village Shopping Center in West Seattle]...
Watching a recap-blurb on American Idol, on Q13Fox, they showed a Seattle hopeful in her first round audition. I had forgotten that American Idol was more like The Gong Show early on rather than Star Search... I've never watched it....
I gladly say Welcome Back to television. 24 is in it's new season (and is so much better to watch via DVR than with commercials!) and is already as good as I want it to be. Rome has returned as...
ZOMG. I saw something the other day on cable that made me raise an eyebrow... after a movie ended on cable, they ran the credits like always. I was working on homework so I was slow grabbing the remote. After...
MSNBC: Seventeen-year-old Patrick Agin often spends a week whittling a single arrow, and he’s learning to make chain mail armor by hand. So when it came time to submit a senior yearbook photo, he selected a snapshot of himself wearing...
After working in an office type environment for the last 14 years or so, I consider myself a veteran of the business world. True some of business only offered what could loosely be called an office. Symantec comes to mind,...
So, I'm watching the fall out from MacWorld in an IRC window, and I have to say that I'm continually surprised by Steve Jobs behavior... I guess I gave him more credit than I should have: I thought he'd have...
I was going to post this before the game tonight, but having watched the game, I find it to be even more fitting... If the Seahawks with the Super Bowl this year, I'ma shave my head. And not just with...
My lost bag was just delivered to me at work. Comical because the guy that called me is like "I wanted to make sure you were home" - uwah? It's 11:07 in the morning... no one from AA told me...
First, explain to me how one out of two bags can get lost on a non-stop flight. Next, explain to me how five days can go by without the bag turning up in either airport. Then, explain to me why...
I played a bit tonight. Two and a half hours, actually, in a tournament of 42 people. Top seven would be paid; I got knocked out at 20th, which has become an all too familiar story, over the last nine...
What's that loud sucking sound you hear? Get used to it. It'll get louder the closer we get to July 4. I swear, that there's only a 0.0001% chance that this movie won't suck. How can I say that based...
Ever stood by a baggage carousel, waiting for your second of two bags, and noticed no one else is left at the carousel? I hadn't before tonight. Yes, for the first time in over a decade of travel, I was...
I went to see it - Rocky Balboa - on opening night. Yes, this would be the sixth Rocky movie, in the overall scheme of things... but to me it's the third. If you saw I and II, you've got...
Whoa a techno-topic that's not in the GeekStuff section? Bet your ass. It happens every now and again. Besides, this isn't about technology - it's about radio. In fact, it's about one particular song and how it's been ripped to...
AOL TV News: Since 1966 WPIX in New York has had the TV yule log market to itself. Now they've got some competition. [...] The INHD Yule log has been airing since 2003 and, since the number of HDTV owners...
Creating Passionate Users: what is the meta-level for a game? Oh yes, fun. Purple Moon got the individual implementation details right, and applied all that they'd learned from the research, but forgot the forest. Fun. Not often that I quote...
Was that a 70mph gust of wind that just made the lights flicker in my house? [Yes, we are having a wind storm at the moment and lights have been flickering all day at home and work.] Or was that...
CNN: NYC health board bans trans fats at restaurants I would have expected to see something like this from Seattle or LA, but New York? Especially since Seattle law seems to have no rational train of thought. A city that...
I've had a blog for over five years now. I've hosted it on a few different types of server over the years. Each had their pros and cons - I originally switched to TypePad so I wouldn't have the pain...
An open letter to all of the people in New England that are sneering, laughing and taunting the pacific northwest over the recent snowfall while frolicking in their strange warm weather: Piss off. We got 2" in Redmond. We also...
Yep. Good thing it never sticks to anything but the grass. Wasn't even enough to keep a line from forming in front of Best Buy again this morning. Damned Wii continues to wreak havoc....
I'm not searching for a Wii any more. After searching for 36 hours, not only am I sick of hearing "no" but I think I'm about to get broadsided by a much larger purchase or two. Even for me there...
MSNBC: A 68-year-old man who almost accompanied Cory Lidle on his fatal flight in New York City last month died in a plane crash in California on Tuesday. WTF?...
BBC News: Rare stamp 'used on US post vote' A rare stamp worth as much as $200,000 (£155,473) may be on an envelope sealed in a ballot box after the US mid-term elections, poll officials say. I've said it once...
What the hell is it with Kerry? Isn't it enough that he lost in 2004? Now he's trying to take out his party in 2006 as well? I swear, Quebec, Massachusetts, and France should unite and become the Land of...
Found this blog post over at DotEverything and words fail me. Most affection I've had thrown my way in a while *g* Who says the blogsphere isn't a happy, useful place!...
CNN: Rose Rock, the mother of comedian Chris Rock, claims she was racially discriminated against when she was seated but ignored for a half hour at a Cracker Barrel restaurant along the South Carolina coast. Discrimination? DISCRIMINATION?! How about just...
