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300 Tagline for the movie posters: This has to be the best movie involving half-naked [gay] men I’ve seen all year. Okay, I’m a history buff, and I’ve reviewed Other works about Thermopylae before. In many ways the Pressfield book (and, I’m assuming, Frank Miller’s graphic novels) were better interpretations of Thermopylae, but the movie was interesting. Some advisories: - Yes, it’s that gory. It’s about a battle waged hand-to-hand over three days, and it gives you precious little time to forget that. It doesn’t exactly glorify battle, but it does remind us that modern warfare is much more antiseptic than its ancient forebear. ...

Oh, to be a fly on THAT wall. Unless, of course, … Jeff Roberts - Mar 5, 2007 Oh, to be a fly on THAT wall. Unless, of course, I’m the empty shell.

Duke’s OUT of the tournament George finally hit that I had a snappy comeback. For once. Felt good.

Car rumps, that is :-) Nissan is famous for screwing-up the back-end of every car they make, producing bulbous, unattractive forms that destroy the tidy lines of the car. Seems to me they’re always trying to add ‘visual excitement’ (a Pontiac term!) to the cars. Well, I LOVE the new Altima. The back end had a muscular look, very reminiscent of a G35, skyline, or a 350z. Pictures really don’t do it justice: The curve from the C pillar is organic, down through the tail lights. It reminds me of the way Ferrari finishes-off its great GT cars like the 456GT. ...

But have you checked out the gluteus on the Maxima… Jeff Roberts - Mar 3, 2007 But have you checked out the gluteus on the Maximas? :-) one word: minivan.

Snow Crash Consumed this book this weekend, and it was a great mind-F***, similar to the first time you watch “The Matrix”. Where to begin? The central character, Hiro Protagonist (You have to admire a man with the stones to call his protagonist Mr. Protagonist!), lives in a dystopian future overrun by corporations, in which the world is split in two–Reality is, well, the real world, and the Metaverse is the hipper virtual world where everyone has avatars and can interact via being ‘Goggled-in’. ...

My blog is worth $2,822.70. How much is your blog worth?

jjetsam.wordpress.com: $2,258.16 jeffingtown.bl… Jeff Roberts - Mar 6, 2007 jjetsam.wordpress.com: $2,258.16 jeffingtown.blogspot.com: $6,209.94

Article Understand, I don’t like Spring all that much. For a ’lightweight’ framework, it’s awfully heavy on the stuff you need to ship to have an ‘app’ (or at least, it seems that way to me). Still, this guy’s critiques are just…weak! Thoughts: On Configuration “Setter injection is bad”. Yeah, it’s bad. It allows you to create objects in an invalid state, and causes all sorts of runtime state checking of what (often) is an immutable or stateless Object. Still, all recent versions of Spring have allowed us to use constructor injection. ...

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I KNOW THAT GUY!!! CRAP WHAT IS HIS NAME?! no n… Whitney - Mar 4, 2007 I KNOW THAT GUY!!! CRAP WHAT IS HIS NAME?! no not him….the other one….in the red shirt….I think I went to Highview with him….or maybe Southeast….crap! Oh, wait, we’d have to… Jeff Roberts - Mar 4, 2007 ...

Only two 10 pound objects can hold a room of adults hostage: Plastic explosives or a crying baby.

Well, after yesterday’s Miniature global stock market meltdown, looks like my options sale won’t go forward after all. Something about chickens, counting, and hatcheries. :) Lesson learned: When God smacks you upside the head and says “SELL AT 70”, listen.

Pediatricians would seem to be just like veterinarians: Their patients can’t communicate with them to tell them where it hurts. Maria’s developed a new trick–caterwauling between 6 and 8 pm. My impression of her thoughts: Ah, that was a great feeding…mmmm….look at that twirly thing up there. I’m so hap–WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH! WHAT THE FREAK IS THAT?!!! WHY IN THE WORLD DOES MY BOTTOM HURT! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA MAKEITSTOPMAKITSTOPSTOPSTOPSTOPWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! (add 10 mins of that) ...

ROFL. I am so freakin slap happy. … Whitney - Feb 2, 2007 ROFL. I am so freakin slap happy. looks like you are too.

link [Is it wrong…]…….that I have to mention to my husband that “B-double E-double R-U-N, beer run” is NOT an appropriate lullaby?b :-) Lyrics!

It’s Friday, I’m a new dad, the coffee has kicked in, I solved an issue for Porsche yesterday, and it’s sunny outside. My Teleconference at 7am was cancelled today. Spring isn’t far away, and the mercury hit 50 yesterday for the first time in 6 weeks of dull winter. My Dad called, and for the first time in awhile, I didn’t vent at him for 15 solid minutes about being tired, fed-up, and depressed. ...

After a week of exposure, I can’t get the smell of poopy diapers out of my nostrils. I think it’s scent memory.

Well, looks like most of my team at work has my blog address now. :-) Oh well.

Once again, I am sorry. How many hours of free ba… Jeff Roberts - Feb 1, 2007 Once again, I am sorry. How many hours of free babysitting do I owe you?? :-) (Off I go to write flattering posts about each member of your team…)