Possible Baby Planet Spotted by Spitzer Telescope
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The youngest planet ever detected -- a baby less than 1 million years old -- may have been discovered by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, scientists reported on Thursday. [
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Dimmest Galaxy Could Give Clue to Dark Matter
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As galaxies go, Andromeda IX is a mighty dim bulb.
In fact, it is dimmest galaxy ever detected, which means it could give clues to the mysterious dark matter that appears to be pushing regular matter around. And it's right in our cosmic back yard. [
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Bizarre tale of boy who used internet to plot his own murder
The final internet chatroom exchange took place on 28 June last year. "U want me 2 take him 2 trafford centre and kill him in the middle of trafford centre??" said one message. "Yes," came the reply.
Less than 24 hours later, a 14-year-old boy was critically ill in hospital with stab wounds in the chest and stomach. At first it seemed as though a brutal, but straightforward, robbery had gone wrong. But yesterday the young "victim" became the first person in this country to be convicted of inciting their own murder. [
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Camera Rules - photos up
So my new toy is fun, although I need to work on red-eye reduction features a bit more, but overall, a rousing success, and a perfect stand-in for Carl's camera of perfection, which I should actualy let him use once and a while since he did pay for it. Anyway,
pictures up from misc fun this weekend if you are interested.
Pictures 14-20 are paintings done by Zak Akin, and they are awesome. He takes a photo, then pixelates it, then uses that as a basis for a paintings made with little squares of paint. Someof them are really large. The truck is the latest.
Neil in a coffin.
Awwww, he looks so peaceful...
CG images
![[He was on fire. So he ran.]](http://www.boring3d.com/daily/03-17-03.jpg)
He was on fire. So he ran.
More fun CG images
here...
There goes another 30 min of your life...
Can you beat Bush at his own
game?
Brief Weekend Update
Friday night I picked up my long-awaited camera and then we went to see The Day After Tomorrow. It wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it was going to be :-). Pretty ok for a diaster movie and great special effects. We went to Outback after and had some drinks. Fun.
Yesterday was secret fun day for Wendy so I picked her up, took her to Zao for lunch and then we went to the Dali exhibit in San Fransisco. It was very cool, with a lot of stuff you normally don't get to see, but we were saddened by the fact that everythinghad price tags on it so they were breaking up the collection. Then we went to the Stinking Rose for dinner, which was super Yummy as usual, but I smell now, which is grossing me out.
Got home, sat down to check e-mail and got a call from Carl, Morgam and crew so I decided to go to outback withthem and have some more drinks while they ate. We went back to their house and watched some sequil to a Japanese movie none of us had ever seen about kids on an island chosen to fight to the death on TV. Yeah, fell asleep 1/2 way through that one.
Today, I a going over to Nancy's to watch the first 1/3 of Firefly with her and Steph and then to the Memorial Day BBQ at 17A, which should be fun/interesting. I'll have pictures up by tomorrow...
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Man Commits Suicide After Sex with Hen
LUSAKA (Reuters) - A 50-year-old Zambian man has hanged himself after his wife found him having sex with a hen, police said Friday.
The woman caught him in the act when she rushed into their house to investigate a noise.
"He attempted to kill her but she managed to escape," a police spokesman said.
The man from the town of Chongwe, about 50 km (30 miles) east of Lusaka, killed himself after being admonished by other villagers.
The hen was slaughtered after the incident.
Study Says Condoms Contain Cancer-Causing Substance
BERLIN (Reuters) - Most condoms contain a cancer-causing chemical and their manufacture should be subject to greater quality control, a German scientific research institute said Friday. [
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So it's kind of like a "pick your poison" situation then, eh?
Digital Camera Nightmare
*sigh*
Ok, here's my horrible story (Hopefully made short).
I dealt with evil bitch client from hell in order that I may get a Canon A80 camera without putting undue strain on credit cards.
I did the job, got the money, the check cleared, and I ordered my toy online to get a good deal. BAD IDEA. So I order it with 2-3 day shipping so tat I may have the instant gratification of playing with said toy this weekend. They call to confirm.
Thursday rolls around and I do not have the toy. I call up to see what the status is and they are out of the office Tue-Thurs of this week. I call today, and they tell me it will be here Tuesday (LAME). I say fine.
*Note: each time I call, I am greeted with "hold on!" click. No "hello, please hold." Not even a "hi, hang on a sec." And then some asshole who comes back like 15 minutes later (after I listen to some R&B station in New York) and is totally rude.
Ok, so today I call up, they say that it will be here Tuesday. Then, like 4 hours later, I get an e-mail saying that my transaction is on hold because my check card wants proof that it's me and I should fax in info. I fax in info. I call to confirm, only to find out that they are only open on Friday from 10-2 EST and that they would be closed until Tuesday. Any attempts at e-mail are bounced.
I call up their sales line, trying to fins some help and am met with a 15 minute wait again and some asshole who is a jerk. I finally cancelled my order in order that I may venture to Best Buy and pay $50 more to get my toy immediately and not deal with and dicks in the process.
All I want is my camera. Is that too much to ask? *sigh*
At least it is over now, I can get my toy after work and have a lovely weekend of annoying everyone with "smile!".
Note to self: Just go pay the extra money and buy it at a store, you'll be happier in the long run.
Re: Wired News: Tightening the Reins on Gmail
Cool. I signed up for my G-mail account just for the space, but haven't used it until they did something about security so this is great news. Go California, as usual.
Wired News: Tightening the Reins on Gmail
"Amid growing concerns about Google's free e-mail service, California's state Senate votes in favor of a law designed to protect the privacy of its users." [
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OddTodd getting TV pilot on Comedy Central.
Moonlighting Cops Star in Porn Movie?
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Two San Francisco police officers have come under investigation after their departments discovered they had starred in a pornographic movie entitled "Bus Stop Whores" that is circulating on the Internet. [
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Jessica Simpson May Play Daisy Duke
NEW YORK - Jessica Simpson says she's close to slipping into a pair of Daisy Dukes. The singer and reality TV star told The Associated Press she's in the lead to star as Daisy Duke in a movie version of "The Dukes of Hazzard," which is scheduled to come out sometime next year. [
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Perfect....
Praying Preachers Ground Flight
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two preachers grounded a flight leaving Buffalo, New York, after they frightened passengers by declaring the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks were a good reason to pray, officials said on Thursday.
One preacher told fellow passengers as the Continental Airlines plane taxied down the runway, "Your last breath on earth is the first one in heaven as long as you are born again and have Jesus in your heart," according to FBI spokesman Paul Moskal. [
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LOL!!!
More
When you have 6 minutes, check out the short film, "
More" (16MB Quicktime).
Antibiotics linked to huge rise in allergies
The increasing use of antibiotics to treat disease may be responsible for the rising rates of asthma and allergies. By upsetting the body's normal balance of gut microbes, antibiotics may prevent our immune system from distinguishing between harmless chemicals and real attacks. [
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Clubbers choose chip implants to jump queues
Clubbers in Spain are choosing to receive a microchip implant instead of carrying a membership card. It is the latest and perhaps the most unlikely of uses for implantable radio frequency ID chips. [
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Industrial pollution may double twin births
High levels of environmental pollution may increase the rate of twin births, suggests a new study.
Industrial pollution from a toxic waste incinerator more than doubled the proportion of twins born to mothers living nearby, compared with those living in away from pollution in the Hesse region of Germany.[
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Shrek 2
Fun movie - definetley worth a see!
And just in case you are not clear:
Debauchery -
Excessive indulgence of the appetites; especially, excessive indulgence of lust; intemperance; sensuality;
habitual lewdness.
Extremely accurate.
Comic-Con Hotel Reminder
If you are one of the 5 rooms I have passed out, you need to contact the agency and square your rooms away ASAP - they have sent out a memo saying that rooms need to be settled and confirmed (although all of yours are confirmed for all 5 days) soon so they can charge cards and give the unwanted rooms to other people.
Anyway, get on it soon please.
Face transplants inch toward reality
Doctors in Kentucky have begun preparing a document to be submitted to an ethics panel at the University of Louisville School of Medicine seeking permission to perform a face transplant, the lead researcher in the endeavor told CNN. [
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Depp a father figure for SUPERMAN?
Rumor surfaces that the PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN actor wants to be Jor-El
Dark Horizons breaks word today from one of their sources that Johnny Depp, rumored to have been in the running for the role of Lex Luthor in the new SUPERMAN movie, is in fact interested in playing the part of Supes' father Jor-El. [
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Alexander Trailer
The trailer is up for Oliver Stone's "Alexander" (the great). Collin Farrel, Val Kilmer, Angelina Jolie, and Anthony Hopkins. Scenes are straight out of Troy....
Physicist: Cosmos Is Shaped Like the Eiffel Tower
BERLIN (Reuters) - The universe looks like the Eiffel Tower topped with a never-ending spire, a German physicist said Wednesday. [
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Short timers
So, I have found myself to be suffering heavily from Short timers syndrome. They want me to learn and implement this Ektron CMS installation for a client very rapidly and I have found myself just not caring anymore.
We are doing crappy cheap sites and G actually did a retardo-mockup, which is awful, but I just don't care, so sure, I'll build it. Whatever.
6.5 days left, but it seems like an eternity. I am stuck in some short timers temporal anomaly where time slows to 1/1000 normal speed....
'Spanky' the Clown Arrested on Child Porn
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. - A clown who goes by the name of "Spanky" has been arrested on child pornography charges while traveling with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus, federal agents said. [
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If Your Husband Has a Porsche, Follow Him
BERLIN (Reuters) - Don't trust a man with a fast car.
Porsche drivers are less faithful than any other group of car owners, with almost 50 percent of them cheating on their partners, a survey published in German magazine "Men's Car" has revealed.
Among German men, Porsche drivers were the least faithful, with 49 percent admitting infidelity, followed by BMW drivers at 46 percent. Among women, Audi drivers were the least reliable, 41 percent admitting to affairs.
The most faithful group were owners of Opel-Vauxhall cars, with only 31 percent of male and 28 percent of female drivers in Germany having committed adultery.
The survey was carried out by Hamburg-based opinion poll institute Gewis, which questioned 2,253 male and female drivers aged 20 to 50. The results follow similar findings from the same magazine showing that male BMW drivers had the most sex.
Troy
Yeah, it was pretty Ok. Much better than I thought. Orlando Bloom really needs a blonde wig and a bow and absolutley no speaking lines that are not prophetic. Luckily, in the end, after they stole battle scenes straight out of LOTR, they conceeded this fact and returned Legolas to his rightful place in Troy.
Brad Pitt was everything people said he was, and helen was much less beautiful than she should have been. Not bad though.
Now what do I do?
So, I did everything I set out to do this year....
Now what do I do?
*looks over the pool* Ah! I have an idea....
It's official
I just gave my notice and man, do I feel better.
7 more days at hell.com (thanks to the holiday) and I am done!
Whoo Hoo!!!
G took it well and didn't blame me given all the things I said about what's wrong around here. This place is probabbly not going to be around much longer so he did not try and sop me. The decision was already made so all he wanted was to know why. So I told him. I told him about him making life just plain difficult, I told him that paychecks should never be passed out and people told not to cash them, that medical insurance shouldn't turn off and on twice a month, and that Bill... is an asshole. He took all of that well.
*sigh*, in a week and a half, I can put it all behind me!
More Shrek Sequels Coming
Just one day after Shrek 2 set records at the box office, Dreamworks has announced that it will move forward with a third and a fourth installment in the franchise centering around the not-so-jolly green ogre, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Ann Daly, head of Dreamworks Animation, told the trade paper that the studio will take the films one at a time and is in final talks with the principal voice actors to return for two more films.
Church Investigates Weeping Statues
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Several statues of Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary in an Australian hall have apparently begun weeping and bleeding rose oil, prompting the Catholic Church to launch an investigation, a church official said on Tuesday. [
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Playing with Their Food
HAMBURG, Germany (Reuters) - The sound of 40 kg (90 pounds) of finely tuned cucumbers, leeks, potatoes, radishes, peppers, aubergines and marrows entertained a German audience at a weekend concert by the Viennese Vegetable Orchestra. [
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Two Weekend Shark Attacks in Brazil Alarm Experts
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) - Two people suffered serious injuries in shark attacks off Atlantic coast beaches of northeastern Brazil over the weekend and scientists said on Monday the number of attacks was alarmingly high in the region. [
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Very huge sighs of relief
I got the check from that side job, after much hassle and lame attempts on their part to force me into indentured servitude, and handed over their stuff so that's all behind me.
Tomorrow, I will get the offer letter via fax from Stanford and can *FINALLY* tell George to screw off. I'm not even going to tell him why. If he doesn't know already then it's useless. (Wow. That's really cliche - but this time it's really true) I don't see a reason to make things aweful there ad he's not going to learn and Bill is going to, well, be Bill about it so screw 'em. I'm just going to say that I'm done and hand the letter over.
In 2 weeks I will move myself into an office, with a door, and walls and windows and make my little nest at Stanford. That will be cool - I am seeing A Perfect Circle the night before and hosting a group of ragingly drunk girls at my cousin's bachelorette part the Saturday before that. What a way to start the new life cycle.
I almost fel like crying because I am so relieved....
Re: So, Tomorrow, I can quit
So, Tomorrow, I can quit
Sweet freedom is upon me.
Stanford University has offered me the position of website manager of their Alumni website and I will start in 2 weeks.
I am waiting for some official letter to be faxed to me, just to be absolutely positive (thanks Jon), and then I can quit.
I have waited for this day for many moons.
And now that all of my life goals for the year are accomplished, I can cruise (or think of more, but not for a while).
Oh happy day....
Why you should never put your picture on the Internet
Re: Rumsfeld bans camera phones
Designed to make your head hurt
Rumsfeld bans camera phones
MOBILE phones fitted with digital cameras have been banned in US army installations in Iraq on orders from Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, The Business newspaper reported today.
Quoting a Pentagon source, the paper said the US Defence Department believes that some of the damning photos of US soldiers abusing Iraqis at Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad were taken with camera phones.
"Digital cameras, camcorders and cellphones with cameras have been prohibited in military compounds in Iraq," it said, adding that a "total ban throughout the US military" is in the works.
Disturbing new photos of Iraqi prisoner abuse, which the US government had reportedly tried to keep hidden, were published on Friday in the Washington Post newspaper.
The photos emerged along with details of testimony from inmates at Abu Ghraib who said they were sexually molested by female soldiers, beaten, sodomised and forced to eat food from toilets.
Hm, we don't want anything like this getting out again so lets just ban the evidence....
A Fantastic Opportunity
http://www.wewantyoursoul.com
You can receive a guaranteed CASH SUM for life, in exchange for an agreement that entitles WWYS® the rights to your soul from now until all eternity.
Soul extraction is painless and worry-free. You need never remember your previous soulful existence, and look forward to a "life" of money and security.
BABYLON 5's Richard Biggs passes away
He's going to be missed... [
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Morgan's B-day BBQ
For those of you who didn't know - Morgan is having his Birthday BBQ over at his house today starting between 3 and 4. Everyone is welcome!
Something I don't often admit
I was *so* wrong.
Image Ready is the shit. I used to hate it - the slices would screw me in photoshop, and the other art people wouldn't take the time to name them and they would let image ready output the HTML, which is a bad idea, so I thought it was such a waste of time.
Yeah, I was wrong. Laura showed me the way. I just had to change almost every element of the art for the side project I am doing (people, if you put a drop shadow that looks like it was made at 4p.m. on everything, it looks BAD - I hate clients) and it saved me about a half hour of saving crap time. If you take a second to actually set it up, it RLUES.
Thanks to the good folks of Adobe. That's a great product. :-)
Pending Draft Legislation Targeted for Spring 2005
The Draft will Start in June 2005
There is pending legislation in the House and Senate (twin bills: S 89 and HR 163) which will time the program's initiation so the draft can begin at early as Spring 2005 -- just after the 2004 presidential election. The administration is quietly trying to get these bills passed now, while the public's attention is on the elections, so our action on this is needed immediately. [
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OK, so I am: 1) happy to be a girl 2) ashamed of my fellow Americans for letting this happen and electing that numbnut 3) ferafulthat this might actually hapen and 4) hopeful that it won't ever pass.
In case you are concerned as well (and if you have a penis, I suggest that you should be), you can
write your representative.
RSS back up
People having issues with Feedster: I reported the problem to a swell guy on IM and he said it was a server problem on their end and it is now fixed (some table crashed). Anyway, you should be good to go now.
Who's the most popular God?
See the Holy Hit Parade!
The greeks seem to be sweeping with an exception from the Norse team.
And the nerd in me is going to admit that I know who most of these Gods are and their histories because I have watched 6 seasons of StarGate SG1 in tha past 2 months...
Shards O' Glass
At
Shards O' Glass, our goal is to be the most responsible, effective and respected developer of glass shard consumer products intended for adults. Our Shards O' Glass Freeze Pops are the nation's top-selling frozen treats containing glass shards. Little wonder, considering all we put into them! Enjoy your stay here. And remember, Shards O' Glass Freeze Pops are for adults only.
(Yeah, I am avoiding doing work)
World income distribution
There's a slider at the bottom so you can see how
the curve changes over the years.
They should map it against inflation and then see where we are all at. Makes you feel rich...
Scientist: Extinct monkey may be alive
They should probably stop calling it "extinct' then, eh? [
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Interesting Anagrams:
Saddam Hussein = Ass in a mud shed.
R. 'Dick' Cheney, Vice President of America = I scheme, trick and deceive for any price.
Shrub's Resume
Different from the last one and yet still aweful. [
PDF]
Notable line: Produced a Hollywood slasher B movie
GoogleBrowse
This site is cool - it lets you put in any URL and will find you other URLS that are related to what you are looking at. [
Try it!]
Childless couple told to try sex
A German couple who went to a fertility clinic after eight years of marriage have found out why they are still childless - they weren't having sex.
The University Clinic of Lubek said they had never heard of a case like it after examining the couple who went to see them last month for fertility tests.
Doctors subjected them to a series of examinations and found they were both apparently fertile, and should have had no trouble conceiving.
A clinic spokesman said: "When we asked them how often they had had sex, they looked blank, and said: "What do you mean?".
"We are not talking retarded people here, but a couple who were brought up in a religious environment who were simply unaware, after eight years of marriage, of the physical requirements necessary to procreate."
The 30-year-old wife and her 36-year-old husband are now being given sex therapy lessons while the university clinic undertakes a study to try to find out if there are more couples with a similar lack of sex education.
Lyrics: Donovan - Wear Your Love Like Heaven
Color in sky prussian blue
Scarlet fleece changes hue
Crimson ball sinks from view
Wear your love like heaven
Wear your love like heaven
Wear your love like heaven
Lord kiss me once more
Fill me with song
Allah kiss me once more
That I may, that I may
Wear my love like heaven
Wear my love like heaven
Color sky havana lake
Color sky rose carmethene
Alizarian crimson
Wear your love like heaven
Wear your love like heaven
Wear your love like heaven
Lord kiss me once more
Fill me with song
Allah kiss me once more
That I may, that I may
Wear my love like heaven
Wear my love like heaven
Lord kiss me once more
Fill me with song
Allah kiss me once more
That I may, that I may
Wear my love like heaven
Wear my love like heaven
Cannot believe what I see
All I have wished for will be
All of our race proud and free
Wear your love like heaven
Wear your love like heaven
Wear your love like heaven
Lord kiss me once more
Fill me with song
Allah kiss me once more
That I may, that I may
Wear my love like heaven
Wear my love like heaven
Bored? Listless? Help is at hand!
Example:
Pretend to be a car
(Amusement Potential: 1-3 minutes)
Make appropriate revving noises in your head as you walk along and add a racing commentary as you pass strangers in the street. Use blinking eyes as indicators for extra authenticity.
*giggle* Realy, go read it. It'a great list.
This is going to be super helpful in the next couple weeks.
Repeat the same word over and over until it loses its meaning
(Amusement Potential: 1-3 minutes)
Pick a random word out of a magazine and say it aloud to yourself until it becomes a meaningless set of noises.
crazycrazycrazycrazycrazycrazycrazycrazycrazycrazycrazycrazycrazycrazycrazywendywendy
wendywendywendywendywendywendywendywendywendywendywendywendywendywendywendywendywendywendy
There's all sorts of stuff on their
main site. I like the
rave dancers
Where Did They Put Their Ticket Stubs?
LONDON (Reuters) - Over 80 British students threw caution and their clothes to the wind Friday to set a world record for the number of nudes riding on a rollercoaster.
The naked joy riders spent a hair-raising one minute and fifty seconds swooping around the rails of the gravity defying rollercoaster ride at a theme park south of London.
A spokeswoman at the park said 81 students from 15 universities took part in the record breaking stunt, which had never been attempted before.
Job Searches
I can't figure out why Apple would take the keywords "web designer" and "web Producer" and send me an e-mail that I matched jobs for: OS X Cocoa Networking Software Engineer
Someone over there should work on that search a bit....
Talking Toilet Orders Men to Sit Down
BERLIN (Reuters) - A German inventor who developed a gadget that berates men if they try to use the toilet standing up has sold more than 1.6 million devices, his business manager said on Tuesday.
German women fed up with a man with a poor aim can turn to the ghost-shaped gadget, which lurks under the toilet rim and, if the seat is lifted, declares in a stern female tone:
"Hello, what are you up to then? Put the seat back down right away, you are definitely not to pee standing up ... you will make a right mess..."
Alex Benkhardt, 46, invented the "WC Ghost" and its creators are in negotiations to market it in Britain, Canada and Italy.
The Case Against Litte Green Men
Frankly, if you're an animal, it isn't easy being green. [
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Detroit Zoo to Free Elephants on Ethical Grounds
DETROIT (Reuters) - The Detroit Zoo will become the first major zoo to stop exhibiting elephants on ethical grounds because they can develop arthritis and stress-related ailments in captivity, officials said on Thursday. [
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New Foamy
This one is very amusing.
Stigmmmmaaaaatttttaaa .... in the eye.
Girl night watche dthe last Angel last night. It was kind of "eh" and left things way to open considering that David Boreanaz said he wouldn't do TV movies, only feature films....
Alas, it ended in a wimper, and not a bang.
Comic-Con
Campers who are planning on going to Comic-con should pre-register to get better pricing and to attend preview night.
Form is here. You save $10 if you postmark before June 5.
**Giggle**
From OddTodd:
"So if cellphones weren't annoying enough I found out today that they have the potential to get even more annoying. In Japan people are running around doing "karaoke on the go". They like go somewhere near a tv screen or something and then they sing karaoke directly into their cellphones then can download the song they sing when they get home. Or something like that. Uch. I just don't need some chick on the street screeching 'Let's Hear it for the Boy' in my ear while I'm waiting for the bus.."
YAY! Porn Spam Gets Canned
U.S. e-mail users who have resigned themselves to being shocked by eye-popping pornographic messages in their inboxes can expect some relief, as federal legislation governing sexually explicit unsolicited commercial e-mail takes effect. [
more]
Shrek 2
For those of you who are on the fence about whether to see it, you can watch the first 5 minutes of Shrek 2
here. I'll probably go in the next week or so if anyone is interested...
RE: Just For Dave M
(as Dave wistles and sys "nope, nothing to do or see in Canada, you don't wanna go there" suspiciously)
And it's really cold...and there's killer bears and stuff.
Not quite sure how to react to the "Moose-Humpers" comment though...it would have been nicer if he'd chosen another famous Canadian mammal...like the beaver perhaps ;-)
BTW for those of you exploring your emigration options, check out the literature that
Immigration Canada suggests to you. If anybody wants to borrow it, let me know....it's a great read.
This is the *LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD* - Think about that.
"More Muslims have died at the hands of killers than - I say more Muslims - a lot of Muslims have died - I don't know the exact count - at Istanbul. Look at these different places around the world where there's been tremendous death and destruction because killers kill." — President George Bush, Washington, D.C., Jan. 29, 2004
"I'm also not very analytical. You know I don't spend a lot of time thinking about myself, about why I do things." — President George Bush, aboard Air Force One, June 4, 2003
Daily Reason to Dispatch Bush Wow. Read these. They are really interesting. Note day 34.
Beatles Revolution
So, I have been waiting for this for quite some time.
I can officially say that I like The Beatles.
Until Coachella, I was "eh" about them. Didn't really care one way or another and (please don't throw stuff at your monitor) thought that they were overrated. I did, however, always know that I would come around, when I got older.
Apparently, I have gotten older.
I'm still not quite clear on the obsession, and think that they are not musical geniuses or anything, but I am getting there. I can say that I dig most of it, and think that they may be lyrical geniuses.
That's my announcement for today. Go about your business.
LOL! Virtual Devils Curse Internet Church
LONDON (Reuters) - The world's first Internet church has fallen victim to a plague of virtual demons, some of whom have been logging on as Satan and unleashing strings of expletives during sermons. [
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That's just funny... and kind of expected.
Chicken Fishing
Should have been the WTF of he day.
See here.
Useless facts
If you are bored, like me...
Interesting: Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.
Reno, Nevada is west of Los Angeles, California.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
4000 people are injured by teapots each year.
A mule won't sink in quicksand but a donkey will.
Also of note: Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
Most random: It is illegal to ride a street car on Sunday if have been eating garlic in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (Candians, is this true???)
And, my favorite: Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
No wonder people keep asking me if I have lost weight... I have worked here too long.
WTF of the day
So someone else had this posted as their WTF of the day so I decided to have it as mine too. It's a
80'sed out song of Captain Picard speeches, etc... - very silly. What is sad is that since I have been powering throgh Next Gen., I recognize most of these....
Graphic, Violent Images Can Curb Kids' Aggression
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Showing children realistic and graphic images of the consequences of violence appears to quell some of their aggressive tendencies, new research reports.
After seeing pictures of people treated for gunshot wounds, including a man whose stomach was ripped apart by a bullet and a woman who lost her 8-month old fetus when she was shot in the abdomen, children and teens demonstrated an improvement in their attitudes toward conflict and aggression. [
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I really miss this guy
"I'm someone who has a deep emotional attachment to 'Starsky and Hutch.' " -- Bill Clinton, 1996
No health benefit' from prayer
Again, I ask, why does the government keep giving people money to do studies
like this? Or, conversley, how do I get in on it?
The Yo-God God Detector
How many times have we heard it said, "Oh, Lord, give me a sign!" Alas, too often the reply is vague and ambiguous: the phone rings at an opportune time, a feather falls from out of the blue, a water stain appears that resembles a religious image. We all want to know if God exists; maybe He just needs a reliable method to let us know He's here. The
Yo-God God Detector gives God a way to send a simple, unambiguous message of His presence.
Quiz: What color is your brain?
newsmap
Here's an
interesting app that transforms the current Google News into a visualization.
'I, Robot' Movie Trailer Is Ready to Wear
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Coming soon to a T-shirt near you: trailers for "I, Robot," the upcoming sci-fi thriller starring Will Smith.
In the never-ending search to capture the attention of consumers bombarded by commercials, billboards and a massive array of other advertisements, 20th Century Fox debuted an innovative guerilla marketing tactic at the E3 gaming expo in Los Angeles last week: T-shirts embedded with video screens that played "I, Robot" trailers. [
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Just for Dave M
So
some guy posted a link to :
According to a new poll, only 15 per cent of us would vote for the President
And then said:
"And Americans should care, why?
Don't you hate a nosey neighbor, who won't move? Moose-humpers."
Which made me laugh and think of my wacky Canadian friends, who are way smarter than us silly Americans in most ways that I can think of...
People like this make me want to move to Canada. (as Dave wistles and sys "nope, nothing to do or see in Canada, you don't wanna go there" suspiciously)
Fun with RSS
I am being VERY bad right now and playing with my blog instead of doing many other things that are supposed to make me money this week (go a contract gig, but it's a rush job). Anyway, found the golden chalice of RSS that makes the whole thing go, aggregates if you want it to, RSSes your blog for you, the works. It even makes sense (huh, go figure). Anyway,
feedster rules, just so you know.
I feel better now that I don't have to sit for hours at work and stare at that little "(no RSS)" on Jon's blog that drives me mad and makes me feel inadequate.
Now you are wondering if I am kidding or really am that neurotic....
WTF of the day
USDA: Cattle Brains May Be Turned Into Biofuels
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Cattle brains and other remains that may carry the deadly mad cow disease would be turned into biofuels under a plan announced on Monday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. [
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My brain jumped straight to the Matrix. If they can make cow parts into bio fuel, then they can make human parts into bio fuel. Add an overdose of AI and we have ourselves some evolution.
In Most Jobs, People Get Fired For Excess Absenteeism
"This is Bush's 33rd visit to his ranch since becoming president. He has spent all or part of 233 days on his Texas ranch since taking office, according to a tally by CBS News. Adding his 78 visits to Camp David and his five visits to Kennebunkport, Maine, Bush has spent all or part of 500 days in office at one of his three retreats, or more than 40 percent of his presidency." [
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So, I thought about this for a while and decided that he should take more days off. I don't mind paying for it at this point. I mean, think about it, he has only worked 60% of his term and look how much damage he has done. Imagine what a couple hundred more days would do.
Died Online
Ever wonder how your online friends would know if you died?
Here's How.
Tarantino Sets Eye On 007
Director Quentin Tarantino told the Reuters news service at the Cannes Film Festival that he wants to tackle a James Bond movie. Once Tarantino finishes worldwide promotion for his Kill Bill Volume 2, he plans to approach the producers of the big-budget Bond series, the wire service reported.
"I've always wanted to do it," Tarantino reportedly said. "I bumped into Pierce Brosnan, and we talked about it. He liked the idea." Tarantino is a lifelong fan of the British spy saga, now starring the Irish actor Brosnan. "I would like to do the original book Casino Royale and do it more or less the way the Ian Fleming book is," Tarantino told Reuters in an interview in Cannes, where he is president of this year's film festival jury. Casino Royale was made in 1967 as an ill-fated spoof starring David Niven as an aging 007. "I don't know if they're going to go for it or not, but I'm letting them know I'm interested," he said.
YAY!!!!!!!!! Elfman Tunes Up For Charlie
Film composer Danny Elfman told SCI FI Wire that, while he's finishing the score for Spider-Man 2, he's doing preliminary work on Tim Burton's upcoming fantasy film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. "As soon as I'm done with Spider-Man 2, I jump right into both Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and another animated Tim Burton film called The Corpse Bride," Elfman said in an interview.
Elfman, who previously composed the music for such Burton films as Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Sleepy Hollow and Big Fish, sounded particularly excited about Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. "It just looks like it's going to be tons of fun," he said. "The first attempt at writing a first idea for a song [was] so whacked out. I just sat there writing this crazy thing in the middle of the night and put 20 voices on it myself as a demo. I sent it out there, and Tim liked it."
Elfman added, "[The film] is going to be really great. It seems like really fertile ground. The script is good. I like Johnny Depp a lot. So I think doing an adaptation from the book could be great. I know it's always dangerous doing a remake of something that's much loved. I've been down this road before. I just hope it gets a shot at being its own thing." Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, based on the Roald Dahl children's book, is in preproduction now with an eye toward a July 2005 release.
Re: Sexy Beach 2
In the screenshot with the hand-cursor on the boob, it says, "Rub oil on breast." ...Just thought you needed to know that.
Badgerphone
Um. Yeah. **giggle** I am slightly confused as to why it's called badgerphone if he keeps saying banannaphone, but oh well...
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The Misunderestimated Man
Squiggy is in the house: 'Laverne and Shirley' star now M's scout
this is the best article possible to cover
this story.
The Poetry of Donald Rumsfeld
And, just what we have all been waiting for: A new OddTodd Cartoon!
See it here.
Watch the outtakes at the end. They're silly.
Sexy Beach 2
From OddTodd:
Tonite I found out about a new video game for sale that combines fun and sad in a whole new way. It's called Sexy Beach 2 and it's some Japanese thing where the object is to turn the virtual girl on with your mouse or whatever. So you mouseover and do a little of this and a little that and she goes ooh ooh and then you score points or whatever. So ummm... yeah that's what I learnt today.
Here's some
screenshots to sexy beach 2.
The Laughter Lover
Philogelos (The Laughter Lover) is a collection of some 265 jokes[1], likely made in the fourth or fifth century CE. Some manuscripts give the names of the compilers as the otherwise-unknown Hierocles and Philagrios. Other manuscripts drop the name of one or other or both. [
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noelleheany.com
So, enough people asked me if I had a portfolio site that I decided that it was a good idea. I registered noelleheany.com last week and I made
this site over the last couple days and I just launched it.
If you have any opinions, I'd love to hear them. It's just a redundant resume in different formats and some clients listed with screen grabs. It's a lot of blah blah blah but it answers most questions that people ask me in an interview, so hopefully this will deter them from doing that in the future. I wrote everything all in one shot, so I am sure it needs to be edited a bit for coherency and what not, but so far, I like it.
LMK if you have any thoughts!
IT's *SO* nice out
Wow, it's beautiful out. I think I'm gonna take some new buddies out to the pool for a bit. This apartment thing isn't bad at all ;-)
Interview with Neil
I think I am possibly obssessed. ("Ghasp! NOoooo!" they say in sarcasm)
Anyway,
here's an interview.
**Dreamy sigh**
Library of Alexandria discovered
Archaeologists have found what they believe to be the site of the Library of Alexandria, often described as the world's first major seat of learning.
A Polish-Egyptian team has excavated parts of the Bruchion region of the Mediterranean city and discovered what look like lecture halls or auditoria. [
more]
Cross pollination
Remember how I was all excited about Q being on Star Gate? Well, last night's episode features Counselor Deanna Troi as well! And then on Star Trek, 2 people from Buffy (pricipal Sneider and the Mayor) were on as well as a couple people from Bab5. These sci fi people must have a very small pool to draw from...
Birthdays?
OK, so it seems absurd that there are no birthdays until August 29. If your B-day is between now and then and I just didn't remember,
email me so I can update the blog for ya!
Angel Auction
Fox is selling off all the clothes worn on Angel. You too could own a peice of television history and sport clothes sweated in by your favorite Angel star! Good thing I don't collect crap anymore or this might be super expensive! Props, etc will be up for grabs soon so if you are interested, watch
this link.
I kinda dig the
grey suit worn by lorne. If I was a guy, and gay, I'd be all over that!
Private rocket ship sets altitude record
A privately developed spacecraft rocketed a solo pilot to the edge of space on Thursday, as part of ongoing preparations for its first full space flight. [
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Supreme Court Won't Block Gay Marriages
BOSTON - The Supreme Court refused Friday to block Massachusetts from allowing gay marriages beginning Monday, removing the last legal impediment to what will be the nation's first state-sanctioned same-sex weddings. [
more]
Well, at least something is going ok in this administration. At least the Constitution still works...
This Sucks
So, I feel like crap. I think this is karma kicking in for me calling in sick yesterday. What sucks about it is that I have a couple things I wanted to go to tonight, I was hoping to see Wendy's parents this weekend, there's that fashion show tomorrow night, and I am supposed to do a
Bay to Breakers toga party and pub crawl this Sunday at the ass crack of dawn.
Sigh, well, I am gonna see about making myself either well or sedated enough that I don't care that I am sick... we'll see how that goes.
U.S. Takes Greenpeace to Court in Unusual Trial
MIAMI (Reuters) - Greenpeace, charged with the obscure crime of "sailor mongering" that was last prosecuted 114 years ago, goes on trial on Monday in the first U.S. criminal prosecution of an advocacy group for civil disobedience. [
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CONSTANTINE trailer up
The teaser trailer for Warner Bros. upcoming movie adaptation of CONSTANTINE has arrived. Based on the horror comic book series that's fast approaching its 200th issue, CONSTANTINE stars Keanu Reeves as renegade occultist John Constantine, a man who has unlocked the secrets of Heaven and Hell but at a great price. Constantine is apporached by policewoman Angela Dodson (Rachel Weisz) to help her investigate the mysterious death of her twin sister, and when he agrees to assist her, Constantine and Dodson embark on a journey that will reveal Hell's designs for the two -- and possibly for the rest of Mankind.
Straight To Hell, a website for all things CONSTANTINE, was given the exclusive opportunity to present the trailer by Warner Bros. You can check it out by clicking
here.
Directors find THE BOOKS OF MAGIC
There's new word on THE BOOKS OF MAGIC, the DC Comics/Vertigo comic book series in development as a feature film for Warner Bros. Today it was annoucned that Swedish helmers Simon Sandquist and Joel Bergvall are now attached as directors to the project, still trapped in development hell. Numerous drafts have been penned and rejected.
The comic is about the education of a bespectacled British boy named Tim Hunter, destined to be one of the greatest practitioners of magic the world has ever seen -- the only question is whether he will practice his magic on the side of good or for evil. DC has published three series chronicling Tim's teen years as he discovers more about sorcery and fantastical creatures.
If you think BOOKS OF MAGIC sound like it could be a kissing cousin to HARRY POTTER, you wouldn't be the first. The first mini-series was published in 1990, well before the first volume of J.K. Rowling's HARRY POTTER hit store shelves.
Neil Gaiman, the writer of the first BOOKS OF MAGIC and the creator of Tim Hunter, will act as executive producer on the project.
Cool - I have all of these and they are GREAT. More grown up and Neilish Harry Potter. I like taht Neil is producing as they will stay true to form that way!
Happy Friday
Please, Dear Universe, make this work day move along speedily for all of us so that we may enjoy the rich bounty that is the weekend....
Ash Taking On Freddy And Jason?
Bruce Campbell, who played Ash in the Evil Dead horror films, told SCI FI Wire that there is "some validity" to the rampant rumors about the possibility of a movie that would pit his character against Freddy of A Nightmare on Elm Street and Jason from the Friday the 13th franchise. [
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Little Matthew
Laura posted a site for her baby in case anyone wants to have a look at a fresh one. [
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Stargate Joy
SO Netflix is lame and was supposed to send me season 4, disc 4, but that's on long wait so they don't send you any more of that season and just start up the next one (I think this is to avoid you getting pissed off and watching them out of order, but it backfires if you have more than one season in your queue.)
Anyway, long story short, I got season 5, disc 1 and said "what the hell" and started to watch it. Low and behold, the new villian comes on the screen and I get *really* happy because it's Q!!! (From Star Trek) I love him! He's great.
Yeah, that's my nerd news for the evening.
Louisiana Bill Would Ban Low-Slung Pants
BATON ROUGE, La. - A Louisiana state representative wants to make it illegal for people to wear low-slung pants that expose underwear — or more. But he's having trouble getting some of his colleagues to take him seriously.
When the bill came up for debate earlier this week, Rep. Derrick Shepherd, a Democrat from the New Orleans suburb of Marrero, was met with catcalls on the House floor. The bill would make it a crime to wear clothing in public that "intentionally exposes undergarments or intentionally exposes any portion of the pubic hair, cleft of the buttocks or genitals." [
more]
So, part of me totally agrees with this guy (and thinks that while he is at it, there should be a weight limit on spandex, an abolishment of trucker hats, and jail time for wearing those stupid 80's skirts that have come back into fashion but make girls look like their grandma made them clothes when they were 8 and they are still trying to wear them), and part of me is totally offended that the government would try and control what people wear.
These guys should be nominees for Darwin Awards...
Smoking Soldiers Ignited Ammo Disaster
KIEV (Reuters) - Two smoking soldiers set off tons of ammunition that killed five people, caused $725 million in damage and sent debris showering across southern Ukraine last week, the emergencies minister said on Tuesday.
A series of blasts hurled debris as far as 25 miles after fire broke out last Thursday at a warehouse complex where 92,000 tons of artillery ammunition was stored. [
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SOD
If you get a chance, check out the song of the day. Garbage and Massive Attack got together on this one and it's pretty cool to groove to at work or whatever.
Surprise!
Oh look! You can already order the full LOTR trillogy in some super boxed set. It's only gonna get more crazy from here too.
Re: Quiz: What childhood toy from the 80s are you?
Quiz: What childhood toy from the 80s are you?
You're an Etch-a-Sketch!! You're the creative, artsy type who doesn't need to actually utilize a single muscle group in order to have fun. Doesn't matter though, you're still cool.
What childhood toy from the 80s are you?
My Day
I stayed home today for interview and mental health purposes. I went over to Stanford and had round 2, which seemed to go well and will know more about that next week. The don't actually pay enough, but they have really good benifits and everyone there seems REALLY happy so it may be worth it.
I contacted the guy from Meyers to see what their pay scale was and he sent back a non-descript e-mail aboutthe pay and then said "we are still evaluating..." to which I say WTF? Monday morning, on my way out, he was saying things like "I would like to hire you! Let me get HR to contact you." So, either I did something in my last 4 seconds, they found something better, or something I don't know about is going on over there. Oh well, I guess I wait and see. I sent back an e-mail asking when they thought they would know by because I am entertaining several options and they are at the top of the list - so we'll see.
This whole process is such a pain in the ass. It would be much easier if I didn't have a job because I wouldn't have to cover stuff up and I am having an absur number of appointments latley. Sigh. I'll keep plugging along though.
Anyway, I'm at home if anyone needs me and I hope you all ar ehaving a wonderful Thursday. I think I'll go for a walk now and enjoy the beautiful day.
7 steps for prioritizing your finances
Re: Wedding Dress for Sale
Esther's Dinner
So we (me, Wendy, Carl and Morgan)(ok, Morgan paid, so Morgan) took Esther to Pezzella's for an early birthday dinner tonight. Much fun and great food! Pictures posted in yahoo photo area for interested parties...
Clash of the Titans
So G and B are in the conference room, with the doors closed, and our door is closed, and I can still hear them screaming at eachother at the top of their lungs.
I wonder what is going on in there....
An hour later: they are still in there. I wonder if G told B about the possible closure.
Quantum trick may multiply CD capacity
A fundamental law of classical physics has been broken by two teams of physicists who have linked particles of light together in a way that enhances its normal properties.
Their method for 'entangling' photons could one day allow information to be more densely crammed and read from CDs and other memory devices. [
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Howl - By Allen Ginsburg
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix,
angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night,
who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water flats
floating across the tops of cities contemplating jazz,
who bared their brains to Heaven under the El and saw Mohammedan angels staggering on tene- ment roofs
illuminated,
who passed through universities with radiant cool eyes hallucinating Arkansas and Blake-light tragedy among the
scholars of war,
who were expelled from the academies for crazy & publishing obscene odes on the windows of the skull,
who cowered in unshaven rooms in underwear, burn- ing their money in wastebaskets and listening to the Terror
through the wall,... [
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The Air Car
A car that runs on compressed air. Inventor Guy Négre has developed a car capable of a top speed of 110 km/h (69 mph), 300 kilometres (188 miles) on one tank of fuel and at a cost of just a penny per kilometre. All of this at "zero pollution". In fact the car cleans the air it uses! [
more]
heh
Three lawyers and three Engineers are traveling by train to a conference. At the station, the three lawyers each buy tickets and watch as the three Engineers buy only a single ticket.
"How are three people going to travel on only one ticket?" asks a lawyer.
"Watch and you'll see," answers an Engineer.
They all board the train. The lawyers take their respective seats but all three Engineers cram into a toilet and close the door behind them. Shortly after the train has departed, the conductor comes around collecting tickets. He knocks on the toilet door and says, "Ticket, please." The door opens just a crack and a single arm emerges with a ticket in hand. The conductor takes it and moves on.
The lawyers saw this and agreed it was quite a clever idea. So (recognizing the Engineers' superior intellect) after the conference, the lawyers decide to copy the Engineers on the return trip and save some money. When they get to the station, they buy a single ticket for the return trip. To their astonishment, the Engineers don't buy a ticket at all.
"How are you going to travel without a ticket?" says one perplexed lawyer.
"Watch and you'll see," answers an Engineer.
When they board the train the three lawyers cram into a toilet. The three Engineers cram into another one nearby. The train departs.
Shortly afterward, one of the Engineers leaves his toilet and walks over to the toilet where the lawyers are hiding. He knocks on the door and says, "Ticket, please."
Milky Way spiral gets an extra arm
The map of the Milky Way is being redrawn, following the discovery of another arm of the galaxy.
The structure consists of an arc of hydrogen gas 77,000 light years long and a few thousand light years thick running along the galaxy's outermost edge.
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Argonaut Called
So the HR person from Argonaut called and told me that they decided not to fill the position at all. They decided that outsourcing the website was probably cheaper and since they didn't have and definition for the job right now, the CFO was questioning its necessity.
Oh well... we'll see how meyers internet and Stanford go...
Re: 3D Church Opened to Woo Internet Faithful
One of my favorite bloggers was there and
took pictures of the event.
re: Some interesting news
Been thinking about it and I wonder if me leaving will seal the deal on this place closing it's doors or not. It would seem silly to get someone in for a month or two if G plans on closing down, but then again, I wouldn't put it past him to screw someone over like that....
WTF of the day
Ok, so yesterday, after lunch, George asks to speak with me. He tells me that the people from the Pet Pantry (a client of ours) have run out of money and the venture capital people are coming here today to have us prove to them that we have delivered what we said we would so that they can pay us.
Fine, whatever.
He then tells me that it is my job to go ahead and prove this to them by showing them *every* feature listed in the specs.
1) The specs are somewhere around 120 pages long.
2) It took me 2 days to make a checklist and run through all of the features last time I had to check this and I have about an hour to show this all to the VC people.
3) I haven't even looked at the site or the standalone program that accompanies it in over 4 months and don't remember most of it.
4) Last time I saw the standalone it didn't work, so I don't know how to use the final parts of it.
And the kicker:
5) Bill and George have known about this meeting for 2 weeks, in which I could have prepared, and Bill chose not to tell me at all, and wasn't going to until today and the only reason that George told me is because he gt an "uncomfortable feeling" from Bill that I did not know about the meeting (which I didn't).
To top things off, Bill has pink eye and is at home so he's gonna have to watch from some MSN interface and isn't even going to be here.
WTF?
I hate this place...
3D Church Opened to Woo Internet Faithful
LONDON (Reuters) - Christians in Britain opened a zany 3D Internet church on Tuesday, billed as a first chance for believers to log on and worship interactively. [
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Do It for Your Country
CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australian couples owe it to their country to have more children and should get on with the job, the nation's treasurer said on Tuesday. [
more]
Stanford
So I went to the interview at Stanford this morning. The job seems doable, but it is more about their online database than any sort of web design, although there will be some of that. It seems kind of like an odd job, but it is management. The benifits kick ass and Stanford is so beautiful, so we'll see. They want me to come back for a second interview sometime soon so I will probably do that later this week unless I get another offer soon. It's probably my least desired job, but hey, it gets me out of here....
Wonka spotting in jolly old England?
An interesting rumor has been published by a Bedforshire, England paper which claims that sightings of actor Johnny Depp have been happening around the town. According to reports Depp is in England right now "filming" WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY, and during his time off he's been spotted "in a Land Rover with friends."
The last we heard, filming on WONKA was supposed to kick off sometime this month so it's feasible the Deppster is hanging around Bedforshire when he's not on the set at Pinewood Studios.
SWEET!
I can now blog via e-mail! Which, i guess in the grand scheme of things isn't *that* cool because anywhere I have access to my webmail, I also have access to the blog, but you know, "it's a feature."
Particles : articles of party art
So I am thinking about going to this on Saturday night if anyone is interested in joining me and whatever posse I put together.
It's a catwalk show, sale and party of party/rave clothes which looks like a hoot.
Billed as: Strutting, Styling, Smoozing, and Gooving until 2am.
$12 if you buy ahead of time.
More info here.
MacLachlans.net
On the side bar now - Wacky Canadian family website. It's new, but growing! There's an interesting link about Saudi Arabia (where Dave's parents live) on there already - worth a look for all of us who take our freedoms for granted.
Review: Sopranos
I watched the Sopranos seasons 1-4 (everything to can get on DVD)(Netflix rules). It's good stuff, highly recommended. It really has no plot - it's just for people who like really good acting and a mafia story, but it's definitely worth a watching!
Favorite Quote: (when greeting an associate and said in a heavy mafia accent)
"How's your balls?"
MMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmm Chai
Man, I haven't had one of these in ages (I miss Vince and free chai). It's worth every damned calorie in it if you ask me...
Some interesting news
So Sandra pulled me into the bathroom a while ago. (She's the accountant here, in case you did not know, and has worked here for 3 years or so) we got in there and she says, in only the way that Sandra can, "you should look for a new job." Then goes on about how Bill asked George to invest more money in the company, and how George said no, but we aren't even meeting payroll so unless we start making money by August, when the lease runs out, George is going to shut down the company.
Now, mind you, George is the sales guy, so if we don't make money, it's his fault.
Anyway, Sandra was sworn to secrecy, so of course she ran and told me nearly immediately. She apparently asked George when he was going to tell us and he said that he was under no obligation to tell us until closing day.
What an ass.
Oh well, glad I have already been making my move or else that news would really suck.
Re: Kikkoman
It looks like the growing popularity of the Kikkoman music video prompted a version with
English subtitles -- in case you were curious about the meaning. The wordplay is that "shoyu" (show you) is the Japanese word for soy sauce.
WTF of the day
It's Japanese and it's *supposed* to be a commercial for Soy Sauce. Yeah. erm... uh.. well, just
watch it.
Kelly: New Darko Is Different
Richard Kelly, director of the cult SF movie Donnie Darko, told SCI FI Wire that his recently finished extended cut of the movie, which is due in theaters later this year, dramatically alters the movie. [
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Phone Interview
Was with
stubhub.com, a ticket broker site. They seemed pretty cool and need a project manager/QA person, but they are in the city. We'll see, but they may be too late by the time they get through phone interviews, etc. On the other hand, I am not counting on anything!
Man Fatally Bitten by Sexually Aroused Horse
WARSAW (Reuters) - A sexually excited stallion bit a Polish man to death when he tried to calm the beast, which had become uncontrollably aroused by a nearby mare, police said.
"The 24-year-old man, identified as Robert R., was bitten when he tried to calm his horse, which had become unsettled by the presence of a mare in the vicinity," a duty officer in the Baltic port of Szczecin told Reuters.
The horse went wild and began straining and bucking while pulling a farm cart through the village.
An autopsy would determine whether the direct cause of death was a severed jugular vein or damaged spine, the officer added.
'Wicked' Leads Tony Award Nominations
NEW YORK - "Wicked," a quirky and fantasy-filled musical about those folks who live along the Yellow Brick Road, picked up 10 Tony Award nominations Monday. [
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I saw this one while it was on preview in S.F.. It was really good - if you ever get a chance to see it, it's very cute and I think has a really broad appeal.
The new cable guy
This morning's interview went well. The guy at Meyers Internet was nice and he is forwarding me to the HR manager to talk to briefly about my requirements because he would like to bring me "on board".
So now I wait and see if I get one from Argonaut or not and then pick the best offer.
The Meyers one would be more art and more of a production job whereas the Argonaut one is more laid back and more whatever I want to do so I think I would prefer the Argonaut one, but I guess I have to see if they want me and how much and all of that.
And, I still have an interview tomorrow morning at Stanford and a phone interview with someone else early this week.
Hopefully something will work out and I'll make the right decision....
Kyle's Hiku for the Morning
This is his IM profile:
If you want me look me up
I don't exist in usual places
Subtle as the wind is grey
Blogger Updates
So the posting area is much different now. This may take a while to get used to - they have dumbed it down, which I frown upon as an internet practice, but hey, it's free...
Game Night!
Yo - BBQ and Magic tonight for all interested parties...
Happy Birthday Steph!!!
Hope that you are having a wonderful weekend in Tahoe and are enjoying a relaxing Birthday!
Ski Trip Photos Up
Found a small number of photos from my Trip to Colorado last year so I posted those...
Party Pics Posted
Thanks to the wonderfulness of Yahoo Photos and the apparent lack of need for sleep that I have developed, the
party pics are posted from this evenings festivities...
Kinetic Sculpture
 | Wood that Works. Wow. Some of these are amazing. They are Kinetic sculptures in wood that are entirely spring driven... |
Dave's Surprise
So, we had a surprise part for (wacky Canadian) Dave tonight. It was loads of fun, good peeps, good eats, all that. Pictures up shortly....
Hunkin's Experiments
This is what the site says: Welcome to Hunkin's Experiments. Cool cartoons that will have you experimenting with food, light, sound, clothes, and a whole lot more!
It's fun! The
office experiments part seems extremley useful. [
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RE: Van Helsing
OK, here's the thing: It's pretty rare that I say this about anything that wasn't made by John Carpenter.
That was one of the worst movies I have ever seen.
I wasn't expecting good. I wasn't really even expecting it to be Underworld good, which was pretty bad, but that just sucked. The CG was choppy, the writing was awful, the acting was some of the worst I have seen in ages (Kate Beckinsdale, I should have known....).
Let's put it this way, I bet Morgan is gonna love it.
Sloths!
Almost as good as monkeys! [
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Learning how cookies work
Yeah, I am a dork. I have spent much of my valuable goof-off time latley trying to figure out why I couldn't change the damned font on the blog. Turns out it's a persistant cookie. So, anyway, I figured it out, changed the font and re-named the cookie so you all don't have to delete yours in order to see the change.
Hi, this isn't my job or anything.
However, renaming the cookie did, somehow make it so that you have to refresh the page now if you use the customize tool to up or down your font size (you can always do that) so I think I will reset the cookie names and wait for them all to refresh on your own. (yes, I checked and the name is not called in there anywhere and it just needs to be refreshed manually so it still works and all, but if it is set to the correct name, it refreshes automatically... huh).
If you are impatient, you can delete your cookie for the blog and refresh to see it. (It's just a lower font, nothing to get excited over unless you are a web dork like me...)
Thanks for the tip off, Kev, and if you guys have issue with the size or whatever changes I make, let me know. I am trying to make the blog as visually pleasing as I can, but Iam a sucker for small fonts and such and have no clue what is easy for you all to look at.
Enough rambling! Off to sew for a while before the movie!
Re: Off to see the cable guy
Well, it's apparently down to me and one other candidate, so I guess we'll see. In the mean time, I'll go to the two other interviews and another person e-mailed about a phone interview early next week as well.
Here's hoping something works out!
Happy weekend people!
Off to see the cable guy
Have phone, will travel....
And the fun just never stops
More Coachella Photos loaded up.... yes, that is the Cure....
Possible cross-squadron showing of Troy
Omega Leader is setting up a viewing of Troy next Friday.... May be a fun one to go to as a huge group. I will go to see it either way so lemme know if you are interested.
S A D D A M ' S I N T E R R O G A T I O N L O G S
Chronicals of Riddick Full Trailer Up
The Cinematography looks fantastic... Check it out
here.
Happy Friday!
Whoo Hoo!!!
Bill is out today, and I get to leave at 12:30 thanks to my date with the cable guy.
Other than the fact that I have to have a meeting with George about some pay per click thing, the day is looking good....
My On-Going Love Affair with the Cable Guy
So I have a second interview (1/2 day UGH) tomorrow at Argonaught.
Then, Monday, I have a morning interview with another outfit, called Myers Internet, which looks kinda cool.
Tuesday morning, I have one with Stanford University Alumni Association, which looks stable.
Man, when it rains, it pours. I just hope I am ok to talk to these people at 7:30 in the morning.
Five "designer babies" created for stem cells
Five healthy babies have been born to provide stem cells for siblings with serious non-heritable conditions. This is the first time "saviour siblings" have been created to treat children whose condition is not genetic, says the medical team. [
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Pac-Man Game to Jump from Computer to City Streets
NEW YORK (Reuters) - "Life imitates art far more than art imitates life," Oscar Wilde once wrote. Little did he know that life would eventually also imitate video games.
New York University students plan to stage a real, live Pac-Man game on Saturday in the streets of Greenwich Village, as part of a project exploring how computer games work when transplanted into real-world settings. [
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New Foamy!!!
See it
here!
LOL! It's another rant - it's about reality shows... a little over the top at he end, but still silly **giggling hysterically**
Temporary Reprieve
So Satan was supposed to darken our shores next weekend, but called to ask if it was ok if she skipped and came later. I put up a good front, but in the end, agreed that it was fine. hehehehe.
RAD.
I was looking forward to some new clothes, but I can definitely wait!
Whedon Previews X-Men Arcs
Joss Whedon, who will write The Astonishing X-Men comic for Marvel, told SCI FI Wire that he will deal with the "mutant question" in his series, which is set to come out monthly starting May 26. [
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Serenity Takes Off Soon
Joss Whedon—who is directing Serenity, a movie version of his SF western TV series Firefly—told SCI FI Wire that he will begin production in three weeks, with all of the original cast members in place, led by Nathan Fillion. Compared with the Fox series, the movie will be "bigger, faster, stronger," Whedon said in an interview at the Saturn Awards in Los Angeles. [
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Falling in Love -- a Gender-Bending Experience
LONDON (Reuters) - Falling in love -- that crazy, blissful feeling -- causes gender-bender changes in men and women's testosterone levels.
A study by an Italian researcher shows that when couples fall in love their testosterone levels alter. It falls in men and rises in women so they become more like each other. [
more]
Well, that explains why men act so sweet and women want to screw more...
My eyes are going to bleed
Ugh, today was reports and putting IEEE website (or at least some of it) into style sheets. The site is like 600 pages and *SO* dull. sigh. Looks like I will spend the majority of tomorrow doing the same....
My eyes feel like they're gonna bleed
Dried up and bulging out my skull
My mouth is dry
My face is numb
fucked up and spun out in my room
On my own... here we go
Official: Bush to Seek $25B for Iraq War
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration asked Congress Wednesday for an additional $25 billion for U.S. operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, congressional Republicans said, a retreat from the White House's earlier plans not to seek such money until after the November elections. [
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Very few people can make me as hostile as this man can....
I love waking to work....
The Closing of the Doors
For 4 years, I have wanted to close the doors to the back room. Today, that has finally happened.
Ahhh, the quietness....
The Hole
So, uh, there's
this guy who dug a hole in his back yard and documented it on the web. Now you may think, "I could do that," and I say, no, it takes somebody special. By "special" I mean "obsessed".
Bank Robber Did It for Her Cat?
A 44-year-old woman who told police she robbed a string of banks to raise money to pay for surgery for her cat pleaded not guilty to larceny in Brooklyn Criminal Court on Monday. [
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Disney Bars Anti-Bush Film's Distribution
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Walt Disney Co. has barred its Miramax film studio from distributing a documentary by director Michael Moore that is critical of President Bush, Moore said on Wednesday. [
more]
Return of THE LOST BOYS
Two-disc special edition DVD on its way [
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My Destiny for today:
Good news. Ten weeks from Friday will be a pretty good day.
Cool. I'll look forward to it.
3D Printer
Holy Crap. I thought that this was just in the movies...
Check it.
Wow - these are cool
These are really neat.
Warning: They are of Naked people, but seem to be work safe as they are really awesome art and you can't see anything in most of them.
Re: Master K, the Photo Man
Totally cool photo, Kyle!
Master K, the Photo Man
The last pic of the evening from Coachella, taken right after the Cure played.
Side Bar Changes
I made some changes to the side bar there... Lemme know if the text is too small or whatever...
I had forgotten about the boredom
Oh yeah, this.
Gotta do something about this....
Gore to Launch Youth Cable TV Network
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Former Vice President Al Gore plans to build a youth-oriented cable television network he hopes will become an independent voice in a media industry dominated by large conglomerates, he said on Tuesday. [
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Photo Op
Coachella Photos that I had are online over on the right. We didn't have much photo time as we were all apart all weekend and too busy partying...
More as I get them from others!
re: Here's a neat thing
That's pretty cool - it seems to be relativley on target. Although, being as informed as I am, I looked up a couple people., like TCM, or Pink FLoyd, or whatever and there wasn't much there that I hadn't listened to. Hopefully, this thing will catch on and they can add less popular stuff in there and thereby introduce some new stuff to the mix.
Incidentally, The Crystal Method brought up a lot, but the three closest were interesting: The Propellerheads, Prodigy, and Fluke. Love all of them.
Return of the Raver
Yo. I'm back. Coachella ruled. It also kicked my ass so I'm sure this won' be coherent.
Brief report:
Friday: The ride up. We were supposed to leave at 5:30 and go to Mission Viejo and sleep - then go to PS the next day. We actually left at 8:00 and went straight to a magical condo on a beautiful golf course that Brenden's parents own. RAD. I put my head down at about 11:00, immediately picked it back up and it was 3:30 and we were there. Cool.
Saturday: Meet the heat.
Spent the vast majority of my time in the rave tent. It was hot. DAMN hot. I didn't know that you could sweat out of every pore in your body, but I found out that you can. Everyone else ran around, so I danced my ass off all day/ night. Saw some pixies, went back for more party. Kraftwerk RULES. Go see them if possible - it's worth it for the "sets" alone. 2 hours of parking lot and we were back at the hotel we had checked into.
Sunday: Words cannot describe.
Hotter than the day before and again, spent the day alone running around but mostly partying like it was 1999 in the rave tent.
Monday : The return.
Drove back up - grooved to some rad music - learned the beauty of the White album - had a generally good drive back.
Sleeper hits of the weekend:
Boozoo Bajou and Basement Jaxx. I was expecting some "where's your head at" action, but instead was treated to a jammin' display of all sorts of funktastick goodness.
Overall FRIGGN RADDEST SHOWS EVER:
The Cure - rocked my socks off in their second set (first set was kinda depressing). They played all of those wonderful hits that got them famous, but are usually too cool to play in concert. IT was everything I could have hoped for.
And hands down, all the heat, dealing with the drive and everything else, worth it for that Crystal Method set. *By FAR* the best show I have ever seen.
General consensus: Kicked ass. Good to play with old friends all weekend (even though we spent most of the time apart) - nice to see we still have out concert groove down - and was excited to get to meet some new ones as well.
So, I'm sure there's more stories to come, but that's what I can do for now. Time to go fish up a salad and then hit the hay.
Hope you all are having a wonderful week so far.
Starbucks "Nutrition" Information
So, I was surfin' the web, munchin' on a cookie, wonderin' why I'm such a lard ass, and I found this
Starbucks® Nutrition Information Comparison Table.
Grande White Mocha w/ Whip :: 510 calories
Grande Toffee Nut Latte w/ Whip :: 430 calories
Grande Mocha w/ Whip :: 400 calories
Grande Chai w/ Whip :: 390 calories
Grande Carmel Macchiato :: 320 calories
Grande Capuccino :: 150 calories
Yeah, that pretty much says it all.
