The Semi-Journal

In case you haven't figured it out...

2009-03-15T20:35:00.001-07:00

Http://Rollingskull.comAll of the cool kids run their own blog now.

Because Even Zebra's have Fans!

2008-09-21T19:56:00.001-07:00

www.nfl85.com

Tuesday night games

2008-09-16T19:16:00.001-07:00

Tuesday nights are game night, tonight the coffee shop we meet at usmuch quiter and there is fare to much studying going on.It's weird I've never known ASU students to study...-- Tom"Party on Wayne""Party on Garth"http://www.rollingskull.comhttp://rollingskull.blogspot.com

And Grandpa always gave us hell....

2008-09-12T20:54:00.001-07:00

Growing up my Grandfather always gave my brother and I hell because we never beat any of the Super Mario Games....Grandpa I now give you the reason why we never beat any of those games....

You know some days this is what it feels like....

2008-08-14T22:23:00.000-07:00

It's that time of year again!

2008-08-07T20:13:00.001-07:00

Now Accepting Applications....

2008-07-10T19:42:00.004-07:00

After the following txt message conversation with my brother I'm now accepting applications fill the role of "little" brother.Little Brother - Just saw a teaser for the new Star Trek, I'm kind of immpressedMe - Don't get me started on that pile of crap... Every self respecting nerd knows the ncc-1701 was built in space and not on the ground.Little Brother- That's why it immpressed me.Me - And you

Prolonging the magic....

2008-06-29T08:03:00.003-07:00

I work in I.T. which I'm pretty sure all 3 of you know. I'm sure all 3 of you have called me up at various intervals in the last 7 years and heard me utter the following phrase "I can't come out I'm on call". Call at Scottsdale isn't nearly as bad as it was in Kingman. The call volume is much lower and I get paid to be on call. Lower volumes and paid or not it's still damn annoying to be on

Can you identify?

2008-06-20T07:41:00.001-07:00

This device and it's purpose? Winner gets a beer and a couple quality hours with Grand Theft Auto.

Still Alive...

2008-06-16T19:13:00.003-07:00

Yes I'm still here outside of the random picture message to this rather dried up and crusty part of the internet. Yes I'm Still Alive That said... what the hell have I been doing? Well the things that stand out in my mind are several marathon sessions of Rock Band in Colorado and even more marathon sessions of Grand Theft Auto in Arizona. Speaking of Colorado I went to "Beer Mecca" aka "The Fat

Good bye Denver

2008-05-27T20:10:00.002-07:00

It has been a good trip!

No really welcome to Denver...

2008-05-24T12:38:00.003-07:00

Ok that is more like it!

Welcome to Denver international...

2008-05-24T12:34:00.001-07:00

From Eve (the woman not the game)

2008-05-08T11:54:00.001-07:00

I got this txt message from Eve... I have to say I'm both disturbed and simultaneously proud of her ."What do I type to get root?"

Why I love LINUX reason #356

2008-05-05T13:14:00.001-07:00

When typing a privileged command you get this...***************tom@tk-linuxpacs:~> sudo wiresharkWe trust you have received the usual lecture from the local SystemAdministrator. It usually boils down to these three things: #1) Respect the privacy of others. #2) Think before you type. #3) With great power comes great responsibility.root's password:*******************Lets see Windows do

Great American past time enjoyment.

2008-05-03T13:16:00.001-07:00

D'backs for the win!

When turning left is more then you can handle...

2008-04-20T20:43:00.002-07:00

So I went to NASCAR for the spring race here in Phoenix last week. I am just now finally coming back into alignment with the universe. More importantly the redneck smell has gone back to normal levels that I got calls from a few friends out of the blue. I did not know that redneck could be transmitted via cell phone. It was a good time and lots and lots and lots and lots of cars turning left.

Your tax dollars at work

2008-04-10T11:23:00.001-07:00

April 7, it's an important day....

2008-04-07T21:03:00.003-07:00

For many reasons, among them....1933 - Prohibition is repealed for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight, eight months before the ratification of the XXI amendment. 1964 - IBM announces the System/360.1969 - The Internet's symbolic birth date: publication of RFC 1.And not just events important people have been born on this day too!1954 - Jackie Chan, Hong Kong actor1964 - Russell Crowe, New

I will find my way from your lost wheel....

2008-03-30T19:10:00.005-07:00

I know the weather has been way to good when I've been spending more time out doors then I have indoors. I'm move just as much when I'm outdoors (little to none) but the bright side is that I'm way more motivated to write. And I can hear the clicks of like 3 maybe 4 mice right now as they all close their web browsers and go do something constructive rather then sit there and read this drivel.

Reqium for a morning show....

2008-03-26T19:41:00.002-07:00

I never had a morning show until I moved to Phoenix. We got Vegas radio in Kingman, but I was never up early enough to listen to it and when I was my total drive time was all of 5 minutes (10 if I was going to the other side of town) I never got up before noon when I lived in Flag. When I first got down here Scott recommended the morning sickness to me... and I didn't care for it fart jokes

The Song Remains the Same...

2008-03-25T19:51:00.004-07:00

It's not often I get a text message that says "fuck you, I'm going home" it's even less often when I get that very same text message from my own phone. Needless to say my liver is not real happy with me and hasn't come out from under the bed for a couple of days now. The reason? Oh that's easy, I spent the weekend in Californa for Kinsey's wedding. Which I have to say as weddings go is

Where I decide California isn't all bad.

2008-03-23T14:49:00.000-07:00

A few moments that make think California is kinda nice. Shocking since I'm from Arizona.

You know while I'm at it...

2008-03-21T15:59:00.001-07:00

This story isn't helping my love of airlines....http://blog.wired.com/cars/2008/03/love-it-or-hate.htmlEdit #1 So while I'm sitting on the public Wi-Fi at Sky Harbor I going to blog some more... this part is really more for Eve (the woman not the game) because she was somewhat intersted in the kind of people that goto a NASCAR race (and Eve if you want to go just let me know we will goto the fall

A Post we've all read before....

2008-03-21T15:28:00.003-07:00

Flying to San Diego (Spanish for "The Whale's Vagina") for a California wedding. As usually happens when I fly what can only be described as my own personal version of a anxiety attack. So I give you now the three reasons I hate to fly... and if you have been reading for a while you know these reasons already. Please feel free to review there will be a test when I see you next. Unless your

Pigs (three diffrent ones)

2008-03-09T18:00:00.000-07:00

So with the recent demise of HD-DVD as a viable High Definition physical video format I've been kicking around the idea of making the jump to Blu-Ray and all of it's glory. This thought was helped when my brother bought a PS3. And since he is not a game one can only assume that he bought it for Blu-Ray movies. And over the course of the last month or so as I've mulled this decision over in one

3 more to go...

2008-02-29T21:44:00.002-07:00

So Christmas was a while back and as is tradition in the Kern household we gave each other gifts... Parent's get the kids junk, kids get the parents junk, and the cycle perpetuates itself. This year was a little bit different as the junk count was down, but the at the time percived awesomeness factor was up.My little brother got me a ice chest filled with Coors, now the gift was the ice chest

Cool!!

2008-02-29T18:10:00.002-07:00

As someone who like both Anime and Batman I find this to very cool.

Imagine if....

2008-02-27T21:02:00.002-07:00

Rich didn't care for me all that much... instead of being a side note in part of his contest I would be the target of the contest.Let this be a lesson to you folks don't piss off a security geek.P.s. check out the contest since I think there are a couple of you out there that may have a story that qualifies.Rich's rather cool contest... at least I think so.Oh and for the record I did not call

Up in smoke?

2008-02-26T20:28:00.004-07:00

I don't often take a activist type stand on the old blog but I thought that this particular story merited some additional time and analysis above and beyond the usual mass of not caring that I usually imbue on to a article in the East Valley Tribune.http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/109768The cruxt of the article is this. In 2006 the voters of the state of Arizona passed a law that made it

Ramble on...

2008-02-26T20:02:00.002-07:00

Must be a presidential election year... sure as the tides change, the moon has an eclipse, and our country goes into the bowels of a of yet another election cycle I look up from whatever the hell it is that I'm doing and go... "shit I'm tired of how I've been blogging for the last 4 years I need to change some things up."So if you've been wondering where the hell I've been at for the last six

Beyond tunnel vision.... like shadows into the light

2008-02-10T20:23:00.000-07:00

If your a new reader you've probally never read my reasons to get a TG-WoW do yourself a favor and go read that post right now. For the rest of you who continue to not listen to my advice I don't want to hear any whining. You know who you are.The weather has been excpitonally warm this weekend and as a direct result I've been spending a fair amount of time in the backyard. This has led me to a

In our continuing series....

2008-02-10T20:07:00.001-07:00

Our continuing series of things that are wrong with the world today....First up I present the "Fox Sports Football Robot".I don't need to go further, the grass skirt should be all that you need.Just a whole diffrent level of evil... and the back label actually said "Made with the same high quality ingredients as our beers". Just what the world needs tasteless BBQ sauce.For the record the missing

I believe in miracles....

2008-02-02T20:09:00.000-07:00

I believe in Eli Manning and the New York Giants, they can and will beat the Patriots in the Super Bowl. What gives me this confidence and insight? I'm a Cardinals Fan! We had a not losing season this year therefor the NFC team in the Super Bowl must win when playing in a NFC teams home field! If nothing else I do feel that the Patriots should be taken down a rung or two on the old totem

What not to get for your babies crib

2008-01-19T11:47:00.001-07:00

This is for all the pregnant friends who are from arizona and now live someplace else.

I think I have a new favorite game reviewer....

2008-01-16T19:00:00.000-07:00

Even if you don't like gaming (eve/cody/brandi/scott/everybody else) you can apperciate this guy.

The one with alot of words...

2008-01-15T20:19:00.000-07:00

No I haven't been watching friends... there is no gratitous nudity in that show. And I'm on a Led Zepplin kick so it's kind of hard to use a line from one of their songs.Why?Because there are 3 other posts in the last 4 years with some sort of Led Zepplin refrence. Ok here's a game for you, find two of the three titles with lines from Led Zepplin songs and you will win dinner on me... and when

On how many levels?

2008-01-15T11:41:00.000-07:00

is this wrong?

With his mind he says.... "NO MORE"

2008-01-06T20:14:00.000-07:00

Hmmm I guess I should explain my title this evening. I'm listening to music as I often do when I write. And in the case of this evening I happen to be listening to a playlist I call "Seattle Sounds" which if you can't figure out from the title contains mainly music from Seattle like Pearl Jam. So when I start writing I write the line that is playing when I open the page... and in this case it

Don't you trip like I do?

2008-01-01T20:12:00.000-07:00

You know I really need to do something about all of this crap on my floors and all of the tripping that then follows the crap around. It's bad enough I'm tripping lord forbid the roomba trip over itself...Oh yeah I got what could only be called two of the most throughly awesome xmas gifts one being a 30 pack of Coors light (individually wrapped (thanks Scott)) and a Roomba (Thanks Grandpa,

Miracles...

2007-12-30T18:15:00.001-07:00

8 and 8 on the year! I think it's going to be a good season next year.

Merry Christmas from Kingman Arizona

2007-12-24T15:11:00.000-07:00

A public service and christmas message all in one...

2007-12-23T08:56:00.000-07:00

Got kids? Going to be having kids? Have a couple of 20 somethings that hang out like they were your kids? You need to read the following article on Wired. Merry Christmas / Festivus for the rest of us!

A message....

2007-12-18T20:50:00.000-07:00

Not directed at anyone person in particular... mostly... don't think these messages are for you? Print out this blog post and write in your name, instant personal message from Tom! Hey ___________ I picked up the new TOOL DVD today... I basically paid $10 for a 8 minute video and a 45 minute documentary. Yet I don't feel ripped off! You should pick it up or borrow it next time your in my neck

What was that scar? Situated from afar....

2007-12-15T21:21:00.000-07:00

So I upgraded to Leopard the day it came out on my Mac. Yeah I know I'm adventurous I also downgraded to Vista on the same day. In the almost 7 weeks and change I've been very happy with Leopard as compared to Vista. I have had one gripe though, the performance is not what I was expecting Leopard has been kind of chunky at times for me. I chalked this up to the fact that I did a upgrade

Where I begin to question...

2007-12-04T20:32:00.000-07:00

My sanity or the sanity of my coworkers....This was the first email I opened at work this morning.....----------------------------From: NathanTo: Andrea; Brad; Sherpa; Greg; Jim; John; Scott; TomCC: VictoriaSubject: I got elfedDate: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 23:35:42 -0700Hey, I just made a total elf of myself. Check it out by clicking the link below. http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1157868405 ------------

A trip down analytical lane....

2007-11-21T19:06:00.000-07:00

Back when I did this blog on Geocities while using Frontpage I would from time to talk about various stats regarding the blog... As I go back and read those entries I pretty much deride the one or two "dirty mac users" out there and was pleading with them to change operating systems. My how times change. I stopped doing that kind of entry because I lacked a tool in blogger to measure traffic.

Many times I've wondered how much there is to know...

2007-11-18T21:16:00.000-07:00

In France the "Full Time" work week is 32 hours.... that means that the average French man has a 3 day weekend every week. When one is spolied like that I think they may lose sight of just how great a 3 day weekend truly is. I'm pretty sure that is why we Americans like to pick on the French so much. All I know is I get 3 guranteed 3 day weekends a year. I may take a day off on my birthday

And now another word from a really good bottle of scotch.

2007-11-16T20:23:00.000-07:00

So the writers strike, it starting to suck for me... I'm lacking my John Stewart fix. I mean I'm lacking my John Stewart fix to the point that I'm actually watching CNN. It's kind of weird to watch the news and not have a montage of some sort pop up where people are saying things that are 180 degree's from what they were just saying. So this distinct lack of John Stewart pushed me over the

Where were you?

2007-11-14T21:30:00.000-07:00

So 2.5 years ago I went on a little rant about how downloading TV shows would be the savior of television and gave an example using Star Trek:Enterprise. The things I talked about were merely the logical extensions of a business model that had become wildly popular in the music arena (i.e. tv shows via iTunes)So after 2 years of itunes goodness of tv shows how many have I downloaded? A total

And with out of the ashes rose a "Pegasus"

2007-10-28T21:25:00.000-07:00

So when I got home from hunting I came home to a desktop rig that would not turn on, after 3 hours of dicking with it I still couldn't get it to post. This is the 5th time this year it's done something like this to me and 3rd time since August.So I did what any sane normal person would do, I ordered the parts for a new PC.So 3 days and a bit of money later I now have a desktop rig and laptop rig

Pay no attention to the Moose, the Squirell, or the Wapiti

2007-10-28T21:10:00.000-07:00

As is tradition for me since I've moved to blogger I take the month of October "Mostly off" to do whatever it is the fuck that I do when I'm not working.This year has been no different. From the 10 year high school reunion to a successfull elk hunt to spending money like I have a endless supply (which for the record I don't... I get paid next week, two weeks after that I should be good though).

Peace in the pasture my ass...

2007-10-09T21:01:00.000-07:00

Swung by the grocery store this evening on the way home... had to pick up a few essentials you know beer, milk, more beer. So I'm wandering through Safeway towards the milk and I go for the half gallon of organic that I always buy since I'm trying to healthy and the experation date is 11/18/2007....5 weeks from now? Wow what is this some sort of super organic milk? I start checking, all of

Angry Tooth... you may meet your end.

2007-10-07T19:26:00.000-07:00

I work in a hospital you would think that I take pretty good care of myself...yeah right...Take for example my jaw, a few weeks back I started having some pain on one side of my jaw for no real reason. I ignored it for about three weeks. Why did I ignore for three weeks? Because I'm tough like that and I really dislike going to the Dr's office. I have more important things to then sit in a

Blackhole sun, won't you come?

2007-09-30T21:09:00.000-07:00

Soundgarden was a great band, but you really have to wonder about what kinds of drugs they were on. You know between the lyrics and the Iron Butterfly esque guitar solos, I would be willing to bet it was a great live show. As all of 3.2957838 (<-- almost to 3.3 loyal readers!) know in addition to thinking that Soundgarden was the best band to come out of Seattle in the 90's I'm a pretty big

Really?

2007-09-23T08:42:00.000-07:00

You find the most interesting things on Wikipedia... I have to say that I am a bit surprised by this...--------------------------------------The Packers' fan base is famously dedicated: regardless of the team's performance, every Packers game at Lambeau Field has been sold out since 1960.[citation needed] Despite the Packers having one of the smallest TV markets, the Packers have developed one of

It's a battering ram..... OYE OYE OYE

2007-09-20T20:45:00.000-07:00

Ok so 88 degrees is a bit much to be sitting out on the back porch and type, at least it's not as cheesy as 98 degrees. Sorry bad boy band pun, bad blogger bad!Every now and again I like to reflect on where I've been and what I've done. And if your a regular reader you know that those two things main consist of drinking beer and consternating myself about Linux. So I thought I would take a

Heaven Beside You...

2007-09-11T22:12:00.000-07:00

Whoo Hoo!!http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2007/09/11/free-iphone-unlock-supposedly-pendingNow the only thing standing between me and a iPhone is a lack of storage and a pesky contract on a cell carrier that actually works well for me.

And they gave no quarter...

2007-09-09T21:22:00.000-07:00

A few observations from laying on my couch all weekend due some weird combination of what I think is a ear infection and a head cold... I think they are related but I'm not totally for sure, it would be a first for me if they were.- Dennis Green has been cropped into those Coors Light commercials hawking 24 packs of Coors Light with tickets to the Super Bowl. I find this to be a unique choice to

Someone to Belive in...

2007-09-04T22:48:00.000-07:00

If you do nothing else useful with your day read this link and understand what is happening to us as a society and what we must do to protect ourselves from ourselves.http://newsite.michaelrighi.com/2007/09/01/arrested-at-circuit-city/blatantly stolen from Cody...

Email Silliness...

2007-08-29T17:54:00.000-07:00

Got a couple of email's that I had to share;First up Greg and his adventures with fast food...From: GregTo: Tom; Nathan; James; Scott; Victoria; Keith; EricCc: 'Tuffelmire'Subject: McDonalds Southwest Chicken Sandwich I had the same experience today.......Had to surf today to make sure my McDonalds Combo #5 was correct for $5.06 http://burningbuilding.blogspot.com/2007/06/

Keynote from PAX

2007-08-27T21:50:00.001-07:00

IF your a gamer, go download this recording from PAX 2007http://wilwheaton.typepad.com/wwdnbackup/2007/08/pax-ftw.htmlYou can thank me later ;)Update... It seems someone forgot to make it a link... and I know how lazy you damn dirty gamers are.

Pegasus revisited....

2007-08-25T17:47:00.000-07:00

3 months of MAC Book Pro bliss and I have to say I'm not regretting my purchase one bit. Dual booting with Win XP and the MAC OS is nothing short of the best of both worlds. Granted I think my total time in Windows is something like 6 hours while not playing "Supreme Commander" other then that it is all Mac all the time. I would even go so far as to call the Mac my primary computer. However

Intersting....

2007-08-15T21:41:00.001-07:00

He's not that stupid....

Return of Furbee...

2007-08-12T20:38:00.000-07:00

I saw "Furbee" on TV this evening, so between that and the sudden rush of football games one can only assume that football season is on us yet again.So it is now only a few weeks until the Cardinals march onto the field and school their opponet of the week in the ways of the bird... for the bird is the word.Yes here is to the hopes of entire group of maybe twenty people that the Cardinals will be

Freedom of Choice is what you've got...

2007-08-10T21:40:00.000-07:00

Checking the old Google analytics for the blog the other night I found the following entry for properties of network visitorsI don't know which I should more worried about... that the "man" has read this 3 times in the last month or that 2 of the larger healthcare companies in North America are stalking me.I'm probably on a no fly list now...

Oh no not me...

2007-08-09T20:27:00.000-07:00

It's August....I hate August...I hate August more then I hate any other time of year.....All of the good pod casts are on vacation and putting up repeats....Geek Brief with Cali Lewis, Ask a Ninja, and Battlestar Galactica (granted it's been off line for a couple of months now and won't start until the 4 season picks up in the new year)Comics are on "hiatus" damn you non-sequitorFootball is in

Drool.....

2007-08-05T00:54:00.000-07:00

Sports cars and IT pro's a dangerous combo

As seen @ DEF CON15

2007-08-04T19:01:00.001-07:00

Where do I sign up and is it verizon compatible?

8 months later....

2007-07-28T18:01:00.001-07:00

They are now making displays out of PS3's still can't find a Wii to save your life though

A thousand diamonds strewn across the blue blanket...

2007-07-22T20:42:00.000-07:00

More back porch blogging.... it's only 95 according to the weather thingy in Firefox. This is the first time in a while when I've been outside and it's not been stiffeling or something like that. July in Phoenix... it's a wonder people live here this time of year. It's only 110+ during the day in the shade. When the wind blows it feels like a blast furance and lets not forget the generous

The 300(th)

2007-07-20T21:05:00.000-07:00

So if your a long time reader you may remember that when I was in the process of moving to Phoenix from Kingman 2 years ago I wrote about my then 14 year old cousin who came to visit. Well Matt returned to Kingman for another visit. I didn't get up there this time around but we had a conversation that made realize that the kid is going to be alright.-----------------------Matt:its the only way

How does one tell Flickr....

2007-07-20T20:29:00.001-07:00

That you only want to be friends?

Dream on....

2007-07-19T20:34:00.000-07:00

So in the last 3 weeks I've sat down four or five times to try and put some sort of drivel up for you my loving horde of 3.2 readers to look at, consume, digest, and throw back at me at "crap" it is the order of things here in this little corner of the interweb.So in the course of the last three weeks I've given you2 - posts about my personal ramblings on the iShit.1 - 4 year old singing German

Bike Like No One is Watching...

2007-07-17T20:06:00.000-07:00

I got this email today from a Uncle that has a flair for the writing and creative stuff. Since it involves neither computers or cell phones I thought it would be a nice change of pace and it also confirms that at least one member of the clan is quasi-normal.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Hi,A few pictures to share with the family about

Quotes from work...

2007-07-13T17:43:00.000-07:00

I don't talk about work much.... but here are some out of context quotes from this week that hopefully you too drop on your coworkers"We're saving lives here man, were not rolling out grass and planting trees""When your space shuttle is going 19,000 miles an hour and 1 inch off the launch pad, you best make sure your shit is working like it should""Dan read your monitor" (As Dan is trying to

Go Go iShit!

2007-07-07T19:55:00.000-07:00

Ok the iPhone has been out for a week now and every technology pundit with a computer and internet connection has given their $.02. Time for me to give my $1.25 about their $.02.There is no way to make a technology pundit happy... they always find some flaw with the item in question that will then be repeated by every half twit out there (I would have used more colorful language but this

Never thought to question why.....

2007-07-05T22:16:00.000-07:00

Web 2.0 is a wonderful thing.... it has brought us many sitesmyspace...facebook...gmail....you tube...Ah youtube the first place to look for bad video's or once upon a wonderful time to find clips from the daily show. Sadly I have been reduced to watching the daily show on my DVR.A unfortunate side effect of you tube type technology coupled with cell phones that take video and cheap digital

Du Hast -- As done by a 3 year old

2007-06-25T21:34:00.001-07:00

Brandi and Clint should be proud!

Chuck waits... You wait...

2007-06-24T17:10:00.000-07:00

A week into the whole Mac transition and it's been way more painless then I thought. I've had more consternation about what to do with my music and photo's more then anything else. (two copies at the moment). It has not been all smooth sailing I have run into issues getting some web apps work. Don't worry it's all related to my work and that is why Steve Jobs gave us BootCamp. Of course what

Just not right...

2007-06-24T11:58:00.001-07:00

Any one else slighty disturbed by this?

Reflections in F.U.D. and you

2007-06-19T21:54:00.000-07:00

Being a I.T. guy from time to time I get asked by certain indviduals for help for things that fall outside of my normal day to day duties.I like to call these individuals Doctors.So I get a call today from a doctor who wants to use his shiny new MAC to work from home with... I feel his pain. I agree to help him. So as I'm talking to him I ask if he has made a boot camp partion for his MAC. You

And they called it the "Aluminum Falcon"??

2007-06-17T17:40:00.001-07:00

Simple pleasures in life for me really....Weekends on call that don't have many calls...Playing video games... seeing movies that any other time of the year wouldn't make 20 million make 57 million in a weekend.Selling a house and finally being back to one house payment... (<--- honestly how often does that happen?)Yes it's been a good weekend. Of course the first thing I did when I sold the

They call it fire water...

2007-06-08T17:57:00.001-07:00

2007-06-08T17:14:00.001-07:00

Providence math

2007-06-07T18:37:00.001-07:00

For the record....My PACS Vendor + Open Bar = Tom out of shell...Thank you and good night I will be out of my shell again the second tuesday of next week.

Providence Dogs

2007-06-03T21:35:00.000-07:00

Hmmm time to get ready for the trip to Providence for my confrence....15 Episodes of Star Trek DS9 ripped from DVD and ready to be transferred to laptop?Check!Clothes washed and to a point of being able to be packed?Check!Cell phone updated with latest PRL?Check!Requisite freak out and anxiety attack over every little detail that is not with in my control?Check and still in progress!yep I'm

Like Suicide (Acoustic Version)

2007-05-30T20:14:00.000-07:00

I'm a pretty big Soundgarden fan. Now I'm not the worlds greatest Soundgarden fan, I'm not a "back in the day before they blew up Soundgarden fan", I'm not "crazy about Chris Cornell like some people I know are about Kurt Cobain Soundgarden fan"I'm just a pretty big Soundgarden fan. To the point that of the 90's rock bands that came from Seattle Soundgarden is my favorite of these bands (though

It's not that often....

2007-05-28T21:23:00.001-07:00

That I can say the following and truly mean it...Can someone please tell me how I got this thing?I honestly can't remember what the hell I did to get it.

Holy crap

2007-05-22T19:00:00.000-07:00

It's only been 7 months and I finally found one on the shelf!

Just sad...

2007-05-20T21:08:00.000-07:00

In the previous post I mentioned the age of "35" once upon a time that number was "30"It's truly a sad day.

"Premium" cable shows and you...

2007-05-20T20:35:00.000-07:00

Fucking Cody....Fucking Little Brother....It's not often that friends inspire ire in me, when they do it is worthy of blogging. The last person who got this kind of treatment was Curtis with SEVEN SEASONS OF STARGATE!!Actually I can't blame Cody all he did was say how much he liked "Entourage" which is even more impressive because Cody gave up TV a year ago. Which leads me to thing that Cody

While Watching the Suns...

2007-05-16T20:30:00.000-07:00

Things of note...1. Large number of Suns fans wearing nose band aids and head protection in support of the Suns.2. The crowd booing in surrond sound every time the spurs get the ball. 3. Pointing out to my brother how good the game looks in HD. GO SUNS!

States of mind....

2007-05-14T21:02:00.000-07:00

So every now and again I hit a point where things just move along swimmingly and I don't have anything that really inspires me to write. I call these events "life" events with in my "life" as of late drive me to write. You know the occasional trip to wal-mart that generally sets me off in more ways then you can imagine. Why do I keep going there when I have so many choices available to me that

Lights Make Monkey Happy....

2007-05-07T21:54:00.000-07:00

Alright here is the setup.... When I was in Kingman I had a workstation light that I kept on the top of my monitor to illuminate my desk. Why did I have this you ask? Simple there was no light in the room. It was a nifty Eclipse Computer Light that I picked up from Thinkgeek and damn did that thing rock. Sadly I had to retire it to my desk instead of monitor in 2004 after I picked up my

Obligatory Millionaire Joke....

2007-05-03T08:33:00.001-07:00

What do you call a bunch fo Millionaire's watching the Suns and Spurs? THE L.A. LAKERS!!Sorry I couldn't resist. GO SUNS!

Once again....

2007-04-29T18:45:00.000-07:00

It's that time of year.....GO SUNS!!!!1111!!!!ONe11111!

Thanks Beth!

2007-04-26T07:55:00.001-07:00

Thanks to Beth who has been hunting for a Wii for Mii for several months now! Condolences to Mr. Smith who wasn't at lunch yesterday and couldn't speak up for it

Is that...

2007-04-24T17:49:00.000-07:00

A SQL pocket guide in your pants or are you just happy to see me?

Tales from the punch bowl... the punch bowl that is my back porch.

2007-04-19T20:02:00.000-07:00

Favorite thing about living in Phoenix? The wind doesn't blow 100% of the time.Yes I know, thats pretty lame. Where I'm from though the wind never stops blowing ever... it's always windy. Here it actually dies at night, to the point where you can sit on your back porch with a beer your work pager (because your on call this week and your a good doobie) and a laptop and just start writing.