Archive for March, 2009
Damn You Conscience!!!
Mar 31st
I remained in bed for more than 20 minutes today debating whether or not I should leave. I’m not sick, I’m not depressed, I’ve really got nothing in particular on my mind and I would have no excuse for ditching out on work. But 20 minutes of debating whether or not I should roll out made me realize that sometimes my truest enemy is my conscience. The red LED’s on the digital clock flipped and changed from number to number like some kind of reverse Hollywood movie bomb and it made me think of an extremely random scene from Speed.
Dennis More >
Back from the sun state
Mar 30th
Got home last night from my annual Sweet 16 trip (no I don’t perpetually celebrate my 16th birthday, I perpetually celebrate March Madness and NCAA College Basketball) and while I was down there I started a list of assumptions that have turned out to be true. If you know me, and you probably don’t, I live in a world where stereotypes are re-enforcements to my outlook on the world right now. Traveling to Phoenix has only strengthened some of these.
So without further ado (and hopefully without any offense) here are some of my assumptions that have become fact in my mind.
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Bryan Fuller – Thank You
Mar 24th
Caught Heroes last night and to be honest, I would have stayed away had I not known the creative genius behind the episode. Without reading any spoilers I managed to figure out that the one and only Bryan Fuller penned last night’s episode Cold Snap, the best episode of Heroes since Company Man. And guess who wrote Company Man!
I posted a while back about Fuller and his short lived series Pushing Daisies so I won’t go too far into what his significance is on modern story telling, but I will say this – Had he not returned to Heroes, I would not More >
Somebody gave me Double Pistols this morning…
Mar 23rd
Imagine having to deal with this upon arrival
It is becoming strikingly obvious to me that working full time in an office is not my preference, even subconsciously. Usually when things aren’t going so well I’m always able to find the silver lining, but as of late with this gig that I’m a couple months into, I’m finding the silver is slowly rusting over and turning into some sort of mold. Don’t get me wrong, this is a great place to work. The people are pretty fun, the work can be challenging and I seem to have found my niche within More >
A look into the Spam folder
Mar 20th
Free Spam!
Once again, I think its time for me to go through the old Spam folder and see what amazing things have been popping up in the world of processed breakfast meats. Since my latest purge I’ve managed to accumulated 230 new Spam messages so here… we… go:
Willa Roberson writes in the subject line “Please Her Tonite,” and the saddest thing about this is the spelling of tonight versus tonite. Is it wrong that of all things that concern me about this message it is the fact that the Spammer has a different spelling method than I do?
mjp8582 has decided to let me More >
Oh My Madness
Mar 19th
Greatest Rivalry in Sports
So its March and there’s this little basketball tournament out there that will begin in a matter of hours. As some of you know I’m kind of a fan of this event so I thought I’d take some time this morning to explain the beauty, craziness and sheer excitement that will occur over the next few weeks.
Unless you’ve physically been to a US college “anything” game, you really can’t say you know what true fans are. I apologize to Canadians who think watching the NHL, CFL or that sad collegiate level of sports they have in this More >
Pro Sports Stars Becoming Human
Mar 18th
Gotta admit, when I was a kid the thought of meeting a pro sports star would have been like meeting God. I probably wouldn’t know what to say and would envision a constant beam of light upon them. I held them in such high regards that in some strange way I never really saw them as human – sans emotion, humility and a sense of humour. The rise of Youtube has helped many things in this world, and I think the most important has been my new outlook on professional athletes becoming grounded human beings. They make mistakes of course, More >
WTF is Splenda?
Mar 17th
Natural?
Every morning I’m usually the first one the in the office. This means I’m the first to unlock the doors, the first to turn on the lights and always the first one to make coffee. Here’s the problem – I’m too lazy cheap to buy milk/cream and sugar so my first cup always contains this strange chemical concoction known as Splenda. Sure I could probably go across the street and steal some cream and sugar, but that would involve…. going across the street.
So this morning I did a little bit of research to try and figure out what exactly I’ve been More >
Say What?