Haircut!

Well I finally got a haircut that doesn't leave me looking quite so shaggy. I've been growing it out for quite some time now and decided that I needed a cut that was a little more manageable. I've been loving my Jeep but it's so windy that everytime I would get out of it when I wasn't wearing a hat the hair on the left side of my head would basically be standing up (sort of a modern flock-of-seagulls doo).

Here it is (thanks to llama for the pic):

Why do we waste so much time watching TV?

I went to Dallas last week for some Rest and Relaxation and ended up watching a significantly larger amount of TV than I normally do. The shows can be broken down into two categories:

1) 'Funniest Videos'

I'm not sure why people like watching these shows. Most of the videos were terrible with a common humor theme being some poor idiot getting kicked in the balls or some other form of physical injury. When the camera panned over the audience they looked like they were all trying to appear happy despite getting root canals. The videos that were funny usually didn't win or even make it to the list of finalists. Add to this the fact that the announcer always makes bad puns and I can't understand why we watched them. But watched we did, basically just killing time. Is that what most people use TV for? Just killing time between real-life events?

2) 'Reality TV'

Okay, this trend has really just gone too far. We were watching a reality tv show about a chain of tanning salons! Basically any reality tv show functions on the premise that there is all this back-stabbing and gossip-mongering going on. Based on this premise I'm going to create my own reality tv show called 'Real Losers' where you watch a bunch of people watching different Reality shows. The drama will come from how much weight people are gaining and how crappy their personal skills become. Throw in a little conflict with everyone having their own favorite reality show and fighting over the remote and I'm sure we'll have a winner. Oh, and I'm gonna need some hot dudes and chicks so people even care what they think. Apparantly everyone's personal life is so shitty that they have to watch tanning salon jockeys to excite them. Seriously people, what happened to us? Get off your ass, go outside, and enjoy the reality show called 'Life'.Publish Post

Ups and Downs

Yesterday we put a project I'd been working on into production, tried it out, and everything seemed to work. I then came back and was sort of basking in the afterglow of putting together something useful and then actually getting to see it in action. I was truly a proud father.

This morning I came in to find that my child had betrayed me and was not working properly. Turned out we'd never verified that it was putting good information into the database! Fixing it was pretty simple and we got everything taken care of without too much difficulty but I felt like an idiot, especially since I had been so proud of it before.

Moral of the story: Pride truly cometh before the fall.

Whenever this sort of thing happens I like to inventory what went wrong and make a 'process' for myself to be sure that I don't do it again. I'm getting a pretty long list now but with each addition I'm improving the quality of my work and that is definitely something to be proud of.