had a big-shot trustee’s dinner tonight at the local country club. the upside? open bar.
i think i hit my stride right in the middle of my 3rd glass and managed to exercise some self-control around 4. i was loose as a goose and ready to rock and roll. it’s fantastic when these people that you’ve [...]
last night i put on a showcase. a showcase of what a bad decision it was to hire me as an assistant tennis coach.
the parents at my high school hosted a small tennis tournament this weekend and i got drafted for the mixed doubles due to a large number of drop-outs. with some reservations (i [...]
this will only appeal to the geeks out there, but here is a fantastic movie of flash animation gone wrong.
it’s over. it’s the beginning of the end now.
school was…pretty damn good. 3 classes of algebra I and 1 of ap stat, if you didn’t know. i’ve got a total of 40 students and for the most part, i was impressed.
some of these freshmen were definitely squirrelly but some almost blew me away. people were [...]
i realized last night, as i was sitting on the carpet at midnight eating moose tracks ice cream out of the carton (delicious!), watching mission impossible on my computer and smelling some funk under my arms, that i’m definitely not an adult.
see, grown-ups know how to furnish a home, eat responsibly, go to bed on [...]
In language, “Snakes on a Plane” falls into many grammatical categories. It can be used as a verb, both transitive (John snaked Mary on a plane) and intransitive (Mary was snaked on a plane by John).
It can be an action verb (John really snakes on a plane), a passive verb (Mary really doesn’t snake on [...]
these guys have collected their top 5 funny videos from crazy japanese tv. seriously, you think our reality tv is bad! my bet is that fox is sending producers to japan as i type as interns…we are behind the japanese again, and this time it’s serious. we deserve to be #1 in shit TV.
this ridiculous [...]
it happened. i knew it could but i prayed it wouldn’t. i’ve been living in fear of this moment for more than a few weeks now. i could have planned better for it, but i neglected to. i’ve heard all the meaningless aphorisms: better safe than sorry, safety doesn’t take holidays, look both ways before [...]
mark cuban posted a challenge on his blog: fix the movie industry.
it’s dying - people are waiting for DVD’s, movies are more expensive than people think they’re worth, and they perceive quality decrease. so how do we fix that?
personally, i think there’s a lot of value in a different model for theaters. right now we’re [...]