Archives for October, 2007

More Misunderstood Movies


I’m told that I have a somewhat strange taste in movies (mostly by my lowbrow, wanna-be film critic friends). What my friends have yet to discover is there is often an unintended epiphenomenal, or emergent, quality to so-called “B” movies was neither intended nor understood by the actors or directors of those movies.

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Sony VGN-N320E XP Drivers


Okay, I love Vaio notebooks, but trying to downgrade to XP from Vista is not fun. Sony provides no support - so it takes some serious digging to find all the driver. Hopefully, I can save someone what I went through. I’ve zipped up all the XP drivers (except for the modem driver which I [...]

Give Free Rice


For each word you get right, freerice.com will donate 10 grains of rice to a hungry person through an international aid agency. I played this morning and donated 850 grains. It’s not much, but you should play the game, too. Brilliant concept. You can increase your vocabulary and do something good at the same time. [...]

Sigmund Freud Committed Suicide


Yes, it’s true. After writing about how we still practice ‘blood rites’, it got me wondering who are some of the more well known victims. These are some of the people that either cracked under the weight or were just done with living and took their own lives. Who knows what caused these people break. [...]

Blood Rites


Far away, on an African savanna somewhere there is a lion stalking its prey. On the edge of a massive herd of animals, the lion chooses the weakest and strikes. The rest of the herd will not flee. Instead, they stand around and watch. The herd goes about their business because they know that the [...]

Under the Milky Way Tonight


Sometimes when this place gets kind of empty, sound of their breath fades with the light. I think about the loveless fascination under the Milky Way tonight. Lower the curtain down on Memphis. Lower the curtain down all right. I got no time for private consultation under the Milky Way tonight. Wish I knew what [...]