Reno Recap Blog (June, 2006)

Vegas III: Escape from the Wynn

Cockblocking for Fun and Profit

Ten Foods not to feed me
It's Thanksgiving week here in the USA, and we inevitably ignore the real meaning of the holiday (which I think involves a turkey and the Alamo) and focus on food. In that spirit (the food, not the Alamo), here are random things that I simply do not care for.1. Meat on the bone. I know that any time meat is processed, there's the chance that there are going to be horrific elements (fingers, hooves, cell phone batteries) but I simply don't care... I will choose chicken strips over a chicken drumstick any time. There's something about gnawing on a bone that repulses me (no homophobe) and the effort:payoff ratio is way out of whack.

Gym Defrag
Everyone knows what disk defragmentation is, right? It's the process of optimizing how information on a disk drive (disc drive? Why do we have words the spelling of which is in such a gray (grey) zone)?) to allow it to be read more quickly.Sometimes we need life defragmentation, right? Here's an example.When I was funemployed (which happens to be a word recently included in the New Oxford American dictionary...) I would go to the gym to sort of punish myself. I couldn't sit

When 6 + 6 = 10, Ed O = Pissed Off
Arithmetic is pretty straightforward most of the time. If you have six of something and add six more (without subtracting any and assuming base ten system), you have twelve of those things.Let me demonstrate:Easy, right?Of course, a lot of life seems easy. Then weird paradigm shifts occur--like string theory and

Greek Myth or Just a Dead Deer?
I sort of have a love affair with Greek myths. I read a (simplified) version of the Iliad when I was a wee lad and, although I am still not sure I understand why dactylic pentameter is, I enjoy reading about the trials and tribulations of Greek heroes that can be so remarkable and yet still not measure up to Greek gods.Earlier today I read

Two Unrelated Things
A couple of funny (strange, with a hint of haha) things from my life the last couple of days:Adam Lambert Once RemovedI arrived at work one morning this week and I was greeted by a coworker who told me to hold on and called another coworker out to tell me "the story".This second coworker came out and told me the following story:I have a friend named Thomas [name changed]. Thomas is from San Diego and he knows Adam Lambert and was at a party with him last night.("Cool," I'm thinking, "Maybe he showed him a picture of my Halloween costume.")So I was thinking, Thomas ha