Wednesday, May 03, 2006

I slept for 11 hours...

So Finals week is approaching and is just as kind to me as it ever has been in the past. I finished up a 33 page project yesterday and still have another 15 pages due next week. I have a final tomorrow, and a final next thursday. Monday night was an all nighter-all dayer so I could get my stuff done yesterday. I figured that leaving Ro's pictures up an extra day would cause no harm, I mean, its Ro...

I got a link from mom that everyone needs to be aware of: http://www.dealdetectives.com/. I found out about an Epson Lawsuit of which I collected $30 from, through this website. Its good stuff, and everyone can use a little savings now and again.

Secondly, this is the hottest queen I've ever seen... Queen Rania of Jordan. Crazy, huh? England needs to take notes.

Lastly, I needed to post some pictures from my Dad's Website. He's got a flickr account, and for those of you who aren't familiar, flickr is a purely photo website. He's quite the photographer, what can I say? I taught him everything I know...



Monday, May 01, 2006

She really did it.

Some kid better be real happy, because they've got my girlfriends hair. She finally got to Great Clips and cut her hair off. It was unexpected, kinda, because we went to do it on Saturday but stupid Great Clips closed at 6 pm. So she just decided to do it while I was at work and now... its all gone. She donated 12 inches to Locks of Love.

She's adorable. I like it, its not too short by any means and lets face it, Ro's adorable no matter what she does. Even if she shaved her head bald and looked like a monk, she'd be the cutest monk at the monastery.


Friday, April 28, 2006

The Josh and Rob Movie

See, it was a ongoing theme in Highschool (and even a short time afterwards) that we were going to star and direct in our own movie. Often it was really just a collection of short skits in our head that we never really pieced together but somehow involved Josh, Lisa, Phil, PJ and I buying the Crystal Ballroom and turning it into a swing club and we were going to be fighting the mob or something. The closest we ever got was to get our hands on a video camera for a Freshman year birthday party, man I should dig that up and the parents house...

Anyways, I was stumbling around the internet and came across Google Idol. Its like American Idol, but way better and I care a lot more. Why? Its just a bunch of kids lipsyncing and making their own music videos. You vote every week and its a little tournament. The kids I'm most impressed with at the moment are these guys who have a little "company" they call Exclamation! Films. They do school projects (art history videos in the vain of the crocodile hunter), music videos and their own short films. I really enjoy them, not because they're the greatest thing ever, but because they're pretty well thought out and frankly, there could be a future in it for some of them. Here's a first: The First Video on Rob's Space 2.0!!



P.S. In Google Idol, Ro's favorite catagory might just be the "Gay Idol" section.
P.S.S. Josh, do you remember any more of our movie?

Thursday, April 27, 2006

I could SO be a judge.

My first Judge related story is this one. Some Christian group tried suing the Di Vinci Code movie on some ridiculous grounds of plagiarism recently in an attempt to pull the movie. Now I've read the book, and I was intrigued by some of its claims, but it took me about 2 seconds of research to realize that the book is completely bullhockey. Its complete fiction, and not science fiction either where it might be based on some sort of plausible truths... this is talking dogs and my dad is a robot alien fiction. He quotes real people, religious groups, and controversial books/theories, but then he jumbled and exaggerates everything beyond recognition. Coincidentally, he wrote a book about hacking and computers called "Digital Fortress" and it's supposedly just as ridiculous and the man clearly doesn't even know how to turn a computer on.

Geeze... I really got off topic there, what was I talking about? Oh yeah.... judges. So this judge threw out the case because it was, well, ridiculous and within his written, formal judgment there were some oddities. Some random capital letters and some crossed out letters. On the first page the capital letter spell out "Smithy Code" (his name is Judge Smith). And I thought judges were boring.

Second judge story, a guy brought a frivolous suit before a judge in Texas and closed his paper quoting: "Mr. Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I've ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response was there anything that could even be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points and my God have mercy on your soul."

I could SO be a judge. I'm already in the political track, its not that far of a jump. I'll just be able to tell people they're stupid and wasting my time. I'm going to have to get some experience first though. I think Wednesday is amateur night at Deja Vu... I wonder if they have judges.

Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Presents

So I finally got Jamie her birthday present today. We decided to meet halfway since we're both really busy, yet she really wanted her new DVD Player (she didn't know exactly what it was, but new that the BEST BROTHER IN THE WORLD wouldn't let her down). Anyways, I needed to wrap it today, and I was SO proud of my wrapping job that I took pictures. And Jamie took the wrapping paper home to show Scott.





Also I played the greatest internet/popup/banner ad game today. You played as President Bush and had to beat up Mike Tyson but pressing this red button. I played it a lot. Turns out it was harder than I expected, because I lost a lot. Actually, I lost every single game. Every time I had to sit through the utter embarrassment of watching Mike Tyson knock out President Bush... I never did find out what they were selling.

Monday, April 24, 2006

What's going on?

Thought I'd bring you up to speed with a few things. You know, keep you all in the loop.

School
Finals are coming up. And I have about 50 pages of project due in a week or so. Yeah, that sucks. Got a lot of reading and writing ahead of me these next several days. Grades are doing good so far however.

The Buy
People in my department have stopped quitting for a while it seems... we've reached a point of equilibrium or something. There's still a couple on the fence but considering in the short time I've been there we've gone through 2 Seniors, 2 Supervisors and at least a dozen employees, its' pretty impressive. Now there's a restructuring going on in the store and looks like at least two managers have quit. It'll be interesting.

Ro
Donating her hair to Locks of Love very soon, maybe this weekend. We'll have pictures for you.

Videogames
I'm playing Puzzle Pirates, which has a bunch of games similar to Bejeweled, Tetris, Dr Mario, etc. Its online and its free. Only downfall is you have to download and install it, which may not work for some of you at business computers.

Also the Nintendo Revolution comes out in November. I'm getting one the day it comes out. I've already told all my managers this, they are all aware of the situation. Jamie also thinks she's getting my Gamecube (Gamecube games/controllers work on the Revolution) so if I'm feeling generous she just might.

Reading Selections
Just finished Barack Obama's book: Dreams from My Father. And I'm part way through American Gospel. I'm also reading Culture War for class.

Must Have Web Link
Deal Detectives