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Monday, June 30, 2003
Friday, June 27, 2003
High Comedy
dwinn74: http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_fullstory.asp?id=7555 naiadej: *rotfl* dwinn74: I like the last couple of sentences. naiadej: *snort* When I read "granted leave", my first thought was, "psychiatric leave?" naiadej: And he has his own "weblog". dwinn74: Article says: dwinn74: Prime's girlfriend and four children lived in the house that was destroyed. dwinn74: Large gun-looking robot seen fleeing neighborhood naiadej: *laugh* dwinn74: Witnesses couldn't identify the fleeing robot. "There was more there than meets the eye." naiadej: Bad! You are so bad! dwinn74: Prime has his own weblog? naiadej: Well, a lame one through the media outlet. Check to the left on the link you sent. dwinn74: What if Prime had a Livejournal? dwinn74: Mood: Confident naiadej: *laugh* dwinn74: Music: Moby dwinn74: 'Another Decepticon raid today. It was yet another vain attempt by Megatron to convert Earth resources into Energon Cubes." dwinn74: "In personal news, I haven't had a date in what seems years." dwinn74: :( :( :( :( :( dwinn74: User Comments: dwinn74: M3ga1r0n: I"LL GET YOU PRIME! naiadej: *snicker* dwinn74: BumbleBee: "How Long do I have to be this gay VW Bug?"
Hollywood is Full of Phonys
Box Office Oracle: Create your own summer blockbuster/box office disaster. My film: (Lingering Illness/Period Drama/Talking Animal/Horror) Starring Vin Diesel and Rachel Weisz Also Featuring Samuel L. Jackson, Ian McKellen, Cameron Diaz, and Eliza Dushku Directed by John Woo Screenplay by Joss Whedon and Ice Cube Projected Budget Range: $100-109 Million Planned Release Date: July Projected Box Office Receipts: $19.77 million (Opening Weekend) $92.08 million (Total Domestic Gross) Chance of getting Oscar Nomination: 7% Chance of winning at least one Oscar: 2% Critic Most Likely to Praise: Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post Critic Most Likely to Skewer: Rita Kempley, Washington Post Thursday, June 26, 2003
The Smokers
We have these neighbors. They're nice enough people, but they smoke, like, all the time. The other morning I woke to the foul stench of smoke wafting up through our window. The neighbor lady was out on her porch at 8:10 in the morning furiously puffing away. People are always saying "Smoking is on the decline, now that everyone knows that it kills you." I don't see that at all, especially amongst young people, who you'd think would know best of all. There's no doubt whatsoever of the addictive nature of tobacco. Sadly, in this country, addictive things are OK as long as they can be legally sold.
20Q
This version of the traditional "Twenty Questions" program is pretty slick. It guessed "clown" in about 17 questions. Monday, June 23, 2003
I need some kind of filter to block reaction to recent Supreme Court decisions from my browser. It's just leaving me depressed.
Especially the picture of the asshats on the right. Whitey got it sooooo bad. Tuesday, June 17, 2003
toast.txt
Well. What a day this is! -- Special day. It's one thing to be asked to be the best man, but it's truly special when your two best friends are marrying. I'm honored to say a few words, and I'll keep it short. I'd love to tell some kind of embarrassing story about Dann and Mer, but I'd also like to make it out of here alive tonight, so I'll pass. I also wish that I had some great wisdom or something profound to say about marriage, but I'm afraid Julie and I are still figuring it out ourselves. Oh, there's plenty of cliches I could spout at you, but you guys deserve better than that. Robert Frost wrote of two roads diverging in a yellow wood. Today I see you guys standing there together at that fork in the road with the rest of your lives ahead of you. But I don't see you taking either path, but instead plunging right through the underbrush, machetes in hand. Sure, it's a tough way to go, and you trip and fall sometimes, but you're making your own way along a path no one else has seen, and you're doing it together. That's marriage; and that makes all the difference. So here's to making your own way. Cheers! Extra credit if you can recognize the hidden speech reference. Monday, June 16, 2003
Remember What Happened to the Boy Who Got Everything He Ever Wanted
The Wedding happened this weekend. Everything went well, as far as I could tell. Hanging around with Dann and his brothers is thoroughly entertaining, but probably not for those with discriminating tastes in humor. The impotant part is that it happened without anyone dying, whether it be from sunstroke or otherwise. I only had a few things to do as the Best Man. In all honesty, the one I worried about the most was probably making sure that I didn't lose Mer's Wedding Ring in the short time I had possession of it. I tried to get Dann to wait on giving it to me until, say, 1:59, but he wasn't having any of it. I was also required to give a toast. I'd put it all together a couple of weeks back, so I wasn't flipping out about it, but once I got up to the mike, my natural discomfort-with-attention kicked in. I noticed about halfway through that my champaigne glass was shaking in my hand, and that made me focus. People seemed to like it, which is good. The tux wasn't the most comfortable thing in the world, which makes me appreciate the fact that I don't work somewhere with a dress code. I basically have two dress modes: t-shirt and jeans shorts, or t-shirt and jeans. It's nice to dress up like James Bond every now and then, tho. I had a funny feeling after Julie and I got home that night. It was like there was some kind of wedding resonance, in that now that I knew that our best friends were happily married, that that kind of combined with our happiness in our marriage, and that now my feelings about both were amplified... very strange, I don't know how quite to describe it. It's a good feeling, though. Monday, June 09, 2003
We Bet on Cards For Thee
This weekend I arranged for Dann's pals to gather, have dinner at the Outback, and then travel to Windsor, Ontario, Canada for pruposes of gambling and visiting their esteemed Parks and Museums. I'm gonna start with a somewhat off-topic Outback Steakhouse rant. Usually, any time that I go there I just get the Outback Special, which is generally the cheapest cut. The last two time or so that I'd been there, Julie and I got the same special, just cooked differently. However, on being served, I found that Julie had a regular looking steak and I had a hockey puck. So this time I ordered the Ribeye. So did my boy Smitty sitting next to me. And, of course, when they come out they look nothing alike, and mine has a 2-inch strip o' fat making up about 29 percent of it. But anyways... Everyone showed up eventually, we were seated incredibly, mind-bogglingly quickly, and all had good eats. Part Two involved getting into Canadia to visit Casino Windsor as well some of that town's finest Parks and Museums. Getting over the border went fine for my car -- just a few questions about what we were doing, if we had any cash, etc, as well as the obligatory "SARS is here" flyer. There were many great exhibits at the Museum that we settled on -- I think Dann enjoyed this exposure to art. Much later that evening we headed back to Casino Windsor, where everyone seemed to either break even or end up ahead. Allen and I played some quarter Video Blackjack. I ended up ahead about fifteen bucks or so overall. There was some kind of accident right at the tunnel entrance, so the OPP rerouted us south to the Ambassador Bridge; we didn't get home to sleep until daylight. Aside from that, I'm pretty confident all had fun. Friday, June 06, 2003
owie
I did something to my back. Yesterday I was in pain. Today I am in slightly less pain. This sucks. Tuesday, June 03, 2003
Ego Stroking
I learned the other day there was some people who thought very highly of me, and on learning that my mood just skyrocketed. I'd never describe my life prior to that moment as being without praise or as a life full of insecurity, but it was just great to me to have the admiration of my peers. |
