Watching my friends play chess on this sad little glass chessboard is obviously the highlight of my new year. But that New Year’s party before this was something else!
On 01.01.09, In Mobile, By BrianCalhoun
On 12.21.08, In Brian Thoughts, By BrianCalhoun
I just finished watching Wall-E. Now I know several of you are thinking LAME! Not to mention a few of you said that when I so much as mentioned it to you, I choose to believe this is because your friends are thugs. Wall-E if nothing else is a fun way to show off your HD TV at 1080p it has a surprising amount of oomph behind it. The story of Wall-E besides being a love story between two cute robots is that humans broke the planet and left on a “vacation” while robots were supposed to be cleaning. The movie never explains why the other billion Wall-E robots stopped working but at least a whole bunch of humans return and try to farm a little plant.
On 12.21.08, In Brian Thoughts, By BrianCalhoun
Now I know that a constant stream of ridiculous activities and experiences pepper my life but there is a problem! Filtering all of this. Now I could just stream a constant running log of all the things I do but even if I changed the names to protect the innocent it wouldn’t be terribly hard to figure out who I was talking about. But you know what they’ll live!
On 12.11.08, In Mobile, By BrianCalhoun
Chris realizes he is destined for great things. As he sat quietly in Billy Juan’s he looked heavenward and was inspired.
On 12.04.08, In Brian Thoughts, By BrianCalhoun
People constantly make promises to themselves that are rarely if ever kept. A huge offender of this is the dreaded New Years Resolution. I’m curious as to why people feel the need to wait and entire 365 days and sometimes 366 just to lie to themselves. I’m not trying to preach to anyone because I know also practice this activity. There’s been many promises made in my day and a lot of them I didn’t keep ranging from what not to eat or drink, who to hang out with, or how to spend my time. But at the time of making these promises I earnestly felt that I’d keep them, I’m curios if there is a way to ensure that the same conviction that made the promise can be carried through day to day life in order to ensure its completion. Say for instance something as going to the gym, its easy to buy the membership, easy to decide you’re going to go, its even easy to go buy a large amount of gym gear. But when it comes to actually getting off your behind and going that’s a whole other ball game. Putting down the videogames, hanging up the phone, telling your friends bye, that is tough. Even knowing that your goal has obvious and tangible advantages doesn’t even help. In light of the recent financial turmoil a significant amount of people are thinking towards education to ensure that they are kept away from the chopping block. But for some reason I don’t think that’s going to be the secret recipe for most people. Well maybe if I can ’stay the course’ with my new commitments anyone can.
On 12.01.08, In Uncategorized, By Colin
I spent Thursday at my Dad’s house for Thanksgiving. My uncle Glenn and his family where there, having a good time, arguing with each other and so on. Glenn is a tall guy, the tallest in the family, and he’s got a great sense of humor. He’s the third youngest of six although he looks older because he used to smoke quite a bit. I just found out that he had a heart attack on Saturday, just a couple days after I saw him, he’s fine now, but I still feel a little shaken up about the news. Normally when I receive news like this I take it in stride. I never get upset, or worried, or depressed. When I was held up, I didn’t think about anything, my mind was completely blank, no anger, no panic, nothing. When my grandfather died I didn’t shed a tear, I was sad though, I loved him. This news though came as quite a shock to me and I feel a little weird about it. Maybe I felt a little more connected to him than my grandfather? I never did connect to my grandfather, he’s old, as grandfathers usually are, also he became more and more deaf as his years passed by, and he was getting sicker as well so maybe since it wasn’t a surprise it didn’t hit me as hard. If that’s right then I’m probably going to have a really hard time when my father dies, when I get married and my wife dies, or my kids. I suppose that’s the way of things. Scary to consider.
On 11.28.08, In Uncategorized, By Colin
Whenever I see these “holiday” episodes on TV or movies the family in question is completely dysfunctional. Is this the american norm? Since I have a lot of fun when around my family I just can’t connect to these people. I just had Thanksgiving with my dad’s side of the family and I had a ball. Usually, in these types of shows, the son/daughter has a problem being civil with the father/mother. This to me is ridiculous; if you know what your parents are going to be like then why would you provoke them by talking about a certain subject or “confronting” their opinions or bad habits. Just leave well enough alone so you can have a decent time without hating every minute you spend with these people. And to that end, if you do hate every minute spent arguing and grousing then why even go? Spend some time alone or with friends. I’m heading out right now to spend some time with my mom’s side of the family, and I’m sure I’m gonna have another great time (even though I like this side just a little less). And tomorrow I’m hanging out with my dad again for his birthday. I suppose what I’m trying to get at is that you can’t choose your family and you don’t have to get along with them. If it’s a hostile environment I think it’s just best to avoid it.
On 11.27.08, In Uncategorized, By Matt
You find your self huddled around a small electronic device; you hoard it and look feverishly at the others around you hoping to catch them in a brief moment where they look at you. Some do. What they see is a person hovering over this “machine” looking like a hungry animal over a five day-old rotten carcass. You look at them and say to your self, “wow, look at that person all c-backed over that” Then you chuckle to yourself and, of course, you don’t look into their eyes or at their hands…. oh never at the hands. If you look at their hands, you risk being called out… being called… whatever someone looks as a person inputting a pin number is called. Even the cashier pretends to do something for the measly 10 seconds, if your blind, it takes to input a pin. All of a sudden the cashier can get a days worth of work in that minuscule allotted time. The person in front of you seems for find a sudden interest in the ceiling tiles or in the carpet. “Is this Berber?” You wonder why nobody cares, shouts out their pin, i mean after all, they need your card do use your “secret” code of 5-4-3-2-1. And so the process repeats until you stand there all c backed over waiting to catch the unsuspecting man, woman or child looking at you while you input your pin. I mean after all if you do catch them peering over your shoulder you could call them… well anything, but most likely, you’ll walk away mumbling under your breath and telling your friends of the audacity of a 12 year old.
till next time!
On 11.26.08, In Brian Thoughts, By BrianCalhoun
Just got in the door and started my usual browsing habits when I came across this ridiculous article on Gizmodo about black Friday. Basically you can get the $6k Sony Vaio TT for around $1k during a Webcast lasting from noon to midnight on black Friday. This got me thinking about how I was going to accomplish my shopping this year. Several of my female friends basically ran amok the last two weeks trying to cash in on the pre-black Friday sales all over the place and are now done with their shopping. Unfortunately for me I’m not even sure what anyone in my family wants, I’m leaning heavily towards gift cards but that feels slightly like a cop out. Most likely on December 20th you’re going to see me in stores stepping over piles of discarded merchandise and screaming children to grab a hold of what feeble gift ideas I can come up with. There needs to be a service where you can pick a total budget or budget per person and just let the website figure out what to buy the people based on some simple survey style questions. To take it a step further you should be able to order these items from said site and have them shipped. Hopefully in 2009 we’ll have Christmas shopping truly at the click of a button.