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Flying Spaghetti Monsterism. I am a Pastafarian. Takes courage to make this kind of pronouncement. Flying Spaghetti Monster is the only way to salvation, or should I say salivation...it's a delicous religion. Maybe I can make some goat meatballs for the convention!

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You confuse me google, why ads for goat meat?

The rumors were true. Google Talk is for real. Sadly no Mac client, so I can't really get the most out of it yet. I can use it via a variety of other clients. I'm really liking the green duck icon and the duck sounds in Adium. Was kinda scary, testing it out Jabber style with my nephew, and we both got a message from gmail.com, "The broken link has been fixed. Thanks for being our first users!". Wonder if they will send out ads in the same manner... Now google will read my chat as well as my gmail... unless I encrypt it... with a custom decoder ring, because regular encryption can be cracked.

Why is it that I always have to force quit Mail.app? If I upgrade to Tiger will Mail.app close cleanly? I might start using Thunderbird or something else ... pisses me off! Always have to force it, this is not a good relationship. Considering cheating ... is evolution available on Mac...

Take the test, Quick Quizzes: Linux IQ test - CNET reviews. It's pretty basic, I scored a 10 out of 10, guessed on at least one question. More of a history test than a practical test.

I just thought of this, fixing pets is actually breaking their reproductive capabilities. Wonder where that phrase "fix" came from...

I'm starting to feel totally pet free should be the lifestyle for me. Breeding animals for our own pleasure? Seems arrogant. Breeding for the taste of the meat is ok. I don't make sense on purpose. People can get college degrees in animal husbandry...breed to make the best meat, or milk.

Why don't we in the USA eat dogs, or cats? What is the cut-off for animal eating? Cows, pigs, chickens, sheep, all fish, goat, kangaroo, llama, ostrich, who knows what else, it's all good and on the menu.

Broke down and watched a movie and a half on the Playstation 2 as the DVD player. iRobot is pretty good as a movie, I haven't read the book to compare it to, but I remember reading some reviews stating that the movie version doesn't do the book justice. The other movie was Ladder 49, it sucks. Couldn't watch the whole movie. I feel sorry for anybody that saw Ladder 49 in a theater, they should've demanded a refund.

I got rear ended today, not talking about getting fucked up the ass. I had an ass roll his car into my car's back bumper while at a stop light. It was a light bump, I read the bad driver's lips in my rear view mirror, "Sorry". I was stunned, continued driving, looked for a side street or parking lot to pull into so we could exchange insurance info. The prick that rear ended me took the next turn and got away. Hit and run victim am I, my neck hurts, ouch. The car is OK, no damage.

Fantastic, now the percentage rate for savings accounts at ING Direct is 3.3%. That's super duper, if only I could manage to save money. C'mon Google Ads, make me some money, oh and there's my Cafe Press thing, what's the url to that? I never put up a link to that, damn...being lazy doesn't pay much. It actually ends up costing money. Damn you lazy bones!

update: duh link to my very lame Cafe Press store, with the old style header, need to update it and make new things, what happened to the beer mug? Of course this means a whole new site design so I can include the link to the store, and the rework of the store, oh, and should rework the archives so ads show up. Mother FUCKER what is the upside to this shit? What the hell am I doing? Well, I guess everyone needs a hobby...robots, file this under "blogs are stupid"

Had to wait forever for the Playstation 2 component video cable I ordered from Best Buy, I should've opted for pick up at the C'dA store. Anyway, the DVD playback from the PS2 sucks on my projector even with component cables. Game play is pretty awesome, might actually start gaming again. I can read the map in "GTA: San Andreas" when I have it on the big screen.

Turns out the cable I bought is a dual purpose component cable, it can hook into an Xbox as well. When I tried to play a DVD on my Xbox it told me, "No, you have to buy something to play a DVD movie on me, please take that DVD movie out of my drive." Gee, wonder why I dislike Microsoft... The obvious reason you can't play a DVD movie on an Xbox is because Microsoft didn't want to pay a licensing (sp?) fee to somebody on every Xbox sold. So they decided to make DVD movie playback an add-on, which is total bullshit.

When I read that the Xbox 360 will have 5 seperate roll outs pisses me off even more. What's the first one then, the Xbox 72 (do the math 360/5)? Maybe not 5 different versions, but different versions definitely.

I can't believe that this actually works. Reckon they are just trying to get traffic to their site. Oops, I just linked to it, no matter, nobody ever sees this site.

Well, I guess some people have managed to make it work. I'm downloading it for educational purposes. I'm a fan of the Mac OS, would really like it if I could buy just the OS and put it on any hardware. Hopefully Steve Jobs et al, will come to the same conclusion, sell the OS seperate from the hardware.

Lots of info here on how to make the various OSX on intel versions floating around work.

Something is wrong here. My electric bill suddenly went up by a factor of around 3.3. Last month it was 25 bucks, this month 84 bucks. This is my first bill on the electronic billing method so I have to log in to see the details. Don't remember my password, too stunned to find it or reset it right now. Paralyzed with shock. Avista!!!!

Me thinks that google changes the ads depending on the search terms used to find the page. I screen captured that from the google cache of my site, search term was "Yes to Hemp crapulent", or a variation of that. I can refresh my stie all day and never see any ads related to hemp. Ahh nevermind, I tried it with other things, like "penthouse forum crapulent", and just got ads about firefox, but maybe that comes from my user agent info...man I should start smoking pot because I'm getting paranoid, would like a reason to feel that way.

And when I think about it, that makes sense, google ads should change based on the search terms. Why am I freaking out? I guess I'm disturbed that the so called cached version will present different ads depending on the search term. When I think of a cache, it's a snapshot in total at the time it was taken. How can an ad change in the cache if it's truly a snapshot? I guess it's because the ads are seperate code and will always refresh, sorry, not good enough.

Had no idea that there is a bill in the works to basically redefine pot's legality sort of. Hemp is great stuff, good to make ropes, durable fabric, paper, who knows what else, maybe biodiesel... Anywho, let's hope this bill gets through to a full vote in the house and then the senate. The bill is designed to make industrial hemp a seperate thing from the "makes you crazy high" pot. That way farmers can grow the no-high stuff to harvest the stalks for industry. Found about this from Arriana Huffington's blog via Digg. Oh and I wrote a college paper about hemp long time ago for an english class. Our founding fathers grew hemp for the rope, they made toilet paper out of hemp, the first "Penthouse Forum" was printed on hemp paper (yes, Bob Gucionne is that old, and yes, even back then the letters were fake).

Thinking about trying Intelliflix. They allow you to rent DVDs and games via the mail on the same plan ($14.75 a month SuperPass). The sucky part is that you have to pay for a year upfront to get that price. Not too keen on the pay for a year at once plans. If you read the terms you can quit at anytime, but won't get a refund on the unused portion of your prepaid service. So you better be certain you are willing to give up potentially $177 bucks for nothing in return. I'd say my history with Ancestry.com indicates I have no problem throwing cash out the window.

Overall I'm happy with Netflix. Get a fantastic turn around from the time I mail a DVD back and the next DVD in my queue shows up in my mailbox. I think this is primarily because there is a distribution center very close to where I live. Just wish Netflix rented games. And porn, didn't mention that, but apparently Intelliflix rents porn too.

Tried to watch "Ladder 49" on my iBook, sucks because the laptop can't do surround speaker stuff. Fire noise, explosions, etc, coming out of laptop speakers sucks. I guess it depends on the movie, "Hitch" worked on the laptop. Action movies need surround sound. I ordered a component cable for my Playstation 2 so I can use it as my DVD player that will work with my projector. Less than 20 bucks for the cable, we'll see how it works once I get it.

Don't want to think about how long I've been a member of the genealogy website Ancestry.com. I only joined it to get a free iPod, you know those questionable sites (ie: freeipod.com), that claim you can get a free thing if you sign up for a bunch of stuff that isn't free. Ancestry.com was one of the sites I could sign up for in order to receive my free iPod. I never searched anything at ancestry.com. Reckon I've paid the mormon freaks hundreds of dollars for nothing, certainly never got the "free" iPod. Stayed a member so long partly because you can't cancel via email, tried that, you have to call and wait on hold forever, all the while listening to classical music. I would get tired of waiting on hold and forget about it until the next time it renewed. Once you actually get to a human the cancellation is easy (I think it was, I'll find out for sure when I get my next credit card statement). I guess the message is: nothing is free, and read your credit card statements carefully.

Shoot, wish Dell had their commericials online. I swear to God that in a Back to School retread of a year old commercial (preppy girl meets goth girl college dorm roommate, turns out they aren't so different after all) the announcer sez "...Inspiron notebook with a Intel Salon M processor...", and then at the end of the commerical the announcer gets it right "..Dell PCs use Intel Celeron M processors...".

Saw that Dell commericial during a seemingly great new show called "Starved" on the FX channel. For a pilot episode, I think it might work out in the long run. The writers need to get away from trying to be Seinfeldish...but I can imagine the pitch to the network being: "Imagine the Seinfeld gang at the Diner, and they all have various eating disorders...and hilarity ensues". But it's not the Seinfeld gang, we have a cop, and three others at the diner, not sure what they do, maybe one is a guy with a job...he has a job. And there's a girl,she might be bi-sexual, and there's a fat guy, no clue what he does. Reckon the thing that has brought them all together is that they all attend a Food Addicts Anonymous type meeting, become friends and hilarity ensues.

Haven't tested this, or even read all of it, but here's a link to a site that claims to have instructions to mess with some vending machines.

Some writer decided to get clever. Young Boys Wankdorf erection relief. I can't swallow this junk! The author needs to be taken to task, and reprimanded. How would Mickey Mouse feel about this verbage on his ABC owned go network...good thing he wears white gloves always...

Do pugs ever stop shedding? Sheesh, hair everywhere. Staying at my folks place for who knows how long and they've got a couple of pugs. I would think that in the cold weather they'd keep as much hair as possible. Maybe when it gets colder.

iPhone glass replacement kit showed up today. The glass in the kit was broken. Shoot.

Dummy at work told me that today. He voted, but didn't vote for president, just local elections. All because of the electoral college system we have, his lame state of Idaho only has 4. He claims that he hates the electoral college system and would rather that the popular vote would prevail. Hey dummy, you didn't vote for president, so yours didn't count period. Obama won the popular vote as well.

The movie still sucks, but it looks a lot better in Blu-Ray. I will say that you can sort of tell the bad guys from the good guys in the higher def version. Viewing the DVD version I couldn't really follow the action, or tell which robot was which. To be honest I was catching up on email and stuff during the heavy CGI scenes. Just wanted to see what's her name in a belly shirt and short skirt in high def.

I've seen that people take credit for my work. Not difficult work, took me 15 minutes or less to do it, squeezed it out before I left on Friday. Emailed the result of my work to the coworker that requested it. Subsequently read an email where that coworker claimed that they created it, they may have edited it, but don't take full credit. Just gives me more reason to hate on folk. This particular coworker couldn't have created it ever. Best to move on if able. Will be with some folk this weekend that might have some options.

It's obvious. Why even debate it? If you look at Kristen Wiig's nose in "Walk Hard" and how it looks on the most recent episodes of SNL, it's clear that she had a nose job. I personally think she looks better.

WTF does "opposed defending marriage" mean? Does that mean he or she thinks homos should be able to get married? Fucking christians need to learn that America isn't a theocracy yet. Are there any non-religious congresspersons or senators?

I just bought a new glass screen and tools to replace it off eBay. Shit is coming from Hong Kong. Why do they call it 2G? That 2G stuff confuses me. Anyway, even if it's the wrong size it was only around 14 bucks. Isn't the 3G iPhone the second generation? They claim it fits a 4 gig iPhone, so that would be a first generation iPhone.

A local company can replace the busted glass screen on my iPhone for "... $65 (parts), $10.88 Shipping, and $35 labor...", so hmm, math, let's see 110.88. Cheaper than sending it back to Apple. Too bad I don't have some other phone lying around I could put the sim card into during the repair time. They say 5-10 days turnaround. Would they need to have my iPhone the whole time? Need to find out what it would cost to get out of my ATT contract. Then go T-Mobile and G1, depending on what it costs to dump ATT. Although, I'm liking an App on the iPhone called GasHog that helps you track how many miles per gallon you get, and what the fuel costs per mile.

That G1 looks goofy, has no standard headphone jack, doesn't play video, not truly open thanks to T-Mobile, has a 2 year contract like ATT.

Fuck it, I'm stuck. Maybe I'll get the 3G iPhone instead and sell the busted one to help offset the cost. I'll have to make sure to take blurry pictures of it.

It was very easy to setup the first 3 times. Why 3 times? Well, I'm trying to use Boxee on it and that requires some work, not really, but I tried it over again when samba wasn't working. Still need some work to get samba shares to load. All the iTunes stuff works great, I can stream any media in my iTunes library fine, movies I've bought, podcasts, music I've bought. What I really want is samba shares to work. That will involve some ssh and ftp work. NitoTV may be the answer. Not a novice to ssh or ftp so I'm not scared about it, just too late in the day to tackle it tonight.

BTW: Never knew I could boot from a USB card reader.

BTW 2: The 2.2 Apple TV update included 1080p.