captbrando's log

It’s not very often that shootings occur in close geographic proximity to your home. Well, in McKinney this is certainly the case anyway. Friday night, four McKinney residents were killed about 3 miles from my house, two of them high school students on the McKinney North varsity football team. Since I have started doing more…

So late last night (ok, so it was early this morning), Chris and I had finished watching Lost in Translation and Runaway Jury and we were headed upstairs for bed. I turned on the television in our bedroom and flipped over to HBO to see what late night flick might entertain us before sleepy time.…

FINALLY got everything up and running at the new location. Sucks to be out of town when servers get moved.

Whee, all of use salaried employees get ripped off for one day every four years. It is fitting this year that Leap Year Day falls on a Sunday. Happy birthday to all you leap year kids! This is what we woke up to here in McKinney. Lovely!

Today was a really fun day. We went to the Zoo in spite of the cloudy and windy weather and it was really awesome. Not only was it not very crowded overall, but we did not have ANY no-shows. Every exhibit had an animal in it (save for some of the closed reptile exhibits). Our…

This weekend was absolutely gorgeous here in the Dallas area. Had the windows open most of the weekend. Yesterday Chris and I went and looked at some of the new homes in the area. We found a couple that we REALLY like, so we are hoping that we’ll be able to figure out all of…

James, Both Chris and myself are deeply sorry for your loss. We both hope that you are able to cope and remain strong for your family during this sad time. If there is anything we can do, you let us know and I’ll make it happen. Warm wishes and prayers, Brando & Chris

So I’m working on some schoolwork this evening (yes, last minute again but you gotta love the mid-week travel), and a trailer for a movie pops on the screen. I’m not normally paying much attention to it, but I happen to look over and see the extra uber hot Elisha Cuthbert on the TV! So…

Ok, I got my speakers in Friday finally (they had to special order them) and I just want to say, thank you Jim Luckett at Frisco’s Ultimate Electronics. What a great experience I had with them! I would most definitely recommend anyone go talk to him about any Hi-Fi home theater stuff. I really can’t…

Here are some Wintery Pictures from today!

Leave it to Texas weather to decide to dump a few inches of snow on us 6 weeks late. Chris wanted snow on Christmas so bad. Oh well, better late than never right? Last night it was coming down a little bit, but this morning it must have started just pouring from the sky. We’ve…

Welp, it has definitely been an interesting couple of days. Lots of good stuff has happened. My speakers should be arriving shortly. Hopefully within a week or so. I also got my new nitrogen tank for my kegerator. Switching from straight CO2 to a Beergas mix (N2/CO2). Better for the beer. Yesterday was interesting. If…

Finally got someone to hook me up with a BeerGas solution so I can run that through my kegerator as opposed to straight CO2. BeerGas is a N2/C02 mix that allows you to get more beer out of the keg, and keeps you from overcarbonating your beer. I’m pumped! Can’t wait until my new tank…

So I finally ported over my backend scripts to the DBD perl package over the less used libpgperl package. Debian unstable forced my hand .

Super Bowl is now over, and it marks the end of the 2003-4 NFL season. How unfortunate for all of us. At least we still have some hockey to watch for a while. Then once that is done, we have the doldrums of summer sports…. until FOOTBALL season again!! YAAY! Oh yeah, and I sure…

Sorry for the outage to all that were inconvenienced! Altair is back up and running on new digs!

Nag all you want… Anyway, FINALLY am getting around to doing some of those things that have been needing to get done! I ponied up and got a new home theater system. Just the receiver and fronts, but its a start! And the house should be painted either this week or next. Definitely in time…

So, I’m flying to Houston today, and of course its quite overcast. We’re decending into the airport and all the sudden the pilot puts the plane into a dive. Then a 2-3G stick pull back to level flight, then he throttles back to nothing, back into a dive, throttle back up to save the day…

Welp, I’m wrapping up my week in Chicago as we speak. The trip was filled with lots of work and a tiny bit of play. I am really enjoying this town and could say that I like it more than NYC. Mainly because you have a little more personal space. Times Square is just too…

The search is finally over for the Iraqi tyrant! Do you want to know more?