K drew this on paper, I just traced it in Illustrator.

English: “I’m well. How are you?” “Well as well.”
Español: “Estoy bien. ¿Como estás?” “Bien también.”

My new name for the Bachelor/Bachelorette series of shows is Stupid Pretty People.

Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.

Except for Carl’s Jr. That stuff does not sit well by the end.

I picked up my new (used) manual transmission tonight. Literally. Yoinks! Transmissions are heavy. I wonder how much heavier my automatic will be when I swap it out

This time I can’t post the text of the job rejection because it was done over the phone. Over the past two two weeks I got through an initial phone screen, hour-long technical phone interview, hour-long in-person technical interview by two techs and a 30-45 minute in-person interview by a manager. Then they called and left a message to call them back for “feedback” on the interview. My recruiter said that the technical interviews and such went fine but that they were looking for someone with more Windows experience so they were no longer going to pursue this opportuinty. She said maybe at the end of Q4 there would be more job openings.

I’m crushing on the Nissan LEAF right now, and it’s not even available yet.

Things that would strike me as particularly awesome about driving an EV:

• no transmission

• no coolant/radiator/radiator fans

• no gas, gas tank, exhaust system, or emissions

• no oil changes because no engine oil

• no tune ups (because no spark plugs or distributor

• greatly reduced maintenance schedule (basically just brakes and suspension)

• ability to recharge at home or work

The drawbacks as I see it are:

• reduced range (currently about 1/4-1/5 the range of my Golf)

• expensive battery pack replacement in about 10 years

Rarely do I see a movie theatrically that I feel compelled to write a poor review of the actual theater. But the Olde Town AMC Theaters in Arvada are an exception. They are exceptionally bad.

The story:

K and I went to see Toy Story 3 Saturday night last. Upon beginning the preview reel, the center speaker exhibited symptoms of having a blown driver or something else wrong with the thing: all the dialogue (across all the previews) was missing a lot of frequency range, almost as if everything were coming through a telephone filter. This was not acceptable. I complained to the management and she said in a rather unconcerned manner that she’d look into it but acknowledged one other person had complained about it. She noted it must have been “intermittent.” Yeah, right.