So, I just found out that The Da Vinci Code is being made into a movie..sweetness. If you havn’t read the book by by Dan Brown, go do it now, it’s awsome. I hear Tom Hanks will be the lead, playing the role of Robert Langdon.
So, here’s my list of things good and bad for the month:
Good:
Lost over 15lb
that’s it.
Bad:
Got dumped
Car got smashed in the WinCo parking lot by some asshole’s sharping cart
Car died (I think it’s ignition..hopefully that’s all it is)
Got a jury summons (this happened tonight)
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As far as I can tell, I’m about due to be struck by lightning, twice, on thanks giving.
Oh, on a completely different note
Someone hook me up with a girlie for my birthday (no, I don’t want any hookers, reguardless of how much I joke about it)
So, finaly, someone recognized that babies are gadget lovers too…because they taste extra good when you’re under 2yr’s old..
Check out the Mobile Baby Toy post on Engadget
Excerpt here —–
The Mobile Baby Toy turns your cellphone into a temporary diversion for your little monster child. Basically, it locks your phone into a mode in which your little bundle of joy can press keys to trigger sounds and pictures that will delight him or her for three minutes at least, until he or she drools all over your antenna, because we can pretty much guarantee your phone will end up in that baby mouth, as it tastes better than anything that could possibly be displayed on that little screen. Available in English, Finnish, Russian, and German.
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So, after reading an article about some college students turning bad vodka into good vodka, I decided to try it. I purchased a $20 britta water filtering system (actually, it was $15..they had a $5 gift card coupon that the cashier kindly applied to the immediate purchase) –this was a one time cost.
I then went to the liquor store and bought the cheapest Vodka I could find…a $6 bottle of Potters Premium. I followed the directions on that came with the britta on how to prime the filter (soaking for 15 minutes) and poured the whole bottle in (after taking a ‘before’ taste, of course..it was pretty foul..more like rubbing alcohol than Vodka. I ran it through the filter 5 times, which didn’t take nearly as long as I had thought it would. After the 5th time, I took other sip and it was amazingly MUCH better. The bottle advertised that it was charcoal filter 4 times. I wonder if they meant charcoal briquette, cause the britta uses a charcoal filter too. Anyways, the end result completely blew me away by the difference it made. If you’ve ever had Vox, it tasted better then that, even though it was pretty warm (room tempature durring winter..ie –around 65f degrees). It basicaly put it up into the $30/bottle range of Vodka’s…I’ve stuck it in the freezer, so it will be nice and chilled later.
I will never again pay more than $6 for a bottle of vodka at the liquor store.
This is pretty interesting, as it gives views outside of mainstream media like CNN and MSNBC. This blog is from an Iraqi –who is actualy there and post about what’s going on. Lots of vivid pictures. If you care at all about what’s going on in the world, whether you’re for, or against the war, it’s good to have a view other than the one CNN gives us here in the States.
Raed In the Middle blog.
Kmart is buying Sears for approximately 11 billion dollars in a surprise merger. Great..now we can all look forward to buying Martha Stewert crap at Sears.
Sean sent in this link. Whitehouse/bush spoof based on the Beastie Boy’s No sleep till Brooklyn. Pretty amusing.
Called ThunderBird-Tray or tb-tray. ThunderBird is an awsome mail client with a learning spam filter from the guys over at Mozilla. Anyways, I love this mail client, except for the fact that it sits in the Taskbar instead of the Systray. Well, tb-tray makes that wish come true. It hides Thunderbird to the systray. Sweetness.
Oh, those Mozilla guys are also the same ones who made FireFox my favorite web browser as well.
Here’s to 2005, because it has to be better than 2004. .. This year my mother had to sell her house because she lost her job and while she got another, it was at a pay cut. She had to move into a townhouse, which I guess she likes, but I still feel bad for her. My ex (2nd to last relationship) of almost 4 years broke up with me and was sleeping with someone else in less than a week.. I thought that was bad, but I guess I was just naive.. because my most recent ex, who I had fallen head over in heals in love with, broke up with me last week. Well, here’s the kicker..she’s already engaged to someone else. The worse part is, the trust is gone, even if she changed her mind and said I want you back, I don’t think I could do..so I feel pretty stuck between a rock and a hardplace, not happy no matter what. Can’t be with her, even though I want to be, and at the same time, I don’t as well, because how can you want to be with someone who broke your heart? Makes me wonder what I did in my life that was so evil as to have to go through that…this..whatever it is.
Anyways..here’s to 2005 again, because it has to be better than now…
I am cautiously removing the comment moderation — I had it enabled so I could approve/disapprove comments to block the massive amounts of comment spam that I was getting for ‘free’ online poker sites. I’m going to test out this spam blocker to see how it works, cause I don’t really want to moderate comments..free speech and whatnot 
I think we’ve all been a scenario like the following Dilbert depicts…
So, apparently, pretty girls don’t ride the subway…
From Engadget
They’re not sure whether it was an inside job or the work of some hacker who experienced a little rejection while riding the rails, but somebody hacked into the New York subway computer system and switched one of the electronic signs at the W. 4th Street station to read “PRETTY GIRLS DON’T RIDE THE SUBWAY�. Apparently it was up there for a few hours, too, before MTA workers finally just unplugged the damn thing. Could someone please get Jenny Holzer on the phone?
Full New York Daily News Article Here
As many of you know, I was definately not a fan of John Ashcroft. In my opinion, he is worse that Bush. Bush is a simple man, he may be an idiot, but I don’t give him enough credit to blame him for all the short comings of the current US administration. He’s the type of man who will take an idea and run with it, not the type who comes up with them on his own. Ashcroft however, is dangerous. He was responsible for the TIA, and thus for CAPPSII (which was absolutely horrible with possible 25 year airline bans based on shoddy private sector data with no oversight and no accountability. If you got put on the list, and banned, well, good luck with any air travel, and you didn’t get to see why you were put on the list, or if the information was correct. You have no recourse.)
He is a bad bad man, at least as far as civil rights go. He let his right wing religious beliefs be his guidelines for crafting american law. I don’t know about you, but I don’t like it when people are in power that can make personal choicese FOR ME (such as abortion, or who I can marry) let their decisions be influenced by religious law that has it’s basis in fear of burning in hell, instead of a basis in reality and science.
So, when I heard that he was resigning, I was pretty happy…but now I’m not sure.. Bush has picked Alberto Gonzales to be the next Attourney General. And while I don’t know enough to make a solid decision about the man, my initial poking around hasn’t been very positive. According to this article he, as an advisor to Bush, recommended that the US SHOULD NOT FOLLOW Geneva Conventions in reguards to al-Qaida or Taliban prisoners.
Will he be any better than AsscroftAshcroft? Time will tell.
I hate the way you talk to me,
and the way you cut your hair.
I hate the way you drive my car,
I hate it when you stare.
I hate your big dumb combat boots
and the way you read my mind.
I hate you so much it makes me sick,
it even makes me rhyme.
I hate the way you’re always right,
I hate it when you lie.
I hate it when you make me laugh,
even worse when you make me cry.
I hate it when you’re not around,
and the fact that you didn’t call.
But mostly I hate the way I don’t hate you,
not even close…
not even a little bit…
not even at all.
I still recall the taste of my tears.
Echoing your voice just like the ringing in my ears.
My favorite dreams of you still wash ashore.
Scraping through my head ’till I don’t want to sleep anymore.
Come on tell me.
Make this all go away.
You make this all go away.
I’m down to just one thing.
And I’m starting to scare myself.
Make this all go away.
You make this all go way.
I just want something.
I just want something I can never have
You always were the one to show me how
Back then I couldn’t do the things that I can do now.
This is slowly take me apart.
Grey would be the color if I had a heart.
I just want something I can never have.
In this place it seems like such a same.
Though it all looks different now,
I know it’s still the same
Everywhere I look you’re all I see.
Just a fading fucking reminder of who I used to be.
Come on tell me.
Make this all go away.
You make this all go away.
I’m down to just one thing.
And I’m starting to scare myself.
Make this all go away.
You make this all go way.
I just want something.
I just want something I can never have
I just want something I can never have
Think I know what you meant.
That night on my bed.
Still picking at this scab
I wish you were dead.
You sweet and perry ellis.
Just stains on my sheets.