I really, really, really don't like Apple these days.Now I will preface this by saying that I started out as a major fan of Apple. I had the Apple ][ at school, the Apple IIgs at home, then the Macintosh LC, and then the godforsaken Performa. I went through MacOS 6, 7, 8, and 8.5; I even upgraded a Mac Classic from 6 to 7. I waited with baited breath...
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Saturday, November 10, 2007
A Note on Christmas Music
William recently opined on his blog that he doesn't think Christmas music should play prior to Black Friday or after January 1.I have to say I agree both with his initial statement and the comment by Jocelyn about the epiphany allowing Christmas music to be played through January 6.Personally, it drives me nuts to hear Christmas Music before Thanksgiving....
Sunday, November 04, 2007
Let us give thanks and praise
Well yesterday I went to NYC with Max. For my birthday he had told me he'd take me to a show and we finally had a chance to take the time to get to see one.We ended up choosing "Altar Boyz" and what a good choice. The show was HILARIOUS! The "boyz" are Matthew (the leader), Mark (the "sensitive" one), Luke (the bad boy), Juan (the Latin lothario,...
Monday, October 29, 2007
And we've done it again!
The Red Sox win their second World Series in four years. Congrats to the Red S...
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
A Poisoned Apple?
Well wired has a lovely little article about the fantastic, wonderful iPhone. It's titled "IPhone's Security Rivals Windows 95 (No, That's Not Good)"It generally discusses the fact that all applications run on the iPhone as "root" or for you non-techies, it runs with full system privileges which means each application is essentially "god" on the phone...
Saturday, October 20, 2007
Gotta love J. K. Rowling
At a recent appearence at Carnegie Hall, J. K. Rowling was taking questions from the audience when a young fan asked if Dumbledore finds "true love". Rowling then responded that Dumbledore was gay.Well if that doesn't get the religious right groups in a tizzy, I don't know what will.She also gives the answers to a number of questions and the The Leaky...
Monday, September 17, 2007
Requiem for Robert Jordan
Robert Jordan, author of the Wheel of Time series died yesterday, September 16. I wish this was just a rumor, but unfortunately it is true. He had been suffering from Amyloidosis for a while and has seemed to be in great spirits even through it all. He had been posting updates to his blog: DragonMount.The big question is, what happens to the rest of...
Sunday, September 16, 2007
Exeunt The Mikado
Every curtain that goes up must eventually come down, and so it goes with The Mikado. I don't think I've worked that hard for anything in a very long time. In the end it was all worth it though.We had a good opening night followed by two sell-out nights. On Saturday we even had to increase the size of the house to about 350.Thank you to everyone...
Saturday, September 08, 2007
The Mikado Diet
Well I just stepped on the scale today and since starting the Mikado I have dropped 11 pounds. When started I was 196. Today I'm 185. Woohoo.Now the difficult part will be keeping up this level of activity. Part of the weight loss I'm sure was the constant dancing, day after day. One thing that will hopefully keep this going is that I'm going...
Sunday, September 02, 2007
More on the Mikado
Sorry there haven't been many updates lately. The Mikado has pretty much been taking all my free time lately. Not sure what I was thinking when I set out to Produce and have a prinicple role. :) hehe.I've linked the poster...
Saturday, August 18, 2007
Three Little Maids From School Are We....
Well I'm going to be in a production of "The Mikado" by Gilbert and Sullivan. The show dates are September 13, 14, and 15 @ 7:30 pm.Ticket's are $15 Genearal - $10 Students/Seniors.I play Pooh-bah for anyone who knows the show. It should be a great time. Hope to see you the...
Sunday, August 12, 2007
Pains, Flames and Tent-stakes
I'm sooo glad to be home.This weekend was fun. I went down Friday to visit my fraternity brother Ken in NJ. The first fun thing is that I connected my TomTom GPS unit to my phone and got Traffic updates which allowed it to navigate me around bad NYC traffic as I went through the city at around 5pm. The whole trip down there took me about 4 hours of...
Sunday, July 29, 2007
One-one-thousand
It's funny those little things that stick with you from childhood, like counting after a lightning strike to see how far away the storm is.As I've mentioned before, one of the really nice things about my unit is the sound of the rain on the roof when it rains. A new thing I've noticed is the ability to watch fork lightning as it strikes over downtown...
Monday, July 23, 2007
This and that
Ok, just a few updates since I don't really feel like doing a full out post.Saw Transformers a while ago. Lots of fun. Go see it. Saw Harry Potter last week. Twice. Once in IMAX. Go see it. It's a lot darker than before, less whimsy. Dolores Umbridge is sublimely and wickedly played by Imelda Staunton. Finished with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows....
Saturday, July 14, 2007
Damien Rice
I recently came across the work of an Irish folk singer, Damien Rice. He has a hauntingly crystal clear voice. I just bought his first ablum "O" and two songs that I've really come to enjoy are "The Blower's Daughter" and "Cannonball". You may find that it sounds familiar to you as his music has been in TV shows such as Grey's Anatomy, Alias, Bones,...
Wednesday, July 04, 2007
Happy Independance Day
Well I hope everyone is having a great 4th! My annual BYOBBQ was last night and as usual it was a great time. Special thanks to Remby for being the Grill Master again and bringing his gril...
Saturday, June 30, 2007
What's up doc?
So Day two of the Rabbit. I dropped off the title to the Audi, so I am officially done with it. *sniff* *tear* It was a good car.My god this car can move. It's got great pickup and I can be above 60 without even trying, so I need to keep an eye on that. I'm getting better.It's officially been named too! The car's name is "Roger". Yes it's a...
Friday, June 29, 2007
The Audi is gone, long live the Audi
Well I did it. I have finally, after 7 years ( I got it in March 2000) I have retired the Audi. Today I went and I bought a 2007 VW Rabbit. The car is sooo much fun. It's black with grey interior and it's a standard!! I forgot how much fun a 5 speed is and this thing has some GREAT pickup.It's also exciting because this is my first new car. Ever....
Thursday, June 14, 2007
How they voted...
If you want to know how your representative or senator voted go here:http://www.massequality.org/howtheyvoted....
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We have won. After over 5 years of waiting and hoping and lots of holding of breath we have won. The latest attack on the right to marry for same-sex couples has been killed by the legislature in an up-and-down vote of the matter. No procedural maneuvers this time, not that I'd care if there were.I don't doubt that anti-gay groups will still try attack...
Monday, June 11, 2007
What to say, what to say...
So I've had very little motivation to post lately. It's been a whirlwind since I returned to work. The wound is healing mostly well. If I sit wrong it feels like its pulling a bit and it's been bleeding a little since the stiches came out (I called and they said it was normal).Living with Cate is going well at the moment. Additionally she's doing...
Thursday, May 31, 2007
A stitch in time...
Well I got my stiches taken out today. Oddly enough, this was the most painful part of the entire procedure and that included the 3 attempts to do my IV. It was the sharp pain when he pulled taut and then cut the sutures that really was source of the pain.Granted, the actual cut had some pain, but it was more dull and simply "sore". I'm sure the...
Saturday, May 26, 2007
This is too funny
To help cope with the expense of raising a gay child, why don't you try Coming Out Insurance....
Thursday, May 24, 2007
Healing coming along nicely
So it's now 3 days out and I'm doing much better. I am off the pain meds and only a little bit sore. I had the guys from work over for lunch so that was a nice treat. The good news is that now that I'm off the meds I can drive again (if I have to) so I've regained a certain level of independence.Cate has been a great help these past few days. It's...
Monday, May 21, 2007
Safe and Sound
I have returned safe and sound. I have lots of fabulous friends helping me out this week. I'm feeling good so if you want to visit just give me a ring...
Slice and Dice
So I'm in today for my surgery. 6am arrival time. Ugh. Remarkably I'm not nervous at all. The procedure should be done in less than an hour so I should be out of the hospital by late morning or early afternoon. I probably won't post again until tomorrow so, wish me luck!...
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
My Brother is a Married Man
So yeah... my little brother has been made an honest man and has taken Maureen to be his lawfully wedded wife.So Thursday of last week was the rehearsal dinner. It was annoying a bit since no invitations were sent out ahead of time I didn't realize they were parting with convention and doing it Thursday instead of Friday night. This caused me to have...
Saturday, May 05, 2007
Tuesday, May 01, 2007
I visited Texas and lived to tell the tale :)
So all last week I was down in Texas visiting Colin and Kristin for their wedding. I got into Austin on Saturday the 21st mid-morning. I stopped over, saw their new apartment, settled in a bit and then we went to lunch. The next day we went to the Salt Lick BBQ which had fantastic Texas style BBQ. It's kind of funny how BBQ means different things...
Saturday, April 21, 2007
Measure twice, cut once
So I get to go in for a bit of surgery this summer, specifically on May 21. I have a small cyst that I need to get removed. The surgery will require at least a week out of work for recovery then possibly another 3 weeks before I'm fully recovered. The fun part is going to be doing absolutely nothing and being in pain for a week before I can return...
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
It's a gay, gay, gay world :)
I nearly fell out of my chair laughing with this article called Gay people, give me back my stuff! Take a read of it and I hope you find it amusing t...
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Things are looking up
So lots of good news lately. As of June 1 I have a full year long roommate. This should work out well. She's the girlfriend of a friend of mine and she's an undergraduate at WPI. Potentially if things go well she'll be able to stay for more than a year which will leave me in a much more stable position than I've recently had.Also good news is that...
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Milestones
As of last Saturday I have officially been a homeowner for a full year. I closed my condo on March 24, 2006. As of yesterday I have been actually living in the condo for a year.Additionally as of last October 22, 2006 I have worked at WPI for 5 years. On August 23, 2007 I will have lived in Worcester for 10 years.It's amazing how major milestones...
Sunday, March 11, 2007
Spring is in the air
It's not really here yet, but the weather is finally getting warmer and I've had the opportunity to leave my windows open today to get some fresh air into the condo.I had a bit of a birthday bash yesterday and it was a lot of fun. It was great to see everyone including some old friends that I haven't seen in far too long.Going backwards I've had a...
Monday, March 05, 2007
Ann Coulter has reached a new low...
and I really didn't think that was possible.At the recent American Conservative Union’s Political Action Conference Coulter was speaking and used the term "faggot" to describe Democratic presidential nominee John Edwards. At the same conference last year she used a derogatory term for Arabs.Before I continue here are some articles on this:MSN: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17458248?GT1=9145Advocate:...
A kiss is just a kiss...
It's funny how you browse the web and you read one article that takes you to another article which takes you to another article, which makes you read something which makes you think about this other thing and then so on. That's pretty much how my mind works in general, kind of a free-association montage. Anyone who's had a long conversation with me...
Sunday, March 04, 2007
What's going on
Well it's been a while since the last time I updated. My sister is doing well and I hear that my neice is now 10 lbs. I'm not sure that I'm yet quite at the point of dealing with the fact that I'm an uncle.I've gotten a...
Sunday, January 28, 2007
A day to dismember
So I finally took down my tree today. Since it was so big and now so dry and dead I decided not to bother trying to take it down whole and ended up cutting it into pieces so I can bag them and then dispose of them.Last Thurdsay was the WPI IT Department's "Procrastinator's Holiday Party" which we ended up doing in January simply because people were...
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
It's official...
... I am now an uncle. Makayla Lee was born at 2:23 pm at Brockton Hospital today. 8 lbs and 18 inches. Mother, daughter and father are doing well. More information as I get ...
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
A whole lot goin on
Yeah, so the whole "everyone's getting married" thing still hasn't settled down much. I already have three scheduled for this year so far.My brother's is in May and we're going to pick out Tuxes on Friday. The fun part is that we're going not just for sizing but to pick out the style and colors. As I've told my brother, this is one of the perks...
Wednesday, January 03, 2007
Now that was odd...
So the weirdest experience happened this morning. I was in bed and was in the process of waking up. I'd already hit snooze once so I was in that whole lightly sleeping stage. All of a sudden I heard a woman's voice very calmly and softly say "boo". It felt like someone had leaned over my ear and said it. It wasn't like someone trying to scare me, more...
Tuesday, January 02, 2007
Dissappointed
Just a few last comments before I lie down for the evening.Yes, I know about the fact that the anti-gay marriage amendment passed.No, I'm not going to make a big post about it.I think I've made myself very clear on this issue in the past. I'm saddened, and angry, and tired, and many other emotions right now, so lets just not go there... ok? Plea...
A room with a view
Well, now that Blogger has updated its site, it has the opportunity to move things around and customize the blog fairly easily but.... (there's always a but...) you need to upgrade to a new design which means my current one won't work. Now of course I can go in and take one of the existing ones and tweak it (which is what I did when I moved to blogger)...
Amusing...
My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is:Imperial Majesty Thomas the Winsome of Westley Waterless Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title...
Monday, January 01, 2007
Happy New Year
Hello 2007, good-bye 2006.It was a fantastic party as usual. It's always fun to co-host something with Elliot and it was a pleasure being surrounded by old friends and new friends for the start of what I think will be a banner year.Cleanup is mostly done at this point, and it actually went really quickly. The fun part is finding all the alcohol that...
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