The Three Hour Meeting

"Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful pitch, That started about lunchtime and caused my eyes to twitch. The lead was a smarmy sellin' man, Who'd never take a breathOf the five that sat down in there, only two of us are left. Only two of us are leftThe powerpoint show was out of hand, at one hundred ten slides plusIf not for the bastion of my Blackberry, my mi-nd would

TRON Legacy Prayer

I offer only what I can. A simple prayer for the upcoming TRON Legacy....Oh please, please, please. Don't suck.

Vader Days

The best Sci-Fi villain of the 80's, who suffered a Lucas induced personality adjustment in recent year, is still my favorite childhood foe. Darth Vader was awesome. A cyborg man with ability to kill a person with his mind and rip HVAC equipment off the walls of Cloud city. He is still a serious bad dude for those of us who recall his menacing form lurking though much of our childhood. In that

It Aways Seems So Simple...

Why is it that things always seem so simple once they're done?So there I sit in our Network Operations Center, on one of many jet black adjustable bar stools, trying to explain to my boss what has transpired over the last 10 hours. "So? Is it fixed?" He asks me with obvious trepidation. "Yea. I finally got it," I say."Well? What was it?""Oh," I sort of glance around a bit. "It was a check box.""

Good Morning

"If you wake the children I will rip off your head and throw it in the trash can!"That was how my wife said Good morning to me today. "Kids sleeping in today?""Shh! You're so stinking loud. I promise I will make good on that threat."

My Father the Plumber

I was just reading a friends a Facebook update. "There's no better way to start your work day than by fixing a leaking faucet..." This sent a rush of memories flooding back to me. While I was growing up, finding out that the old man was going to start a plumbing project was akin to hearing that there was going to be a nuclear assault in our bathroom. In fact a nuclear assault might have been a

Socially Deficient?

Two words, Chick Magnet. Did I mention my poles might be reversed?