Author Archives: kenneth

Had a Parable of the Lost Coin moment this morning.  Lost a *very important* document that I really needed very badly (well, one of those documents that I *personally* know I need badly, though probably nobody else would think I need it).  This was an especially lousy time to lose track of it considering that I […]

Worked on 3 projects simultaneously tonight.  One wushu video batch conversion, one jujitsu DVD-to-CD compression, one audio book renaming and re-compilation.  I wonder how much distance I covered tonight running around between the MMS, the ATL, and my cube. Wow, Meyer 2nd Floor is *completely* bereft of students.  My two consultants are just… sitting there.  This […]

Working on the “Million Dollar Vocabulary Personal Learning Course” audio book that Kang gave me.  I have found the first chapter to be rather insipid, characterized by the nudnik’s long-winded bushwa that only seems to inspire an excerebrose torpor.  However, I ought to give this burgeoning work a chance and hearken to its lessons rather than […]

Got very movie’d out this weekend starting Friday night: Catch Me If You Can, Simone, Read My Lips, Heat, Infernal Affairs III, Love on a Diet.  I bet most of my readers have never heard of at least half of these (yeah, I’m betting on the foreign ones). Very unexpectedly, I find myself with the option […]

Ever just really need to pee, and you just can’t figure out where that mysterious volume of liquid came from?  I can think of at least 2 recent occasions where I had to very abruptly cut a conversion short and run away due to a very sudden, urgent need… “Yeah… [brief pause in the conversation that is […]