Random Musings of Brian A. Thomas. Love for Sara and Ari.
Posted in Ari Update on Feb 27th, 2006
I have a Dora the Explorer: Fairytale Adventures computer game for Ari. He is getting good at using the mouse to get results. I generally will give him one of the mini-games to play. Some of them he easily knows what to do with the mouse, others I might have to point to something and [...]
Posted in General on Feb 27th, 2006
I forgot to add that there was a bead contest. The prize was The Bad Girl’s Guide to the Party Life. For such a big party, the house stayed fairly clean.
Posted in General on Feb 26th, 2006
Sara hosted a Mardi Gras party last night, mostly inviting her CAP friends, along with one of our friends from Borders, and one of her old friends. All seemed to go well, most everyone had a good time. The largest crowd, or the second largest crowd we have had here at the house.
Posted in Politics on Feb 20th, 2006
H.R. 2694, the so called, “Let People Decide Clean Campaign Act,” which was submitted by House Democrat Obey of Wisconsin, is designed to fund House candidates out of the Treasury, and prohibit candidates from receiving private funds, including contributions from normal people like us. The catch is that the money is restricted only to the [...]
Just a quick note.
I was browsing and found a cool Lost site that has Lost Easter Eggs. For example they have screen a screen cap of the Egyptian Hieroglyphs from last episode, Kate’s dad and her picture, and a screen cap of the TV showing Saddam’s gassing of a village that has the numbers on it. For the [...]
Posted in General on Feb 18th, 2006
A very long time ago I thought it would be cool to return to the age of dirigibles, but rather then a Hindenburg style dirigible, use modern materials and technology to build what would amount to a cruise ship in the sky. I would ships to tour the usual cruise ship places, and perhaps one [...]
Posted in Politics on Feb 17th, 2006
McCain backs a la carte cable, puts pressure on cable is just one of the new stories of late that show TV is heading to bad ground. I have to agree that a la carte will result in a vast TV wasteland. While I would hope Discovery Channel and History Channel and the like would [...]
Posted in General on Feb 17th, 2006
RIAA Says Ripping CDs to Your iPod is NOT Fair Use is a story over at the Electronic Frontier Foundation about the latest round of insanity coming out of the RIAA.
What is really sad is the RIAA is a bigger threat to the music industry then your typical Internet music trader. Copy protection schemes like [...]
Another cool episode I thought. Getting back to the Lost pace of before. Unfortunately, for some reason, ABC is taking the next week off.
Posted in General on Feb 13th, 2006
The separation is over. Sara and Ari are back. More perhaps later as I got a bad cold now. She’s off to work right now, and dropping Ari off at her Mom’s house, so I’ll probably take a nap.
Posted in Ari Update, Movies on Feb 12th, 2006
I was looking at movie trailers online, when the trailer for Happy Feet came up, he started dancing. The music stopped for a moment and he started to walk away, but then the music started again and he danced his little dance again. It definitely seems to be his favorite style of music to dance [...]
Nearly everyone loves 24, despite an overly large suspension of belief at times, can you say Mountain Lion? Anyhow, your Top Sixty Facts about Jack Bauer. You can click Back to Facts on the bottom to get to the random facts page where you can vote on a fact.
Posted in General on Feb 11th, 2006
I remember learning in school that Eggs were part of the dairy group, before the food pyramid. I often wondered why, and some Internet searches this morning reveal that eggs are not dairy as one would logically assume. It was sometimes put in the dairy group because fresh eggs were sometimes delivered by milkmen. That [...]
Posted in Programming on Feb 10th, 2006
While I probably still get the C# book soon, I am going to hold off on the other two until I make sure they will do what I need them to do. Looking at the JCL at work, I wonder sometimes if it is the same JCL, since some bits seem different then what I [...]
Posted in General on Feb 10th, 2006
I haven’t had this one for a long time…
It is night,and I start running after a van, this chase is some how related to Kevin Smith, who made Clerks and the rest of the Jersey films. This part isn’t reoccurring and is probably a seperate dream. I think it is also related to my child, [...]
Posted in Blu-ray on Feb 9th, 2006
I’ll leave the details to the story at Ars Technica, but basically the wholesale price is $17.95 for catalog titles, and $23.45 for new releases, this will equal about $23 to $39 at full retail. That is Sony studio pricing anyhow.
Posted in General on Feb 9th, 2006
The Polyphonic Spree’s new album The Fragile Army (Blogspot site, not to the album link yet) is tentatively set for 3 July 2006.
If you haven’t listened to them yet, be sure to check out:
The Beginning Stages Of…
Together We\’re Heavy
Thumbsucker
You should be able to listen to samples at their official site, the Amazon links above, and [...]
More people continue to die because of some political cartoons about Islam and Mohammad. They are protesting, killing people, getting killed, and now are targeting the USA since we are “the leader of Europe and the leading infidel in the world.” I am not sure when we became the leader of Europe, but hey, what [...]
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Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (Harper Fiction) by Gregory Maguire