One good thing about finishing finals is the chance to relax a bit with some mindless TV. So while channel surfing this afternoon, I was surprised to discover a new addition to the Indiana Jones flicks: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doo!
I’m guessing Dish Network came up one available character short on their channel guide. But as I was afraid to find out what evil, icky villians of Doo might have been chasing after Harrison Ford, I elected instead to turn the TV off and get out of the house for a bit.
Chelsea’s off in sunny California this week, taking a class on the Series 7 exam for her new job. To prepare she made a stack of several hundred notecards with new vocabulary words she has to learn for this test. But she began the class today by learning a couple of terms that weren’t in her book.
“There are two kinds of people in this world,” her flamboyant instructor declared. “Dot people and ish people.”
“I myself am an ish person,” she continued. “So when I say this class will start at 8 every morning, I really mean it will start at 8-ish.”
“If you’re a dot person, you need to know this so you won’t get frustrated when you show up at 8 on the dot and I’m not here.”
That got me thinking - since I am most definitely an ish person, why do I strive to fight my very nature…my ish-ness, something that’s at the core of my being, to become a dot person?
Would life be better if I just came to peace with the fact that I’m an ish person and explained that to all the people I live and work around? (I’m pretty sure most of them know that already.) Or are we ish people grossly inconsiderate of the poor dots who always sit around waiting for us?
How about you? Are you a dot person or an ish person?
A few of us are working from home this week because they’re replacing the air conditioning in our offices, and it’s not as much fun to work when it’s 82 degrees and there’s construction noise all around. So since I’ve fired up the webcam to communicate with co-workers, it would be an irresponsible waste of bandwidth if I didn’t set up PetCam 2008! Check it out!
Update: Semi-Pro didn’t live up to my lofty expectations. There were some good parts involving wrestling a bear at mid-court, but I was hoping for more from a Will Ferrell sports flick. I’m kinda hoping he moves beyond sports movies now. But hey, these commercials are still great.
Semi-Pro with Will Ferrell is perhaps my Most Anticipated Movie of the Year So Far, and these commercials almost make me want to buy Old Spice deodorant just so I won’t smell like a turtle cage. Continue Reading »
I’ve discovered some new personal favorites that I’ve enjoyed watching, listening to or eating (as appropriate) these days, and I thought I’d share them since I’ve got the day off today and should obviously be studying or doing something more productive.
Favorite fast food while attempting to do a low-carb diet: Wendy’s. The fine followers of Dave Thomas really know how to help a guy along in his quest to drop a few pounds this winter. You see, I always gave up around Day 3 of my previous diet attempts, but I’ve made it almost a month this time, and I think I owe it all to the fact that Wendy’s will make a cheeseburger wrapped in lettuce and packaged in a nice little dish, if you simply just ask them to cut the bun. Oh, and they’ll also give you chili (darn good chili!) instead of fries.
Favorite offbeat musical group: Flight of the Conchords. I can’t recall how I finally discovered these guys since we don’t have the fancy channels and I’ve been oblivious to their show on HBO. But I’m a fan of their whole catalog, particularly “Business Time”:
Favorite TV show: anything in HD. I’ve recently discovered that I will only watch shows if they’re in high definition, and I have found myself watching most anything in HD. Case in point: the other night I settled on some show called “Sumo School” on one of those HD travel channels. It was about these Japanese guys training to be Sumo wrestlers. Somehow the fact it’s in HD makes any show fascinating. Although it probably doesn’t matter what I watch, since I fall asleep on the couch regardless.
Ok, it’s about time for a Wendy’s lettuce-wrap burger now. So what are your faves these days?
I never thought that the little Segway human transporter could be a chick magnet, but I was proven wrong today when I spotted an SMU police officer on our main quad, giving Segway rides to co-eds. The cop was surrounded by at least four girls, giving them pointers on how to drive the thing around the big fountain. Talk about a 21st-century way to pick up girls!
So the little Apple iPhone is coming out on Friday.
I’ve tried several angles in a quest to get one. In the budget process at work, I put one in the budget — you know, for completely legitimate mobile Internet-browsing reasons. The poor thing stayed in the budget about as long as it took my budget spreadsheet to be emailed from my computer to my boss’s computer.
I tried talking Chelsea into it. I even considered creating a spreadsheet showing how getting an iPhone would actually save us money compared to our current cell phone plan. Didn’t work either.
So since the big 3-0 is coming up in September, last night Chel said I should tell my family and friends that I wanted an iPhone for my birthday and asking them to contribute to my iPhone fund. And thus, BuyBenaniPhone.com is born. Although I made the site primarily for my own personal amusement, the giving page really would enable you to contribute to my bona fide iPhone savings account. So check it out, and if you were going to get me a birthday gift anyways, think about making a small contribution to the fund.
Ok, actually, we went to go see the movie Knocked Up last night (which we thought was very funny), and I visited the movie’s website today while goofing off online. They have a site called KnockedUpBabyMaker.com where you can combine photos of two people to see what their baby would look like. So, without further ado, I present to you an advance look at Baby Alexander!
She has her dad’s eyes and chin and her mom’s nose, mouth and hairline! I am certain that our actual baby will be cuter than this, especially if she looks more like her mom. But I guess we’ll have to wait about six semesters or so to find out.
While spending part of my day off goofing around on the computer, I found a neat little thing that will let you “subscribe” to Jaminfrog and automatically get an email whenever a new entry is posted. It might be a good thing as my posts get fewer and farther between while I’m in school…since it’ll save you a trip if there’s nothing new to read.
To give it a go, just visit the subscribe page, submit your e-mail address, then click the link within the confirmation email you’ll receive. Happy subscribing!
One good thing about finishing finals is the chance to relax a bit with some mindless TV. So while channel surfing this afternoon, I was surprised to discover a new addition to the Indiana Jones flicks: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doo!
Favorite fast food while attempting to do a low-carb diet: Wendy’s. The fine followers of Dave Thomas really know how to help a guy along in his quest to drop a few pounds this winter. You see, I always gave up around Day 3 of my previous diet attempts, but I’ve made it almost a month this time, and I think I owe it all to the fact that Wendy’s will make a cheeseburger wrapped in lettuce and packaged in a nice little dish, if you simply just ask them to cut the bun. Oh, and they’ll also give you chili (darn good chili!) instead of fries.
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