I love this poll question at Slashdot. "How Many People Will Select The Same Option As You?" 0% 1-25% 26-50% 51-75% 76-99% 100% Just CowboyNeal (The inside joke answer) There are so many good ways to answer this question. I voted for 1… more »

I went to Santa Anita to play the ponies on Saturday. Instead the ponies played me. I lost $21.40. The track and the rest of the day were great. The rain broke just long enough to make the day sunny and the San Gabriel Mountains were totally clear. The K… more »

Point Break Live is exactly what it sounds like. And it is awesome. It is totally freakin awesome. I will never watch a movie again. I will only watch stage adaptations of movies at small bars in downtown L.A. If you're not familiar with the movie Po… more »

The trailers for Persepolis looked really interesting. The film had a distinct animation style, it was based on a true story, and it had heavy political elements. The story is an autobiography of Marjane Satrapi, a girl who grew up in the middle of the I… more »

Last Wednesday I went to the Hollywood Arclight with Miguel to see The Orphanage. I usually don't see scary movies in theaters or at all. Horror movies just don't appeal to me, but I had heard really good things about this one. [video:youtube:i3TuClW65… more »

Today was the 31st Occasional Doo Dah Parade in Old Town Pasadena. Usually the parade happens a month before the Rose Parade, but this year it happened three weeks later. The DooDah Parade is the anti-parade. It's brash, cooky, not serious, and political… more »

There's a great online geek comic called XKCD. A few days ago there was a strip about popular ways to die based on google searches. The last option searched in the comic strip was "died in a blogging accident." Once all the nerds on the internet saw that… more »

On a whim a couple weeks ago, I got curious about computer CPU prices. My CPU was an AMD 3000 XP, which is 2 generations old. It performs well, but why not upgrade if I can? To my surprise, the dual core AMD 3800 X2 was on sale at newegg.com for $58.00.… more »