We uploaded new pictures to http://pictures.kokopop.com. This month we have Audrey visiting us.  Audrey is the woman who took care of Ethan while Katie and I worked at Koko.  She potty trained him and spent a ton of time with him during his developing years.  He didn’t remember her, but they quickly got back into the swings of things.

Speaking of pictures, I checked out Flickr again.  Flickr has been purchased by Yahoo by the way.  The ONE thing that keeps me from using the service is the lack of Nested Sets.  I really don’t understand them.  It is the most critical feature.  I really can’t use the service without it.  I don’t even need infinite nests.  I just need  set inside of the existing sets.  I would literally switch my entire gallery to it.  But no, no nested sets.  On their forums, it looks like people have been asking for this feature for over a year.  Oh well.  I continue to use jAlbum until something comes along that will do what jAlbum does without me compiling the album every month.

Having a bad week.  My HTML/CSS is looking ragged.  My head is distracted.  Lots of negative interactions.  It has been hard to keep my head up.  The beard has grown back, which is a good thing, I think.  (Tangent - Remember in The Tick, when the mustache attached itself to the Tick and spoke in Spanish, but the Tick thought it was some crazy moon language.  That was funny.)

Here is an interesting question.  Let’s say you have two people.  The first person, who is about my height, goes through a project and interacts with people.  Of the people he interacts with, 20% love him completely, 20% hate him and 60% are neutral. (bell curve)  Another person (not my height) goes through a project and interacts with the same number of people.  That person has 0% who love him or hate him, but rather everyone thought the person was fine, neutral.

Which person would you rather have on your team?

Let’s introduce another variable.  Let’s say the quality of the end-result of the project is substantially better with the person who is my height.  Does that change your decision?

Of course, this is totally hypothetical.  These people are fictional and have no relation to the author and publisher of this blog.
 

The Jets played the dreaded New England Patriots (Hiss! Boo! Rubbish! Filth!) and, of course, lost.  But they didn’t just lose.  They first went down by a lot and then made a nice comeback near the end of the game.  Some great plays, but in the end, they fell short.  It seems that the Jets always do that.  Get my hopes up and then dash them to smitherines.  It is truly heart-breaking.  Our defense needs some help and my god the running backs are just awful.  When will the Jets win?  How long must I suffer?

Despite losing, it was nice to see the Jets in HD glory with DirecTV Sunday Ticket.  Heaven help DirecTV if they lose the NFL exclusive rights.  I will switch faster than they can J-E-T-S Jets Jets Jets!

Cases in point:

1. I dropped Ethan off at school and lost Jared.  I started to panic and get frantic.  I went to the school office and they put out the APB.  He is quickly found.  Jared, where did you go?  He said, "I had to go poop!"  ugh. The other parents thought I was a bad dad.

2. I have been cultivating a beard for the past month.  I thought it looked good.  So I bought a beard trimmer to keep it at the length it was this morning.  Something went horribly awry. Cut cut cut cut.  No more beard.  I screwed it up so badly.  The whole fiasco spent so much time that I was late to help Katie bring Ethan to school.  So now I also misssed my carpool buddy. I should just shave my head like Cousin Bruce!  Ugh.  Now I look like Al Bundy.  I am 203 pounds now.  A big fatty is me.  :(  Gotta stop eating.

3. I had to go to San Francisco for a meeting (north of my house) so I got on the Caltrain (which I normally take south.) I started to panic.  "I think I am going to the wrong way"!  So I get off the train in Hayward Park.  Then I realize, "No wait a minute, that WAS the right way!  Nuts!"  But wait, I could catch the next train which I knew was only 10 minutes behind the one I just got off.  So I wait.  ZOOOOOOOM!  The train whips right past me.  I check the schedule frantically.  It says that the train hits every stop, EXCEPT ONE.  it skips Hayward Park!  Can you believe it!?!  Katie had to pick me up and drive me into the city.

The only good news in all of this is that the Jets (despite trying to lose) WON against the Titans.  I was pleased with Chad Pennington and furious with the place kicker Nugent who missed THREE kicks.  Maybe their win and my idiocy are related?  Speaking of the Jets: God did not visit me this year.  He sent a telegram.  Here are the contents:

Glen. stop.
Jets. stop.
HA HA. stop.

Of course, the minute I say Storm Large is cool, she gets the old heave ho.  She got kicked off the island!  Her website is unavailable now.  Apparently, it got slammed after her dismissal.

Oh well, she still had a few great songs.  Next week is the last show.  Who will win?  I think Toby deserves it.  After the Crocodile Hunter’s freakish death, we need to send Australia a vote of confidence.  We loved you Steve Irwin!  Now all Australia has are the Wiggles.  Why couldn’t the Wiggles be stung by sting rays instead of Croc Hunter?  Is that bad karma?  Uh huh.

I have a guilty pleasure.  It is RockStar SuperNova.  I have to admit, I like it alot.  I didn’t want to like it.  Dave Navaro is retarded and the SuperNova guys (Gilby Clarke, Tommy Lee and Jason Newstead) but damn it, I really am hooked.  I liked Lukas at first, and then I liked Ryan (until they kicked him off) and tonight I officially became a Toby fan. 

But the real messed up thing is this one girl on the show.  She is liked an Amazon warrior.  She is huge with muscles and big boobs (sorry Katie) and long blond hair and a touch of crazy eye.  Her name is Storm Large!  And somehow that name fits her!  But she sang this original song which I thought was really good.  I just checked out her MySpace.  You HAVE to listen to the R version of LadyLike.  WOW!  That kicks ass!

And listen to the lyrics of "I want you to Die."  And beautiful is a good song too.  I don’t know if she is right for SuperNova, but she is awesome.