Archive for January, 2008
31
Jan
Posted by eplacencia in humor. Tagged: gateway, laptop, robot, speaker, tech support. Leave a Comment
The left speaker on my laptop is no longer working. Please enjoy my conversation with Mary_GWER1660, a Gateway Customer Service Rep whom I suspect is a robot. A foreign robot.
Mary_GWER1660 says: Since you have mentioned that the right speaker is working, it simply means that the software and the integrated sound is working fine. It [...]
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30
Jan
Posted by eplacencia in humor. Tagged: alarm, cell phone. Leave a Comment
Sarah and I were sitting at the kitchen table this morning when we heard the familiar buzz of a cell phone on “vibrate.” At first I thought someone was calling me but it turned out to be Sarah’s phone, the alarm set to 8:20.
A few minutes later the buzzing started again and Sarah said, “It [...]
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28
Jan
Posted by eplacencia in humor. Tagged: budget, coupon, free, ice cream, sale, staff retreat, turkey hill. 3 Comments
Right now Sarah and I are on a pretty strict budget. So, understandably, I was quite happy to win a coupon for a free gallon of Turkey Hill ice cream while I was at staff retreat last week. Sarah and I walked down to Turkey Hill to scope out our options and saw they were [...]
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25
Jan
Posted by eplacencia in humor, movies. Tagged: academy award, bourne ultimatum, ceremony, nominations, oscar, pirates of the caribbean, predictions, ratatouille, sound editing, sound mixing, transformers, visual effects, writer's strike. 1 Comment
With the announcement of the Academy Award nominations this week, I have been working on my picks and predictions. Who will take home an Oscar this year? What will the ceremony be like in lieu of the writer’s strike that blankets over Hollywood like the wrath of He-Who-Should-Not-Be-Named?
As I pore over the nominations I have [...]
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21
Jan
Posted by eplacencia in friends, humor, romance. Tagged: cooking, correct, elijah wood, et, film, henry thomas, imdb, internet movie database, lord of the rings, marriage, measure, movie, pasta, quesadillas, ratatouille, recipe, relating, relationships, right, right way, steve martin, trust, wrong. 5 Comments
Life is filled with all kinds of opportunities to learn and one thing I’m learning is to keep my mouth shut. Or, more specifically, when to keep my mouth shut.
As much as I think of myself as an easy-going and carefree guy, I almost hate to admit that I actually have a lot of routines [...]
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17
Jan
Posted by eplacencia in friends, humor, movies. Tagged: 1408, 30 days of night, 30 rock, 300, 3:10 to yuma, 48 hour film festival, alien vs predator, amazing grace, american gangster, anchorman, atonement, august rush, ball of fury, bay, ben foster, best of 2007, black snake moan, blades of glory, bourne ultimatum, brice willis, bruckheimer, bucket list, ccm magazine, chicago, chris cooper, christian bale, curb your enthusiasm, dan in real life, dane cook, denzel washington, dexter, disturbia, drew barrymore, emi, evan almighty, fracture, freedom writers, good luck chuck, gotee records, Grindhouse, hairspray, harry potter, hot fuzz, hot rod, house, hugh grant, infuze, joacquin phoenix, judd apatow, juno, kingdom, knocked up, last hand, license to wed, lions from lambs, little miss sunshine, live free or die hard, lookout, lost, magorium, mark walberg, matt damon, meet the robinsons, mendes, meryl streep, monk, mono vs stereo, movies, mr bean, mr brooks, music & lyrics, no country for old men, number 23, once, picks, pirates of the caribbean, pixar, premonition, ps i love you, quick and the dead, rambo, ratatouille, robert duvall, robert redford, rocky, rodriguez, rowan atkinson, run fat boy run, rush hour 3, russell crowe, shaun of the dead, shrek, simon pegg, simpsons, smokin aces, spiderman 3, steve carell, sunshine, superbad, sweeney todd, tarantino, the kingdom, the office, the soup, there will be blood, tim mcgraw, tom cruise, top, transformers, venom, veronica mars, walk hard, we own the night, weeds, western, wild hogs, WJTL, zodiac. 11 Comments
Usually each January I poll my friends to find out what they thought the best movies of the previous year were. This year I decided to do something a little different and go to a few select pals who usually have some interesting insight and ask them to write about their top picks.
And so without [...]
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15
Jan
Posted by eplacencia in humor. Leave a Comment
I had a meeting yesterday with someone I’m not a big fan of (and, truth be told, they’re probably not president of the Ed Fan Club, either). They had me shut the door to the office when I entered and as soon as I sat they glared at me and grumbled, “Ok, I’m not judging [...]
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13
Jan
Posted by eplacencia in humor, movies. Tagged: 2001, astronauts, entertainment weekly sunshine, ikea, movie of the year, netflix, science fiction, space, space odyssey, stanley kubrick, trainspotting. 2 Comments
I’m getting ready to do my annual “Top Movies of the Year” blog and have bumped all of the films that came out in 2007 to the top of my Netflix list in an attempt to see as many films that I missed as possible before the deadline next week.
This weekend Sarah and I watched [...]
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12
Jan
Posted by eplacencia in friends, humor, movies. Tagged: failures of ed, festival, film, hiram ring, rumschpringe, short, very short film festival. 2 Comments
Today I am submitting to my very first film festival ever. My buddy Hiram Ring gave me the heads up about a week ago and I thought I’d give it a shot. It’s the Rumschpringe:Winter 2008 Very Short Film Festival and my package is all ready to be sent out.
In case you’re curious, the film [...]
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11
Jan
Posted by eplacencia in humor. Tagged: aquarium, dream, fish, interpret, interpretation, meaning, mrs paul, omen, save, warning. 1 Comment
Last night I had a dream that, I believe, was full of metaphors and symbolism. Unfortunately, I’m not good at that kind of thing so just a heads up to God that if You’re trying to tell me something, I ain’t gettin’ it. You might try using handwriting on the wall; I’m not one for [...]
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