Discovery

This ancient bas relief was found in sugar land texas. Proof positive that ancient romans settled texas in 1000000 dc and brought with them the sport of ice hockey. Called skatos pucatorum in latin.

What were the skies like when you were young?

Look: Pretty clouds!

o westpark tollway, i hate

o westpark tollway,
i hate the whole way,
you back up each day,
and make me late.

thats late -- not latte,
but you still cost two bucks.

The Elsinore Equivocation

So Ludlum would have titled Hamlet, had he written it.

I think I read that joke in The Economist a couple years ago. But maybe I didn't. And who knows who really coined it. It's funny (but not as good as The Hamlet Darple).

But in keeping with William's ideas: The Bourne Again. It's got a self-deprecating wink to the jaded movie crowd, and it will turn out the Baptists.

More Sequels: The Bourne Multisyladribble

Apparently they are going to make another Matt Damon = Jason Bourne movie. I haven't seen the third one, but I liked the first two. That said, after Ultamatum, we no longer have and Ludlum Bourne novels, we have the improbably name "Eric Von Lustbader" (the evil henchman of Dr. Powermaden and the rival of Dexter Goodperson for the affections of Vixen L'Ambuitie)

My point here is that there is no reason why they have to stick with the "canon" as there is no canon without Ludlum. Here now are my suggested titles for future Jason Bourne movies:

The Bourne Rubicon
The Bourne Incentivization
The Bourne Darple
The Bourne Farvenuegen
Daisy-Dot the Magical Butterfly Saves the Town of Twinkle-Drop Falls
The Bourne Gladitor (which would actually be a special two-hour episode of American Gladitators rather than a movie)
Rason Rourne meet Roobie Roo and Scrappy Too! (Da dada dat dat daa, Puppy Power!)


Anyhow, this is to let the major studios know that I am available to develop treatments for these movies, right after I pass the MPRE. And the bar. And hell freezes over. Have your people call mine. Love ya, babe. Boffo. Gonzo. Kermit. Caio. Charo. Harpo.

Oh, here's another one: The Bourne Latte.

I'm good. Really good. Yeah.

George Washington day actually.

George Washington day actually. Ok, so I listen to writers almanac. Washington was awesome. Why can't he get re-elected?


Here's something to do while procrastinating. Visit: http://wmli.myminicity.com/

Trifecta of Traffic Terribleness (Westpark take a-toll-on-my-patience way)

Bumper to bumper. Back to the ft bend county line. Before 7 am . Its the westpark tollway trifecta. @%#* !

Notice: William Li "Attaboy" Prize

Hear Ye! Hear Ye!

I shall give a prize of one "attaboy" to the inventor of the corn car.

Requirement:

Car must be made entirely out of corn and run on corn. Corn tires, corn chasis, corn materials for the fabrication of the power-train parts, including a corn engine with runs on corn-based ethanol, corn electronic components including a corn battery and corn spark plugs, corn coolant, corn lubricants, corn brake fluids, corn coolant in the A/C. The interior should be corn, corn leather, corn fabric, corn cushioning, corn, LCD (liquid corn digital) display. The mirrors should also be made out of corn.

Yoda's Mistake

Dakota made an observation that I hadn't thought of about Star Wars. She thought it was a mistake to break up Luke and Leia because a brother and sister are always stronger together. Mostly she thought it was unfair, "Why do they have to be separated?"

Wisdom has come from Dakota in the past, but this is more clearly in the category of an original idea and not just something she heard and is repeating. More importantly she has entered the conversation about Star Wars. I'm so proud.

Verdict: Office 2007 is pretty good

#1 the XML file formats take up MUCH LESS SPACE. Considering the main feature of mass-market software is bloat, this is a terrific development.

#2 The Ribbon is incredibly annoying but after a few months it starts to make sense. That said, I there isn't an "expert mode" where you can go back to having your own dockable customized toolbars. You actually can get this by buying a 3rd party software but it should be native

#3 On Word, it is much easier to control paragraph features, but outline numbering still need to be tweaked carefully. You'd think that this would have been fixed but not yet.

#4 On excel, it took forever for me to get Pivot Table to work right and Solver is still extremely cludgy.

#5 Powerpoint is much better, but its still powerpoint

#6 In theory, Sharepoint and Groove are now ready to go and kill in enterprise workflow. After a full career of lotus notes, however, I've decided that this is a technology that all the wrong people want. That is to say, the people who really need it don't want it, and the people who really want it, don't need it. Unfortunately this is not a technology problem so much as a problem which I blame on either the state of our culture or on a more intractable state of human nature. But because ontology recalculates phrenology, I am sure that eventually humanity and society will evolve to be the type of person who is an ideal user of enterprise workflow

What I should have said...

What should have happened in this post was that rather than a blog entry, Trav was just thinking to himself...

>>poof<< Appears trav's friend the accountant from afganistan dress in a white robe with a halo and a harp on trav's shoulders.

>>poof<< Appears me, dressed in red satin with horns and pitch fork

Then trav goes --DOINK-- and pokes me in the stomach and I implode like a satantic pillbury doughboy with a black hole beneath his lumbar


Anyhow, what I should have said in full temptation mode was

"Great!!! Now O William can eat DONUTS. Bwaha ha ha ha!"

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Take two:

Picture of ME with my hair messed up (which would be normal) and a big grin but with my bicuspids hanging by a thread like a shingle in a shanty ("some shingle in a shanty shall surely shake the chimney sweep" say that five times fast. faster!)

Caption "Goofus never brushes his children's teeth and neglects himself too"

Picture of JEN looking like the Vanessa the Orbits girl holding a smiling toothy baby.

Caption "Gallant brushes her teeth six, seven, eight times a day."

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Third times a charm:

I was going to do a "Beatles" and "Rolling Stones" one here, but it was a school night and I'm out of energy.

Banana...

I have done this before. The real question is if the banana was left there from getting out of the car or if it surfed all the way to school.

More super bowl comments

Well, it looks like the NFL dynasty goes to the Manning family and not the Bill "I am going to make the Giants do a last play with :01 left on the clock and then walk off the field so that they can have two celebrations rather than one because that's the kind of guy I am" Belicheck.

I must say that I was impressed by the Fox sports coverage for finding footage of Manning to Burress doing the fade route in civi s on the field to warm up and then showing the same thing as the game winning td. Nice job, fox.

But, Troy Aikman: get a job.