Better dumb and happy

Better dumb and happy than, smart and without any friends. Better cute and better loud, better join up with the crowd. -Boingo “Change”

I should be working on work stuff but it can wait and I’m staying here till I finish it anyways. I’ve been thinking about Leia. We’ve settled into each others lives with an ease that contradicts the unanswered questions in my thoughts.

I’m not the most sociable person in the world. I’m not very good at talking to people I don’t know anything about, unless it’s a tête-à-tête thing. I feel uncomfortable doing things with groups of people. I think part of it is that I feel this responsibility to myself to always be doing something that matters, or contemplating my guilt when I’m not. I feel like having a girlfriend means more frivolous social obligations. Before I felt more justified in being a loner at home. Now I feel I’m holding her back if I don’t try and meet social obligations. I also mildly chastise myself for not trying new things, and so I follow through on most social obligations.

I found the vending machine

I found the vending machine at work that carries Mountain Dew and Pepsi products! I don’t think a word exists to capture the invigoration and completeness this brings to my work life. O frabjous day, calloo, callay!

I find it really cool

I find it really cool that since I’ve been alive new words have been invented in the English language. Beeper, VCR, laser printer, camcorder and cell phone have all come into existence since the 1970s. Word Formation has got to be one of the most fascinating aspects of linguistics. I wish I understood human languages as well as I understand computer languages so I could program people to do the things I want.

Anchoring the World News Tonight

Anchoring the World News Tonight newscast Monday night from Dallas, where he participated in a local forum on TV news over the weekend, Peter Jennings showed a clip of an interview with a fan at Sunday’s Cowboys football game. “Can you tell me how the mood is in Dallas these days?” Jennings asked. “Nobody likes you,” the man responded, claiming that the media’s reporting on the war on terrorism was unpatriotic. Jennings commented: “Our conversation then got pretty drained away. But I wonder how he might have felt if we’d sat down and had a beer. My sense was that he was so angry about life that it might not have made any difference. But it would have been interesting to try.”

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I modified Blogchecker so that

I modified Blogchecker so that it would do a weblogs.com ping for those DFW Bloggers that participate in the weblogs.com listing. It sends a ping any time the site updates. If anyone wants their sites included on the weblogs.com list let me know what name you want it to use and I’ll setup blogchecker to send the pings for your site when it updates.

In the not so distant future I’ll have a web site up for people to manage all their information so you won’t have to email me, also you’ll be able to create your own custom blogchecker lists for incorporating into your site if you so wish.

Alright, with the Alabama reasonable

Alright, with the Alabama reasonable and prudent violation my arraignment is set for 12/5/01 and on that date I enter a plea of guilty or not. Then they set my trial date, which would most likely be in February or January according to the clerk. Since I must be present to enter my plea that means a trip back to sunny fields of Hillsboro, Alabama on 12/5 at 1pm. If I plead guilty it carries a $167 fine and is reported like a speeding ticket to insurance.

I've been wondering how to

I’ve been wondering how to automate the discovery of groups that people clump into while online. Here in the DFW area we have this DFW Blogs meta group. Inside that meta-group are several other groups. When I talk about groups I mean a collection of people who primarily read and comment on each other’s blogs. I’m reticent to give examples of groupage in the DFW Blogs arena as it’s based on my informal observations rather than real data. However, I’m sure most DFW blogger types have observed the groups that have formed.

Call me grumpy old man...I

Call me grumpy old man…I just sent this off to netflix.com:

What happened to the great selection of movies that Netflix used to have? Two years ago when I first started renting from Netflix the only reason I might not find a movie here is that the title wasn’t on DVD. Now I’m finding more and more movies that are available on DVD but I can’t rent them from Netflix. Case in point, a fairly mainstream movie like The Stunt Man (3 Oscar nominations) isn’t available. A recent theatrical release like The Sticky Fingers of Time, while available on DVD, is nowhere to be found in my searches on Netflix. As proof of Netflix’s original diversity I can still find titles like Salo or Arabian Nights but now they are unavailable for rental.

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"Dr. Meredith: A bit

“Dr. Meredith: A bit of advice…

Mitch: Oh, uh, thank you…

D: Always…no, no…never…forget forget to check your references.

M: Uh, ok, thank you. I’d better be going.

D: [to his wife] I think the young people enjoy it when I “get down” verbally, don’t you?”

This weekend I was the delighted recipient of a speeding ticket and a reasonable and prudent speed violation. I’ve never received two citations in one day but that doesn’t change the routine. I thought I would document my ticket fight for my personal edification and anyone else that’s curious.

Wow, one twenty dollar accessory

Wow, one twenty dollar accessory and I can listen to music off my iPod in my car through my Kenwood MP8017 receiver.

Listening pleasure: