Year: 2007

Didn’t I promise you fireworks?

So today, being July 4th, the day the United States of America (not very united at the time) declared independence. Hooray!

Many years afterwards, this is celebrated virtually everywhere in the US of A, as everything pretty much shuts down, parades are done, cookouts and fairs are up, hotdogs and baseball, and to close the evening’s festivities, fireworks.

I had the pleasure of going to the South Street Seaport in Manhattan, after spending a nice day out in River Edge, New Jersey, with the aunt, uncle & cousin. We had a good time, and after I got back into the city and got some Continue reading Didn’t I promise you fireworks?

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.

The quote in the title is an old Chinese proverb I found interesting, and decided to act on that.

Do you have a question that you want answered?

Are you dying to know what other people think about a certain subject, idea, or just bored?

I propose to start asking people in New York City a question or two, film them on camera, for a week. Then, compose their responses into a short clip and show it to you.

I will take suggestions for questions on this post, and if you like someone else’s suggestion, respond to their post with your vote.

What do you think?

Oh, yeah, and Happy Independence Day.

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.

The quote in the title is an old Chinese proverb I found interesting, and decided to act on that.

Do you have a question that you want answered?

Are you dying to know what other people think about a certain subject, idea, or just bored?

I propose to start asking people in New York City a question or two, film them on camera, for a week. Then, compose their responses into a short clip and show it to you.

I will take suggestions for questions on this post, and if you like someone else’s suggestion, respond to their post with your vote.

What do you think?

Oh, yeah, and Happy Independence Day.

Travel? I travel! Do you travel?

So this morning I headed out on a bus to Boston – yes, that’s Boston, Massachusetts, not Austin, Massachusetts! – where Lisa & family live.

The bus was a nice long 4-odd hour long ride, thanks to Greyhound’s partnership with Peter Pan bus line. I had actually reserved, paid and printed my own tickets ahead of time, so all I had to do is get to Port Authority, find my gate and then wait in line.

It worked almost too smoothly, so I was a little suspicious of what lies ahead. Continue reading Travel? I travel! Do you travel?

Some people are pretty darned cool

So my good friend Erez sent me this via email, and I thought it was pretty darned awesome. A company comes together to do something as strange and creative as this, now that’s a company that everyone wants to work for.

So check out how they’ve taken an old idea of recording yourself lip-syncing into a whole new realm.

See it here: Continue reading Some people are pretty darned cool

Learn from others what not to do

So a while ago, my friend David sent me a funny article (funny for us, not for the article’s subjects).

It showed what some brilliant SysAdmin had done at his company’s location, and how it backfired miserably.

Read it here: A “Priceless” Server Room: Priceless – Worse Than Failure

I hope you enjoy reading the article. I think I may have Continue reading Learn from others what not to do

And they call this “horror”!

A word to the wise: Don’t waster your time on movies that have nothing new to show you.

Oh yes, spoiler alert for The Messengers (2007) – it’s probably worse than you think.

To start off with – the cast is nice and small, so there’s not 50,000 characters and plot lines to follow. However, the one plot that is there is so weak that it makes you want to kill the writers, not just the actors.

The suspense scenes are so badly drawn out, and the music tries to heighten the sensation – but if you’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all.

It all starts out with the family moving from Chicago to North Dakota to a Continue reading And they call this “horror”!