Random Musings of Brian A. Thomas. Love for Sara and Ari.
Posted in General on Jul 5th, 2007
I recently started considering a career as an auto mechanic. I have a good degree of mechanical aptitude, far more so than my aptitude for programming, sadly for my current career (it has been so long since I did any real programming I fear how well I would be at it if I was promoted). [...]
Posted in General on Jun 30th, 2007
I just finished Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, a book I read not because, but in spite of the fact that it is an Oprah’s Book Club book.I got interested in the book after watching the trailer for the Coen Brother’s (Miller’s Crossing, Fargo, The Big LebowskiO Brother, Where Art Thou?, among many others) newest film,No [...]
I have in the past argued for ethanol (see The Kind of Car We Need, and More on the Kind of Car the US Needs) as part of move for plugin-hybrid cars. I still argue that we need plugin-hybrid cars, however I have re-thought the whole use of ethanol.
Corn prices have gone up more than [...]
Posted in General on Jun 24th, 2007
Sara has been on a diet for the last few months. She is now smaller than she ever was since I met her. So a big congratulations to Sara.
How is she doing it? Diet mostly.
Posted in General on Jun 15th, 2007
How do we get Harry to live, yet make sure the series is done as J. K. Rowling has said it will be?
I predict that in the end of the Harry Potter books that we’ll learn that Harry was born a Squib (somebody born to magical parents but doesn’t have any magical ability themselves). I [...]
Posted in General on Jun 8th, 2007
I haven’t posted the results of one of those, You are… type tests for a long time. This time was another What Buffy Character Are You Type Quiz, this one claiming to be the most accurate ever. As if there was any surprise, I ended up being Xander.
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I just learned that Arizona has banned Zillow from it’s estimates on property values in Arizona. I find this odd, seeing that it is an estimate and costs appraisers nothing, so it doesn’t protect them from anything, nor does it protect consumers, but hurts them in the end. You don’t hire an appraiser for each [...]
Posted in General on May 19th, 2007
I got an email from somebody at TooSpoiled for a well paying Customer Service Job. So I applied, got a call from somebody who recommended me for the next interview. It is then that I decided to research the company, rather than at the start, stupid move I know. Seems TooSpoiled is a big scam [...]
Posted in Ari Update, General on May 16th, 2007
I talked about Nuttin But Stringz a while ago, and now the video is out there I thought I would share the video on Noggin that got us to learn about them. When Ari sees the video he pretends he has a violin. Check out their official site.
Posted in General on May 5th, 2007
It looks like that the cash value of Mega Millions is worth more than the cash value of Powerball as a percentage. Powerball’s prize right now is $20 Million, with a cash value of $9.4 Million, or about 47%. Mega Millions meanwhile has a prize of $96 Million with a cash value of $47.7 Million, [...]
Posted in General on May 5th, 2007
Okay, before I go to bed, one more post. Hookahville 27 is coming May 25-26, 2007 with a fairly nice lineup this year. Of course the host, Ekoostik Hookah will be there, along with The Wailers, and Oakhurst are the main ones that I have heard of myself, with a bunch of others. (Follow the [...]
Posted in General on May 5th, 2007
Before heading to bed I decided to rock it with The String Cheese Incident, join me:
Get the DVD, Live From Austin Texas for you… or for some recent Birthday boy…
While I have heard of the SCI before Sara and I saw them on Austin City Limits a few years ago, it was that show [...]
Posted in General on May 4th, 2007
I have wondered if I have a weak form of prosopagnosia. Prosopagnosia, is face blindness, where the ability to recognize faces is impaired. My problem is more when I see people of out context, or if they have changed features too much from time to time. For example, while I may have a love for [...]
Posted in General on May 4th, 2007
I’ll blame it on Canada, or being up too early with having gone to bed too late last night, but either way my IQ came out to be only 108 on this IQ Test. You have 40 minutes to answer 39 questions, mostly it seems to be pattern recognition. I could have sworn I normally [...]
Posted in General on May 2nd, 2007
A little under two score years ago I was born on this date.
What I want… a good car; the mortgage paid off, or at least the mortgage shortfall with the house being sold; a new, good job in the Phoenix area (bonus if it is actually in the Prescott area); enough to put a deposit [...]
I recently also added Buckeye, AZ (go there using Google Earth), another suburb of Phoenix, to the list of Arizona cities I may move to that I mentioned before. It is one of the fastest growing areas of Phoenix and will likely become the largest suburb of Phoenix (if not the largest suburb in the [...]
Posted in Ari Update, Vids on Apr 27th, 2007
The video quality here isn’t great, as it was taken with a camera phone, but here is a video of Ari, at the end of which he claims he is Darth Maul (lead villain in Star Wars - Episode I, The Phantom Menace. The look on his face was very funny.
Posted in Ari Update, Vids on Apr 27th, 2007
Ari’s favorite music video of late is Kate Bush singing Wuthering Heights. He does it with lots of her dance moves while he watches it and it can be quite funny…
He is also a fan of Ben Harper’s A Better Way, sometimes asking “I want the Better Way song.”
Posted in General on Apr 27th, 2007
Sara started a diet a few months ago and is down 45 pounds to her pre-pregnancy weight. Congratulations Sara!
We wouldn’t be freezing this morning. The temperature in Chandler, AZ right now, according to our friendly Yahoo! front page (they get their info from the Weather Channel) is 57 degrees, with a high of 91… Here the greater Akron/Canton area it is 48, with a high of 67 with strong storms coming. Of course [...]
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