Monthly Archives: January 2007

Mydo Kawa

So I was listening to a station on Pandora.  This band comes on and starts sining, “Mydo Kawa.”  I was thinking to myself, “These guys sound white enough, but that’s surely some oriental language.”  Turns out its the Steve Miller Band and he’s singing “My Dark Hour.”  Enunciate!  Or move to Canada, learn to enunciate and then sing your silly songs.  Mydo Kawa!

Taxes

So today (a day late) we sent in our quarterly taxes to the IRS.  Fortunately for them we’re not one of the huge number of federal employees who are giving them headaches by not filing their taxes… from last year or before.  You can read a little about it here.  I love a good tax story as much as the next person, which is to say not at all.  Taxes are possibly more certain than death because some people have been frozen and aren’t technically dead.  Of course the other side of it is that I’d rather pay taxes than die right now.  To be honest I find that as my finances turn more and more into digital transactions taking place off in the ether of the interwebs and telephone lines on computers run by mega-corporations I don’t think about money like I used to when I was dealing with cold hard cash, so paying taxes has turned into part of being inside of the matrix.  I hate it, but its what makes me feel alive.  And I like this steak – even if it isn’t real.

Pray for My Friend

I have a friend who will remain nameless due to my not having asked for permission to publish any information, but he was one of the ushers in my wedding in 1998.  He is 28.  Last November or December he was diagnosed with cancer in his man-parts, they cut that out and then discovered that he had it in his lymph nodes.  Friday they discovered it had spread to his chest and into his lungs.  Pray for this anonymous guy.  He’s married and has three children.  God knows who he is and what he needs, but in all of this I also know that there are real emotions, real hearts and real lives being effected.  Thanks.

Librariers or Book Borders

I just accidentally typed Libraries and instead typed librariers.  Librariers are clearly the things preventing me from getting my books back on time.  To put this in perspective last year I spent more money on late book fees at the library than I did video rental fees.  Scary.  I think that the Librarians see me coming and fear for their books and other patrons because they know that my family returns books so slowly that some authors have probably written and published new children’s books in between our picking up their previous 16 page special and when we’ll eventually return it.  Librariers exist because goofy patrons like us forget that we can renew the books online… if we remembered we had them.

And that’s why we can’t have nice things.

What Realy Happened Today for Work

In real life I worked hard to get a project done, I will continue to work hard on that project tonight after the girls go to bed.  But in fantasy land…

I worked on a super-cool video game, and in one afternoon I singlehandedly created the most brilliant first level ever conceived.  And then showed it off to the world via a video on youtube that got more hits than any other video has ever gotten.  While I waited the approximate 10 minutes that the viral video took to garner the worldwide attention it deserved I recorded one of the songs for the album I’m making this year.  It was the most fruitful 10 minutes in recording history.

The fantastic world that I live in is way more exciting than real life.  The meticulous project I’m working on is going to have to be produced in stages.  Not stages for acting, but sequential layers of completion.  Completion that seems far off, even if the requirement is that it is done in only a few weeks.  Fortunately I’m working with a group of other coders who have their stuff together so we’re making great headway.

ET Would Be So Jealous!

So Apple announced the iPhone yesterday.  Its not much of a phone, in fact more than anything its a mini-computer that happens to do telephony.  Its the most amazing device – I predict that soon it will work as a remote control for my Apple TV device.  And by ‘my’ I mean the one that I lustfully wish that I would own.  Some day maybe.  But I think that the new iPhone is truly one of the most innovative devices because it does integrate so much more than any other phone, it has an interface that blows me away, and frankly, for the power that it offers, is worth the $499.00 price tag (or $599.00 if you get more storage capacity).

If Apple lets developers write applications (and I think they will) then we’re going to see people doing amazing things on that phone.  My inner-geek is on overdrive.  Jessica is tired of hearing me talk about it.  I want to be able to surf the net, chat on the phone, text message and listen to music all on the same device – and have the interface look good, too.  RIM (who makes the blackberry) is really probably dreading June when the device will be available on the market.

We Missed the Apprentice Season Premier

And boy are we sad.  We were really hoping to catch the sappy intro wherein the Hair Flair Scare gets greeted by his super-model wife and child who has more hair than him and then he tells us about how the apprentice is going to finally be selected from a group of cannibals who have no qualms eating their opponents for breakfast, lunch and dinner [and if Taco Bell sponsors it again, “fourth meal”].  Can you believe we missed that?

I would have loved to have seen the opponents get briefly introed as successful business people, brilliant students and quadrillionaires.  Which leads me to my next point: why doesn’t Donald Trumpt do an ‘Apprentless’ show where people compete to work in the mail room.  Normal people.  People like you and I?  What?  You don’t want to filter through Donald Trump’s email?  Me neither, but it would be a good candidate for the Discover channel’s Dirty Jobs show 🙂

Prepare for the Deluge

I’m going to be rather busy for the next several months.  This is common for this time of the year and about 2 years ago I worked insane hours for three months – last year I worked insane hours for about a month.  Usually I think I will blog less, but I find that I probably blog the same or more.  This means that you will probably not notice anything different or care about the change in things posted here, but I like to communicate with you the readers.  It makes me feel like a good personal blogger.

I also have some extra complications because I have several development jobs going at once so I’m going to be even busier than normal plus more busy which can be equated to busy, busy.  Or, in mathematical formala-like expressions:

Busy1 + Busy2 = Insanity3.

I find blogging to be a solace.  Not quite like the Scott Joplin song, but it still helps me to relaxe.  Music does, too, but blogging is faster to complete (thus the typos and the bad grammar).