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Sort of a disturbing film about a convicted drug dealer (Edward Norton) preparing to check into prison to serve a 7 year term for dealing Russian heroin. The excellent cast includes Rosario Dawson, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, and Barry Pepper. Hoffman's role as a preparatory school teacher is of particular interest. This is a Spike Lee "Joint" and as such has numerous scenes which serve no other purpose other than to make a few political statements. There is some moving footage of post 9/11 New York City which fits in as a fitting memorial backdrop. Look for the scene where Norton is talking to himself in the bathroom mirror - a Spike Lee classic - and the discussions between Norton and Pepper in the club. The description of the prison that awaits Norton's character is enough to give any would-be criminal a whole host of second thoughts. Overall, not the best movie I've seen - certainly no Fight Club - but interesting enough to hold your attention for a couple of hours.

After watching all these Cubs games lately, you can't help but remember the Old Navy commercials they are showing with the woman walking around with all the guys smiling and winking. After some research I have found out that it is, indeed, Fran Drescher from the television show "The Nanny". I was shocked, actually, because in the commercial she looks to be about 25 years old. Fran Drescher was actually born in 1957 so that puts her at about 46 years of age. I'd say she has aged quite well...

Anyone reading my site recently knows that I run an Internet radio station called Romance Life Radio on Live365.com. Currently, I have 300 MB of total space for music but only use up about 115 MB. I have lots of room for more songs! Unfortunately, getting new music for the station has required purchasing entire CDs of music for one or two romantic tracks. In general, that is a frustration I think many people have - having to buy a $16 CD for one good song.

Studying for fifth exam of the MCSD.

I passed the Windows application development exam for the MCSD.NET this morning. Not too bad - a lot of emphasis on Trace and Debug, data binding, deployment, and security. I now have only the Solution Architectures exam left to finish. That one is scheduled for Halloween!

I recently worked on a web application where the general philosophy behind exception handling was that every method would catch any exceptions that occurred in the method. The reasoning behind this is that when an exception occurs, its effects would be contained and the executing page would continue to render successfully. When exceptions occurred in this application, certain parts of a page might show up blank while other parts of the page would render normally.

This pretty much sums up how I live my life. My parents will remember that I had a poster on my wall with these rules on it throughout my teenage and college years:

After hearing about the Curse on the Cubs and seeing how they played last night, I have decided that I hate goats. Or at least that loser, idiot, jerk fan who messed up Moises Alou's catch last night. What a colossal faux-pas to make at the worst possible time. The loss of momentum cascaded into a series of setbacks for the Cubs, starting with the error by Gonzalez, then a bunch of hanging pitches from Prior leading to his being taken out of the game, ending with a score of 8 to 3, in favor of the Marlins. All I have to say is that they better win tonight...

Google is now showing this site as the #1 result when searching for "forkbender". This might seem a no-brainer but until recently, the "forkbender" at the top of the list was some website related to Uri Geller, the original spoon bending freak of the 1970s.

I spent a lot of time this past weekend retooling the ForkBender site and applying a new look and feel to the site. I hope everyone likes it. It is a major departure from the old look. A list of books I've read in the past and movies I seen in the past is now also available. I am getting ready to create a new List content type in Narrative so that I can create Top 10 Lists of favorite books, movies, restaurants, stores, etc.