End of Silence

A few weeks ago, we had the Ozomatli Incident, and last night it was the Patric Fracas.
I’ve probably spent more time in the Sixth/Fourth street areas than is healthy since moving here 15 years ago. I was down there practically every weekend from 1996 to 1999. These days, I only get down there about once [...]

I videotaped The Boy’s game this past Saturday and made a quick attempt at editing it down to his better highlights last night. The results are less than satisfactory.
My camera skills need work. I’m not used to watching everything through the viewfinder and have a tendency to look up from the camera when there’s more [...]

A co-worker just announced that he’ll be a first-time dad in the fall. It took a little searching, but I found my favorite parent preparation e-mail that someone sent to me when I announced that The Boy was on the way. It took some searching, so I’m reposting it here, followed by another similar list [...]

The first photo is an AP Photo from cnn.com today and the second is a downloadable ROTK promo poster from lordoftherings.net. Does anyone else think that there’s more than a passing resemblence?

I tried installing VNC over the weekend and ran into difficulty. I’m running the stable release of Debian 3.0 (Woody), so I went ahead and pulled that package version of vncserver.
(BTW, it’s been said a million times before, but I don’t think I’ve raved about it yet. apt-get is really amazing. It’s definitely one area [...]

Of course, I’m one of the last ones to find out about this annual party. I tracked down his address for next year, but this year’s was so large that he’s bound to be skittish about doing it again. Sigh.

Lots of stories this week adding more evidence to what I already suspected: this administration is a lying bunch of weasels. The NY Times story was mentioned on the Daily Show last night and I’ve seen the Rumsfeld video linked in several places including Russell’s and Wiley’s blog. I recently re-subscribed to HBO for the [...]

Get ‘em while they’re hot.

I’ve been watching the ads for the new Dawn of the Dead movie with mild interest. It looks pretty good, but I share the same misgivings as other fans of the original. I have fond memories of seeing George Romero’s version at midnight showings in Dallas in the mid-eighties. This writer does a good job [...]

The Wife just showed me photos of her, The Boy and LaLa that were taken at the end of the Kriya Yoga retreat that she attended in October. The two dudes that they’re with are Paramahamsa Prajnanananda and Swami Brahmananda Giri. The Boy looks a little unsure of what to think of the whole [...]