root of all evil

Wedding + Honeymoon = Broke

root — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:02:00 GMT

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....(read more)

I'm never drinking again.

root — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:56:00 GMT

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?...(read more)

Change

root — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 04:24:00 GMT

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...(read more)

The RTC Taken Down by One Command

root — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 04:52:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Apparently this post is about movies

root — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:08:00 GMT

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...(read more)

One MILLION doallars (read: Dr. Evil)

root — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:16:00 GMT

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),...(read more)

Summer!

root — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:45:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Friday! (Second Attempt)

root — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 17:02:00 GMT

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

root — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:16:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Wave the Coupe baby

root — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 03:00:00 GMT

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....(read more)

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

root — Sat, 23 May 2009 18:57:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Busy Year

root — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 05:14:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Discover: Mint.com

root — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:31:00 GMT

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...(read more)

G1 Review

root — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:59:00 GMT

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...(read more)