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Monday, April 30, 2001
Wrinkle in Time begins TV movie production
Interesting, tho I don't recall that the father had a partner in the novel. Ah well, translations from book to film usually fall far short of expectations. Friday, April 27, 2001
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 23:43:53 -0400 From: User To: Boss Cc: dwinn Subject: Great technical support! Ms. Boss, I wanted to let you know you have a wonderful employee...Dan Winningham. I called 555-HELP on Tues and was connected with Dan, I was having a problem with my modem. Over the course of more than an hour Dan patiently walked me through a series of troubleshooting options and finally identified the problem and had my computer back online. Not being able to connect was more than just an inconvenience, I had an important paper that needed to be finished that evening and because of Dan's patience and technical support I was able to complete it on time. So, thank you for having such a great support person available, and thanks to Dan for all his help, he saved the day for me! Where's my damn raise?!? Tuesday, April 24, 2001
I hope I'm able to restrain myself from killing anyone before the wedding. One of the reasons men traditionally want to have little to do with putting the wedding together is that men want things to set up and proceed as simply as possible, and short of eloping, that's impossible to do.
Don't get me wrong -- our wedding planning has gone remarkably smooth. But all the little niggling things make it hard to keep from getting frustrated. As soon as I hear "I don't want to invite X person, but Y person will be upset because Z person doesn't show" or "No, we have to do wedding pre-event A by day B and people C-G need to be there" my teeth begin to grate. If men were responsible for weddings, the world would be a different place. Don't like Aunt Edna? NO INVITE. Grandma's mad cause you didn't invite Aunt Edna? TOUGH CRAP. Cousin Billy who you barely know needs to watch you open all your gifts? GO HOME. Ceremony? 5 MINUTES. Honeymoon? 3 WEEKS. Julie often says, "Sure, it's our day, but we're sharing it with friends and family." Well sure, but once we have to change things to at the whim of others, it's not about us anymore. I'm sure it'll be worth it once Jules and I are chilling in Vegas, doing only what we want to do, not beholden to or concerned with what anyone else on the planet wants other than her and I. Thursday, April 19, 2001
Monday, April 16, 2001
Jules and I went up to see my folks yesterday, and there were two moments of Zen:
In the truck on the way out, I was listening to news radio for a traffic report. We waited through a news story about a traffic accident, where the man being interviewed kept referring to the vehicles in question as ve-HICKles. At exactly the same time both Jules and I said mockingly, "ve-HICKles." Then, when talking to my Dad, I told Jules (who had been teasing me) to "Stop Whining!" ala the Arnold Prank Phone Calls. My Dad laughed and said, "Aren't those the funniest things you've ever heard?" I felt as if I'd become one with the universe. Friday, April 13, 2001
Tuesday, April 10, 2001
Monday, April 09, 2001
More on David Duval:
 In the last 4 years, he's placed in 2nd twice, 3rd, and 6th at Augusta. Yesterday's 14-under-par was the best score at the Masters ever by someone who did not win. (Only Woods has shot better there.)
For some, it's not spring until baseball season starts, but for me it's always been The Masters. This year's version was the perhaps the best I'd seen in about fifteen years of watching golf, right up there with Nicklaus' 6th Masters win in 1986 at the age of 45.
I'll be the first to tell you that I'm not the biggest fan of Tiger Woods, but it's mostly not his fault -- it's just the incredible hype, the fawning and ass-kissing that comes at every mention, every act. This whole nonsense about whether the four major victories in a row he's had constitutes a Grand Slam, for example. While there's no official definition, Nicklaus, Palmer, and most others agree that the Grand Slam is to win all four major tournaments -- The Masters, the US Open, the British Open, and the PGA Championship -- in the same calendar year, just like the Triple Crown in horse racing. Tiger did not do this. (Yet.) Though what he has done is truly amazing. However, I thought I was going to be sick when Jim Nantz, whom I normally like, kept referring to the four Majors in a row that Tiger won as the "Tiger-Slam." Ugh. I guess Jim liked verbally fellating Shane Battier so much during the NCAA Basketball Tournament that he wanted to do the same for Tiger while the getting was good. So in summary: dwinn -- amazed by Tiger's mad skillz; sickened by media and commentator hype; still believes Nicklaus greatest of all time. Although the blame for his failure falls solely on his own shoulders, I feel bad for David Duval. I'd been following him even before his hot streak a few years ago, before becoming the (former) number one golfer in the world. He's the epitome of cool on the course; the Iceman if there ever was one. The sad thing is, because of Tiger's exploits, guys like Duval and Mickelson may never get the props they deserve. I think Julie probably feels bad for him too -- not because she likes Golf or was really paying much attention during the broadcast, but because she thinks he's a cutie-pie. Sunday, April 08, 2001
One day I'm going to write a comedy routine that simply wants to know:
"What is the deal with gas stations wanting to sell you mulch? Drive by any gas station this time of year, and the mulch is piled up ten feet high. Now I know the first place I think of when I want to buy Mulch is not Franks, Home Depot, or Lowe's. It's Sunoco. Here's the thoughts of some Ohio State people on the subject (about halfway down): http://www.ag.ohio-state.edu/~ohioline/textline/nltr/almc/1997/02-23.txt Tuesday, April 03, 2001
Okay, I think Jules has given me the scoop in getting things set up the way I want it to be. The book list and archives by month should show up again on the left.
Since the Blogger server upgrade my description info was truncated. Turns out that's because they lowered the amount of info you could have in there from 7800 characters to 500.
Wah-WAH! So, that means I'll be abandoning this current format/setup/whatever in order to build a page with tables that can handle the info the way I want it. One word to describe this? Ugh I kind of liked having the description area set up the way it was just to keep the past month links and book list in line. But alas. When Allen introduced me to what we call the "web" nowadays back in February of 1995, I was one of those dopes who had to put all the links, pictures, blink tags, animations, colors and whatnot on my web page. In the last three years I've adopted a SSOS philosophy -- Simple & Substance Over Style -- which makes my current web page look the way it does. When Dann showed me Blogger, I latched on to one of the templates and held on for dear life, even tho Dann's and Julie's and most other people twisted, tweaked, and adapted the blogs to whatever they liked. I guess it's time to get back into the late nineties and try to remember all those table tags... |
