Neil puts it best:
May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't to forget make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.
Workin' the system
You know, I think Aerosmith has actually put out more "best of" albums than they have original ones... Oh well, good for me - I can just love those rather than digging through all of the bad (not that there's much of course ;-) ).
My B-Day dinner
Yo peeps, my Birthday dinner is going to be on Jan 8 at 8 at Maccaroni Grill and then back to Kingman for some further fun. If you didn't get an email from Wendy or Carl about this - email them and ask, you are all invited. If you don't have their email, let me know..
Reminder: NYE
Peeps without plans are welcome to swing by tomorrow night. Me and some homies will be chillin' at my crib, drinkin' and some shiiiiiii...
Everyone esle, please be very very careful on the roads. I love you all and don't want to loose another friend to a drunk driver.
Italy Judge Tosses Coin for Xmas Tug-Of-Love Child
ROME (Reuters) - When the separated parents of a five-year old Italian boy could not agree whose house he should stay at over Christmas, a judge settled the dispute by tossing a coin, an Italian newspaper reported on Thursday. [
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re: New Machine heading up the stairs at this very moment
New toy = very cool. Much faster than my old machine and I can actually run Dreamweaver and Photoshop at the same time - neat. People here are kinda milling around, having an all day party, which is nice. My counterpart and boss are both home today, so life is good here.
Tonight I get to see Stephy and then go home and clean so I can have people over tomorrow night. I am out until Tuesday as we have Monday off.
New Machine heading up the stairs at this very moment
I was wondering what I was going to do today, since I am being paid to sit here, pretty much alone, with no assigned work, when I got a call that my new machine was done and ready to come up minus "Adobe". When I asked what he meant, he said "the full version of Adobe." I asked if Photoshop was on there, he said yes, I asked about Illustrator, he said no, but it wasn't ordered. So I asked again, what he meant. I told him the Adobe is a company, not a product and that Photoshop was one of those products. He told me I had reader, just not the full version. "OOOOOOOOhhhh," I said, "You mean Acrobat..."
Glad we got that straightened out. Anyway, I get to set my machine up - again - today. Neat. Sounds like a great New Year's-y thing to do.
re: My New Year's Resolution...
So far, not even a page closer...
Well, I guess we'll have to see if it becomes my resolution to finish it by *next* New Year's.
Tsunami Death Toll Rockets to 114,000
The death toll from last weekend's earthquake-tsunami catastrophe rose to more than 114,000 on Thursday as Indonesia uncovered more and more dead from ravaged Sumatra island, where pilots dropped food to remote villages still unreachable by rescue workers. A false alarm that new killer waves were about to hit sparked panic in India, Sri Lanka and Thailand. [
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Holy Jeebus...
re: Quiz: Which OS Are You?
I have moved up in the world, I used to be Windows.
Now I am:
Which OS are You?
I think it has a lot to do with the question: If you were a villain who would you be?
To which I amswered:
Mojo Jojo
YAY!!! Check out what I found! What Disneyland attraction are you?
Space Mountain: A thrilling rocket ride through the darkness of outer space! Futuristic and forward thinking, you have just enough 2001-esk elements without escaping Walt Disney's utopian vision for a brighter tomorrow. You represent speed, stealthness, and the promise of technology, while your Dick Dale surf guitar riff of a soundtrack makes you retro and mysterious, without being corny. Keep the lights low and avoid revealing too much, lest you ruin the show, you're only going 28 mph! Regardless of speed, you prove that in the vacuum in space, you CAN hear people scream!
What Disneyland attraction are you? brought to you by Quizilla
And: I am currently closed for rennovation...
What type of Mythical Sprite are you?
Brave, strong willed, loyal and passionate - You are a sprite of Fire. Full of passion, bravery and spice you are the living embodiment of fire. You are quite arrogant and think yourself above most but that is made up for by; your passionate ability to pursue your dreams, your strong will and your powerful well skilled ability for fighting. You are a natural leader, people are somewhat drawn to you and see you as someone to look up to but you only pay attention to them if they are useful, your equal or your superior. You are a very exciting person to be near for you have a vast love of adventure and battle. Fire is a symbol of Passion if and when you choose to love you are capable of beautiful, long lasting, devoted love. You are quite wondrous!
What type of Mythical Sprite are you? brought to you by Quizilla
What is your anime hair color?
Make your at-home Chai mix with half and half rather than regular milk
Astronauts on Candy Diet After Pantry Raided
MIAMI (Reuters) - The two U.S. and Russian astronauts on the International Space Station had to rely on a candy-laden diet for five weeks because their predecessors raided the pantry. [
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Federal Court Sides With VoIP Companies
ST. PAUL, Minn. - A Minnesota agency may not regulate calls through cyberspace as it does calls through traditional phone lines, a federal appeals court ruled. [
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Where Are All the Dead Animals?
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lankan wildlife officials are stunned -- the worst tsunami in memory has killed around 22,000 people along the Indian Ocean island's coast, but they can't find any dead animals. [
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Quake May Have Made Earth Wobble
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The deadly Asian earthquake may have permanently accelerated the Earth's rotation -- shortening days by a fraction of a second -- and caused the planet to wobble on its axis, U.S. scientists said on Tuesday.
Richard Gross, a geophysicist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, theorized that a shift of mass toward the Earth's center during the quake on Sunday caused the planet to spin 3 microseconds, or one millionth of a second, faster and to tilt about an inch (2.5 cm) on its axis. [
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Purported Elvis Water Brings $455 Bid on eBay
MIAMI (Reuters) - Wade Jones of North Carolina says he snared a plastic cup from which Elvis Presley drank at a concert in 1977 and kept the cup and the water for 27 years before selling the remaining few tablespoons of water on eBay.
The winning bid for the water was $455. He says he won't sell the cup. [
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Zak (no, not that one, the other Zak, the one from Berkeley.. yeah, that one - we went to high school together...) is famous!
Well,
he has a well interview in the SFist with tons of great Bay area knowledge to share. The story he tells second from the bottom is about me and him in a cab on the way to meet up with his family in SF for a fabulous dinner after a really swell day and a ferry ride.
Black And Browder Reunite In SG-1
Robert C. Cooper, executive producer of SCI FI Channel's original series Stargate SG-1, told SCI FI Wire that Farscape star Claudia Black will reunite with her co-star Ben Browder in several episodes of SG-1's upcoming ninth season. Black will play Vala, a human character who will be introduced in the 12th episode of season eight, "Prometheus Unbound," which airs early next year when SG-1 resumes original episodes. [
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OH BOY! It's like smashing two of my favorite shows together into one big Sci-Fi Orgy!
The Credit Card Prank
"Credit card signatures are a useless mechanism designed to make you feel safe, like airport security checks. So my question was, how crazy would I have to make my signature before someone would actually notice?" [
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Wow. This guy went off. Goes to show ya...
Little notes like "(That thing that looks like a penis is supposed to be a flower.)" make this one great.
And in case you didn't laugh enough at that one -
here's a bunch of this guy's pranks.
RECURRING SCIENCE MISCONCEPTIONS IN K-6 TEXTBOOKS
This is cool... I love that they print stuff in textbooks that is so wrong...
Frank Zappa On Censorship
Tsunami Death Toll Soars Past 55,000
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia - Desperate refugees foraged for coconuts or looted food on battered Sumatra island Tuesday, as the number killed in a mammoth earthquake and tsunami soared above 55,000 and tens of thousands still were missing. Grieving survivors buried their dead by hand, trying to ward off an epidemic that the U.N. health agency warned could double the toll yet again. [
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Makes 9/11 and the war in Iraq seem kinda small, doesn't it?
Which makes me wonder if Shrub is going to declare a "war on mother nature" and spend billions combatting something else that is completley out of anyone's control...
Anyway, back to my original thought when posting this:
Wanna help?
New Year's
So I think that I will be here, hanging out on New Years if anyone wants to come over and do that with me. I am adverse to driving, and I have booze here so it seems sensible that I should stay put. I have couch and guest bed if anyone wants to just stay as well.
I skinned my tounge
And I will leave it to your imagination as to how I did that as it is undoubtedly more interesting than how I actually did it.
My New Year's Resolution...
Is to finish the damned Gunslinger before New Year's actually happens. If I can do it (and really, I have like 80 pages left), then I kill 2 birds with one stone. I get to give it back to Dave, after a long year at my house, and I get to say that I actually accomplished my New Year's resolution! Yeah yeah, I know, shut up, it's a technicality...
Also YAY!!!
My Carl's Duran Duran tickets are here! Locked and loaded for a wild ride on the way back machine!
YAY!!!!!!! $$$$$$$$$$$$!!!
So not only did I did get some nice cash prizes from my fabulous vacation-for-one-weekend-getaway, but I came home to find the best of news: Not only did I get my first paycheck from Shaklee (meanining that, next week, I can pay my rent without begging money from friends), but I got my last week's check from unemployment too! Whooppee! I can eat again!
It was a dark and stormy night....
And I'm back. Look! YAY! Rain!!! How cool is that??? Way neat after driving home on Christmas day with the top down in SoCal. After I ran up here to pee after 6.5 hours solid in the car, I went back outside and loved the sky for a few. Now I need to change my clothes because I am sopping wet.
The good and bad news of it is that it's gonna rain for like the next 2 weeks solid, which sucks when driving to Pleasanton.
Anyway, the drive was way better than the way down, and even way more interesting even though I was on the 5. I hit a HUGE dust storm right after the grape vine, which was actually pretty neat. There was brown out conditions so I could see the dude in front of me and that's pretty much it. Tumble weeds were thrashing my car left and right and we were all going like 80 - it was great. When I stopped to get a water (*Yoda* still very sick am I), the wind blew my door open so hard that I thought it was going to come off and the scrunchie nearly blew out of my hair. Pretty cool.
Now I have to go change and shower and then play with the monkey for a while (Jon's gonna have a field day with that one). Work tomorrow - thurs and then off again until the 4th, which rocks. 3 day weeks all year, I say!!!
Now this is a REAL CHRISTMAS...
Here's what a real Christmas is like...
Shots around my parents house in Indy.
...and to all a good night.
Judge allows engineer to testify about flaming Pop-Tarts
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A federal judge agreed to let an engineer testify in the case of an allegedly flaming toaster snack, concluding that Michael Wald has studied frosted Pop-Tarts and the toaster company's lawyers will have the opportunity to attack his expert testimony in court to determine if it's shaky. [
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A little humor
What Do Fish Say When They Hit a Concrete Wall?
Dam!
What Do You Call Four Bullfighters In Quicksand?
Quattro Sinko..
What's The Difference Between Roast Beef And Pea Soup?
Anyone can roat beef.
My favorite:
What Do You Call Cheese That Isn't Yours?
Nacho Cheese.
Re: Back in the OC
LMAO!!! DAMN! I had a good day! (in your head at least)
Re: Back in the OC
"Woke up, went to see the Ocean, got laid on a board for about an hour, stood up a couple times, was shoved back down a couple times..."
Well, that's how I read it, anyway. Merry Christmas!
Back in the OC
Woke up, went to see the Ocean, got in, laid on a board for about an hour, stood up a couple times, was shoved back down a couple times, went to Grandma's, got some peanuts (I shit you not, that's what they gave me), went to Aunts house, got more very odd gifts, and got to drive the Benz home.
I am hazppy to report that my cousin has become the center of attention so I am picked on far less than normal, which is nice, and which she hates.
Tomorrow, I will see April, and Coalee, and Sean, and possibly Kyle, if he has time. On Monday, I will make the long trek back home.
I hope that you all are having a fabulous holiday and I look forward to seeing you all soon!
Wanna see where Santa is now?
Paper Prints Only Good News in Christmas Issue
BERLIN (Reuters) - Dropping its daily diet of stories on crime, corruption and evil wrongdoing, Germany's top-selling Bild newspaper printed only good news in its Christmas issue Friday.
"No parking tickets today -- traffic wardens have day off!" the newspaper with 12 million readers wrote. [
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Looking for a last minute Christmas gift? Think goat!
You will pay 24 pounds ($46) for a goat or 10 pounds for a brood of chickens, tell a friend or relative that this is their Christmas present, and it will be sent to a Third World family to provide milk, meat, manure and offspring for trade. [
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Christmas in the OC
Saw the Incredibles again because my mom hadn't been to the movies in a year, ate with some peeps at the macaroni grill (which I just can't get enough of), and am now headed toward more knitting and packaging of gifts, which isn't done yet.
Tomorrow, I get my self up out of a nyquil enduced haze for an hour or two of Christmas surfing (an anual tradition, which I learn every year that I get worse and worse. I need to live down here so I can practice consistantly. It's kinda like skiing... But I digress) and then off to my grandparents for breakfast and Aunt's for lunc/dinner/whateverfood. I'm skipping the dad this year mostly because they failed to get their shit together enough to figure out what was going on in time, and I have announced that next year, everyone is coming to me. I'm sick of the drive and of wasting my vacation time with travel. 2005 has officially been declared the year of Noelle - everybody watch out. ;-)
For Sale: First Cloned Kitten
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A California firm that earlier this year launched the world's first cat cloning service has announced its first sale: a cloned, male kitten named "Little Nicky."
Genetic Savings & Clone -- based in Sausalito, California, and financed by billionaire John Sperling -- announced that it had sold the kitten to a Texas woman for $50,000. [
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RE: BTW, Heard from Paduan
Yeah, yeah, whatever - they are all the same to me... Anyway, glad you like your scarf. I got to enjoy a manicure, pedicure, and facial this morning. Life in the OC isn't so bad today. I also got to drive the Benz with the top down because it's like 70 degrees here. Neat. Sometimes I miss this place...
Internet!!!
YAY! I have access! Oh, my sweet lifeblood comes back to me. The world was growing so dark and cold... Anyway, back online if anyone needs me.
RE: BTW, Heard from Paduan
<sputter>Eddie Bauer? Eddie Bauer??? Eddie Bauer can in no way, in no way compare with LL Bean. For one thing, Bean's main store is open 24/7 365 days a year. Is Eddie Bauer's? Don't think so. Anyway, thanks again for the scarf as it is chilly here (upper 20s) again today after yesterday's heat wave/monsoon. It was upper 40s and rainy. And gale force winds at night.
NO INTERNET!!!
Sending this from my phone. I feel so lost and alone! Will try to remedy tomorrow. Call my cell if you need me.
Off to the OC
Will be with Satan until Monday - have cell phone, have email, will distract easily.
Phantom of the Opera Movie
Unbelievable. Go see it.
Nathan and I went tonight and it was amazing.
I will go again with anyone who wants me to.
BTW, Heard from Paduan
He was shopping in eddie Bower or something at 2:30 in the morning.
Maine is a wierd place.
I did a stupid thing
I went to Walmart, looking for boxes. Dumb. I can't believe I did that. It was aweful. Don't do it.
For those of you who have been looking for this:
Yes, I did pre-order my copy of the next Harry Potter book today
And I will be at Comic-Con when it comes... Sigh...
Bush Monkey Picture Shown on Giant Billboard
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A portrait of President Bush (news - web sites) using monkeys to form his image that was banished from a New York art show last week amid charges of censorship was projected on a giant billboard in Manhattan on Tuesday. [
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All in all, it's just another brick in the wall...
$5 Million Can Buy Lots of Bull in New York
NEW YORK (Reuters) - "Charging Bull," one of New York's most recognized statues that once made a brief debut outside the Stock Exchange, is for sale.
The minimum bid is $5 million but sculptor and owner Arturo Di Modica says the buyer must keep the pavement-pawing statue where it now stands in the financial district and donate it to the city. [
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New from Hell.com
So, apparently, Sandra called Laura to tell her that George is selling hell.com to Bill and that she (sandra) is out of a job on the first of the year. Laura hasn't heard yet what her status is, but given that she despises Bill with the passion of a million pissed off pregnant women, I doubt she'll stay...
More after I email G to find out what's going on.
Mystery Martian 'Carwash' Helps Space Buggy
LONDON (Reuters) - An unexplained phenomenon akin to a space-borne car wash has boosted the performance of one of the two U.S. rovers probing the surface of Mars, New Scientist magazine said on Tuesday.
It said something -- or someone -- had regularly cleaned layers of dust from the solar panels of the Mars Opportunity vehicle while it was closed down during the Martian night. [
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ummmmmmmm, it really seems like they should look into how that is happening...
Spacecraft Sees Infant Galaxies in Aging Universe
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Billions of years after a galactic "baby boom," a NASA spacecraft has detected dozens of newborn galaxies in Earth's part of the universe.
These unexpected cosmic infants were discovered with the Galaxy Evolution Explorer, which managed to spy them because of the massive amounts of ultraviolet light they emit as they furiously form stars out of gas, astronomers said on Tuesday. [
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New Harry Potter to Appear July 16
LONDON (Reuters) - Christmas came early for fans of the fictional boy wizard Harry Potter on Tuesday, with news that author J.K. Rowling has finished the sixth book in the series, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince."
The book, set to be published on July 16, 2005 in Britain, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, picks up the story of Harry Potter's sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry as his evil foe Lord Voldemort's "power and followers are increasing day by day," Rowling's publishers Bloomsbury and Scholastic said. [
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I have Cube!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yay! My very own space!!! And a new machine on the way!
Follow the trail of the Holy Weeping Teapot
See
sad post by
the chick who made the kick ass Doc Martins that got auctioned off at Fiddler's Green, and which Ray actually won
a pair of. Her purse got jacked and she can't pay for school, which sucks. So, she decided to see her holy weeping teapot to make money.
Then see
Neil's post, most of the way down. Note Neil's reaction:
Omygaaaad. A Holy Weeping Miracle Teapot! Quickly people, go and spread the word to the faithful!
Then see
eBay item so as not to disbelieve.
Then, see
miracle post made by said girl! Yay for her!
Sorry, but I have to say it: Holy Weeping TeaPot Batman!
Fun with Google
Found
Google Labs. It has all sorts of their new and fun projects that they are developing. Most notable is
google suggest, which suggests terms as you type so as not to misspell or even to misspell on purpose to see what come up. Neat. Thanks, Google, for making my life slightly more interesting.
ARGH
So I am on a conference call,..., that I have been on for an hour. I am doing absolutley nothing in the call except sitting here listeneing to everyone else type (I thougt I would make them think I was actually doing something too by Blogging this). Basically, someone is, at some point, going to say "hey Noelle, send Dave your Job to run" and then I can check. In the mean time, everyone thinks it's cool to sit here and type quietly while on the phone at 6:20 at night.
Grrrrrrrr....
Later note: Total conference call time = 1:30. Total time needed for me to do what I needed to do: 10 min. Wow, I don't understand how these people get any work done...
You know you're from the Bay Area when:
You paid less than $2.00 for gas this morning and got *really* stoked about it.
New look for SciFiWire
So only I would notice this or care, but
SciFiWire (where I frequently link to from here) has a new look today. I dig it. The survey thing on the side is also so much better that their old one. Boy oh boy do I love tiny text! (yeah, I know, I am a web nerd.)
Rooftop 'Basilica Bar' Opens at St. Peter's
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The view is hard to beat, the atmosphere can be, well, heavenly, and the coffee isn't bad either. St Peter's Basilica now has its own rooftop coffee bar. [
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Bush won't "negotiate with himself"
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In Washington, there are plenty of ways to say "no comment," but President George W. ahs Bush offered his own formulation, after he refused to "negotiate with myself in public." [
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ISP Awarded $1 Billion in Anti-Spam Suit
DAVENPORT, Iowa - A federal judge has awarded an Internet service provider more than $1 billion in what is believed to be the largest judgment ever against spammers. [
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Caroling with Cheralyn
Cheralyn had a caroling party last night which was very fun, although we botched carol of the bells worse than you can imagine. We had enough people to do the 12 days of Christmas with each person having their own line. Anyway pics up later and I have no voice today thanks to me singing while sick!
Hey, Carl It's Your Birthday
Go Carl, it's your birthday! Happy birthday, man.
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Sometimes it DOES take a Rocket Scientist !! (True Story)
Scientists at NASA built a gun specifically to launch standard 4-pound dead chickens at the windshields of airliners, military jets and the space shuttle, all traveling at maximum velocity. The idea is to simulate the frequent incidents of collisions with airborne fowl to test the strength of the windshields.
British engineers heard about the gun and were eager to test it on the windshields of their new high speed trains. Arrangements were made, and a gun was sent to the British engineers. When the gun was fired, the engineers stood shocked as the chicken hurled out of the barrel, crashed into the shatterproof shield, smashed it to smithereens, blasted through the control console, snapped the engineer's back-rest in two, and embedded itself in the back wall of the cabin, like an arrow shot from a bow.
The horrified Brits sent NASA the disastrous results of the experiment, along with the designs of the windshield and begged the US scientists for suggestions.
NASA responded with a one-line memo --
"Defrost the chicken."
Physicist, 82, to Marry 'Gift from God' Student
BEIJING (Reuters) - An 82-year-old Chinese Nobel physicist has popped the question to a 28-year-old student whom he described as his last gift from God, the Beijing Morning Post said on Friday. [
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OhJesusChrist! President Bush Named Time's Person of 2004
The magazine's editors tapped Bush "for sharpening the debate until the choices bled, for reframing reality to match his design, for gambling his fortunes — and ours — on his faith in the power of leadership." [
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Lord of the Rings: Return of the King Extended Edition
Got this. Watched it. Liked it.
The added scenes were a mix for me of "oh boy they put that back in" and "um, ok", and I am sorry to say that Chris and Jon will be dissapointed because what they wanted, they shall not get. And yet, we bow to our god, Peter Jackson, once again, for making a 4:20 movie that doesn't compare to anything else. It is a commitment though and it even wore me out.
Someday, when I have gone completley mad, and done enough drugs (not necessarily in that order), I will attempt to watch the extended editions sequentially.
BTW, I have bothe sets of regular and extended cuts as well as all of the extra discs they give you in the super pack thingies - this one was about the making of the Howard Shore Symphony concert of the music. I actually think the regular versions have a merit of their own, and in some cases, I like them better.
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Lemony Snicket: A Series of Unfortunate Events
I don't really know whatto say aboutthis movie. It was good, but not as thrilling as Potter. The sets, costumes, music, and especially the credits are very cool. The kids are wonderful, and the story is good, but morbid. I think the only thing that throws me off is Jim Carey. He's just too Jim Carey. Anyway, worth a see, but maybe on DVD with a big TV...
New Foamy
"
NO CHRISTMAS FOR YOU"
FOAMY TAKES ON THE ANTI-CHRISTMAS CROWD!
heh. Worth a watch.
"How can anyone be offended by a fat guy whi gives out free stuff?"
Tomorrow is Christmas Sunday
If you're looking for Christmas services, say no more, say no more:
Christmas Sunday: I will be playing bass. Sadly, I do not have a Bootsy Collins outfit to wear. The service runs from 10:00 - 11:30. Don't be late or you will miss the opening song with funky bass thumping and popping. We'll go out for lunch afterwards.
Christmas Eve: Kay and I will be leading an acoustic set of traditional songs. This service goes from 5:30 to 6:30, and we'll go out for supper afterwards.
Dress is casual.
Here's a map. Send me an email if can make it. BTW my new email address is jon.reid AT mac.com.
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Dream On - Depeche Mode
As your bony fingers close around me
Long and spindly
Death becomes me
Heaven can you see what I see
Hey you pale and sickly child
You're death and living reconciled
Been walking home a crooked mile
Paying debt to karma
You party for a living
What you take won't kill you
But careful what you're giving
There's no time for hesitating
Pain is ready, pain is waiting
Primed to do it's educating
Unwanted, uninvited kin
It creeps beneath your crawling skin
It lives without it lives within you
Feel the fever coming
You're shaking and twitching
You can scratch all over
But that won't stop you itching
Can you feel a little love
Can you feel a little love
Dream on dream on
Blame it on your karmic curse
Oh shame upon the universe
It knows its lines
It's well rehearsed
It sucked you in, it dragged you down
To where there is no hallowed ground
Where holiness is never found
Paying debt to karma
You party for a living
What you take won't kill you
But careful what you're giving
Can you feel a little love
Can you feel a little love
Dream on dream on
No Sex Is Doing My Head In, Rebel Says
LIMA, Peru (Reuters) - A Peruvian rebel leader told a court on Thursday he was suffering mental problems because of 12 years of no sex and tough jail conditions.
"Since I am subjected to this sexual abstinence ... because of such an unjust and inhuman (prison) regime, I suffer from a certain (mental) imbalance and sometimes I forget things too, I have problems concentrating," Victor Polay, leader of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement, or MRTA, told the judge. [
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Well, maybe you should have thought of that before you became a rebel leader...
Worker Fired for Selling Queen's Pudding on EBay
LONDON (Reuters) - A worker at Britain's Buckingham Palace has been sacked for trying to sell a Christmas pudding gift from Queen Elizabeth on an Internet auction site. [
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I'm Not Touching It, YOU Touch It!
BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - Colombian police seized 292 voodoo dolls but were reluctant to inspect the black, hand-sized talismans for fear of witchcraft.
"Witches don't exist, but if they do, they do," Highway Police Capt. Gerson Fajardo explained in a local newspaper interview published on Thursday. [
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Nice.
song 173 of 1816 loading up
And that's only like 12 gigs so I am good for a while. I have a bunch more CDs I want to rip down, but syching looks like it's gonna be a bitch ("go make some coffee" has turned into "come back tomorrow"). Oh well, I am overjoyed to tote a couple hundred of my favorite CDs in my pocket with me so I'll stop complaining now, say thanks to the herd that bought me my toy and go consider cleaning up from that party this weekend...
My very own cube
Tommorrow, I move out of my corner in Jeff's cube and gt my own. I should also have full access to everything I actually need and, at some point in the near future, I will get a developer machine and a monitor that is bigger than my hand. Nice.
Couple Allegedly Report Stolen Marijuana
CALLAWAY, Fla. - Help, police, someone stole my pot! A Panhandle couple is under arrest after notifying police Thursday that their quarter-pound stash of marijuana was stolen and that they needed the weed back, because they were going to later sell it.
"They're America's dumbest criminals," said Lt. Ricky Ramie, head of the Bay County Sheriff's Office narcotics task force. [
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Excellent! 'Wayne's World' car for sale
Don't Read This One...
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A Mexican man killed his lover in a drunken, drugged fight then cooked the man's body in tomato and onion sauce and ate it over three days. [
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Re: Chris is my hero today
Awww, why you're welcome. Anything I can do to keep my friends from having a mental breakdown. :-) Google deserves most of the credit anyway, I just typed stuff. :-) Google loves you, google is your friend.
Plant to Make Clean Power from Turkey Droppings
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Turkey leftovers will take on a whole new use after a Minnesota company finishes construction of a power plant fired by the birds' droppings.
It may not be the total answer to relieving the United States' addiction to foreign oil, but the plant will burn 90 percent turkey dung and create clean power for 55,000 homes. [
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Bush Prepares for Possible GPS Shutdown
WASHINGTON - President Bush has ordered plans for temporarily disabling the U.S. network of global positioning satellites during a national crisis to prevent terrorists from using the navigational technology, the White House said Wednesday. [
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Because a map and some coordinates couldn't possibly work. It's not like they target HUGE landmarks like the twin towers or anything. Man, I couldn't find those without a GPS... I think they are overestimating the terrorists technology and underestimating their will to get the job done, no matter what.
re: Tom Jones
Was fantastic BTW. We had a great time. The man is ancient, but whoa nelly! do the ladies dig him! It was all aboutthe screaming and the panty throwing whenever his hips would swivel. I thought CP was exaggerating aboutthe panties, but I was wrong. He was showered in them by the end. Anyway, much fun - go see him if you ever have the chance...
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Chris is my hero today
So I got an email this morning from Paduan telling me of a program called
musicbrainz that could possibly re-ID3 my MP3s so iTunes would take them and I could then give Neil the musical loving that he desearves.
Well, I got home from Tom Jones and gave it a spin and it works like magic! If it can't figure it out, it asks you about it and has a neat-o lookup tool to help you out. It's about 95% accurate, which is wonderful. The only thing taht happens is that sometimes it has the wrong album if a band has their song on more than one, but whatever, it stays in the right folder on my machine and it will end up in the iPod so I don't really care at this point - as long as I can find it all.
Whew! Big sigh of relief! Thanks Chris, you rock!!!
Tom Jones
Going to see Tom Jones with Cheralyn and Nathan tonight... should be entertaining at the very least.
Oh, and I think I am getting sick so everyone watch out!
Browder Joins SG-1
SCI FI Channel confirmed that Farscape star Ben Browder will join the cast of SCI FI's original series Stargate SG-1. Browder will join the cast in the show's upcoming ninth season; no information on Browder's role was available. [
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Weitz Quits Dark Materials
Citing the "technical challenges of making such an epic," director Chris Weitz has dropped out of New Line Cinema's adaptation of the Philip Pullman fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials, Variety reported. [
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Whedon To Helm Wonder Woman?
Ain't It Cool News reported a rumor that Joss Whedon, creator of TV's Buffy the Vampire Slayer, is in talks to write and direct a new Wonder Woman movie. Citing an anonymous source, the site reported that Whedon is in final talks with producer Joel Silver and Warner Brothers to adapt the classic DC Comics superheroine for the big screen for a summer 2006 release. The site reported that an announcement was imminent. [
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'Lap Pillow' Offers Solace to Lonely Men
TOKYO (Reuters) - Single or lonely Japanese men may get lucky this Christmas.
One popular item for holiday shoppers is the "lap pillow," with skin-colored polyurethene calves folded under soft thighs -- a comfy cushion for napping, reading or watching television. [
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FCC to Allow Wireless Access on Planes
WASHINGTON - Federal regulators voted Wednesday to give airline passengers high-speed Internet connections while they fly.
The unanimous vote by the Federal Communications Commission means air travelers could be surfing the Web by 2006. [
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God does not want me to have an iPod
So I got a spiff cover for my iPod yesterday to avoid the scratching that had already started. Unfortunately, it does not fit in tea dock (genius I tell you). So I took it off to get some more music on my ipod and leave it to charge. When I put the cover back on this morning, it tore.
It lasted exactly 18 hours.
I am keeping it on until I get a bunch of music stuff sorted out, will dock my baby, update and then get a new cover and use that one.
Sigh.
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The Birth of Neil
by Noelle
Once upon a time, in a far away kindom, there lived a sort of cranky girl, who loved music. She had fallen madly in love with a rival kingdom's new product which could hold countless hours of her favorite music and help her to be anti-social at work (anti-social here means productive and therefore gets to leave early). She coveted the product for many years as all of her somewhat less cranky friends got them. She played with her friend, Chris's, product whenever she got the chance and spent her nights dreaming of the product.
One day, the girl decided that if she ever did get the product, she would have to be prepared. So, like a good little camper, she spent 5 weeks of her life, while she was between jobs, ripping all of her favorite music down to a format that the product could take. When she got the companion software for her product, she learned that it would not be feasable to use the music that she had produced and that her 5 weeks were wasted.
On the day of her anual Christmas party, Neil was born. He was all the product that she had ever wanted, and she was so greatful to her less cranky friends for giving her the product. She had her party and then passed out from exhaustion.
The next day she came home and spent 5 hours ripping her favoritest CD's down through said software. She unplugged her precious product, plugged in the new earbods she was given, and went for a test drive.
Nothing happened.
She tried another album. Same thing.
She looked on her computer only to find that all the files were only names and were 3k small. She was devistated. Her CD player was broken and wasn't reading the CDs. She was exhausted from a long weekend, sick from something she had eaten the night before, and now her product was no good to her!
She called the only person that could help her at 12:30 in the morning and he suggested that she try installing the software on her other machine. Brilliant, but the product will only work on one machine. She thought for a while and then remembered that all she had to do was rip with this machine and import into the software with the other machine. She went to install the software on the other machine, but alas, there wasn't enough room on the C drive thanks to a small partition drive and not much that she could delete.
She was in tears, angry, and sad. She cried and screamed and punched her computer. She called her hero again to be cranky at him, but he was not dismayed. He came to rescue her, as usual. He found some files to delete and the software was installed. It was a jerryrigged situation, but it worked. She was overjoyed at the fact that she now had at least one album to take to work with her.
Neil was born into a chaotic and violent world, but is loved very much, and so, will grow up to become a rich and hearty soul filled with beautiful music.
The end.
re: Carl's Birthday Dinner
We had a great time and some awesome food! Happy Birthday Carl! And, Morgan got the gag of the day award (those of you who were there - he had taken out the CD and put in a gift card to best buy - he only knows now because Amber told me and I told him). Dude, Morgan played that one so cool - even I was like "that's kinda dick." Good one Morgan!
Casablanca at the California theater
There are showings of Casablanca at the new California Theatre downtown. Apparently they are ready to start showing classic movies there again and are starting with Casablanca.
Dec 18-23 at 7:30 pm; except Sunday 12/19 at 3 pm only. The Wurlitzer organ will start playing at 7 pm. Tickets are $5 each.
I will probably try and head over there to see this if anyone is interested...
Donkey Power for Green Grass Cutting
ROME (Reuters) - An Italian town is setting donkeys to work mowing the grass on the side of its highways in an effort to save money and reduce pollution. [
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Carl's Birthday Dinner
For those of you going to Carl's B-day dinner, it's at 8 at
Pezzella's - it's a nice place so dress like you care and try and not be late.
MIL! Oh how I have missed you!
So I found a Mil's mailing list (notorious for
things my girlfriend and I argue about) in my Spam box, to which I immediatley told was not spam. It's
online for you if you want to find out about the hilarity that is ensuing now. There is also a
wonderous Christmas card, featuring Alison Hannigan that Kevin will also want to fill his name in and send out.
Playing with my toy!!!
YAY!!!!!!!!
Hey, I know, let's play a game! You guys guess who has to re-rip all of her CD's through iTunes in order to get them tobe recognized in the proper file structure on her new toy and I'll sit in front of my computer for the next 3 weeks doing it while you play!
Oh, and BTW, its name is Neil. Thus completing the holy trinity - my two computers are named Danny and Tim. We got books, we got music and we got movies. And I bow to my gods.
Retiree Duped by Naked Invitation
BERLIN (Reuters) - An 81-year-old German dropped his trousers and lost his wallet when two young women asked him to join them in a nude photo shoot but they fled with his belongings as he stripped, police said Monday.
"After the pensioner had removed his trousers in eager anticipation, the women left in a hurry," taking the man's wallet with about 250 euros in cash, police in the western city of Wiesbaden said in a statement.
Let that be a lesson to all of you...
Become a Lord for 29.99
LONDON (Reuters) - The British aristocracy has long been an exclusive club but now anyone can become a Lord or Lady -- for as little as 30 pounds ($58).
A raft of British Web sites are offering one square foot of the Glencairn Estate in northeast Scotland and, with it, access to the prestigious-sounding title of Lord/Laird and Lady of Glencairn. [
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re: Christmahanukwanzika Party
Hey Noelle, thanks for having me over! Food was delish, although my tummy is not so happy right at the moment. :-} Hope we can do this again next year. I had a great time and it was so good to see everybody! Yay!
re: Holiday Party
The party was fabulous - thanks to everyone who came for making it such a good time! Also, thanks to everyone for my coveted toy and all of the other rad presents you gave me (Finally, my very own D&D manual!!).
Anyway, I will play with my iPod tomorrow night after I come out of the coma I am about to go into. Sometimes, getting a job sucks... :-)
re: New Word Offically Added to Dictionary Today
Could it also be a verb?:
v. fott (f'ot)
1. To hurt or cause someone's foot to swell.
Usage:
You fucking asshole! You ran me over with the couch and fotted me!
Not that I would ever say that to you Carl...
Don't ask...
And so it begins.
Had a lovley dinner at Paduan's and a productive trip to BevMo, and now home for some serious holiday-gettin'-ready-for. Gonna sit for a couple and then sew, knit and wrap my evening away. 17A party tomorrow night - it's dress up, but all are invited!
2 days 'til Coveted Toy
Boy am I gonna be sad if it doesn't arrive here on Sunday...
New Word Offically Added to Dictionary Today
fott (f'ot)
n. pl. fotts
1. a hurt or swollen foot.
Usage:
You fucking asshole you stepped on my fott!
Frozen heavenly body hints at a warm heart
The outer solar system may not be a cemetery full of dead, frozen bodies, suggest new observations of a large object called Quaoar. The study, which says the large body could once have been “warm”, supports theoretical predictions that "planetary" processes such as volcanism can occur in objects at extreme distances from the Sun. [
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Ice-Age Ivory Flute Found in German Cave
BERLIN (Reuters) - A 35,000-year-old flute made from a woolly mammoth's ivory tusk has been unearthed in a German cave by archaeologists, the University of Tuebingen said on Friday. [
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Note to Self:
Bring headphones to work on Monday - days are too long without music...
Further note: remember not to rock out at work - they have no idea how wierd you are yet and it may be good to keep it that way until you get hired permenantly.
LAME. Dark Materials Film Omits God
Filmmakers are adapting Philip Pullman's fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials, in which two children do battle with an evil, all-powerful church, to remove anti-religious overtones, The Times of London reported. Chris Weitz, the director, has horrified fans by announcing that references to the church are likely to be banished in his film. [
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The books are rad BTW and well worth the read.
re: Lotsa comics, gotta sell
If only I had $500 - I could probably part that out on eBay for tons more. *sigh*
Anyway, I did forward your link to possibly interested parties...
Lotsa comics, gotta sell
[Crossposted from
my blog 'cause of the short timeline.]
Hey there. Wanna buy a shitload of comics dirt-cheap?
I've got something like 20-25 boxes (mostly short boxes, some long) full of comics that I need to sell to stay afloat this month.
They date back across my 20+ years of collecting, though the bulk are from the past 5-7 years. Most are bagged and backed.
I plan to take them to a comic shop that buys in bulk tomorrow (Friday) evening, but figured I'd throw the opportunity to buy them out to y'all.
I'm asking $500 for all the comics, and if you're in the south bay and I know you, I'll even deliver them, though preferably at some occasion we're going to see each other anyway (largely 'cause it might take two trips).
Paypal would be peachy-keen.
Interested? Let me know at
byebyecomics@soulcookie.com.
Guitarist from Pantera Assassinated on Stage
COLUMBUS, Ohio - A gunman charged onstage at a nightclub and opened fire on the band and crowd, killing top heavy metal guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott and three other people before a police officer shot him to death, authorities said. [
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Santa Brings Christmas Pot to Schoolkids
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) - Santa Claus brought an unusual gift for some Rio schoolchildren this holiday season -- a bag of marijuana. [
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Kitten Survives 275-Mile Ride Next to Car Engine
BERLIN (Reuters) - A German couple was shocked after a 275-mile car journey to discover a surprise stowaway cowering next to the engine of their car -- a 6-week-old kitten. [
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Martha Stewart Misses Property Tax Payment on Home
HARTFORD, Connecticut (Reuters) - Trendsetter guru Martha Stewart, serving a five-month prison sentence for lying about a suspicious stock sale, is in trouble with tax authorities in Connecticut for missing a property tax payment. [
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Man Acquitted of Rape; Says He Was Asleep
OSLO (Reuters) - A Norwegian court has acquitted a man accused of raping a sleeping woman after he said he was also asleep at the time.
The 18-year old woman, who had gone to sleep dressed in trousers and a sweater on a sofa after a party with friends, awoke to find the 34-year-old man having sex with her. The man said he was woken by her screams for help.
"He said that he was asleep and the majority of the judges found that they could not rule out the possibility," defense lawyer Christian Riig told NRK public radio on Thursday. [
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'Immaculate Contraception' Ad Withdrawn
LONDON (Reuters) - A Christmas campaign for an "immaculate contraception" morning-after birth control pill has been scrapped by a drug company in Britain after causing offence on religious grounds.
The poster, which appeared on London Underground trains, asked: "Immaculate contraception? If only." [
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Uh, yeah, even I thought that was over the top.. and I thought "
iGod" was funny...
I wonder if the people who posted this article happened to check the "this day in history" thing - the one on my sidebar today says "1854 - Pope Pius IX proclaimed the dogma of the Immaculate Conception. " Wow - 150 year to the day...
Holiday Dinner Guest List
For those of you who have been wondering who is coming, here's the guest list and what people are bringing:
• Me - Turkey, the venue
• Carl - Alcohol
• Amber - green bean caserole
• Morgan - homemade mac&cheese
• Derek - Mashed Potoatos
• Cheralyn - Fruit salad with marshmallows and whipped cream
• Paduan - Pie
• Esther - cranberry goodness
• Georgina - Bread Pudding with Burbon Sauce
• Joe - Bread Pudding with Burbon Sauce
• Dave - Rolls
• Wendy - Corn Niblets
• Nathan - Martinelli's
• Jen - Desert
• Dave - Desert
• Kevin - Soda
• Zak - desert, stuffing?
Remember to make enough for 17 people when you bring whatever you are bringing. If you don;t see something that you want on the list, bring it.
There is one more chair open if anyone has a stray they want to bring -> let me know ahead of time though please! If you don't see your name on this list and think you shoudl come, lemme know - I probably thought you'd be out of town for some reason.
Job Update
So it's going very well. It seems very straightfprward, but I still have to learn the intracacies of where stuff is and who does what. Seems like it will work well, even if only for the 2 months.
Soon, I will have my own cube and I can go back to regularly scheduled blogging and e-mailing. Sorry to those of you who have had short ones latley... Between the Holiday Dinner, all the other parties and the job, I have been kinda not in my usual groove. It will resume shortly.
:-)
Tribal Wisdom
The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, passed on from generation to generation, says, "When you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount."
However, in modern business, education and government, a whole range of far more advanced strategies are often employed, such as:
• Buying a stronger whip.
• Changing riders.
• Threatening the horse with termination.
• Appointing a committee to study the horse.
• Arranging to visit other countries to see how others ride dead horses.
• Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included.
• Reclassifying the dead horse as "living impaired."
• Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse.
• Harnessing several dead horses together to increasethe speed.
• Providing additional funding and/or training toincrease the dead horse's performance.
• Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riderswould improve the dead horse's performance.
• Declaring that as the dead horse does not have to be fed, it is less costly, carries lower overhead, and therefore contributes substantially more to the bottom line of the economy than do some other horses.
• Rewriting the expected performance requirements for all horses.
• Promoting the dead horse to a supervisor position.
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Hubble watches baby galaxy in bloom
A nearby galaxy has been revealed to be an exceptionally late bloomer by the Hubble Space Telescope - forming its first stars billions of years after its peers. The galaxy's sluggish growth rate suggests it was born as a wispy gas cloud in a barren region of space, shortly after the big bang. [
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Psychotic symptoms more likely with cannabis
Using marijuana in adolescence and early adulthood can cause psychotic symptoms later in life, a new study suggests. The risk of developing these symptoms is “moderate”, say researchers, though is higher in people with a pre-disposition to psychosis. [
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Zapped human eggs divide without sperm
The new technique could supply embryonic stem cells for research while avoiding ethical issues as embryos are not required [
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San Francisco Rules Could Bar Elephants from Zoo
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Elephants must receive hundreds of times more space to live at San Francisco's zoo or not be kept at the facility, city legislators said on Tuesday in legislation that could effectively bar pachyderms for good. [
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Spend Your Life on the Phone for $999
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For customers who either love to plan ahead or hate monthly bills, a small Massachusetts telecommunications firm has launched a $999 offer of unlimited Internet-based telephone service for life. [
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GAIM Rules
So I found an alternative to Trillian, which lets me have all of my IMs on at once, but keeps the interface of AIM, which I like: GAIM. Coolest feature: It has a plugin for transparency for your chat windows as well as the list. You can even have a slider on the window so you can change it on the fly. Oh, and it has tabbed chat windows, so you only have to have one open at a time...
Get it here.
Cookies!!!
Making Peanut Butter Cookies for Steph's Cookie Exchange Party tomorrow... so far the batter is pretty tasty!
:-)
Noelle H.: Productive member of society
OK, contract looks excellent. Now I don't feel like such a lame ass. Hopefully it will last longer than the 60 days it's for...
Honey, Here's Why You Shouldn't Hitch-Hike...
HARARE (Reuters) - A group of late night Zimbabwean hitch-hikers had a shock when they were driven to a cemetery and forced to dig up a coffin at gunpoint. [
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'Your Call Is Very Important to Us...'
IJING (Reuters) - Nine out of 10 Chinese calling into a suicide-prevention hotline in the capital Beijing are getting the busy tone, a newspaper said on Monday, adding that nationwide four people were killing themselves every minute. [
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Prepare for the End!
I just experienced one of the seven signs of the apocalypse...
Chris Cornell and Maynard apparently have covered Nick Lowe's 'What's So Funny
about Peace, Love and Understanding'...
YAY!
So, barring any unforseen difficulty with money discussions tonight, I have at least a 2 month contract with Shaklee... so that's a relief, if at least just for now.
Happy St. Nicholas Day
Today is St. Nicholas Day, a day to celebrate a 3rd Century church leader. How did the real saint become this crazy cartoon of commercialism? [
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Re: Woman Charged With Running Down Boys Who Hit SUV With Golf Ball
That bitch better go to prison for a very long time...
Woman Charged With Running Down Boys Who Hit SUV With Golf Ball
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. -- A woman ran over two teenage brothers after they accidentally hit her sport utility vehicle with the golf ball they were bouncing in a parking lot, officials said, leaving one of the boys with life-threatening injuries. [
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Will be AWOL for most of Monday
Gonna go see a man about a gig.
YAY! HEAT!!
Thanks to Carl for fixing my car yet again!
People playing D&D Today
Don't forget your write ups if you are doing them and whatever food item you are bringing...
Jon, you just bring you.
Ew. Collectors will go for anything these days...
(Dec. 3, 2004) – Hormel Foods is helping usher in “Monty Python’s Spamalot” on Broadway by creating a new limited-edition product, SPAM golden honey grail. Packaged in a “Spamalot collector’s edition” can, the new flavor will be distributed to the first 100 people in line at the Shubert Theatre box office when tickets for “Spamalot” go on sale at 10 a.m. Monday. The new version of “Spamalot” will also be sold beginning February at the theater and through select retailers in New York City. “Spamalot” begins previews on Feb. 14th and opens March 17th. The new musical will have a Chicago tryout, beginning Dec. 21st.
Noellecicle no more...
I'll be over at Carl's for most of the day installing yet another heater core and doing a bit of other maintenance on the doombuggy. If you need anything, call my cell. I have no idea when we will be done - probably when we get too cold to do any more work...
School Bus Driver Fired Over Stem Cell Talk
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A school bus driver who chatted about stem cell research with her pupils was fired for inappropriate behavior, a local newspaper said on Thursday. [
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'Shelter' for Divorced Dads
ROME (Reuters) - Italy's first "shelter" for divorced dads will open in the northern city of Bolzano on Saturday as fathers step up the fight for their rights in a country long dominated by the Italian "mamma."
Divorced and separated men who have been forced to give up their houses and empty their pockets for child support can apply for one of the five rooms with private bath in the communal home which could soon be copied across Italy. [
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Supreme Court to Hear ISP, Cable Dispute
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court agreed Friday to consider whether cable companies must open their high-speed lines to rival Internet providers.
....
At issue is whether cable-based broadband is a "telecommunications service" that makes it subject to strict Federal Communications Commission rules requiring phone companies to provide access to independent providers. [
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Can you spare a buck for some puppies?
Saw
this posted on Kevin's blog and thought some more publicity would be in order. If you aren't giving to anything this holiday season, this might be just the charity you are looking for:
I’ve never actually met Lee Wilkins in realspace, though we’ve had conversations online and over the phone since we first discussed working on some sort of project together (back before I got the gig at ANG. Lee’s a cool, quirky guy.
And he needs some help.
He’d moved from the UK to the US in May, but had to return recently after his employer dicked him over. That’d be bad enough, right? Well, he and his girlfriend Jenni have had a nightmare in trying to get their two Jack Russell terriers, Alfie and Benson, home too. Why, you ask?
•Delta lied to him about their ability to fly the dogs back to the UK. (It seems that only Continental has the rights or ability to do so at Lee’s local UK airport.)
•The pups are currently being warehoused in a kennel that Lee describes as so repulsive, he wouldn’t put his worst enemy in there. (Though I, personally, am starting to like the thought of locking the Delta Belgiums in there. Irony, thou art delicious…)
•It’s going to cost about US$1500 (~ £850) to get Alfie and Benson home via Continental.
•…and it needs to happen in the next 11-12 days, or one of the dogs won’t get medication he needs.
Doubleplusungood.
And then, even when A&B make it back home, they’re going to have to sit in quarantine for six months. Beaucoup bucks, but at least Lee and Jenni will be able to visit with them.
So Lee’s set up a site, www.alfieandbenson.com, to ask for some help.
If you have a dollar or two to spare, would you consider heading over there and helping out a fellow pet owner in dire straits?
Help out if you can. Or, if you have no mon-ay, post this on your blog and help out that way.
Hm, maybe I should consider sending this out to look for my SugarDaddy
Carl's Mom got this proposal:
Hi
This is a legitimate appeal for ladies only.
I'm an Italian guy,I live in Italy and my name is Renato.
I'm sending this message to the people because I have the wish to find an american lady for love and marriage.
I would love to find a wealthy lady who lives in one of the following places in usa or nearby:
1) "The treasure coast",I mean north east Broward County or east Palm Beach county(FLORIDA)
2)Honolulu (Hawaii)
3)Santa Barbara,Montecito,Bel Air,Beverly Hills,Encino or San Luis Obispo(California)
4)Reno(Nevada)
I'm in love with Florida because I have been there once ,I Like warm places,palm trees,nature,calm and I like especially Delray Beach,Boca Raton,Palm Beach,Golden Beach,Highlands Beach,Lauderdale by the sea,Admirals Cove,Manalapan,Coral prings,Jensen Beach,Boynton Beach,Deepwater,Hutchinson Island or Jupiter but I would be also interested in one of the 4 places listed above.
Considering that I like the mature women, I'd love to find a lady of 45-60yo age range.
I'd love to find a gentle long haired lady who lives in a swimming pool house near the sea (as I like to swim too much) .
I seek a lady without young or old children,a no smoker lady who could be widowed,separated,single ,divorced.
With this I'm not saying that I want a millionaires,if there's one that's ok but I just seek a rich woman and I think that she would be happy with me but I would need a sugarmamma figure at the beginning and she should also help me to find a job later.
Here in Italy I don't have a good future because there's the recession,the down swing causated by our new money,the euro and also causated by our government that is not able to give a higher salary to the people: now our salaries value the half and the prices of the things are almost the double.Here in Italy my life is in danger because is getting always more difficult to survive as there's no job for me here.
I am in danger also because I live in a family with several problems and I live in a place where still reigns the comunism and the fascism .
Considering that I'm around 30 yo now and I haven't found nothing good to do in this country,now
I seek a better future abroad and I would love to find a good woman likethe 70's women.
Considering that I know that In usa there are more opportunities for me, I'm here because I'm looking for a soulmate- sugarmamma in USA to have a dolce vita with her.
If it's normal that thousands of Russian women goes to u.s and that's normal then also me..it's normal.
I seek a woman that figures out of the years,looks young and feels young : it's not a problem if she's not beautiful because she should be beautiful inside and most of all ,she should desire a younger soulmate.(She could be overweight too)
The thing I desire is to fix a serious stable relationship with a lady who gives me the opportunity to have a better life.
ABOUT ME:
I have long brown hair,brown eyes,my weight is 65 kilos(145 lbs) and my height is about 1.80 metres(5.11)...
I'm no smoker /drinker and I'm good looking.I'm 27.
I like to swim(but the are not good places to swim here where i live),I like birds and I love Dolphins(unfortunately it's not possible to see these animals here in Italy)
I love old school american hard rock music(So I'd like to find a lady that likes the guitar) and I like to cook.
If you could be the kind of woman I'm looking for, write me soon please!!!!!!
I'm here because I need help and I'm not a joke because it wouldn't have sense.
Thank you very much for reading my letter
Cheers
Renato Riva - Italy
Theron Talks Aeon Flux
Charlize Theron, who plays the title role in the futuristic SF movie Aeon Flux, told SCI FI Wire that she took the part—her first genre project—on the heels of her Oscar-winning performance in Monster to change things up. [
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Sad Sign of the Times...
LONDON (Reuters) - A Father Christmas will have a webcam in his grotto to overcome parents' concerns after a number of high-profile pedophile cases in Britain in the past few years. [
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Police Raid Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Police armed with a search warrant raided Michael Jackson's Neverland Valley Ranch on Friday as part of the child molestation investigation against him, a Santa Barbara County Sheriff's spokesman said. [
more]
Interesting article on how to get your free credit report
Free online credit reports begin Wednesday from CNet.
Note: I just did this. It's fast and easy, and they just ask you a couple questions and then you can get all 3 reports online.
Happy to report that all of mine are good. I have a few cards I don't think I have so we'll have to call up about that, but otherwise, perfect history there.
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The Passion of the Tea
 | OMG! So GOOD! I could drink this all day! Go! Buy some! (Starbucks is my dealer, who's yours?)
Here's a write up:
Tazo Passion Begins Life When Luscious Hibiscus Flowers Are Combined With The Subtle Citrus Notes Of Lemongrass & Tart Chilean Rose Hips. Natural Tropical Flavors Of mango & Passion Fruit Are Mixed In, & The Whole Concoction Is Blended Together Under The Watchful Eye Of A Certified Tea Shaman. the Result Is Bold & Flavorful & Should Dispel Any Notion that Herbal Insusions Are Weak & Watery.
*AND* it's caffine free for all of you freaks out there.
OH! And it's red. And I don't mean wussy pink crappy tea red, I mean like kick ass red!
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This should make Kevin happy
LOL! Who Wears the Wrong Size Condom?
BERLIN (Reuters) - Most German men wear condoms of the wrong size, a condom distributor said on Wednesday, after asking more than 2,500 men to measure their erect penis. [
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Canada Ends Permit Program for Foreign Strippers
OTTAWA (Reuters) - The Canadian government, under fire because one of its ministers has been accused of giving preferential treatment to a Romanian stripper, said on Wednesday it was scrapping a program that handed out temporary work permits to foreign-born exotic dancers. [
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AGH Today is crazy.
Lunch with Nathan (fun), Interview (we'll see), and shuttling tiny furry things to uncle Morgan's house for the day in leu of being inspected wore me out. I have side projects that need work tonight and tomorrow too...
Just catching up on computer stuff and then hopefully I can unwind and go take a bath.
I have no idea how I am going to fit 18 people in my apartment
Holiday dinner should be nice and cozy! I sure am glad that most of you seem to like each other!
Conceptual planning help would be appreciated.
You too could have a golf course at home...
Golf course stolen piece by piece
Authorities say a Cayuga County man stole a golf course piece by piece.
Sheriff deputies say Donald Ross stole golf balls, tee markers, ball washers and numerous other items from the Owasco Country Club. Authorities believe Ross took the equipment over a period of three years and set up a three hole golf course on his property - he shared with his twin brother. [
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As Steph said: I do not know what these folks were thinking....
And now I go watch an obscene amount of Dark Shadows...
VC Dinner
So, I got $100, a pointsetta plant, and a fabulous dinner for putting some plants on a table, giving people name tags, and putting misc. stuff in a box.
I also got to meet the founder of the
X-Prize and
NoGravity, as well as his friend who created Quake and Doom. There was a presentation by the X-Prize guy, where we got to watch the video from the winning flight and see the math on how cheap space flight is actually going to be soon.
Not a bad evening.
Screensaver tackles spam websites
Internet portal Lycos has made a screensaver that endlessly requests data from sites that sell the goods and services mentioned in spam e-mail.
Lycos hopes it will make the monthly bandwidth bills of spammers soar by keeping their servers running flat out. [
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That's brilliant. If nothing else, it costs them tons of money....
Flowering Phone Is Environmental Wake-Up Call
LONDON (Reuters) - A rose is a rose is a phone? British scientists seeking to protect the environment have designed a biodegradable mobile phone cover that breaks down in soil when discarded and sprouts a flower from a seed embedded inside the case. [
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Ah ha! You see? This is so they can more easily identify the hippies! Damn, these aliens have marketing genius as well as interstellar conspiracy aspirations! No wonder we can't stop them!
Fun Fact
The average speed of a house fly is 4.5 mph
Lava Lamp Left on Stove Explodes, Kills Man
SEATTLE (Reuters) - A Washington state man who placed a lava lamp on a hot stove died when the lamp exploded and a glass shard pierced his heart, police said on Tuesday. [
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What does this teach us, kids? When doing acid and playing with your lava lamp, hot stoves will not help it to heat up faster....
Personally, I think it wasn't an accident, but a large alien conspiracy to kill all of the hippies on the planet as they are inclined to knowledge of their existance and threaten the hostile alien take over that they have planned.
I shouldn't watch X files anymore...
re: Lunch at Stanford
Was very Yummy - we wnet to out Thai place and I was very happy to see my friends again! Now i get about an hour before I have to leave to go earn a little cash helping out at a VC awards dinner thing, which should be interesting at the very least!
:-) I will have my cell off from 4-9 so if you call, just leave a message and I'll call you back when it is over.
Lunch at Stanford
With the girls - Call the cell if you need me!
Spacey Considers Luthor Role
Kevin Spacey confirmed to SCI FI Wire reports that he's seriously considering playing Lex Luthor to Brandon Routh's Superman in director Bryan Singer's upcoming film, Superman Returns. [
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And, it's about the money, really.
