lubos

texas crispy wings. ribs. champorado. tocino and scrambled eggs. steak. pancit palabok. pancakes. pork chop. chop suey.

no wonder that scale registered a few more - dammit!

injanpanakakanakana

Behind the scenes: one huge reason not to outsource!

Do read this thread - even if you're not a techie, you will be in stitches.

http://www.numair.com/2005/10/indian-techie-flamewar.html

and you can get more in-depth analysis at

http://sentientexemployees.blogspot.com


With the classic Office Space being reissued in a new spiffy DVD, we'll have more laughs. The characters above would fit in a sequel. C'mon, Hollywood - geeks are cool! Plus we love to laugh at morons. Nyhahahaha!

Outer Space

From today's TV Guide:

OH, MY!: George Takei is boldly going where no Star Trek vet has gone before: out of the closet. The 68-year-old actor — who played chief helm officer Mr. Sulu in the original series — has confirmed that he is gay. He made the revelation in the current issue of Frontiers, a Los Angeles magazine covering the gay and lesbian community. Takei said he would have come out sooner were it not for Starfleet's "don't ask, don't tell" policy.

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okay, who else? Spock? Worf? 7 of 9? No, not Ensign Sato! (but that would be ... interesting)

1st and 10 ... Week 8 prognostications

Cleveland at Houston ... could this be the day the Texans win? Nah.
Green Bay at Cincinnati ... Favre can't carry the pack all alone
Arizona at Dallas ... i'd pick the Cardinals, but ....
Chicago at Detroit ... this one i'll pick as an upset
Oakland at Tennessee ... Raiders finally show some life
Washington at NY Giants ... this one's for bragging rights
Miami at New Orleans ... how many wins left for Saints? not many
Jacksonville at St. Louis ... this is the week Jamie Martin becomes Jamie Martin
Minnesota at Carolina ... would you wanna lose to the Love Boat gang?
Kansas City at San Diego ... damn, i hate picking between fave teams
Tampa Bay at San Francisco ... wow, Rattay vs 49ers - high drama
Philadelphia at Denver ... Broncos bounce back
Buffalo at New England ... Tedy - we missed you
Baltimore at Pittsburgh ... without Raven D, this got less interesting

Last Week: 8-6
Overall: 51-51 (finally got back to break even)

Apocalypse Now Na

Woman on subway suddenly starts preaching as soon as doors close. "It is stated in the Bible ... we are in a countdown ... the world will end in 6 years!!" Or somesuch.

Common sense made me hold my tongue - but I wanted to get in a few sarcastic rebuttals.

"Daaayyymmm! I wuz gonna git married the year after that! Daaaayyymmm!"

"Girl, don't get me started on that shit. I'd like to get a pension and retire!"

"Who said? Mine here says we'll end up in 5. Want to make this interesting?"

"Tell that to the patients in the terminal cancer ward who have less than 6!"

"Okay, okay - how much do you want for the warning?"

"Thanks for nothing! Like we don't have enough to get depressed around here! Let's just have some terrorist blow us up right now!"

"Are you a terrorist? You sure just did a great job terrorizing us, lady!"

"Really!?!? RUN! RUN! RUN! LET'S GET OUT OF THE SUBWAY AND RUN FOR OUR LIVES! LET'S GO TO THE MOON! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!"

let 'er rip

i guess some people just do not have the time to do it on their own - but they managed to amass a huge music collection?

http://www.ripdigital.com/

http://www.hungrypod.com/

The advent of portable digital music players also opened the door for bandwagon-jumpers and attention-deficit trendy-wannabes. Professional CD ripping services are only for ... the technologically-challenged. Where's the fun in having others do the work for you? Who do you think you are - Donald Trump? You discover more about your music collection than you would ever think. Granted, it takes time. But you don't have to do it in one shot. I even bother to complete at least album titles and artwork (especially for those uhm, illegally procured *lol*). So if you're really a music fan, save your money, rip that old Oingo Boingo CD, and discover a lot more about Danny Elfman than his musical scores. But if you have all that disposable cash, sorry for treading on your Italian marble pathwalk.

canzone per il mio padre

Good morning, yesterday
You wake up and time has slipped away
And suddenly it's hard to find
The memories you left behind
Remember, do you remember

The laughter and the tears
The shadows of misty yesteryears
The good times and the bad you've seen
And all the others in between
Remember, do you remember
The times of your life (do you remember)

Reach back for the joy and the sorrow
Put them away in your mind
The mem'ries are time that you borrow
To spend when you get to tomorrow

Here comes the saddest part (comes the saddest part)
The seasons are passing one by one
So gather moments while you may
Collect the dreams you dream today
Remember, will you remember
The times of your life

Gather moments while you may
Collect the dreams you dream today
Remember, will you remember
The times of your life
Of your life
Of your life

Do you remember, baby
Do you remember the times of your life
Do you remember, baby
Do you remember the times of your life

soup nazis (or otherwise)

No More Sick Leaves For You! One Year!


No More Blogs For You! Until You Graduate!


No Porn For You! Like, For The Moment!

a violent history means you're doomed

if its a rainy weekend, it means we must go again to the cineplex and stick it to the hollywood gay mafia!

Doom
Andrzej Bartkowiak
The Rock cements his action star status by snagging a major role in Doom, the movie version of the game that justified teen boys having PCs. Actually, for me that would be Wolfenstein, but i guess Rock won't pass for badass Nazi-obliterating Jew BJ Blazkowicz. But eschewing the hordes-from-Hell angle, they play it straight up as a science project gone awry (which actually makes sense). And instead of making the Rock's character a cartoon, he was a better fit here as a ... let's just say it's way better than Scorpion King (in The Mummy Returns, not his solo movie). I think he still has too much dialogue for his own good, but there's a sequence where he squeaks "am not supposed to die...!" that reminded me of another cartoonish action star, Steven Seagal, when he gets sucked out in the stratosphere in Executive Decision (this remains one of his two - only! - best screen roles, the other being a lovable rogue chef in Under Siege). For muscle-bound action stars, directors should play to their strengths, not let them blabber all over the place. Other things to like: Karl Urban still having an Eomer hangover, sarcastic military guys (plug: watch Jarhead), and hello again, Rosamund Pike. What not to like? The only Asian member of Rock's Marines becomes headless early, and the BFG does not get fired enough. Its the BFG! The friggin BFG, dammit. Incredibly, this is the first Bartkowiak film that does not include DMX (nyhahahahaha - look it up).

A History of Violence
David Cronenberg
What do you do when your best-kept secrets are no longer such and come back to haunt you? Apparently, David Cronenberg knows. Well, at least for people like smalltown diner owner Tom Stall (Viggo Mortensen), who seems to be a Philly gangsta named Joey Cusack in another life. An isolated violent incident attracts the attention of one Carl Fogarty (a scarred and menacing Ed Harris), who seems amused that Tom/Joey has no memory of his past life at all. You keep wondering, is he the wrong guy? Is he amnesiac? And then the audience bursts into smug "a-ha"s when all is revealed. Since this is an R-rated film (it is Cronenberg after all), sex and violence (duh) abound, and Mortensen is perfect as a man running away from his past (i thought he was the King of Middle Earth?). The presence of the always-fetching Maria Bello is gravy, and William Hurt has a brief but meaty role as a crime boss.

After this brouhaha during the premiere of this movie months ago:


I think I will ignore that and applaud Cronenberg and this film, which was adapted from a graphic novel (search, search). Also made me put Shivers and eXistenZ on my rental queue. Crash? its about car crashes, sex, car crashes, sex, car crashes, sex. I'll take a pass.


Hmm ... that's two movies with LOTR links ... interesting.

1st and 10 ... Week 7 prognostications

Indianapolis at Houston ... c'mon - you really expect an upset here?
Pittsburgh at Cincinnati ... a must-see game - too bad i won't
Detroit at Cleveland ... i'll pick Dilfer's Browns, just for the heck of it
San Francisco at Washington ... this one i'll pick as an upset
Green Bay at Minnesota ... 2 crappy teams - may the lesser crap win
Kansas City at Miami ... its time to stop someone, Chiefs
New Orleans at St. Louis ... all those chickenshit calls ain't going the Saints' way
San Diego at Philadelphia ... the Bolts should easily handle the battered Iggles
Dallas at Seattle ... without Shaun Alexander, Seattle won't be 4-2
Tennessee at Arizona ... no air attack for Titans means Cards should win
Denver at NY Giants ... please, Eli, beat em Broncos!
Baltimore at Chicago ... despite Indy's gaudy numbers, Chicago has NFL's best defense
Buffalo at Oakland ... a reborn Bills team should get a road win at the Black Hole
NY Jets at Atlanta ... we may be watching this only for Michael Vick

Last Week: 8-6
Overall: 43-45

hallo, goobi

India gobbles up one more on the road to world supremacy - as if it wasn't enough that they already corner the market on outsourced US jobs.

Okay, is it just us, or does it look like only the competent ones stayed at home? Given our experiences here with those who immigrated - Delphi dealt with morons at the embassy, and we talk to banking people who can't even attach a file to an email, much less hire their own Oracle DBAs - it makes us wonder if did they get the opportunity to come over because of their brains, or did they just get by with their speaking skills (hell no - I have to ask them to repeat what they say, and they get riled up sometimes when they feel that people should kiss their feet)? I hope the jerks we deal with are a minority, because heaven help us if they aren't (the number of Desis - and they constitute the main demographic of immigrants in America with the most money to burn - is quite huge).

vidpod

once i saw it - there was a brief moment of "what th- ? i just got the new one - !", but then the more i thought about it, the size of the iPod screen will never do. I already have standing debates with my pals about iPod vs PSP, and we need a maximized marriage between the two gadgets.

Stick with the niche market, Apple. Or unless you can get Sony to the altar.

And what about that scratches on the iPod screen, hmmmmmm? care to do something about that?

booo-tay

the perfect blend of Jolie and Alba.

wow.

1st and 10 ... Week 6 prognostications


Jacksonville at Pittsburgh ... tough Jags will outgrind the hobbling Steelers (unless the injuries are just media hype)
Miami at Tampa Bay ... without Cadillac, Bucs has to stop Ronnie Brown and (drum roll) the holistic pothead
Cleveland at Baltimore ... Ravens are going down the toilet
Atlanta at New Orleans ... Saints may have packed it in already.
Minnesota at Chicago ... time for the us-against-them speech
NY Giants at Dallas ... am rooting for a Manning - holy crap!
Carolina at Detroit ... the Cats should easily dismantle the messed-up Lions
Cincinnati at Tennessee ... last week's loss should make for one rampaging Bengal team
Washington at Kansas City ... time to get back into the winning circle, Chiefs
New England at Denver ... surging Bronco team will test the champs
NY Jets at Buffalo ... another day, another battle (J, E, T, S, Jets, Jets, Jets!)
San Diego at Oakland ... will be a shootout yet still be close
Houston at Seattle ... Texans will still be 0 in the W column
St. Louis at Indianapolis ... the Rams will score but Indy D will still win the night

Last Week: 7-7
Overall: 35-39

beware of stat-geeks bearing gifts

John Hollinger is God. Aaron Schatz already is.

aaargh. this is even more complicated than sudoku. *lol*

It's October ...

... which means it's time once again to move.

I always hated this month - for lots of reasons, since 2001.

But then again, one door closes, another opens.

(wi-fi may be gone for awhile - pics later).