Ever since i was young, i remember having a bias against any large corporation, or superseding entity. Riding in the "way back then" machine, i recall watching an episode of that Tim Allen show, Home Improvement, and noticing that it, along with a number of other popular television shows, were produced by Buena Vista Production, which is ( Read more... )

So in just over 2 weeks, i will be leaving Seattle for a while. Just like leaving Los Angeles, it hasn't really hit me yet. I'm not really sure leaving Seattle will have the same impact that leaving Los Angeles did. I certainly love the city, and want to come back here to live someday in the future. And i also have a few friends, but there isn' ( Read more... )

During my week long vacation in Los Angeles, i had hoped to meed up with my friend Z (not her real name, but i will keep that confidential). The monday before my trip began I had managed to get a hold of her via the phone and discovered that she was moving, but still expecting to be free when i arrived. So the plan was to keep in contact and ( Read more... )

So i was having dinner at Outback Steakhouse after a viewing of Avenue Q. And as i was slicing, chewing, and eventually swallowing, my steak i realized something. I enjoyed their bread far more than i was enjoying the steak. I even enjoyed the "Aussie Chips" more than the steak. I even enjoyed my Ceaser Salad more than the steak, and if you ( Read more... )

Last weekend, and one a week or two prior, my co-workers and I decided it would be good fun to see one of the many blockbuster films appearing these days. One weekend was a viewing of Iron Man, and another was for the latest Indiana Jones movie. I'm not film critic, but i enjoyed both films to some degree, although i was a little bored by Iron ( Read more... )

I was playing foosball with a couple co-workers this Thursday evening. As we were playing, i made some comment regarding World Of Warcraft, and my foos team mate said something along the lines of "I don't see why anyone would waste there time with games like that, they are such time sinks. They could instead just start up a software company and ( Read more... )

Life has a terrible tendency to fall into patterns. I wake up at 8:15 every day durring the week, take a shower, take a short nap, and then head off to the bus. Then i spend some time at work, eat lunch at precisely noon, eat a bowl of cereal around 3pm. Then comes dinner at exactly 6:30, and head back on the bus home at 7:30. The weekends are ( Read more... )

During my first few weeks as an intern here, i became friends with a Chinese fellow named Haidong. We occasionally chat about things such as politics and the sort. Since he's quit Chinese, having grown up in Beijing most of his life and only spent a few years in the US for graduate school, and now work, a lot of his conversations focus on the ( Read more... )

a girl from yamhill, by beverly cleary
tiger eyes, by judy blume
five past midnight, by james thayer
freakonomics

A short post that i wanted to be separate from other musings.

I've set up a web server for myself on my home machine. I intend on it being a blog with more of a focus that my live journal, and potentially other things, maybe even a comic strip if i ever get around to being artsy.

In any case, the url is thus:

fozziethebeat.netShortly, it will ( Read more... )