Sturgeon’s Law

Ninety per­cent of every­thing is crap.

Derived from a quote by sci­ence fic­tion author Theodore Stur­geon, who once said, “Sure, 90% of sci­ence fic­tion is crud. That’s because 90% of every­thing is crud.” Oddly, when Sturgeon’s Law is cited, the final word is almost invari­ably changed to ‘crap’.

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Closing The Books

12-31-2007Another year shot to hell.

And I can’t start 2008 yet, I don’t have my cal­en­dar. Shut­ter­fly shipped it on the 19th…

I was invited to take part in the sec­ond annual Enchanted Ceil­ing Last and Begin­ning photo shoot. I looked up at the sky sev­eral times today and there was noth­ing in it, no char­ac­ter. I could have started an image in PSP with a plain blue back­ground and sub­mit­ted it. Went out on the deck with the cam­era on a tri­pod and set it on Starry Sky mode. No much there either, even after run­ning it through the auto photo fix. Maybe tomor­row will be more interesting.

With 20 of 32 bowl games com­pleted I have picked 12 cor­rect which is 5 behind the leader. Of the 12 games left I dif­fer with the leader on exactly 5 games, so best pos­si­ble sce­nario is a tie. Unfor­tu­nately there are eight peo­ple closer than I. Kiss the 2007 Pigskin Prog­nos­ti­ca­tor Prize goodbye.

Started up, went down, still down.
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December 31st, 2007 | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)

Clearing the Decks

We have zero DVDs await­ing watch­ing. Yes­ter­day we watched Flags of Our Fathers, today it was Kate & Leopold.

Leopold: Why is it called a toaster when it pro­duces no toast, but sim­ply warm bread, and insert­ing it two times pro­duces char­coal? The ideal toaster would have one and a half inser­tions to pro­duce the cor­rect toast.

This after­noon I watched Let­ters From Iwo Jima. I have one last Christ­mas gift DVD com­ing in the mail, an Ama­zon gift cer­tifi­cate from friends, that will need watch­ing — The Incred­i­bles, maybe later this week.

Now comes the daunt­ing ask of clean­ing up a years worth of worth­less pho­tos I’ve got filed away under the My Pic­tures folder…

Started up, still up.
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December 30th, 2007 | Comments are closed

Lost on Altair IV

Forbidden PlanetI’ve weeded out one post per month for inclu­sion in my Best of 2007 page. Pick­ings were slim. Pretty much the whole year was full of eat­ing out meal recaps and Post Office Safaris trav­el­ogues. Not my best work.

I’m sur­prised you are still out there read­ing, that is if you *are* still out there.

So tomor­row, or the next day, when the link shows up on the side­bar for Best of 2007 don’t click on it, click on the one from, say, 2003, it’ll be bet­ter. Then again if you are the kind of per­son who slows down to rub­ber­neck at acci­dent scenes, read away.

I can’t promise that next year will be any bet­ter, it could get worse. I guess we’ll just have wait and see.

Started up, still up.
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December 29th, 2007 | Tags: | Comments are closed

WTF?

2007 is almost gone and tonight I wasted 10.5 min­utes of what is left watch­ing The Foun­tain. Here is my three let­ter review. WTF?

We watched Dark Side of the Rain­bow on Christ­mas day and the same three let­ter review applies here as well. One dif­fer­ence though, we watched the whole movie. But that prob­a­bly has to do with we both like Pink Floyd and the Wiz­ard of Oz.

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Bar­ber of Fleet Street. I haven’t seen it and more than likely won’t. A bar­ber who slits throats and has a down­stairs neigh­bor that grinds up the car­casses to sell. WTF are peo­ple think­ing? A musical?

How does some­one whose name is Brian, who has a blog, and its main focus is Miatas, go unde­tected by me? Three let­ters. Bri­answorld.

Started up, went down, back up, still up.
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December 28th, 2007 | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)

Deny Crane. Denny Crane. Denny Crane.

So as to make episodes of House not seem so rep­e­ti­tious we have decided to inter space those DVDs with episodes some dif­fer­ent TV shows. First up was Disc 1 — Season1 of Boston Legal. We watched 15 min­utes of the first episode, Head Cases, and turned it off. Too quirky.

We were sit­ting in the liv­ing room eat­ing din­ner off the cof­fee table. Popped the DVD out and surfed for enter­tain­ment. Couldn’t find any­thing else on the tube to watch, so Donna sug­gested try­ing to watch some more of Boston Legal. I said OK, and put the disc back in and started at episode 2, Still Crazy After All These Years. I don’t know if this episode was less quirky or we rec­og­nized guest star Eliz­a­beth Mitchell from Sea­son 3 of TDTVS and liked her, but what­ever rea­son, we hung with it. We then watched episodes three and four to fin­ish off the disc.

I’ve added the rest of Sea­son 1 to the TV queue. Thanks for the sug­ges­tion D.J.

Started up, still up.
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December 27th, 2007 | Tags: , | Comments are closed

Double Down

Had a cho­les­terol fol­low up with the doc­tor yes­ter­day and as always, I’m close, but no cigar.

  Chol HDL LDL Trig
Goal <200 >31 <100 30–150
12/12/07 175 38 104 165
07/17/07 185 36 117 162
03/05/07 195 39 123 167
09/19/06 167 37 103 135
04/06/06 168 37 106 126
12/08/05 182 35 120 137
07/28/05 177 30 113 169
06/17/05 164 31 85 238
05/06/05 174 27 108 194
01/10/05 176 33 110 167
09/21/04 209 24 131 271

No more mon­key­ing around with the Red Yeast Rice sup­ple­ment, the new course of action is to add another statin, 20 mg of simvis­tatin (AKA Zocor) to the 48mg of Tri­cor and see ya’ in March.

December 27th, 2007 | Tags: | Comments are closed

Monk Moment

We spent a frus­trat­ing 2 hours tonight search­ing sev­eral stores for a 32oz insu­lated water bot­tle with a big enough open­ing on top to except ice cubes. They are in every store, on numer­ous aisles as long as it isn’t Christ­mas time and Donna had the mis­for­tune of drop­ping her water bot­tle and break­ing it this morn­ing Decem­ber 27th.

To ease our suf­fer­ing we dined on Car­ni­tas at Marias. We were seated at a booth by the win­dow with a lovely view of the laun­dro­mat next build­ing over. As I looked through the faux wood blinds, it came to my atten­tion that sev­eral of the slats were tilted dif­fer­ent from the major­ity. Reflex­ively, I nudged the offend­ing slats into line with the rest.

Adrian would have been so proud.

Started up, still up.
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December 26th, 2007 | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)
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