What can I say? This movie is one of my all-time favorites. It’s just sooooo funny! The Dude is the epitome of cool, relaxed, and go-with-the-flow. There are so many great scenes, especially the one at the end with the “wind event”. Steve Buscemi is sort of wasted in his role but is still an interesting presence. John Turturro makes a pseudo-cameo in his short role as Jesus Quintana, a bowler on another league team.

Last Thursday night, Deloitte’s Global Network Services team and a bunch of developers, including myself, went to the newly opened Chicago Indoor Racing complex in Buffalo Grove. The draw of this particular attraction is that you can race go-karts against others and that these go-karts go really fast. Fast enough that no one, even a heavy guy like me, complains about going slow. In fact, several of the guys didn’t even push their limits, it’s so fast.

I finished scanning in the Rawson family history that my great-grandmother Ruth Rawson Meng wrote 30 years ago. It’s a very well prepared document and illustrates perfectly the scholarship that she possessed. I think you will agree it is a very interesting read. Rawson Family History in Adobe PDF format.

Ahu and I watched this after the X-Men movie tonight - a double feature. Quite an intriguing film with a bit of a twist at the end. Takes place in and around Seattle, Washington and an island off the coast. Just another reminder of the strange and disturbing events in the lives of others.

I recently found myself in need of some AA batteries. I discovered this when I was getting ready to leave work the other night to catch the Metra train downtown for class. So I was on a schedule - I could not miss the train - and yet I needed to make a quick stop somewhere to buy batteries. Since Home Depot is adjacent to the train station, I chose to go there.

A futuristic story (thus far) about a submarine cruising the polar ice cap which finds a hidden underwater submarine base (perhaps Russian) which contains life.

It’s been a busy week. My last post was related to Narrative and so is this one. I am racing to get out some new features. These include: Categories. With categories, I can organize content on this website better. I can group content under a particular category. For example, there will probably be a category called “Cubs” and all of the articles, etc. related to the Chicago Cubs will be added to this category.

Just started - will write more soon.

I released a new version of ForkBender and Narrative this weekend. v0.6.0 is finally out. You will remember, of course, that Narrative is the Content Management System that enables me to create the content for this website. There have been a lot of changes in this release, some of which are visible to you: Comments. On certain articles, books, movies, and other content items, you can now post comments. I am hoping that a bit of a dynamic conversation can be enjoyed instead of a static article posting.

Crazy start, will write more when done.