tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58232992012-01-31T23:19:17.969-08:00An eccentric exploration into the world of a gen-x underachiever.Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13552537746856712530noreply@blogger.comBlogger561100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5823299.post-15396910485558542262010-05-08T17:15:00.000-07:002010-05-08T18:44:44.038-07:00

Ok this is for Julie. Preheat your oven to 375<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>

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Nice to know there is still one reporter still alive in Washington.http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/23/thomas-chides-colleagues-torture/

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Well we've finally finished the library. With the exception of some minor hardware renovation everything is moved in and ready to go. In fact I'm writing this post from the new library.Ok enough jabber. On to the pics.We've got a nice comfy chair for reading.We also used some old drawers from a chest to make bookshelves that run along the back wall underneath the windows. If we can find some more

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Dooce ain't got nothing on us!

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We love our house. Well...it's kind of a love hate relationship. Our house was built in 1924 and you know old homes have character. One of the things we never liked about our house was the color scheme in the guest bedroom. When we moved in it was painted a garish yellow. 3 years later was still painted a garish yellow. Not only that but apparently when it was painted yellow the people doing it

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The other night we went to see a Redhawks baseball game. The Redhawks are our OKC minor league team who happen to be a farm team for the Rangers. Yes those Texas Rangers.Anywho. I dropped off Amy near the front entrance to the ball park while I parked the car. The ballpark, which is a nice little park if you haven't seen it, has several statues of famous Oklahoma baseball players out front. She

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I know, I know I shouldn't go this long without posting SOMETHING.A few people have been asking about my mom. She's staying in very good spirits. She has to drive from Texas City up to Kemah for radiation every day. But so far so good.I promised some more pics from the Florida trip so here we go.This Cat (Catalina) is for Trey, whose grandfather flew them back in WWII.We had a great time (at

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Well this week we're getting a much needed vacation. The first part of the week we spent in Jacksonville. As some of you know this is where Amy is going to school. She's working on her Doctorate in Worship Studies through the Institute of Worship Studies. We went to a alumni seminar and heard Brian McLaren speak. I just want to take a moment to talk about Brian. He is an author and Christian

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I just got finished watching an interesting movie on the tubes. It's called Four Eyed Monsters and was created by a couple living in NY. The movie is about the couple's relationship and it's existence related to creativity, and in essence the relationship of the world to new mediums in general. The full movie is showing for the next week on Youtube. Go check it out. After you've watched it go

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Mom had a lumpectomy today. Apparently there was no secondary cancer in her lymph nodes so things went as well as could be expected. Your thoughts, prayers, well-wishes, hopes, dreams, aspirations, mantras, positive vibes, and is-everything-ok's are appreciated.

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I spent last week down in Texas City with the Rents. They've moved into a nice little house literally blocks from the ocean. Dad could be fishing in 5 minutes flat if he wanted. Mom has already started to get involved in the artist communities in Texas City and Galveston. I think they are both really enjoying themselves.While I was there I got to play tourist a little. The first thing I wanted to

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Yesterday, we discovered that my Mom has breast cancer. Sigh. We'll actually she's in very good mood and keeping her spirits high. The doctors think it's in a very early stage and the cancer is easily differentiated from the other tissue. If you'd like to help out feel free to Donate to your favorite cancer center.

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Hello internets. I've been away for a while now and for that I apologize. I've been incredibly busy with the new enterprise and things are going surprisingly well in that regard. I've had at least a couple of jobs a week. The hours are nice and I get to make fun of the boss all I want.The other day I got to see Napoleon's hat. Pretty cool. Sure he had more than one, but how often do you get to

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Back when I lived in Fort Worth, I spent a lot of time hanging out with friends at various spots around town. Either at the Flying Saucer, or the now defunct Genghis Grill. (Where J.R. worked) We would have very random conversations about life, alcohol, and 25 year-old virgins. One of our little catchphrases that came about at that time was "Corn? When did I eat corn?!?"When I saw this ersatz

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So I've started out in the world of self employed computer consulting. I've already had a little success in helping out some people. Generally most people are fairly computer savvy these days. Of course some people just don't get it. That's ok really, I don't mind it keeps me in a job.Oh... and I really hate the term guru. Makes people think there is some enlightened trick to computers.

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A few weeks ago (or maybe months) my friend Jayare tagged me with some kinda strange blog version of Tag, 20 questions, and the dating game all rolled into one. Apparently I'm supposed to relay to you, my reading audience, 5 things that you previously did not no about me. (I've seen this as 6 weird things about yourself and 5 things people didn't know about you, etc. etc. You'll get a little of

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I've received a number of phone calls and emails and all of them have been remarkable supportive. (No Frank and Ed did not call me.) Not a single one of you called me dim, and for that I must thank you. Although someone lamented the fact that I was just shy of making it a full year at this place of employment I will point out that I stayed at the bookstore for well over a year and a half. I

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I quit my job last Thursday. I've been thinking about all the reasons why in particular I quit. They range from the fact that my boss was uncommunicative and breathtakingly dense, to the fact that he brought in a consultant who did nothing but insult me. (at one point she called me dense. I think she did this because she didn't understand the answer I had just given her.) I also realize that

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click on picture for better imagevia thesyntaxofthings.org

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Look, I know it's a little dangerous to rant about your workplace online. There are entire companies out in cyberspace dedicated to checking up on potential employees with regard to thier blogs, myspace accounts, etc. I also realize that not everyone is technically saavy. There is not a vast cadre of nerds waiting to fill every postition. I'm fine with that. In fact it guarantees I'll have some

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Some times I get tired of my job. We all do. The hours, the drudgery, the stupid people you have to deal with etc. etc. That being said my job has some perks. I have a fair amount of freedom. I get some cool toys to play with. And I have my own office with a big window. So I looked out my big window this morning and saw something that reminded me that no matter how bad my day was going... it

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Sorry kids. It's been a little while. Xmas is busy in our household. Betweeen Christmas concerts, parties and general advent whatnot. This next subject was enough to get me out of my self-induced grinchiness.Words cannont describe. This is almost on the level of goatonapoleYes, a geostationary banana over texas.

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Got to telecommute to work on Friday cause of the snow!These crazy people don't know how to deal with snow any more than Texans do. At least they know enough to close everything down.

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Back when I was in college (The first time. Hey! No snickering!) my friend Steve and I shared a dorm room together. Somewhat spontaneously we started putting random things that we found around campus onto our door. I believe it started with the cover of a lab manual that I found called DISSECTION OF THE FETAL PIG. Over the course of the semester we accumulated a huge amount of weird and random

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This will make no sense unless you've read this first.and then this might helpEven then they may not make sense unless you're a revolutionary elf.

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This makes me giggle.

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Sometimes I really miss living in Fort Worth. Aside from the coolness of the town what I really miss is hanging out with my friends and family.When I was there we had a little ritual on Sunday afternoons. My brother, his wife Tiffany, Jayare, Mark and I would generally go to lunch together.Afterwards we would sometimes visit the Dollar Tree. For those of you not blessed with a Dollar Tree, lemme

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Hello from the Yucatan!Lots going on this week.Pictureshttp://wpcmission.shutterfly.comVideoshttp://www.youtube.com/profile?user=WPCMissionAnd here's the best.Zefrank used my intro from the Yucatan on the November first show. Check it out!http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/

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Last night my brother and his wife had a baby!So I'm officially Uncle Jack now!Here's the video Here are some cool snaps.The family finds out!The proud father.J.R. skips dinner to get to the hospital on time and eats a HD snickers instead.GranNonie gets to hold Maya.Maya and GranNonieGrandaddy Stewart and Maya.

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Have you noticed our commander-in-chief's propensity to use a definite article in front of certain technological nouns?Example #1"The internets"During the second 2004 Presidential debate Bush referred to the rumors on the internets that there might be a draft.Maybe this explains it.Example #2 (and #2a)"The Google" (and the satellite)Recently the pres was interviewed on CNBC and asked if he used

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I stole this from Jayare who stole it from Hamster_grrl.

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So I've been playing around with the new camera. There really are some neat things that you can do with digital images these days. One of them is HDR or High Dynamic Range images.In the olden days of camera you basically could shoot several images and "bracket" the exposure to make sure you had a good shot. If you had your own dark room (and were shooting black and white), you could take these

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Consultant questions asked: 2Consultant questions answered by myself: 2Chance of almost losing my office, and getting moved into a cubicle with the video department: 50%(My office with a window and a couch which is one of the few things that makes this job tolerable.)Luckily with some smooth talking from the Video dept. head and some vague exaggerations about networking, routers, and servers from

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Consultants:2 (neither named Bob, damnit)Introductions: 2Questions asked: 1Questions answered (by me):1Total time with consultants: 38 secs.

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I just realized that Amy and I will be in Mexico during Dia de Los Muertos. Very exciting. Hopefully I'll be able to have some supercool pics when i get back.

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Ok first off.For those of you not following baseball, My Detroit Tigers beat the Yankees last week in a decisive 3-1 blowout. The last game was a joy to watch.For Tigers fans this has been great, the team hasn't made it to the playoffs since 1987. Not to mention they've been on the dregs of the AL for most of that time. I used to look at the box scores just to see if we could beat out the Royals

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For those who don't speak Russian the poster says "Hail those who fight against fascism" and "The Constitution of the USA - a moral aid and practical help for all those who now lead the battle against fascist barbarianism." Slight edit from USSR to USA is mine.Sure I may be exaggerating a bit. But maybe not.

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This will be track one on the new "Happy Jack and the Monotones" album.Check it out.

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Remeber the days of cassettes? I think I played some of them so much that I wiped a few out of existence. I had a copy of Boston's first album that I rubbed the writing clean off. Well now I can make my own cassettesNow if I would just get around to converting my LP's

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More office hijinks-Sure it's a small gesture but I take a lot of enjoyment in small little subversive jabs at establishments.I'm just gonna leave that up on my whiteboard and see anyone says anything. I'm pretty safe considering, if they get it, they'll understand it. And if they don't understand it, they won't get it.Did I ever mention I'm a huge fan of whiteboards?

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Apparently we've got a consultant coming into the office to critique our workflow. Or some other BS like that. All I can think about is the two 'Bobs' in office space who are the downsizing consultants. I'm mightly tempted to take Peter's (the hero of office space) approach with the consultant. Peter Gibbons: You see Bob, it's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care. Bob Porter: Don't...

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Amy and I celebrated our 2nd anniversary yesterday. I think we both surprised each other in the anniversary present department also. Lately Amy has been real keen on learning to play guitar. She's been borrowing our neighbor's guitar (Thanks Mandy!) and has been picking it up VERY quickly. So I went out and found her a nice Yamaha acoustic beginning guitar. My lovely bride surprised me by getting

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So the other day on "The Show", Zefrank compared college majors to cities. Naturally this intrigued me, so I wrote this response on his forum.Welcome to History.It's a nice town. Most everyone here is friendly and eager to help each other out. Sure you have the occasional idiot or weirdo but on the whole we are a fairly intelligent bunch. We don't have the competitiveness of Business

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September 19th isInternational Talk Like A Pirate Day!This Tuesday is International Talk Like a pirate day. So buck up me harties and cast off! Raise the ensign up the yardarms and prepare the rigging! For those of you who are Pirate challenged the guys at http://www.talklikeapirate.com/ have a quick pointer.Always remember the 5 A'sAhoy! - "Hello!"Avast! - "Stop and give attention!"Aye! - "Yes I

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So what did you do with your weekend? I dressed up in my pre-1840's garb and did a little black powder shooting. I got 4th place in the competition.(p.s. I cut my card also!, see photo below)Amy jokes that if anyone breaks into the house that I'll have to ask them to wait while I take the 45 seconds or so it would take to load my black powder rifle.Amy even made it into the article! I'll let the

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My wife mentioned to me the other day that she was a little put off by the delivery of the inflight announcer on her flight from Las Vegas. My initial thought was "You actually listened to what they were saying?". I personally think that you should be able to recite the standard inflight announcements to the air crew or you shouldn't be able to board. Just a thought. Imagine what inflight

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When I was younger one of my laments was that my generation had no single event to define its existence. My grandparents had World War II. My parents had Vietnam. And what did we have? Diddly squat. It was my belief (at the time) that the lack of a catalystic event left us somewhat lost and wandering as an American generation. Of course that was 10 years ago. Be careful what you wish for.In a few

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Check it out.... official seal generator

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Amy and I really love our Prius. We think it was the right car at the right time. Plus we like sticking out our tongues at the H2 drivers as we pass them at the gas station. (To any H2 drivers out there...you do realize that your basically driving a gussed up Chevy Tahoe not an actual HMMWV?) Even with gas prices around $3 a gallon we are probably spending around $40 a month on gas. Which is as

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I've just gotten my first documentary assignment!!!!So it looks like Amy and I will have an opportunity in October to go on our church's Pan-American Medical Mission. The church sends doctors, dentists and nurses to a small village in Quintana Roo, in the Yucatán Peninsula. Amy and I will be helping out with the medical mission (looks like I'll be constructing eyeglasses) but they've also asked

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So my dad walks into McD's the other day in BFE, Texas...Dad: "I'd like the Oriental Salad" (Hey my dad's trying to eat well even if it's mcd's)Underpaid worker bee: "I'm sorry sir, we have a Ceasar salad and an Asian salad, but no Oriental Salad."Now at this point I realize there is a slight possiblity she was being PC and took some offense at a slightly antiquated term. But I doubt it.I think

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There is a well-documented ability of people to come up with snappy answers and comebacks approximately 1 hour after the necessary moment it was needed. For me, my witty retort epiphany hits me at about 3 A.M. Problem being I'm usually asleep or really tired at 3 A.M. and I don't care. My friend Steve is a strange exception to this rule. He has the uncanny ability to comeback with a sharp

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I created this blog over 3 years ago. Like many things in my life it sat here in cyberspace, neglected and unused. So, forgive me as I dust it off and change the oil, and maybe get this thing up and running. At one point in my life I did an amazing amount of writing in my life, partially because it was required for school and partially because I enjoyed it. Some of my work was fairly scholarly,

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Welcome to this little experiment in cyberspace. I'm not in a very expository mood tonight, but hopefully I'll be writing more soon.

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