We’re geeks, damnit!
The other day I was running around for work. A guy in the back seat was chatting with my front seat passenger. “Hey”, the guy behind me said in mid-conversation. I glanced up in my mirror.
“I bet nobody has ever given you this, man, I can sure see you need it”.
Continue reading ‘A Different Gift’
My buddy’s over and we ate dinner awhile ago. Thin-cut rib-eyes are terrific (broiled is the way to go, I should think).Â
He pulled down one of my bibles (he’s a minister) and the book he holds stirs a memory or two.
Continue reading ‘Red Leather Bible’
Girl in human sling shot - Google Video
Back in the day, Ian and I had an idea - we’d design some software that would calculate our vector in order to catapult us from our homes to The Sporting News office. It would do this based upon prevailing winds, climate, etc. The business end of this would a giant catapult, and the receiving end a spring loaded net contraption…
Looks like someone has started down this path now, and we needn’t persue this train of thought any longer…
You know those ‘Dinner & A Movie’ shows in in the evenings on the weekends?
Well, today is sunday, and now its 2pm, and its a ‘Peanut Butter Sandwich, Finish the Pot of Coffee & A Movie’ afternoons. Last night, Phil came over, and we worked on the site. We hope you think it looks good. What else am I supposed to do? It’s like 14 degrees outside, and I’m doing wash…
Phil, thanks for the effort, man!
Good evening. First, I’ve published my favorite photos of 2006.Go check ‘em out, and tell me what you think.
Second I wanted to update everyone on the Continue reading ‘Photos, iPod Story, LDAP Progress’
While I was trying to find some way to drop a reference to Sonni Abatta in here somewhere (if only to up our hit-count from the legions of PFY’s out there searching for her), I stumbled apon a site for Braddock, PA. The mayor has the cities zip code tatooed on his arm for chrissakes! Looking for cheap property?
I found a listing for “Extreme Bingo” in this weeks issue of the City Paper, but couldn’t seem to find it in the online version. Suffice to say that it is Bingo, but with Drag Queens (!)…more as I find it.
Ladies, please pardon me a moment while I explain to the men readers what it is that you already know.
Gentlemen, from a weight-loss-and-tone standpoint, NOTHING can compare to the sheer difficulty of weight loss that a lady has after she gives birth.
SO..that being said–forget Richard Simmons, OR the weird-ass guy with big arms and a ponytail, OR the chiques on TV that make you ‘bend-and-stretch-sing-songy-crap” on daytime TV that A LADY DOESN’T WATCHÂ ’CAUSE SHE’S WORKING!!!
Continue reading ‘Lady Fitness - Part One (and only); All She Needs’
 Today was a rather meaningful day for my first son Nathaniel Baker, his brother Dylan, his sister Bianca, and his mother, Jeanitta luz’-Marie (maiden name).
Nathaniel reports to Basic Training 3-8-07 in West Oklahoma a-ways, Continue reading ‘My Son Joins the Army, 1-10-07′
The Telegraph is running a series of excerpts from ‘Affluenza‘ by Oliver James. What the hell is Affluenza you ask?
affluenza (AF.loo.en.zuh) n. An extreme form of materialism in which consumers overwork and accumulate high levels of debt to purchase more goods (affluence + influenza).
This creeping evil is one of the reasons things are so mucked up here in the States. Keeping up with the Jones’s has become endemic, and destructive, separating us from what really matters. Having fallen victim to this virus myself, I am trying very hard to deal with the fallout. Give it a read, and some thought, it’s worth it.
Phil Baker