The Seven P's -- Proper Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance

I actually have a Bacon Number!  My Bacon Number is 2.

I was an extra in American Gangster, which stars Cuba Gooding Jr.
Cuba Gooding Jr. was in A Few Good Men with Kevin Bacon.

Don't ask me why I think that's cool enough to blog about.

I think calling these little blog questionnaires "memes" is a bit narcissistic. I mean, when I first learned what a meme was, I was taught that it was an enduring piece of information passed on generationally or culturally. Like mores and folkways, for example. "Gentlemen open doors for ladies." "Stealing is wrong." These questionnaires won't ( Read more... )

URL: http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,146977,00.html

SAN DIEGO - A Marine drill instructor has been charged with 225 criminal counts connected to abusing recruits, a Marines spokesman said Thursday.
In one incident, Sgt. Jerrod M. Glass allegedly ordered a recruit to jump head-first into a trash can and then pushed him further into the ( Read more... )

So the good news is I stumbled upon a USEFUL and easy-to-use CAPTCHA called reCAPTCHA (http://www.recaptcha.net).  You can obscure your e-mail address from spambots by entering it into a form, copying the html code (a link) it gives you and pasting it anywhere you'd want your e-mail address to appear in the web page.  "somebody@mailservice.net" ( Read more... )

Well, let me start by saying it is indeed worth buying a ticket to see Transformers in the theater.  (First run, not dollar-show)  Given the script, Bay did a pretty good job of bringing the robots in disguise to the big screen.  When I say given the script, I mean there were some problems with it but they don't really hit you until after it's over ( Read more... )

Well, today's the day. If all has gone well at the Consulate (the wife needs to add pages to her passport again), Lise should be buying tickets for the 7pm (7am CDT) showing of Transformers as I write this. I'm just so excited, and petty, I just thought I'd make you all jealous of that fact, again.


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Last time I wrote about living in Thailand, or overseas in general, I mentioned being homesick and the things I can't do here. But there are a lot of things I can do, like go to movies.  The theaters are modern and comfortable, and often movies are released earlier here than in the US.

Now there's a movie supposed to come out around Independence ( Read more... )

My wife has decided she wants to trim the fat and get healthy.  For this purpose, she has decided to go on what I have come to call the BARF diet.
No, we're not talking anorexia.  Her diet will consist of what appears to be Birdseed And Rabbit Food.

While I like stuff like muesli and salads, her devotion to this diet will require me to cut back from ( Read more... )

So I went out to dinner with my wife and another married couple.  It's not as fancy as it sounds, we go to the open market down the street where vendors have these stalls with propane tanks, burners, and woks and rickety tables and stools serve as their restaurants.  It's tasty yet cheap.  Anyway, we had walked half-way to the covered area when my ( Read more... )