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Hey, fellow loyal readers. I am going on vacation in 3 days. The copy of Quicksilver that I have is too big to carry with me. I need something sci-fi-y or fantasy-y to read. Not too big, not too small. Something that would last me a week. Help!

I have a lot to do before the vacation, so I'll cop-out for a bunch of mini-posts today. Post #1. We watched Righteous Kill yesterday. It's a good movie. Here's my question. Without a doubt, both DeNiro and Pacino are great actors. Why is it then, that the writers prefer to give monologues to Pacino? It seems like he stole the movie, while DeNiro was more of a standby. Post #2. This amazing stat is off Peter King's Monday Morning Quaterback. Mariano Rivera's career blown saves against Boston: 12. Mariano Rivera's career blown saves against the other 28 teams in baseball: 47. Post #3. We went to see Jersey Boys on Friday, as part of our 9 year of being married. Excellent show. Good music, amazing singing from the cast. The story is "loosely" based on the Four Seasons story and Franky Valli. After the show I absolutely had to get a compilation of Four Seasons music. Some of the song I easily recognized some I didn't. Most of them did not get any asso...

With my parents in town, we have decided to try to visit a brand new place in the city. My wife has found an interesting spot called Garfield Conservation Park. It is a huge Greenhouse hosting more than 1800 plants. This is the train station by the place. I did not know Chicago had these. And here are the pictures of some flowers.

After watching The Bucket List : There is a scene in a movie where a little girl comes up to Jack Nicholson and smiles. My thought, you have to be a pretty brave kid to do what she did. Mr. Nicholson is a scary son of a bitch in that movie. Kudos to the girl. After watching another cop show : Why is it that cop-show writers feel that the correct way to finish a case is having a perp admit the guilt in the interrogation room. What is the message behind that? Do they not trust us to figure out the guilty party by the "evidence" the investigation amasses? Work related : for those classic ASP developers. Server 2003 does not like you to have an epmty global.asa file. It will throw a HTTP 500 Error, without an explanation. Better to not have a global.asa at all. School related : Financial Management or Managerial Finance class has started. The good thing is that sessions two and three are online course. Finally couple of Tuesdays where I don't have to go to school, but learn ...

NO, not the name of the band. We are in the process of some house repainting and small repair. As we were cleaning up the bedroom, I stumbled upon a photo-album that records my pre-marriage debauchery and acts of wanton teenagery. As I picked up the album several pictures fell out, very very very movie moment like. I actually have some pictures that I doubt anyone in my family still has, they travel from hands to hands, usually via Mom. So, here you go. A scan of couple of them. Can you guess who? Don't ask me when the pictures were made. The girl in the middle is the cousin of the two dashing gentlemen.

I have found today that you can watch full episodes of StarTrek TOS on IMDB. Sweet! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060028/videogallery

I have decided to start a new Rubric. Once a week I will write a post about a random subject. Having the subject coming out of MY head, it can be about anything. I constantly have a lot of random "Why?" and "How does?" questions floating around in my head. I will try to explain how I arrived to the subject at hand and promise to do diligent research on Wikipedia and provide you, the unfortunate reader, with either the interesting or unusual bits of info. YOU'VE BEEN WARNED! In addition to that I have a slight fetish for trivia. The rubric will be called: Things you never cared to know about Today's topic is Mayonnaise . How did I arrive to that? As I was making breakfast in the morning, I decided that I wanted to take a pita pocket and stuff it with something. The pitas are usually fairly dry, and you have to toast them. I did not have Hummus or Babaganoush (GOD! I just love saying BA-BA-GA-NOUSHHHHHHHHH!) I put a little Mayo inside to soften it up. So, ther...

This picture was made on Saturday in the Botanic Gardens. I made it with my D60 Nikon using 200mm zoom lens. I swear by anything that is I hold dear, that this picture was not edited in any way. And here's the Alien!

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor . Stole from Jason

The Spain presentation went rather well yesterday. The class is not over yet, however. I have a take home final exam that I need to finish before Friday. After that it's to the wonderful world of Managerial Finance or Financial Management, which is looking to be a heavy-load class. Oh, how I want the summer!

I am tired. The final project for Macro was a lot of work. The unfortunate side effect now is that I hate Spain! Spain is supposed to be a beautiful country, full of history and rich traditions. NO! All I know about Spain now is GDP, Inflation rates, Budget deficits and whole plethora of finanancial and economic data that I don't really care for. The result is that Economy in Spain SUCKS! Big Time! I don't even want to go there right now. Macroconomics, thanks for nothing! Sickening. Good bye!

As I sit here, writing the post, there is snow on the ground. It's April 6th, AND THERE IS SNOW! There was a considerable snow storm yesterday. At least Saturday was a great day. Our little suburb had a kite show going on. That was a great deal of fun. Yes, that is somebody flying the X-Wing kite.

I have seen this meme at Jason's , and then my my brother picked up the relay baton. I think i'll go with it fro the reason that I both attended Russian and American high-schools. Here goes nothing. 1. Did you date someone from your school senior year? I had a girlfriend when I was in Russian high-school, moved to the states before finishing the last year, and I didn’t date anybody in the US High-School 2. Did you marry someone from your high school? No, The Awesome Wife is from another city altogether. 3. Did you car pool to school? Nope, we walked. I don’t actually believe I EVER so anybody drive up to the school. When going to high-school in Brooklyn I took a bus, walked (it was maybe 2 miles away, avenue C and Ocean Pkwy to 20th Ave and 60th St), or took the F Train. 4. What kind of car did you drive? We did not have a car in Russia, and I didn’t have a car when living in Brooklyn. I actually resisted my Dad’s attempts to learn how to drive until I was about 19-20. Didn’...

I read football news. Not everyday, but every other week. I've read them yesderday afternoon. The sports sphere is abuzz with news about Jay Cutler debucle. Imagine my surprize (with jaw falling to the ground with a loud noise) when I discovered not more than three hours later that Da Bears actually aquired mr. Cutler for their quaterbacking needs. Now the analysts talked about this for a month now, projecting Browns, Bucs, Titans, even Detroit. It seems that Mr. Jerry Anglo (bears GM) has ninjaed everyone on this deal. NO ONE suspected. Granted, the Team had a bad QB situation for at least a decade, but THIS! This news have been chewed over and over for the last 24 hours. Here's my little take on it. The Bears get Culter. One of the most promising QB right now. 26 years old, already a Pro-bowler, with a gun for a hand. However, he's got a reputation of being a primadonna. With a defensively dominating team this might not cut it. There are also a lack of good recievinig cor...

I stole this from Brian "..tell him to by iMac, it's a computer specifically made fro id... ahem.. mommies and daddies.." Music to my ears.