Personally, I think could overload this server with the pitfalls and perils of dating. A chunk of my book tells a small part of the pain that I’ve had to endure over the years… the planned second edition of it would include a hell of a lot more – like the “adult” relationships – assuming I ever got time to write it.
Let me tell you want a resent night entailed – an all too typical a night…
Continue reading Dating? Dating Sucks.
CartoonBank: New Yorker Cartoon (Next to Starbucks is Starbucks Kids, with kids jumping all over the place.)
I said it first: now that non-smoking sections are moot with most restaurants going entirely smoke free, there are some places that should offer child-free seating. Not places like McDonald’s or diners and the like – I’m talking higher end places.
Nothing kills a first date over dinner like a full blown tantrum with flying food at a swanky eat’m up joint.
This made my entire day.
MSNBC: Giuliani: ‘A real good chance’ of 2008 bid. Former New York mayor said he is leaning toward presidential campaign
I don’t care which party he runs for – I’m all in. In fact, if he sticks to the Republican party, which he probably will, I think he’s more balanced than any other candidate in recent history. Italian, smooth and active (as in cleaning up New York City), calm under fire (as in 9/11), and divorced (religion may be important but he’s still smart in a secular way)… and the Democrats don’t seem thrilled with Hillary yet and Obama is still a wild card…
Should be an interesting year either way.
I’ve been seeing a good deal about the war in Iraq and how Congress is up in arms about sending more troops to Iraq.
Do you see the point? I hope you do. The point is a simple one…
Re-Election.
Continue reading Look Closely – Do You See The Point?
Seattle PI: A man who tried unsuccessfully to buy an assault rifle pleaded not guilty Monday to charges that he stalked and threatened to kill a teenage barista [at a Starbucks in the Westwood Village Shopping Center in West Seattle] when she rebuffed his advances.
And no – I’ve never even been to West Seattle.
Watching a recap-blurb on American Idol, on Q13Fox, they showed a Seattle hopeful in her first round audition. I had forgotten that American Idol was more like The Gong Show early on rather than Star Search… I’ve never watched it. Never seen an episode of Baywatch or The OC either, for that matter; didn’t catch up with 24 until the fifth season day.
Anyway, the clip they showed had some blonde chick singing almost like a eunuch with a supporting role in an opera. Wasn’t a manly voice but it wasn’t a female voice either. Simon asked her “what are we supposed to say to that?” She replied, “I sing in an innovative way, that no one else has ever heard before!”
Object lesson, in what I’m calling Randy’s Axiom 1: “just because something is innovative, it doesn’t make it good because it’s innovative”.
I gladly say Welcome Back to television. 24 is in it’s new season (and is so much better to watch via DVR than with commercials!) and is already as good as I want it to be. Rome has returned as well – I didn’t expect a second season, because I thought it was a mini-series, not a series – and it’s welcomed as well. Both are living up to my expectations. Especially now that football is “over” for me this seasons… pitchers and catchers don’t report for at least a month. By the time Rome is over, the Sopranos will kick off their last season.
I’m going to Vegas in the Spring – that’s almost more of a “welcome home” than a “welcome back” – and the All Star Game is returning to Yankee Stadium in 2008 for the first time in I can’t remember when… and it’s certainly the last time it will be welcomed to that home before the old stadium is retired – the new stadium is slated to open in 2009.
Wonder if Hallmark has a card for all of that in one that I could send to myself…
ZOMG. I saw something the other day on cable that made me raise an eyebrow… after a movie ended on cable, they ran the credits like always. I was working on homework so I was slow grabbing the remote. After the credits ran, they ran a second time… in Spanish. Then tonight I had on another movie… and discovered the same thing happened. First English, then Spanish.
What the hell is going on now?
Continue reading SONS-A-BITCHES!
MSNBC: Seventeen-year-old Patrick Agin often spends a week whittling a single arrow, and he’s learning to make chain mail armor by hand. So when it came time to submit a senior yearbook photo, he selected a snapshot of himself wearing chain mail and slinging a prop sword over his shoulder. Portsmouth High School rejected the photo, citing a “zero tolerance policy” for weapons, and Agin and his family sued, claiming the school was violating his right to free speech.
Ya know – if they got the kid laid, this whole medieval hobby would simply fall by the wayside.
After working in an office type environment for the last 14 years or so, I consider myself a veteran of the business world. True some of business only offered what could loosely be called an office. Symantec comes to mind, since my first two “offices” were… inventive: the first was a space walled off by bookcases and the second consisted of a space centered in a hallway, walled off by portable, free-standing half-cube walls. There were other places that had other interesting features, like an open office area that didn’t have PC’s for everyone, a rack of 14 PC’s next to my desk, or even a large room where 8 people shared the area.
And then one day you’re in a meeting where you say, “Uhhh, what just happened?”
Continue reading “Can You Do That At Will?”
So, I’m watching the fall out from MacWorld in an IRC window, and I have to say that I’m continually surprised by Steve Jobs behavior…
I guess I gave him more credit than I should have: I thought he’d have more class than likes to show at these conferences.
Continue reading No Class Required
I was going to post this before the game tonight, but having watched the game, I find it to be even more fitting…
If the Seahawks with the Super Bowl this year, I’ma shave my head.
And not just with clippers. I’m talking a Sensor to my scalp….
Honest.
My lost bag was just delivered to me at work. Comical because the guy that called me is like “I wanted to make sure you were home” – uwah? It’s 11:07 in the morning… no one from AA told me they found the bag. In fact, I got the claim form that they faxed over to me land in my inbox this morning.
Rather than run home, he just met me here – nice touch that – but I’m still carrying a lot of angst on my back for this one.
Continue reading Mollified != Satisfied
First, explain to me how one out of two bags can get lost on a non-stop flight.
Next, explain to me how five days can go by without the bag turning up in either airport.
Then, explain to me why the fuck I should be rational about any of this.
About having to wait up to three months before my “claim” can be resolved – especially after explaining to the CSR dude that I had a power adapter in the missing bag along with 18 pairs of [new] socks… if I re-buy them and the bag turns up, what in the hell do I do with 36 pairs of socks and an extra AC adapter for a non-mobile device? Why do I have to pony up extra cash for someone else’s incompetence? It’s no wonder that news stations can run stories each year about all of unclaimed baggage: the fuckin’ airlines do nothing to help you recover the bags that they lost on a nonstop flight..
Explain it to me… I dare you to try.
I played a bit tonight. Two and a half hours, actually, in a tournament of 42 people. Top seven would be paid; I got knocked out at 20th, which has become an all too familiar story, over the last nine months… my middle game has been ass lately – I get tired and sloppy. Or worse, I get tired, sloppy and all emotional – bad combination for poker playing.
Tonight, though, I’m a wee bit frustrated and I think it might even be justified.
Continue reading Poker Sometimes Sucks