For years ELO's Discovery album represented to me the moment when Jeff Lynne and company totally sold out and went completely disco. Granted, some of their previous albums had disco-like qualities but they were unique and distinct enough to avoid the dreaded "disco" label.  However, this album...this...thing...cast off any pretensions and blatantly ( Read more... )

Not too long ago I bought this camera:


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Dialogue at a meeting this morning:

COWORKER: Anything earth shattering happen while I was gone last week?

ME: Yes, um. There was a big earthquake and Tsunami in Japan.

COWORKER: Oh, ya. um.

Awkward pause.

A couple times a week I go to the Cafe here at work to get some salad at the salad bar. Most times it's an easy task. A non-event. Unless, of course, I'm confronted by my arch-nemesis: the Evil Salad Bar Lady.
( Click here for more on my adventures with ESBL )

I like blogging but I haven't done it in a while. I hope to do more soon. Short little burbs on FaceBook and Twitter ain't doing it for me. Expect to see more from me soon.

I have an incentive to post more. From amazon:

Dear Publisher ( Read more... )

Immediately after posting my last Blog, more Random thoughts about CGE occurred to me. Here they are:

- Favorite question at CGE: Kevin (retroyoungen) asked why the female employees at Home Depot in Las Vegas were so hot. Was it a Las Vegas thing or what? We figured it was either because they were laid off from a local stripper bar, came to Vegas ( Read more... )

Last weekend I went to Las Vegas, Nevada to attend CGE 2K10 also known as Classic Gaming Expo 2010. It's a show celebrating the best video games and consoles from the past ( Read more... )

This morning, while taking a shower, I came up with a possible solution to a problem that was vexing me all day yesterday at work. I also realized that, on a different task altogether, I forgot to complete some paperwork ( Read more... )

I just discovered that you can crosspost your LiveJournal entries to FaceBook. That is cool. I'm sure this feature has been available for a while but I didn't think about it until today. Typical me.

Anyway, this post is a test. Let's see if it shows up on FaceBook.

Earlier today I was reading the article 15 Ways Python Is a Powerful Force on the Web at insidetech.monster.com and discovered that Python was not named after the snake but rather after the British comedy troupe:

An important goal of the Python developers is making Python fun to use. This is reflected in the origin of the name-based on the British ( Read more... )