Archive for September, 2005

Lord of the Rings exhibit coming to Indianapolis!

I cannot wait–the Indiana Museum up in Indianapolis is hosting the Lord of the Rings exhibition starting next month and running thru early January. They even have a blog covering the installation of the exhibit.
I have to try and go see this. Just need to figure out when I can make it up […]

Chesney and Zellweger seeking annulment

Okay, so I kinda wondered about the whirlwind nature of the romance between Kenny Chesney and Renee Zellweger, which resulted in them marrying in May just four months after they first met.
Seems four months is a magic number for them, because now the marriage itself is over after just four months. Zellweger has filed […]

I must have worse taste than I realized

There’s that feature on Yahoo Movies where they extrapolate from the movies you’ve rated to recommend other movies you might like. I noticed this morning that it believes I would enjoy Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo.
Clearly, I need to go over the 55 movies that I’ve rated at Yahoo and try to figure out why it […]

Half of all US airline passenger seats operated by a bankrupt airline

If Delta and Northwest file for bankruptcy protection it means that essentially half of all US airline seats will be operated by a bankrupt airline. A rather remarkable percentage, surely a sign of an industry in deep distress.
I’m just hoping United survives long enough for me to use my frequent flyer miles. I’ve […]

War of the Worlds not as good as I’d expected

I’ve been holding off on seeing War of the Worlds, because I didn’t want to give that crazy Tom Cruise my money. Didn’t want to be seen as supporting his wackiness by buying tickets to his movie.
But the flick finally made it to the cheap theater here in Louisville so I figured it was […]

Seven Things

Twinkie posted her seven things and I was one of the folks she asked to do one as well. Took me a while but I finally pulled one together and post it herewith:
Seven things you plan to do before you die:

Write a short story that gets published somewhere
lose enough weight to see my abs just […]

Schwarzenegger to veto gay-marriage bill

So Governor Schwarzenegger has pledged he will veto the landmark gay-marriage bill that passed in California.
I’m of two minds here–on the one hand I’m disappointed in his veto, it’s clearly a blow to civil rights. On the other, the bill clearly violated the Proposition voted on a couple years ago where Californians decided […]

Homework outsourcing

This is an odd trend–outsourcing tutoring to India. Apparently not enough people here in America willing and able to act as tutors for all the kids and parents who want it. At least not at an affordable price. So now it’s being outsourced to places like India.
Kindof amazing that these outsourcing companies […]

Why are ping-pong balls so expensive?

We have a dusty old ping-pong table in the basement of the building where I work, and a number of us go down there sometimes to play. We’re not very good but we are very angry and thus we’ve destroyed a fair number of the balls.
So this past weekend I stopped in at […]

Way too incendiary

The lead story this morning on CNN.com was headlined “Battle for New Orleans” in humongous type. That seems a little incendiary to me. Yes there’s chaos and anarchy but it’s a few thousand desperate and hungry people. It’s not an army, there’s no civil war going on, no repression, it doesn’t warrant being called a […]