No, I’m not referring to the Keanu Reeves flick released in 1996. I’m talking about picking up and moving to work in MN through the end of the year. It’s not really moving. Granted, I have a lot of stuff that I’ve ferried to Philadelphia from Houston, but I’m going to UPS everything to wherever […]

Jan 16, 2006

It’s that time of year again. Check out how my Houston taxes have fared since 2005: 346.50 — 2005 Subdivision Maintenance Fee 615.37 — 2005 Windfern Forest Municipal Utility District 855.90 — 2005 Harris County Property Tax 1866.97 — 2005 Cy-Fair Independent School District ——- 3684.74 Total 371.00 — 2006 Subdivision Maintenance Fee 584.08 — […]

The first MarkShields.com Super Genius Podcast is now available. Check out episode 1: The Time Machine Road Trip. I’ll have the XML feed for you to paste into iTunes later on, but for now you can either download the file and import it manually or just use Windows MediaPlayer to play it. Right-click here and […]

I arrived in Houston on Friday night and had dinner with my father at Texas Land and Cattle. My usual now consists of the spicy Caesar salad with no croutons and the Chipotle Tuna with garlic mashed potatoes. That meal is hottish, okay? Eat it. Hottish is my new word. Use it. After dinner, I […]

TRANSFORMERS! More than meets the eye. This is my cue laden blog entry that has some footage that I found floating on the net. Check out the Is It Real Or Is It Fake Transformer Test Movie. It’s a car in disguise. No, wait, it’s a robot disguised as a car. Oh! It’s BOTH! What […]

A few days ago I bought a Bose speaker system for my computer in Philadelphia, but after some rethinking I’m returning it tomorrow. In its place, I’m getting the Sirius S50 Satellite Radio Receiver System Pack! Yeah, baby! I’m aware that this unit is not a true portable satellite receiver. It is designed to dock […]

I laughed my *ss off when I first saw Saturday Night Live’s Chris Parnell and Andy Samberg music video short ”Lazy Sunday.” Watch the whole thing using the Google Video player on the left. My favorite part is when they determine mixing Mr. Pibb with Red Vines is Crazy Delicious. Also, ”Google Maps is the […]

What I thought was going to be a slow week in Philadelphia turned out to be quite interesting with little fixes and bugs that needs squashing in our application. You can test something over and over but you won’t know what people will find when you turn it over to a giant user population. We […]