About Another Caffeinated Day
Another Caffeinated Day (ACD) is the blog of a right-of-center, web-tier Java developer that enjoys gaming, beer drinking, dart throwing, wine tasting, reading, and exercising. When not at work in the credit card sector of banking, “joe.caffeinated” is a father, husband, handyman, gamemaster, blogger, and man-at-large.
Books I just finished:
It Never Snows in September: The German View of MARKET-GARDEN and the Battle of Arnhem, September 1944 by Robert Kershaw; Spook Country by William Gibson; finally finishing Quicksilver: Volume One of the Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson;
Books on deck:
Outliers;Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv;Pride and Prejudice and Zombies;The Truth About Mohammad by Robert Spencer;
What you would find on my iPod:
Podcasts of the Glenn and Helen Show; Ask a Ninja; Penny-Arcade, a whole lot of music genres, from rock, to country, to rap, and much more.
Idiosyncrasies I'll admit to:
Waiting for the bigger stall in the men's room; being simultaneously attracted to, and disgusted by, a woman smoker.
TV show I loved but everyone else hated:
Too many to admit.
Favorite Cartoonists:
J.D. Frazer (userfriendly.org); Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik (penny-arcade.com); Berkeley Breathed; Garry Trudeau; Bill Amend;
Favorite Political Cartoonist:
Cox and Forkum (coxandforkum.com)
Movies I love so much I’ve watched them more than twice:
Caddyshack; Band of Brothers; Das Boot; Near Dark; Lost Boys; Star Wars; Alien and Aliens; Mission: Impossible
Website I'm ashamed to admit I visit:
Daily Kos
4 a.m. breakfast:
Waffle House
Most interesting living person with whom I have had dinner and conversation:
Michéal "Mike" McShane of Whose Line Is It Anyway?