Yearly Archives: 2009

A Minor Clarification

So a few days ago I wrote that I didn’t really have any shows that I watch on television. It turns out that this is not 100% accurate. There are, I believe, three television shows, that are still active, that I watch and have seen all the episodes aired so far. They are: Continue reading

Geek Measurements

O’ Google how hard do you rock? Very hard indeed.

Maybe this is common knowledge but I just stumbled across this on Google Maps today. I knew about Google Maps of course, but I didn’t know about the measuring tool. Continue reading

Heard But Not Seen

I don’t really listen to music on the radio or spend much time looking for new artists and such. Nor do I watch much television, but I’m glad my wife does. She tends to watch the kind of sucky shows that feature music by new artists or established artists with new music, and if I weren’t for that my iTunes library would probably be much smaller. Continue reading

Terrible

It wasn’t just that they lost. It was how they lost. As if the football gods decided, for whatever reason, that not only were the Titans going to lose, but do it in such a way as to extract the maximum amount of frustration out of the team and its fans possible. As if the entire game, or season for that matter, was designed by a higher power to to taunt us repeatedly with the prospect of winning. It seemed like the Titans were Charlie Brown and the Ravens were Lucy. Or maybe the Titans were Lucy and the fans were Charlie Brown. Continue reading

Do Not Disturb

He had just rolled his seventh strike in a row. Ten if you consider the 3 strikes he had in the 10th frame of the last game and his teammates, as well as my own, were politely clapping after each … Continue reading