Archive for June, 2005

Finally, Martin finishes “A Feast For Crows”

Finally, George RR Martin has finished the next book in his “Song of Ice and Fire” series. Amazon is showing the wrong date though–there’s no way a book this massive can go from manuscript to hardcover in two months. The publisher’s site shows a November 2005 pub date. But at least now it’s a fairly […]

Twinkie’s car catches on fire

My car caught on fire Originally uploaded by Twinkie.
Twinkie , one of my co-workers and a fellow Blogger, had a most unfortunate Monday morning. It was her first day back from a nice restful vacation, and her car catches on fire in the parking lot.
As they say on the news, her car was “fully […]

Tom Sneddon should be fired

Tom Sneddon was unable to convict Michael Jackson. He may claim he had no axe to grind but that just doesn’t come off as being credible. Not when he just spent millions of taxpayer dollars and got not a single conviction on any charge. Sure looks like he was firing blanks and you have […]

Pat Day is my hero

Went to Churchill Downs this afternoon with a couple guys from work, Paul and Mark. Mostly an excuse to get out of work a couple hours early, especially as my boss is out on vacation this week.
Mark won a trifecta, and I won an exacta when Pat Day took a 6-1 horse and won the […]

Shouldn’t Darth Vader be less powerful than Annakin?

So we learned in Phantom Menace that organisms called midi-chlorians gave the Jedi their control over the Force. The more midi-chlorians the better, and Annakin had the most ever recorded. Fast forward to Revenge of the Sith where we learn that Annakin loses all four limbs before turning into Darth Vader.
Since Darth has less […]

Going to see Stevie Nicks!

Okay, I know at least part of what I’m doing the July 4th week. Some friends here at work pointed me to Summerfest, up in Milwaukee. It’s a big music festival, and on July 4th Stevie Nicks is performing.
I’ve wanted to see her live for quite a while so I’m gonna make the trip. […]

Curb Records on iTunes

About damn time–iTunes Music Store just announced that Curb Records recordings are now available for purchase. It’s only home to some of the hottest country music acts, like Tim McGraw and JoDee Messina.
I’ve been wanting to buy a copy of Messina’s new song, My Give a Damn’s Busted, but it hasn’t been available until […]

A week off to do…what?

I recently saw in the intranet site at work that we’re actually getting two days of holiday for July 4th. The company’s giving us Monday and Tuesday, July 4th and 5th. And that same intranet app is projecting that I’ll have over 140 hours of vacation accumulated by the end of the year.
That’s […]

Games becoming a bit too much like movies

So I was reading Computer Gaming World (the print magazine, not their horrible Web site) and there was an ad for a new MMORPG called Imperator. Which is not due to hit stores until June of next year. That’s right, June 2006 and they’re already advertising the game. Just like going to a movie […]

Too many toys

You know you have too many things when you forget some of the stuff you have. Like I mentioned how I was contemplating selling my GameCube to make room for an XBox. So I took a look at the GameCube stuff I have, kindof an inventory to see what I would sell. And […]