Wow, I’m glad I’m not the only one who makes puddl…

Jeff Roberts - Apr 1, 2007

Wow, I’m glad I’m not the only one who makes puddles on the driveway!

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YES!!!!!!!!! I LOVE IT!!!

Whitney - Apr 0, 2007

YES!!!!!!!!! I LOVE IT!!!

Sometimes, you just take a step…you don’t know if it’s the right one, and there’s really no way TO know.

Next week should be interesting, to say the least.

How mysterious…I’ll put you down for an “unspoke…

Jeff Roberts - Apr 0, 2007

How mysterious…I’ll put you down for an “unspoken” on my prayer list.

:-)

Dear __________,

We’re thrilled you’ll be taking part in the Susan G. Komen for the Cure drive.

Your reservation for this worthwhile cause has been confirmed for the following date:

May 8, 2007

Don Jacobs BMW

Hehe…

How is it possible that I adored School Of Rock and liked Cheaper By the Dozen and yet, I hated Daddy Day Care? Some movies even alcohol can’t save.

Maybe I just wasn’t in the mood for formulaic “family” comedy…I don’t know. There were many funny moments, but they lay at the periphery–Steve Zahn’s Marvin was a real treat as the Star Trek geek that “gets” kids and their thought patterns, and the scene where Phil’s traumatized by changing diapers was awesome. Also the central theme of the movie is awesome–do work that’s fulfilling, not what’s lucrative.

_
Black.
Black like my mood.
Black, the absence of color, yet hot, alive.
Liquid black.
It gives awareness, replacing stupor with its flowing life.
It owns my thoughts.
_

…is a good one :-)

There’s a very vocal minority who read my blog just for the “What’s broken on his car today?” aspect. Not to disappoint: I came out of the office last Friday to see not only the usual weird-piece-hanging-down, but a whole buncha things hanging down. Looked under the car and it looked like the whole heat shield was loose.

“Not a problem”, I thought. Bolt probably fell out or rusted through. Should be simple enough to fix.

Arr arr arr!

Jeff Roberts - Apr 2, 2007

Arr arr arr!

Thank you for smoking is (nearly) pure satire, similar to the Tim Robbins pic Bob Roberts. It pokes fun at Big Tobacco (natch), but mainly, it skewers our victimization culture of poor education and worse parenting.

It’s oddly flat, in the same way I found Bob Roberts flat–the central character is an anti-hero, so as the action ‘rises’, I found myself more depressed–we are that dumb as a nation. Yes, we do fall for straight lines like that. Yes, we’re eager to believe anyone who’ll tell us that the road to Nirvana is smoking a pack of cigarettes per day, chugging Coca-Cola, downing three meals of McDonalds, watching 10 hours of TV, and playing PS3 the remaining 12 hours of our impotent (in both senses) existence.

Underworld

Meh.

Take Blade, remove the throbbing soundtrack, satisfying action sequences, suspension of disbelief, and credible (!) backstory, add Kate Beckinsdale in a catsuit.

You have KATE BECKINSDALE in a CATSUIT for TWO HOURS! How the freak do you make a movie this bad?

(That title sounds vaguely Latin…)

Let me be as clear as possible: Imus a curmudgeon, a former coke-fiend who disdains ALL humanity. He’s mean. He’s ugly.

He’s also intelligent, incisive, and provocative, in a way that brain-dead Howard Stern CAN NEVER BE. Not that I’ve not laughed at some random Howard Stern bits that I’m too ashamed of to post on a blog my mother reads. (Google ‘Sybian’ and ‘Howard Stern’ if you’re feeling particularly raunchy)

Yeah, mountain out of molehill.

What he sai… Jeff Roberts - Apr 1, 2007

Yeah, mountain out of molehill.

What he said wasn’t good, but:

- If ANY person of color had been a guest on the show and said it instead, no story.

- If I called into the show (is it even a call-in show?) and he called me a bible-thumping republitard, no story. (This is where someone jumps in and says I can change my religion or political affiliation)

(I’m too tired to sleep, so here goes)

At 2am today, my wife decided to void the contents of her stomach all over the sheet, thanks to some stomach bug. As said contents were large, recognizable quantities of spaghetti, the resulting smell and stain is left to the reader to imagine.

So, from 2 to 5 am, I cleaned that up, did laundry, and supported my wife as she retched uncontrollably, unable to keep even Gatorade down. Then I slept until 7ish, when I had to feed my daughter, who I’d just fed at 2 and 5 am.

Dude, that’s rough. Flu or food? Days like that ma…

Jeff Roberts - Apr 3, 2007

Dude, that’s rough. Flu or food? Days like that make me feel inadequate, too.

MINIs set record

'Cause we got a mighty convoy  
Rockin' through the night  
Yeah, we got a mighty convoy  
Ain't she a beautiful sight  
C'mon and join our Convoy  
Ain't nothin' gonna get in our way  
We gonna roll this MINI convoy  
'Cross the USA  
Convoy  
Convoy  

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The Supreme Court has charged the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with protecting us from ourselves, limiting the Carbon Dioxide (CO2) emissions from sources like power plants, cars and trucks, and those methane factories known as cattle.

What does this mean in real terms? More expensive everything. Most of the power produced in this country is from fossil fuels, and cleaning these plants and/or implementing ‘cleaner’ solutions. Energy costs like that will ripple through our economy from top to bottom. Costs of production and OpEx for every company will rise.

I’ve been through many bad meetings at LXK, but my 3 o’clock yesterday ranks right up there as one of the worst. Ingredients

* Meeting shouldn’t have happened. It’s a meeting that should’ve been a whiteboarding session between me and one other guy.
* Six people, each with a slightly different agenda.
* No common manager, hence no one to make a decision if there’s a conflict.

Anyway, so it’s a meeting past my threshold of exhaustion (I suck at meetings after 3pm…it’s too late in the day and my brain is tapioca.).

Let me sum this up: It’s just like the book. The book makes no sense; neither does the movie. It’s unwatchable nonsense most of the time.

The whole point of the book is to catch Douglas Adams’s quotes and sideline commentary.

Only redeeming part: My favorite Elf (Zoe Deschanel) is trillian: