Don Xml's Grok This

I'm going to be out of town on July 21st, but you know as soon as I get back I'll be heading off to the local movie theater to see this movie.  When Jay & Sient Bob Strikes Back came out, I made the first showing (11:30AM) an event for my develeopment team (that was one great group of guys), and we were just about the only people ...

If you haven’t had the chance to read Freakonomics, I’d suggest that you add it to your shortlist of ready reading material (there is even a matching blog).  What the author does is tie seemingly unrelated events to their effects (exposing hidden incentives behind all sorts of behavior).  There are lots of examples out there, just ...

If you are reading this blog entry, it is obvious that you don’t already subscribe to Kevin Smith’s blog (My Boring Ass Life), otherwise you would already know this little tid bit of info.  Kevin has released a 2 minute teaser for Clerks 2.  Don’t worry, there isn’t any spoilers in the teaser, so just go ahead and ...

It seems as though the housing market in New Jersey has finally peeked, and is on its way down.  Well, that is if you think that recent run on St. Joseph statues in the Garden State is a leading indicator on the housing market (see the recent Star Ledger article).  There is a very old Catholic custom/superstition which states the if you ...

I’m a hockey fan (NJ Devils), and I was frustrated by the lockout, and I’m really upset about the crazy stuff they put into the new CBA (the salary cap is a joke).  I don’t think that this new CBA will solve the problems of the NHL, and I want to express my dissatisfaction to the owners and the players.  I’m not ...

As I mentioned previously, I got tickets for An Evening With Kevin Smith in his hometown (well not exactly, but close enough) of Red Bank, NJ, which I went to over the weekend (and took a break from my current workload).  Nature tried her hardest to prevent the wife and I from making it down there (Saturday was monsoon season in NJ for some ...

In case you haven’t heard, Kevin Smith will be at the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank, NJ, on April 2nd.  I got my tickets, nice and up close (row G).  

Well, Kevin Smith has been hinting at it, and now it has been released pubically, he is going to make a Clerks 2 beginning early next year.  I can't wait.  It should be a blast.