Archive for February, 2004

Your cubicle makes you blue

Well this study proves what we’ve always known–working in a cubicle farm sucks. Well, the study didn’t specifically say cubicles, it asked about your work environment.
But we all know what that means in this day and age, at least for white collar workers–it means cubicles as far as the eye can see.
I hate my […]

Harry Potter author is a billionaire

Wow, I knew she’d sold a lot of books and a lot of movie tickets, but I hadn’t realized quite how many. J.K. Rowling has joined the billionaires’ club according to Forbes magazine. That’s a lot of kids buying Potter stuff.
Man I need to come up with some cool idea for a book […]

Clear Channel yanks Howard Stern

Well, fallout from Janet Jackson’s boob-incident at the Super Bowl continues–Clear Channel says that they’re dropping Howard Stern for now, until they get assurances his show will meet decency standards. This affects Louisville since it’s Clear Channel’s stations here that air Stern.
Now I’m not a big fan of Howard, but for heaven’s sake Clear […]

Greenspan urges cuts to Social Security

Fed Chairman Allen Greenspan is urging cuts in future Social Security benefits. And so it begins–death by a thousand cuts, until eventually Social Security is no more.
I’m definitely not counting on it being there when I retire–gotta save as much as I can now. I just re-balanced my CNET 401K, moving some money […]

Louisville Zoo

Grade: B+Sunday was a beautiful sunny day, temps around 50. For February that’s a damned heat wave so I decided I needed to take advantage of it, get outside and enjoy some sun. I’d never been to the Louisville Zoo so that seemed a good way to get myself outside, get some sun, and learn […]

Peter Pan (2003)

Grade: CYet another movie that I’m glad I didn’t pay full price for. Went to the Village 8 on Friday night to see the 2003 live-action version of Peter Pan. And while I wouldn’t say it was awful, it just wasn’t that good a movie.
We’re all familiar with the tale–a boy who can fly invites […]

Spring has sprung!

Well that’s over-stating but it did get into the mid 60’s today here in Louisville. Warmer than San Francisco where I used to live. Just a couple day’s ago it was down in the 20’s here in Louisville. And probably will be again before winter is truly over.
Still, I’ll take this little mini-spring […]

Disney buys Kermit

The House of Mouse has bought Kermit & Ms. Piggy. There’s already a partnership, as one of my favorite Disney-MGM rides is the Muppet 3-D attraction.
Of course all this is happening with the backdrop of the rejected Comcast bid for Disney. Obviously the Kermit deal had been in the works a while so it […]

Cingular swallows up AT&T Wireless

Great, so now that Cingular has won the bidding for AT&T Wirless I guess I will now become a Cingular customer. I haven’t actually had the AT&T Wireless phone long enough to be unhappy with their customer service, unlike some people who got caught by a software bug in AT&T’s system when trying to switch […]

The Haunted Mansion (2003)

Grade: C+Went to see Eddie Murphy’s Haunted Mansion this weekend. Now just as with League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, I think I would have felt cheated if I’d seen it at a regular price. But since I saw this flick at the Village 8 for $2 I thought it was okay entertainment.
Based very loosely […]