Reminder for myself:

On today's episode (a repeat one) hosted by Val Kilmer, during the Weekend Update segment, a sound heard on Everquest was heard. It is the sound in the game that you hear when you complete a quest. I have a clip of that sound. Endquest.wav

There have been many sounds I've heard in Everquest that can be heard on television commercials and movies... I never really kept track of them, but I think I should start sometime. I'm thinking maybe the sounds are heard so often because they come from some big sound bank that media people use.

Got this in a daily spamlike message today

ACTUAL SIGNS POSTED BY BUSINESSES

Sign on an electrician's truck: Let us remove your shorts.

Maternity Clothes Shop: We are open on labor day.

On a Front Door: Everyone on the premises is a vegetarian except the dog.

On a Maternity Room Door: Push, Push, Push

Non-smoking area: If we see you smoking we will assume you are on fire and take appropriate action

Optometrist's Office: If you don't see what you're looking for, you've come to the right place.

Scientist's Door: Gone Fission

Taxidermist Window: We really know our stuff.

Podiatrist's Window: Time wounds all heels.

Sign on Fence: Salesmen welcome. Dog food is expensive.

Car Dealership: The best way to get back on your feet - miss a car payment.

Muffler Shop: No appointment necessary. We'll hear you coming.

Hotel: Help! We need inn - experienced people.

Butcher's Window: Pleased to meat you.

Sign in an office: We shoot every 3rd salesman,and the 2nd one just left.

Veterinarians Waiting Room: Be back in 5 minutes. Sit! Stay!

The Electric Company: We would be delighted if you send in your bill. However, if you don't, you will be.

Beauty Shop: Dye now!

Garbage Truck: We've got what it takes to take what you've got.

Computer Store: Out for a quick byte

Diner Window: Don't stand there and be hungry, come in and get fed up.

Bowling Alley: Please be quiet. We need to hear a pin drop.

Cafeteria: Shoes are required to eat in the cafeteria. Socks can eat any place they want.

Music Library: Bach in a minuet.

Funeral Home: Drive carefully, we'll wait.

Okay.. here's a link. Strange but true search engine queries from webcrawler + comments. *nods off*

Ran into some nifty sites today.. but too pooped to write about em...besides I'm sure most people have already been there, so they're nothing new. Oh well.. maybe shopping on Saturday will liven me up.

A 20 Gig MP3 Player!@#$!#$@

You can put this baby on my X-mas list for this year. :) The price is still steep, but I'm sure in several months it'll go way down.

Now I'm trying to figure out whether it's a better deal than just using a CD burner like I have been. When I went shopping for an mp3 player, I was rather disgusted with the limited space and jacked up prices on many mp3 players that I ended up buying myself a burner instead. That seemed to save me more money than continually going out to buy flash cards so I could have more songs to play. Even the 6 gig mp3 player didn't seem so appealing at the time. But 20 gigs? Hrm... that makes me reconsider a little.

And while I'm still at ThinkGeek, I'll take one of these, too. Man, I am a junk collector... good thing I don't have a credit card anymore... =9

Another artist whose work I lust for:

Chris Cooper
I especially like his "Devil Girls"... they're just so... sexy!



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This was from the cover of the Lords of Acid album called Voodoo-U.

Random Linkage

- Rolling your own Sushi

- A Mystic Baby Namer

- View the web through the emulated versions of browsers of yesteryear

- Naughty 8-bit games

- Throw bricks at peeps on scooters

- Good info on Simpson's episodes

- Um.. don't have something to talk about? There's the random topic generator...

Ha! I have a new nickname based on my first name Rosalyn thanks to a nice little fellow.

ROSLESS

Eww... isn't that such a cruel name?

Well... here's what my man had to say about it when I emailed him about it cuz I thought it was funny... sort of.

that was sorta rude, but what does rosless mean? You have no ros? It's
like "YOU HAVE NO ROS F*CKER, YOU'RE F*CKEN ROSLESS!!!"

Pardon the harsh language.

Sorry... I've been a little pre-occupied on Julie's UBB... flames abound. Psst.. Amy... welcome to the discussion! :)

ooooh look! The 10 sexiest cars of the millenium! No, seriously... it's a list of the top 10 worst cars of the millenium (by popular vote) and includes some pretty hilarious comments about each car.

Some pretty cool reviews on junk cameras old and new. It's actually amazing some of the photographs you can take with crappy cameras. :)

On a similar note to Julie's small rant about being hit on in public which I started a little thread in her UBB about... I was going to mention a small pet peeve I've always had about being hit on online.

For some reason... I can't stand it when guys first talk to you and don't know whether or not you're in a relationship and they beat around the bush to find out. For example...

Instead of just SIMPLY ASKING "Do you have a boyfriend?"
They would say something like "So how long have you and you boyfriend been together?"

OR

"So what would your boyfriend think of it?"

OR

"So how old is your boyfriend?"

BAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I cringe even having to even type those words down. I think it's so stupid when guys try to ask questions like that so they can hear an answer like... "Well... I don't have a boyfriend".. or "My boyfriend is 18." and then realize that you never even brought up the fact you had a boyfriend. Why can't they just be upfront and ask the stinkin' question? Doesn't it just make a guy look 10x worse that he tried playing psyche games with you to find out information from you?

OK.. OK.... *breathe*... enough bitching.

Things I had to get off my chest:

The new Pepsi commercial with Britney Spears sucked worse than I thought it would. It was pretty much another scantilly clothed Britney Spears music video with little singing talent. I think guys and Britney fans would like it, but it wasn't anything like I had hoped. Oh well, who cares.. it's just a freaking commercial. The only thing I liked about it was her outfit... and her abs looked great! :P


I LOVED the suit Angelina Jolie wore to the Oscars. It was very simple, and very basic, but her body made it look amazing!

Well... since my throughput has not improved at all, I had to turn off the cam for now. I can't believe how much I took my work connection for granted. It's so slow... I'm almost considering dialing up to get a better connection. Nobody knows what could be causing it... so they keep saying it could be the result of a backbone in Austin that went down.. but that issue was already resolved. I think they just wanted to brush us off. Oh well. Maybe things will suddenly get better magically.

UGH. I don't know WHAT our company has done, but right now my T1 connection is acting like it's slower than a modem. My webcam image is only uploading maybe once every 2 minutes and it's driving me crazy. Surfing is nearly impossible, too. I hope they fix it soon.
[end of rant ]

Car Show

Yay! Yesterday, Chris and I went to my very first car show, the Dallas Auto Show at the Dallas Convention Center. It was pretty useful since we are considering buying a second car right now. We're going to need one once we move to Dallas anyway.

The car show wasn't one of those really crazy ones where you would see a whole bunch of bizarre concept cars, but they did manage to sneak in a few of those as well as some of the more expensive sports cars like a Ferrari and a Lamborghini.

We had an opportunity to try out the interior in many cars, and of all the ones we tried... the Audi's were the most incredibly comfortable and had awesome interiors! The ones we sat in were extremely ergonomic. The seats were part regular leather, and part suede. The prices ranged from $24,000 to $72,000 and all the engines were pretty sweet. I know we could technically buy one, but if we ever had to pay for any repairs... it'd kill us! We even got to sit in the type of Audi that was used in the movie Ronin .. the A8, I think. That was the one that was $72k. In the movie, there was a chase scene that Chris and I watched several times over, and it made the car look so kick ass. The engine sounded so sexy and European. It's just perfect.. but so unaffordable at this time. :P

Among other cars we really enjoyed...

- The Volvo S40 felt just right for us.
- The BMW 330Ci (0-60 in 6.4.. not too bad)
- The BMW M3 Convertible.. super sweet.. but not worth $54k.. ick.
- The Audi S4 was very awesome.
- The Infinity I30 wasn't bad at all.. nifty interior.

Check out Edmunds for better specs on these cars.

Well.. now my feet are killing me. I walked around there with heels... ack... *kicks off shoes*

Chris and I bought a new shirt for our little boy!

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Look! Chris (my fiance) bought me a jacket today!

Chris and I were browsing around in the mall today and decided to stop by Ann Taylor, one of my little favorite stores. I immediately saw a really sweet looking yellow soft leather jacket, picked it up and said... "Oh! I have to try it on!"... so I went ahead and tried it on in the middle of the store. I totally fell in love with it. It felt wonderful and looked great! Chris liked it too, and told me we should buy it, which shocked me since we really weren't going shopping to buy anything in particular today, especially a new jacket. I rarely buy the first thing I touch in the store... I'm usually so indecisive when I shop and I don't want to end up having a bunch of clothes I won't ever wear lying around. This jacket is going to be perfect for the unpredictable spring we're probably going to have down here this year. Anyway... thank you Chris! I love you! :)




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Well... off to enjoy the rest of my weekend! Back to work on Sunday!

Talk about SPAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I didn't realize how freaking desperate people were to sell University Diplomas online. Check out the To: section of this spam message that came to me. And to imagine that it is probably only part of a mass mailing is even worse. No wonder it got to me... sheesh. That's a helluva dictionary program or list manipulator they're using..

Here are the To: and CC: lines:


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the ever so unimportant spam message....

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Obtain a prosperous future, money earning power,
and the admiration of all.

Diplomas from prestigious non-accredited
universities based on your present knowledge
and life experience.

No required tests, classes, books, or interviews.

Bachelors, masters, MBA, and doctorate (PhD)
diplomas available in the field of your choice.

No one is turned down.

Confidentiality assured.

CALL NOW to receive your diploma
within days!!!

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Call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, including
Sundays and holidays.

I don't think they're gonna do much business... no matter how hard they try. I apologize for having annoyed you.

No, that isn't real food. It's just a picture from a chinese food ad I found. I took the pic with the 3com. Goodbye!

Har har.. got a good little laugh outta this one. How to decorate your home a little more 70's... Beware...lots of tacky color schemes and furniture ahead.

- linkage from the always cool, always hip, Memepool -

Random Blurbage

* I am way too jealous of a person deep down.
* I oughta grow up.
* I hate pervs.
* I'm afraid I can be too cynical at times.
* Today was a gorgeous day.
* My site is acting up!@
* I need to upload my new layout.
* I'm just too lazy.
* I need to clean my house.
* I want to hurry up and marry Chris.
* I can't wait to have my first child someday.
* I hope my next job pays much better and does not involve customers.
* I want to spend all my money on clothes and shoes and makeup.
* I wanna go to Disneyland, Disneyworld, San Francisco, and Vegas this year.
* I wish I could go to Amsterdam with Chris' parents.
* I can be such a slacker.
* I have to lose weight.
* I wanna be super tan this year!
* I think it was worth spending $40 on this week's manicure. My nails are still pristine... moreso than they ever have been.
* I want to see my old Chrysalis buddies.
* I was ranked 66 locally in Pimpwar today.
* I haven't played EQ in over a week -- eek!
* I can't believe [private] is into [private].
* I need to buy some Ocean Dreams from somewhere.
* Amy, Julie, and Stephy make me feel happy and alive!
* I keep listening to Inhaler by Hooverphonic over and over like a retard.

Cam Crap

For those of you not familiar with or using Camrecord, here's a tip:

Since I currently don't have a real webcam gallery or archive, you can go there and view my last 10, 25, or 50 images (not as frequently updated as my cam, but good enough) or view images in my favorites folder, where peeps can *bookmark* favorite captures from the cam.

But of course, this only matters if you're only here for the cam part.. which is actually a very small part. :)

Awesome gift ideas for the stumped. From the UK.

Sounds like a project I'm currently working on. Generates random subgenres of electronic music. You know how there's like so many of them now... now there can be MORE.

A freakin' sick, yet unique experiment involving meat. Vegetarians... I wouldn't bother going here. Contains sickening images of rotting meat.

It may be too late for some of us, but for the rest of you to-be engaged folks, you can go here to design your own engagement ring. Awww.

Everyone wants to have children always hopes to have wonderfully perfect children (even deep down inside if they don't want to admit it). Of course, all children are beautiful, but what if you had control of their looks, and much more than that? What if you could handpick their height, intelligence level, hair and eye color? On top that, you can try to weed out common genetic diseases that could affect your unborn children. Who wouldn't wanna do that?

Well for SOMEWHAT reasonable prices, this is all now possible at GenoChoice! Includes free ONLINE DNA scan and analysis. Extra features are available for additional fees.

I don't know what's wrong with me, but lately, I've been afraid to talk sometimes for fear of saying the wrong name or thing at the wrong time. Like.. right before I say one thing... I can already hear a different word or phrase in my mind that might just come out. Ack, what's wrong wiff me?!?!

It is SUCH a beautiful day outside today! I wish I woke up earlier to have enjoyed it. I could have driven to work with the top down, but I didn't want all my papers and stuff to fly out. Man, too bad I'm stuck inside now. If I wanted to enjoy the outdoors right now, I'd be standing outside an office building surrounded by unnaturally arranged plants and flowers.

Oh well, it's not like I have a lot to do at work these days. Heck, my co-worker is playing StarCraft and listening to some groovy trance and I'm just sitting here twiddling my thumbs and figuring out what the heck to blog about since I'm too bored to surf. Yes, that's how UN-busy we are at work. Of course.. I should just enjoy it for what it's worth. :)

Mr. See and Mr. Soar were old friends. See
owned a saw and Soar owned a seesaw. Now
See's saw sawed Soar's seesaw before Soar
saw See, which made Soar sore. Had Soar
seen See's saw before See saw Soar's seesaw,
then See's saw would not have sawed Soar's
seesaw. But See saw Soar's seesaw before
Soar saw See's saw so See's saw sawed Soar's
seesaw. It was a shame to let See see Soar
so sore because See's saw sawed Soar's seesaw.

Even though I know I shouldn't be eating really fattening food, today I decided to indulge in a local burger stop called Tommy's Hamburgers. They are absolutely the best burgers I have ever eaten on this planet. The burgers include HUGE patties of beef and they're perfectly juicy and just good all around. They've received much recognition in the metroplex, and I recommend you try one of their burgers if you ever stop by Fort Worthless. :P

Okay folks, I left early for the night. Be back again tomorrow evening! Thanks for stopping by :) :) :)

Yee haw! Steph @ Giddy.nu is such a sweetie! :) She linked to me, so I'm gonna do her a favor and link her right back! It's about time I did anyway. Sometimes you have to show some appreciate to the folks whose sites you visit often. :^) Steph is trying to get some fundage going so she can buy a new webcam for herself and it's the same camera I have and love soo dearly! It's the 3Com HomeConnect Digital PC Camera (anywhere from $50-$130 from what I've seen). Stop by her site and help her get one just like mine! :) She's already cute, so when she gets the cam you'll see how even cuter she is. :P

Aren't the Toyota Camry and the Honda Accord ALWAYS the top stolen vehicles every year for the past few years?

Speaking of ugly cars... here are some poorly tasted modified BMW's. Quite sad what happens to a car when it gets into the hands of a directionless riceboy.

Hehe... I may be biased as an American, but I always thought some cars in Europe were pretty dorky lookin. Guess I'm not alone.

Today, I began my journey into Lomo-ism. If you want to find out what it is, go to their site... I don't think I have the energy to explain. To put it short though... it's the art of taking lots of snapshots of anything, everything, at anytime--I think. When I get my pics back I guess I'll be making meself a lomo gallery thingy.

Even in this day and age, there are still people that are limited to 256 colors because of the video card/drivers on their older computers. So when designing a webpage, if you want to be considerate of those people, you have to think "browser-safe" when it comes to colors you pick out for your page. This little handy website called Colormix helps you by using dithering (which CAN be ugly if done wrong) the colors you pick by intelligently incorporating web-safe colors together to create a similar color to your liking and then creating a .gif swatch for you to download.

Added 2 or 3 pics to the images page. Working to add some more. Gosh, I'm so lazy. :)

Obsidian Lickingbird

That, my friends is the name I have chosen as my new Lesbian
Name... if I for some odd reason turn into one. :P

Dance Dance Revolution

Of course, since I live in the middle of nowhere... I only learn of fads and trends much much later after all the cool kids on the West and East coasts have already had their fun with it. "Dance Dance Revolution" is a new game that I think is a perfect alternative for kids who don't want to get involved in sports, but still want to stay in shape.

It involves playing on top of a large "joystick" that you control with your feet by dancing and attempting to score points by hitting the appropriate spots on the platform. This article has some cool Dance Dance Revolution video clips from Tech TV's TV version of the article. The article describes the music as "cheesy techno" and from what I saw and heard on TV.. it was pretty cheesy... the kids were dancing to it so well that it made the music sound good.

It looks like such a positive thing for kids and teens. It encourages them to get in shape, and learn how to dance, and definitely to get over stage fright. A lot of the kids they interviewed said they lost a lot of weight from just playing it. Before I even attempt to try this out, I am surely going to practice at home or get some pointers from some friends first. :P

Don't ask me why, but I just sent away for my free sample of "Dehydrated Water". I have no idea if it's real or not, but I'm going to find out. It is supposedly very pure, condensed and crystalized. Request your own here! Someone please tell me this is just a joke.

Welcome peeps from Camrecord, Camville, and Camcities! I'm not what you would really call a "camgirl" but I just wanted to get on a few general portals since I do happen to have a cam. I don't have a dedicated webcam page per se, but depending on whether or not I have the time or traffic, I might consider it.

Feel free to take a look around... this is just a personal site anyway, so it has typical personal site STUFF.

Anyone know what the word "Khanada" refers to? Please email me!!!

Thanks for adding me today, CamRecord. :)

My friend's wedding yesterday was the first wedding I ever consciously remembered. In brief, this is what I recalled about my experience.

- Michelle (the bride) looked absolutely gorgeous beautiful... like a real princess.

- My mom and my sisters looked lovely as well!

- The bride and groom looked like they'd have pretty sore faces the next day. I can't imagine how many pictures that photographer took of them... they had to smile so much all night! :)

- I ran into many OLD family friends whose children have all grown up but don't remember me or my sisters since they were all tiny tots when we'd come over.

- I was told that I had eaten wedding cake once before, but I never remembered it. I've always been told that wedding cake tastes great, but after I finally knowingly tried it, I fell HEAD over hills in love. The cake went down so smooth, it wasn't too sweet or bland or anything.. it was DIVINE. Chris said it was the best wedding cake he'd ever eaten and he's had plenty in his life. My mom said she'd have the same place make my cake for my wedding. Yay!

- The DJ was a real cutie! I tried to hook him up with my little sister who he thought was cute, too, but she felt he wasn't interested. Oh well... he was only 17. *shrug*

- I went on the dance floor for a couple songs and realized how out of shape I was. My muscles felt like they were burning!@#!@

- I found out the reception alone costed huge sum of money (several several several thousands) to have not including the alcohol, entertainment, and decorations. I think it was well worth it though. :)

- Everyone was so skinny! In a good way though.

- Many nice cars
- I had like 2 light beers, 2 glasses of champagne, and like 5 little margaritas, ate a good amount of Chinese food, and only suffered a small headache from all of that, and slept very well.

- I danced with my ol' pal Konrad for the last dance since Chris didn't wanna dance.

- I simply had an awesome time! Now I can't wait to get married!

Welp, it's wedding day! I didn't find the best thing to wear, but hopefully it'll be decent anyway :) My friend Michelle is the one getting married. I've known her almost my whole life. Here she is on the left from a very very long time ago (at the Fort Worth Japanese Gardens) next to her younger cousin, Tina. Now they're both all grown up like me! =)

It's so hard for me to smile

Oh, I made two new buttons. Nothing special though. I was really lacking some creativity last night.

Today, I am going to begin my weekend getting prepared for my good friend's wedding tomorrow, Saturday evening. I have no idea what to wear to a wedding, but I know enough not to show up in jeans and a t-shirt. :) I hope I can get pictures of the occasion.. I haven't had any non-webcam pictures of myself taken in a long time.

So first things first, I'm going to the mall with my friend Blythe and buy a gift, and then get something nice to wear for Chris and myself. Then, I'm going to get my nails done since they've grown too quickly in the past couple weeks and look horrid right now. If I have any time left over, I'm going to get some shoes and accessories to put my look together.

Being the indecisive person that I am sometimes, I am hoping I don't end up spending all day at the mall. One can only handle so much shopping... and plus it's probably spring break for some schools around here so I imagine the mall is crowded today.

Oh well, hope to make another entry sometime before Sunday. Until then, have a fun and safe weekend people! :)

I'm a little saddened to see that Nay is starting to have to defend herself. I've noticed in the past few days, more and more of her entries are defensive, rather than the usual happy stuff. I think too many people are out to spread nasty rumors about her for their own satisfaction or just to try to get the best of her. Look at her latest entry...I mean, even if I may have ever given off the wrong impression to people, I don't think I would enjoy having people talk that much crap about me. She is clearly affected by it and sick of it. Maybe people should lay off or if they don't like her so much, stop going to her fanclub and bashing her.

Get me straight though, I'm not entirely defending her. I understand she has put herself in the position to be easily criticized. Heck, even I've somewhat criticized what I thought of her image. I realize you might just say she's asking for it by the way she acts on camera or whatever, but even if she seems to be portraying a negative or inappropriate image, just realize she's ONLY 14... she's a child... and she's got feelings like any other human being.

Quoted from Nay's site:

post by: [nay � 3/15/2001 @ 2:35PM � wishlist]@*^&FANCLUB^$$@[UBB]

a few thing's have set into my mind the past few day's while i was sick.... ooooh and i'm better so lemme bitch, bitch!
i got 1 or 2 eMails from some unhappy candy girls bitch....

"oooh blah blah blah your not a raver! your an ugly bitch! all you do is cause internet drama! get over it!"

*sigh*- i never said i was a raver. i don't want to be a raver. music is music, your a fucking moron if you classify yourself by that. if that was the way it went... then i'd be a pot smoking, skinhead hating rude girl. all you stupid hoe's are doing is causing more net drama? hunniez... it's my page, if i wanna bitch, shut the hell up! i'm gonna do it. don't tell me what to do you will hoe. along with calling me ugly? "hi guys! i'm in what grade now? 4th!"- get over it. i'm happy with myself. what's next, the "your momma is..." jokes or your gonna call me fat. sorry, you just look like a dumb fuck.

this fanclub bullshit, OMG! now there are alot of dope people in there, but a few of them have the be the most queer dick assholes in my life. "she can't have spring break, she's not in college"..."she went to daytona and got HIV"- so excuse me, i'm a freshman in high school and i'm happy with that, i never once said i was in college you dumbfuck, i'm just on spring break. OMG! i must be a damn pathological liar. & HIV, shit, that's not even funny. i had a stomach bacteria, not a dick in my ass, get over it.

another thing, i don't need assholes on the net telling me that i'm ugly and blah blah blah. i don't need to look at the media and think i have to be some anorexic looking popstar, because now that i do... i just want to eat the biggest piece of steak alive.

i'm done bitching for now.... food is so good, i'm gonna go eat.
.:nay:.

Ugh... the first boat that got loose and went to shore ended up smacking up against the dock so now the dock is damaged. The other boat is hanging by a rope and floating away from the dock. Poor boats.. poor dock. :( My neighbor went to go get some rope so they can get them tied back up. It's a crazy mess.. but it's best to take care of it as soon as possible. It was so windy Chris said he could actually feel a spray of water walked near the shore.

I REALLY need to get me a digital camera.. arf.

Man! It has been SO windy today (between 20-30mph) that all you can hear is the wind blowing hard against the house all day. One of the boats detached from the dock and ended up on shore. The other boat looks like it's about to snap free and float to shore as well. There are actual WAVES... almost looks like a beach here. I have no idea why it's so windy.

Can someone who can read Chinese (I'm not sure if it's Mandarin or Cantonese) and tell me what the heck this page is talking about? I am showing that it was a referrer to my page, and I'm trying to find out how or why. If you can help me, I will be eternally grateful and owe you one!

Welcome back to the crazy world of weblogs, Lemongrass! :) I was wondering where the heck you went! :)

Pimpwar has been good to me (sort of) this round. For the most part, I've been able to stay within the top 500 without much work. I've been ganked a few times, but so far I've survived decently. :)

Added a request form to my Everquest Sound Effects page. Should make it easier to make requests for sounds. I also changed the layout some...just for the heck of it. :)

Inhaler by Hooverphonic

water falling down

a hundred meters

colored by the sun

in rainbow colours

paul is driving me around

through fields of light

blinded by the sun

fight the clouds

be an inhaler

have no doubts

let them take you

on a voyage to another

Today, my supervisor Loren left to make his move down to Austin to work for the same company, but different position. =( A lot of people have decided to make the transfer, but I was one who just don't budge. Now we're going to be supervisor-less on my shift till we're outta here. I don't think it's going to change anything though, since it was a pretty relaxed atmosphere even with him here.

I'm going to the wedding this Saturday for a very long time family friend of mine named Michelle. We've known each other since we were toddlers back in Pennsylvania, and when my family down to Texas, their whole family ended up moving down here and lived near us, too. She's only a couple months older than me, so we're both 22 right now.

What I need is some advice on what to buy... I don't know much about wedding gifts, so I would like to get some suggestions from people. I've only been to one other wedding and that was well over 10 years ago, so wedding courtesies are an alien thing for me. Shoot me an email if you have any ideas, purty please. I'm planning to spend $150-$200 on the gift.

Interesting information about what defines one's personality. Easy reading with a few interactive features.

Excellent place to find a few one-line movie summaries for some of the movies you haven't had time to watch.

Last night we were stopped at a red light and heard a strange honk on the other side of the road. We looked over and there was a car right in front of a policecar and it started going. We thought maybe the policecar honked at the car in front of it so that it would go. Then after the car drove a few yards away, the cop suddenly turned on his emergency lights and sped up towards that car to pull it over. Perplexed for a moment, we realized that perhaps the cop was honking at the car because it ran the light. How retarded do you have to be to run a red light RIGHT in front of a cop?

Chris and I were driving back from lunch (dinnertime for most folks) and on the way back we were talking about firefighting which doesn't happen as often as it used to.

As we were driving, right in the middle of our conversation we saw something on the other side of the freeway that caught our eye. Of all things, there was a wild car fire going nuts on the side of the road. It was pretty shocking since we hadn't seen one for a few years and it was a rather big coincidence since we were talking about fires in the first place.

On our side of the road there were like 5 cars that pulled over to the side to watch. From what I could see whoever was in the car wasn't anywhere outside of it so I feared that maybe the driver was still stuck inside. We flew by and decided to take the next exit and turn around. On our way back we finally saw a firetruck en route, and I felt relieved as we passed the flaming car again and now saw a man(hopefully the driver) standing behind the car about 100 ft away.

Yesterday, I was bored at work and emailed Chris at home and told him to send me a cute picture of himself. Being a clever little devil he ended up sending me this. What a silly boy. :)

Mp3 of the moment

Hooverphonic - Inhaler (makes me at peace for some reason)

Check out some nifty pictures from a sand tracing pendulum right after the recent earthquake in Seattle. Takes extremely long to load because of the large images or a slow webserver. I'm on a T1 and it took a few minutes it seemed.

- link courtesy of co-workers Kent and Joe -

Here's a pretty good article about how Asian stereotypes have affected the dating scene for Asian men and women. She is wonderfully frank yet somewhat sympathetic about the dating situation for Asian men, who seem to have major issues with "their" women going after other races (white guys in particular). This was an article linked from a small rant from an Asian guy complaining about Asian women "sell-outs".

Random Shiznit

I don't know what possessed me to see The Cell back when it came out, and even though I didn't like the actual movie, I was particularly attracted to the one scene where Jennifer Lopez was watching a really wicked looking cartoon on TV.

The cartoon was sooo strange and surreal and quite trippy to watch. I can't remember exactly what happened in it, but I had wondered if it came from an actual show or movie. I dug around on the net for a while trying to find out but gave up soon after.

Months later, I decided again to try to find out more about that cartoon, and sure enough that information had finally become available. The cartoon that Jennifer Lopez was watching was actually a clip of an old 1973 French animated science-fiction movie called La Plan�te Sauvage or "Fantastic Planet" in English. I did a little more digging and also came upon some clips from its soundtrack. The soundtrack is filled with ultra groovy downtempo guitar music that I actually ended up enjoying. If you're lucky, you might be able to find some mp3's of the soundtrack somewhere.



Now I just want to get my hands on the actual movie so I can watch the whole thing so it all makes sense.

Hrm.. on a sidenote: I get the feeling this is one of those movies that are drug films or cult classics that I should have already seen, and I'm going to hear it from someone. "You mean you haven't EVER seen it?!?!?" and then I'll feel like a total lameass. :9

I was logging onto my moderator account for Am I Hot or Not? today and discovered that they have for some reason changed their domain name to HotorNot.com. Man, I must have not logged in for a long time. Shame on me.

My New Obsession



Frank's Red Hot is now a favorite at home. I'm surprised we never tried it sooner.

We first discovered it a few weeks ago when dropping by Jack in the Box and tried out their new chicken strip things with Frank's Red Hot. They were absolutely perfect, and yes they tasted like buffalo wings. We then bought our own bottle of Frank's Red Hot and now it's almost gone since we've used it on many other foods like salsa and fried chicken. Tabasco used to be the food flavoring of choice, but has since been replaced by our new friend Frank.

Now that I think of it, it's time to start eating healthier... my days of pigging out have to end sometime. :P

Virtual Flowers

I'm not much of a user of free virtual cards/flowers but I stumbled upon a *cute* little virtual flower site today that made me feel right at home. It's called FlowerBuider and it uses a Flash interface that allows you make your very own custom bouquet of computer drawn flowers. You can pick out as many flowers as you want and arrange them however you see fit. The best thing of all is that you don't have to sign up for anything and the site is very nicely layed out and clean looking with ZERO banners.

So if you're into that sort of thing... :P

If I were a cartoon... I'd want HIM...*yummy*

Lil Thoughts

Don't ya hate it when you have certain feelings inside that you can't express and you feel like you'll explode?! I'll just leave it at that. Man, I should go to bed.

Weirdest Contest of the Moment One and ONLY Warning -- Do NOT enter if you are under 18

Talk about a unique prize for the winner! One of our local radio stations called KDGE - The Edge decided to go where most radio stations have never gone before -- offering of all things...breast implants for the winner of a their new contest! The link reads "Do you have small cans?" Basically, you'll need to go there and figure it out... the cool thing is you get to vote. So if you're mature enough to handle seeing some brief n00dity, I dare you to check out this contest. Don't worry the first page is a warning page so there aren't any pictures on there.

Random Cam Stuff From the Past 2 Months

Ouch my eyes hurt!

Umm.. my site is down. Help someone.

More MP3's of the Moment so what if my taste is different than yours :9 i'm still picky when it comes to psychedelic trance

Hallucinogen - Jiggle of the Sphinx (there are two versions, either one is OK)

Technossomy - Pyramid (from Distance to Goa)

If you're like me, you probably laugh at the thought of riceboy cars. What do I mean by riceboy car? Any car that has been modified with whale-tails (that big Supra spoiler), racing stickers and fake Type-R badges and tailpipes that are 5 times wider than the average tailpipe are all riceboy cars. That doesn't even begin to cover all the characteristics. And what is it all worth? The assumption that they'll be getting a nice chunk of horsepower out of it.

Apparently, I'm not alone when I say riceboy cars are somewhat idiotic in theory. If you have one... I'm sorry, but you'll need to stand back and take a look at your car and figure out whether or not the average human being would think your car looks ridiculous.

I totally cracked up when I went to this Anti-Riceboy page and saw this little tutorial on how you can turn your car into a riceboy car more economically. This guy truly emphasizes the usage of Type-R stickers since they really do add some much needed horsepower to any car. I love sarcasm. =]

I swear there have been so many times I wish I had a digital cam or just a regular camera handy. The most ridiculous thing I've ever seen (as far as riceboy cars) is when Chris and I were driving somewhere one day and we saw this late 90's model Toyota Celica, and on the back, it had a freakin' SUPRA symbol in place of where the Celica logo goes! How cheesy is that?! I couldn't believe it... I wonder if this guy went around telling his friends he's got a Supra when he's clearly driving a Celica with a regular Celica spoiler, too. What a dork! He must have hung around some totally clueless people to be thinking anyone would buy that. I wouldn't dare drive around in a Chevy Camaro and replace the Camaro symbol with a Corvette symbol. I know people aren't that dumb!

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Random Wish


Dying to get my hands on this book (the Deluxe Edition)!

Well... I seriously thought I was feeling better, but I think I'm in worse condition now. I don't think it's life threatening, but I'm going to a doctor to have it checked out anyway. Enough about that anyhow...

I just wanted to say:

Even though there haven't really been an excessive amount of school shootings (though I believe even one is one too many), I really think that if it weren't for some of the school shootings that started happening a couple years ago, many of the recent school shootings would not have occurred. I think the fact that knowing other children had committed the crime, the gates were open for other children to do the same thing. Is it SUCH a coincidence that a few days after the shooting at Santana High School there was yet a new shooting today where one student in a Pennsylvania school was injured? Would this have happened if the shooting on Monday didn't?

Honestly, if it hadn't been for the media attention that previous school shootings got, I don't think there would have been as many "copy-cat" shootings in the following years. Would these shootings have occurred had these children never heard of such a thing as a school shooting before?

The thing is, it's important for the media to talk about school shootings to raise awareness. Pretty much they're damned if they do, and damned if they don't.

Another Annoying Spam Subject of the Moment

SUBJECT: "Why did you guys fight at work?"

And then when you open up the message it's a porn advertisement... lame indeed.

As mentioned before ...



I love his work!

MP3's of the Moment

Hallucinogen - Gamma Goblins Part 2
and I still like...
Mino - Metallic
Tandu - Visually Distorted

Thanks everyone who has wished me well. I hope to be coming back to work tomorrow. Until then, no cammage.

Weird... last night I dreamt that 2 of my friends were pregnant. A friend from school named Mandy, and the other was Amy. Hope dreams like that don't really mean anything.

Well, back to bed... still not feelin' good....hoping to come back to work tomorrow. I haven't been sick this long for a while.

I wonder how much begging it would take to ask your parents to buy you a nearly $200 cashmere teddy bear! Actually, I would think of this as a very nice present to buy your girl/boyfriend. I don't picture this as a very suitable gift for a child. Imagine that poor cashmere bear getting dirt, drool, and candy stuck on it. It's definitely meant for someone mature enough to take care of it, or a rich parent who doesn't mind buying their kids $200 stuffed animals.

Alright, alright... for the past few days I have had a huge flood of personal emails (not common for me these days) because quite a few folks from my past have once again resurfaced. To those pals who have emailed me lately... please be patient and I will email you guys back. It's kind of a been a very busy time period for me, so please excuse my major delay in response time. <3 you guys!

#hold music continues#

Ugh... I have a horrible headache today and a big uncomfortable lump inside my throat. Feels like a pill is stuck in there. I will probably not be at work today, so probably no cammage.. unless I don't mind people seeing me sick at home.