Press needs a fact checker every now and then

OK, so it is pretty funny, someone added some unflattering comments to the wikipedia page on the Black Eyed Peas.  That's not what I'm kvetching about this time.  Hack? Seriously?  No, editing a wikipedia entry, which by design is crowd sourced, is not 'hacking'.  It used to be that a hack was an accomplishment, a way to use code in unexpected ways.  This got corrupted into meaning unexpected vulnerabilities only.  But editing a publicly accessible page is not 'hacking', in any sense of the word.  It sounds good, like 'Journalist Sets Fire to English Language' but it's not exactly true in any sense of the word.  Please stop doing this.

Thoughts on being a man

It will come as no surprise that I was an arrogant child.  Secure in the fact that I passed almost every test higher than the 99th percentile, it was my PahPa who slapped me down (in a strictly metaphorical sense, of course)  One of my favorites when I was about 10 was 'Why do pipes burst in the winter more often than they do in the summer?"  I wish I could tell him now, I get it.  With the benefit of hindsight, I know that I knew 99% of tested knowledge and maybe 5% (I'm being charitable) of common sense.  Two days ago, when I found the top bolt on my starter, and I was the only one who could reach it, with my 'delicate' hands, he would have been proud.  Just kinda cool.  PahPa (who died a few years back of a heart attack) and PaPa Robinson (he's up in Dallas alive and well), I wish they both could have seen me.  Yeah, I needed help, but that one bolt was all mine.  I know both of them would be kind of disappointed that I can't work on my own car, but I did it.  Random crap, I know, but that kinda stuff comes at you in the middle of the night.  I needed some help, but I really did it.  Meh, if you want cool writing about crap stuff, give me a couple of days.  I ownz me a starter on a 93 Toyota pickup.  :D  That's pretty damn awesome.

Repo Men

I've watched the first hour of this movie and honestly thought, it's a hyper violent 2k version of Logan's Run.  Hadn't seen enough to say it's not, and seen plenty to say it is, and it's honestly boring.  Time to go to bed.

Hoodie Ninja

I'm in and have always been in Austin,TX, so the weather is not supposed to get cold here.  That's the setup, so here's my point, does anyone else feel awesomeness when they pull down their hoodie once they get inside?  Like the 80s movies, when you see that guy with the hoodie, and you can't see their face, and then they pull it down, surprise, it's the hero/villain.  Still that momnet of awesome, even when it's just Kat and me, when I pull it down, and it's like, here I am, the bad#$s!  Fear and Obey me.  HeHe.  BTW - it's 18 degrees here, what the %$^&, that's never supposed to happen.