Monthly Archives: March 2007

Rosie O’Donnell is an Idiot

As shown here.

March 30, 2007 – 9:55 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in National Issues | Comments (3)

Talent

A lit­tle his­tory: for most of 2006, my com­pany paid me a ton of money to basi­cally attend meet­ings. In this time, I have reached the end of the inter­net and I’ve made some obser­va­tions. The con­tent on the inter­net is basi­cally nor­mally dis­trib­uted in terms of the use­ful­ness and tal­ent of said con­tent, except­ing …

March 30, 2007 – 7:01 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Humor, Internet/Technology | Comments (0)

Gov. Perry Signs No Retreat Law

Great news for Texas citizens.  Gov. Perry signed the law that allows Texas cit­i­zens to defend them­selves with­out first try­ing to retreat in their homes, cars or jobs.  In the­ory, this law was already in place as no grand juries in Texas would ever choose to indict a home­owner who defended him­self but it’s nice …

March 29, 2007 – 3:16 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Second Amendment, Texas | Comments (0)

The Police and Ticketmaster

So we bought tick­ets for The Police reunion tour this summer.  We did that on Tick­et­mas­ter because, well, they’re the only game in town really.  Paid a cou­ple of lattes per ticket for the privilege.  Now, in my email today, I get a mes­sage from said monop­oly telling me that if I can’t go to …

March 26, 2007 – 2:17 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Random | Comments (3)

Parental Responsibility

Seems to me that if you choose to be a par­ent, you should do it for mostly unselfish reasons.  Of course, we all know this isn’t true but still, as an ideal, that’s prob­a­bly how it should work.  Once that path is cho­sen, you cer­tainly have responsibilities.  Respon­si­bil­i­ties like not giv­ing tod­dlers pot, not let­ting …

March 23, 2007 – 8:42 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Humor, Sports | Comments (2)

Reddit and Mob Rule

This really deserves a longer, well-thought out piece but I have to com­ment on some­thing I’ve noticed lately.  I real­lly like Red­dit, a site where peo­ple sub­mit things from the web that are then voted on by the members.  It was cre­ated by a cou­ple of pro­gram­mer geeks so the range of arti­cles is typ­i­cally …

March 22, 2007 – 10:43 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Internet/Technology, National Issues | Comments (0)

Random Update

Not much moti­va­tion to write of late, I’ve been bru­tally ill with some sort of super virus immune to dose and a half Dayquil treatments.  I did man­age to eke out a fair amount of yard work this week­end in my con­di­tion which is prob­a­bly one rea­son why it lingers on today. Lots of inter­est­ing things …

March 20, 2007 – 9:19 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Random | Comments (0)

The Twirl-a-Squirrel

It’s been a long time since I laughed hard enough to cause tears but this did the trick for some reason.

March 14, 2007 – 4:52 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Humor | Comments (0)

God Missed a Commandment

11.  Thou shalt not do jump­ing jacks in your tightie-whities in the dress­ing area at the gym. I appre­ci­ate the com­plete dis­dain for soci­etal norms but seri­ously, Mr. Weirdo, for the love of God please do not ever do that again lest I have to throw you down and beat the jump­ing jacks right out of you. …

March 12, 2007 – 2:51 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Societal Behavior | Comments (0)

The Key to Greatness

Yeah, I don’t really have a quick answer for that but it seems to revolve around con­cen­tra­tion. This includes mak­ing 2750 free throws in a row. Con­cen­tra­tion is some­thing I find I lack. Part of this comes from my addic­tion to tech­nol­ogy. But part of it is deeper and relates to the neg­a­tive affect the …

March 8, 2007 – 9:33 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Philosophy | Comments (2)