Archive for August, 2008

Farewell Summer 2008

Well, it’s Labor Day Weekend so unofficially that marks the end of another summer. As a working adult of course it’s not as big a deal as it used to be when I was a kid. Back then it meant back-to-school. Nowadays it’s just a nice 3-day weekend break from work.
It also […]

End of the world is near

I’m not talking about Hillary’s presidential campaign officially coming to an end this week. No, when I say the end of the world is near I’m talking about the Large Hadron Collider over at CERN. Testing has apparently been going smoothly, which means they will be ready for full-scale particle collisions within a […]

Tropic Thunder is mindless fun

After spending two days focused on writing code for a project at work, I needed some mindless entertainment last night. Which is exactly what I found when I went to see Tropic Thunder.
The disability advocates who protested this movie have a point. It gets pretty close to going over the line with the […]

Working from home the next couple days

This project I’m on has been something of a nightmare. Way too many meetings, too many people involved, not enough people who actually understand how the systems work. As a result I’ve been dragged into a large percent of those meetings, plus people are stopping by my cube on a regular basis asking […]

Couric and CNET.com

Ah, so the cross-promotion and convergence begins at CBS and CNET. They’ve announced that during the upcoming conventions, Katie Couric will do live webcasts on CNET.com.
There’s a joke in there somewhere, about CBS combining two properties for which it paid way too much money (Couric and CNET).

Cookie sheets are so expensive

This weekend I baked some cookies, the first time I had done any baking since I moved to Nashville. So it’s also the first time I realized I lost one of my cookie sheets between here and Louisville. When I went today to pick out a replacement today I had real sticker shock […]

Damn that Opening Ceremony was amazing

So I finally watched the first part of the Opening Ceremonies of the 2008 Olympics last night. The artistic part, I changed channels when they got to the parade of nations part. But for that 75 minutes or so, I was in awe. That had to be the most amazing thing I’d […]

My mid-life crisis

I’m officially having my mid-life crisis. I know this because last night, after two months of looking, I bought a convertible. It’s a used Chrysler Crossfire, the convertible looks much nicer than the coupe does. It’s not a pretty car even in the convertible shape, but it’s a terrific value. Probably […]

Best Brendan Frasier movie of the summer

I saw the new Mummy flick last night, Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. And for once I’m going to disagree with the critical consensus at RottenTomatos — I thought this was a better movie than Brendan Frasier’s other summer flick, Journey to the Center of the Earth.
Now I’ll admit there were problems with this […]