End of Silence

A couple of random notes:
What’s with all of these accounting scandals lately? It seems like the dot-com insanity has had an effect on accounting practices in other booming industries from the same time period. With all the emphasis on stock performance, it looks like Worldcom decided not to report several billion dollars in expenses. Oops. [...]

I was just having lunch at Cafe Mia on Far West and happened to see Calan Thurow there. (For the blissfully unaware, Cistercian is the name of my high school.) He was with some other guy with glasses, long hair and a wispy goatee, looked like a programmer. I spared both of us the awkward [...]

I got an email from a friend about this experiment being conducted by some sociologists at Columbia. I went ahead a registered. It sounds pretty cool. Check it out.

I managed to get decent tickets to the Tool/Tomahawk show ($43 apiece, ouch), although they aren’t nearly as good as the ones we got through Ticketmaster for the show in San Antonio last year. The only thing that I have to say about the experience is that TexasBoxOffice.com and the site that they use for [...]

I’m bummed. I just got word that Paul Tatara will no longer be writing movie reviews for the foreseeable future. He’s calling it quits with CNN. Go check out his farewell letter on his page. He’ll write two more reviews and that’s it. This really sucks as he is my favorite movie critic.
On the other [...]

We spent the weekend in Dallas for my dad’s 59th birthday. The Wife and I each had our own agendas in addition to the birthday festivities. She wanted to go to a meditation seminar there on Sunday and I wanted to see Star Wars: Episode 2 at the digital projection theater in Plano. I was [...]