My father loves dogs. So much, in fact, that he would raise them and take them to dog shows. And he would win a number of these shows, mostly local and regional, but still. I remember growing up as a kid, seeing all those trophies and ribbons and asking about the names of the various …
Tag: rant
Dec 04 2007
Comp Day
As promised from the previous weekend’s on-call mayhem, my boss allowed me to take one day off this week to sort of recuperate and do nothing. I, of course, did not hesitate to take him up on his offer and so I chose today to do that. I spent a majority of my day over …
Nov 20 2007
Bebop is Live
Toshiba finally shipped out my new laptop, and holy crap, is it huge. It’s like twice the height of my old one, because it blocks half my 19 inch flatscreen (which I sometimes use as my extended desktop when I need it). Also, they’re using a better version of TruBright, because I think folks on …
Nov 15 2007
Indicted don’t mean Convicted
So, Barry Bonds was indicted today. And if you thought that was a metric fuckton of links, I only gave you five of the five thousand out there. This was the story of the day on every major sports outlet, and I think the ten o’clock news led off with it tonight. My reaction can …
Nov 10 2007
Being Sick Sucks
One of my biggest pet peeves is being sick. Wednesday night, I was feeling fine, but then you sleep through the night and catch something. Thursday morning, I was sniffling, coughing, sneezing, and I had to pop some DayQuil to keep the symptoms at bay. I called in sick, because even though my symptoms were …
Nov 09 2007
Toshiba Update
Yesterday, I received a phone call from Toshiba Customer Relations regarding my laptop’s demise. For those of you that don’t know the story so far, feel free to go back and read by clicking on the link. Go ahead. I’ll wait. It did not take two business days like she promised me. It took two …
Nov 06 2007
Support the WGA!
The members of the Writers’ Guild of America are on strike until they get what’s owed to them and I support them in their attempt to bring this problem to light. While I will be sad that my favorite television programs are on hiatus (or using up what scripts were written prior to the strike), …
Nov 03 2007
Leaving on a Jet Plane…
So, I’ve decided to leave LiveJournal. This isn’t a joke. My last day will be November 23rd. It’s been a nice run since April 2002, about five years and six months of blogging. And, of course, I won’t forget the friends I’ve made through LJ. If you want to keep in touch, reply here and …
Oct 23 2007
Toshiba and Me
Okay, since a grand total of none of you read what I wrote, I guess I’ll move onto other topics. My laptop, hammerhead, died last night. I saw the warning signs of blue screens and other nonsense, so I offloaded any personal data I had on it and then did a full system recovery and …
Aug 13 2007
Big Mike’s Anime Festival
Every year in July, the San Francisco AIDS Foundation raises money through the AIDS Walk. Last year, my wife, and one of my best friends, , participated and raised about $1500+ between them for AIDS research. I thought this was a great cause and I have long donated money to AIDS research, personally. I think …
