The number one requirement for making a big time action movie is a legion of anonymous henchmen who will die spectacularly, cinematically at the hands of the protagonist and the villain. (not necessarily different people) This is one of the hidden requirements for all action movies. Drama's can get by with casts of less than 10 people but you need extras for a good action flick.

Drop whatever you are doing right now, and go see Equilibrium. It's as if somebody had consulted me on how to make a movie. Who to cast, plot elements, dialogue, visual style, everything seemed tailored to please me. WOW WOW WOW.

Blah.... Employers must feel that the current state of the job market gives them carte blanche to toy with potential job seekers. I am about to return to Intuit for my third interview. I have also gone twice for testing. Blah...

More search engine wizardy from the folks at google is in the pipe. It's called froogle and it's a new shopping search engine in addition to their catalog search. God I love the web!

More good stuff from the happy liberal people at Slate.com. The USA Track and Field organization has a new mascot and is running a naming competition. My favorite name thus far is "Craig Masback, You Are an Idiot—Look at This Friggin' Thing.". I personally suggested "We Stole it from basketball!"

Man, am I humgry. On the job today I strung Christmas lights all day. I also learned the arcane art of Christmas light repair. I can even rebuild damaged bulbs instead of throwing them away!
In other news, there has been a baby boom at my church. No less than five couples are expecting children, including a 35 year old women whose daugher is engaged to be married.
Again, I am struggling with that feeling of having something to say and not being able to remember what it was. :(

I would post something, but I am in the middle of a workout and there doesn't seem to be a lot of oxygen in my brain. I can't think straight enough to type.

I should amend my Christmas wish list to include some books. I like books. Getting Bruce Lee's Tao of Jeet Kune Do would be cool. I still have this crazy idea that I want to program games so this book would be nice too. I like to read novels for fun when I am not plotting to take over the world and get rich doing it, and I have heard so many good things about Dave Egger's books - You Shall Know Our Velocity and A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. It's not just crass materialism folks, it's intelligent, crass materialism.

The answer to the question I asked in my last post is Jun Fan. Isn't life on the web wonderful?

Bruce Lee developed a new martial art before he died, called Jeet Kune Do. The problem being that it wasn't a real martial art as much as a way of thinking about martial arts. He also developed an actual martial art that encompassed everything he had learned and was teaching up to that point. What is the name of the actual martial art?

Weekend in Lubbock

Don't expect me to use titles every time. I am quite lazy really and using titles is just me sampling the flavor of the week.
That said, I spent last weekend in Lubbock, Texas scoping out the campus of Texas Tech University. It was the worst planned trip I have ever taken. We went at least an hour out of the way, got lost in town once we arrived, didn't pick a hotel till 1 AM, and drove around aimlessly 70% of the time we were there. It was also fun in a hare-brained kind of way. Texas Tech has a very nice campus, surrounded by a town that leaves much to be desired. The water is alkaline leaving a nasty aftertaste and the landscape is bleak and uninspiring. The situation has been engineered to keep the students on campus. From what I hear, there is plenty to do on campus and you don't miss city life. ('Tech's a party school!) My friends main concern with the campus life was the quanity and quality of the women on campus. He was not displeased, although a Sunday on a miserable day in December before finals week is probably not the best time to make such decisions. Texas Tech has a good law school and a decent academic reputation overall. (it balances out the party school reputation.)
I am tired. I am also done.