root of all evil

Wedding + Honeymoon = Broke

2009-11-15T22:02:00Z

Trailer: Kick-a** Music: "I want you to (acoustic)" - Weezer ft. Sara Bareilles Wow. I'm married. Still can't believe it. It's been a crazy past two weeks. Between wedding, honeymoon, and work the week after.... Well, I can't complain. Awesome wedding. Couldn't have picked a better day. Once I get my hands on the video, and the pictures, I'll post them up. Honey moon was good to. First night we did the Four Seasons in Dallas, just to relax. Then the next day was just packing and getting ready for...(read more)

I'm never drinking again.

2009-10-27T03:56:00Z

Trailer: Sherlock Holmes Music: "I want more part 2" - Faithless In the words of Penny in The Big Bang Theory.... "Holy c**p on a cracker". I'm never drinking again. You would think one bachelor party was enough. But no. What about two? Neh! ...Three? (unfortunately) There is only so much my liver can handle. I won't disclose any of the juicy details. Just know that if you are every in South Beach (Miami, FL), you MUST check out a place called Mangos. And if you happen to be in the Vodou room after...(read more)

Change

2009-10-11T04:24:00Z

Trailer: Surrogates Music: "Tangerine Sky" - Kottonmouth Kings I have a new goal in life... I want to work less but get paid more. You might wonder where I've been the past month or two. And to be honest, me too. Freaking work has sucked the life out of me. I feel like my new theme song is "Every Day is Exactly the Same" by NIN. While some people are afraid of change, I'm begging for it. Hopefully the upcoming bachelor party in Miami, and bachelor party #2 in Dallas, and the wedding on 11/1 will...(read more)

The RTC Taken Down by One Command

2009-08-25T04:52:00Z

Trailer: Gamer (drools) Music: Shinedown - "Sounds of Madness" OK, so the Root Technology Center (aka my NAS) got taken out by yours truly. One freaking command and all 5TB of video/music/etc of RAID5 goodness went bye-bye. And my backup script had failed 4 months ago so all the important personal data (like cass's Pictures) are gone. Sleeping on the coach now. Not the best month. Note to anyone with an mdadm array, be VERY careful when you attempt to rebuild it. If, say, you accidently put one drive...(read more)

Apparently this post is about movies

2009-08-13T03:08:00Z

Trailer: Hitman Old movie, but still love it. Music Video: Killers - Hotel California I don't care about the purists out there, this is a damn good song. Haven't posted in a while. Sorry about that. Crazy at work lately and my spare time has been consumed by wedding stuff. I've said this one before, but I'll say it again: I'd rather plan a data center move than plan for a wedding. Honestly don't have much to write about. Started working a new book, haven't published on my writing dot com site yet,...(read more)

One MILLION doallars (read: Dr. Evil)

2009-06-30T23:16:00Z

Trailer: Awesome. Music: Come on, you can't tell me you don't like that song. So last Friday, cass informed me that about the Texas's mega millions (lotto) up to 80 million dollars. I did some quick math (50 million cash value, 30 million after taxes), and started wondering what I'd do with 30 million. We've all had this conversation with ourselves at least once before. As I spent frivolously my theoretical millions, I came up with two interesting facts: 1) I wouldn't want people to know I won Think...(read more)

Summer!

2009-06-21T18:45:00Z

Definitely summer time. Is everyone eatting snowcones and chasing fireflies yet? Or perhaps floating down a river with a keg strapped to a float, showing off your brillant engineering/ducktape skillz? It's a cool 97 degrees here in Texas and I'm starting to enjoy the summer time. Already hit the casino in Oklahoma and the lake for some party barg'in. Next up is patio barbq's and beers (aka bur's). So what you are you doing this summer? I'll tell you what I'm not doing. Megan Fox. God I hope Cassie...(read more)

Friday! (Second Attempt)

2009-06-13T17:02:00Z

As most of you know, I have a love for good modern tango songs. Since it's Friday, I leave you all with a simple post. A great song. Enjoy. Have a safe/happy weekend. And for those of you looking to buy this song, good freaking luck. #...(read more)

Black and White

2009-06-12T04:16:00Z

Trailer: Brick Pretty darn good movie. I bought the DVD. Its... different from your average movie. Music: Clair de Lune So relaxing. So lately I've been educating a friend of Cass's on all the movies she's missed. Keeping a relatively short story even shorter; I've told her that she has to watch a movie of my choosing each night she's hanging out with us. The first one we watched was Wanted . At the end, the main character says "What the F have you done lately?" She (Cass's friend who we'll call...(read more)

Wave the Coupe baby

2009-06-09T03:00:00Z

Trailer: Music: I'm going to try and come up with a trailer and a music video for every post moving forward. We'll see how it goes--seeing as to how (in)frequently I post up, it shouldn't be that hard. The trailer is for a movie called 9. Looks fantastic. Saw it a ways back when it first hit the internet. Can't wait until it hits theaters (9/9/09). The music is by Gotan Project, one of my favorite bands, called "Mi Confession". Love it. Anyways, what to blog about...? Well let's start off with Wave...(read more)

EMA 'Thank you!' and... Swine Flu?

2009-05-23T18:57:00Z

Well this is awkward. I won the 2009 EMA award for best blog but I haven't blogged in... awhile. But many thanks to all those who votes! To see the other awards/winners, check them out here . So where is root going with his first post in a while? Is it about his new house? Nope. The new car? Nope. The wedding that's coming up (11/1/09)? Haha, no. Dare I say Swine Flu? OK, no really. The title wasn't some randomness I sometimes throw in for giggles. I really mean to talk about swine flu. Some of you...(read more)

Busy Year

2009-02-05T05:14:00Z

So safe to say 2009 will be the year root is MIA from eggxpert (and with good reason). Here's a collage of what's going on in my brain right now: Currently engaged, wedding set for 11/1. Root has come to realize planning for World Domination is ten times easier than planning a wedding. At the end of this month, root is moving into his first house with mrs. root--pending the inspection this coming Saturday. Root will not have any money in 2009 Have you seen gmail's video chat ? Or send sms text messages...(read more)

Discover: Mint.com

2009-01-12T16:31:00Z

For those of you who are looking for a FREE budgeting/alerting/reporting tool for your personal finances, this is the site you've been waiting for . Here is how it works: You give the site your logins to all your online accounts (savings/checking/401k/stocks/ROTHs/CDs/Money Marketing/Credit Cards/Car loans/school loans/etc) and it will log in with read-only access. Using the same security standards as banks, the site logs in and downloads all of your transactions/changes that's been done to your...(read more)

G1 Review

2008-11-19T04:59:00Z

Saturday root got the G1 phone. Within 24 hours, the geek had conquered the phone. Here is his review: For those of you that don't know what the G1 is, it's Google's new phone that has the new Android OS (uses a Linux Kernal). It has a flip out keyboard but also a touch screen and a track ball. 1G SD, expandable to 8GB <EDIT> 16GB now </EDIT> . Wifi, 3G/2G, GPS, and Bluetooth. Music player, google's browser (Chrome) for on the go websurfing (not to be confused with mobile spefic sites--this...(read more)