End of Silence

I somehow missed this Baby Chaos posting. I’d been having trouble reaching their site lately and finally tried a different URL. The real.blumenthal.com subdomain seems to be broken. I think the combination of expressions in the third picture on the top row is priceless.
The Wife took a bunch of pictures yesterday in another installment of [...]

Dear obnoxious asshat,
People on television cannot hear you when you shout at them.
People at the gym can hear you, but aren’t interested in your play-by-play of the Holiday Bowl.
People at the gym also aren’t interested in your cell phone conversations.
Signed,
The annoyed guy with misfortune of picking the elliptical machine next to you
Note to self: Don’t [...]

This story (via Slashdot) is all the evidence I need of how poorly things are going for Rollins. I suppose I should reserve judgement until we find out what’s actually on the album, but given Shatner’s last foray into music, can we really expect anything other than comedy? BTW, the album is out of print, [...]

I decided to go ahead and create an album rather than updating the picture of the week, so go check out the photos (friends and family) section for Xmas in Dallas highlights. I’ll update the picture of the week as soon as I have some new material. I’ve also got video from Xmas morning, but [...]

We’re heading home today from my parents in Dallas. We celebrated my sister’s birthday yesterday with lunch at Big Bowl. I’d been wanting to get back there since eating at the Chicago location back in March. Everyone dug it and they actually have a pretty decent kids menu. Hopefully, they’ll open an Austin location at [...]

I attended the EFF Austin roundtable on eVoting Tuesday night. Stepan summarizes most of what went on and I added a comment. The bottom line is that many state and local governments have rushed to find a solution to the Florida 2000 election debacle and have in the process made some poor decisions. It’s going [...]

I managed to get a rental car approved and take my car to the body shop yesterday morning. They were supposed to call me today with an estimate, but I didn’t hear from them. I’ll call tomorrow. I ended up with a Dodge Stratus from Enterprise. The damn thing has a tape player. What is [...]

The 1 or 2 readers of this blog will recall that I’ve railed about senior citizen drivers and how they should have annual mandatory testing to keep their licenses. You’ll find it amusing then that we were hit by an elderly driver on the way home from the grocery store last night. The whole family [...]

We just got back from Sybil and Pascal’s annual party. We almost always make it for just a little while. We like going because we get to see people that we really only see once or twice a year other than at this party. It was the usual suspects with a surprise appearance by the [...]

The Boy and I got up early yesterday morning and took The Wife’s car in to NTB to take advantage of the road hazard insurance that we purchased. We were out of there in 30 minutes and it didn’t cost us a cent. It turns out that the father of one of the kids in [...]