Favorite Western and Wildlife Artists from Childhood

Nancy Glazier

Tim Cox

G Harvey

Stephen Lyman

Howard Terpning

Martin Grelle

Rod Chase

Bev Doolittle

Somerset house sells reproductions from several of the above artists.

Other notable artists

A Few Favorite Quotes

Only try to realize the truth. There is no spoon. Then you'll see, that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.
- The Matrix

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus
- Mark Twain

"Remember, your focus determines your reality."
- Qui-Gon Gin

If you could only own 50 movies...

Here's my list of what movies I would keep/have if I could only own 50 movies.

Aladdin
American Gangster
Back to the Future
Before Sunrise
Catch Me if You Can
City of God
Crash
Defending Your Life
The Departed
Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (10)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Good Will Hunting
Groundhog Day
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
The Lion King
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Michael Clayton (20)
Minority Report
Mrs. Doubtfire
Peter Pan
Pinocchio
The Prince of Egypt
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Seven Years in Tibet
The Shawshank Redemption
The Sound of Music
Star Wars Trilogy (32)
What Dreams May Come

Maybe:

American History X (Life is too short, find your true path.)
Apollo 13
Before Sunset
Big
Borat
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dances with Wolves
Dead Poets Society
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Forrest Gump
Gandhi
The Legend of Bagger Vance
Les Misérables (1998, starring Liam Neeson & Geoffrey Rush)
Liar Liar
Life is Beautiful
Lost in Translation
Mask of Zorro
The Patriot
Pleasantville
Shine
Superbad (great for a group of friends, heartwarming, etc.)
The Social Network
The Terminal
Toy Story
What About Bob (makes you realize that your problems are nothing compared to a hypochondriac)
Winged Migration
The Wizard of Oz

Christmas 2010

Mini Multi-Battery Tester (recommended by Ken Rockwell)

The Game of Things [Boardgame]

Three 8GB Lexar SHDC Memory Cards

Kingston Memory Card Reader (for the new SDHC memory cards)

LED Booklight (Multiflex Task light by Fulcrum)

Wool Socks

Nerf N-Strike Maverick (six shooter gun)

Lexar 8GB flash drive

Sarah Marie - Pool of Love [CD]

Spirit - A Journey [CD]

Leonard Cohen- I'm Your Man [DVD]

A curved glass photo frame to hold a 6 x 8 photo?

Memorable Choruses

You and I collide. . . .
Collide
by Howie Day

I want something else. . . .
Semi Charmed Life
by Third Eye Blind

Best Movies Watched Journal

A list of the best movies I've seen and would recommend, or the best movies I've watched each month. Highlighted titles are ones I plan to add to my collection. Green titles are movies that are currently in my collection.

November 2020

Rewind (documentary)

Borat 2

Earlier in 2020

Dark Waters

The Social Dilemma

The Way Back

The Gentlemen

Parasite

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

1917 (saw in the theater)

Knives Out

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (Tom Hanks)

2019

Yesterday

Ad Astra (saw in the theater)

Rocketman

Bohemian Rhapsody

January 2015
Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Boyhood

December 2014
Interstellar
Days of Heaven
Barry Lyndon
It's a Wonderful Life
White Christmas

November 2014
Gone Girl
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part I
Logan's Run
The Station Agent
A Most Wanted Man


October 2014
Locke

Not Suitable for Children
Jodorowsky's Dune (Documentary)
The Grand Budapest Hotel

September 2014
Blue Ruin
Dan in Real Life
The Rover
Nebraska
Noah


August 2014
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Guardians of the Galaxy
Side by Side (documentary)


July
Submarine
Joe


June
Lone Survivor
Edge of Tomorrow
Safety Not Guaranteed
22 Jump Street

May 2014
Her
X-Men: Days of Future Past
Captain America 2: Winter Solider

March 2014
Dallas Buyers Club
Much Ado About Nothing
More Than Honey (Documentary)
Perks of Being a Wildflower
Five Broken Cameras
Wolf of Wall Street

February 2014
Blue Jasmine
Enough Said
Ain't Them Bodies Saints
Queen of Versailles
About Time
12 Years a Slave
Wikileaks Documentary

January 2014
Frozen
Saving Mr. Banks
Rampart
Primer
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Don Jon
Bellflower
Captain Phillips
Stuck in Love
Pain and Gain


December 2013
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (3-D HFR)
Prisoners
Prince Avalanche
Blue Valentine
American Hustle

November 2013
Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Before Midnight
The Way Way Back

October 2013
Gravity (3-D)
Warren Buffet: Bloomberg Game Changers

September 2013
The Legend of Ron Jeremy
Barney's Version
Trance
Kings of Summer

August 2013
The World's End
In the Loop
The Place Beyond the Pines

July 2013


June 2013
In July
Robot and Frank
Monsieur Lazhar
Match Point
Cloud Atlas
TBP AFK
Side Effects

May 2013
The Master
Liberal Arts
Mud
Margin Call
Maria Full of Grace
Star Trek: Into Darkness

April 2013
Coriolanus
Moonrise Kingdom

March 2013
Jiro Dreams of Sushi (documentary)
Lars and the Real Girl
The Sessions

Feburary 2013
Silver Linings Playbook
American Movie
Flight
Like Crazy
Lost in La Mancha

January 2013
Zero Dark Thirty
Les Miserables
Premium Rush
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
Looper
The King's Speech

December 2012 
Django Unchained
Russian Dolls
The Hobbit

November 2012
Skyfall
Greenberg
The Artist
Lincoln

October 2012
Argo

September 2012
End of Watch

July 2012
The Dark Knight Rises
Bernie

June 2012
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Prometheus (3D)

May 2012
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
The Avengers

April 2012
The Hoax

March 2012
The Hunger Games
21 Jump Street

February 2012
Limitless
50/50
 
January 2012
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
Ajami
War Horse
Midnight in Paris

December 2011
Friends with Benefits
Horrible Bosses

November 2011
Captain America
Infernal Affairs

October 2011
The Ides of March
 
September 2011
The Tree of Life

August 2011

Source Code

The Lincoln Lawyer

July 2011
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II

June 2011
Red Cliff
Chungking Express
X-Men: First Class
Narc
Frozen River

May 2011
Training Day

Uncertainty

127 Hours
 
April 2011
Hereafter
Antwone Fisher

March 2011
It's Kind of a Funny Story
The Fighter
Goodbye Solo
Babel
Syriana

January 2011

InterMission

Insomnia
Black Swan
Unforgiven

December 2010

The Town

Inception

Easy A
Waking Life

November 2010
Gone Baby Gone
Shutter Island
The Edukators
Casino

October 2010
M

The Social Network

September 2010
Some Like it Hot

August 2010
The Sword in the Stone
Nobody Knows
Shine

Ghost Writer

July 2010
Kramer vs. Kramer
Pride and Prejudice
Cold Souls
O Brother Where Art Thou
Koyla
The Color Purple
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Toy Story 3

June 2010
The Insider
12 Angry Men
The Karate Kid (2010)
American Teen
Europa Europa
Into the Wild
Bad Lieutenant
Field of Dreams (had not seen since my pre-teen years)

May 2010
The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus
Husbands and Wives
Trucker
Cashback
Bonnie and Clyde
The Sting
Hotel Rwanda

April 2010
Waltz With Bashir
Amores Perros
Serpico
Junebug
Mystic River
An Education
The Wrestler

March 2010
Brothers
Precious
Up in the Air  
The Hurt Locker

February 2010
All the President's Men
A Serious Man
Donnie Brasco
Food, Inc.

January 2010
Moon
Good Bye, Lenin
Chinatown
Why We Fight
Amreeka

December 2009
500 Days of Summer
District 9
Savages
Rendition
 
November 2009
The Apartment
Up

October 2009
Sin Nombre
Shattered Glass
Nothing But the Truth
American Violet
Zodiac

September 2009
Pan's Labyrinth
Reservoir Dogs
Rachel Getting Married
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
The Silence of the Lambs
State of Play

August 2009
North By Northwest
The Graduate

July 2009
Singin' in the Rain
The Half Blood Prince
The French Connection
Seven Pounds

June 2009
Annie Hall

April 2009
Doubt
Vicky Christina Barcelona

March 2009
Goodfellas
Flash of Genius
Assassination of Jesse James

February 2009
Gran Torino

January 2009
Benjamin Button
Slumdog Milionaire
The Counterfeiters
 
October 2008
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
 
August 2008
Enchanted
Joyeux Noel

July 2008
Pulp Fiction
The Dark Knight
The Talented Mr. Ripley
A Few Good Men

June 2008
The Fountain
American Gangster
Michael Clayton
 
May 2008 
Iron Man
Lost in Translation
 
April 2008
Glengarry Glenross
Brokeback Mountain
There Will Be Blood
 
March 2008
The Lives of Others
No Country for Old Men
Before Sunset
 
February 2008
Juno

People say the darnedest things

My egg litches.

"dent-inated"

Can-a-dins

Go inside the sofa?

Christmas 2009

Remington DA307 Dual Microscreen Shaver




Tom Murphy 2010 Yellowstone Calendar




Weston (Icons Series) (Hardcover)



Nebo Luma 35 LED Flashlight




St. John's Bay Sueded Jersey (Henley) White
St. John's Bay Heritage Chino

JC Penny's Gift Card


The Far Side Gallery 5



Logitech V450 Wireless Mouse



Whitney Design Clothes Tripod Clothes Dryer

Things for the Interview

With an interview coming up this week, a friend who has worked for the company for many years said I should be prepared for these questions:

What are some of your weaknesses?
Time management
Becoming too focused on one aspect of a project

What are some of your hobbies?
Learning piano
Writing
Web design
Film production
Spanish & German

How do you work in a team or with others?
I thrive working with others, especially on collaborative projects.

What are your career goals?
(They don't want everything to be about you.)
Working in a solid position where I can learn, grow, and contribute ideas.
Also be in involved in a leadership position.

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What can you bring to our company?

Assessments Galore

Some companies use a series of computer-based assessments to help narrow down the pool of job candidates.

Today, I took several assessments in 90 minutes that measured my reasoning ability, typing speed, general knowledge of working with computer files, and technical design test.

The position I am applying for is a highly technical position in the online printing industry that requires attention to detail, very strong technical ability, and a sharp individual.

Cognitive test

This test had questions like:
Do the words: ILLUSTRIOUS and ILLUSTRATE
a) have a similar meaning
b) have an opposite meaning
c) have neither similar nor opposite meanings

Simple math questions like, which is the smallest number:
3, 1, 0.7, 0.77 1.77

Some of the hardest questions were pairs of numbers and names that looked very similar, but almost every set was not identical, so it took more time to mentally process the right answer.

The cognitive test was 50 questions and I was told beforehand that people do not finish all 50 questions in the allotted 20 minutes. The questions got progressively more difficult, and at the end I had finished about 30 questions.

Typing Test

The typing test was taken on TypingTest.com
The Aesop's Fables option actually made the test pretty easy.
50 WPM with about 2-3 errors.

Personality assessment

Many "most like you" and "least like you" choices with number scales
for the other options. Some of the questions seemed very repetitive, maybe to gauge honest responses, and some of the pairs of descriptive words did not really seem to match up.

PC Basic Skills test

This included things such as:
- Making a folder on the desktop and renaming it
- Retrieving information from the web and putting it into a word processor
- Copying a file to a network location

PC Technical Test

I was shown a printed design created with Microsoft Visio and had to replicate the design to the best of my ability. I have never used Microsoft Visio before, but thanks to years of working with other Microsoft applications, it was pretty easy. I'm not sure how long it took me. It was probably no more than 20 minutes, but it felt like an eternity when I couldn't find a couple of the options that I needed.

Thrift Store Shirt Raid

Today I stopped by a thrift store and got four button down shirts (3 long sleeve and one short) and two sweaters, all for $18! Just one of these would have been on sale for $25 and the Kenneth Cole shirt looks to be $50!




Dockers Solid Textured Polo Sweater
sale $25.20
original $42.00

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Kenneth Cole Reaction Men's Spread Collar Tonal Solid Woven Shirt
- Blue Topaz version above is probably what I got
- $50 on Amazon

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The Banana Republic shirt could be one of these:
Banana Republic Slim fit stretch-poplin yarn-dyed solid dress shirt
Banana Republic Royal oxford shirt: french cuff dress shirts | Banana Republic
Banana Republic Classic fit non-iron shirt: button cuff dress shirts | Banana Republic
- probably not this one, because it's one in the new "Non-iron Shirt Collection"

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Stafford Essentials Oxford
Sale $15
Original $36

High School Memories

Entertainment

Andy Richter Controls the Universe Wondering how many people ever saw this show, as it was only on for two seasons. It was so much more genuinely hilarious that most other TV shows on at the time.

Undeclared A cool show about college. Created by Judd Apatow, who was almost unknown at the time. Sadly only ran for one season. Seth Rogen played one of the lead characters.

That 70's Show Yes, it has a laugh track, but was one of the shows that people 15-55 could appreciate.

24 When the first season aired during my freshman year of high school, I had to watch it every Tuesday night. If I couldn't watch it, then I tried to tape it.

Covering books

Last week I helped my brother cover a book for high school. It was a strange feeling, doing something I haven't done in about five years. Here are some photos from a tutorial on the web.

Nicknames

Mr. Sniffles
Valerina
Inspector 8
Clanker

Best $2 ever spent

You can't get more for $2, unless there's a bag sale at a thrift store

• $1 - Monopoly set (almost brand new, and a complete set)
• $0.50 - Lord of the Rings Trilogy Book (Cover price is $20, and used on Amazon would have been
• $0.50 - Two sets of 100 poker chips

Growing Up with Technology

Blu-ray
Solid State Drives
Second displays
PDA's
external hard drives
cell phones
iPods
DVDs
VHS tapes

What's next in future technology

* Purchased my first DVDs in 2002.
* Bought a 60GB Creative Zen MP3 player from Amazon in 2006 and then sold it and bought a 30GB Gen 5.5 ipod in 2006.
* By 2005, during my senior year in high school, most of the people in my class had cell phones. Everyone at work had cell phones.
* Purchased my first Blu-ray movies in November 2008 in anticipation of getting a blu-ray player soon. (The movies were less than $10).

High School Comp CD: Vandals and Everclear

Comp CD from Freshman year of High School

Everclear - Songs from an American Movie

• Song from An American Movie
• Here we go again
• AM Radio
• Unemployed Boyfriend
• Wonderful
• When it all goes wrong again
• Baby Talk
• Misery Whip
• All Fucked Up

The Vandals - Live Fast Diarrhea

• Let the bad times roll
• Take it back
• And now we dance
• I have a date
• Power mustache
• Happy birthday to me
• Get in Line

Smells like teen spirit
In Bloom
Something in the way
Strung Out - In Harm's Way
Tilt - Weave and Unravel
Rancid - Just a feeling
NOFX - Kill all the white men

365 Day Challenge: Shed One Thing Per Day

Started today, July 8th.

7/12: A bunch of TIME magazines from 2005. (recycle)
7/9: State of Fear by Michael Crichton (donate to local library)
7/8: The Blackbook photography ad book (donate to local library)

Kids Say the Darnedest Things

Valerie: You don't want to sit on a pillow that has tears on it.

Benard: They need my weight and "heighdth".

Me: Who said Give me liberty or give me death.
Benard: St. Joseph.

Money Well Spent: What was worth buying

Looking back on products and purchases that were worth the money

• 8B CompactFlash card I photographed an entire wedding in RAW with one of these cards. I took only about 600 images, however.
  
• Soundslides For $70 I can now make professional looking flash galleries for my website, show images portfolio and tell stories on my blog.
  
• Mead Five Star Folders These folders are incredibly tough and come in several colors.
  
• MetaFilter (registration) Good answers to questions about anything
  
• Mead Five Star: 3/5 Subject Notebooks An entire semester's worth of college notes was stored in one of these notebooks, which made notes easier to access
  
• MacHeist Bundle (1Password) 1Password has made this entire package worth the purchase. Using Snapz Pro X or CSSEdit would really make this a valuable purchase.