Raising intelligent, loving, sturdy children! Protecting some good woman! Dignity! Health! Love! Industry! Intelligence! Trust! Decency! High Spirits! Compassion! What the hell do I care about sensational sex?
EppsNet at the Movies: Bend it Like Beckham
In keeping with the World Cup theme, we rented Bend it Like Beckham last weekend.
My wife liked it a lot. I liked it too, although I thought the subplot with the soccer coach was baloney.
My favorite song, “Nessun Dorma,” is featured in a key scene.
Two thumbs up!
Pug vs. Cow
Pugs are not afraid to go toe to toe with any other animal, regardless of size.
Case in point: Here’s a pug staring down an enormous cow.
Wait, what? Cows are harmless?
Well, the pug had no way of knowing that . . .
— Lightning 
Answer the Phone
When She Loved Me
From Toy Story 2:
Twitter: 2010-07-10
Too Rich to Live?
If Congress doesn’t change the law soon–and many experts think it won’t–the estate tax will come roaring back in 2011.
On a $5 million estate, the tax consequence of dying a minute after midnight on Jan. 1, 2011 rather than two minutes earlier could be more than $2 million; on a $15 million estate, the difference could be about $8 million.
THANK GOD I DON’T HAVE 5 MILLION DOLLARS! I’d be sleeping with my eyes open from now till New Years, lest I meet my demise at the business end of a pillow stuffed in my face by a greedy heir.
IT’S KILL OR BE KILLED NOW!
Best Practices
It’s not necessarily a “best practice” just because it’s the only practice you know . . .
Twitter: 2010-07-08
- RT @Aimee_B_Loved: Just because I'm unemployed doesn't mean I'm not busy. These mines aren't gonna sweep themselves. #
Twitter: 2010-07-03
- Before enlightenment: chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment: chop wood, carry water. — Zen proverb #
Twitter: 2010-07-02
- Reading: "How To Control Flow Within Your Web Designs – Speckyboy Design Magazine"( http://twitthis.com/zjfary ) #
- RT @thesulk: Look, there are three ways this can go. My way or the highway. Or surface streets. #
- RT @eddiepepitone: I wish I had a new product to unveil today like steve jobs does at apple. Instead I just want to say life sucks. #
- RT @jdickerson: Mel Gibson worries there are groups of indigenous peoples that may die out before he has a chance to insult them. #
Happy Birthday, Deborah Harry
Here’s some information that will ruin your day if not your entire life: Deborah Harry is 65 years old today! How is that possible?
Twitter: 2010-07-01
- RT @capricecrane: MSNBC: "Up to 80 percent of women admit faking it." That is a good headline. So good. SOOO GOOOD. YES! #
- RT @eddiepepitone: Small town america is nice- a lot of obesity but everybody waves. #
College World Series: USC 2, UCLA 1
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Whit Merrifield’s RBI single with one out in the bottom of the 11th inning gave South Carolina its first baseball national championship with a 2-1 victory over UCLA in the College World Series on Tuesday night.
It’s always a good bet to pick USC over UCLA.
Twitter: 2010-06-30
- RT @DanNaturman: Fake Book Excerpt: "The Nanny Diaries" – "I understand. But you should still pay me for the time the kid was alive." #
- RT @thesulk: In the guy from Your So Vain's defense, that song is about him. #
Signs That Things Aren’t Going Well
- All your money is tied up in a pack of lifesavers.
- You think celebrities are fascinating.
This Year’s Worst Sentence
For the first month of Ricardo and Felicity’s affair, they greeted one another at every stolen rendezvous with a kiss–a lengthy, ravenous kiss, Ricardo lapping and sucking at Felicity’s mouth as if she were a giant cage-mounted water bottle and he were the world’s thirstiest gerbil.
The Professional Programmer
The single most important trait of a professional programmer is personal responsibility. Professional programmers take responsibility for their career, their estimates, their schedule commitments, their mistakes, and their workmanship.
Aging Boy Bands
A Facebook friend posted some photos from the Backstreet Boys concert in L.A. last weekend. Most of the “boys” now have worse hairlines than I do.
Shouldn’t bands named Boys or Kids be forced to retire when they start to go bald?
Or at least change their name from, say, New Kids on the Block to Old Guys on the Porch?
BP Looks at the Bright Side
