Unwanted Commentary

Why is it that you can sit at your desk all alone for three hours, the office empty, but as soon as you fart some one comes running up to your desk to talk to you? The weird thing is that it's okay to sit in your own stench, but there's something very unsettling about someone else running into the cloud. I've always wondered if they can smell it or are they just being pollite by not backing up 5 paces. Do they think that you've soiled yourself or just had an unfortunate accident? Do they just accept it as one of those things or do they recognize the unfortunate situation because it's happened to them before?

Life is full of mysteries.

I don't want anyone to think that I like to fart and sit in my own stench, typically I try to be hygenic about the whole deal...but sometimes you think, "Eh, what could one little poot hurt, it's quiet, no one is here...".

Posted by Jeff at 03:04 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

I just finished the 4th book in Tad Williams' Otherland series and I really loved all of it. I enjoyed the long, slow pace and the unrushed pace of things...to me it represented a sort of real world experience of thinking that you're almost there and finished only to find out that you still have a long way to go. These were the first books by Tad Williams that I had ever read and I would definetly like to read more of his stuff....he has such a vivid imagination and writes in such a rich, thick way that makes you pay attention...lots of little details to catch.

While I really enjoyed these books, and find myself missing the characters and thinking about the conclusions...I find that the ending was a little to neat and tidy. For one, outside of getting really worn out, mentally exhausted and sometimes physically damaged the characters all make through realtively unscathed. All the good guys have good endings and all the bad guys get their just deserts...and while that is all well and good I felt that for a work of this magnitude a little more sacrafice was warranted...making the reader hurt and suffer to get to the end...but when you finish you can breath a sigh of relief and close the cover knowing that everything is going to be okay. Nice, but not really overly compelling.

I've read some some reviews on Amazon and I think I agree with the reviews that weren't just 'fanboy' posts...the series really could have been three books and not lost any of it's potency and in fact it might have been a more enthralling series if it had ended a little earlier. But over all I really liked this series...it struggles near the end and it gets a little far fetched...but I'd recommend it.

Posted by Jeff at 09:24 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

When I was in high school...I knew a guy named Bryan Wells...or Brian Wells, I don't remember and I don't feel like looking him up in the old HS annuals. Anyways, I knew another guy named Daryl Hardy and he would sometimes ponder...

Blue Whales...
Humpback Whales...
Killer Whales....
Sperm Whales...
Brian Wells...

Eh....it was funny at the time

Posted by Jeff at 01:27 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

well here i am....i couldn't get in to add a new entry from IE6 or Opera 7(whatever), but it seems that Mozilla Firefox let me in like flint....go figure.

I'm past the point of trying to troubleshoot all this bullshite...I'm just willing to accept a small victory of being in and adding a new entry.

Posted by Jeff at 01:23 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Well Sunday turned out to be quite the exciting day, even though I did practically nothing all day and in fact I barely got out of bed. It felt good to just have a day to do nothing, that doesn't come around very often and I'm glad that my wife allowed me the option. Of course I think she was just happy to have me out of the way not providing a distraction as she worked on her project.

The Dallas Stars won, despite playing the most horrid second period where they went down 4-1. Steadily and much to my happiness they clawed and scrapped their way back into it for a 5-4 OT win. You gotta be happy with that Stars fans.

I know there will be a lot of people who hate this and roll their eyes at it, but I was ecstatic that Lord of the Rings went eleven for eleven last night. I know my bestest and loverly friend D was going nuts as they won statue after statue. But I'm one of those freaks who has actually watched all of the extended DVD 4-disc sets and watched both extended films with commentary. I was so very impressed with the massive scale, the attention to the craziest detail and the unparalleled hard work that went on in the making of these three movies. So, I for one, think that these awards were very well deserved.

If it makes anyone feel better though, those of you who didn't care for the films, I don't think Return of the King would have garnered such accolades had it not had the weight of the other two films behind it. It was a bit unfair, in that so many great films came out this year and they had to compete with a monster work like the trilogy.

Posted by Jeff at 08:21 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)