Fri, 28 Apr 2006
(US) Cell Companies Suck
Another example of why I hate (American) cell phone companies. 28 Apr 15:03 | /tech | 0 comment(s)
35 No-no's in Ringtones
Thirty five words I can't use in ringtones on my Cingular phone:
.Ass, balls, BJ, blowjob, breasts, condom, corn-hole, fart, fornicate, fudge packing, insemination, laid, lesbian, masturbate, naked, nipples, nutsack, orgasm, pee pee, penis, piss, porn, puberty, ruby red bag (!), scrotum, semen, sex, shit, sit on my face (!), sixty-nine, smegma, teabagging, testicles, uncircumcised, uterus. Damnit, I'll have to change the name of my greatest hit (and best ringtone) to
More Foul Play II
Following up on the previous post- according to a headline on Fark: Turns out Harvard student Kaavya Viswanathan didn't plagarize. Apparently, she had a ghost writer, so she didn't write the book at all link I like this line of the gossip column (it's not really an article, it's a page 6 item) the most:
But the Harvard Independent wonders, "So how much 'packaging' did 17th Street do for 'Opal Mehta?' Was it, like a 'Sweet Valley' novel, brought to life by an anonymous writer for hire on the basis of an outline by Viswanathan?Heh, Sweet Valley. 28 Apr 10:04 | /general | 0 comment(s)
Tue, 25 Apr 2006
More Foul Play
Oh Noes?!!!11
First James Frey then what's his/her face, LeRoy, (no, not Leroy Jennkins). . . and now the latest is this chick.A Harvard University sophomore with a highly publicized first novel acknowledged Monday that she had borrowed material, accidentally, from another author's work and promised to change her book for future editions.An interesting tidbit (found on Todd's blog) I didn't know about:
Kaavya Viswanathan's "How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life," published in March by Little, Brown and Company, was the first of a two-book deal reportedly worth six figures. But on Sunday, the Harvard Crimson cited seven passages in Viswanathan's book that closely resemble the style and language of the novels of Megan McCafferty.
A Harvard professor surmises that the passages that were plagiarized were edited to make them less "googleable". I should write a book. . . I'll call it Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V the Mangina Monologues. . . 25 Apr 16:27 | /general | 0 comment(s)
Mon, 24 Apr 2006
Mimikaki
I'll get back to writing bad movie 'reviews' soon enough. But in the meantime, I thought I'd share the wonderful world of mimikaki with you. The wonderful world of ear 
First, let's get the fetish out of the way. And no, Gretchen didn't offer to have me lay my head in her lap while she went on "ear wax patrol". I did offer this to Gretchen though but then Tessa threw up in her mouth a little. Tessa was already plotting to import mimikaki for belly button exploration and excavation.One of the first things that comes to mind in Japan when the subject of mimikaki comes up is that of a person with his or her head nestled atop the thighs of their significant other who is busily at work on ear wax patrol. Many men swear by the erotic nature of this experience.
This link has most of the info. And this one is just the flat list of mimikaki entries on Japundit. Great pics. (HAR HAR! It's a pun!).
I like the "Glow Pick", the metal travel one, and The Technician. Tessa and Gretchen may want to splurge on The Ear Scope or the vacuum so they can share in the fun (you could get color-coded ends so you don't use each other's pick). But then again, there's nothing like basic black.
24 Apr 11:56 | /humor | 0 comment(s)
Fri, 21 Apr 2006
I Come In The Name of The Lord, BITCH
This is too much: link. But it'll make you giggle. . . 21 Apr 18:41 | /humor | 0 comment(s)
Team America - **
Team America - World Police made me chortle more than once. Yes, that's a real lolz from me. . . but I don't know if I'd watch the movie again. It's great to watch once, laugh at, and then move on. Actors and Kim Jong Il are easy targets to make fun of. I mean, c'mon, we all made fun of them in school, so we might as well take them down a notch here. The puppets in the movie are amazing though- and the dvd had one of the raunchiest sex scenes I've ever seen. Only one star for your puppet love and one more for the songs.
21 Apr 13:01 | /movies | 6 comment(s)
Thu, 20 Apr 2006
Layer Cake - *
Layer Cake barely passed my 3DMT™. And it's near failure wasn't due to the actors in it- all of them are great (is Colm Meaney ever bad?). The story was pretty interesting, the style of the movie was good, and the acting great. So why am I killing it with only one asterisk? Because of buzz. I was repeatedly told how great this flick was, and well, you know what? It's good, but it's not great. It's decent, but it's not like a Scorsese type of film. So, I punish this flick with it's teasing poster of Sienna Miller who's more overhyped than this movie. Bah, maybe I should give it two stars. . .
20 Apr 12:38 | /movies | 4 comment(s)
Wed, 19 Apr 2006
Mmm beef
One of my coworkers is going home to Argentina this week, I keep daydreaming of steak. . . And I keep thinking of this ad:
19 Apr 14:27 | /food_and_drink | 1 comment(s)
Happy Birthday Jodi!
Happy Birthday Jodi! In honor of your birthday, here's Nornna singing her rendition of "The Night Eyeore Went Crazy". . . live from Wisconsin: And for an encore . . .click this one: video link 19 Apr 11:48 | /general | 4 comment(s)
Tue, 18 Apr 2006
More From Pell
I was going to write a post about how I was playing with a flickr screensave r called slickr but instead it' s going to focus more on my jealousy of Mr Pell's Life.
I had slickr set up to display images based on my tags and my friends's pics
. Last week I kept coming back from lunch or meetings and would normally just see my pics from India, but Pell had added new pics recently so I kept coming back to my workstation to be greeted by great pics of the Alhambra or 
Of course, pics of
Quake!
rant: I know it's the 100th anniversary of the Great Quake and all- but I can only take so much of the TV specials and re-runs on quake documentaries. I'm getting way too nervous now. I'm so tightly wound that if I farted in my sleep I'd wake myself up screaming "it's here, it's here!!" (no, I haven't done that yet) rave: Did y'all watch Veronica last week? It was pretty good. There were a lot of clever lines. rave: Spurs!! So now I have to figure out whose HDTV I can abuse for the next few weeks.
18 Apr 11:43 | /rants_and_raves | 2 comment(s)
Mon, 17 Apr 2006
Mike's Bday
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Thu, 13 Apr 2006
Gift is not a verb
Gift is not a verb, or is it? I hate it when I get distraced in meetings by buzzwords or just weird words that Project Managers use sometimes. My least favorite phrase is "bake that in". You're making software, not a fucking cake. Yesterday someone wrote "ITB" on the board, which on IRC and IM means "in the butt". I laughed, then caught my composure. Later someone said "Soup to nuts". I wanted to ask if that was like "BOC", or "balls on chin". Is task a verb? They said to gift and to task in the same meeting. Maybe I'm wrong. I am getting tired of reading "reek" havoc everywhere. . . . I should re-read Angie's and/or Derek's blog. 13 Apr 13:16 | /rants_and_raves | 2 comment(s)
Wed, 12 Apr 2006
More Rain
I hate this crap, it's
12 Apr 18:40 | /general | 1 comment(s)
Frontline - Tank
Did any of you catch Frontline last night. I only saw part of it because I forgot it was on. You see- they moved Veronica to Tuesdays to put the nail in the coffin on that shit-show "The Unit" (which sucked again last night, but that's a separate rant. Not even Colm Meaney could save The Unit. . . ). Anyway, it was The Tank Man episode. Quite riveting.. . One of the weird parts though was when they showed the congressional hearings with Microsoft, Google, Yahoo and Cisco. They were speaking about censorship and collaborating with the host countries's .govs. Granted- this wasn't specifically about Tank Man at this point, but the side discussion of Chinese censorship and media control, but I was fascinated with the story of the Chinese journalist recently sentenced to 10 years of prison and the congressional hearing that followed. They showed the clip of Rep Chris Smith asking/comparing what Yahoo! did to . . . I'm rambling, I need to find the actual quote. . . (what follows isn't from the hearing, but from a different interview)
SMITH: If the Nazi`s half a century ago were knocking on doors and saying, "where`s Ann Frank? We want to find Ann Frank." And people were staying, "she`s upstairs, why don`t you just go up and arrest her?" That`s exactly what we`re doing in a very sophisticated way, we being these U.S. corporations.Put in that context, that's pretty harsh. Granted, knowing congress, they'll try to restrict our business in China, which I don't agree with (as a psuedo-libertarian) - but I do agree that we shouldn't be handing over data to other .govs. Wow, what an incoherent and rambling post. I really should edit this later. But, I'm about to go back to work, and I don't have the same "freedoms" that Marc does ;) . You know what else stuck with me about that episode? None of the younger chinese knew about the tank man or what the picture of him was from. Scary. 12 Apr 14:21 | /random | 1 comment(s)
Tue, 11 Apr 2006
Nessie = Dumbo?
Oh Noes?!!?11 link Yes, this *barely* counts as a post. . . 11 Apr 17:24 | /general | 2 comment(s)
Fri, 07 Apr 2006
Happy Bday Tessa!
Happy Birthday Tessa, here's a special corn dog video for you, you dirty monkey you! When you go out and celebrate, just say "I'm so fucking thirsty too! But it's my birthday!" and all of your b-day wishes will come true! Maybe. . . 07 Apr 16:56 | /general | 0 comment(s)
Thu, 06 Apr 2006
Memsie is Good
Brian gave me a bottle of Water Wheel "Memsie" (2004) recently. It's good stuff. I was even more pleased to find out that it sits in my price range. It should be around $10 here, which means it'll be $12 or $13 out in TX. Keep an eye out for it and buy some.
I also tried a nice Syrah-Bonarda blend from Crios de Susana Balbo (2004) recently. It was very fruity and was pertty interesting. BevMo has it for ~$12. It might be better in another 6 months or so though. But what do I know. Maybe we should have a tasting dinner soon. Mmmm.06 Apr 12:02 | /food_and_drink | 0 comment(s)
Wed, 05 Apr 2006
Nornna
I didn't know about Nornna until today. Her videos are pretty damn entertaining. They're like a nice moment of zen/surrealism. Thanks to my workbuddies C & E for those links. My teef squeak! 05 Apr 18:12 | /humor | 3 comment(s)
Tue, 04 Apr 2006
Good Laugh
Man, the rain really sucked this am on my commute. Fortunately the trailer to Clerks2 cracked me up. Watching Jay dance to that Q Lazzarus song made me snarf my coffee. Trailer If you don't know which song I'm talking about - well crap you should know. I play that song every morning when I get ready for work. 04 Apr 14:46 | /rants_and_raves | 0 comment(s)
Sun, 02 Apr 2006
It's Raining
It's raining again. Please. .. . make. . . it. .. . . stop Megan and Lia are coming in town this week. Party time! And 1st Friday Happyhour is Friday, wheeee! Yes, this barely counts as an update (Angie & Mr. Anonymous "CS"). 02 Apr 14:46 | /general | 3 comment(s)
