I’m the infamous Booth Guy, and I’m back. Tonight was my first night back on tour with the Mighty Metallica. I was missed by a lot of people I didn’t expect to be missed by, and I wasn’t missed by some I expected to be missed by. While the night was full of unexpected turns, […]
I hate Thanksgiving. I really hate Thanksgiving. I hate it for so many reasons. For starters, it revolves around not just one food I can’t eat, but lots of food I can’t eat. In fact, at any given Thanksgiving table, it is highly unlikely you will find anything I have a desire to eat. Occasionally […]
Long, but good… enjoy. The Backstory A few days ago I gave someone an unwelcome opinion, with a very small proverbial mallet (those who know me will know this is very unlike me – I usually use a very large sledgehammer, assuming an initial attempt at reason has failed). This caused me to get in […]
Today marks the anniversary of the death of a friend of mine, Jocelyn Tetreault. She died 8 years ago, hit by a car, in Boca Raton, close to her house. We still miss you and love you, Jocelyn. Rest in peace.
Last night I saw The Offspring for my first time ever. As someone who’s seen 42 Metallica shows (soon to be 45), the vast majority of which have been in the past year and a half, my view of concerts is unique. I’m not as jaded as someone who actually does it for a living, […]
There is no “the perfect weekend,” I don’t believe. But every now and then, very rarely, you run into “a perfect weekend.” This weekend was one of them. That’s almost completely due to my super-spectacular girlfriend. We didn’t do anything very special. We didn’t spend lots of money, go to a fancy restaurant, go on […]
So… UK Times Online has an article about their beta test of the new Microsoft search engine. Their first line is, “Bill Gates may be the world’s most generous philanthropist.” Now I realize the Gates Foundation has given a lot of money to a lot of worthy causes. I realize a lot of his money […]
Okay, so some people seem to have a problem understanding the “Doom” part of “Blog o’ Doom” Did you expect this would be a happy blog about roses and candy? This is my Cynical Kingdom, my Refuge From Annoying Bouncy-Smiley People. With that in mind, I’ve come up with a list of shit that should […]
So we’ve had this problem at USC with people getting mugged on and around campus. It’s not a recent problem, it’s a known side effect of where we reside. USC has enlarged DPS, had security bulletins, etc., to try to resolve this problem. But I realized this morning, they’ve overlooked one large cause: stupid fucking […]
I don’t want this to be a “slashdot-of-the-day” blog, but this story just really caught my eye: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.11/davinci.html?tw=wn_tophead_8 “Leonardo’s automobile,” a three-wheeled cart that has never been able to be recreated, it turns out, is actually a robot with programmable instructions! For those of you keeping up with Da Vinci, this isn’t as far fetched […]
New hard drives may shake instead of spin. This is one of those times where you have to be floored at some people’s ability to think outside of the box! Kudos to Dataslide! A bad TechWorld writeup: http://www.techworld.com/storage/features/index.cfm?featureid=958 Dataslide’s Press Release: http://www.dataslide.com/ipr.htm Dataslide’s Technical Discussion: http://www.dataslide.com/spec1.htm I hate that song, I hate that song, I […]
Line stolen from my friend, Jason. So I have so many things to say in regards to the election. But lets start with prior to the election. Many states now have online-voter-registration. California is one. So I go online knowing the deadline to change my address is nearing and fill out the online form and […]
What is the nature of a blog? Let’s look at this. Blog is short for “web log.” Is that a log of web-related stuff? Or is that a log of stuff that happens to be on the web? Intuitively, with no other information, one might guess the former. However, we all know it’s the latter. […]
