http://www.tomlorenz.com/ A legend in my spare time en-us lorenztom@yahoo.com 2008-03-21T06:28:14-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.tomlorenz.com/braindump/000934.php I've been using Movable Type for this site since day one. However, I have always fought against the default templates in favor of my own. Now after five years of fighting I find myself in the unfortunate position of trying... 934@http://www.tomlorenz.com/ 2008-03-21T06:28:14-05:00 http://www.tomlorenz.com/braindump/000933.php We don't use PowerPoint very much at work, so none of us are experts by any means. Which is why a colleague was thrown for a loop when the presentation she was working on did not display correctly on other... 933@http://www.tomlorenz.com/ 2008-03-11T11:59:49-05:00 http://www.tomlorenz.com/braindump/000932.php On the way home from work today I thought of something that could be made funny. Actually, what I plan on doing is using it as the starting point for a humorous (and utterly fictional) bio to be placed in... 932@http://www.tomlorenz.com/ 2008-03-10T22:32:31-05:00 http://www.tomlorenz.com/braindump/000931.php From Jonathan Edwards to The Ghost Whisperer to Paranormal State, the spirit world is hot right now. Ghosts, ghouls, disembodied spirits are all over television and the movies and stuff. And while The Ghost Whisperer is purely fiction, the others... 931@http://www.tomlorenz.com/ 2008-03-08T11:48:07-05:00 http://www.tomlorenz.com/braindump/000930.php My body has a perverse sense of humor. More often than not, I am ill for a few days, then feel better for a day, then relapse for at least another day. Over the years I have come to notice... 930@http://www.tomlorenz.com/ 2008-03-08T07:34:18-05:00 http://www.tomlorenz.com/braindump/000929.php If you have ever wondered what the opening of Star Wars would have looked like if it had been done by Saul Bass in the sixties, wonder no more: Thanks to my fave columnist Andy Ihnatko for this one.... 929@http://www.tomlorenz.com/ 2008-03-04T06:59:38-05:00 http://www.tomlorenz.com/braindump/000928.php This morning I learned of the death of Jeff Healey, a blind blues guitarist from Canada, best known for his brief appearances in the legendary Patrick Swayze film, Road House. Blind since the age of 1, he was not the... 928@http://www.tomlorenz.com/ 2008-03-03T19:22:03-05:00 http://www.tomlorenz.com/braindump/000927.php Perhaps the greatest thing about having a MacBook at work is that thanks to VMware Fusion, I no longer need a separate Windows box living on my side table. Thus, I have heaved that old Gateway and put the MacBook... 927@http://www.tomlorenz.com/ 2008-02-28T19:20:39-05:00 http://www.tomlorenz.com/braindump/000926.php Does anybody miss the "Dude, you're gettin' a Dell" guy? Nah, me neither.... 926@http://www.tomlorenz.com/ 2008-02-22T19:19:02-05:00 http://www.tomlorenz.com/braindump/000925.php As we type, I'm growing a big, shiny red zit on the very tip of my nose. Great.... 925@http://www.tomlorenz.com/ 2008-02-20T19:18:15-05:00 http://www.tomlorenz.com/braindump/000924.php In December I ordered eight copies of Microsoft Office 2004 for our new MacBook fleet, knowing that I'd be eligible to upgrade to Office 2008 for ten bucks a pop. So today I went to the Microsoft Web site to... 924@http://www.tomlorenz.com/ 2008-02-19T19:17:34-05:00 http://www.tomlorenz.com/braindump/000923.php They say that smell is the most powerful memory trigger. I just took a brief but intense ride back to my youth. As I made my way through the conference room and toward my office, I caught a whiff that... 923@http://www.tomlorenz.com/ 2008-02-15T19:16:46-05:00 http://www.tomlorenz.com/braindump/000922.php At what point did it become acceptable (and now seemingly common practice) to use multiple periods within typed sentences? I thought that the period-space convention was sufficient. Apparently it is not, because an ever-increasing number of emails are being written... 922@http://www.tomlorenz.com/ 2008-02-15T19:15:16-05:00 http://www.tomlorenz.com/braindump/000921.php I spent 1997-2002 in a dreary, miserable, windowless office awash in harsh fluorescent light. How nice it was to move to our current digs where I have a three window view of north Broad St. at Cherry. Even as we... 921@http://www.tomlorenz.com/ 2008-02-14T08:48:21-05:00 http://www.tomlorenz.com/braindump/000920.php Today feels like a Friday. Yet it's only Wednesday. Shitfuckdamnpisshell.... 920@http://www.tomlorenz.com/ 2008-02-13T19:13:20-05:00