Monthly Archives: August 2005

Mr. Willis of Ohio

Posted on August 25, 2005 | 2 comments

I watched one of my absolute favorite episodes of The West Wing tonight. It’s an early episode, probably from earlier in the first season, the title is the same as that of this post. It’s my favorite episode for many reasons:

  • Mr. Willis, the eighth grade social studies teacher, who is there to vote for his wide that recently passed away.
  • The inane trivia from from the President.
  • Mallory and Zoey bulling the boys into taking them (and teasing them when they get there) to the bar in Georgetown.
  • All the census information.
  • Charlie defending Zoey at the bar when the boys start to harass her at the bar.
  • The explanation of the extra money in the budget.
  • The President’s speech to Zoey as he’s yelling at her.

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    3x Thursday

    Posted on August 25, 2005 | Leave a comment
    1. Did you ever think you’d actually ‘grow up, get married, have a family, etc’? Did you? If not, why not?
    Yes, definitely. I actually thought I’d be married by 27, no idea when the kids would come along. I have no idea how I ever came up with that number but somehow I did (it seems to me I was at the public library at the time). Still single and no kids (although I’m exploring adopting again).
    2. What did you want to be when you grew up? What are you now? Do they match?
    I’ve been doing computer “stuff” and training since I was 15 so it’s not big surprise where I ended up. At other various times during middle school I thought it would either be a chef or a photographer. I wish I had gone to the VoTech classes for the chef stuff instead of the computers (the tech was pretty out of date for the time).
    3. Did you really think it’d be *this* hard?
    It’s generally not so hard, unless I can qualify the boring times as hard…

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    Go to college

    Posted on August 23, 2005 | Leave a comment

    So I really wish I could have been in the room when someone was making the pitches for new television shows. You know, there must have been some new CIS shows, some other cop shows, something new from J.J. Abrams, probably some new Star Trek series and who knows what else. Then someone says ‘Hey! Let’s do a reality-mentory and we’ll call it Tommy Lee Goes to College‘ and then all the network folk stood up and applauded and said go for it.

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    Tuesday is Chooseday – Your name

    Posted on August 23, 2005 | 1 comment

    So I usually avoid Tuesday is Chooseday because there is usually a rude question or two (or three) that I don’t feel the need to publish on-line, but today’s is okay with me…

      Would you rather:

    1. have a first name that nobody can pronounce OR one nobody can remember? I’ll go with no one can pronounce my name (at least they’ll remember me).
    2. be confined to a couch for three weeks OR wear rollerblades for three weeks straight? I could deal with the rollerblades. I’m assuming I can sit on the couch to rest.
    3. be the person who cleans up the elephant cages at the circus OR the person who cleans the friers at mcdonalds? I’d probably never eat fries again but I’ll choose those over the elephants.
    4. your poop be bright blue OR your saliva be grass green? I’ll go with the blue. No one’s going to know about that, right?

    From Tuesday is Chooseday.

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    Blind Video-Gamer

    Posted on August 22, 2005 | 1 comment

    Brice Mellen is on G4 TechTV (Attack of the Show) right now. He plays Mario World and Mortal Combat and he’s blind. And in a few he’s going to play another sightless gamer in “the world’s first Sightless Gamer Mortal Kombat Challenge!” Here’s a link but they don’t really do show notes like they used to…

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    Fortunate Friday – Friday Fun

    Posted on August 21, 2005 | 1 comment
    1. What are you most fortunate for, right now at this stage in your life?
    I guess my health and my job. Both have been very good to me lately. :)

    


    2. What do you wish you were fortunate enough to have? Is it attainable?
    A wife and a child or two (that’s two kids, not wives). Attainable: The latter definitely (at least with adoption). The wife I just need to find the right one and have her think the same thing (still working on that).

    


    3. Name one thing about each person in your immediate family that makes you feel fortunate to have them in your life.
    My Mom is really my only definable immediate family, I don’t really see my father. She’s always been there when I need her! She’s pretty low maintenance too (although I don’t think that’s what was meant by fortunate).

    From Friday Fun.

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    The Perfect Score – Review

    Posted on August 20, 2005 | 1 comment

    So a few weeks ago I noticed I was getting Showtime, I assumed it was a free preview weekend or something so I TiVo’d (taped) a few shows. One of those shows happened to be The Perfect Score, about a group of kids who decide to steal the answers to the SAT, tonight I got around to watching this one. It wasn’t until I was watching it for a few that I realized I had done that post about the SAT gizmo earlier today (duh!).

    So the movie was fun, if you saw the preview it’s pretty much what you’d expect with a few “dream/fantasy” sequences about the planned crime itself. They really ripped on the the whole standardization pigeonholing concept of the whole test and the scoring and how your whole life can be based on this number. The one line that I liked was something like, “They tell us to be individuals our whole life and then stick us all in the same room to take the same test to determine the rest of our lives” (that’s very paraphrased).

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    SAT practice

    Posted on August 20, 2005 | 3 comments

    So I saw this Franklin Princeton Review Pocket Prep for the New SAT device, it’s some kind of interactive digital flashcards for the new SAT. It’s got timed exams, vocab lists, tutorials and feedback based on your practice exams. This would have been handy, especially the timing, I think the timing is one of the hardest parts for people to prep for on these kinds of exams…

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