A day in the life of.... oh look, squirrel

Saturday, March 04, 2006

I hate it when...

People remove the blogger header from their blogs. Occasionally I like to blog surf, and the "next blog" button is quite handy. I hate it when I come across some fancy-ass, non-functional, non-intuitive, visually-cluttered blog that does not have one of the best buttons in the blogging world..."NEXT BLOG"! So, then I have to click my browser's back button and click the "next blog" button on the previous blog to get to the next blog.

I also hate blogs with background music. If I wanted to listen to music while reading your gosh darn blog, I'd turn on WinAmp on my computer and listen to music I prefer, not the crap you picked!

I must be bitter from having hockey withdrawals. The NHL was on hiatus during the Olympics and then the Dallas Stars had a game Thursday night (that they got their balls handed to them in a Kroger plastic grocery bag) but I missed it due to having homework. So, I've been without watching hockey for close to three weeks. Pity me!

Luckily they play tonight...and hopefully they'll pull their heads out of their asses and win.

Funny George W. Bush images I found on the web

I'm image bootlegging again but I was thinking of the person whose web page I found this on. I didn't want to use their bandwith by linking to their pic pages directly. I'm so considerate...

Friday, March 03, 2006

Email Humor 03/03/2006

A tour bus driver is driving with a bus full of seniors down a highway when he is tapped on his shoulder by a little old lady. She offers him a handful of peanuts, which he gratefully munches up.

After about 15 minutes, she taps him on his shoulder again and she hands him another handful of peanuts. She repeats this gesture about five more times. When she is about to hand him another batch again he asks the little old lady why they don't eat the peanuts themselves.

"We can't chew them because we've no teeth", she replied.

The puzzled driver asks, "Why do you buy them then?"

The old lady replied, "We just love the chocolate around them."

Thursday, March 02, 2006

The nerve of some businesses

I guess it's more about the profit than having a long-term employee. Pisses me off! And we wonder why postal workers were brandishing Uzis at work in the 1980s. Bombs should be dropped on this business' offices. Assholes like this just grate my nerves! Click on quote to go to full story.

WINDBER, Pa. -- A company that fired a 13-year employee as his wife lay dying of brain cancer has offered the Pennsylvania man his job back..

Kazaa, LimeWire, BearShare...

I read an article the other day that a 60-yr-old grandmother is being sued by the RIAA for downloading some songs from some soundtrack of a movie that she would, in no way, ever watch. Obviously, I forgot the songs and the movie but I do remember it was a remake of some older action/violent movie that at her age she has no interest in.

Anyway, she does have a pre-teen/teenage grandson that swears to his grandmother he didn't download the files - yeah, right! Anyway, she is from the lower-income side of town and cannot fight this fight (they want like $10K) but a pro-bono lawyer is taking on the fight for her.

To an extent, I can see how a person that is sharing copyrighted-stab-you-in-the-ass-rake-you-over-the-coals music files can get in trouble but I find it hard to understand the full legitimacy of pursuing the "downloader".

It's like going to the grocery store and seeing those samples in the meat/deli section. They are out there on display. Granted you would have to purchase an entire loaf, roast or whatever but THEY have put out pieces of the whole. So, if you were to grab enough of the pieces to make a whole, would they charge you for it or pursue legal action against you?

I know. I know. The store put out the pieces and an individual is putting out the pieces of the CD. That's getting too specific and I lacked a better example.

I think you get the point. The point is why should the downloader be punished for what is made available by someone else? The downloader hasn't done anything illegal. It's not illegal to download any type of file by legal methods. Kazaa, LimeWire, BearShare and others are not illegal software. They are fully legit products for P2P file sharing, is it their (companies) fault that it may or may not be used to share copyrighted music? I think not!

I'm sure we could go on and on, back and forth about this whole file-sharing stuff but my opinion remains that the downloader should not be held accountable for downloading the files shared by someone else unless they in turn share the files. Yes, which that is technically the whole purpose...the more people who have the file(s) the faster the download will be.

The future holds for us scenes like in Johnny Mnemonic or The Matrix...super, high-tech, black market-type file-sharing. Good times ahead for all!

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Wednesday, March 01, 2006

The Shockabsorber

What will they come up with next for “visual” advertising?

Follow through until it lets you choose your size and the level of activity.
http://www.shockabsorber.co.uk/bounceometer/shock.html

Funny email SPAM

You seem not to have any problems with erections but you still dream of fuller and harder ones. Dont say NO to our Soft Viagra tabs.

Again, how the hell do these people do it? They know exactly what I am thinking! AMAZING!

Sunday, February 26, 2006

Toilet blogging

speak to Eminem’s “Lose Yourself” (I think that’s the song)

Have you ever blogged while sitting on the pot?

I have.

I’m doing it right now.

[end]

Okay, so it sounded funnier in my head than on the computer screen.

Thursday, February 23, 2006

Trilogy of Terror (1975)

I was looking through an action figure/memorabilia magazine and I came across something that reminded me of this movie I saw when I was about 10-12 years old at an ex-sister-in-laws house. I remember it to this day and my brother, who is three years older, remembers it too because I remember talking to him about it occasionally in the past. I look back now and realize that the movie was basically terribly made but it left an impression on me that most scary movies haven’t.

It scared the shit out of me so much that I had visions for days, months, even years of seeing this little doll chasing me in the dark through my parents’ house or outside with this little bitty knife that probably was no bigger than a 3-inch nail file.

The only other movie that scared me as much was the original Exorcist with Linda Blair. It’s funny though that both these movies in their entirety didn’t scare me. There were just certain parts.

In “Trilogy of Terror“, it was the third story where the Zuni doll was chasing this woman through her house, swing this 3-inch blade, making this eerie sound but the face and facial expressions of the doll added to the effect. I remember the scene where the woman gets a back bone and catches the doll in a suitcase. It cuts its way out but then she tricks it into the oven. She shuts the door and turns it on and the doll basically burns up, disintegrates. She’s curious as to if it is dead or what. She opens the oven door just to be overtaken by the spirit of the Zuni! She’s waiting in her kitchen, possessed, for her roommate(?) to come home while she has a big kitchen knife she’s striking the floor with.

In “The Exorcist“, the scene that was scariest was when Linda Blair is laying on the bed, with her greenish-blue veiny face, talking like a cigarette smoker to the priest. She starts floating, spinning and yelling “Fuck me! Fuck me!”, head spinning and vomiting. Scared the piss out of me so much that I would not go through my parents’ house in the dark. I would turn on every damn light in the house as I walked. If the light switch was on the far side of the dark room, it usually wasn’t a room that I went in or through. Occasionally, I would get a back bone and run to the far-side light switch to turn it on. I think that’s the fastest I’ve run in my entire life!