I think that this is a post that a lot of bloggers have at one point or another - the one where you go through the logs and find some interesting keywords. Here goes ;)
dilana robicheaux and dilana nude uncensored pool - Rockstar Supernova lives on with a couple of searches related to Dilana the runner-up and her infamous leap into the pool on a dare ;)
Interestingly enough, I was watching a show about the upcoming V8 Supercar season, and music from their album appeared in a couple of places during the show; I was paying attention to that and wound up having to go back to actually pay attention to what the people were saying.
Another search term that appeared recently is nina visser bott, which appeared in my post about the literary qualities of spam.
Someone else searched for something that I'd be somewhat interested in watching just for the curiousity - runaway truck ramp video.
I was browsing through Wikipedia tonight when I came upon an article about ATSC Tuners (for those of y'all in Europe or Australia, it's our version of the digital tuner). One thing that was mentioned was a Federal regulation that stipulates the following -
(iv) Other video devices (videocassette recorders (VCRs), digital video recorders such as hard drive and DVD recorders, etc.) that receive television signals—100% of all such units must include DTV tuners effective March 1, 2007.
In other words, after next Thursday, all DVD recorders must be able to pick up digital signals over the air. That explains why the local Wal-Mart was selling off a whole stack of DVD recorders for dirt-cheap (right around $50); they were clearing stock for the new recorders that accept digital signals.
So, if you're looking to buy a DVD recorder (or even VCR), make sure you wait for a bit - you'll be able to take advantage of recording new stations and even the HD feeds of regular channels (even though it will still be in standard quality, you'll still get the widescreen picture - and let me tell you, if you've seen sports in widescreen, you will never want to go back; you'll even wonder why they don't show the widescreen version on the analogue signal).
If gmail is now open to all and sundry - why do they still have invites available? A possible reason for that is maybe to distinguish the "legacy" users from the new users? That doesn't make any sense either since the users who have used gmail for a couple of years now and want a new account will just open one, right?
Apparently, I might be in for a case of salmonella, thanks to peanut butter. Personally, I don't think that there should be any concern, so I'm gonna keep consuming it (but I'll still send in for my refund ;)). And if I get sick, I know where to put it.
If you want more information about the recall (and if you're interested, I have the "Great Value" chunky peanut butter with the 2111 sort code), you can read this AP story.
I have a lot of equipment that is HP - my laptop is an HP, the first CD-RW drive I got was an HP, and I had used HP printers for close to 10 years. However, when I got my computer two years ago, it came with a Canon Pixma IP1500 printer. At first, I was a bit disappointed with the fact that it was essentially a low-end printer. However, there is a great benefit.
Saving tons of money on cartridges. I don't do a lot of printing, but of course, there are times that is necessary to do it. And eventually it runs out of ink (or it will tell me that the ink is low). Now with the HP printers, the ink cartridges were, on average, $30 each for black or color. With the Canon, it's $7 for the black and $17 for the color.
Of course, it's probably a good thing that we don't buy it in a gallon (or even for that matter, litre) size - according to a column in "Adorama", a gallon of magenta ink for a HP printer comes out to $10,788. Of cousre you have to do 4 cartridges since having a Magenta would indicate that the printer requires a Cyan, Yellow and Black cartridge, you're out for $43,152 for a gallon of each. Well, at least you'll be able to print for just about ever.
I guess it's another reason why we shouldn't complain about gas hitting $2.35 per gallon (that's 62¢ or so per liter, including taxes). Then again, prices of gas around the world should be reason enough to not complain...
For those expecting jokes about toilet functions, look elsewhere. ;)
Everyone else, I must recommend that you listen to today's installment of the Mr. Brown Show. I've been listening for a few months now and just about every one of their podcasts leave me laughing.
However, I'm not sure if the Super Nice Toilet II would go over too well here. ;)
I guess a move like this was inevitable. In this area there are, essentially, two major Home Improvement retailers - one is a nation-wide, publicly traded company and the other is a regional chain, mostly in the upper Midwest and is still privately owned.
For the most part, the large national chain is the one that is second choice to go to, and with good reason - they don't give terribly good service. Most of the time, the employees will tell you how to get to something, or they won't know where to find something, or they'll just ignore you. Also, the prices are, on average, higher (an example of this is closet rod - the national chain sold it for $1.17 per linear foot and the regional chain was 25¢ cheaper and they cut it to length for you).
Another good reason for shopping at the regional chain is that they have a wider variety of products. They have just about everything to build a house - from the foundation to the roof. You can even get appliances, including coin-operated washing machines and the latest in appliance technology. Recently, they've added mattresses to their stock. You can also get decorations for every holiday and get a garden going.
They also make seemingly constant changes to the store - a couple of years ago they added a large balcony to stores, but they're employee-only. This year, they're completely changing the layout of the store with more open shelving, and a new product line: groceries. So now, you can head to the shop - pick up some stuff you need - Duct Tape, a gallon of paint, a new hammer, some power tools, milk, popcorn, chips and snacks, macaroni and cheese, some DVDs and even current books (31% discounts apply to bestsellers).
One thing that isn't new to their stocks is this item - the pushmower. :)
While I posted about how Web 2.0 is supposed to work, I honestly don't get it - other than the idea is that you're interacting with a lot of people at a time, but there is something that doesn't click.
Just as an example, I clicked on a link - I didn't check where it went, and if I had known that it was going to some random person's myspace account, I wouldn't have clicked on it (and even though I linked to it, I wouldn't recommend clicking on it either; it took a long time for the page to get loaded, and even then it hadn't finished; also the site is built with a background image that doesn't move and that really sucks resources.
So, anyway, my point is that - how can I click on some random person's Myspace account and have this message come up to me (from the example I linked to)
milford is in your extended network
There are a couple of obvious problems here -
First, I've never heard of this person and randomly clicked on a link that led me there.
Secondly, and this is the one that really gets me, how can you have an "extended network" if you don't even have an account, and never want one? And what, exactly is this extended network; is that to imply that there is a "standard" network and an "inner" network too?
And lastly, if this person "milford" ever happened to stop by here, how many of your 260 purported friends have you ever actually talked to? And I don't mean as text on a screen - I mean actually talking on the phone or on Skype or even (dare I say it?) met face-to-face.
Though, just for a waste of time, I searched for my old school on there - you can't filter lists down by age (that takes you to the main homepage) and I would venture to guess that a lot of the people who claimed to be alumni of the place never heard of the town.
One of the blogs that I've put into my Google Reader is Google Operating System. It's not an official Google Blog, but it is a blog that highlights many of the things that Google influences, including how the web has changed.
Today, this item was posted, which was a link to a video made by Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University. It's a great primer in what Web 2.0 is, and how it is really changing things. I think the most interesting aspect is looking at how Yahoo was back in 1996, a basic page built on simple HTML - i.e.
<HTML>
<HEAD><TITLE>Yahoo!</TITLE></HEAD>et cetera
To the code for the CNN Top Stories RSS Feed, in full XML. Do watch this, it's less than 5 minutes, and the music is pretty good to listen to :) -
Well, you might not know the melody unless you're from my area and are a football fan, but here we go -
The Bears still suck The Bears still suck They really really really really really really suck Yes, the Bears still suck!
Repeat a few times
As just about everybody who isn't in Chicago expected, the Colts defeated the Bears to win Super Bowl XLI, an event that was seen live in well over a hundred countries (including some countries where there were upwards of three different versions of the same game airing concurrently - Aussies, I'm looking at y'all ;)). For a few minutes in the first half, it didn't look too good for those of us cheering for the Colts to do it, but sure enough, they pulled it out and took control.
However, nowadays, the game is almost a sideshow compared to all the other entertainment you see during the game - in particular the commercials. This year's halftime performance by Prince seemed a touch off, but maybe that's just me; I think two of the most memorable ones came in the early '90s - the first was the 1991 Super Bowl where there was no halftime broadcast because of an ABC News brief on the Gulf War. The other was either just before or just after that one - where you had to get Coke products to get some 3D glasses to watch the halftime festivities. Ah well, we can't have much fun anymore thanks to the last time it was on CBS, with the nipple that nobody would have noticed if not for Tivo.. :)
So, the commercials. The most lauded one was the ad for Nationwide Insurance featuring Kevin Federline first rapping and then boxing fries -
Personally, one of my favorite commercials was the NFL's "Super Ad" - an ad pitched by a fan in Buffalo about what happens to fans at the end of the season - you know, washing the body paint and having to say goodbye. Of course, for some players, it's harder; honestly, that's the best part since they pick on our own "can't say goodbye" player Favre, who, unlike was projected in December, will be coming back for another go in '07. Here it is -
If you want to see just about every ad that aired you can see them on YouTube
You would think that there was a big snowstorm out there. However, there isn't. It's just cold, as one would expect it to be in winter. We're having the (in general) annual trip below the zero Fahrenheit mark (that's -18°C). The weather service says that it's not expected to go back above zero until Monday sometime, however, they have also issued an advisory about the wind chill until 10 AM Tuesday.
Most people would think, yeah, it's winter; you're supposed to get cold weather. But to the TV stations (who have had consultants tell them that a lot of people like this kind of reporting), they have to tell us in excruciating detail the exact weather. Even though it's close to midnight and very few people are probably actually watching TV, there are two stations who insist on having graphics on screen informing us of the temperature and the wind chill. One of these stations also had a story about the safety in using a space heater, and how to keep warm.
On top of that, invariably, there will be some social functions closing because of the extreme weather (in particular I can think of places that mostly senior citizens would attend, such as Bingo halls). Yesterday one of our vaunted trustworthy local TV stations had a story on if the major school district in the city will shut down on Monday. I could understand this on Sunday, but on Friday? Come on.
Ah well, life will go on even if it is going to get down to 13 or 14 below zero (that's -25 or -26°C). The same people will be crowing about the heat in August, and for one station, the fact that it stays cooler near the lake until then. ;)
It's been a while since I've been on a bus, but this isn't about me. It's about a movie based on this concept - Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. Basically, it's a story of two drag queens and a transvestite who are summoned from their base in Sydney to Alice Springs to perform at a hotel/casino. Now, anyone familiar with even the basics of transport in Australia will know that it it's a long, hard slog to get from one city to the other, involving long periods of (for the lack of a better term) lonliness, even when travelling with mates.
In fact, during the movie, there are two journeys going on - the one at the centre of the movie, and the running gag - the "Philips Coast-to-Coast Classic", and somehow, the two paths meet up a couple of times during the movie. Clearly, she is a fast runner. ;)
However, the main journey does encounter some delays, most notably when it is decided to take the shortcut (essentially an unimproved track through the desert) instead of staying on the sealed roads while heading toward Port Augusta. Thus, they are led through the outback (the filming of which featured many of the creatures that are native to the desert lands) and the result is predictable - the dust clogs up the engine and they wind up stranded. Bernadette (the transvestite) heads off for help, finds it, but once they come upon the scene of the bus, now painted purple (or lavender, but it looked pink), they run off quite quickly. Eventually help is found, a pink kite (which later ends up somewhere else in Southeast Asia) is used to locate them, and they hobble their way to a small roadhouse, then onwards to Coober Pedy and to Alice Springs.
One of the recurring themes is that of tolerance. It all starts out well in Sydney where the type of show that they do is generally well-received. However, in Broken Hill, they receive a harsh lesson in how intolerant people can be when after they finish their stay in the hotel, they find their bus adorned with the phrase "AIDS Fuckers Go Home". At the roadhouse (where they were suggested to perform by the mechanic who helped them out of being stranded), they were essentially booed off of the stage, preferring to be entertained by the wife of the mechanic who did this amazing trick with some pingpong balls. Interestingly, the only people in the country who really tolerated them (aside from some folks in Alice Springs) were a group of Aboriginals who asked them to attend their camp and they put on a show that ended up in the two groups essentially merging their music.
It's a movie that discusses (indirectly) some interesting aspects of modern society - particularly the acceptance of people who choose to live their lives differently than the rest of us. I personally do accept the fact that there are people who do choose to live this way; if that's what they think is the right way of living for them, then they should go for it.
A blog about a simple, yet complex guy. I'll generally post about anything and everything, but I tend to focus on techy stuff, things I observe about the world around me and myself. I invite you to also check out Ten Interesting Things about me.
Extroversion (18%) low which suggests you are very reclusive, quiet, unassertive, and secretive. Accommodation (47%) medium which suggests you are moderately kind natured, trusting, and helpful while still maintaining your own interests. Orderliness (58%) moderately high which suggests you are, at times, overly organized, neat, structured and restrained at the expense too often of flexibility, variety, spontaneity, and fun. Emotional Stability (44%) moderately low which suggests you are worrying, insecure, emotional, and anxious. Inquisitiveness (41%) moderately low which suggests you are, at times, overly small minded, traditional, and conventional at the expense of intellectual curiousity, possibility, and progress.
