Archive for June, 2004

Tyson to fight in Louisville

Mike Tyson is going to fight here in Louisville at the end of July. In Freedom Hall, somewhat ironic given that he’s apparently fighting to free himself from debt.
They said on the news last night that he’s tens of millions in debt and is hoping to fight a number of times over the next […]

Our reliance to directory services

You never realize quite how ubiquitous directory services have become until they fail. We use Microsoft Active Directory at work, all of our production tools use it for login password protection. The problem is that right now we are apparently experiencing some kind of outage on the VPN between our Cambridge and SF […]

Liposuction this Friday

Well I’ve finally decided there’s no way other way to get rid of the little spare tire sitting around my abdomen. This Friday I’m scheduled to have liposuction at Dr. Crabtree’s office.
Yes it’s vain and silly, but you know I have lived my entire life fat and I just want to finally get rid […]

I hate Infiniti

I have an Infiniti G20 that I’m really beginning to hate. I bought it used three years ago, and for a while I really liked it. It cost about what a new Honda Civic would have cost me, but had a lot more creature comforts like leather seats, automatic climate control, and power […]

Lollapalooza cancelled

Well they’ve cancelled this year’s Lollapalooza tour due to poor ticket sales. I wonder if there’s any way the RIAA can blame file-sharing for the decline in ticket sales? They seem to want to blame every other record-industry woe on the file-sharers.

Dodgeball

Grade: ADodgeball: A True Underdog Story is the tale of a big mega-gym (run by Ben Stiller) that tries to buy out it’s much smaller next-door rival Average Joe’s (run by Vince Vaughn). Threatened with foreclosure, the geeks who frequent Average Joe’s come up with the idea of competing in the National Dodgeball Tournament to […]

MGM close to acquiring Mandalay

As a fan of Las Vegas, I’m not certain that MGM’s bid for Mandalay is a good thing. It means massive consolidation of power on the Vegas Strip–the majority of the big mega-resorts under one corporate parent.
That kind of near monopoly almost always hurts consumers in the long run. They’d have almost half of […]

Roddick hits a 153 mph serve

Good Lord who knew that humans would be able to serve at these kinds of speed? Andy Roddick hit a 153 mph serve over in England.
It’s a warm-up tournament for Wimbeldon, and boy if he’s warming up at these kinds of speeds who knows what he’ll do during that Grand Slam.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Grade: A-The latest Harry Potter film is definitely the best of the bunch so far. And in a way, I think it’s precisely because they had to cut so much out of the book to make the movie. The first two films in the series hewed a little too closely to the books, but […]

The Day After Tomorrow

Grade: B+Don’t go to this movie expecting a scientifically accurate depiction of global climate change. After all, director Roland Emmerich is the same guy who gave us Godzilla and Independence Day, neither of them exactly bastions of scientific realism.
Dennis Quaid plays a climatologist who realizes that a chain reaction of climate-changing storms is about […]