So a question for the ladies, and for the guys too, I suppose: so at lunch with a female coworker I had a discussion about how much engagement rings should cost. I wondered if it was still important to have an engagement ring cost 2 months salary. Without getting too personal, I’m just going to…

for people who happen to know my mother, mamarayne, I thought I’d point out that her, my grandmother and my brother evacuated Gulfport, MS on Saturday and they are safe and alive in Florida at the moment. My cousin and her three daughters also evacuated their house. My uncle and aunt were already out of…

Since I was but a wee little Maverick, knee high to a grasshopper, my favorite candy has been Reese’s Peanut butter cups. I don’t eat one every day. I probably do have at least one a week though. On any given day where I am writing code and its getting to be too much for…

So I’m listening to Howard Stern on my drive in and they had the most hilarious bit on. Some random woman had a chance to win $5000. The game was pretty simple. They brought in Howard’s father. They asked him 10 questions about Howard’s life. The woman had to guess correctly whether or not Ben…

So I’m at work trying to program something or other (really, its like way technical, and stuff) and I’m listening to the Howard Stern Show on my radio shark. (the radio shark is a USB radio that plugs into your computer and does Time Shift recording, sort of like TiVo. It’s pretty damn cool). I…

So, apparently sometime around 12:30PDT in the afternoon yesterday, in the broad fucking daylight, someone broke into a friend’s house and stole the computers that constitute the slackers network. Among other sites, slackers hosts internationalmales.net (my and shiima’s wrestling website and email) as well as the elseworld.com mail server (the web server is located elsewhere).…