Archive for January, 2005
EVP
I was reading a review of White Noise and went to the main EVP website to read about it. I suddenly found myself hearing way too much detail in the sound out of my computer speakers. It freaked me out. I’m not going back to any EVP websites. One may wonder if I [Read More]
Public entries
I should do them more often, at least to share observations that are fairly innocuous. When making a plate of food for dinner at Whole Foods, it’s best to avoid the barbecued chicken, because you’re paying by weight, and you’re not eating the chicken [Read More]
I hate standard job applications
Such as the one for N.C. State, which rather than allowing you to simply attach a resume, insists that you fill out a page for every friggin job you’ve had, including address of the company, reason for leaving, etc. For me, that’s a ridiculous number of entries, [Read More]
Phantom of the Opera
Excuse me, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera. The Onion headline is dead-on: Psychiatrists Treating Phantom of the Opera Viewers For Post-Melodramatic Stress Disorder. Not that there’s anything wrong with melodrama. That’s what I like about [Read More]
Meet the Fockers
Watching Meet the Fockers tonight was a great example of how having low expectations can be a good thing. Since I wasn’t expecting to enjoy it that much, I had a great time watching it because it was much better than I had expected. Perhaps the original is better if [Read More]
2004…2005…
It would be a cop-out to say good riddance to 2004. That’s likely what I’ve thought about every year since I was old enough to reflect on a year gone by, which is roughly the past twenty years of my life. There’s no way to compare years. It is quite true [Read More]
