Ladyfriend and I have decided to do a little house cleaning on our regular TV lineup. We’re going to eliminate a show or two, and bring in a new face. I’m personally hoping “The Real Housewives of Anything” gets the axe, but that’s still to be determined. What we’ll bring in as a replacement, though, [...]
Category Archives: Lunatic Ravings
Political Burnout
August 21 11
I used to love politics. Reading about it, talking about it. It was something that always fascinated me, and I couldn’t get enough. The bug bit me in college, where I majored in Poli Sci and had countless debates about privatizing schools or tax schemes or isolationism or immigration policy or whatever. Fast forward 13 [...]
Charter Chat
July 21 11
Chat Transcript You have been connected to TTD Marialisa . TTD Marialisa : Hi, Bredan. Thank you for contacting Charter Communications. My name is Lisa, your Repair Specialist. Brendan Gates: Section 17 of the Acceptable Use Policy for Residential Customers states this: Brendan Gates: Charter obtains services from and relies upon many other entities to [...]
Regions Bank
December 28 10
Ladyfriend and I are buying a house, and as a part of that we needed a loan. Earlier this month I put in applications to four different lenders, the third of which was Regions bank. We ended up meeting with a Loan Originator from Regions, followed by a meeting with a Broker from Gershman. Both [...]
Super Secret Spy Stuff
November 20 10
It’s been a big week for me and my tinfoil hat. First I found K-9 Mail, an Android mail client that offers some improvements over the stock tool, like public key encryption support (with the APG add-on). Good stuff. I don’t get many emails encrypted with my public key, but it’s nice to know that [...]
Working From Home
August 30 10
I work from home 100% of the time. This comic sums the experience up quite nicely. Credit goes to MT for passing it my way, and rightly assuming that I have neglected my personal appearance to the point of now resembling a 45 year old hobo.
Pie, Meet Face
July 22 10
Ladyfriend took a pie to the face for charity. Be sure to click the HD button for the crispest pie in face viewing experience possible. Many of her co-workers suffered similar fates. You can see their videos on my vimeo page: http://vimeo.com/brendangates
Konstantyn Isaew is my Homeboy
July 14 10
He is the Russian музыкант behind Volta Cab that produced this gem: Clarissa (Out on OMG! Recordings) by Volta Cab It’s a sweeping and dreamy ride; great movie soundtrack or cocktail party or hipster dance floor sort of stuff. I would buy the album if I could actually find anybody selling it.
Signatune
May 14 10
Thomas Bangalter (of Daft Punk fame) has a great remix of Signatune, a track by another French artist named DJ Mehdi. It’s an awesome song. I could listen to it on repeat and it would just get me more and more amped up. You know how Rocky has Gonna Fly Now? Well, I have Signatune. [...]