As promised, here’s the photo of the much-reviled latest revision of bowling shoe fashion. Bask in the flimsy synthetic uppers! Delight in the velcro fasteners, because laces are “too hard!” Admire the traditional racing livery of the Ukranian Peasant Bowling Shoe Manufacturing Team! In an interesting coincidence, it turns out that this is message #666 [...]
Rat Race is not a cinematic masterpiece. It doesn’t have any depth of characterization, it has scene after unlikely scene of ridiculous goings-on, it has a cheap, melodramatic happy ending, and it will never be up for an Oscar. That said, I laughed myself silly watching it. If you’re looking for some escapist comedy-for-comedy’s sake, [...]
Kathy and I went to the Gaslight Theater again last night to see James Elward’s Best of Friends. The show, which revolves around the relationships within a family spearheaded by a poised, clever woman and her famous philandering husband of 30 years, was one of the best that we’ve caught at this theater. The set [...]
I’ve not been doing a good job keeping up with honest-to-goodness family updates of late. I have, however, tossed together another photo album with some recent pictures of the goings-on around our place. You can see them at Photos: February 2002.
I picked up American Movie without really knowing anything about it other than what was on the box. “Sundance Festival Winner? Sounds good to me!” I gave Grant, my neighbor, a call, and convinced him to skip the guitar practice he was supposed to be doing to watch it with me. After watching the adventures [...]
[RING! RING!] “Origin Systems; This is Sean.” “DADDY! I WENT POTTY!” “Good for you, Liam! I’m proud of you!” “Yes, you are. Bye!”
Last week, Emily was filmed for a commercial one of our friends at Southwest Texas was doing for her film class. She spent most of the day down at the University studio and “on location” on our front sidewalk. The commercial was a fun little spot for an imaginary product: Sugar-ee energy bars, which consist [...]
My company makes a software package called Oratorio that’s designed for presenting lyrics in a church service. Because we’ve been getting (and paying attention to) lots of really good feedback from its users, we’ve been able to make it progressively better and more feature-complete. One of the sticking points for some people has been that [...]
Last night we went bowling with Craig & Ginger Corley, some of our good friends in San Marcos. I thought I’d been up on the latest developments in bowling, including “disco turbo lazer bowl” or whatever they called it when they added fluorescent balls, black lights, and seizure-inducing strobe lights to the bowling experience. But [...]
I rarely hawk products here, figuring that’s what their marketing people are for. I have to say, however, that I’ve been very happy with TurboTax for the Web. I’ve been using it for three years now, and it seems to be getting steadily better. This year it’s working fine on my Mac, has remembered all [...]
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