For all you nerdy programmer folk out there, I thought I'd pass a long this link. I love C++ programming (if I were to ever meet a woman who was cute and knew how to code I think I'd have to marry her) and I am a huge fan of the STL. So a library that provides STL style templates for manipulating ODBC databases has to be a good thing.

What has your government done for your breasts lately?

This shirt was probably a bad idea and the average person would think it hideous. Strangely enough, I want it and may buy it if it sticks around long enough. I am drawn to the extravagance of red velvet.

How do these weight loss companies persuade people to pose for before and after pictures? Maybe there is money involved. Notice that while the improvement is usually dramatic, it usually isn't of extremely obese individuals. My question is this, if you are that out of shape, why would you even own a bikini?

New Year's Eve and early morning New Years Day was interesting. I met a large number of folks from Louisana in town for the Louisana State Univeristy versus University of Texas game in the Cotton Bowl. We were subjected to semi-hourly chants of "LSU, LSU!" and LSU fans/students in purple and gold clothes, with LSU stickers on their cheeks. One guy I spoke to as I stood in line waiting to get in was obviously already drunk. He spoke of trying hard to meet women on New Year's Eve and giving "210 percent." He also told the occasional passing woman that he wanted to see her "nekkid". Charming. But I was equally as charming - I implored strange women to kiss me at midnight, and I was sober. You see I just wanted the complete "New Years" experience. Next year I am going to Times Square.

Happy New Year!

Working with Ed again today. After shopping on the weekend, I have to earn back the money I spent on the weekend. For the first time this weekend, I saw people standing in the store display pretending to be mannequins.

Judging by the lack of public lamentation Nic Cage must be alive.

Is Nic Cage dead?

The Mall

Went to the mall today. Fun.

Sometimes it is important to be male in the company of men.

Tonight was such a night. I got out, hung out, and even saw Adaptation. It was crazy and funny, but I was a little disappointed in the end. I kept waiting for the really crazy thing to happen to cinch the whole movie, to finish the buildup he was working towards. Nothing happened. It was a letdown. Mild, but a letdown never the less. What was weird about it though, is that Being John Malkovich was being shot during the movie and in one scene you actually see John Cusack joining Catherine Keener and Mary Kay Place to shoot a scene of the movie. It makes you realize that he really did have this problem adapting the book and while much of the movie is fabricated (John LaRouche is alive, and I doubt that Susan Orlean ever snorted ground orchid extract.) it did happen - sort of. The ending is disappointing because he ran out of time got frustrated and gave up.
He paints an unflattering portrait of every character in the movie. Even if his personality is a middle point between the onscreen Charlie Kaufman and his fictional twin brother Donald, he would still be a pathetic character. It would be cool if Susan Orlean really did look like Meryl Streep, but she doesn't. She is a pale thin shadow of her onscreen alter-ego. Meryl Streep (and most good Hollywood actresses her age) is just too much woman, too much muscular femininity to really be anyone else. She'll play a character onscreen and do a good job of it, but it will always be Meryl Streep shining through. People will think that the real life woman was an interesting, complex person, only to be dissappointed in the prosaic reality.

America's Army - the best recruiting tool that money can buy. You know the other Armed Forces have to be thinking about getting the act. Worse, if you are a competing game company, cost isn't much of an obstacle. These are the same people who pay $10 million for one missile. $7 million to make every kid in America want to join up and go kick some terrorist butt? That is a bargain.

In an effort to develop "sick hops" and bigger calves I have now added jumping to my workout routine. It look silly but it's also how Michael Jordan is purported to have achieved his ability to soar. All I want is 6 inches on my vertical and better looking calves. As the weather warms, I am going to add some soccer drills and sprinting. If I keep it up everday I should be nothing short of a whirlwind on the soccer field. I think if I was fit and worked on skills everyday I'd be good. As it stands now, I am good, bad and average. When I am good, I am very, very good. When I am bad I am awful. And when I am tired and out of shape from not playing in a long time I am just average. I'd almost prefer being awful because usually I follow that up quickly with good. A coach at UTD told me I was good in "flashes" they wanted consistency.

Turns out, he's also a blog of note on Blogger.com.

This guy doesn't link me and I have no idea who he is, but I am linking him because he's hilarious. He showed up as a referrer in my traffic log but really, Wander-Lust linked some lucky web-surfer to me and not the owner of the hilarious website known as ph8.

110 MPH that's fast not slow, 110 MPH in my Mom's Volvo

Did I ever tell you that I love my Mom's car? I was supposed to pick up somebody for Christmas dinner and went on a wild goose chase looking for him. I did however flip the turbo switch in the Volvo from "ECON" to "SPORT". That sick feeling you get in the pit of your stomach accellerating off of a ramp into a turn is delicious.

There are certain people in my life whom I count as friends who no longer have time for me. To be honest, I have been pathetic, jobless, and more than a little whiny so I wouldn't have time for me either. The result is though that I have decided that I don't have time for people who don't have time for me, so we speak no more than 30 seconds now - disappointing in the extreme.

What I got for Christmas

• A Remington electric razor - this baby is so smooth I think the hair just disappears magically.
  
• Barishnikov Sport Cologne - impossible to find and smells great. I bought it like 3 or 4 years ago an loved it only to find out it had been discontinued.
  
• A Cell Phone - You can't have a social life without a cell phone!
  
• Green Wash clothes - My little brother even got me something.
  

What did you get? No seriously, email me and tell me. I want to know.

Merry Christmas everybody! Umm I need to go do some holiday sweating now.

PETA gets a does of it's own medicine. Repeat after me: Never push radical activism on teenagers; never push radical activism on teenagers...