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For my grad, dad and birthday gift, my wife got me a spanking new Playstation 3.
Thank you wifey for such a cool gift!  You are a kick-ass wife and the PS3 is a kick-ass gift!
I wanted a PS3 mainly so that I can watch Bluray movies — we already pay for Netflix, so it [...]

Done

When I started my University Odyssey, it was at San Jose State University as a Comp-Sci major.  I did not ever finish though and ended up working full-time at Sony.
Sometime during my career at Sony, I figured out that I should probably finish up a degree of some sort.  I signed up for classes [...]

Shouldn’t a tool that is advertised to help people open those f*cking blister packs (whoever invented them should be shot), NOT BE PACKED IN A BLISTER PACK?  The packaging even reads, “No more hard to open packaging…”  It should come with an asterisk — might I suggest:  “* after this one.”

Yes, We’re Cheap!

Eileen, Jacob and I were toasting at home — and we just had to get out of the house to enjoy some air conditioning.  We had gone to the mall and Fry’s earlier.  It was too early for dinner.  We had a bag of old mobile phones to donate, so we jumped in the car [...]

Too Few Pins

I used to say I am the garbage can at work.
Basically, everything that needs to get done and no one has done it…well, I do it.  If it’s been left over, I do it.  If something is on fire, I fix it.  If someone needs to know something, they come to me.  I am [...]

Teething Pains

It’s over. After dozens of shots. After endless pains. After countless dental visits. After getting Electrosurged. After almost a year, my tooth is finally fixed. I got the crown put on today and my tooth is back. I now talk with a strange lisp because it feels [...]

Obscuring English

I was driving home the other night listening to news radio when I heard two car commercials almost back to back. The car companies were trying to push their CPO vehicles. CPO? You are asking yourself, what is that? It is a new marketing acronym for “Certified Pre-Owned”. It [...]