Author: blueZhift

Goodbye CompUSA, I’m not sure I’ll really miss you… CompUSA is closing half of its US stores, including what I believe is the last Chicago CompUSA on Chicago avenue next to the American Girl Place. I’m not sure I’ll miss them though, because over the years I’ve found that CompUSA has always been the most expensive place to buy anything. You name it, it costs more than the same thing at Micro Center. This was particularly frustrating because otherwise, CompUSA was the most convenient place to get computer hardware and supplies. I guess they just couldn’t compete, or just didn’t find their niche. In the end, it looked like they were trying to compete in the same consumer space as Best Buy or Circuit City, but without being able to offer the same kinds of discounts. Sadly, even now with the 10% to 30% discounts of the store closing sale, the prices still suck!

Or maybe I should say ordered to maid *sweatdrop* or something like that after she’s been sentenced to mopping floors at New York’s Sanitation Department after being convicted of assaulting her housekeeper with a cell phone. I don’t usually follow this sort of thing, but hey, any excuse for a little eye candy on a cold day! Seriously, I still don’t like it that a. big name celebs usually get off easy for things that sometimes draw serious jail time for us ordinary folk, and b. sentencing people to community service gives community service a bad name. Community service is an honorable thing that all of us should be engaged in anyway. It is not a punishment! I used to mop floors after school in highschool at a nearby Catholic school for girls. The money was good, and the fringe benefits were, ahem, pretty nice. I will always love those short skirts! <3

As I’ve mentioned here before, I’ve been tempted to create my own MySpace page on a number of occasions, but always stopped short primarily for aesthetic reasons. In 10 Reasons I Didn’t Start a MySpace Account, John invites the MySpace love! His reasons include annoying music, pages with too much stuff on them, long load times, and poorly chosen backgrounds. For me, all of these are under the heading of aesthetics. Other reasons, like people getting hurt, and vapid communication, are sadly, not unique to MySpace. There’s plenty of that in the real world. In the old days, one might say that art is just imitating life, but MySpace isn’t really art. I’m afraid that MySpace, and similar sites have actually become a part of life. So it’s only natural that the failings of life should be exhibited therein.

This morning for some reason the kids are all cranky! They’re just screaming their heads off, and I don’t have a clue as to what the problem is…Ugh. Sometimes I think of them as little bits of code I wrote based on my own. So it’s fun to watch them interact and go at it without too much interference from me. Yeah, I’m being a coward today! I feel pretty good about how things are going at work. My Ruby on Rails projects are moving along better and better as I get a grip on using the framework. Now if I can just kick my XNA project into gear, things would be perfect.

In the midst of all of the uproar over Tim Hardaway’s anti-gay remarks, George Takei has created a public service-like announcement that could be Hardaway’s worst nightmare. But don’t worry Tim, gay people don’t hate you, oh no no no!

I remember a few years ago, when I was between jobs, feeling very much like a housewife. I started doing all of the wifey sort of things like picking up the kids from school and more housework. Well it may be disputed whether or not I was doing all that much more LOL, but clearly I was finding myself in places frequented by stay at home moms. At the time it was not a happy feeling at all, even though many of those moms were pretty hawt!

Now my own wife is in a similar situation and is similarly unhappy. There are a lot of attendant reasons for the unhappiness, but for now at least, it seems that I have a faux housewife so to speak. There’s nothing wrong with being a stay at home mom, if that is your choice. But in our case, I think rough times may be ahead, at least for a short time. Oh well, at least we got a wonderful Mardi Gras King Cake out of it! She’s a great cook!