I am not sure where our society as a whole would be if not for the crack journalism at Fox News. Their latest article is one of those gems that will change the course of human society. It is entitled “Eight Sex Myths You Should Not Believe” and it has Pulitzer written all over it.
Really, I felt part of my brain die when I read it.
Last week was an absolute nightmare. I was tasked at work with getting 3 pieces of hardware up and running. Unfortunately they needed to be updated to code that is still currently in development. the engineers that read this will appreciate that I must have pissed someone off to get this assignment. I started Tuesday, hit a couple of bumps…then Wednesday rolled around and the shit hit the proverbial fan at an alarming rate. I hit wall after wall, some of them were brick, some concrete, some even had spikes on them. I spent all day Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday talking to every developer, tester, team lead, pet code monkey that I could find to try to get at least one system up and running. Friday afternoon came around and I was preparing myself for the worst, to work the weekend. At about 5:30 on Friday, all 3 machines updated successfully. I was amazed, but still wasn’t going to start breathing quite yet. I wanted to give them a day to settle. I was almost sure they would bomb out and then I would have to skip church on Saturday to go in and fix them again. But they seemed to be stable enough and so I called it good. Then Sunday came and I helped Josh and Katie move into their new house. A lot of people showed up to help and it was good because Josh’s minivan started acting up. Don was able to scrounge up some bolts to bolt something back on. Not sure what it was, but it’s fixed now. Here is a great pic of the moment.
I then stuck around and helped them unpack and get settled in their new place. It was a really long day but it was well worth it to see Josh and Katie and their kids in their new house. Even if it is all the way out past BFE.
I had a really kick ass weekend this weekend. It started Saturday night when I went out with a friend. I haven’t hung out with her in a long time, and it was really good to catch up and just “shoot the shit” as it were. We met for dinner after church at Outback, and we sat on the patio. It was a chilly night, but they had space heaters once the sun went down. We had a great meal, served by a great server (Eric) and we had great conversation. We had a leisurely dinner and then we moved into the bar so Eric could get off. We then hung out with him as he ate dinner. After that Eric and the Outbacker’s were going to go down to 4th Ave and I planned on going with them. But unfortunately I went home and laid down and promptly fell asleep. I woke up just in time to not make it anywhere. Sunday was uneventful, played WoW most of the day. Then last night, when everyone celebrated St. Patrick’s day (yes I said celebrated cause it was actually on Saturday see here for more) I actually made it out! We ended up going to several places I have never been, which was even more fun than the old standbys. We started at the Auld Dubliner for some Harp, then we walked down to 4th Ave to O’Malleys. We hung out there and then went to get pizza at Brooklyn Pizza. I have to say, that was some really good pizza. Then we went back to O’Malleys and then eventually to Plush. All in all it was a really good time.
I have to start this post off with an admission. I didn’t want to go to church today. I am not sure why, but all day I was thinking how nice it would be not to have to go, and I had to stop myself from thinking of ways so that I wouldn’t have to go. But in the end, I went. It was an interesting sermon having to do with personal “sweet spots” in church and profession, life in general. As Josh was sermoning (I am aware this is not a word so just deal) I thought to myself what my sweet spot was. The answer I came up with is really not what I expected. I feel that I have fallen into the trap of doing things because there is no one else to do them, even if I am not the greatest at them. I see a need, a desire for something to happen, and I want to see that fulfilled. What would happen if I just kept to my sweet spot? Would people be disappointed?
This weekend was the first of hopefully many opportunities that I take to branch out of my comfort box. Eric, one of my good buddies, has a lot of interesting colleagues. Friday night after hanging out with Jen & Ryan for beer and video games, I went out with Eric and his co-workers to the Shelter Lounge. Now any of you that have been to the Shelter in the past should go again. It is a calm atmosphere and now that there is no smoking inside, it is a lot more fun and relaxing. We hung out there and I met some crazy people. By the time anyone realized it, or rather before I realized it, it was already 2:30 in the morning. I usually am sound asleep at that time, so I was pleasantly surprised that I wasn’t yawning my face off. Then Saturday night, after church some people went out to Chuy’s for dinner. I had gone to dinner and hung out with Chris and Melissa and of course Randy, but Scott and Pam were there along with Kevin and his family. Unfortunately, we sat at a long table (they don’t have circular tables) so it was almost impossible to converse with Kevin. After everyone left there I was totally thinking of a nap. But when I got home Eric gave me a call and I went to his house to hang. Well, we decided to put in an “appearance” at Olive ‘r Twists, a local sports bar. So we drove over there and got to chatting with all the people and once again I was surprised to look at the time and see that it was 2 o’clock. Well, I had planned on getting a better nights sleep, but that plan was so shot. Fortunately, I was able to sleep in on Sunday as I did not go to small group. Then Randy, Eric and I went to see 10,000 BC, but I’ll post about that later. Suffice it to say, it was freakin’ hilarious!
I am really excited about this movie coming out this weekend. It looks really good as far as visual effects, but that isn’t the only reason. I am going to drag Eric to go see it with me. Now, I do this not only cause we are friends or have pretty similar taste in movies, it’s because he cracks me up with some of the things he says. He is an archeology professor at a community college here in town, so he is really smart. I was there when he saw the preview for this movie the first time. I think he called it ridiculous because, “there wasn’t monolithic architecture in the same time as major fauna.” (or something to that effect) Basically he said that during the time of saber toothed tigers and mastodons, people didn’t build temples that big. It will definitely be a fun time just hearing what he has to say about the movie once it’s over. Here is the official site.
I saw this test on Josh’s blog here, and thought it would be fun to take. Here are my results:
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You scored as AnselmAnselm is the outstanding theologian of the medieval period.He sees man’s primary problem as having failed to render unto God what we owe him, so God becomes man in Christ and gives God what he is due. You should read ‘Cur Deus Homo?’
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In theory, being honest is something that everyone should be doing and have no problem doing it. In reality it is much more difficult as I have found out. I am one that usually spends a lot of time thinking of the right words to say in a certain situation. Many times, people think of me as slow or slightly dim witted because of it. I have been trying to make an effort to speed up my reaction time to things, for example come-backs to jokes and/or digs at me. I realized tonight that I totally suck at it. I don’t know why, but I am not as witty as the next guy. I don’t enjoy harsh joking at a friends expense. If I am pressured to say something in a moment, I am bound to say the wrong thing and further offend someone. It is never meant, but the offense is still there. How do I not do that? Do I just stop interacting all together? Can I trust the friends that I have to still be there if I say something un-intentially offensive?
So I went to see Jumper last night with a group of friends from church. It was a really good time, but not a spectacular movie. The visual effects were pretty standard while the concept of the movie was really cool. Some might say that it is yet another X-Men movie, but I would disagree. X-Men all have different powers, jumpers only have 1.
Anyways, the story starts with this high school boy, played by Hayden Christensen, that is ridiculed and basically a loser. He has a crush on this girl and tries to give her a snow globe. It was a little corny and the snow globe was seen, but never explained later in the movie. Did she have a collection of snow globes? Is that her absolute most favoritest thing in the world? Who knows, they didn’t tell us. Back to the story, there is this other guy that picks on our jumper and throws his gift out onto a frozen river. Well, as you might expect when walking on a frozen river, the ice broke and our jumper falls in. To save his own life, he “jumps” to the library. This was his first jump. He then learns how to control his jumping and eventually puts his power to the test. You might be asking yourself, “Scott, how does he do this?” Well, he robs a bank. The story then takes a, no pun intended, jump into the future and our jumper has got himself a plush apartment with lots of cool toys and a secret room filled with cash (dead useful if you ask me). Thus we are really introduced to the paladins. This is a group of people that hunt down jumpers. They don’t really explain how or why the paladins were formed or how they get their cool technology. The paladin named Roland, played by Samuel L. Jackson, then tries to kill our jumper. Suffice it to say, he failed. Our jumper then hooks up with the girl from his high school days and takes her to Rome, where they meet another jumper. The story then goes on for a bit and finally the jumpers decide to team up to go stop Roland and the rest of the paladins. Well, somehow the girl gets captured and the jumper squad breaks up and decides to pursue solo careers. So our now solo jumper decides to go rescue the fair maiden and jumps right into a trap. You learned earlier in the movie that electricity stops a jumper from being able to jump so the next part is a little weird. Our jumper of course gets caught in the trap, and with electricity running through his body, he decides to jump the entire apartment into the ocean. Maybe this is to show that he is an all powerful jumper-being and he can jump anything, but really? So they jump into the ocean, then jump out and somehow Roland comes along. So what does our little jumping bean do? He jumps Roland into a cave in a Grand Canyon looking place and leaves him. The end of the movie was a scene where our jumper friend goes to his mothers house. His mother left him and his dad when he was 5. Come to find out, the hot Diane Lane is really a paladin and to protect her son, she had to leave or kill him. Kinda harsh don’t you think? And that’s it.
I would have liked to see more development of the history of the paladins and their obsession with destroying the jumpers as well as a little more with the mother. And no, that last bit is not just cause I want to see more Diane Lane, but that would never hurt would it?
Rottentomatoes.com gave this movie only a 15%, which is surprising when you look at how much money it is raking in at the box office.
Well, we knew it was going to happen sooner or later. Here is an article that goes through the IP address crisis that is approaching ever so fast. I think it is a little bit funny just because there are only a finite number of addresses available in the IPv4 format, so you would think they would have had plans in the works a long LONG time ago to expand this once the internet took off like it has.
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