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the friday five

1. How are you planning to spend the summer? Much as I’ve spent every summer since I graduated high school 15 years ago – working.
2. What was your first summer job? Same as my first non-summer job.
3. If you could go anywhere this summer, where would you go? Spanish Morocco.
4. What was your worst vacation ever? Can’t think of a truly bad vacation, but maybe I’m not enough of a pessimist.
5. What was your best vacation ever? I’d have to say a week in Rosarito and San Felipe is toward the top of the list.

According to CNN, ‘Finding Nemo’ could reach $300M in ticket sales. This is at least 20 million dollars more than The Matrix Reloaded is expected to bring in. Sweet.

I’ve seen both of them, and I think Nemo is a better movie anyhow. It even has almost as cool special effects.

Considering the first movie was relatively coherent and straightforward, what’s up with the sequels?

I just got done watching Highlander 2 and Highlander 4 today. For whatever reason (I’ve heard it was laughably bad), Sci-Fi Channel didn’t play the third one.

In the second movie we learn that the immortals are not mysterious, that Ramirez had been keeping things from MacCleod back in the 16th Century, and that dead immortals return from the dead somehow. Also, it is implied that there have never been any other immortals on Earth until 2024. So, who were the bad guys in Movie 1?

In the fourth movie, we forget all about that alien shit, make the immortals mysterious again, throw away Ramirez entirely, and create somebody named Duncan that seems like an important person to have been omitted from the first movie. For that matter, the mother burning would have been something you’d think would have made an appearance in the first flick as well.

I think if I watch the third movie, it will just make me more confused. Did they decide to just tell four different stories with some of the same characters, but in completely different universes?

Just to remind you of the Pornolizer.

The Friday Five was less lame this week…

1. What do you want to be remembered for? Humor and joy.
2. What quotation best fits your outlook on life? If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.
3. What single achievement are you most proud of in the past year? The first full-system certification of a SIGINT platform for interoperability. Sad, isn’t it?
4. What about the past ten years? Toughie…The course rewrite for the 98GKP course, I guess. Nothing else jumps out at me.
5. If you were asked to give a child a single piece of advice to guide them through life, what would it be? Think hard about your decisions, and don’t look back.

Aircraft carrier for sale, “cheap.”

I was going to post the Friday Five, but it was just too lame for words this week. Off to San Antonio this weekend.

Apparently this week, in West Texas, is Skunk Suicide Season. I’ve never seen so many dead stinky animals on the road in any two-day period before! Geez.

Via an older Reverend Jim post, I came upon this disturbing food product. Star Spangled Ice Cream – Mail Order Ice Cream with a Conservative Flavor $76 for a gallon of ice cream delivered to your door. And you can get Iraqi Road too!

Weight Watchers recipe cards, circa 1974
Be afraid, be very afraid.

the friday five

1. Would you consider yourself an organized person? Why or why not? I think I am, but others contest it. I am picky about where things go, for those items I consider important. Other things just get shoved into corners as they fit.
2. Do you keep some type of planner with you and do you use it regularly? For the two years I was outside of a secure area and could use it, I kept my Palm/Clie with me at all times. Now, not so much. Use it a lot still, but not for work stuff.
3. Would you say that your desk is organized right now? At work, yes. At home, it’s covered with water bottles and books that we’re trying to sell via Amazon – so no.
4. Do you alphabetize books, CDs, and DVDs, or does it not matter? I used to, until the boy entered my life – now it’s no point.
5. What’s the hardest thing you’ve ever had to organize? Either buying a house or organizing the Army Ball seating and invitations.

1. Name one song you hate to admit you like. I can’t think of a song I’m embarassed to like.
2. Name two songs that always make you cry. Taps, but none other reliably.
3. Name three songs that turn you on. Pick three random Prince songs.
4. Name four songs that make you feel good. Toughie… Touched by VAST, Boom by System of a Down, Diamonds and Guns by the Transplants, almost anything by Barenaked Ladies.
5. Name five songs you couldn’t ever do without. Sorry, no way can I narrow it down to five. I’ll do five artists: Concrete Blonde, Prince, Wagner, Cure, Depeche Mode.

I wonder why I didn’t get Level 6 if I had the same score. Oh, well.

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All-Reality TV Channel Planned for 2004

Is there really anything I could possibly add to that headline? Yikes.

Finally one that isn’t completely lame…

1. What was the last TV show you watched? John Doe
2. What was the last thing you complained about? Probably the complete waste of a day at work today.
3. Who was the last person you complimented and what did you say? Um, I said dinner was yummy, does that count?
4. What was the last thing you threw away? The bottlecap to this cool Honey Brown beer.
5. What was the last website you visited? Something to do with “how freaky are you”.

Audi-oh is a device that says it can be activated by the music in your favorite club. Imagine when P Control comes on and it’s literally controlling stuff. What next?

Just something that popped into my head while watching every other driver on the road ignore the stop sign on the way to work each morning, gaining all of 2 or 3 seconds over just stopping.

Twice this week, the local radio station (one of those execrable Best of the 80s 90s and Today mutants) has played a song which is a cover of some 80s song that I never seem to remember until I get into work to write it down. This is one of those reasons why I wish I could bring my Clie to work in the secure facility – it has a voice recorder for these things.

Anyway, it sounds to me like Lisa Loeb is singing, and it’s a song from Erasure or some band from that era. Something that would have been on KROQ in 1986, for those that are from that particular milieu. Any help?

Friday Five!

1. How many houses/apartments have you live in throughout your life? I’m going to say 23, but that includes barracks rooms (minus a couple that I was in for only a couple weeks) and I’m not 100% sure of the places I lived before 1976.
2. Which was your favorite and why? The house in Sierra Vista. It was large and comfy and had a nice backyard for Alex to run around in.
3. Do you find moving more exciting or stressful? Stressful
4. What’s more important, location or price? You can’t separate them, because the price for a house in a nice neighborhood may be worth more than the same house in a poor neighborhood.
5. What features does your dream house have? A library, a separate playroom for the boy, big kitchen with lots of cupboards and counters, big backyard, spare bedroom.