Techno-lust
I’ll be the first to admit that I spend money on things I don’t “need”. Do I need 2 flat panels sitting on my desk? No, not really. Did I need a Kindle? Nope. Did I need an iPhone, when any ol’ phone would have worked fine? Nah, didn’t need it. I just wanted those [...]
07.03.2010· 1 Comment »
I Viewed What?
Sometimes I think the Amazon.com “Recommended Products” list is on crack or something. I do 90% of my online shopping on that site, so I look at a ton of stuff. But I know the sort of things I look at, and it is constantly telling me that I’ve looked at things that I know [...]
06.03.2010· 1 Comment »
Legend Of The Guardians
I may be on the verge of turning 30, but I don’t think I’ll ever “grow up” enough to stop enjoying movies like this. Bring on the flying owl champions!
05.03.2010· 2 Comments »
Bad Boys Bad Boys
I love cop shows. Most of the time they just make no sense whatsoever. Was just watching COPS, and heard this gem of a quote:
He barricaded himself in, and that gave us probable cause to enter the building and get him.
Hey now, wait a moment. How would you know the door was barricaded unless you had tried [...]
03.03.2010· No Comments »
Should Have Skied
My brother showed up here at home during his school day yesterday, and our conversation went a bit like this:
Me: Hey, what are you doing home so early?
Him: The snow on the roads is so bad! I left school to go get lunch, and I almost got into so many wrecks. Cars were sliding down [...]
26.02.2010· 2 Comments »
Snail Mail
It’s so funny the way things are shipped. I use this site called the Avery Universal Package Tracker to track things that I have due in the mail, because I can enter multiple services (fedex, usps, ups) all on one page. Well they also show you a little Google Map image to visually show you [...]
24.02.2010· No Comments »
But… Where Are They?
One of my brothers friends stopped by earlier, and he just so happens to have a beautiful little (almost two-year old) daughter named Amaya. This girl has light cocoa skin, and bright blue eyes, and is such a pretty little thing that you can’t help but smile and stare at everything she does. Well the first [...]
16.02.2010· 5 Comments »
Tank Life
The ol’ fish tank is still doing great. The latest two species — Clown Loach, and Black Skirt Tetra — are both doing awesome. The tetra are a very nice community fish, almost large enough to be mistaken for an Angel Fish, for people who might not be all that familiar with different species. The benefit of [...]
16.02.2010· No Comments »
Thanks, Sarah
On behalf of The NJ Tourist Bureau, we want to thank the State of Alaska. For years, we at the New Jersey Tourist Bureau thought it would be impossible for our home state to lose the designation, “most screwed up state in the Union.” We’ve grown tired of jokes about our state being the armpit [...]
15.02.2010· No Comments »
Be All That You Can Be
So my brother sat me down this morning to have a little talk. It seems that he is considering going into the military. Well more than that, he told me that he is 95% certain he will. Army, to be specific. The thought of them paying for his college education, while at the same time [...]
15.02.2010· 2 Comments »
Quotes: Clifton Paul Fadiman
When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.
13.02.2010· No Comments »
What’s Your Passion?
I remember as a teen, and even older, sitting around with a paper notebook and collecting my favorite quotes from books I read. Or my favorite poems, music lyrics, and even once I started on a ‘history’ of characters from a favorite book series I had been reading. The only problem with that, it was [...]
13.02.2010· 2 Comments »
Quotes: Don Quinn
“A bachelor is a selfish, undeserving guy who has cheated some woman out of a divorce.”
12.02.2010· No Comments »
Legend of the Seeker
Victoria was awesome enough to get me the DVD of the Legend of the Seeker, the whole first season. Five DVD’s full of my favorite TV show, based off one of my favorite book series of all time, The Sword of Truth, by Terry Goodkind. Of course they don’t exactly follow along the story of [...]
11.02.2010· No Comments »
World of Whoa
Yup, this is pretty much how I’ve been spending my time lately. Not that I feel bad, it’s not like I have a job or a family I’m neglecting! But I can now say I have firsthand knowledge of how this game can break marriages apart, cause heath problems, and kill off any social life [...]
11.02.2010· 1 Comment »
Free Sounds Good To Me
One of the best perks I’ve discovered since switching to reading books digitally is the abundance of free (and legal!) eBooks out there. Sure sometimes I miss that physically feeling of holding a ‘real’ book, and physically ’seeing’ yourself get closer to the end as you read page-by-page. And I do still read a paper-book now and again, usually [...]
22.01.2010· 1 Comment »
Gadget Lover
I had a funny one-sided conversation with my mom yesterday, where she was talking — rather humorously — about my brother and his obsession with his car. She was saying how amusing it is to see him spending so much time (and money) caring for it and modifying it, because that is exactly how our father has [...]
20.01.2010· No Comments »
The Road
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them [...]
18.01.2010· 1 Comment »
End Of Another Chapter
I grew up in the sort of family that taught me to always do my best, and I would never have anything to be ashamed of. I wasn’t the brightest kid, I admit. I didn’t get amazing grades. I didn’t ‘wow’ my teachers. I was more than a little lazy, and often didn’t put in [...]
15.01.2010· 3 Comments »
8 Days
Only 8 days left until the big layoff at work. Sad days indeed my friends. It took me a couple years to learn how to avoid the crazy people at my current job, now I have to figure out who the crazy people are at a whole new company! That isn’t as [...]
04.01.2010· 1 Comment »
