The inlaws came down over the weekend and brought newly acquired Jake. we think he is a Lhasa Apso / Yorkie mix. He’s smaller and more reserved than Enzo, but if provoked he will stand his ground !nd back YOU up. He was constantly terrorized by a hump crazy Enzo. It was embarrassing.
After a while, he took Enzo’s chew treat and challenged him to get it back. We are getting Enzo fixed this week.
Enzo and Jake from Stephen Charles on Vimeo.
In trying to figure out this thing called life because I’m a man of equal parts faith, and science. I am a bigger fan than most of movies like The Matrix (#2, meh, and 3 not so much) and Back to the Future – but had really resigned to all of that being science FICTION. But I believe that we didn’t randomly get here, despite the suffering and chaos in the world. There has been some order to us on a grand scale as well as sub atomic one.
I saw the trailer for Takers and thought it was a great marketing ploy, a great action movie for the fellas, and plenty of eye candy for the ladies. (Idris Elba, Paul Walker, TI, Michael Eley, Hayden Christensen, and a pre-drama Chris Brown)
but then I saw the trailer for The Losers and saw then follow the same Edris et. al. formula.
but then I remembered Avatar
and thought about Star Trek
and then it dawned on me, is Zoe Saldana the key to box office success, or does she have one hell of an agent?
because I am/was on board for all of them.
In North Carolina the joke is, when there’s snow in the forecast, the populace stock up on bread and milk. We were actually out of milk and so was WalMart. Drinkers of Lactaid like myself were spared however.
So i had the big medical exam today. the one that we all agree that’s vital for Black Men should get, but when it’s your turn. sheesh. I put it off, rescheduled, and forgot it was this week. I decided to get it over with. My regular Dr. left the practice at the end of the year after we decided that would be the next thing to do. He’s a pretty cool white guy and the other 2 doctors are black women in the practice. I wasn’t sure which of them to pick initially, and I don’t have a strong reason for picking him but he was cool. But now he’s gone and I’ll be meeting someone new for the first time, under totally less than ideal circumstances. (insert that scene from Ace Ventura, Pet Detective)
i didn’t sleep much last night. i wondered if they could knock me out and let me miss the experience. the person who was assisting him on my last visit was a sista, in residency i think. I figured it was going to be her. but I wasn’t crazy about that. I don’t know why. but there’s not someone I can say I’d rather do it. because I’d rather not do it at all. I tried to rationalize to myself all night as I tossed and turned.
I’ll skip past the details and say that my new doctor is a white woman. probably in her early 40s (maybe late 30s). This demographic (or the person, probably) I ended up being cool with, because the process was clinical and matter of fact.
“and this is where it’s going to be less than dignified,” she said.
Drop trou? sure. *cough* Moooooon River! (the infamous Fletch reference)
and just like that, it was over.
so, the moral of the story is, your life is more important than your so called dignity. Get yourselves checked.
nuff said
I didn’t see an option to create a name, which is unfortunate because that one sucks. Make yours here. 
The same day I went and got my wife’s birthday present on the sneak tip she called me telling me she found a dog she wanted. I wasn’t much of an animal person. I’m a cat person by default in a previous marital life, and decided to remain pet free afterwards. I was on and off again w/ my wife’s wanting a dog. I think that dogs are high maintenance compared to cats. When she called I was in the process of checking my “set in my ways” described self and decided go ahead and give it a shot.
the darn thing is pretty cute. it’s been less than a week, we’re taking training classes. it knows how to go on paper, pretty much.
he’s a Lhasa Apso named Enzo (Barkley) Charles
When I thought about getting a new phone I thought about what that would mean when using Britekite, that nifty old location based social networking site. Typing in your location address was a pain. When I got the G1, there wasn’t an app that supported it. I cosigned on the what are the chances of an android app…? entry on getsatisfaction.com and like maybe 2 days later, Brady from responded:
Hey all we are actively working on the Android app. To bridge the wait we’ve just implemented location guessing for Android.
Visit i.brightkite.com, click on “Search & check in”. It will use Google Gears to guess your location.
while it’s not a standalone G1 app, their fast turnaround was commendable. I bookmark to the mobile site and click the Guess Your Location link. It works very well. Great job.
I was in love with iwantsandy, a website that was set up like a virtual personal assistant. I started using it to improve my productivity and loved it. And if you followed the tips, like CC’ing her in emails to project contacts, it looked like you had an actual personal assistant. It did a good job of keeping you schedule and sending reminders.
Then Remember The Milk came along and I was torn between the two. I eventually started using RTM as my default Getting Things Done solution. I am happy that it’s supported with the Google Android application TooDo.
This week I got this email from the people behind Sandy.
They’re not saying you gotta go home, but you got to get your tasks the heck up out of there:
Hello,
Values of n, the company behind I Want Sandy, is closing its doors.
Sandy will going offline at close of business (5pm Pacific Time) on Friday, December 19th, 2008.
Until then, she’ll be working as usual to allow you time to make the transition, find alternative services, and download any data you wish to take with you.
» Here’s the full announcement.
To make your stuff portable and importable, Sandy can gather all of your appointments, to-dos, contacts, bookmarks, lists, and notes into six standards-based files: iCalendar for appointments and to-dos, vCard for contacts, and plain text for notes, lists, and bookmarks.
You can download and import it all into an alternate calendar, to-do list, contact management or note-taking application. You’ll also get a person-readable text file containing everything you’ve had Sandy remember for you. (Open it in your favorite text editor (Notepad, TextEdit, Word, et al) or your Web browser.)
Please be sure to export anything you’d like to keep before Friday, December 19th. After that, Sandy and the iwantsandy.com web site will be offline and all user data will be permanently deleted.
» Export your stuff.
Thank you to everyone who has made Values of n and Sandy possible. It has been an honor to work with you all.
Rael
Rael Dornfest
CEO, Values of n, Inc.
Sandy had a real charm about her. She’ll be missed.
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