Archive for February, 2007

Feb 26 2007

Guest movie review

Published by Dave under Minutiae

My brother Jim offers his opinion on the movie “Babel.”

OK. The “plot” of Babel: American tourists, at a loss for common sense, vacation in Morocco for some unknown reason. Tourist wife gets shot - accidentally - by some punk Moroccan kids. Because of this, the tourists are stuck in Morocco for a while. Meanwhile back in the States, their kids end up going to Mexico for some wedding with the Mexican nanny. They get to see a guy break the neck of a chicken and pull its head off. On the way back across the border, they get in a hassle with the border guys, which leads to a chase that ends when the guy giving them a lift drops the kids and the nanny in the desert. Kids and nanny almost die, nanny is deported. Back in Morocco, wife is eventually choppered out and survives.
For some strange reason there is another tangent about some deaf-mute Japanese girl who seems particularly horny but can’t get any. Her father gave a rifle to a Moroccan guy, who sold it to the father of the punk Moroccan kids, who shot the American tourist. Pretty weak link to the rest of the story.
Does that pretty much sum it up?

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Feb 26 2007

And this? This is why I didn’t watch the Oscars

Published by Dave under Minutiae

A random blog post I came across while avoiding the mind-numbingly dull project I should be working on perfectly sums up why I didn’t turn the Oscars on last night while working on the same boring project I’m avoiding right now.

Seriously, wtf were they smoking when they gave Jennifer Hudson an Oscar?

edit: I fixed the link.

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Feb 22 2007

Life goes on

Published by Dave under Minutiae

Yikes…it’s been what? A month and a half or something. I dunno, there isn’t a calendar I can see without putting my glasses on and I’ve had probably five shots of vodka in the last hour. Yeah, the braces are bugging me tonight, so I’m vision-challenged and belligerent. I’m not going to look.

So anyway, what’s up with you? I’ll cock my head and look interested and stuff, really. Put it down there vvv in the comments. The v’s are arrows pointing downwards; a handy signpost for those who can’t find the comment box. Sadly, the spambots don’t need my arrows for reference. Thanks to them, I now know how to 3nl4rgE my P-eN1s!~ any time I want.
Here’s what’s up with me, anyway.

The New Office, or Hey! What’s going on with that ratty old building, anyway?

Well, refurbishment continues at a fairly slow pace. It took months to get the plans through the city, though to be fair only about five of those twelve weeks were taken up by the city.

Once we had our permit in place we hit the ground running. Rough electrical and plumbing are finished and approved, drywall is up and finished, and now we’re at a dead stop again. Why? Because I haven’t found time to start painting. Once that’s done, it’s time for drop ceiling, HVAC, floor refinishing, carpeting, woodwork, cabinets, finish electrical and plumbing, and an inspection. Hopefully all within the next three-and-a-half weeks. I want this sucker all but finished before I go on vacation on March 17. We’ll see.

We still don’t have a tenant downstairs. I’ve been pretty high on the idea of Dave’s Cosmic Subs opening a franchise there. Hopefully it’s still going to happen.

I was going to write more, but the Ketel One has taken its toll.

And so I’m going to bed. It’s Joe’s turn to write something, anyway.

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