Hello to my readers! (All three or so of you…) It’s been quite a few days since I last posted. I wish I could say I’ve been off doing something exciting like partying in Vegas or saving deaf babies in sinking burning buildings, but alas, no such luck. In all honesty, I can’t remember all that well what I’ve been up to in the past week, and not even in a fun “I can’t remember because I’m in a drug-induced haze” sort of way.
Our EE282 program got finished, despite the Verilog license server barfing on itself for two days. There was also the premiere of season two of
Other than that, most of my week was consumed with my trying to keep myself marginally motivated to make it to today, the start of Thanksgiving break! Mariel and I are going with Naomi’s cousin Julie to their Aunt’s house in Carmel. Not only is it a swanky house, but Aunt Lillian and Uncle Bill are two of the most genuinely nice and generous people I know. A good time is sure to be had by all.
So to everyone in the U.S., Happy Thanksgiving, and to all the residents of exotic foreign countries like Canada, Happy Thursday! I’ll be back in a few days. Don’t miss me too much.
Okay, I’m sure most of you have seen the T-Mobile commercials with Catherine Zeta-Jones, right? For those of you who haven’t, basically what happens is that there’s someone in a coffee shop or at the post office, and C Z-J comes in and yells, “FREEZE!” and hands them a T-Mobile phone, thus improving the quality of their life for eons to come. The concept itself is, I think, pretty dumb, but what really bothers me is that when she yells “FREEZE!” then nobody actually freezes!!! People are blinking, moving their heads, jiggling around, and altogether very un-frozen. (Thawed, if you will.) What’s the point? Why yell “FREEZE!” only to have actors who can’t keep themselves from blinking for the 3 seconds the camera is on them?? I DON’T UNDERSTAND.
As luck would have it, the