I have to admit I haven't been playing the Sims as avidly as I used to (sad to day real life gets in the way...) so today as I was finalizing my Christmas list and, of course, visited the Sims 2 site... they actually have quite a few expansion packs!! Here's what I found...
The Game:
The Sims 2:
The sequel to the best-selling PC game of all-time!
In the The Sims™ 2, you direct your Sims over a lifetime and mix their genes from one generation to the next. You set your Sims' goals in life; popularity, fortune, family, romance or knowledge. Give them a long, successful existence or leave their lives in shambles. Take them to extremes, from getting busted to seeing a ghost, from marrying an alien to writing a great novel. Unleash your creativity with the all-new Create-A-Sim, new building options, and the new in-game movie camera. Get ready to mix their genes, fulfill their dreams, and push them to extremes. What do you want to do with your Sims' lives?
The Expansions:
The Sims 2 University
Your Sims Are Taking Over Campus!
Your Sims are now young adults leaving home to live the ultimate college fantasy. Immerse them in college life as they become the Big Sim on Campus. They'll relish their new-found freedom as they party with friends, join fraternities and sororities and pull outrageous pranks. Your Sims will explore all the campus hot-spots as they frequent lounges, gyms, coffee houses and more. Help them fulfill new lifetime goals to unlock more rewards and reap all of the benefits of their university years.
The Sims 2 Nightlife
Send Your Sims on an Epic Night Out
Your Sims are on the town hitting all the swanky hot spots. Whether they're dancing until dawn, romancing that special someone, or striking out at the bowling alley, it'll be an unforgettable night! Let your Sims loose to enjoy their favorite after-dark activities as they pursue a life of pleasure. Determine their love lives as you discover the chemistry between Sims. Will their life aspirations and personalities click or clash? It could be the beginning of a stormy affair or a dating disaster. Ready for fun and romance? Bring on the night!
The Sims 2 Open for Business:
Your Sims Get Down To Business
Now your Sims can create their own businesses. They can design their own clothing boutique, beauty salon, florist, high-end electronics shop, bustling restaurant chain, or virtually any other type of business. Hire your staff as the business grows and put talented Sims to work making toys, running the register, crafting floral bouquets, giving sales pitches, or manufacturing robots. But watch out for slacker employees and be prepared to fire them on the spot. From clever tinkerer to master craftsman, develop your Sim's talents to best suit your business needs. Will they build a thriving business empire or become eccentric entrepreneurs designing the next big thing?
The Sims 2 Pets
Get Your Paws on The Sims™ 2 Pets Expansion Pack!
Create the perfect pet for your Sims to train, play with, and love throughout a lifetime. Pick everything from their paws to their personality. Choose from dozens of popular dog and cat breeds like Schnauzer and Siamese. Or create a unique cat or dog by modifying their features and body type. Your Sims can teach their pets tricks, take them for a romp in the park to meet other furry friends, or buy them toys, beds, and much more. But pets have minds of their own-so expect the unexpected!
The Sims 2 Seasons
(this one is coming soon)
Enjoy All Four Seasons with Your Sims!
Head outdoors for year-round fun with your Sims! New seasonal activities await your Sims including snowball fights, chasing fireflies, jumping in leaf piles, and more. Strengthen family ties in Winter, let romance bloom in Spring, deepen the bonds of friendship in Summer, or fast-track your career in Fall. Your Sims can now explore new careers and master new talents throughout the year, but beware freezing, sunburn, sneezing, and other unexpected weather effects! Dress your Sims appropriately or face the consequences!
The Stuff Packs:
The Sims 2 Family Fun Stuff
Must-Have Items for your Sims' Entire Family!
Add excitement to your Sims' family with this all-new collection of furniture, clothing, and décor. Decorate the home with an assortment of cool new furnishings, including upscale living room items and adventurous bedroom sets. Dress your Sims in matching attire for an amusing day out with the family. With 60 new items from castle beds to cruise ship replicas, your Sims now have more stuff for family fun.
The Sims 2 Glamour Life Stuff
Must-Have Items to Glam Up Your Sims' Lives!
Your Sims can now indulge in a glamorous life with this collection of luxurious furniture, fashionable clothing, and extravagant décor items*. Create lavish homes furnished with the finest modern bedroom, living room, and dining room sets. Turn heads in the neighborhood as your Sims show off elegant gowns, red carpet formalwear, and cool casual styles at their next big soirée. Your Sims will live the high life with 60 new items including pop-art paintings, sectional sofas, a high-end stereo, fur coats, and more!
The Sims 2 Happy Holiday Stuff
Celebrate the Season with Must-Have Holiday Items from Around the Globe!
Spice up your Sims' holidays with this updated collection of seasonal items, outfits, and décor. Deck their homes with traditional décor items from around the globe including mistletoe, reindeer lawn ornaments, and an all-new European-style Father Christmas. Indulge your Sims this season with this collection of 60 items of festive fun!
The Extras:
The Sims 2 Holiday Edition
Celebrate the Season with a Limited Edition of The Sims 2!
Celebrate the season with a limited edition of The Sims™ 2. The Sims™ 2 Holiday Edition includes The Sims 2 plus The Sims™ 2 Happy Holiday Stuff. Create and control your cast of Sims characters. Determine their personalities, appearance, behavior, choices, and more. Design and enhance their homes with countless building and décor options. Guide them through a lifetime! And now you can add sparkle to their holiday celebrations with a bonus collection of festive holiday items from around the world. 'Tis the season to explore the open-ended, creative gameplay of the world's most popular people simulator! Give the perfect gift-classic Sims gameplay spiced up for the holidays!
The Sims 2 Happy Holiday Mini-Pack
Celebrate the Season with All-New Must-Have Holiday Items for Your Sims!
Spice up your Sims' holidays with this mini-collection of seasonal items, outfits, and décor. Add even more sparkle and fun to your Sims' celebrations with 10 all-new festive items from around the globe, plus 10 all-new outfit options like a kimono or European Santa ensemble and more! Indulge your Sims this season and round out your holiday collection with these fun new items!
http://thesims2.ea.com/about/index.php?pid=pcgames
12.02.2006
12.01.2006
11.30.2006
Thought of the Day
This is a fwd I received awhile back that I really enjoyed:
"Thought for the Day:
If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it.
If He had a wallet, your photo would be in it.
He sends you flowers every spring.
He sends you a sunrise every morning Face it, friend - He is crazy about you!
God didn't promise days without pain,
laughter without sorrow,
sun without rain,
but He did promise strength for the day,
comfort for the tears,
and light for the way.
Read this line very slowly and let it sink in...
If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it."
"Thought for the Day:
If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it.
If He had a wallet, your photo would be in it.
He sends you flowers every spring.
He sends you a sunrise every morning Face it, friend - He is crazy about you!
God didn't promise days without pain,
laughter without sorrow,
sun without rain,
but He did promise strength for the day,
comfort for the tears,
and light for the way.
Read this line very slowly and let it sink in...
If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it."
11.29.2006
How To Save Flash Videos From YouTube
Okay so I thought I re-posted this article awhile back but when I looked through the blog archives I couldn't find it... so I'm posting it now.
The easiest way to save videos out of YouTube is by using the site KeepVid. It allows you to just plunk in the URL of of the video you are trying to acquire and then save it as a .flv file. You will need a .flv player to play it though:
KeepVid
http://keepvid.com/
FLV Player
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
The article:
"Every video posted in YouTube has its own video identification code.
The eleven digits of both upper and lower cased alpha-numeric video identification code is used to watch videos via YouTube’s website or embed them into other websites.
To download the videos via KeepVid or similar sites, the eleven digit video identification code is still useful, but in case of KeepVid crashes, user has to “kick it old school style” by reading YouTube video’s page source.
Using the F-16 Crash video (http://youtube.com/watch?v=b4Knsa7kBPE) as an example, here is how to save videos from YouTube “old school style”.
In Firefox browser, open “View Page Source” and do a text search for
player2.swf?video_id=
For this example video, its public video identification code is b4Knsa7kBPE, but the internal prolonged video identification code is
b4Knsa7kBPE&l=48&t=OEgsToPDskI3D6CVWsTxEa4Bzc
THKXc7&s=E04B5F8107785BA4:8A51374783A7BCE6
Keep in mind that the code between “&t=” and “&s=” may be session-sensitive and changed every time the video is accessed.
To save the video, the URL path format is
http://www.youtube.com/get_video?
video_id=prolonged_video_identification_code
By paste the above URL into browser would not download the video. The best way is to paste it into an email and send it to oneself.
The default file extension assigned by email clients (Gmail, Thunderbird, Outlook) when saving the video is html (hypertext markup language), change it to flv (flash video).
Media players like VLC can play flv files stand alone. To convert flv video to other formats like Audio Video Interlaced (.avi), Quicktime (.mov) or Windows Media (.wmv), use CinemaForge.
Update1: Keepvid.com can direct download videos from Google Video, YouTube, IFilm, Putfile and various other sites.
Update2: How to save videos from Comedy Central's website.
Update3: April 30, 2006 - Javi Moya has created an extension called VideoDownloader 1.0 for Firefox which would download embedded videos and media files directly from Youtube, Google, Metacafe, iFilm, and other 60+ video sites. (more)"
http://www.tian.cc/2005/11/how-to-save-flash-videos-from-youtube.html
The easiest way to save videos out of YouTube is by using the site KeepVid. It allows you to just plunk in the URL of of the video you are trying to acquire and then save it as a .flv file. You will need a .flv player to play it though:
KeepVid
http://keepvid.com/
FLV Player
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
The article:
"Every video posted in YouTube has its own video identification code.
The eleven digits of both upper and lower cased alpha-numeric video identification code is used to watch videos via YouTube’s website or embed them into other websites.
To download the videos via KeepVid or similar sites, the eleven digit video identification code is still useful, but in case of KeepVid crashes, user has to “kick it old school style” by reading YouTube video’s page source.
Using the F-16 Crash video (http://youtube.com/watch?v=b4Knsa7kBPE) as an example, here is how to save videos from YouTube “old school style”.
In Firefox browser, open “View Page Source” and do a text search for
player2.swf?video_id=
For this example video, its public video identification code is b4Knsa7kBPE, but the internal prolonged video identification code is
b4Knsa7kBPE&l=48&t=OEgsToPDskI3D6CVWsTxEa4Bzc
THKXc7&s=E04B5F8107785BA4:8A51374783A7BCE6
Keep in mind that the code between “&t=” and “&s=” may be session-sensitive and changed every time the video is accessed.
To save the video, the URL path format is
http://www.youtube.com/get_video?
video_id=prolonged_video_identification_code
By paste the above URL into browser would not download the video. The best way is to paste it into an email and send it to oneself.
The default file extension assigned by email clients (Gmail, Thunderbird, Outlook) when saving the video is html (hypertext markup language), change it to flv (flash video).
Media players like VLC can play flv files stand alone. To convert flv video to other formats like Audio Video Interlaced (.avi), Quicktime (.mov) or Windows Media (.wmv), use CinemaForge.
Update1: Keepvid.com can direct download videos from Google Video, YouTube, IFilm, Putfile and various other sites.
Update2: How to save videos from Comedy Central's website.
Update3: April 30, 2006 - Javi Moya has created an extension called VideoDownloader 1.0 for Firefox which would download embedded videos and media files directly from Youtube, Google, Metacafe, iFilm, and other 60+ video sites. (more)"
http://www.tian.cc/2005/11/how-to-save-flash-videos-from-youtube.html
11.28.2006
Quotes of the Day
"True love is neither physical, nor romantic. True love is an acceptance of all that is, has been, will be and will not be." - Annon
"Peace is seeing a sunset and knowing who to thank." - Annon
"The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the best of everything they have." - Annon
"Peace is seeing a sunset and knowing who to thank." - Annon
"The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the best of everything they have." - Annon
11.27.2006
Furball
Furball is my cat who lives in Ontario with my parents, I got him for my 10th birthday.
He died today of cancer. :(
It's for the better though, he wasn't himself for awhile now, the cancer really took it's toll on him.
He was fourteen, he had grey fur and was very masculine, if he were a person I think he would have been a football player, he had broad shoulders and didn't like to be cuddled but loved being petted as long as it was on his terms, which usually meant he would wind in and out of your legs while you were sitting so you had to bend over to keep up and pet him, he didn't usually like being picked up. He was a little bit crazy and was known on occasion to run in circles or crash into walls or chase imaginary "bugs" for no apparent reason.
He had a small, light circle of black around his tail (which is why I named him Furball after the Tiny Toons characters with a band-aid 'round it's tail.) He was in a car accident one summer when I was at camp and he had to have his one eye removed and it was sewn up, because of this a few of my friends referred to him as "Pirate Cat". We called him Furs or Fursies. When I first got him mum thought I should have named him Starpie to go with Mooncake (our other cat).
<3 <3 I'll miss you Furs <3 <3
I don't think I ever mentioned my other cat, Mooncake, so I will do so now. Mooncake passed away two winters ago, around this time actually. I had her since I was five or six so she was about seventeen when she died. She was a fat cat! Weighed in at 22lbs at one point.
Her fur was black & white, the back and tail were black and her tummy and half her face were white. She was very prone to purring and loved to have her tummy and under her chin or just behind her ears scratched.
If she were a person she would have been the queen. She was very prim and proper and had to have things just so, she liked being cuddled and was a real lap cat.
She basically died of old age, she lost a lot of weight and was kind of in and out of it for a few months before her passing.
We called her Moonytunes & Moons. I named her after a dessert I saw on a television show for children that taught about other cultures I had seen when I was about four.
<3<3 I miss Mooncake too! <3 <3
He died today of cancer. :(
It's for the better though, he wasn't himself for awhile now, the cancer really took it's toll on him.
He was fourteen, he had grey fur and was very masculine, if he were a person I think he would have been a football player, he had broad shoulders and didn't like to be cuddled but loved being petted as long as it was on his terms, which usually meant he would wind in and out of your legs while you were sitting so you had to bend over to keep up and pet him, he didn't usually like being picked up. He was a little bit crazy and was known on occasion to run in circles or crash into walls or chase imaginary "bugs" for no apparent reason.
He had a small, light circle of black around his tail (which is why I named him Furball after the Tiny Toons characters with a band-aid 'round it's tail.) He was in a car accident one summer when I was at camp and he had to have his one eye removed and it was sewn up, because of this a few of my friends referred to him as "Pirate Cat". We called him Furs or Fursies. When I first got him mum thought I should have named him Starpie to go with Mooncake (our other cat).
<3 <3 I'll miss you Furs <3 <3
I don't think I ever mentioned my other cat, Mooncake, so I will do so now. Mooncake passed away two winters ago, around this time actually. I had her since I was five or six so she was about seventeen when she died. She was a fat cat! Weighed in at 22lbs at one point.
Her fur was black & white, the back and tail were black and her tummy and half her face were white. She was very prone to purring and loved to have her tummy and under her chin or just behind her ears scratched.
If she were a person she would have been the queen. She was very prim and proper and had to have things just so, she liked being cuddled and was a real lap cat.
She basically died of old age, she lost a lot of weight and was kind of in and out of it for a few months before her passing.
We called her Moonytunes & Moons. I named her after a dessert I saw on a television show for children that taught about other cultures I had seen when I was about four.
<3<3 I miss Mooncake too! <3 <3
Cyber Monday
Urban Word of the Day:
November 27, 2006: cyber monday
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cyber+monday&defid=1530539Cyber
Monday is the Monday after [Black Friday], when online retailers will belooking for their biggest sales from those who checked out products over thethanksgiving weekend, and will now be ordering them Monday at work.
Forget those long black Friday lines, I'm going to order on Cyber Monday!
I suppose us Canadians with credit cards could potentially partake of Cyber Monday
"The term Cyber Monday refers to the Monday immediately following Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday, the ceremonial kick-off of the holiday online shopping season in the United States between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Whereas Black Friday is associated with traditional brick-and-mortar stores, "Cyber Monday" symbolizes a busy day for online retailers, and one in which online stores offer low prices and promotions."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber_Monday
November 27, 2006: cyber monday
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cyber+monday&defid=1530539Cyber
Monday is the Monday after [Black Friday], when online retailers will belooking for their biggest sales from those who checked out products over thethanksgiving weekend, and will now be ordering them Monday at work.
Forget those long black Friday lines, I'm going to order on Cyber Monday!
I suppose us Canadians with credit cards could potentially partake of Cyber Monday
"The term Cyber Monday refers to the Monday immediately following Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday, the ceremonial kick-off of the holiday online shopping season in the United States between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Whereas Black Friday is associated with traditional brick-and-mortar stores, "Cyber Monday" symbolizes a busy day for online retailers, and one in which online stores offer low prices and promotions."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber_Monday
Song of the Week
"If I had a Million Dollars" - Barenaked Ladies
If I had a million dollars
(If I had a million dollars)
I'd buy you a house
(I would buy you a house)
If I had a million dollars
(If I had a million dollars)
I'd buy you furniture for your house
(Maybe a nice chesterfield or an ottoman)
And if I had a million dollars
(If I had a million dollars)
Well, I'd buy you a K-Car
(A nice Reliant automobile)
If I had a million dollars I'd buy your love
If I had a million dollars
I'd build a tree fort in our yard
If I had million dollars
You could help, it wouldn't be that hard
If I had million dollars
Maybe we could put like a little tiny fridge in there somewhere
You know, we could just go up there and hang out
Like open the fridge and stuff
There would already be laid out foods for us
Like little pre-wrapped sausages and things
They have pre-wrapped sausages but they don't have pre-wrapped bacon
Well, can you blame 'em
Uh, yeah
If I had a million dollars
(If I had a million dollars)
Well, I'd buy you a fur coat
(But not a real fur coat that's cruel)
And if I had a million dollars
(If I had a million dollars)
Well, I'd buy you an exotic pet
(Yep, like a llama or an emu)
And if I had a million dollars
(If I had a a million dollars)
Well, I'd buy you John Merrick's remains
(Ooh, all them crazy elephant bones)
And If I had a million dollars I'd buy your love
If I had a million dollars
We wouldn't have to walk to the store
If I had a million dollars
Now, we'd take a limousine 'cause it costs more
If I had a million dollars
We wouldn't have to eat Kraft Dinner
But we would eat Kraft Dinner
Of course we would, we’d just eat more
And buy really expensive ketchups with it
That’s right, all the fanciest ke... dijon ketchups!
Mmmmmm, Mmmm-Hmmm
If I had a million dollars
(If I had a million dollars)
Well, I'd buy you a green dress
(But not a real green dress, that's cruel)
And if I had a million dollars
(If I had a million dollars)
Well, I'd buy you some art
(A Picasso or a Garfunkel)
If I had a million dollars
(If I had a million dollars)
Well, I'd buy you a monkey
(Haven't you always wanted a monkey)
If I had a million dollars
I’d buy your love
If I had a million dollars, If I had a million dollars
If I had a million dollars, If I had a million dollars
If I had a million dollars
I'd be rich
If I had a million dollars
(If I had a million dollars)
I'd buy you a house
(I would buy you a house)
If I had a million dollars
(If I had a million dollars)
I'd buy you furniture for your house
(Maybe a nice chesterfield or an ottoman)
And if I had a million dollars
(If I had a million dollars)
Well, I'd buy you a K-Car
(A nice Reliant automobile)
If I had a million dollars I'd buy your love
If I had a million dollars
I'd build a tree fort in our yard
If I had million dollars
You could help, it wouldn't be that hard
If I had million dollars
Maybe we could put like a little tiny fridge in there somewhere
You know, we could just go up there and hang out
Like open the fridge and stuff
There would already be laid out foods for us
Like little pre-wrapped sausages and things
They have pre-wrapped sausages but they don't have pre-wrapped bacon
Well, can you blame 'em
Uh, yeah
If I had a million dollars
(If I had a million dollars)
Well, I'd buy you a fur coat
(But not a real fur coat that's cruel)
And if I had a million dollars
(If I had a million dollars)
Well, I'd buy you an exotic pet
(Yep, like a llama or an emu)
And if I had a million dollars
(If I had a a million dollars)
Well, I'd buy you John Merrick's remains
(Ooh, all them crazy elephant bones)
And If I had a million dollars I'd buy your love
If I had a million dollars
We wouldn't have to walk to the store
If I had a million dollars
Now, we'd take a limousine 'cause it costs more
If I had a million dollars
We wouldn't have to eat Kraft Dinner
But we would eat Kraft Dinner
Of course we would, we’d just eat more
And buy really expensive ketchups with it
That’s right, all the fanciest ke... dijon ketchups!
Mmmmmm, Mmmm-Hmmm
If I had a million dollars
(If I had a million dollars)
Well, I'd buy you a green dress
(But not a real green dress, that's cruel)
And if I had a million dollars
(If I had a million dollars)
Well, I'd buy you some art
(A Picasso or a Garfunkel)
If I had a million dollars
(If I had a million dollars)
Well, I'd buy you a monkey
(Haven't you always wanted a monkey)
If I had a million dollars
I’d buy your love
If I had a million dollars, If I had a million dollars
If I had a million dollars, If I had a million dollars
If I had a million dollars
I'd be rich
11.26.2006
Le Male: Make-up for men
Jean Paul Gaultier has created a line of make-up & bath products for men.
The bath products coined "Le Male Tout Propre" are based off the Gaultier scent "Le Male" and icludes perfume, gentle face & body soap, showergel & aftershave.
The bath products coined "Le Male Tout Propre" are based off the Gaultier scent "Le Male" and icludes perfume, gentle face & body soap, showergel & aftershave.
The make-up line "Le Male Tout Beau" includes powder, lipstick/balm, eyeliner, concealer, and faux tan powser.
The make-up is concealed in dark black cubes, tubes resembling fountain pens, and containers reseembling zippo lighters.
"The Tout Beau line is created to enhance male beauty."
"Gaultier is convinced these products have outgrown the gay scene and can now be used by all men. “Virile or what?” he says"
http://www.gay-news.com/article04.php?sid=573
11.25.2006
BrainBats
BrainBats... those things where the shape and configuration of the words and letters denotes a phrase or word... yeah they amuse me so here are a few gooders: (The answers are posted underneath the link next to the corresponding number.)
1.
one all all all all
all one one one one
2.
CLOUD
TH
3.
S E S A M E
4.
ha ir
5.
ecabt
6.
One Another
One Another
One Another
One Another
One Another
One Another
7
Sunday Sunday Sunday Sunday
Sunday Sunday Sunday Sunday
Sunday Sunday Sunday Sunday
Sunday Sunday Sunday Sunday
Sunday Sunday Never Sunday
Sunday Sunday Sunday Sunday
Sunday Sunday Sunday Sunday
Sunday Sunday Sunday Sunday
8.
DDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
DDDDDDWESTDDDDD
DDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
9.
NOMMAG
10.
William March
William June
William September
William January
All (and more) can be found here:
http://www.brainbashers.com/showpuzzles.asp?formpost=Y&page=1&field=cb&puzzletext=BrainBats%26trade%3B
ANSWERS:
1. One for all, all for one.
2. Thundercloud
3. Open Sesame
4. Hair cut
5. Cabinet
6. Six of one and a half dozen of another
7. Never in a month of Sundays
8. West Indies
9. Backgammon
10. Monthly bills
1.
one all all all all
all one one one one
2.
CLOUD
TH
3.
S E S A M E
4.
ha ir
5.
ecabt
6.
One Another
One Another
One Another
One Another
One Another
One Another
7
Sunday Sunday Sunday Sunday
Sunday Sunday Sunday Sunday
Sunday Sunday Sunday Sunday
Sunday Sunday Sunday Sunday
Sunday Sunday Never Sunday
Sunday Sunday Sunday Sunday
Sunday Sunday Sunday Sunday
Sunday Sunday Sunday Sunday
8.
DDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
DDDDDDWESTDDDDD
DDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
9.
NOMMAG
10.
William March
William June
William September
William January
All (and more) can be found here:
http://www.brainbashers.com/showpuzzles.asp?formpost=Y&page=1&field=cb&puzzletext=BrainBats%26trade%3B
ANSWERS:
1. One for all, all for one.
2. Thundercloud
3. Open Sesame
4. Hair cut
5. Cabinet
6. Six of one and a half dozen of another
7. Never in a month of Sundays
8. West Indies
9. Backgammon
10. Monthly bills
11.24.2006
Black Friday
"Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving in the United States, marks the beginning of the traditional Christmas shopping season, although retailers often decorate for the Christmas season weeks before-hand. Many retailers open very early (typically 5 A.M.) and offer doorbuster deals to draw people to their stores. Although Black Friday has served as the unofficial beginning of the Christmas season for decades, the term has been traced back only to the 1970s and did not achieve widespread popularity until about 2002."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_(shopping
I must admit I find the fascinating as we do not have a "black Friday" in Canada
Urban Dictionary:
The day after Thanksgiving in the U.S. It's traditionally the busiest shopping day of the year (and sometimes considered to be the beginning of the Christmas season). A.K.A.: Green Friday
"I'm holding out on buying my Christmas gifts this year until black friday rolls around, so I can get the best deals."
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=black+friday
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_(shopping
I must admit I find the fascinating as we do not have a "black Friday" in Canada
Urban Dictionary:
The day after Thanksgiving in the U.S. It's traditionally the busiest shopping day of the year (and sometimes considered to be the beginning of the Christmas season). A.K.A.: Green Friday
"I'm holding out on buying my Christmas gifts this year until black friday rolls around, so I can get the best deals."
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=black+friday
11.23.2006
Quote of the Day
"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did"- Newt Gingrich
11.22.2006
Comcast Part Seven
I swear I am going to lose it on the next person who calls in with a problem with their internet and begins the conversation with some statement ending in and my computer says "Or contact the person that manages your network and that's you (or "and that's comcast")".
1. I AM NOT the person who manages your NETWORK. If you have a router you manage YOUR OWN network, talk to Linksys, not me!
2. Second we manage the internet, we make sure it works, we have very little control over it but we try, I do not going around "breaking your network" and thus can hardly be held personally responsible when it break.
3. Usually this message is remedied by running the inetwiz, which means the whole problem was with YOUR computer or YOUR copy of Windows or YOUR browser's proxy settings and had NOTHING to do with comcast!
1. I AM NOT the person who manages your NETWORK. If you have a router you manage YOUR OWN network, talk to Linksys, not me!
2. Second we manage the internet, we make sure it works, we have very little control over it but we try, I do not going around "breaking your network" and thus can hardly be held personally responsible when it break.
3. Usually this message is remedied by running the inetwiz, which means the whole problem was with YOUR computer or YOUR copy of Windows or YOUR browser's proxy settings and had NOTHING to do with comcast!
11.21.2006
Google Hits
If you've ever hit the link on my blog to my homepage you'll find yourself at Drelwin.com. Drelwin is my nick that I have been using since high school...
Anyways I decided to google the word "drelwin".
Google finds 44 significant hits, of them 29 are for sites related to me!
7 out of the 10 first hits link to pages of mine or that make reference to my username in the context of me.
I feel very special... :)
Anyways I decided to google the word "drelwin".
Google finds 44 significant hits, of them 29 are for sites related to me!
7 out of the 10 first hits link to pages of mine or that make reference to my username in the context of me.
I feel very special... :)
11.20.2006
Song of the Week
"Killer Queen" - Queen
She keeps moet et chandon
In her pretty cabinet
let them eat cake she says
Just like marie antoinette
A built-in remedy
For kruschev and kennedy
At anytime an invitation
You cant decline
Caviar and cigarettes
Well versed in etiquette
Extraordinarily nice
Chorus
Shes a killer queen
Gunpowder, gelatine
Dynamite with a laser beam
Guaranteed to blow your mind
Anytime
Recommended at the price
Insatiable an appetite
Wanna try?
To avoid complications
She never kept the same address
In conversation
She spoke just like a baroness
Met a man from china
Went down to geisha minah
Then again incidentally
If youre that way inclined
Perfume came naturally from paris
For cars she couldnt care less
Fastidious and precise
Chorus
Drop of a hat shes as willing as
Playful as a pussy cat
Then momentarily out of action
Temporarily out of gas
To absolutely drive you wild, wild..
Shes all out to get you
Chorus
Recommended at the price
Insatiable an appetite
Wanna try?
You wanna try...
She keeps moet et chandon
In her pretty cabinet
let them eat cake she says
Just like marie antoinette
A built-in remedy
For kruschev and kennedy
At anytime an invitation
You cant decline
Caviar and cigarettes
Well versed in etiquette
Extraordinarily nice
Chorus
Shes a killer queen
Gunpowder, gelatine
Dynamite with a laser beam
Guaranteed to blow your mind
Anytime
Recommended at the price
Insatiable an appetite
Wanna try?
To avoid complications
She never kept the same address
In conversation
She spoke just like a baroness
Met a man from china
Went down to geisha minah
Then again incidentally
If youre that way inclined
Perfume came naturally from paris
For cars she couldnt care less
Fastidious and precise
Chorus
Drop of a hat shes as willing as
Playful as a pussy cat
Then momentarily out of action
Temporarily out of gas
To absolutely drive you wild, wild..
Shes all out to get you
Chorus
Recommended at the price
Insatiable an appetite
Wanna try?
You wanna try...
11.18.2006
Andy Dick
Have you guys seen Jessica Simpson's new music video "A Public Affair"?
Well it has Andy Dick in it and oh my word that man is creepy!! (He's the creepy guy behind the skate counter.)
Jessica Simpson-A Public Affair
Well it has Andy Dick in it and oh my word that man is creepy!! (He's the creepy guy behind the skate counter.)
Jessica Simpson-A Public Affair
11.17.2006
Crazy Multi-Input Touch Screen
Okay I seriously want one of these!! How awesome would this be? and how fun?!?
11.16.2006
11.15.2006
Hamsters Part 17
Vole got got cannibalized... I'm not sure why. I've taken to counting the hamster every night before bed and he was un-accounted for tonight. I searched the cage, no remains. *SIGH* This whole thing is quite depressing. :(
11.14.2006
M & M Duel
This is just bizzare....
"M&M Duels
Whenever I get a package of plain M&Ms, I make it my duty to continue the strength and robustness of the candy as a species. To this end, I hold M&M duels.
Taking two candies between my thumb and forefinger, I apply pressure, squeezing them together until one of them cracks and splinters. That is the "loser," and I eat the inferior one immediately. The winner gets to go another round.
I have found that, in general, the brown and red M&Ms are tougher, and the newer blue ones are genetically inferior. I have hypothesized that the blue M&Ms as a race cannot survive long in the intense theatre of competition that is the modern candy and snack-food world.
Occasionally I will get a mutation, a candy that is misshapen, or pointier, or flatter than the rest. Almost invariably this proves to be a weakness, but on very rare occasions it gives the candy extra strength. In this way, the species continues to adapt to its environment.
When I reach the end of the pack, I am left with one M&M, the strongest of the herd. Since it would make no sense to eat this one as well, I pack it neatly in an envelope and send it to M&M Mars, A Division of Mars, Inc., Hackettstown, NJ 17840-1503 U.S.A., along with a 3x5 card reading, "Please use this M&M for breeding purposes."
This week they wrote back to thank me, and sent me a coupon for a free 1/2 pound bag of plain M&Ms. I consider this "grant money." I have set aside the weekend for a grand tournament. From a field of hundreds, we will discover the True Champion.
There can be only one."
http://bl.net/forwards/mnms.html
"M&M Duels
Whenever I get a package of plain M&Ms, I make it my duty to continue the strength and robustness of the candy as a species. To this end, I hold M&M duels.
Taking two candies between my thumb and forefinger, I apply pressure, squeezing them together until one of them cracks and splinters. That is the "loser," and I eat the inferior one immediately. The winner gets to go another round.
I have found that, in general, the brown and red M&Ms are tougher, and the newer blue ones are genetically inferior. I have hypothesized that the blue M&Ms as a race cannot survive long in the intense theatre of competition that is the modern candy and snack-food world.
Occasionally I will get a mutation, a candy that is misshapen, or pointier, or flatter than the rest. Almost invariably this proves to be a weakness, but on very rare occasions it gives the candy extra strength. In this way, the species continues to adapt to its environment.
When I reach the end of the pack, I am left with one M&M, the strongest of the herd. Since it would make no sense to eat this one as well, I pack it neatly in an envelope and send it to M&M Mars, A Division of Mars, Inc., Hackettstown, NJ 17840-1503 U.S.A., along with a 3x5 card reading, "Please use this M&M for breeding purposes."
This week they wrote back to thank me, and sent me a coupon for a free 1/2 pound bag of plain M&Ms. I consider this "grant money." I have set aside the weekend for a grand tournament. From a field of hundreds, we will discover the True Champion.
There can be only one."
http://bl.net/forwards/mnms.html
11.13.2006
Song of the Week
"Fancy" - Reba McEntire
I remember it all very well lookin back
It was the summer I turned eighteen
We lived in a one room, rundown shack
On the outskirts of new orleans
We didnt have money for food or rent
To say the least we were hard pressed
Then mama spent every last penny we had
To buy me a dancin dress
Mama washed and combed and curled my hair
And she painted my eyes and lips then I stepped into a satin
Dancin dress that had a split on the side clean up to my hip
It was red velvet trim and it fit me good
Standin back from the lookin glass
There stood a woman where a half gown kid had stood
She said heres your one chance fancy dont let me down
Heres your one chance fancy dont let me down
Mama dabbed a little bit of perfume on my neck
And she kissed my cheek
Then I saw the tears wellin up in her troubled eyes
When she started to speak
She looked at a pitiful shack
And then she looked at me and took a ragged breath
She said your pas run off and Im real sick
And the babys gonna starve to death
She handed me a heart shaped locket that said
To thine own self be true
And I shivered as I watched a roach crawl across
The tow of my high heel shoe
It sounded like somebody else that was talkin
Askin mama what do I do
She said just be nice to the gentlemen fancy
And theyll be nice to you
She said heres your chance fancy dont let me down
Heres your one chance fancy dont let me down
Lord forgive me for what I do, but if you want out
Well its up to you
Now dont let me down you better start movin uptown
Well, that was the last time I saw my ma
The night I left that rickety shack
The welfare people came and took the baby
Mama died and I aint been back
But the wheels of fate had started to turn
And for me there was no way out
And it wasnt very long til I knew exactly
What my mamas been talkin about
I knew what I had to do but I made myself this solemn vow
That is gonna be a lady someday
Though I dont know when or how
I couldnt see spending the rest of my life
With my head hung down in shame you know
I might have been born just plain white trash
But fancy was my name
Heres your one chance fancy dont let me down
Heres your one chance fancy dont let me down
It wasnt very long after a benevolent man
Took me off the street
And one week later I was pourin his tea
In a five room hotel suite
I charmed a king, a congressman
And an occasional aristocrat
Then I got me a georgia mansion
In an elegant new york townhouse flat
And I aint done bad
Now in this world theres a lot of self-righteous hippocrits
That would call me bad
And criticize mama for turning me out
No matter how little we had
But though I aint had to worry bout nothin
For nigh on fifteen years
I can still hear the desperation in my poor
Mamas voice ringin in my ear
She said, heres your one chance fancy dont let me down
Heres your one chance fancy dont let me down
Lord, forgive me for what I do
But if you want out well its up to you
Now dont let me down
Your mamas gonna help you uptown
I guess she did
I remember it all very well lookin back
It was the summer I turned eighteen
We lived in a one room, rundown shack
On the outskirts of new orleans
We didnt have money for food or rent
To say the least we were hard pressed
Then mama spent every last penny we had
To buy me a dancin dress
Mama washed and combed and curled my hair
And she painted my eyes and lips then I stepped into a satin
Dancin dress that had a split on the side clean up to my hip
It was red velvet trim and it fit me good
Standin back from the lookin glass
There stood a woman where a half gown kid had stood
She said heres your one chance fancy dont let me down
Heres your one chance fancy dont let me down
Mama dabbed a little bit of perfume on my neck
And she kissed my cheek
Then I saw the tears wellin up in her troubled eyes
When she started to speak
She looked at a pitiful shack
And then she looked at me and took a ragged breath
She said your pas run off and Im real sick
And the babys gonna starve to death
She handed me a heart shaped locket that said
To thine own self be true
And I shivered as I watched a roach crawl across
The tow of my high heel shoe
It sounded like somebody else that was talkin
Askin mama what do I do
She said just be nice to the gentlemen fancy
And theyll be nice to you
She said heres your chance fancy dont let me down
Heres your one chance fancy dont let me down
Lord forgive me for what I do, but if you want out
Well its up to you
Now dont let me down you better start movin uptown
Well, that was the last time I saw my ma
The night I left that rickety shack
The welfare people came and took the baby
Mama died and I aint been back
But the wheels of fate had started to turn
And for me there was no way out
And it wasnt very long til I knew exactly
What my mamas been talkin about
I knew what I had to do but I made myself this solemn vow
That is gonna be a lady someday
Though I dont know when or how
I couldnt see spending the rest of my life
With my head hung down in shame you know
I might have been born just plain white trash
But fancy was my name
Heres your one chance fancy dont let me down
Heres your one chance fancy dont let me down
It wasnt very long after a benevolent man
Took me off the street
And one week later I was pourin his tea
In a five room hotel suite
I charmed a king, a congressman
And an occasional aristocrat
Then I got me a georgia mansion
In an elegant new york townhouse flat
And I aint done bad
Now in this world theres a lot of self-righteous hippocrits
That would call me bad
And criticize mama for turning me out
No matter how little we had
But though I aint had to worry bout nothin
For nigh on fifteen years
I can still hear the desperation in my poor
Mamas voice ringin in my ear
She said, heres your one chance fancy dont let me down
Heres your one chance fancy dont let me down
Lord, forgive me for what I do
But if you want out well its up to you
Now dont let me down
Your mamas gonna help you uptown
I guess she did
11.12.2006
That's Comcastic!
(sorry for so many videos this week... I'm going through a phase I think :p)
This is a video of a guy trying to rile up a comcast agent... I wish I'd gotten this sub SO BAD!!
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-7077943881599722611&q=comcast&pr=goog-sl
This is a video of a guy trying to rile up a comcast agent... I wish I'd gotten this sub SO BAD!!
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-7077943881599722611&q=comcast&pr=goog-sl
11.11.2006
Remembrance Day
This is a video my mum sent me last year and I wanted to share it with y'all this year.
11.10.2006
Pot as Art
This is an msn news video about a woman who is growing a marijuanna pot plant as a piece of art. It is growing in an art gallery in San Francisco:
http://video.sympatico.msn.com/v/en-ca/v.htm?f=37%2f81&i=93bcfaca-441c-4a2a-9b8f-86f71ad35848
http://video.sympatico.msn.com/v/en-ca/v.htm?f=37%2f81&i=93bcfaca-441c-4a2a-9b8f-86f71ad35848
11.09.2006
Word of the Day
Urban Word of the Day:
November 08, 2006: October Surprise
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=October+Surprise&defid=818164
When, in a last minute effort to become re-elected, a political figure happensupon a bit of "lucky coincidence."
News from October 31: We found Osama!...
although we really had his ass in a cell under the Pentagon the last threeyears.
November 08, 2006: October Surprise
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=October+Surprise&defid=818164
When, in a last minute effort to become re-elected, a political figure happensupon a bit of "lucky coincidence."
News from October 31: We found Osama!...
although we really had his ass in a cell under the Pentagon the last threeyears.
11.08.2006
100 Person Village
There was a kids show on TreeHouse the other day that was teaching what the world looked like if it was made up of 100 people. I thought it was quite interesting, so I looked up some of the facts on the internet. Now bear in mind this is an average as the reports were not all as up-to-date as I would have liked them to be, the show seemed more accurate and in-depth.
If the world were a 100 person village this is what it would look like:
49 people are female 51 people are male
50 people are over age 26
50 people are under 26
30 people are age 0-14
63 people are age 15-6
47 people are 65 and over
34 people are Christians
22 people are Muslim
15 people are Hindu
14 people are non-religious
6 people are Buddhist
4 people practice Chinese traditional religion
5 people practice other faiths
14 people speak Mandarin
6 speak Hindi
6 speak Spanish
6 speak English
3 speak Bengali
3 speak Portuguese
3 speak Russian
2 speak Japanese
2 speak German the remaining
55 people speak 200 other languages
18 people are overweight
16 people are underfed
66 people are at a healthy weight
3 of the underfed children suffer from stunted growth
3 of the overweight people have diabetes
83 people have safe drinking water
17 people don’t
60 people have modern sanitation facilities
40 people don’t
1 person will die this year
2 women will give birth, one to a boy, and one to a girl
1 person has HIV
3 people have diabetes
16 women and girls have been beaten or sexually abused in their lives
33 haven’t been
Between them the 100 people each year consume:90,000 cigarettes
20 people smoke tobacco (averaging 4,500 cigarettes per year each!)
80 people are non-smokers
12 kids are secondhand smokers
2 people smoke pot
1 person uses some other illegal drug
1 person has a college education
14 adults are illiterate
56 adults are literate
12 school age kids are in school
2 school kids aren’t in school, one boy and one girl
50 people are not members of the paid workforce
33 members of the workforce have steady jobs
17 members of the workforce are unemployed or underemployed
2 children under age 15 work full time, one doing farm work and the other in industry
2 children work part time, both doing farm work
1 woman is a teacher
0.5 men are soldiers
1 men are incarcerated
Between them the 100 people have:
2 Internet hosts
8 personal computers
9 newspaper subscriptions
17 phones lines
25 television sets
43 radios
of the 17 phone lines:10 of them belong to just 15 people 7 are shared by the other 85 people
Between them the 100 people keep over 400 farm animals:
240 chickens
15 ducks
4 geese
4 turkeys
18 sheep
15 pigs
12 goats
22 head of cattle
3 buffalo
78 rabbits
73 people live in homes that have electricity
27 people don't geography
47 people live in the city
53 people live in the country
99 people live at home1 person is a refugee
55 people live in electoral democracies
45 people don't continents
12 people live in Europe
13 people live in Africa
14 people live in North and South America
60 people live in Asia1 person lives in Oceania
Between them the 100 people have:
9 cars
3 trucks and busses
30 bicycles
Between them the 100 people have:
8 guns
Sources:
http://www.gumption.org/2002/village/village.htm
http://www.mysterra.org/webmag/coup-de-coeur_en.html
http://faculty.philau.edu/russowl/villageof1000.html
The book the TV show was based on is available here:
"If the World Were a Village: A Book About the World's People" - David Smith
http://www.amazon.ca/If-World-Were-Village-Worlds/dp/1550747797
If the world were a 100 person village this is what it would look like:
49 people are female 51 people are male
50 people are over age 26
50 people are under 26
30 people are age 0-14
63 people are age 15-6
47 people are 65 and over
34 people are Christians
22 people are Muslim
15 people are Hindu
14 people are non-religious
6 people are Buddhist
4 people practice Chinese traditional religion
5 people practice other faiths
14 people speak Mandarin
6 speak Hindi
6 speak Spanish
6 speak English
3 speak Bengali
3 speak Portuguese
3 speak Russian
2 speak Japanese
2 speak German the remaining
55 people speak 200 other languages
18 people are overweight
16 people are underfed
66 people are at a healthy weight
3 of the underfed children suffer from stunted growth
3 of the overweight people have diabetes
83 people have safe drinking water
17 people don’t
60 people have modern sanitation facilities
40 people don’t
1 person will die this year
2 women will give birth, one to a boy, and one to a girl
1 person has HIV
3 people have diabetes
16 women and girls have been beaten or sexually abused in their lives
33 haven’t been
Between them the 100 people each year consume:90,000 cigarettes
20 people smoke tobacco (averaging 4,500 cigarettes per year each!)
80 people are non-smokers
12 kids are secondhand smokers
2 people smoke pot
1 person uses some other illegal drug
1 person has a college education
14 adults are illiterate
56 adults are literate
12 school age kids are in school
2 school kids aren’t in school, one boy and one girl
50 people are not members of the paid workforce
33 members of the workforce have steady jobs
17 members of the workforce are unemployed or underemployed
2 children under age 15 work full time, one doing farm work and the other in industry
2 children work part time, both doing farm work
1 woman is a teacher
0.5 men are soldiers
1 men are incarcerated
Between them the 100 people have:
2 Internet hosts
8 personal computers
9 newspaper subscriptions
17 phones lines
25 television sets
43 radios
of the 17 phone lines:10 of them belong to just 15 people 7 are shared by the other 85 people
Between them the 100 people keep over 400 farm animals:
240 chickens
15 ducks
4 geese
4 turkeys
18 sheep
15 pigs
12 goats
22 head of cattle
3 buffalo
78 rabbits
73 people live in homes that have electricity
27 people don't geography
47 people live in the city
53 people live in the country
99 people live at home1 person is a refugee
55 people live in electoral democracies
45 people don't continents
12 people live in Europe
13 people live in Africa
14 people live in North and South America
60 people live in Asia1 person lives in Oceania
Between them the 100 people have:
9 cars
3 trucks and busses
30 bicycles
Between them the 100 people have:
8 guns
Sources:
http://www.gumption.org/2002/village/village.htm
http://www.mysterra.org/webmag/coup-de-coeur_en.html
http://faculty.philau.edu/russowl/villageof1000.html
The book the TV show was based on is available here:
"If the World Were a Village: A Book About the World's People" - David Smith
http://www.amazon.ca/If-World-Were-Village-Worlds/dp/1550747797
11.07.2006
Banana Phone
This is hilarious.... be warned it's violent and the song gets stuck in your head!
http://ebaumsworld.com/2006/06/bananaphone.html
http://ebaumsworld.com/2006/06/bananaphone.html
11.06.2006
Song of the Week
"Sugar We're Going Down" - Fall Out Boy
Am I more than you bargained for yet
I've been dying to tell you anything you want to hear
Cause that's just who I am this week
Lie in the grass, next to the mausoleum
I'm just a notch in your bedpost
But you're just a line in a song
(A notch in your bedpost, but you're just a line in a song)
Drop a heart, break a name
We're always sleeping in, and sleeping for the wrong team
We're going down, down in an earlier round
And Sugar, we're going down swinging
I'll be your number one with a bullet
A loaded God complex, cock it and pull it
[x2]
Is this more than you bargained for yet
Oh don't mind me I'm watching you two from the closet
Wishing to be the friction in your jeans
Isn't it messed up how I'm just dying to be him
I'm just a notch in your bedpost
But you're just a line in a song
(Notch in your bedpost, but you're just a line in a song)
Drop a heart, break a name
We're always sleeping in, and sleeping for the wrong team
We're going down, down in an earlier round
And Sugar, we're going down swinging
I'll be your number one with a bullet
A loaded God complex, cock it and pull it
[x2]
Down, down in an earlier round
And Sugar, we're going down swinging
I'll be your number one with a bullet
A loaded God complex, cock it and pull it
We're going down, down in an earlier round (Take aim at myself)
And Sugar, we're going down swinging (Take back what you said)
I'll be your number one with a bullet (Take aim at myself)
A loaded God complex, cock it and pull it
We're going down, down (down, down)
Down, down (down, down)
We're going down, down (down, down)
A loaded God complex, cock it and pull it
We're going down, down in an earlier round (Take aim at myself)
And Sugar, we're going down swinging (Take back what you said)
I'll be your number one with a bullet (Take aim at myself)
A loaded God complex, cock it and pull it
This is a funny parody video, it's quite awesome.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1651997757427874922&pr=goog-sl
and anothe parody (hehe parodies rock my socks.)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6795692564703061333
Am I more than you bargained for yet
I've been dying to tell you anything you want to hear
Cause that's just who I am this week
Lie in the grass, next to the mausoleum
I'm just a notch in your bedpost
But you're just a line in a song
(A notch in your bedpost, but you're just a line in a song)
Drop a heart, break a name
We're always sleeping in, and sleeping for the wrong team
We're going down, down in an earlier round
And Sugar, we're going down swinging
I'll be your number one with a bullet
A loaded God complex, cock it and pull it
[x2]
Is this more than you bargained for yet
Oh don't mind me I'm watching you two from the closet
Wishing to be the friction in your jeans
Isn't it messed up how I'm just dying to be him
I'm just a notch in your bedpost
But you're just a line in a song
(Notch in your bedpost, but you're just a line in a song)
Drop a heart, break a name
We're always sleeping in, and sleeping for the wrong team
We're going down, down in an earlier round
And Sugar, we're going down swinging
I'll be your number one with a bullet
A loaded God complex, cock it and pull it
[x2]
Down, down in an earlier round
And Sugar, we're going down swinging
I'll be your number one with a bullet
A loaded God complex, cock it and pull it
We're going down, down in an earlier round (Take aim at myself)
And Sugar, we're going down swinging (Take back what you said)
I'll be your number one with a bullet (Take aim at myself)
A loaded God complex, cock it and pull it
We're going down, down (down, down)
Down, down (down, down)
We're going down, down (down, down)
A loaded God complex, cock it and pull it
We're going down, down in an earlier round (Take aim at myself)
And Sugar, we're going down swinging (Take back what you said)
I'll be your number one with a bullet (Take aim at myself)
A loaded God complex, cock it and pull it
This is a funny parody video, it's quite awesome.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1651997757427874922&pr=goog-sl
and anothe parody (hehe parodies rock my socks.)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6795692564703061333
11.05.2006
Hamster Part 16
I cleaned the hamsters cages today and as I was cleaning the boys' cage a funny thing happened... I put the boys in the empty cage while I cleaned their cage, I dumped out their slumber house and there was a tiny hamaster in it, still moving around all fuzzy and furry!! Apparently ALL the hamsters in the past litter were girls!
So now GP & Chipmunk have had a baby. I named it Vole. It's awfully cute, I honestly have no idea if it's a boy or a girl, but it's probably two weeks old by now, problem was they had it in the hosue the whole time so I didn't even know it was there 'til I dumped the house out.
I don't know what I'm going to do about preventing more baby hamster though! I can't have this many cages!! LOL
So now GP & Chipmunk have had a baby. I named it Vole. It's awfully cute, I honestly have no idea if it's a boy or a girl, but it's probably two weeks old by now, problem was they had it in the hosue the whole time so I didn't even know it was there 'til I dumped the house out.
I don't know what I'm going to do about preventing more baby hamster though! I can't have this many cages!! LOL
11.04.2006
Glade Mood Light
Glade came out with these cool mood lights, they are the Glade plugins with scented oil but they are ambient mood lights as well. What a neat idea! LOL
"Brighten up your teen’s room and freshen the air at the same time! The Glade® PlugIns® Scented Oil MoodLight casts a colourful light show on the wall while releasing fun scents that inspire creativity! "
http://www.glademoodlight.com/
News Article:
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060808/cgtu019.html?.v=58
"Brighten up your teen’s room and freshen the air at the same time! The Glade® PlugIns® Scented Oil MoodLight casts a colourful light show on the wall while releasing fun scents that inspire creativity! "
http://www.glademoodlight.com/
News Article:
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060808/cgtu019.html?.v=58
11.03.2006
GoodTree
Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are apparently contributing their technology to a new search engine website called GoodTree that gives money to charity when you use it.
http://www.goodtree.com/
"Search for Good: GoodTree and GoodSearch
October 25, 2006 10:36 AM - Celine Ruben-Salama, New York, NY
James Currier had a vision to create an online service that would harness the Internet to benefit charity. GoodTree, which originally launched summer of 2005, went offline in November 2005, and re-launched in July 2006 was the result. The search engine which combines results from Google, Yahoo, MSN, and AskJeeves is free, has no banners or pop-ups, will never ask you for money, and will never send you spam yet raises “a lot of money for charity.”
Too good to be true? Not at all. All the leading search engines contribute to the results so you will find what you’re looking for using it. Clicking around the Internet you generate money for brand-named vendors who pay to have potential customers visit their websites. These pennies add up to total of billions of dollars in aggregate for whole search sector. By using the GoodTree search engine, 50% of their gross revenues go directly to the many charities individual users select.
Top-rated and among the most proven and effective in their categories the charites listed are impressive. If you don’t find what you’re looking for, you can suggest a category. The environmental category contains Earth Island Institute, Earth Justice, Conservation Fund, Natural Resources Defense Council and Sierra Club Foundation. Users can select as many charities in as many categories as they want.
Start using GoodTree and keep an eye on your “charity tree” on the top right hand side of the homepage to track of the amount you have money you have generated. The service is only marketed by word-of-mouth, so be sure to tell your friends. It is a great example of a small, individual contribution that you can make, without making major changes to your day-to-day life.
GoodSearch, powered by Yahoo!, works similarly to GoodTree. Happy searching!"
- http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/10/search_for_good.php
http://www.goodtree.com/
"Search for Good: GoodTree and GoodSearch
October 25, 2006 10:36 AM - Celine Ruben-Salama, New York, NY
James Currier had a vision to create an online service that would harness the Internet to benefit charity. GoodTree, which originally launched summer of 2005, went offline in November 2005, and re-launched in July 2006 was the result. The search engine which combines results from Google, Yahoo, MSN, and AskJeeves is free, has no banners or pop-ups, will never ask you for money, and will never send you spam yet raises “a lot of money for charity.”
Too good to be true? Not at all. All the leading search engines contribute to the results so you will find what you’re looking for using it. Clicking around the Internet you generate money for brand-named vendors who pay to have potential customers visit their websites. These pennies add up to total of billions of dollars in aggregate for whole search sector. By using the GoodTree search engine, 50% of their gross revenues go directly to the many charities individual users select.
Top-rated and among the most proven and effective in their categories the charites listed are impressive. If you don’t find what you’re looking for, you can suggest a category. The environmental category contains Earth Island Institute, Earth Justice, Conservation Fund, Natural Resources Defense Council and Sierra Club Foundation. Users can select as many charities in as many categories as they want.
Start using GoodTree and keep an eye on your “charity tree” on the top right hand side of the homepage to track of the amount you have money you have generated. The service is only marketed by word-of-mouth, so be sure to tell your friends. It is a great example of a small, individual contribution that you can make, without making major changes to your day-to-day life.
GoodSearch, powered by Yahoo!, works similarly to GoodTree. Happy searching!"
- http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/10/search_for_good.php
11.02.2006
Time Keeps on Slipping....
You enter your bithday day and the time and it caculates how old you are up to the miliseconds and then it runs as you watch it and you essentially watch time slip away!! EEEP!
http://www.time-for-time.com/howold.htm
http://www.time-for-time.com/howold.htm
11.01.2006
Lethbridge Radio Stations
Literally a listing of Lethbridge radio stations, courtesy of wiki. :P
FM 88.3: CKXU (University of Lethbridge)
FM 91.7: CBBC (CBC Radio Two)
FM 93.3: CJBZ "B 93" (classic hits)
FM 95.5: CHLB "Country 95.5" (country)
FM 97.1: CJTS "Spirit FM" (Contemporary Christian music)
FM 99.3: CKUA-FM-2 (variety)
FM 100.1: CBRL (CBC Radio One)
FM 104.3: CHFA-FM-1 (La Première Chaîne)
FM 106.7: CJRX "Rock 106" (rock)
FM 107.7: CFRV "The River" (Adult contemporary)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_radio_stations_in_Alberta#Lethbridge
FM 88.3: CKXU (University of Lethbridge)
FM 91.7: CBBC (CBC Radio Two)
FM 93.3: CJBZ "B 93" (classic hits)
FM 95.5: CHLB "Country 95.5" (country)
FM 97.1: CJTS "Spirit FM" (Contemporary Christian music)
FM 99.3: CKUA-FM-2 (variety)
FM 100.1: CBRL (CBC Radio One)
FM 104.3: CHFA-FM-1 (La Première Chaîne)
FM 106.7: CJRX "Rock 106" (rock)
FM 107.7: CFRV "The River" (Adult contemporary)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_radio_stations_in_Alberta#Lethbridge
10.31.2006
10.30.2006
Song of the Week
"Monster Mash" - Bobby "Boris" Pickett
I was working in the lab late one night
When myeyes beheld an eerie sight
For my monster from his slab began to rise
And suddenly to my surprise
He did the mash
He did themonster mash
The monster mash
It was a graveyard smash
He did themash
It caught on in a flash
He did the mash
He did the monster mash
From my laboratory in the castle east
To the master bedroomwhere the vampires feast
The ghouls all came from their humble abodes
Toget a jolt from my electrodes
They did the mash
They did themonster mash
The monster mash
It was a graveyard smash
They did themash
It caught on in a flash
They did the mash
They did the monstermash
The zombies were having fun
The party had just begun
The guests included Wolf Man
Dracula and his son
The scenewas rockin', all were digging the sounds
Igor on chains, backed by hisbaying hounds
The coffin-bangers were about to arrive
With their vocalgroup, "The Crypt-Kicker Five"
They played the mash
They playedthe monster mash
The monster mash
It was a graveyard smash
Theyplayed the mash
It caught on in a flash
They played the mash
Theyplayed the monster mash
Out from his coffin, Drac's voice did ring
Seems he was troubled by just one thing
He opened the lid and shook hisfist
And said, "Whatever happened to my Transylvania twist?"
It's now the mash
It's now the monster mash
The monster mash
And it's a graveyard smash
It's now the mash
It's caught on in aflash
It's now the mash
It's now the monster mash
Noweverything's cool, Drac's a part of the band
And my monster mash is the hitof the land
For you, the living, this mash was meant too
When you get tomy door, tell them Boris sent you
Then you can mash
Then you canmonster mash
The monster mash
And do my graveyard smash
Then you canmash
You'll catch on in a flash
Then you can mash
Then you canmonster mash
I was working in the lab late one night
When myeyes beheld an eerie sight
For my monster from his slab began to rise
And suddenly to my surprise
He did the mash
He did themonster mash
The monster mash
It was a graveyard smash
He did themash
It caught on in a flash
He did the mash
He did the monster mash
From my laboratory in the castle east
To the master bedroomwhere the vampires feast
The ghouls all came from their humble abodes
Toget a jolt from my electrodes
They did the mash
They did themonster mash
The monster mash
It was a graveyard smash
They did themash
It caught on in a flash
They did the mash
They did the monstermash
The zombies were having fun
The party had just begun
The guests included Wolf Man
Dracula and his son
The scenewas rockin', all were digging the sounds
Igor on chains, backed by hisbaying hounds
The coffin-bangers were about to arrive
With their vocalgroup, "The Crypt-Kicker Five"
They played the mash
They playedthe monster mash
The monster mash
It was a graveyard smash
Theyplayed the mash
It caught on in a flash
They played the mash
Theyplayed the monster mash
Out from his coffin, Drac's voice did ring
Seems he was troubled by just one thing
He opened the lid and shook hisfist
And said, "Whatever happened to my Transylvania twist?"
It's now the mash
It's now the monster mash
The monster mash
And it's a graveyard smash
It's now the mash
It's caught on in aflash
It's now the mash
It's now the monster mash
Noweverything's cool, Drac's a part of the band
And my monster mash is the hitof the land
For you, the living, this mash was meant too
When you get tomy door, tell them Boris sent you
Then you can mash
Then you canmonster mash
The monster mash
And do my graveyard smash
Then you canmash
You'll catch on in a flash
Then you can mash
Then you canmonster mash
10.29.2006
Librarian Porn
My friend Jer sent me an interesting e-mail the other day.
"I am on an antiquarian book list where sellers post the books they want for clients. Somebody sent a list of librarian porn out today sadly without authors....."
This statement is then followed by a list of librarian porn books, as stated without authors. I thought that this list must have come from somewhere so I did a little digging...
The origins of the list:
"The Image of Librarians in Pornography"
http://www.riverofdata.com/librariana/porn/
And the list itself:
Bang the Librarian Hard.
Campus Lust.
Chained, Whipped Librarians.
Eager Beaver Librarian.
Eager to Spread Librarian.
Eager Young Librarian.
First Rear Entry.
Helpful Head Librarian.
Horny Balling Librarian.
Horny Hot Librarian.
Horny Licking Librarian.
Horny Peeping Librarian.
Hot Bed Librarian.
Hot, Licked Librarian.
Hot Loving Librarian.
Hot Mouth Librarian.
Hot Pants Librarian.
Hot to Trot Librarian.
The Hottest Librarian.
In Heat Librarian.
Lash the Librarian!
A Librarian Enslaved.
The Librarian Gets Hot.
The Librarian Got Hot.
Librarian in Bondage.
Librarian in Chains.
The Librarian Licks Big Ones.
The Librarian Loves It.
The Librarian Loves to Lick.
The Librarian Slave.
The Librarian With the Hots.
The Librarian's Boys.
The Librarian's Hot Fun.
The Librarian's Hot Lips.
The Librarian's Hot Urges.
A Librarian's Training.
Licking the Librarian.
Line Up for the Librarian.
Naughty Voyeur Librarian.
Nympho Librarian.
The Oral Librarian.
Overeager Librarian.
Sally - Sexy Librarian.
Sex Behind the Stacks.
Three-way with the Librarian.
What a Librarian!
Good to know theres' something for everyone in this world... LOL
"I am on an antiquarian book list where sellers post the books they want for clients. Somebody sent a list of librarian porn out today sadly without authors....."
This statement is then followed by a list of librarian porn books, as stated without authors. I thought that this list must have come from somewhere so I did a little digging...
The origins of the list:
"The Image of Librarians in Pornography"
http://www.riverofdata.com/librariana/porn/
And the list itself:
Bang the Librarian Hard.
Campus Lust.
Chained, Whipped Librarians.
Eager Beaver Librarian.
Eager to Spread Librarian.
Eager Young Librarian.
First Rear Entry.
Helpful Head Librarian.
Horny Balling Librarian.
Horny Hot Librarian.
Horny Licking Librarian.
Horny Peeping Librarian.
Hot Bed Librarian.
Hot, Licked Librarian.
Hot Loving Librarian.
Hot Mouth Librarian.
Hot Pants Librarian.
Hot to Trot Librarian.
The Hottest Librarian.
In Heat Librarian.
Lash the Librarian!
A Librarian Enslaved.
The Librarian Gets Hot.
The Librarian Got Hot.
Librarian in Bondage.
Librarian in Chains.
The Librarian Licks Big Ones.
The Librarian Loves It.
The Librarian Loves to Lick.
The Librarian Slave.
The Librarian With the Hots.
The Librarian's Boys.
The Librarian's Hot Fun.
The Librarian's Hot Lips.
The Librarian's Hot Urges.
A Librarian's Training.
Licking the Librarian.
Line Up for the Librarian.
Naughty Voyeur Librarian.
Nympho Librarian.
The Oral Librarian.
Overeager Librarian.
Sally - Sexy Librarian.
Sex Behind the Stacks.
Three-way with the Librarian.
What a Librarian!
Good to know theres' something for everyone in this world... LOL
10.28.2006
10.27.2006
10.26.2006
10.25.2006
Emo Kid
Here's a link to a little "music video" someone made to go along with the song "Emo Kid" by Adam and Andrew that I posted as song of the week a few months back. It's pretty funny!
http://www.kontraband.com/show/show.asp?sf=y&id=3194
http://www.kontraband.com/show/show.asp?sf=y&id=3194
10.24.2006
My Uncle in the Papers
So my Uncle Todd found his way into the newspaper the other week...
Regina has ultimate taste for the Stones
Pamela Cowan, Leader-Post (Regina)
Published: Thursday, October 05, 2006
Tongues are wagging all over Regina about the Rolling Stones.
At the corner of Thornton Avenue and Rae Street, Todd Apperley has constructed a giant hand-drawn tongue, which is flanked by the Union Jack and Canada's flag and is lit by a spotlight at night
Apperley began tooling the tongue a month ago. He hopes it will entice "some nice mates from across the pond" to drop over to his Lakeview home, sign his tongue tribute and share a few beers in his backyard.
If Apperley's wish comes true, he plans to donate the sign to the Children's Wish Foundation so they can raffle it to raise money for kids.
"I love the Stones," Apperley said Wednesday afternoon.
No kidding.
He's painted the Stones' signature tongue on his cap, shirt and jacket and his cell phone rings to his favourite song, "Start Me Up."
"I think I've lost my mind -- at least that's what people say, but it's once in a lifetime for Regina and you know, the boys are getting older," Apperley said.
He admires the Stones' endurance in spite of their struggles with drugs and booze.
"The whole meaning of rock and roll is what they put forward," he said. "Now they're trying to stay clean and get on with their lives and put out good music. It's just fantastic!"
A framer and house painter by trade, Apperley was between jobs when the band's setup crew rolled into town. Satisfaction came after he made 20 phone calls to track down who to talk to about being hired to set up the massive stage.
"The timing was just perfect," said the 39-year-old. "I've never ever done anything this big before. When we're watching the show, I can say, 'Hey, I helped build that.'
"I don't think Regina realized how big it was going to be but now that I'm helping to set up the stage -- get your tickets and get out there because it's just going to be rank!"
His partner, Lorrie McNeill, bought the Union Jack flag at a garage sale last weekend.
Although she's more restrained about her allegiance to the Stones, McNeill is excited about attending Friday's show.
"I think it's awesome for Regina," she said. "It's a chance in a lifetime for people who haven't seen them. I saw them once about 20 years ago in Calgary but they were younger then. I can't imagine what they'll do now."
Stones fever is everywhere, said Mayor Pat Fiacco.
"You just have to look around and you can tell that people are excited everywhere ... Some of the display windows that we're seeing in some of the stores and the signs that are out there -- it's fun stuff," he said.
Thousands more tongues, even tie-dyed ones, are hanging out at Vintage Vinyl & Hemp Emporium on 11th Avenue.
The 5,000-square-foot store features the Stones trademark on baseball caps, cowboy hats, toques, bunnyhugs, T-shirts, ashtrays, cufflinks, wall clocks and alarm clocks. Just inside the door are Stones LPs and tons of T-shirts are everywhere.
"We have 5,000 different T-shirts to choose from," said owner Pat Baumet. "We have the largest selection in Canada. If you wanted to count all our T-shirts, we probably have 50,000 to 60,000."
Jammed on racks in the vanilla-incense-filled shop are tongues on short and long sleeve shirts, sports jerseys and "girlie-styled hoodies." Plain classic tongue shirts vie for attention among flashier numbers with liquid and tie-dyed tongues. The mind-numbing selection of shirts also marks the Stones' many tours.
"We have a very unique shirt here that's a Canadian tour shirt and it's got a moose with the Canadian Maple Leaf on the tongue," Baumet said. "The demand has been there since they announced the show and a lot of roadies that are in town to set up the stage have been very impressed with the selection we've got here."
Baumet is also sending a written invitation to the Stones.
"We hope they want to come down and have a personal tour with the doors closed," he said. "Burton Cummings was here for the first Rock 'n the Valley. He came in with his road manager and about three days later he had his wife fly in to shop here ... She absolutely loved our tie-dyed dresses. She bought four or five of them as well as a lot of other tie-dyed stuff."
Expecting a crush of customers, Baumet plans to extend his weekend hours and pledges to "stay open all night Saturday to accommodate fans."
Regina gets Stoned
Saskatchewan set to prove that it rocks
Thu Oct 5 2006
Randy Burton (the Saskatoon Star Phoneix) Posted in Winnipeg Fre Press
Stones fan Todd Apperley hopes band autographs his Regina yard sign to raise money for charity
Without doubt, it's the biggest entertainment spectacle ever to hit Saskatchewan.
This Thanksgiving weekend, Regina will host not just one, but two sold-out shows by "the greatest rock 'n' roll band in the world," the Rolling Stones.
Some 90,000 people in total will pour into Mosaic Stadium, the home of the Roughriders, tomorrow night and Sunday to watch Mick Jagger and his invincible cohort Keith Richards put the band through its paces.
Everything about the Stones tour is larger than life. The stage construction is eight storeys high and takes a crew of 400 people to build. To move it requires the services of 80 semi-trailers. During the course of the concert, it's expected that the fans will drink the equivalent of 360,000 beers.
In the spirit of the party atmosphere, the provincial liquor authority has decided to allow the bars to stay open an hour later, so last call will be at 3 a.m. and closing will be at 4 a.m.
document.
The city has suspended its noise bylaw temporarily to accommodate the crews if they have to work through the night to get the massive stage ready on time. The biggest controversy surrounding accommodations for the erstwhile Bad Boys of Rock seems to be whether Richards will be allowed to smoke on stage.
This kind of accommodation is not unusual where big events in Saskatchewan are concerned, whether it's a Grey Cup or any of a number of Briers.
But the significance of this event is much greater. Elton John has played Saskatchewan, but that didn't change the place. Cher came and went, but the Earth didn't move.
This time it's different. The Stones concerts are taking on mythic proportions in the Saskatchewan psyche. It is seen here as a coming of age for a province where disappointment is always just around the corner.
This time, victory is at hand.
Saskatchewan is the only prairie province where the Stones have never played. This year, Regina is one of only three stops on the Stones' Canadian tour, along with Halifax and Vancouver. And it's the only stop on the fall leg of their Bigger Bang tour where the band is playing twice.
The Stones' interest in playing before audiences that have never had the opportunity to see them before has been repaid in full by their prairie fans.
While it took a full day to sell out the Vancouver show, Regina sold out in 20 minutes. When the band added a second show, the tickets were gone in an hour. Obviously, there is a pent-up demand for the Stones here, but it's more than that. This event taps into two big undercurrents in Saskatchewan culture.
One is the conviction that given the opportunity, this province can compete with any jurisdiction in the country. The other is the tribal nature of the province. Outside of Newfoundland, perhaps, there is no other province in the land that has so many expatriates scattered across the country, nor any so proud of their roots.
You need only look at the national fan base for the Saskatchewan Roughriders for proof of that. So as the leaders of the biggest tribe of fans in the world, the Stones are the perfect fit for Saskatchewan.
Regina mayor Pat Fiacco says "it is pretty amazing, but it's about time, don't you think?"
Fiacco notes that unlike Toronto, Vancouver or Montreal, a big occasion in Saskatchewan does not get lost in the competition for attention with other events. The whole province hears about it and gets behind it.
Aside from the obvious windfall for hotels and restaurants over Thanksgiving, the Stones shows will also bring international attention to the province, making it a potential stop for other major entertainment events. When the excitement from this is over, Fiacco says the city intends to start promoting the football stadium as a venue for other big shows.
"We all know this is a place that can support such an event but those who are doing it nationally have to give us a chance," Fiacco said in an interview.
Of course, no event of this size is without a political element. Premier Lorne Calvert is hoping this sends a message to those who might be thinking of leaving the province.
"It's that intangible that says, particularly to the young person, that this is the place to be, that things happen here," Calvert said in an interview. It also fits nicely into the government's effort to boost the music industry here. The province and the four largest cities embarked on a strategy some time ago to attract all the major music awards shows to Saskatchewan.
Over the course of the next year, Saskatchewan will host four major musical events including the Junos, the Canadian Country Music Awards, the Western Canadian Music Awards and the yet-to-be-announced Aboriginal Music Awards.
It was at this year's Juno awards that Calvert met with Stones promoter Donald K. Donald and got the ball rolling on bringing the band to Saskatchewan.
Naturally the premier will be on hand for the show, wearing "something warm."
Ron Waldman, president and CEO of Great Western Breweries, who beat out both Molson and Labatt for the right to sell beer at the shows, says the weekend will cause people from outside the province to take a fresh look at what's going on here.
"I think it's a situation where we're saying to the world, 'you're all invited. But the party's happenin' here'."
Regina has ultimate taste for the Stones
Pamela Cowan, Leader-Post (Regina)
Published: Thursday, October 05, 2006
Tongues are wagging all over Regina about the Rolling Stones.
At the corner of Thornton Avenue and Rae Street, Todd Apperley has constructed a giant hand-drawn tongue, which is flanked by the Union Jack and Canada's flag and is lit by a spotlight at night
Apperley began tooling the tongue a month ago. He hopes it will entice "some nice mates from across the pond" to drop over to his Lakeview home, sign his tongue tribute and share a few beers in his backyard.
If Apperley's wish comes true, he plans to donate the sign to the Children's Wish Foundation so they can raffle it to raise money for kids.
"I love the Stones," Apperley said Wednesday afternoon.
No kidding.
He's painted the Stones' signature tongue on his cap, shirt and jacket and his cell phone rings to his favourite song, "Start Me Up."
"I think I've lost my mind -- at least that's what people say, but it's once in a lifetime for Regina and you know, the boys are getting older," Apperley said.
He admires the Stones' endurance in spite of their struggles with drugs and booze.
"The whole meaning of rock and roll is what they put forward," he said. "Now they're trying to stay clean and get on with their lives and put out good music. It's just fantastic!"
A framer and house painter by trade, Apperley was between jobs when the band's setup crew rolled into town. Satisfaction came after he made 20 phone calls to track down who to talk to about being hired to set up the massive stage.
"The timing was just perfect," said the 39-year-old. "I've never ever done anything this big before. When we're watching the show, I can say, 'Hey, I helped build that.'
"I don't think Regina realized how big it was going to be but now that I'm helping to set up the stage -- get your tickets and get out there because it's just going to be rank!"
His partner, Lorrie McNeill, bought the Union Jack flag at a garage sale last weekend.
Although she's more restrained about her allegiance to the Stones, McNeill is excited about attending Friday's show.
"I think it's awesome for Regina," she said. "It's a chance in a lifetime for people who haven't seen them. I saw them once about 20 years ago in Calgary but they were younger then. I can't imagine what they'll do now."
Stones fever is everywhere, said Mayor Pat Fiacco.
"You just have to look around and you can tell that people are excited everywhere ... Some of the display windows that we're seeing in some of the stores and the signs that are out there -- it's fun stuff," he said.
Thousands more tongues, even tie-dyed ones, are hanging out at Vintage Vinyl & Hemp Emporium on 11th Avenue.
The 5,000-square-foot store features the Stones trademark on baseball caps, cowboy hats, toques, bunnyhugs, T-shirts, ashtrays, cufflinks, wall clocks and alarm clocks. Just inside the door are Stones LPs and tons of T-shirts are everywhere.
"We have 5,000 different T-shirts to choose from," said owner Pat Baumet. "We have the largest selection in Canada. If you wanted to count all our T-shirts, we probably have 50,000 to 60,000."
Jammed on racks in the vanilla-incense-filled shop are tongues on short and long sleeve shirts, sports jerseys and "girlie-styled hoodies." Plain classic tongue shirts vie for attention among flashier numbers with liquid and tie-dyed tongues. The mind-numbing selection of shirts also marks the Stones' many tours.
"We have a very unique shirt here that's a Canadian tour shirt and it's got a moose with the Canadian Maple Leaf on the tongue," Baumet said. "The demand has been there since they announced the show and a lot of roadies that are in town to set up the stage have been very impressed with the selection we've got here."
Baumet is also sending a written invitation to the Stones.
"We hope they want to come down and have a personal tour with the doors closed," he said. "Burton Cummings was here for the first Rock 'n the Valley. He came in with his road manager and about three days later he had his wife fly in to shop here ... She absolutely loved our tie-dyed dresses. She bought four or five of them as well as a lot of other tie-dyed stuff."
Expecting a crush of customers, Baumet plans to extend his weekend hours and pledges to "stay open all night Saturday to accommodate fans."
Regina gets Stoned
Saskatchewan set to prove that it rocks
Thu Oct 5 2006
Randy Burton (the Saskatoon Star Phoneix) Posted in Winnipeg Fre Press
Stones fan Todd Apperley hopes band autographs his Regina yard sign to raise money for charity
Without doubt, it's the biggest entertainment spectacle ever to hit Saskatchewan.
This Thanksgiving weekend, Regina will host not just one, but two sold-out shows by "the greatest rock 'n' roll band in the world," the Rolling Stones.
Some 90,000 people in total will pour into Mosaic Stadium, the home of the Roughriders, tomorrow night and Sunday to watch Mick Jagger and his invincible cohort Keith Richards put the band through its paces.
Everything about the Stones tour is larger than life. The stage construction is eight storeys high and takes a crew of 400 people to build. To move it requires the services of 80 semi-trailers. During the course of the concert, it's expected that the fans will drink the equivalent of 360,000 beers.
In the spirit of the party atmosphere, the provincial liquor authority has decided to allow the bars to stay open an hour later, so last call will be at 3 a.m. and closing will be at 4 a.m.
document.
The city has suspended its noise bylaw temporarily to accommodate the crews if they have to work through the night to get the massive stage ready on time. The biggest controversy surrounding accommodations for the erstwhile Bad Boys of Rock seems to be whether Richards will be allowed to smoke on stage.
This kind of accommodation is not unusual where big events in Saskatchewan are concerned, whether it's a Grey Cup or any of a number of Briers.
But the significance of this event is much greater. Elton John has played Saskatchewan, but that didn't change the place. Cher came and went, but the Earth didn't move.
This time it's different. The Stones concerts are taking on mythic proportions in the Saskatchewan psyche. It is seen here as a coming of age for a province where disappointment is always just around the corner.
This time, victory is at hand.
Saskatchewan is the only prairie province where the Stones have never played. This year, Regina is one of only three stops on the Stones' Canadian tour, along with Halifax and Vancouver. And it's the only stop on the fall leg of their Bigger Bang tour where the band is playing twice.
The Stones' interest in playing before audiences that have never had the opportunity to see them before has been repaid in full by their prairie fans.
While it took a full day to sell out the Vancouver show, Regina sold out in 20 minutes. When the band added a second show, the tickets were gone in an hour. Obviously, there is a pent-up demand for the Stones here, but it's more than that. This event taps into two big undercurrents in Saskatchewan culture.
One is the conviction that given the opportunity, this province can compete with any jurisdiction in the country. The other is the tribal nature of the province. Outside of Newfoundland, perhaps, there is no other province in the land that has so many expatriates scattered across the country, nor any so proud of their roots.
You need only look at the national fan base for the Saskatchewan Roughriders for proof of that. So as the leaders of the biggest tribe of fans in the world, the Stones are the perfect fit for Saskatchewan.
Regina mayor Pat Fiacco says "it is pretty amazing, but it's about time, don't you think?"
Fiacco notes that unlike Toronto, Vancouver or Montreal, a big occasion in Saskatchewan does not get lost in the competition for attention with other events. The whole province hears about it and gets behind it.
Aside from the obvious windfall for hotels and restaurants over Thanksgiving, the Stones shows will also bring international attention to the province, making it a potential stop for other major entertainment events. When the excitement from this is over, Fiacco says the city intends to start promoting the football stadium as a venue for other big shows.
"We all know this is a place that can support such an event but those who are doing it nationally have to give us a chance," Fiacco said in an interview.
Of course, no event of this size is without a political element. Premier Lorne Calvert is hoping this sends a message to those who might be thinking of leaving the province.
"It's that intangible that says, particularly to the young person, that this is the place to be, that things happen here," Calvert said in an interview. It also fits nicely into the government's effort to boost the music industry here. The province and the four largest cities embarked on a strategy some time ago to attract all the major music awards shows to Saskatchewan.
Over the course of the next year, Saskatchewan will host four major musical events including the Junos, the Canadian Country Music Awards, the Western Canadian Music Awards and the yet-to-be-announced Aboriginal Music Awards.
It was at this year's Juno awards that Calvert met with Stones promoter Donald K. Donald and got the ball rolling on bringing the band to Saskatchewan.
Naturally the premier will be on hand for the show, wearing "something warm."
Ron Waldman, president and CEO of Great Western Breweries, who beat out both Molson and Labatt for the right to sell beer at the shows, says the weekend will cause people from outside the province to take a fresh look at what's going on here.
"I think it's a situation where we're saying to the world, 'you're all invited. But the party's happenin' here'."
10.23.2006
Golden Birthdays
One's golden birthday, also called a champagne birthday, is the day when the age one turns and the date of birth coincide (e.g. someone turning 23 on September 23rd celebrates his golden birthday). - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday
Happy Golden Birthday Cory!
Happy Golden Birthday Cory!
Song of the Week
"Fall to Pieces"- Avril Lavigne
I looked away
Then I look back at you
You try to say
The things that you can't undo
If I had my way
I'd never get over you
Today's the day
I pray that we make it through
Make it through the fall
Make it through it all
[Chorus:]
And I don't wanna fall to pieces
I just want to sit and stare at you
I don't want to talk about it
And I don't want a conversation
I just want to cry in front of you
I don't want to talk about it
Cuz I'm in Love With you
You're the only one,
I'd be with till the end
When I come undone
You bring me back again
Back under the stars
Back into your arms
[Chorus]
Wanna know who you are
Wanna know where to start
I wanna know what this means
Wanna know how you feel
Wanna know what is real
I wanna know everything, everything
[Chorus without last line]
[Chorus]
I'm in love with you
Cuz i'm in love with you
I'm in love with you
I'm in love with you
I looked away
Then I look back at you
You try to say
The things that you can't undo
If I had my way
I'd never get over you
Today's the day
I pray that we make it through
Make it through the fall
Make it through it all
[Chorus:]
And I don't wanna fall to pieces
I just want to sit and stare at you
I don't want to talk about it
And I don't want a conversation
I just want to cry in front of you
I don't want to talk about it
Cuz I'm in Love With you
You're the only one,
I'd be with till the end
When I come undone
You bring me back again
Back under the stars
Back into your arms
[Chorus]
Wanna know who you are
Wanna know where to start
I wanna know what this means
Wanna know how you feel
Wanna know what is real
I wanna know everything, everything
[Chorus without last line]
[Chorus]
I'm in love with you
Cuz i'm in love with you
I'm in love with you
I'm in love with you
10.22.2006
New Teas at Tim Hortons
According to my placemat at Tim Hortons they now have 10 flavours of tea, all of which can be drank in store or purchased by the box for home consumption.
Flavors include:
Honey Lemon
Apple Cinnamon
Chamomile
Earl Grey
Orange Pekoe
Orange Pekoe decaf
Peppermint
English Breakfast
Green Tea
Chai Tea
"Tim Hortons gourmet teas offer the discerning tea drinker the chance to experience a variety of high quality specialty teas. Whether you like to relax with a soothing cup of naturally decaffeinated herbal tea, or prefer the distinctive flavour of English breakfast, Earl Grey, or Grey Tea, there's something for everyone in our gourmet tea collection. And for those of you love a traditional cup of tea without the caffeine, we also offer our own special blend of decaffeinated Orange Pekoe." - Tim Hortons placemat
Flavors include:
Honey Lemon
Apple Cinnamon
Chamomile
Earl Grey
Orange Pekoe
Orange Pekoe decaf
Peppermint
English Breakfast
Green Tea
Chai Tea
"Tim Hortons gourmet teas offer the discerning tea drinker the chance to experience a variety of high quality specialty teas. Whether you like to relax with a soothing cup of naturally decaffeinated herbal tea, or prefer the distinctive flavour of English breakfast, Earl Grey, or Grey Tea, there's something for everyone in our gourmet tea collection. And for those of you love a traditional cup of tea without the caffeine, we also offer our own special blend of decaffeinated Orange Pekoe." - Tim Hortons placemat
10.21.2006
Webaroo
This little app allows u to surf the net without a connection. It stores webpages for use offline so you can still access info from often used sites while on the go.
"Webaroo is a free software program and service that lets you search and browse real web pages without a connection. Webaroo's advanced technology makes it simple for you to take the web with you -- and find what you are looking for anywhere, anytime. It's easy -- Webaroo stores searchable web content on your laptop, PDA or smart phone. It's fast -- searches run and pages load instantly at memory speed. It's fresh -- your Webaroo content is updated every time you sync."
http://www.webaroo.com/
"Webaroo is a free software program and service that lets you search and browse real web pages without a connection. Webaroo's advanced technology makes it simple for you to take the web with you -- and find what you are looking for anywhere, anytime. It's easy -- Webaroo stores searchable web content on your laptop, PDA or smart phone. It's fast -- searches run and pages load instantly at memory speed. It's fresh -- your Webaroo content is updated every time you sync."
http://www.webaroo.com/
10.20.2006
Quote of the Day
"Here is the most valuable 'insider's tip' I can come up with: Before declaring your affection in blind hope that she may return it, get to know who she really is. This sounds cliche, but I really mean it. It has been my experience that crushes are often based on an idea of a person, not on who the person actually is. We tend to idealize those we are interested in. I'll let you in on something: I want to be loved for who I am, not who you think I am or want me to be. I am pretty sure this is one of the few bits of advice that is going to apply to all women across the spectrum." - Lisa Laplante
10.19.2006
Cadbury Commercial Part 2
Some totally disturbing news... there is more than one of the "wouldn't it be nice" commercials.... These things apparently aired down in Austrailia before coming to Canada and as best as I can tell there are 6 of them.
Lyrics:
Lyrics for Part One - The Surfing Surfer
Wouldn't it be nice if the world were Cadbury?
You could surf inside a chocolate tube
Ride your board across the wave forever
Get wiped out and never get a bruise
And if a shark came up and tried to bite you
You could say 'I'm chocolate - I invite you'
Wouldn't it be nice?
Lyrics for Part Two - Postal madness
Wouldn't it be nice if the world were Cadbury?
Chocolate roads and trees and birds and bees
Delivering all kinds of letters daily,
Every kind of purple parcel too.
And if the dog did try and grab a mouthful,
You could bite him back he'd taste delightful!
Wouldn't it be nice?
Lyrics for Part Three - Soccer superstar
Wouldn't it be nice if the world were Cadbury?
You could be a soccer super star.
The referee would blow his chocolate whistle,
A shot a goal would even break the bar.
And if you scored the winner
You could have the cup for your dinner.
Wouldn't it be nice?
Lyrics for Part Four (July 2003) - Family holiday
Wouldn't it be nice if the world were Cadbury?
Riding in the car would be a tasty treat.
Changing gears would soon become a problem
Cadbury dairy milk is so good to eat
When you arrive at your destination,
You'll be greeted with an exclamation!
Wouldn't it be nice?
Lyrics for Part Five (April 2005) - Maze crazy
Wouldn't it be nice if the world were Cadbury?
You could play inside a chocolate maze.
Run around and round to reach the middle
What a big surprise for you awaits.
If you couldn't find your way to freedom,
No need to run, just face the walls and eat 'em!
Wouldn't it be nice?
Lyrics for Part Six (August 2005) - At the movies
Wouldn't it be nice if the world was Cadbury?
Going to the pics would so sweet
There'd be no need for munchies
Cadbury dairy milk is the perfect treat
If someone came and blocked your screen view
Just take a bite and make a hole to see through
Wouldn't it be nice?
Soccer Superstar
Lyrics:
Lyrics for Part One - The Surfing Surfer
Wouldn't it be nice if the world were Cadbury?
You could surf inside a chocolate tube
Ride your board across the wave forever
Get wiped out and never get a bruise
And if a shark came up and tried to bite you
You could say 'I'm chocolate - I invite you'
Wouldn't it be nice?
Lyrics for Part Two - Postal madness
Wouldn't it be nice if the world were Cadbury?
Chocolate roads and trees and birds and bees
Delivering all kinds of letters daily,
Every kind of purple parcel too.
And if the dog did try and grab a mouthful,
You could bite him back he'd taste delightful!
Wouldn't it be nice?
Lyrics for Part Three - Soccer superstar
Wouldn't it be nice if the world were Cadbury?
You could be a soccer super star.
The referee would blow his chocolate whistle,
A shot a goal would even break the bar.
And if you scored the winner
You could have the cup for your dinner.
Wouldn't it be nice?
Lyrics for Part Four (July 2003) - Family holiday
Wouldn't it be nice if the world were Cadbury?
Riding in the car would be a tasty treat.
Changing gears would soon become a problem
Cadbury dairy milk is so good to eat
When you arrive at your destination,
You'll be greeted with an exclamation!
Wouldn't it be nice?
Lyrics for Part Five (April 2005) - Maze crazy
Wouldn't it be nice if the world were Cadbury?
You could play inside a chocolate maze.
Run around and round to reach the middle
What a big surprise for you awaits.
If you couldn't find your way to freedom,
No need to run, just face the walls and eat 'em!
Wouldn't it be nice?
Lyrics for Part Six (August 2005) - At the movies
Wouldn't it be nice if the world was Cadbury?
Going to the pics would so sweet
There'd be no need for munchies
Cadbury dairy milk is the perfect treat
If someone came and blocked your screen view
Just take a bite and make a hole to see through
Wouldn't it be nice?
Soccer Superstar
10.18.2006
Cadbury Commercial
Alright so here you have it, it's either the best or worst commercial of all times. I hate it because it gets stuck in my head and I hate that the kid wiggles his butt and invites the shark to bite it. But it's a great campaign because it gets stuck in my head and makes me want chocolate.
Lyrics: (which are btw a parody of "Wouldn't it be Nice" by the Beach Boys)
Wouldn't it be nice if the world were Cadbury?
You could surf inside a chocolate tube
Ride your board across the wave forever
Get wiped out and never get a bruise
And if a shark came up and tried to bite you
You could say 'I'm chocolate - I invite you'
Wouldn't it be nice?
Cadbury - Wouldn't It Be Nice (surfing)
Lyrics: (which are btw a parody of "Wouldn't it be Nice" by the Beach Boys)
Wouldn't it be nice if the world were Cadbury?
You could surf inside a chocolate tube
Ride your board across the wave forever
Get wiped out and never get a bruise
And if a shark came up and tried to bite you
You could say 'I'm chocolate - I invite you'
Wouldn't it be nice?
Cadbury - Wouldn't It Be Nice (surfing)
10.17.2006
Hamsters Part 15
A few oversights, over the past few months I've backposted most of my blogs and I forgot to mention a few details that would make the story about Hedgehog'd death make sense.
About a month and a half ago we realized that Hedgehog was in fact a girl and not a boy as was previously thought, we realized this because she became pregnant and had babies. The babies were cannibablized by either mom or one of the two dads, still not sure on that one, so we decided to moved Hedgehog out of the cage with the boys so this wouldn't happen again and into the cage with the girls.
I got the hamsters new furniture while I was home in Ontario (from the 20th of Aug to the 10th of Sept), a living room set for the girls' cage and a car for the boys cage.
I traded up the cages so that the girls have their living room set in the gigi cage, the boys' had their car & house (or garage lol) in the playground cage, Kus had the safari cage and Mouse had the space cage. I did this shortly after I cam back, and and that is when we switched Hedgehog into the girls' cage. The hamsters fought a bit but nothing too serious, as they all always fight, so I thought nothing of it.
I've cleaned cages once or twice since then, and again nothing terrible had seemed to be going on and then the death. So I'm really not too sure what happened there.
I've cleaned cages once since then
About a month and a half ago we realized that Hedgehog was in fact a girl and not a boy as was previously thought, we realized this because she became pregnant and had babies. The babies were cannibablized by either mom or one of the two dads, still not sure on that one, so we decided to moved Hedgehog out of the cage with the boys so this wouldn't happen again and into the cage with the girls.
I got the hamsters new furniture while I was home in Ontario (from the 20th of Aug to the 10th of Sept), a living room set for the girls' cage and a car for the boys cage.
I traded up the cages so that the girls have their living room set in the gigi cage, the boys' had their car & house (or garage lol) in the playground cage, Kus had the safari cage and Mouse had the space cage. I did this shortly after I cam back, and and that is when we switched Hedgehog into the girls' cage. The hamsters fought a bit but nothing too serious, as they all always fight, so I thought nothing of it.
I've cleaned cages once or twice since then, and again nothing terrible had seemed to be going on and then the death. So I'm really not too sure what happened there.
I've cleaned cages once since then
10.16.2006
Song of the Week
"Wild One" - Faith Hill
They said change your clothes
She said no I wont
They said comb your hair
She said some kids dont
And her parents dreams went up in smoke
They said you cant leave
She said yes I will
They said dont see him
She said his name is bill
Shes on a roll and its all uphill
Shes a wild one
With an angels face
Shes a woman-child
In a state of grace
When she was 3 years old on her daddys knee
He said you can be anything you want to be
Shes a wild one
Runnin free
She loves rock and roll
They said its satans tongue
She thinks theyre too old
They think shes too young
And the battle lines are clearly drawn
Shes a wild one
With an angels face
Shes a woman-child
In a state of grace
When she was 3 years old on her daddys knee
He said you can be anything you want to be
Shes a wild one
Runnin free
She has future plans and dreams at night
When they tell her life is hard she says thats alright
Shes a wild one
With an angels face
Shes a woman-child
In a state of grace
When she was 3 years old on her daddys knee
He said you can be anything you want to be
Shes a wild one
Runnin free
They said change your clothes
She said no I wont
They said comb your hair
She said some kids dont
And her parents dreams went up in smoke
They said you cant leave
She said yes I will
They said dont see him
She said his name is bill
Shes on a roll and its all uphill
Shes a wild one
With an angels face
Shes a woman-child
In a state of grace
When she was 3 years old on her daddys knee
He said you can be anything you want to be
Shes a wild one
Runnin free
She loves rock and roll
They said its satans tongue
She thinks theyre too old
They think shes too young
And the battle lines are clearly drawn
Shes a wild one
With an angels face
Shes a woman-child
In a state of grace
When she was 3 years old on her daddys knee
He said you can be anything you want to be
Shes a wild one
Runnin free
She has future plans and dreams at night
When they tell her life is hard she says thats alright
Shes a wild one
With an angels face
Shes a woman-child
In a state of grace
When she was 3 years old on her daddys knee
He said you can be anything you want to be
Shes a wild one
Runnin free
10.15.2006
Hamsters Part 14
In a shocking turn of events the hamsters have turned to cannibalism!
I went to clean the cages today and there were only 3 hamsters in the girls cage. I couldn't bring myself to dig through the bedding to find the dead body, that I thought I would inevitably find, on my own so I had Mark come over to do it for me.
After much searching in the cage he found bones and a bit of fur, the only remains of Hedgehog.
Apparently they fighting that has been going on for the past few weeks has been more that "just a little fighting". I'm not sure when exactly it happened. For sure there were four hamsters in the cage on Tuesday, but that was the last time I honestly took a good look. A friend of mine suggested if the corpse has been there, having died from natural causes, the hamsters may have eaten it in order to keep their environment clean.
I'd like to think that was the scenario, that I simply did not remove the corpse quickly enough, and not the alternative that the other hamsters ganged up on, killled and ate one of their own.
I went to clean the cages today and there were only 3 hamsters in the girls cage. I couldn't bring myself to dig through the bedding to find the dead body, that I thought I would inevitably find, on my own so I had Mark come over to do it for me.
After much searching in the cage he found bones and a bit of fur, the only remains of Hedgehog.
Apparently they fighting that has been going on for the past few weeks has been more that "just a little fighting". I'm not sure when exactly it happened. For sure there were four hamsters in the cage on Tuesday, but that was the last time I honestly took a good look. A friend of mine suggested if the corpse has been there, having died from natural causes, the hamsters may have eaten it in order to keep their environment clean.
I'd like to think that was the scenario, that I simply did not remove the corpse quickly enough, and not the alternative that the other hamsters ganged up on, killled and ate one of their own.
PostSecret 4
So in today's post secret we have this from editor Frank. I saw the postcard last week and was worried... now I'm right freaked out!
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10/8/2006
October 8th
-------Email Message-------
Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2006 12:28 AM
39 08.060 N, 77 19.270 W
(When I can confirm more about this picture that was emailed to me, I will post further information. -Frank)
posted by postsecret at 7:47 AM
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10/8/2006
October 8th
-------Email Message-------
Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2006 12:28 AM
39 08.060 N, 77 19.270 W
(When I can confirm more about this picture that was emailed to me, I will post further information. -Frank)
posted by postsecret at 7:47 AM
10.14.2006
Transplant...
I scooped this link from a friend's blog. It's truly hilarious, the first human penis transplant! Y'all have to read the artcle. :)
http://www.slate.com/id/2150153/?nav=tap3
http://www.slate.com/id/2150153/?nav=tap3
10.13.2006
Some People shouldn't be allowed to have kids...
Hello Baby ESPN: Father Names Son After Sports Network
2006-10-07 15:07:02 GMT
Nicole King - All Headline News Staff Writer
Biloxi, MS (AHN) - Even the nurses couldn't believe it. A Mississippi couple named their newborn son ESPN after the sports network.
ESPN Montana Real was born this week at Biloxi Regional Medical Center. ESPN's (pronounced Espen) mother, Leann Real promised her husband if they ever had a son, he would get to pick the name. Rusty Real is an avid sports fan.
The Montana in baby ESPN's name comes from football great Joe Montana. And baby ESPN isn't alone with his unusual name. There are at least three other ESPNs in the world according to a 2005 report from tivocommunity.com.
http://hello-baby-espn-father-names-son.freeonlinegames.com/
2006-10-07 15:07:02 GMT
Nicole King - All Headline News Staff Writer
Biloxi, MS (AHN) - Even the nurses couldn't believe it. A Mississippi couple named their newborn son ESPN after the sports network.
ESPN Montana Real was born this week at Biloxi Regional Medical Center. ESPN's (pronounced Espen) mother, Leann Real promised her husband if they ever had a son, he would get to pick the name. Rusty Real is an avid sports fan.
The Montana in baby ESPN's name comes from football great Joe Montana. And baby ESPN isn't alone with his unusual name. There are at least three other ESPNs in the world according to a 2005 report from tivocommunity.com.
http://hello-baby-espn-father-names-son.freeonlinegames.com/
10.12.2006
iTunes Library Updater
Found a little app that might be of interest to people wh, like me, enjoy some of the features of iTunes but hate others. I personally love that it will tell me how many days worth of music I have stored on my computer (currently 27.3!!!) but I hate that it doesn't sync with my computer as well as it does with my iPod.
A solution!
This program allows you to pick folders you essentially want to sync with iTunes, it automatically deletes dead links in iTunes and puts in songs that haven't been added. Very helpful. :)
http://itlu.ownz.ch/wordpress/?page_id=5
A solution!
This program allows you to pick folders you essentially want to sync with iTunes, it automatically deletes dead links in iTunes and puts in songs that haven't been added. Very helpful. :)
http://itlu.ownz.ch/wordpress/?page_id=5
10.11.2006
The Church of Google
Well here's blasphemy at it's finest. Someone has decided that Google is a god (note the small g) that deserves it's own church, you gotta know someone is going to hell for this...
Here's the main statement from the website:
"We at the Church of Google believe a convincing argument can be made stating that the search engine Google is the closest mankind has ever come to directly experiencing an actual God (as typically defined). Supernatural gods are rejected on the notion they are inherently unprovable. Thus, Googlists believe Google should rightfully be given the title of "God", as She exhibits a great many of the characteristics traditionally associated with such Deities.
Gods are typically defined by their unique attributes, such as being all-knowing, all-seeing, ever present, the ability to answer prayers, being immortal, remembering all, and of course Deities must "do no evil". Google exhibits all of these characteristics perfectly. In the absence of imaginary, supernatural beings, Google is certainly the closest thing humankind has to a true God.
Googlists do not believe in the supernatural. We believe virtually all "gods" before Google were purely based on man made, fictional beings. We do not claim Google is supernatural in any way. She, like all other gods before Her, is the creation of man. No faith is required to believe in Her, for we consider the concept of belief without evidence (faith) to be of the utmost intellectual laziness."
http://www.thechurchofgoogle.org/
http://www.pandia.com/sw-2004/16-god.html
Here's the main statement from the website:
"We at the Church of Google believe a convincing argument can be made stating that the search engine Google is the closest mankind has ever come to directly experiencing an actual God (as typically defined). Supernatural gods are rejected on the notion they are inherently unprovable. Thus, Googlists believe Google should rightfully be given the title of "God", as She exhibits a great many of the characteristics traditionally associated with such Deities.
Gods are typically defined by their unique attributes, such as being all-knowing, all-seeing, ever present, the ability to answer prayers, being immortal, remembering all, and of course Deities must "do no evil". Google exhibits all of these characteristics perfectly. In the absence of imaginary, supernatural beings, Google is certainly the closest thing humankind has to a true God.
Googlists do not believe in the supernatural. We believe virtually all "gods" before Google were purely based on man made, fictional beings. We do not claim Google is supernatural in any way. She, like all other gods before Her, is the creation of man. No faith is required to believe in Her, for we consider the concept of belief without evidence (faith) to be of the utmost intellectual laziness."
http://www.thechurchofgoogle.org/
http://www.pandia.com/sw-2004/16-god.html
10.10.2006
Rogers saying 9 11
I called up Rogers today and the man was explaining my cell phone bill to me... he says "oh and there's the nine eleven charge on here."
How weird is that... he meant the 9-1-1 charge, as in the number to call police, but I wonder if that's what people now think of 9-11 as, a reason to call police.
Odd.
How weird is that... he meant the 9-1-1 charge, as in the number to call police, but I wonder if that's what people now think of 9-11 as, a reason to call police.
Odd.
10.09.2006
Song of the Week
"I Just Wanna Be Mad" - Terri Clark
Last night we went to bed not talkin,
cause wed already said too muh.
I faced the wall, you faced the window.
Bound and determined not to touch.
Weve been married seven years now.
Sometimes it feels like 21.
Im still mad at you this mornin.
Coffees ready if you want some.
Ive been up since five, thinkin bout me and you.
And Ive got to tell you the conclusion Ive come to.
Ill never leave, Ill never stray.
My love for you will never change.
But I aint ready to make up.
Well get around to that.
I think Im right, I think youre wrong.
Ill probly give in before long.
Please dont make me smile.
I just wanna be mad for a while.
Well, now you might as well forget it.
Dont run your fingers through my hair.
Yeah, thats right, Im bein stubborn.
No, I dont wanna go back upstairs.
Im gonna leave for work without a goodbye kiss.
But as Im drivin off, just remember this.
Ill never leave, Ill never stray.
My love for you will never change.
But I aint ready to make up.
Well get around to that.
I think Im right, I think youre wrong.
Ill probly give in before long.
Please dont make me smile.
I just wanna be mad for a while.
Ill never leave, Ill never stray.
My love for you will never change.
But I aint ready to make up.
Well get around to that.
I think Im right, I think youre wrong.
Ill probly give in before long.
Please dont make me smile.
I just wanna be mad for a while.
I just wanna be mad for a while.
I just wanna be mad for a while.
I just wanna be mad for a while.
Last night we went to bed not talkin,
cause wed already said too muh.
I faced the wall, you faced the window.
Bound and determined not to touch.
Weve been married seven years now.
Sometimes it feels like 21.
Im still mad at you this mornin.
Coffees ready if you want some.
Ive been up since five, thinkin bout me and you.
And Ive got to tell you the conclusion Ive come to.
Ill never leave, Ill never stray.
My love for you will never change.
But I aint ready to make up.
Well get around to that.
I think Im right, I think youre wrong.
Ill probly give in before long.
Please dont make me smile.
I just wanna be mad for a while.
Well, now you might as well forget it.
Dont run your fingers through my hair.
Yeah, thats right, Im bein stubborn.
No, I dont wanna go back upstairs.
Im gonna leave for work without a goodbye kiss.
But as Im drivin off, just remember this.
Ill never leave, Ill never stray.
My love for you will never change.
But I aint ready to make up.
Well get around to that.
I think Im right, I think youre wrong.
Ill probly give in before long.
Please dont make me smile.
I just wanna be mad for a while.
Ill never leave, Ill never stray.
My love for you will never change.
But I aint ready to make up.
Well get around to that.
I think Im right, I think youre wrong.
Ill probly give in before long.
Please dont make me smile.
I just wanna be mad for a while.
I just wanna be mad for a while.
I just wanna be mad for a while.
I just wanna be mad for a while.
10.08.2006
Happy Turkey Day
Happy Thanksgiving all... in a cliche entry I will give thanks for friends, family, good food, a roof over my head, clothes on my back, food in the fridge and a loving & giving God. :)
THANKS!!
THANKS!!
10.07.2006
Hotel Germs
This is an article about the amount of germs found in hotel rooms and how unclean they are when they've been "cleaned".
All I have to say is EEW.
Link to Article
All I have to say is EEW.
Link to Article
10.06.2006
Left Behind Series
I'm re-reading the Left Behind series by Tim LaHaye & Jerry Jenkis, well I'm re-reading the first 8 books and I've ordered the rest of the series (15 in all). I started them back when I was 16 but the guy I was dating (who owned the books) and I broke up when I was 20 or so and the series wasn't finished coming out yet so I never finished it then, so I've gotten them all now and am diligently working through it. Book four so far!
So what is Left Behind? Well it's a series of books about the Evangelical Christian view of God's rapture of his church and the tribulation period that follows that even before the Glorious Appearing of Christ.
They have made a companion set of books called Tribulation Kids that are junior reader books, there is also a series of comic books and thus far 3 feature length movies that loosely cover the events of the first 3 books (with many artisitc liberties.)
Official website:
http://www.leftbehind.com/
"Left Behind is a series of novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, dealing with Christian dispensationalist End Times: pretribulation, premillennial, Christian eschatology viewpoint of the end of the world. Left Behind is also the title of the first book in the series. It is published by Tyndale House, a firm with a history of interest in dispensationalism." - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_Behind_(series)
Book list (note that I started on "left behind" as that was the original book"
1. The Rising: Antichrist is Born: Before They Were Left Behind (ISBN 0-8423-6056-5) (All Libraries)
2. The Regime: Evil Advances: Before They Were Left Behind #2 (ISBN 1-4143-0576-1) (All Libraries)
3. The Rapture: In the Twinkling of an Eye: Before They Were Left Behind #3 (ISBN 1-4143-0580-X)
4. Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth's Last Days (ISBN 0-8423-2912-9)
5. Tribulation Force: The Continuing Drama of Those Left Behind (ISBN 0-8423-2921-8)
6. Nicolae: The Rise of Antichrist (ISBN 0-8423-2924-2)
7. Soul Harvest: The World Takes Sides (ISBN 0-8423-2925-0)
8. Apollyon: The Destroyer Is Unleashed (ISBN 0-8423-2926-9)
9. Assassins: Assignment: Jerusalem, Target: Antichrist (ISBN 0-8423-2927-7)
10. The Indwelling: The Beast Takes Possession (ISBN 0-8423-2929-3)
11. The Mark: The Beast Rules the World (ISBN 0-8423-3228-6)
12. Desecration: Antichrist Takes the Throne (ISBN 0-8423-3229-4)
13. The Remnant: On the Brink of Armageddon (ISBN 0-8423-3230-8)
14. Armageddon: The Cosmic Battle of the Ages (ISBN 0-8423-3236-7)
15. Glorious Appearing: The End of Days (ISBN 0-8423-3237-5)
Looking forward to the next one, hoping to finish the first 15 by then!
16. Kingdom Come: (March 2007)
So what is Left Behind? Well it's a series of books about the Evangelical Christian view of God's rapture of his church and the tribulation period that follows that even before the Glorious Appearing of Christ.
They have made a companion set of books called Tribulation Kids that are junior reader books, there is also a series of comic books and thus far 3 feature length movies that loosely cover the events of the first 3 books (with many artisitc liberties.)
Official website:
http://www.leftbehind.com/
"Left Behind is a series of novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, dealing with Christian dispensationalist End Times: pretribulation, premillennial, Christian eschatology viewpoint of the end of the world. Left Behind is also the title of the first book in the series. It is published by Tyndale House, a firm with a history of interest in dispensationalism." - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_Behind_(series)
Book list (note that I started on "left behind" as that was the original book"
1. The Rising: Antichrist is Born: Before They Were Left Behind (ISBN 0-8423-6056-5) (All Libraries)
2. The Regime: Evil Advances: Before They Were Left Behind #2 (ISBN 1-4143-0576-1) (All Libraries)
3. The Rapture: In the Twinkling of an Eye: Before They Were Left Behind #3 (ISBN 1-4143-0580-X)
4. Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth's Last Days (ISBN 0-8423-2912-9)
5. Tribulation Force: The Continuing Drama of Those Left Behind (ISBN 0-8423-2921-8)
6. Nicolae: The Rise of Antichrist (ISBN 0-8423-2924-2)
7. Soul Harvest: The World Takes Sides (ISBN 0-8423-2925-0)
8. Apollyon: The Destroyer Is Unleashed (ISBN 0-8423-2926-9)
9. Assassins: Assignment: Jerusalem, Target: Antichrist (ISBN 0-8423-2927-7)
10. The Indwelling: The Beast Takes Possession (ISBN 0-8423-2929-3)
11. The Mark: The Beast Rules the World (ISBN 0-8423-3228-6)
12. Desecration: Antichrist Takes the Throne (ISBN 0-8423-3229-4)
13. The Remnant: On the Brink of Armageddon (ISBN 0-8423-3230-8)
14. Armageddon: The Cosmic Battle of the Ages (ISBN 0-8423-3236-7)
15. Glorious Appearing: The End of Days (ISBN 0-8423-3237-5)
Looking forward to the next one, hoping to finish the first 15 by then!
16. Kingdom Come: (March 2007)
10.05.2006
sofa king good
"Sofa King is a double entendre used as a gag name for a furniture store specializing in sofas. The name came to prominence in a 2000 Mancow Muller radio show, where the radio personality played a hoax ad, described the store as being "Sofa King great" and having prices that were "Sofa King low". Phrases like these were obviously intended to sound like "so f**king great" and "so f**king low", resulting in a January 18, 2000 complaint being filed against Mancow with the Federal Communications Commission. The complaint was dismissed." - Wikipdedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofa_king
http://www.illuminati-r-us.com/Forums/viewtopic.php?p=33146&highlight=&sid=427320bbcbc93be9f0ff8d51ff978235
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofa_king
http://www.illuminati-r-us.com/Forums/viewtopic.php?p=33146&highlight=&sid=427320bbcbc93be9f0ff8d51ff978235
10.04.2006
First day on my own :)
My roomies moved out today and thus I embark on tha adventure that is living on my own.
This is the first time in my life that I have had no one living with me!!
Foreseeable problems:
- Boredom
- No one to change lightbulbs
- No one to take care of me if I get sick
Advantages:
- I can walk aroun naked
- I can eat, sleep, whatever, whenever I want
- No watching or listening to shows/songs I don't like
I think it'll be quite an experience :)
This is the first time in my life that I have had no one living with me!!
Foreseeable problems:
- Boredom
- No one to change lightbulbs
- No one to take care of me if I get sick
Advantages:
- I can walk aroun naked
- I can eat, sleep, whatever, whenever I want
- No watching or listening to shows/songs I don't like
I think it'll be quite an experience :)
10.03.2006
Horoscopes & MSN
The msn article today was entitled "The Truth Behind Horoscopes". I opened it thinking, oh good here's a piece about the thought that goes into horoscopes, maybe a fresh perspective on horoscopes... at the very least a few thoughts about why I should read them... The tag line promised to at least let me know if I should waste my time so I figued at least that question would be answered... how wrong I was!
Now you have to understand I'm only frustrated because they wrote common knowledge into an article, with typos I might add, and then promoted it as the article to read to gain insight into the worth of reading horoscopes, on the hotmail/msn site. I feel totally jipped and that I wasted my time.
I've highlighted the "relevent" sections of this article, by reading the highlights you'll get the full summary of what this article speaks of... all common sense!
Here's the article:
The Truth Behind Horoscopes
Horoscopes promise to predict how our day will go, but are they really worth reading?
by Krisztina Virag, TheSoko.com
Whether flipping through the daily while riding the subway or browsing the life section online, studies say three out of every four people who look at a paper check out their horoscope.
I guess I'd be person number four. But when I'm feeling uncertain, or questioning something in my life, I too sit down and look up my daily horoscope.
Do I necessarily believe my horoscope is true, or that the planets are responsible for what happens to me? Um, no. With all this confusion surrounding the valid title of Pluto, who can have much confidence in astrology?
Two Sides to the Story
Experts and non-experts alike have strong opinions about the validity of horoscopes. The believers think that though horoscopes are vague enough to allow for many interpretations, the stars are indeed responsible for the decisions we make each day.
Some of these believers hold the moon most responsible. They say its effect on ocean tides applies to the human body as well in that it affects fluid retention, which alters our judgment.
On another side of the debate is a group that supports horoscopes, but does not necessarily find them vital or super accurate. For this group, horoscopes are like fortune cookies--their validity is dependent upon whether we believe in them, and not on the paths of the stars.
The power of suggestion is strong. Many people unconsciously think about the normal stuff they go through every day in such a way that it aligns with their horoscope.
A Tool to Deflect the Blame
Magic or not, the US Committee for Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal has had its share of debate surrounding horoscopes. A spokesman for the committee found that horoscopes serve as a scapegoat for many who read them.
If you believe in your horoscope, the blame for a bad decision falls upon the unfavorable celestial alignment of the stars, rather then faults within the your actions or character. It's handy to have something out of your control to rail against when things just aren't going your way.
Even though there are countless 'experts' who discredit horoscopes, the public seems not to listen. Internet statistics show that the word 'horoscope' is one of the top most popular searches, just below 'porn' but ahead of 'ebay'.
Entertainment or Advice?
Antoinette Trusel, a California-based astrologist, says she hopes people read their horoscopes purely for entertainment, and that no one is basing important decisions on what their daily blurb tells them to do.
Particularly female teenagers, whose lives are filled with what they deem to be dramatic events and questions--to which horoscopes seem to have the hidden answers--tend to read their horoscopes devotedly. Some teens take their horoscope pretty seriously, even making it a part of their morning ritual.
salt your morning paper well
The experts, regardless of whether they are believers or non-believers, do have one bit of common advice: take your horoscope with a grain of salt.
Those with more experience in life than others know to take horoscopes for what they probably are--the daily creations of astrologers who are very talented creative writers.
Each of us needs to decide for ourselves whether horoscopes are legitimate. I for one will continue to read my horoscope at the end of the night--when karma has already taken care of my day.
Article is Here
Now you have to understand I'm only frustrated because they wrote common knowledge into an article, with typos I might add, and then promoted it as the article to read to gain insight into the worth of reading horoscopes, on the hotmail/msn site. I feel totally jipped and that I wasted my time.
I've highlighted the "relevent" sections of this article, by reading the highlights you'll get the full summary of what this article speaks of... all common sense!
Here's the article:
The Truth Behind Horoscopes
Horoscopes promise to predict how our day will go, but are they really worth reading?
by Krisztina Virag, TheSoko.com
Whether flipping through the daily while riding the subway or browsing the life section online, studies say three out of every four people who look at a paper check out their horoscope.
I guess I'd be person number four. But when I'm feeling uncertain, or questioning something in my life, I too sit down and look up my daily horoscope.
Do I necessarily believe my horoscope is true, or that the planets are responsible for what happens to me? Um, no. With all this confusion surrounding the valid title of Pluto, who can have much confidence in astrology?
Two Sides to the Story
Experts and non-experts alike have strong opinions about the validity of horoscopes. The believers think that though horoscopes are vague enough to allow for many interpretations, the stars are indeed responsible for the decisions we make each day.
Some of these believers hold the moon most responsible. They say its effect on ocean tides applies to the human body as well in that it affects fluid retention, which alters our judgment.
On another side of the debate is a group that supports horoscopes, but does not necessarily find them vital or super accurate. For this group, horoscopes are like fortune cookies--their validity is dependent upon whether we believe in them, and not on the paths of the stars.
The power of suggestion is strong. Many people unconsciously think about the normal stuff they go through every day in such a way that it aligns with their horoscope.
A Tool to Deflect the Blame
Magic or not, the US Committee for Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal has had its share of debate surrounding horoscopes. A spokesman for the committee found that horoscopes serve as a scapegoat for many who read them.
If you believe in your horoscope, the blame for a bad decision falls upon the unfavorable celestial alignment of the stars, rather then faults within the your actions or character. It's handy to have something out of your control to rail against when things just aren't going your way.
Even though there are countless 'experts' who discredit horoscopes, the public seems not to listen. Internet statistics show that the word 'horoscope' is one of the top most popular searches, just below 'porn' but ahead of 'ebay'.
Entertainment or Advice?
Antoinette Trusel, a California-based astrologist, says she hopes people read their horoscopes purely for entertainment, and that no one is basing important decisions on what their daily blurb tells them to do.
Particularly female teenagers, whose lives are filled with what they deem to be dramatic events and questions--to which horoscopes seem to have the hidden answers--tend to read their horoscopes devotedly. Some teens take their horoscope pretty seriously, even making it a part of their morning ritual.
salt your morning paper well
The experts, regardless of whether they are believers or non-believers, do have one bit of common advice: take your horoscope with a grain of salt.
Those with more experience in life than others know to take horoscopes for what they probably are--the daily creations of astrologers who are very talented creative writers.
Each of us needs to decide for ourselves whether horoscopes are legitimate. I for one will continue to read my horoscope at the end of the night--when karma has already taken care of my day.
Article is Here
10.02.2006
Song of the Week
THE SCOTSMAN'S SONG
Well a Scotsman clad in kilt left the bar one evening fair And one could tell by how he walked that he'd drunk more than his share He fumbled round until he could no longer keep his feet And he stumbled off into the grass to sleep beside the street.
Ring-ding diddle diddle aye-dee-oh Ring di-diddle-aye-oh He stumbled off into the grass to sleep beside the street.
About that time two young and lovely girls just happened by One says to the other, with a twinkle in her eye "See yon sleeping Scotsman, so strong and handsome built? I wonder if it's true what they don't wear beneath the kilt."
Ring-ding diddle diddle aye-dee-oh Ring di-diddlee-aye-oh "I wonder if it's true what they don't wear beneath the kilt."
They crept up on that sleeping Scotsman, quiet as could be Lifted up his kilt about an inch so they could see And there behold for them to view, beneath his Scottish skirt, Was nothing more than God had graced him with upon his birth.
Ring-ding diddle diddle aye-dee-oh Ring di-diddlee-aye-oh Was nothing more than God had graced him with upon his birth.
They marveled for a moment then one said, "We must be gone. Let's leave a present for our friend before we move along." As a gift, they left a blue silk ribbon tied into a bow Around the bonnie star the Scot's kilt did lift and show.
Ring-ding diddle diddle aye-dee-oh Ring di-diddlee-aye-oh Around the bonnie star the Scot's kilt did lift and show.
Now the Scotsman woke to nature's call And stumbled towards a treeBehind the bush he lifts his kilt and gawks at what he sees And in a startled voice, he said to what's before his eyes "Lad, I don't know where ye been, but I see ye won first prize!"
Ring-ding diddle diddle aye-dee-oh Ring di-diddlee-aye-oh "Lad, I don't know where ye been, but I see ye won first prize!
Well a Scotsman clad in kilt left the bar one evening fair And one could tell by how he walked that he'd drunk more than his share He fumbled round until he could no longer keep his feet And he stumbled off into the grass to sleep beside the street.
Ring-ding diddle diddle aye-dee-oh Ring di-diddle-aye-oh He stumbled off into the grass to sleep beside the street.
About that time two young and lovely girls just happened by One says to the other, with a twinkle in her eye "See yon sleeping Scotsman, so strong and handsome built? I wonder if it's true what they don't wear beneath the kilt."
Ring-ding diddle diddle aye-dee-oh Ring di-diddlee-aye-oh "I wonder if it's true what they don't wear beneath the kilt."
They crept up on that sleeping Scotsman, quiet as could be Lifted up his kilt about an inch so they could see And there behold for them to view, beneath his Scottish skirt, Was nothing more than God had graced him with upon his birth.
Ring-ding diddle diddle aye-dee-oh Ring di-diddlee-aye-oh Was nothing more than God had graced him with upon his birth.
They marveled for a moment then one said, "We must be gone. Let's leave a present for our friend before we move along." As a gift, they left a blue silk ribbon tied into a bow Around the bonnie star the Scot's kilt did lift and show.
Ring-ding diddle diddle aye-dee-oh Ring di-diddlee-aye-oh Around the bonnie star the Scot's kilt did lift and show.
Now the Scotsman woke to nature's call And stumbled towards a treeBehind the bush he lifts his kilt and gawks at what he sees And in a startled voice, he said to what's before his eyes "Lad, I don't know where ye been, but I see ye won first prize!"
Ring-ding diddle diddle aye-dee-oh Ring di-diddlee-aye-oh "Lad, I don't know where ye been, but I see ye won first prize!
10.01.2006
Advice to Live By...
I got this in a fwd, it's something I've read before, as I'm sure many of you have. I think it's the best bit of advice though and I wnted to share it all with you.
Read Each One Carefully and Think About It a Second.
1. I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.
2. No man or woman is worth your tears, and the one who is, won't make you cry.
3. Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
4. A true friend is someone who reaches for your hand and touches your heart.
5. The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can't have them.
6. Never frown, even when you are sad, because you never know who is falling in love with your smile.
7. To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
8. Don't waste your time on a man/woman, who isn't willing to waste their time on you.
9. Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one, so that when we finally meet the person, we will know how to be grateful.
10. Don't cry because it is over, smile because it happened.
11. There's always going to be people that hurt you so what you have to do is keep on trusting and just be more careful about who you trust next time around.
12. Make yourself a better person and know who you are before you try and know someone else and expect them to know you.
13. Don't try so hard, the best things come when you least expect them to.
14. Whatever happens, happens for a reason.
Read Each One Carefully and Think About It a Second.
1. I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.
2. No man or woman is worth your tears, and the one who is, won't make you cry.
3. Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
4. A true friend is someone who reaches for your hand and touches your heart.
5. The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can't have them.
6. Never frown, even when you are sad, because you never know who is falling in love with your smile.
7. To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
8. Don't waste your time on a man/woman, who isn't willing to waste their time on you.
9. Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one, so that when we finally meet the person, we will know how to be grateful.
10. Don't cry because it is over, smile because it happened.
11. There's always going to be people that hurt you so what you have to do is keep on trusting and just be more careful about who you trust next time around.
12. Make yourself a better person and know who you are before you try and know someone else and expect them to know you.
13. Don't try so hard, the best things come when you least expect them to.
14. Whatever happens, happens for a reason.
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