Archive for the 'Life' Category


A Corporate Quandary

Today I got a call from a woman who worked in the HR department of some tech. company. She informed me that I was listed as a reference by a contractor who had until recently worked for us. As she uttered his name I was greeted by feelings of surprise, elation, and guilt. The contractor [...]

“Mission Accomplished”

A few weeks ago I decided to rededicate myself to “Operation Car Stereo”. In preparation for my offensive I re-soldered all the connectors, remounted the harness, and strategically plotted every aspect of my plan. I decided that this time I would strike in the middle of the day when the sunlight would work to my [...]

Vegas Bowl Baby, Vegas Bowl!

Well… We (Cal) didn’t do quite as well as we all hoped/expected… I won’t go into details as to why (Ayoob)… but we did make the Vegas Bowl.  So Go Bears!

It started out a good idea…

So I’d like to think that we’ve all had this happen to us. You have what you think is a brilliant idea… okay maybe not necessarily a ‘brilliant’ idea, but at least a ‘good’ idea and you decide “I’ve got to do it” And so of course as you start down the path of accomplishing [...]

Props to the guy at Taco Bell

So this incident actually happened back in March. It was one of those things I had always planned on putting in my blog (once I had one that is) simply because I think things like this are too important to go unmentioned. What the hell am I talking about you ask? Well here’s the story…. [...]

Cooking Illiterate

So some of you have heard about my latest attempt at cooking last week. In case you haven’t the summary of the story is… “Nabs can’t cook”. In all fairness to myself sometimes I can and sometimes I can’t. It’s really a matter of how the food feels like turning out on any given day. [...]

Hello World… er… um … Internet!

I know some of my friends consider blogs to be a self promoting egocentric entity. To them I say… “HERE I BLOG… HEAR ME ROAR!”… (And have any of y’alls known me to be anything other than self promoting and egocentric anyhow!? I’m GREAT remember?) I know this isn’t exactly my first computer program or [...]