Requiem for Alex Kingston, who’s leaving ER after 7 seasons. She’s never been one of my favorite characters, but seems she’s leaving the show on bad terms, the suits at NBC deciding her character was getting too old and dowdy to attract the 18-35 demographic. So now, we have the new rock-star wannabe resident. Lovely.
Man, the truck has been making a dent in my pocketbook here lately: First, a new set of tires (see below) that I got installed today at Ashley’s wheel and brake. I had them investigate a noise in the steering. Turns out, I had a bad inner tie rod on the right side, so there’s more moolah. Still, the paint’s nice and shiny, and it’s nice for tooling around in, plus there’s just something intoxicating about a V-8.
Can it be possible that BOSTON will pull it out against the yankees? As I type this, it’s the top of the 9th, one out, and runners at the corners for Boston, with the Sox aheadd 9-3. Aside from a slip in the 7th by Pedro Martinez, Boston has been flawless. Can it be?
Ronin This movie is alot of flash for not much substance, but it’s watchable, with Robert DeNiro doing his best Sean Penn impersonation and statuesque eye candy from Natascha McElhone. The car chases are incredible, and make a decent spy thriller exceptional. By the end, nothing seems resolved, save many dead, stereotype characters.
Bullitt This Steve McQueen vehicle (pardon the pun) from 1968 is a real bore, featuring an amazing, non-sequitor car chase between a Mustang with a 390 Big Block V-8 and a mean, black Dodge Charger with a big-block 440 V-8. Minus this scene, the movie is unwatchable: Slow, with under-developed characters, the film meanders from one scene to the next, with little flow. Oh, and the Dodge manages to lose five hubcaps during the chase scene. ...
Bill, Bill, Bill-san. Glad to see you have such interesting taste in post cards :-)
Something’s up: All of first line managers in my department are here at 8am, sharp. I smell presentation to the department head :D I finally did get some sleep last night, if only 4 hours or so.
As seems to be the norm these days, it’s way too late, and I’m way too awake. Somehow in my last two weeks, I’ve managed to upset my circadian rhythms so that I’m groggy every day at 2pm, and awake each night very late. I’ve always joked that I’ve lived with sleep debt since my Sophomore year in college (didn’t sleep for 7 months straight, really), and the results are there–I can fall asleep easily within a minute of going to bed. Well, up until the last two weeks anyway. ...
MEAN!
Oh my….never seen such a funny, profane, pissed-off squirrel
Latest Gossip: Chris Brown is a full-time minster of worship and students at broadway baptist church in lexington.
Geeze…this is a what’s known as a slow news day: Asexuality: It’s not just for amoebas anymore
Study links gene to homosexuality Intellectually, the article is attractive. Gay men inherit a gene that in women causes fruitfulness and in men causes fruitiness. Does explain the prevalence of homosexuality throughout history, when, logically, such men cannot reproduce and pass-on their genes. Still, I’d argue there’s much more nurture than nature at work here. The distribution of homo/heterosexual men within a given society varies much too widely: In ancient Greece, nearly every wealthy man was wholly or partly homosexual; it was a societal norm. Unless all of their mothers were carrying this ‘fruitful’ gene, such a skewed distribution points towards learned behavior to me. ...
Watching the debate tonight: “The solution to all our problems is getting people retrained for the jobs of the 21st century.” -- George Bush You know what? Not everyone needs to be a programmer, or a database administrator, or a .com CEO. Not everyone needs a college diploma. Forcing adults to endure another 4 years of school just for the sake of getting an entry-level job belittles both those unfortunate students and the for-pay institutions that must digest them. ...
Well, after sliding SIDEWAYS onto the interstate yesterday in the rain, I have a new set of Yokohama Geolandar’s in 245/75R16 headed for Ashley’s Wheel and Brake. should be there either friday or early this coming week.
Some days you slack, some days you procrastinate. And then, there’s today: [ Which OS are You?](http://bbspot.com/News/2003/01/os_quiz.php)
Idyllic weekend spent up in Louisville, relaxing away from the hustle and bustle of life. Lovely :) Watched quite a few movies: The Girl Next Door Good, not great flick. All the players are B-list, aside from Elisha Cuthbert, but the story’s heartwarming and somewhat interesting. It’s an unoriginal rip-off of “Risky Business” in many ways. Porky’s Ah, the infamous Porky’s, the movie that reminds us why we’re really glad we’re not horny teenagers in 1950’s Florida. There is ONE scene that makes this movie watchable: The hilarious sex scene with a young Kim Catrall as Miss “Lassie” Honeywell. Aside from that, this is a diffuse, pointless, anacrhonistic period piece that tries to string together a series of moneyshot vingnettes (“Girls in the shower”, “Having Honeywell in the morning”, “Boys at the whorehouse”, “I’m just a Jew”) with the merest hint of a unifying thread. It commits the only unforgivable sin of the teen sex romp–It’s BORING! ...
Random “Apprentice” complaint: Okay, so you set-up the only woman with a molecule of leadership skill to fail, then you FIRE HER!? Disgusting.
Props to William Randall, Esq. ( a.k.a. Bill-san ) for an awesome postcard with a cool picture of the Buddha of Todaiji Temple in Nara, Japan.
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