Yes. Last night I went to see The Strangers. Before I get into the gist of this review, let me first say one of my biggest pet peeves in movies throughout the last 15 years is movies that don’t end conclusively. The movie mills seem to relish leaving a door open for a possible sequel [...]
The scene: A marketing meeting for a certain production company.
Chief Exec: OK, we need to put out a new movie. Let’s brainstorm: what will sell?
Exec#1: Girls. Scantily clad.
Exec#2: Cars. Definitely gotta have cars.
Exec#3: Lots of fights with Matrix-style slo-mo effects.
Chief Exec: Brilliant! This movie will make zillions of dollars. Find some shmuck to write a [...]
I have only one thing to say to summarize all my thoughts about Columbia these days.
God, I’m glad I left.
On another unrelated note, I tend to use anything but “Jeff Parker” as my myspace name. So, thusly, I get spam messages like this one today…it’s so hilarious I couldn’t help but laugh. Keep in mind, [...]
I think the homepage of the new site is going to be completely free of those stupid marketing buzzwords they’ve been throwing around since 1952. You know stuff like “free!”, “reduced!” and of course “limited time only!”
Honestly, this will be my only contribution to the look and feel of our new website. Really, I expect [...]
I left my car parked in KCI economy parking while I was gone and last night at 11:30pm or so, I was taking the airport-provided bus to the lot to get my car. The only passengers were myself and some girl. The bus driver asked what bus stop our cars were near, and the girl [...]
I noticed something sort of interesting. As you may (or may not) know, one of my major pet peeves is the wave of victimization frenzy that has swept the nation. It seems that every week the country has found yet another wonderful new thing to worry about.
On 9/11 the first estimates of fatalities were in [...]
Yesterday I drove down to Columbia. My first stop was a Taco Bell which had a huge sign outside proudly advertising “Fiesta Potatos”.
I went in, ordered my food, and told them their sign outside was misspelled. Believe it or not, the guy behind the counter debated me about it. It ended when I pointed to [...]
April 28, 2008 – 11:33 am
Today I wrote some PHP. It wasn’t much - just 5 lines to pull up a different image in a header if a user came from a specific URL. But still, that felt good.
Sunday I’m going to an open house along with Jalpha. It’s a nice 3-story all-stone 100-year old McMansion in Hyde Park.
I have [...]
Last summer, Cliff and I (and many others) went to a wedding for some peeps we knew. It was nice. They had a lot of meaningful stuff to say at the wedding and whatnot.
I found out Saturday they were already divorced and had been for a while.
At the end of the day, most marriages I [...]
