When asked if there was any chance of resurrecting the Camaro and Firebird, Lutz replied, “Maybe after a 30 year nap.”

The planets were completely aligned today and could not possibly be more against my favor. Within the span of about 3 minutes, I successfully lost about $400. I didn’t spend that money. That would have at least been a trade of sorts. No, I actually lost it and it’s completely my dumb ass’ fault. How? Let me make this as brief as possible.

I was getting into my car to go home for the day when my Ray Bans ($80) suddenly fell off my collar. The frame broke and the lens is scratched to all shit. No big deal. I drive out the parking lot and make the right turn I always make when all of a sudden something goes flying off my roof. “What the hell was that white thing?!” My iPod ($300) smashes to the ground and rolls about 10-20 feet. Won’t start up. Won’t mount. It’s dead. See the damn picture. Now I’m about half way home and I can’t find my paycheck I just picked up. Guess what? It was next to my iPod on the roof. Another $25 to cancel that check and reissue another one. Did I also mention that I got written up today for tardiness? I deserved that at least.

Anyway, I can’t live without my iPod, so I picked up a 20GB version today from the Apple store in Pasadena. It’s nice, but it wont heal the scars that run deep in me from this day. Curse you Jebus!!! Good luck to us all…

A friend asked me a couple of days ago what I thought was the best stand alone FTP client for the Mac. I quickly told him Fetch because that’s what I’ve been using for the last 6 years, but after using RBrowser for the last couple of days, I’ve completely changed my mind.

What do you get when you mix the refinement of a Cadillac sedan with a good old pushrod V8 powerplant? One damn sexy car that’s going to attempt to knock the mighty M5 off its pedestal. I don’t think it will match the BMW’s quality and performance, but then again, you aren’t going to pay $75k (plus markup) for the CTSv. What do ya think?

The Golden Globe awards happened already? How come no one told me about it. After looking through the winners, I’m too happy to see The Shield and Michael Chiklis win for best tv series drama and best actor in a tv series drama. It’s by far the best show on television right now. I’m also upset to see Taken not win for best tv mini-series. Release the DVD’s for that quickly.

I’m going back to watch the first Lord of the Rings movie tonight. I was one of these few people that didn’t know anything about the story (yes, the only self-proclaimed geek that hasn’t read the books), so when I went to see The Fellowship of the Ring about a year ago, I thought I went in with a pretty open mind. Well, it turns out I really couldn’t stand the thing. The story was good, but I couldn’t get past the (what I thought was) terrible post production in it. Most of the visual effects looked comparable to current Star Trek episodes and that’s just not gonna cut it for me in a movie of this scale. Anyway, my friend let me borrow his special edition DVD and I’m gonna put it in right now. The only reason I’m doing this is because I saw The Two Towers a couple of weeks ago and that was a much better movie.

One of the very first games I additively played on a PC was SimCity in full black and white. With the release and purchase of SimCity 4 this week, I feel like I’m reliving some of my elementary school years. This is a great game.

Scripting News: “English 515 at Purdue University focuses on weblogs…”

This is definitely something I’m going to follow along with as more assignments are handed out.