Prime Mover

Tripp on FLICKR

2006-06-23T10:11:00.000-07:00

I just wanted to let everyone know, there are too many pics to post up on the blog, so I have created a flickr account for Tripp and other stuff. Seeya!
M³

Sleep Deprivation and More Pix

2006-05-15T10:18:00.000-07:00

I think that Melissa and I have slept a grand total of 12 hours since last Tuesday when we went to the hospital. Everyone is doing great, and Tripp is adjusting to life at ye' olde homestead.

We got home Saturday from the hospital about 2:30 in the afternoon and finally started to crash at about 1AM. I guess that you can only run on adrenaline for so long :) We're slowly getting caught up on sleep, I think that Melissa is snoring in the room as I type.

Anyway, here are a few more pictures of the kiddo...as always much more to come! M³

Tripp is here!!!

2006-05-11T10:02:00.000-07:00

Just home for a few minutes, but I wanted to get this up to share with everybody! Our son Michael Allen III (A.K.A. "Tripp") got here last night. We went into labour Tuesday night around 8ish, he at least waited until American Idol was over with :) Mel was in labour for almost 24 hours and ended up having a c-section after pushing for 30 minutes with no progress. But he arrived at 6:39PM CST and is just beautiful.

Both Melissa and I are very tired and are very proud of our boy! He's already the ladies man as all of the nurses are just falling over for him. Wait until he get's older, he's gonna be a heartbreaker. More to come so please keep checking back!

Please pass this link on to anyone I may have missed - We love ya all! M³

2006-03-20T13:06:00.000-08:00

PrimeMover is officailly on hiatus. Simply due to the fact that I am so f'ing busy and have no time to make any decent postings.

I will be making the occasional post if something important happens (like the birth of our son) so keep checking back.

Love ya'll and I really do miss doing this thing, just no time.

Peace, love and tacos,
PrimeMover

An annoyingly fun game

2006-03-01T10:05:00.000-08:00

Check out this game that I stumbled upon today at lunch...the point is to knock over all the dominos and smash the tomato. Simple, yet infuriating.

our first baby shower!

2006-02-23T07:13:00.000-08:00

Wow. Talk about a surreal thing. We had our first baby shower yesterday. My good friends at work threw it for us, and it was a great time. I guess the thing that was weird about it is that it finally hit me that we're so close to "Tripp" being here. Just kinda crazy. Here's some pix to commemorate, and I 'm sorry if I made zero sense with my grammar above, coffee hasn't kicked in yet.

A special thanks to Audra and Alex for the Boudreaux's Butt Paste!

Calgon, take me away!

2006-02-22T08:15:00.000-08:00

Busy as Hades on my end lately, really have alot on our collective plate right now. So there may not be a post for awhile. We have birthing class this evening, a baby shower this afternoon, have to start on the nursery this week and 3 major projects spinning right now at work, with 14 more in the pipeline.

BTW - Go Barcelona! Today is the Chelsea vs. Barcelona UEFA game. This may be the best game we see all year....

WHOOOOO-HOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

ice, ice baby...

2006-02-19T06:58:00.000-08:00

We're getting pretty stir crazy over here, been iced-in since friday evening and Melissa is about to kill. I'd try and get her out and go do something, but our street looks like the luge track. It's just a huge downhill sheet of ice. Pray for me. Red rum! Red rum!!!

So i'm up for a bit of a change to the old Prime Mover design, I think that the "fish" is a great look, but it's just not as practical as it should be. I'd like to add a few features that aren't a "disembodied" xbox live tracker that I will never use. Especially since my wife has all but forbidden me to get a next-gen gaming system until the baby turns 16 - sucks to grow up, no?

I'd like to know your thoughts on a redesign though. I'd really like to get my readership up and am thinking about some cool, non LRB.com, features. Sorry, LT, no "hot-computer chicks" drinking in the snow. Hmmm, maybe that's not so bad an idea after all - I'll take over the social blog scene in Little Rock...with complete sentences. MWAAAA-HA-HA-HA!

Speaking of babes, we've decided to go with a jungle theme for "Mikey the Third" and are starting the nursery as soon as the ice storm melts off. Found some cool stuff online, should be uber sweet when we're done too. We have our first baby shower this week and will finally have some stuff to start moving in.

Maybe more later today...off to watch curling (I was serious - I love it!).

I'd still hunt with him...

2006-02-17T06:47:00.000-08:00

Who else is excited....?

2006-02-13T13:16:00.000-08:00

I think a picture is worth a thousand words in this case...

Google = EVIL

2006-02-13T10:01:00.000-08:00

Google is really kinda scaring me these days with the Orwellian vibes. Check out the latest on Google Desktop from WIRED...

"According to a statement issued yesterday by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Google Desktop ain't what it seems. A new feature of the application now records the contents of your hard drive, storing actual copies of your files -- including Word documents, PDFs, and spreadsheets. Concern about the new "Search Across Computers" feature arises out of the possibility that making such files available to Google opens users up to severe invasion of privacy, not only from hackers, but from government surveillance as well."

What Geeks do with an empty Whisky bottle

2006-02-10T11:38:00.000-08:00

This is great...it's a computer...whooda thought? You want your own booze buddy you say? Well you are in luck, as you can get the instructions here.

Been awhile since a New Orleans post...

2006-02-05T10:01:00.000-08:00

My Mom and Dad sent me this great site. You really will not know what's up with it unless you are familliar with New Orleans, but if you are - it's frickin' hysterical.

Check out the Creole Tomato here.

I also ran across the Jedi Order Scooter Club of New Orleans' website. Who Knew I would get to post about my 2 favorite things in one blog? What a great world!

Living without a hernia...

2006-02-02T09:12:00.000-08:00

I decided to leave the bandage on for 1 more day, so unfortunately no pic today. If you are curious as to what it looks like, just scroll down - not much has changed.

I cannot imagine anyone wanting to voluntarily have lipo or any type of cosmetic surgery. IT FRICKIN HURTS just to have a 1/4" hole fixed! I am moving around pretty good, in spite of it all, and even worked in a shower today. The weather is all rainy and shitty, so it makes it that much easier to stay home and indoors. Gotta love that.

I'm working on a wicked-nasty design for a law firm here in Little Rock today, not much content, but it's some uber cool design. Other than that, I think that I can get some reading done this afternoon and finally make some headway in the Goblet of Fire.

I promise a pictute of my "crusted up" belly tomorrow...

don't look at me...

2006-02-01T14:42:00.000-08:00

http://www.chucknorrisfacts.com/

OWWWWWWWWWWW!

2006-02-01T09:21:00.000-08:00

Recovering from my hernia operation yeaterday. My abs feel like they're falling off my body. good thing I have some work to take my mind off of of it...(and AIRPLANE!) I'll have a better pic tomorrow when I can take off the bandadges...MWAAA-HA-HA-HA!! ;)

<-- UPDATE -->
'Aight yo. Let's get the fat jokes out of the way, they had to blow me up with Nitrogen, so yes I am a bit bloated... bastards.
<-- END UPDATE -->

That Voodoo that you do...

2006-01-31T16:35:00.000-08:00

OK, so as I sit here recovering from surgery, I am going a bit stircrazy and I thought I would recant our long overdue vacation highlights just for you, my valued bloggers!

It was so nice to get away, to be in the sun and sand for a bit. We got to Montego Bay on the tuesday after Christmas about 9PM and took a bus to Ocho Rios. A 2 hour bus ride across the worst pot-holed rocky road I have ever been on (yes, worse than the old River Road in New Orleans). About 45 minutes in, the bus broke down. So here we are in bum-f**k Jamaica at 10:30 at night at some crazy island rest stop waiting for the next bus to come through. Luckily we had some beers and the second bus was there in no time. We get to the resort at about 11PM local time and crashed. We awoke to this...

How sweet is that? That pic is from our balcony. Über Cool.

The resort was beautiful, the beaches were white and pristine, and the water was the bluest that I have ever seen. We met people from all over the world there, some really cool folks from Montreal, I met a guy from England who is an Ultimate Fighting Championship promoter, and played some sand soccer with some Frenchmen and a few Japanese guys. We took a day and went deep sea fishing (got skunked, but it was much fun), took a day and went snorkling on the same coral reef that Dr. No was filmed. We got to see the Jamaican Prime Minister one evening, he came to eat at the resort and I got to be about 15 feet away from him at one point. It was just a great week.

We got back on January 4th, and I promptly ripped the hernia (see below) in my belly button while lugging the luggage back into the house. WELCOME 2006!

I feel Good!

2006-01-30T11:10:00.000-08:00

this is for Alex...

It'll make the Kessel run in 12 parsecs....

2006-01-28T21:53:00.000-08:00

This is some crazy shit ya'll. You ever see the movie "Event Horizon"? This is the same thing that they based the movie's "hyperspace" drives on. It'd be cool as hades if it worked. Allthough, like the movie, i'm a bit unrasy about the whole "slipping into another dimension" thing - we can't even handle our own yet...

Welcome to Mars: only a three hour trip
An extrodinary "hyperspace" engine that could make interstellar space travel a reality by flying into other dimensions is being investigated by the United States government.

The hypothetical device, which has been outlined in principle but is based on a controversial theory about the fabric of the universe, could potentially allow a spacecraft to travel to Mars in three hours and journey to a star 11 light years away in just 80 days, according to a report in today's New Scientist magazine.

The theoretical engine works by creating an intense magnetic field that, according to ideas first developed by the late scientist Burkhard Heim in the 1950s, would produce a gravitational field and result in thrust for a spacecraft.

Also, if a large enough magnetic field was created, the craft would slip into a different dimension, where the speed of light is faster, allowing incredible speeds to be reached. Switching off the magnetic field would result in the engine reappearing in our current dimension....

too busy for you suckas

2006-01-26T14:12:00.000-08:00

So i decided to take a month off. Shoot me.

We've been busy up to our eyeballs with work and the like, it's tough to be 3733t. I also have to have surgery on the 31st. Yeah, I popped an umbilical hernia hauling around our luggage on the return trip from Jamaica 'mon (I told my wife to pack light)...

I'll be back this weekend with the FULL month's update.

WHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! Quick Johnny, look at the pissed off cat!

check out Stuff On My Cat

Sunburn, snorkels and Shenanigans

2006-01-06T08:08:00.000-08:00

Like our old Disney pals Annette and Frankie, we're back from the beach. I'll have a new update up for all to enjoy and recant for generations this weekend - after I dig out from under 9,000,000 emails. Are vacations supposed to bring catch-up misery?

and to all a good night...

2005-12-26T09:37:00.000-08:00

I just wanted to wish all of our freinds and family out there on the "inter-web" a very Merry Christmas. We're on the next flight to Jamaica tomorrow, but I'll be back with more January 3rd. Have a Happy New Years!!!! Geaux Tigers!

IT'S A BOY!!!

2005-12-21T08:37:00.000-08:00

We went for our midway ultrasound yesterday, and found out we're having a boy :) I'm so happy - here's some pictures WHOO-HOO!!!!!!!!!!

The return of futurama?

2005-12-20T11:38:00.000-08:00

Round up the gang, it's rumored that Matt Groening, the creator of the Simpsons and Futurama, may be firing up the animation machine for a relaunch of one of the funniest shows on syndicated TV - Futurama.

If you have never had a chance to catch the show, it's on Cartoon Network at 10pm CST. Check it out here. It's heeee-haw-larious...

Japan Rejects XBOX 360

2005-12-19T14:05:00.000-08:00

Sure the XBOX 360 is a rare console in NA and Europe but it isn't doing so well in Japan. According to Joystiq only 40%, 62,000 units out of 150,000, have been sold. It seems that the Japanese are waiting for the Blu-ray formatted PS3. It is also been rumored that Microsoft will be supplying more units for Japan while shortages are going on everywhere else in the world.

Signs of the Apocalypse

2005-12-15T13:05:00.000-08:00

Obi Wan never told you...

2005-12-15T11:43:00.001-08:00

This is one of the cooler sites that I have seen lately...even though this site was released in May. It's 20 questions with big daddy Darth Vader. Some funny twists to the questions and voiceovers too. If you stump Vader, the King comes out and whispers to him - funny stuff! I want a development project like this, and he's always right

"The force is strong with this one..."
Burger King has some of the best viral advertising out there created by Crispin Porter + Bogusky one of the nation's leading ad camps. Too bad every campaign can't be as robust as the Star Wars crossovers.

the "Hammer" group

2005-12-14T06:47:00.000-08:00

I know that this is about a week late, but hey, who's counting yeah? If you didn't watch it last Friday, the 2006 World Cup draw was held in the host country of Deutschland (that would be Germany for those playing at home) and to the dismay of American fans, we got hosed with the group pairings...

Group A Germany Costa Rica Poland Ecuador	Group B England Paraguay Trinidad/Tobago Sweden	Group C Argentina Ivory Coast Serbia/Montenegro Netherlands	Group D Mexico Iran Angola Portugal

Group E Italy Ghana United States Czech Republic	Group F Brazil Croatia Australia Japan	Group G France Switzerland Korea Republic Togo	Group H Spain Ukraine Tunisia Saudi Arabia

We have 3 of the top 12 ranked teams in the world in our group (Italians, the Czechs, and the USA). It's going to be a great first round - if we make it out we're going to go a long way, ummm....until we hit Brazil in the second round. Can you detect my glaring sarcasm here?

"Heidi Klum has sent us to hell"
We're all familiar with the beautiful and often misguided German supermodel. She was the event's eyecandy for all of the worlds viewing enjoyment, all she had to do was pull a couple of balls out of a bucket. Check out what zany hyjinks ensue when a supermodel goes bad...

Baby News...

2005-12-12T07:05:00.000-08:00

Just wanted to give everyone a baby update. We're entering the 19th week with the little kiddo. We'll find out what the sex is later this month. Will it be a boy? Will it be a girl? What's you thought?

Forget about Superman....

2005-12-07T08:09:00.000-08:00

It's X3 time baby! I don't even think that I need to write anything here. But for those keeping score, here's a list of the mutants that make their big screen debuts beyond cameos -- The Beast, Kitty Pryde, Angel, Juggernaut, Callisto and Jean Grey as 'the Phoenix'. This is going to be bloody brilliant...

The Return of the blue tights...

2005-12-04T08:58:00.001-08:00

If you got a chance to catch the new Harry Potter movie over the last weeks, you would have seen the new 'teaser trailer' for Superman Returns. After watching it again on the website, it looks to be done properly. It has the same voiceover from the Godfather himself, Marlon Brando, that was used for Jor-El (Supe's Kryptonian dad) in the original movie. Same music too, which made me warm and fuzzy. The only hokey thing that I could tell is that Louis Lane has a kid. That's kind of retarded if you ask me. Why do that to the storyline? Anyway, Lex Luther is played by Kevin Spacey, and Louis is played by Kate Bosworth so it's got the star power.

Be sure to check it out this Memorial Day 2006...

Kick Ass looking 2006 Winter olympics medals

2005-12-01T07:29:00.000-08:00

Here's a look at the new Olympic medals for the Turino games this coming February...yep that's right, already the Olympics again. I feel old ;)

Turin medals have hole in the middle
TURIN, Italy (AP) -- No, athletes at the Winter Games are not being rewarded with gold doughnuts -- it just looks that way.

The new medal design for the Olympics in Turin, unveiled Wednesday, features a hole in the center of the metal disc.

While it may appear as though biathletes have been using them for target practice, the medals are actually meant to represent the open space of an Italian piazza, or city square.

The medals have the Turin logo on one side and images from various sports and disciplines on the other. The red silk ribbon that goes around the winner's neck is looped through the hole in the center.

"They are marvelous medals, they represent what we expect from Italy -- creativity," said Jean-Claude Killy, chairman of the IOC coordination commission.

Eight people collaborate in the 10-hour process to make each medal. Some 1,026 medals will be made for the Olympics, plus 648 Paralympics medals and 35,000 commemorative medals. The Turin Games run from Feb. 10 to Feb 26.

I'm so fat, I cut myself and soy sauce came out...

2005-11-28T14:38:00.000-08:00

Once again, Thanksgiving has come and gone, and I have eaten myself back that 10 pounds I lost this year.

No, really. All I did since Wednesday night last week has been eating. Thankgiving day, turkey, turkey, mashed taters and more turkey. Friday, we ate at Jasmin's, where I started off with some sushi, and finished with the Mongolian beef. Saturday, we ate Damgoode Pies - had an 8" 'Stuffy' Hog with pink sauce (By the way - 2nd best Pizza I ever had next to Shakespeare's at MIZZOU). Yesterday, we ate with my folks at Kobe Japanese Steakhouse, more sushi, steak, fried rice AND shrimp. The whole time eating pecan & fudge pie like it was candy....ummmm, wait it kinda is though - isn't it?

BUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRPPP!

Damn, it's time to hit the treadmill again. I gotta run a quarter marathon in 3 months...

Happy Thanksgiving!

2005-11-24T08:15:00.000-08:00

Just a wanted to wish a warm holiday to everyone! I'll be back Monday...

Let the madness begin...

2005-11-21T12:17:00.000-08:00

Two XBOX360's taken in Virginia armed robbery

Consoles taken at gunpoint just hours ago; thief apprehended, consoles recovered.

A Stafford, Virginia, Electronics Boutique store was the scene of an armed robbery this morning. According to sources, the perpetrator made off with two Xbox 360 systems, forcing the store manager to hand them over at gun point.

Sources tell GameSpot the local police responded quickly, cordoned off the store, and immediately pursued the thief. The thief was apprehended shortly afterwards.

Because the police consider the heist an ongoing criminal investigation, store employees were reluctant to discuss details of the robbery. But as of press time, the store is open, and all systems are back to normal.

"We're all fine and everything is cool," a store staffer told GameSpot.

Still here...I'm getting really bad about blogging lately

2005-11-15T11:00:00.000-08:00

Just wanted to say hey. Haven't heard anything of late on the James Keown trial, but I do know that he's pleaded innocent.

More later...same cool stuff to share.

Holy crap. You think that you know somebody....

2005-11-08T07:25:00.000-08:00

Wow. This really has me upset. I just found out that one of my good friends from high school was arrested yesterday for allegedly murdering his wife in Massachusetts last September.

James Keown, I would venture to say, was one of my close buddies for the 4 years I attended Jefferson City High School. He was one of those guys that you would never really worry about as you knew he was on the right track.

He obviously wasn't.

He poisoned his wife. Spiked her Gatorade with flipping ANTIFREEZE for a measly $250,000 life insurance policy. The Boston Herald is reporting that he alledgedly lied about school at Harvard, sucked the couples savings dry and slowly killed Julie over time.

I knew Julie, I had just recently seen both of them at our 10 year reunion a few years ago. She was a good person.

I'm stunned. More to come on this I am sure...

Read more here:

Boston Herald

Jefferson City News Tribune

New form of Hydrogen?

2005-11-07T07:56:00.000-08:00

My buddy Alex just emailed me this link. Seems like a scientist has figured out how to make a new variant of the simple Hydrogen molecule. Think back to high school for a second with me, remember that hydrogen is the simplest of atoms as it has only 1 electron moving around it's nucleus. Conventional science says that the distance between the electon's orbit and the nucleus has to be the same everywhere. This new research suggests that he can manipulate the electron closer to the nucleus, therefore when the atom is split, it creates 1000 times more energy and the waste matter created is water.

Now, if you undserstand that, you also understand that this is a cheap alternative fuel that will take dependency off of petrol based energy and transit. This would be huge. Let's all hope that he's right.

...What has much of the physics world up in arms is Dr Mills's claim that he has produced a new form of hydrogen, the simplest of all the atoms, with just a single proton circled by one electron. In his "hydrino", the electron sits a little closer to the proton than normal, and the formation of the new atoms from traditional hydrogen releases huge amounts of energy.

This is scientific heresy. According to quantum mechanics, electrons can only exist in an atom in strictly defined orbits, and the shortest distance allowed between the proton and electron in hydrogen is fixed. The two particles are simply not allowed to get any closer.

According to Dr Mills, there can be only one explanation: quantum mechanics must be wrong. "We've done a lot of testing. We've got 50 independent validation reports, we've got 65 peer-reviewed journal articles," he said. "We ran into this theoretical resistance and there are some vested interests here. People are very strong and fervent protectors of this [quantum] theory that they use."...

Heeeeeeeeere's Johnny!

2005-11-03T14:05:00.000-08:00

Wow. It's been a while since my last post. But be assured that now I'm back from the land of work stress for a brief while and plan on making some impact on the blogosphere again.

Let's recap the last two weeks shall we? I'll give the abridged version for all of you kids today...

If you have never been to Athens, Georgia, you are really missing one of the South's most relaxing and beautiful cities. Home of the University of Georgia, and my brother-in-law, we drove the miserable 10 hours between Little Rock and Athens twice in a 3 day period to attend the 2005 UGA Homecoming football game against the Razorbacks. It was a weekend that I will not soon forget, my body is still thinks it has alcohol poisoning 2 weeks later...Fun as hell and the Hogs almost pulled off the upset on the #4 Bulldogs. All I have to say to that is GEAUX TIGERS ;)

We got back from the trip and made our way to the Baby doctor on Tuesday, all is well with our pregnancy and we got to hear the baby's heartbeat for the first time - let me tell you, if you have never experienced that, it's one of the few moments in my life that I can actually define as amazing and life changing...

Back to work, over the remainder of the last 2 weeks, I have cranked out 4 new website designs (4 HUGE designs too). My brain feels like creative afterbirth. Kicker is I still have 2 more to do this week, how I'm going to pull that one off - I dunno...?

To the home front - Grass. No, not the kind you smoke, the kind you plant. In my supreme wisdom, I planted the wrong kind of grass seed earlier this year. After the 100 degree days of late summer, our yard looked like a desert. Just so you know Rye grass FRIES, no erupts into flame, in the Arkansas sun. Saturday, I spent the afternoon raking up the old stuff, putting new sod down and overseeding Bermuda.

OK, now you're caught up. I'll have more soon...

Saints & Sinner

2005-10-20T11:07:00.000-07:00

I'm going to stick with the sports theme here, seems to be a good one this week...

I really used to like Tom Benson. He seemed to be really proud to be a New Orleanian, and part of the Saints franchise. Seems like that may have just been part of his umbrella pumping, bead throwing sideline act though, as it seems he is trying to move the Saints to San Antonio permanently.

Some days I tend to get a bit down on my fellow man, especially when it's someone I used to respect, and today I am down on Benson. That city, as broken as it is right now, needs that team. It is the only thing that most of those people have to hold onto anymore. Shame on him for selling out to the almighty dollar. I just am very dissapointed. Sometimes it's more than just the money, it's integrity.

Mayor Nagin blasts Saints owner for trying to move team

NEW ORLEANS -- Mayor Ray Nagin disparaged Saints owner Tom Benson on Wednesday for working with San Antonio officials to permanently keep the NFL team in Texas.

The mayor's comments came after the departures of two top Saints executives who were supportive of keeping the Saints in Louisiana. Nagin is concerned that San Antonio officials said publicly that Benson is working with them to relocate the franchise to Texas.

"We want our Saints, we may not want the owner back," Nagin said while attending the reopening of Cafe Du Monde in the French Quarter.

"I'm ready to go to the NFL and to [commissioner Paul] Tagliabue and say, 'Give us the Cleveland plan,'" Nagin added, referring to the league awarding Cleveland an expansion team almost immediately after the Browns moved to Baltimore after the 1995 season. "Whatever the Saints want to do, you let them leave, but they can't take our logo, they can't take our name, and you give us a promise to give us a franchise when this city's back."

A Saints spokesman did not return a telephone call and e-mail seeking a response to Nagin's comments.

"For them to be openly talking to other cities about moving is disrespectful to the citizens of New Orleans, disrespectful to the Saints fans who have hung in with this franchise through 30-something years under very trying times," Nagin said.

The Saints joined the NFL in 1967. In 1986, Benson was part of an ownership group that bought the team to ensure it would stay in Louisiana. Benson eventually bought out other members of the group.

During Benson's ownership, the state of Louisiana has built him a new headquarters, including spending $6.75 million for an indoor practice field in 2003. The state also has paid for repeated improvements to the Louisiana Superdome at Benson's insistence during the past two decades.

On Monday night, Benson fired Arnold Fielkow, the team's top business executive since 2000. Fielkow had overseen a 36-game sellout streak at the Superdome and negotiated an unprecedented stadium lease that called for the state to pay Benson $187 million in direct subsidies over 10 years.

But Fielkow has said he believed the Saints needed to be leaders in New Orleans' rebuilding process after Hurricane Katrina and repeatedly praised Saints fans in Louisiana as the best and most loyal in the NFL. Fielkow has since said that stance led to his dismissal.

On Tuesday, Conrad Kowal, senior director of marketing and business development, also resigned.

Nagin called Benson's recent actions a "doggone shame."

Signs of the apocalypse

2005-10-19T09:28:00.000-07:00

I know, I know, but it's kind of funny...

GO CARDINALS!

2005-10-19T09:16:00.000-07:00

http://www.stltoday.com/sports/

I owe a post

2005-10-19T07:05:00.000-07:00

I've been mucho-busy the last week or so, but I promise i'll have some new stuff up soon. So until then....here's some wholesome fun with wee folk.

Nomar credited with saving two from Boston Harbor

2005-10-13T11:39:00.000-07:00

I knew that Nomar was the man with landing Mia and all, but this all but proves it...

BOSTON - Former Red Sox shortstop Nomar Garciaparra rescued two women who had fallen into Boston Harbor late last week, his uncle and a witness told the Boston Herald.

Garciaparra, traded to the Chicago Cubs on July 31, 2004, was in his Charlestown condominium with his uncle at about 10 p.m. Friday when they heard a scream and a splash, said the uncle, Victor Garciaparra.

As soon as the All-Star shortstop and two-time American League batting champ ran out the door to help the woman, her friend also fell in, hitting her head on the pier, said Victor Garciaparra, who oversees his nephew's business and charitable ventures.

Victor Garciaparra jumped from the balcony to the water 20 feet below.

'I swam towards them and by the time I reached them, Nomar was already there holding the girls up,' he told the newspaper. 'But he couldn't get them up without help.'

One woman had a large lump on her head and appeared to be unconscious, he said. When she came to, the first thing she said was: 'Are you Nomar?' Victor Garciaparra said.

The two men pulled the women from the water. Their husbands arrived and whisked them off to the hospital before the Garciaparras even got their names, he said.

Johnny O'Hara of Natick witnessed the incident from his boat.

"A bunch of us came running over and sure enough, pulling the two girls from the water was Nomar," he told the newspaper. "It was crazy. Nomar was like jumping over walls to get to the girls and the other guy leaped off the balcony. It was unbelievable."

Nomar Garciaparra was unavailable for comment, his uncle said.

Sometimes you just gotta give props

2005-10-12T08:37:00.000-07:00

A coworker sent me a link to a cool little 70's "PBS Style" music video this morning. It's pretty funny in a rediculous way. You can check it out here. When I get these little links I always like to track back to the site's root directory - that means that I delete the URL back to the .com or .net and see what the main site is...

In this case it's http://keithschofield.com/. This guy is a genius when it comes to directing these videos. As a designer, I have come to appreciate all forms of media - especially video. It's hard to do creatively. If Keith ever checks a link back from me - let me say "Keep it up my friend, from one artist to another, that sh!t is dope".

I miss the 70's

2005-10-10T07:29:00.000-07:00

Doesn't this give you a bit of a nostalgic feeling? I especially like the uncordinated green guy....

Squirrels go nuts on crack

2005-10-09T12:10:00.000-07:00

The latest terror to hit the earth. Poor little critters, all they want is their next tweek...

The Sun (U.K.) Squirrels are getting hooked on crack cocaine — hidden by addicts in gardens.

They are digging up the stashes and eating the mega-addictive drug, which comes in small chunks.

Several have been spotted behaving bizarrely in Brixton, South London, since a police blitz against pushers and users.

One resident said: “My neighbour said dealers had used my garden to hide crack.

“Just an hour earlier I’d seen a squirrel digging in the flower-beds.

“It was ill-looking and its eyes looked bloodshot, but it kept on desperately digging. It seems a strange thing to say, but it seemed to know what it was looking for.”

Other residents have seen squirrels become unusually aggressive.

The RSPCA said: “These animals are big foragers. They are attracted by smell and will dig up what they fancy.

“If a squirrel did open a bag of crack and start consuming it there is no doubt it would die pretty quickly.”

Crack squirrels are a recognised problem in America. They are common in parks used by addicts in New York and Washington DC.

They have been known to attack park visitors in their search for a fix.

the new prime mover

2005-10-06T14:10:00.000-07:00

I've been wanting to do this for awhile, and finally had a free bit to design and code my blog how I want it instead of using the templates that Blogger gives us.

Deciding to learn how to code CSS is not for the faint of heart, I consider myself a seasoned developer, and more than my share of thinking "Why the hell am I learning this?". But as you can see, the new look is here, and if I do say so myself - it turned out rather nice. However, I am still working out a few minor bugs though, so if you find any problems just holla back.

I highly recommend that you view it in Mozilla Firefox, I was able to integrate PNG alpha transparancies that are STILL NOT SUPPORTED by Internet Explorer... that will allow some smoother effects and elements. It's some cool shiat.

Let me know what you think!

Congrats to Kat & Karl!!!

2005-10-05T09:50:00.000-07:00

I never thought that I would see the day when Kat would have a dog - let alone two! Good job Karl...

we're excited!

2005-10-02T09:02:00.000-07:00

In case that we haven't let anyone know, we're pregnant! We had out first ultrasound last week and saw our baby's heartbeat for the first time! We're due the first week of May 2006. Here's a pic of the kid:

Admittantly, you can't really tell much right now, but it's our baby blob ;)

signs of the apocalypse

2005-09-30T12:09:00.000-07:00

Ronaldinho goes golden

2005-09-30T10:25:00.000-07:00

Associated Press - BARCELONA, Spain
Ronaldinho, the 2004 soccer player of the year and a key member of Brazil's 2002 World Cup champion, will go golden this weekend.

Ronaldinho will wear real gold in his soccer boots in Barcelona's game against Real Zaragoza. Nike has developed a special gold and white version of the shoes Ronaldinho normally wears. It will feature real 24-carat gold applied to the Nike logo.

Previously, Michael Johnson wore a gold track spike in the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Roger Federer and Maria Sharapova wore tennis shoes laced with gold at Wimbledon this year.

The boots feature a gold tongue with an 'R' embroidered in silver color on the right boot -- inspired by the necklace Ronaldinho wears -- and an embroidered No. 10 on the left. The heel is embossed with five gold stars to honor Brazil's five World Cup wins, and the boot also includes a laser-patterned sock liner with the word 'Ronaldinho' on it.

"I can't wait to wear the gold boots against Zaragoza," he said. "We were wondering how to give the boot a personal touch, so they copied the design of my neck chain to reproduce the 'R' and added my number 10. I got the joy of taking part in the design, so they are all mine and personalized."

"baaaaaby rrruuuuf"

2005-09-29T11:42:00.000-07:00

This is the stupidist thing that I have ever blogged about. No really, BY FAR! I don't even know how it was broached, but my work "cell mates" and I were cutting up a bit earlier, and I happend to have an unopened Snickers bar on my desk. Anthony, picked it up and said, "230 calories in that thing, wow."

It is at this point that I spouted out, "230 calories in that turd?" Which leads to "I wonder how many calories are in a real turd" and our old friend google.com.

You would not believe the funny stuff that comes up when you search for 'how many calories in a turd'. No really try it, it's fun.

For all those wondering...

"it is likely about 6 calories per gram but it is going to vary depending upon diet. if you eat a lot of fat it will be higher, poop is nothing more than the food you body does not need except in a gross form. So a turd the size of a typical Baby Ruth candy bar (see caddy shack movie) is about 250 calories ."

Well, we found our answer AND as an added bonus we found a great web site. The ever maligned Poop Report.

After just a quick tour, I knew that I had to share this with all that I know and love. With sections as classy as: Intellectual Crap, Fun with Feces & Travel Logs. One cannot go wrong.

Now, go on out and share!

just a small favor to ask...

2005-09-26T15:12:00.000-07:00

I'd love to know who is visiting the blog, I see the page hits, but would love to see some more comments too! Thank you, and we'll leave a light on for ya!

- prime mover

The ultimate in madness

2005-09-26T14:31:00.000-07:00

I have to give this guy some props. Let's just say that what he has done makes my geekdom pale in comparison...

Now, I'm sure at one time or another we have all played the hollowed game of "rock, paper, scissor". And I am pretty convinced that we have all come up with variations thereof, I know we mutated into "dynamite, tank, machine gun" in the 4th grade. But, this chap has taken it to a whole new level - I'm quite impressed to present to you, the viewing public: RPS-25!

That's right, we now have the capability to throw 1 of 25 gang signs that would make Ralph Macchio himself tapdance. we've gone way past the whole "15 is too many" factor and jumped right to such new and terrifying signs such as the: snake, alien, sponge, nuke and bowl.

15.5 Octillion results - now only a 1 in 13 chance of a tie. We'll never have a life.

Check it out here. And remember you heard it here first kids.

PS) While you are there, check out the signs, some of them are quite funny...

DAMMIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2005-09-22T08:52:00.000-07:00

I just lost my blog post. I spent 20 minutes writing it and accidenatally closed it. FRUSTRATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'll try and get back to it later.

Yours in stupidity,
Me

Signs of the apocalypse

2005-09-14T08:53:00.000-07:00

Big Easy Like Tuesday Morning

2005-09-13T07:16:00.001-07:00

The following letter posted by Chris Rose at The Times-Picayune

Dear America,
I suppose we should introduce ourselves: We're South Louisiana. We have arrived on your doorstep on short notice and we apologize for that, but we never were much for waiting around for invitations. We're not much on formalities like that.

And we might be staying around your town for a while, enrolling in your schools and looking for jobs, so we wanted to tell you a few things about us. We know you didn't ask for this and neither did we, so we're just going to have to make the best of it.

First of all, we thank you. For your money, your water, your food, your prayers, your boats and buses and the men and women of your National Guards, fire departments, hospitals and everyone else who has come to our rescue.

We're a fiercely proud and independent people, and we don't cotton much to outside interference, but we're not ashamed to accept help when we need it. And right now, we need it.

Just don't get carried away. For instance, once we get around to fishing again, don't try to tell us what kind of lures work best in your waters.

We're not going to listen. We're stubborn that way.

You probably already know that we talk funny and listen to strange music and eat things you'd probably hire an exterminator to get out of your yard.

We dance even if there's no radio. We drink at funerals. We talk too much and laugh too loud and live too large and, frankly, we're suspicious of others who don't.

But we'll try not to judge you while we're in your town.

Everybody loves their home, we know that. But we love South Louisiana with a ferocity that borders on the pathological. Sometimes we bury our dead in LSU sweatshirts.

Often we don't make sense. You may wonder why, for instance - if we could only carry one small bag of belongings with us on our journey to your state - why in God's name did we bring a pair of shrimp boots? We can't really explain that. It is what it is.

You've probably heard that many of us stayed behind. As bad as it is, many of us cannot fathom a life outside of our border, out in that place we call Elsewhere.

The only way you could understand that is if you have been there, and so many of you have. So you realize that when you strip away all the craziness and bars and parades and music and architecture and all that hooey, really, the best thing about where we come from is us.

We are what made this place a national treasure. We're good people. And don't be afraid to ask us how to pronounce our names. It happens all the time.

When you meet us now and you look into our eyes, you will see the saddest story ever told. Our hearts are broken into a thousand pieces. But don't pity us. We're gonna make it. We're resilient. After all, we've been rooting for the Saints for 35 years. That's got to count for something.

OK, maybe something else you should know is that we make jokes at inappropriate times.

But what the hell.

And one more thing: In our part of the country, we're used to having visitors. It's our way of life.

So when all this is over and we move back home, we will repay to you the hospitality and generosity of spirit you offer to us in this season of our despair.

That is our promise. That is our faith.

"What has been, will be again"

2005-09-10T11:27:00.000-07:00

As I look back on the ominous destructor that is now known as Katrina, I cry. I remember my home as it used to be and wonder if it will ever capture the radiance that was New Orleans again. I choose to think that it will. The great Tenessee Williams once said that there are only three great cities in America, New York, San Francisco and New Orleans. My fellow New Orleneans are a strong people, and more importantly a stubborn people. It is that latter that will overcome this unruly hand and build our so dubbed "New" New Orleans. Although the residential parts of St. Bernard, Jefferson and Orleans Parishes are for all intensive purposes going to be bulldozed and rebuilt, our history still is there: The French Quarter, Lee Circle, Most of the Garden District, Loyola, Tulane, Audubon Park, and the Audubon Zoo among others.

For some reason, when this first hit, one of my first anxieties was of the Zoo. It is hands down one of my favorite places on the planet. To be more specific my exact spot is in the nooks of the historic Oak tree that has worked it's way in and out of the earth. If anyone has ever been there, you will know instantly what I mean. This is one of the first places that I remember as a child. As I have grown into adulthood, my return visits home have always brought me back to this spot. Now it has become more than a favorite spot, it has become a symbol to me. Because you see, that tree is now the people of New Orleans, our roots are deep, and we are so interwoven with our "spot" we will never give it up.

Oh yes my friends, New Orleans will be great again, we won't allow it not to be...

devastation and disbelief

2005-08-30T11:30:00.000-07:00

New Orleans. My birth home. My heritage. My Lord. I know that it is going to sound cliche, but I never thought that this would really happen. I just posted on my cousin's blog over at Politickal Animal that I have always blown off my mother's accounts of Hurricanes Betsy & Camille as being exaggerations seen through the eyes of a teenager. I know now that they were not.

The neighborhood that I spent most of my childhood in is now destroyed. My grandparent's home where I shared so many wonderful memories and experiences may be no more as well. Luckily all of my family was smart enough to leave and get to safety before the roads became impassible from gridlock.

This event has really disrupted my psyche. I don't even think that I was affected like this when 9/11 happened. I just stare slack jawed at the images that are coming out of New Orleans. There are parts of the city that may never be reclaimed from the swamp in my lifetime, parts of the city will never recover. Martial law has been declaired, the I-10 twin spans are down. Wow. I never though that this would really happen.

I plan on volunteering with the red cross or whoever in the coming weeks. I'll never forgive myself if I don't. More to come...

prime13

Mighty Morphin' Prison Biatches

2005-08-19T07:59:00.000-07:00

Now, we all remember that terrific overdubbed first season of Power Rangers. Seems like this guy either says he was (or not really) on of the original American cast of jumping bean characters. We know he's not the pink ranger, but he's going to be feeling like it in the pokey.

26-year-old Skylar Deleon, and his merry band of thugs tied a wealthy Los Angeles couple to their own yacht's anchor and dropped it into the murky depths of the pacific. Oh, yeah, they got them to sign over power of attorny too... WTF? This was really a planned out murder and I hope that the new "pink ranger" has a cell next to Scott Peterson so they can both "boo hoo" as Bubba shows them some lovin' from the oven.

I need to update

2005-08-17T15:39:00.000-07:00

Yes, true believer's it's been a good while since I have posted ANYTHING. HAd to take a bit of a personal sabbatical so to speak. Had alot going on in my wife & I's lives. (is that proper english?)

but just to tide everyone over - here's some debauchery that I happend accross yesterday that should do ya' right dawg...

Check out everyone's favorite: www.ENGRISH.com

MMORPG Slaves

2005-07-06T10:32:00.000-07:00

http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3141815

see my post a few weeks ago about virtual sweatshops...

Old man kills Leopard with bare hands

2005-06-27T14:57:00.000-07:00

This is just crazy. I hope that I have this much chuzpah when i'm 73...

From the AP Wire:

A 73-year-old Kenyan reached into the mouth of an attacking leopard and tore out its tongue to kill it.

Farmer Daniel M’Mburugu was tending to his potato and bean crops near Mount Kenya when the leopard charged out of the grass and leapt on him. M’Mburugu had a machete in one hand but dropped that to thrust his fist down the leopard’s mouth. He gradually managed to pull out the animal’s tongue, leaving it dead.

“It let out a blood-curdling snarl that made the birds stop chirping,” he said. The leopard sank its teeth into the farmer’s wrist and mauled him with its claws. “A voice, which must have come from God, whispered to me to drop the panga (machete) and thrust my hand in its wide-open mouth. I obeyed,” M’Mburugu said.

As the leopard was dying, a neighbor heard the screams and arrived to finish it off with a machete. M’Mburugu was toasted as a hero in his village afterwards. He was also given free hospital treatment by astonished local authorities.

“This guy is very lucky to be alive,” a Kenya Wildlife Service official told Reuters, confirming the incident.

A touch of MENSA

2005-06-24T09:45:00.000-07:00

Apparently this is an IQ test given to job applicants in Japan, read the instructions as the games in Japanese. Enjoy!

"Everybody has to cross the river"

To start click on the big blue circle on the right.

The following rules apply:

Only 2 persons on the raft at a time
The father can not stay with any of the daughters without their mother's presence.
The mother can not stay with any of the sons without their father's presence.
The thief (striped shirt) can not stay with any family member if the Policeman is not there.
Only the Father, the Mother and the Policeman know how to operate the raft.
To move the people click on them. To move the raft click on the pole on the opposite side of the river.

Formula One Flop

2005-06-20T07:46:00.000-07:00

In a move that speaks volumes for one of the most presumptuous racing bodies on earth, 14 of 20 cars pulled out of the US Grand Prix at the hollowed walls of the Indianopolis Motor Speedway this weekend. Due to a safty concern over poor tires, the owners and drivers tried to come to a 11th hour concession of adding a chicane to slow drivers on the corner in question, but the blokes in the Ferrari pits joyfully abstained, crushing any chance of a good showing.

Fans booed, and threw water bottles onto the track, this was Indianapolis - not Philadelphia right?

After reading around a bit this morning I have found an editorial that sums it up here. I have been to the track for the 500 nearly every year since 1990, and I know the true feel of Indy. That said, having gone to the inagural US Grand Prix several years ago, it was one of the most bland, cold, unwelcoming events that I have ever attended, and looks like it will struggle to right itself on this debacle.

Star Wars TV Show revealed

2005-06-17T13:39:00.000-07:00

Check out the latest about our favorite sci-fi saga of all times here:

http://cinematical.com/2005/06/17/star-wars-tv-show-details-revealed

looks like about 100, 1 hour episodes chronicalling how the characters get from EP3 to EP4. Hope that we have some Solo...

"Stop hatin' and start participatin'"

Things you won't see at disney world

2005-06-16T11:07:00.001-07:00

Ok, so here's the latest crazyness to hit cyberspace these days, but then again does anything suprise you anymore...? I have actually heard of sweat shops in Malaysia full of 8 year olds being used to amass hundreds of "virtual weapons" for someone else's profit. It's a brave new world. Que Cera Cera.

From a trusted site:

"For the over 800,000 subscribers to Sony Online Entertainment's Everquest II game, life in a virtual world follows a familiar pattern: Take your character around massive landscapes, kill stuff, loot bodies for useful new items, use said items to improve your virtual character, repeat. Starting in late June, however, Sony will allow players to replace swords and other virtual booty by using their credit cards through the game's new Station Exchange service. The Exchange is an official intermediary for transactions between players: real-life cash for in-game items, characters, and currency—plus a small Sony service charge.

If you don't have time to spend hours playing the game, you can buy other players' items and currency to boost your character, or simply buy a preplayed powerful character to begin with. Sony estimates that the market for such virtual goods—typically sold on eBay-style auction sites or by game-playing corporate entities like IGE—has reached $200 million in yearly sales."

Slowly getting caught back up

2005-06-10T10:46:00.000-07:00

Was it a wise man that once said, "too much vacation makes one crazy?" If not then you can accredit that line to me. My bum has barely touched a chair over the last 2 months and I can say that it is truly a negative impact on the flow of life. It's just so hard to get back into a rythm...

Anyway, Here's my top blogworthy things I should have blogged the last week or two:

Construction of Simulated Brain Begins
This is some crazy stuff. Deli thin mouse brain parts, CPU's, and batteries. "It's what we do every night Pinky - Take over the world!"

Google Map Hacks
More cool shit. This'll help significantly against the populance of sick child abusing freaks out there. Too bad It's taken this long to develop...

Our Key West Trip & the Life Aquatic
What a nice relaxing weekend. It was just right length wise, and Key West really impressed me. It's not a place to take in the beach as we were under the impression at all, but a place to go to experience. with the only living coral reef in North America, it is a place to go diving and snorkling. We decided on the latter, and went snorkling on sunday. WOW! That's all I can say. I've snorkled in clearer water, but the sealife was brimming with beauty. Schools of jellyfish, angel fish, barracuda, parrot fish, tarpon, snapper, yellowfin, sharks, coral, rock lobster - you name it and we saw it. Pictures to come when I get the film back.

Miss me?

2005-06-01T09:44:00.000-07:00

Been taking a hiatus from the blogosphere for a few weeks now. Catching up on work and travelling the world. But now I'm back, from outerspace... so to speak, and am ready to get blogging again. More to come...

Too many thoughts to be cohierant

2005-05-18T14:20:00.000-07:00

Too much buzzing in my brain right now to make too much sense....so here's sort of a top 5 list for today:

Number 5 - Just read about a new study. Seems that athletes that wear red win more than any other color. Very intersting, especially since we just changed our soccer jerseys ove to red... hmmmmmm

Number 4 - I'm actually getting pretty amped about the next-gen video game platforms. Hearing great things about the new PS3, but it's price point is being speculated at $465 :/ start saving now. The new Xbox360 looks pretty impressive as well.

Number 3 - I'm so fricking tired, I just want to go to sleep 10 minutes ago.

Number 2 - This shitty new NeoNazi 'Sober.q' virus is driving me nuts. I am getting hundreds of hate mongering spam email in GERMAN of all things. Please STOP THE MADNESS!

and finally....

Patience young one! For the Jedi it is time to see ep3 too....

I CAN'T WAIT! I am a nervous wreck about seeing the new Star Wars movie tomorrow night. If you haven't heard anything about this - you need to be thrown into a trash compactor. This is the one that we have all been waiting for since 1983 folks. George has outdone himself. Ebert - 2 thumbs up. New York Times - 5 stars. I've got a proverbial Lightsaber in my pants to go see this one. Been geeking out for the last week. I even bought a special "Sith Happens" tshirt to wear tomorrow night. I'd go tonight, but couldn't get a ticket to the 12:01 show - see also #3.

BOI-OI-OI-NNNNNGGGGGG!

Going to New Orleans....

2005-05-12T07:23:00.000-07:00

Wow, it's been a crazy week. Meetings, Proposals, deadlines - you name it. Today I'm working a full day and then my wife and I are driving to New Orleans for my baby cousin's wedding tomorrow night.

I keep telling myself that she's not that old. Better yet, I keep telling MYSELF that I'm not that old :) One of the perks about this trip is that I finally get to check out my sister's new boyfriend. I already love the guy sight unseen, and I think that we're going to get along great!

Back to work...more later.

The Waiting is the Hardest Part

2005-05-10T11:27:00.000-07:00

Tom Petty had it said best about the waiting. As you can see, I haven't had a lot of time to update Mr. Blog lately. We've been working on a site proposal for a pretty decent sized client here at the work.

So our proposal is done, some killer stuff I might add, but now I get to print out 12 copies of 31 pages each. WHOO HOO!!!

More to come as I wait......

In a related story....

2005-05-05T09:09:00.000-07:00

Quite a fine Star Wars fan film. I downloaded the DVD earlier this week. The acting is awful at times, but the graphics and space fights are pretty good for a couple of average Joes.

I give it a 4 of 5 Star Destroyer rating

Yoda, you seek Yoda!

2005-05-05T08:22:00.000-07:00

From my Mom's cousin's blog....

Politickal: "Whining About Star Wars
Just as a change of pace, I found on Drudge a link to a BBC news site that whines, New Star Wars movie 'a bloodbath'. Rated PG-13, and earns ever minute of the rating. Sounds like a great story to me. But the guardians of our sensibilities seem unable to allow the tender among us to view life, even movie life, in really human terms.

Friends, this may come as a shock, but there really is something called 'evil' in the world, even as there is also something called 'good'. No matter how much the bleeding hearts try to pretend otherwise, both good and evil exist and have their influence felt in our lives and around the world.

So I applaud what George Lucas said here...

Lucas said he was getting 'a lot of flak' from parents concerned about the film's US rating. 'A lot of people saying how can you do this? My children love these movies. Why can you not let them go see it?' he said. 'But I have to tell a story. I'm not making these, oddly enough, to be giant, successful blockbusters. I'm making them because I'm telling a story, and I have to tell the story I intended.'

Real life is not always a pretty Disney-inspired theme park. Life can be wonderful, and it can be cruel. Star Wars is not about Barney, Sesame Street, or Sponge Bob. Lucas is a master story-teller, and as we all know it's the good ones (whose stories are most like real life) that we most want to hear.

posted by Politickal Animal at 8:40 AM 0 comments "

It's like, you know, work. Duh!

2005-05-04T12:26:00.000-07:00

Wellllllllllllll... has anyone else been keeping up with the tabloid trash this week? The latest scandal to rip through Hollywood has the lovely and ever popular Paula "Cold Hearted Snake" Abdul, shacking up with a season 2 Idol competitor.

Now, the news is going crazy, the ACLU is mobilizing, SKYLAB IS FALLING!!! HOLY CRAP! Grab your kids and move to the shelters people!

But really, who cares? Why is this any different than that dude on the 2nd floor at work dating some bimbo he met at the local drinking hole last night? It's life, it happens. This is why I'm sick of Hollywood - Ironically, too much D-R-A-M-A...

Seacrest, Out!

Has it already been a year?

2005-05-02T11:10:00.000-07:00

After lunch snooze time. What a weekend this last one was. Had our company retreat and the usual party that goes along with it, a much heralded softball game Saturday morning, in which the 4-0 ABPG Newshounds rallied in the bottom of the 7th to win. I was afforded a soccer game Sunday that saw a hat trick and a 7-0 victory as well. But most importantly it was our one year wedding anniversary.

I think that we have been through so much this last year. We have had one blow to the system after another. Family crisis, unemployment, uncertainty and we have emerged on top. I have to say, that without my wife it would have been nearly impossible to cope with the run of what we've had to endure. We have emerged stronger, and better people, and more in love.

Baby, I know you don't read my blog, but I love you!

2005-05-01T11:27:00.000-07:00

happy aniversary!

A clickless Internet? Is it possible?

2005-04-27T14:32:00.000-07:00

A collegue of mine just sent me a website that is heralding a "clickless" internet. Check it out for yourself here. While visiting the site I really had a hard time not clicking, even though it was telling me upon every pixel "do not click!". It's just proof that we have become so Pavlovianly conditioned for that carpel tunnel ruining action that is the 'click'. Hope you enjoy the site...

What Happens In Star Wars, Stays in Star Wars...

2005-04-26T14:59:00.000-07:00

I just want to vent my exuberence - I got my Episode 3 tickets today. I was quite pleased, but at the same time I feel a bit sad that the saga will soon be over. seeing Star Wars in 1977 is the first thing that I really remember as a child that isn't a ghosted memory so to speak...

In other related news, I did read later in the day today, that there is a live action SW TV show coming to life in about a year, it'll chronicle the gap between Episodes III & IV. Click Here For More Joy...

You the man!

Yes I am still here

2005-04-22T13:32:00.000-07:00

I'm back from the proverbial depths of dead blogdom. I am going to make a CONCERTED effort to get back on the horse that is Prime Mover.

Peace, love & tacos my brothers.

Caution - K.E.B. on Board!

2004-12-10T14:12:00.000-08:00

I'm going to be very unpolitically correct here - so if it offends you, tough. Move to France.

Is it just me or do these people who still have their Kerry-Edwards Bumper stickers still on their cars (BTW, guys, it's over - you lost.) drive like embiciles?

I'm trying to be respectful to my elders here, but I used to think that the single worst demographic of crappy drivers was the over 70 crowd. It seems that I was sorely mistaken. Over the last several months it seems like every time that I get out driving somewhere, I get stuck behind a KEB - their age doesn't matter - 16, 57, 34, 23 - it doesn't matter! THEY ALL DRIVE LIKE CRAP! I get stuck behind these guys and I seem to go nowhere - 15mph in a 30, 40mph in a 55. It's so damn frustrating. And if I honk, i'm the bad guy...

Now, I'm all about taking your time and driving safe, which is a far cry from my teenage years :) but today I was stuck on a road with 2 oncoming lanes and 2 outgoing lanes. I was stuck in a heard of 12-14 cars going at least 15 miles below the speed limit. Once it broke up a little and I was able to make my way through to the front I noticed that the 2 cars that were holding everyone up both were KEBs. And the best part is that this isn't an isolated incident! Somebody please help these poor poeple as I cannot!

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaggghhh!!!!!!!!

LSU Football and a Moment of Reflection

2004-11-27T12:58:00.000-08:00

Yesterday - Whew, where to start? I think that the 10+ hours of Jack and Coke intake coupled with the precise and total anniahlation of the Arkansas Razorbacks by the LSU Tigers has left me a bit dazed today. It really was a great day for football. The sun was out at times and for the day after Thnaksgiving it was a breezy 59 degrees. The after party downtown was even better though. As a New Orleans native, there was just something that seemed so right about the hoard of Cajun righteousness that invaded Little Rock last night. We went to a local drinking establishment to see the band that played our wedding and together with family and friends - we proceeded to get crazy :)

The Smell of Coffee

2004-11-26T06:52:00.000-08:00

Isn't it funny how things come rushing back to you in an instant? I was sitting in bed this morning trying to wake up. The sun was coming in the blinds to my back and I had a flashback to when I was a kid.

I would stay at my grandparents house and when I would wake up, the smell of coffee would be circulating the house. I would go into the living room and look into the kitchen and the sun would be coming in like it was this morning thru the kitchen window. My Grandma would be sitting at their bar reading the Times-Picayune and would always look up and smile at me and make me Eggo waffles.

Needless to say, I awoke with a big smile today.

Poke me, doth gravy not come out?

2004-11-25T18:29:00.000-08:00

Ahhh...the night of Thanksgiving. I think that I have gained 7 pounds in one day. We went to eat out at my Uncle-in-law's duck lodge with family. Had smoked turkey, had fried turkey, stuffing, taters, a new personal fave cheese grits, cake, pie, and pepto.

Mmmmmmmmmmmm!

Open for Business

2004-11-25T07:39:00.000-08:00

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! After spending countless days reading my cousin's Blog, I have been inspired to start my own. I don't know how often I'll be able to update it and stay up on things, but hey, it's a start for someone who never wrote a paper over 5 pages in college :) Definately more to come...