Fatal Flaw by William Lashner

Fatal Flaw by William Lashner.

Wes Anderson commercial

I'm a big fan of indie movies, and I love director Wes Anderson. Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, and The Royal Tenenbaums are among my favorite movies, and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou is pretty good, too. I was reading a little bit about him on Wikipedia and IMDb to try to find out something about his next movie, and I ran across this American Express commercial. Hilarious!

No snakes on this blog

Carlucci by Richard Paul Russo

Carlucci by Richard Paul Russo.

FERA Reunion Happy Hour

Hey everyone! Greg and Linda and Joey are setting up a FERA happy hour just like old times. Invite other FERA-ites! It's a party! I'm looking forward to seeing everyone.

Saturday 9/30/06 @ 6:00, at the Baker Street Pub in the Willowbrook area.

Are you a true FERAite Quiz

1) What was the alarm code of the Northpoint office?

2) What was the significance of the alarm code number?

3) What are the three initials of:
Peter S.
Vince R.
Adrienne N.
Brian C.

4) What are the names of:
TNG
AWF
CLS
RPM

5) Who are the following:
MILDEW
HALCHA
NICROB

6) What did Shecky and Andy do for FERA?

7) Name three field techs who have rolled vehicles:

8) Name the two board members who left the company:

9) Name three receptionists no longer with us:

10) Name four voices of FERA personnel which were recorded
to answer the voice mail system.

11) What is the name of the form used for incident reports:

12) What does each letter of the acronym FERA stand for:

13) Name one other thing the acronym FERA can stand for:

14) What does each letter of the acronym FDC stand for:

15) Name one other thing the acronym FDC can stand for:

16) What was the central area of the Spring Cypress building called?

17) What was the open area in the east end of the Northpoint building called?

18) What exploded on a grill, causing car alarms to go off all over the parking lot, the police to be called and everyone to be thrown out of the hotel?

19) Who shared the Northpoint office with FERA?

20) What was FERA's time management software called? How did you run it? What happened when you typed in your initials as AVA?

Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss

Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss.

Down Here by Andrew Vachss

Down Here by Andrew Vachss.

Cool Photo of the Day

I ran across this picture of a plane landing at Princess Juliana International Airport in St.Maarten / St.Martin (the island of St. Maarten / St. Martin is the smallest landmass in the world shared by two nations. The northern side [St. Martin] is governed by the French and the southern side [St. Maarten] is one of the five island territories that make up the semi autonomous country of the Netherlands Antilles, part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands).


At first I was sure it was photoshopped, so I did a little looking around, and there is a straight-on view here, and I found a video of another landing. Pretty cool.

Terrorist by John Updike

Terrorist by John Updike.

Pattern Recognition by William Gibson

Pattern Recognition by William Gibson.

Drew's Interview on Morning Edition for NPR

I was interviewed last week about the BP oil pipeline that was shut down due to corrosion. You can hear the interview here.

Only Child by Andrew H. Vachss

Only Child by Andrew H. Vachss.

Cool video

I watched this video called "Noah takes a photo of himself everyday for 6 years" on YouTube, this guy took a picture of himself 2356 days in a row. I bet you can guess that he's a photographer. He took the individual pictures and made them into a movie. It's set to

He doesn't move around as much as I would have expected, he must have edited the pictures so that his head is about in the same place in the frame, and he has almost the exact same facial expression in every picture, a kind of sad, languishing expression, you can catch the beginning of what might be a smile every now and then, but it goes away and your left with an even darker feeling. The video takes about 5 minutes, and the backgrounds change so quickly you can't see any of the detail. You can see hair growing and abruptly getting short again. The music adds to the overall somber mood, but if it was set to something upbeat, like Yakety Sax for example, it wouldn't have the same power.

More on Drew on NPR

I looked at today's Morning Edition show here, and it doesn't look like the story I was interviewed for will be on today. They said it would probably be today or tomorrow, so . One thing I did learn was that I can access any of the stories from the show on their website, and just browsing I saw three or four things that looked interesting:
How to Succeed with Fantasy Football
Katie Couric Debuts at CBS News
Sept. 11: 'The Day Nothing Much Changed'

Pretty cool.

Pain Management: A Burke Novel by Andrew H. Vachss

Pain Management: A Burke Novel by Andrew H. Vachss.

2006 Fantasy

I've been in a fantasy football league with a bunch of friends, this is our league's 16th season. Here's our team:

QB Ben Roethlisberger PIT
RB Steven Jackson STL
RB Reggie Bush NO (no relation, you crazy anti-Republican wackos)
RB Joseph Addai IND
RB Frank Gore SF (no relation, you crazy anti-Democrat wackos)
WR Steve Smith CAR (not the drummer, you crazy anti-Journey wackos)
WR T.J. Houshmandzadeh CIN
DL Dwight Freeney IND
TM Bears Defense CHI
K Neil Rackers ARZ

Backups
QB Aaron Brooks OAK
QB Jake Plummer DEN
RB Mike Anderson BAL (no relation, you crazy anti-independent wackos)
RB Tatum Bell DEN
RB Brandon Jacobs NYG
WR Deion Branch NE (still holding out)
WR Isaac Bruce STL
WR Lee Evans BUF
TE Chris Cooley WAS