Questionable newsworthiness...
Not a whole lot going on today, getting just a tad bit antsy, paid and dutifully e-mailed both PowerBook sellers yesterday, haven't heard a peep from either in well over 24h. Deep, steadying breaths, calm blue oceans...
Got an IM this morning on a March Wired magazine article on the originas and controversy over Wikipedia, one of my more precious recent research-type time sinkhole site discoveries. Anyway, in this article, I found an amusing and apropos quote:
"Recovery may take 12 steps, but becoming a junkie requires only four. First comes chance - an unexpected encounter. Chance stirs curiosity. Curiosity leads to experimentation. And experimentation cascades into addiction."
Cute, huh? (And no Amy, this does NOT constitute an admission of any kind! Just a little humour.)
Grand plans for the day included going to give blood, I'm a couple months overdue on this, (I seem to be a couple months behind on everything, wonder if there's a theme...) I'd really hoped to get back on the cycle of giving every X number of weeks (7? 9?), as soon as one is allowed to do so. I think it's good karma to do this, plus it can't be a bad thing to train one's body to stay on the higher the blood cell production schedule, right? There's some kind of flawed logic there, perhaps.
Instead of the above possibilities, however, spent the afternoon attempting to bail Larry (high school buddy) out of an adware/spyware induced computer fog. Like doing computer stuff over the phone with my father, Larry also seems to be gifted with the unique ability to make electronic devices and computer software perform completely outside of their specified parameters and give completely random and unexpected results.
Speaking of Larry, in honour of an excel spreadsheet he forwarded me several years ago that basically did the same thing, but not web-enabled, here's a link to the Mueller Tourney. I can't believe I was bored enough to finish it. Angelina Jolie won in mine. Funny though, makes you think about how inherently flawed this sytem is for certain kinds of determinations.
In related news, perhaps of only marginal interest are these recent articles on how Angelina Jolie and Jessica Alba both seem to be, at least from these interviews, into very casual and/or random types of sex. Definitely a step in the right direction, but no word on their respective views on unemployed Asian guys. Developments as they become available. Wonder if there's any correlation to their being my two final choices left in that tourney thinger? The mind boggles. Angelina really only barely edged out Jessica because she'd probably be kinkier. Jessica is a smidge hotter, but that on its own might get old. So the moral of the story is that it's still better to be some combination of slutty, kinky and hot (even if it's bordering on freakish) than hot and slutty, but unadventurous.
Further proof that you can take the girl out of the trailer, but not the other way 'round:
Can anyone explain to me why anyone would buy a car with a base price well in excess of $100K, only to stick a goddamned pine-tree air freshener in it?! What, does the smell of Connolly leather and hand-finished burlwood make you sick? No class, these people, I swear. Both of them need to be taken out back and beaten to within an inch of their lives, I don't care if she is Britney. White guys with cornrows and rap clothing need to be systematically dealt with on a genocidal scale.
Interesting post on Rollertrain today on ageism in the porn industry, featuring perhaps my favorite blog quote of the day, "DAYUMN! Who dat old bitch is?" (I can practically hear Brian (ex husband of a marginal friend here, was at a party with him once) exclaiming that, he's the most flamboyant, allegedly straight southern man I've met since moving to the Carolinas; "is" is pronounced more bi (no pun) syllabically, like "EE-yez".) I don't talk enough like this in my everyday life. It's almost like hip hop confederate Yoda.
T&A link of the day is here. Good god, I miss Vegas. I guess these are from the '04 ('03?) AVN Awards...I need to get out to the '06 WinterCES (Consumer Electronics Show), so I can hit the AVN Awards too while I'm there. Sigh. Perhaps one day soon I'll get over the stigma of looking like an ass in them, and finally find the courage to re-release my mid-nineties photos with porn star chicks...perhaps some of you have seen them already, they're out there on the internet, just not widely publicized.
Downloaded Limewire PRO for PC and Mac today, and I have to say, it seems to be MUCH less of a resource hog (at least in PC testing) than the non-paid version. Of course now that I have the "turbocharged" abilities enabled by the PRO pack, I can't think of a blasted thing to download. Hrm.
Very disjointed entry today, compeltely devoid of cohesiveness. Where's my Ritalin?
Got an IM this morning on a March Wired magazine article on the originas and controversy over Wikipedia, one of my more precious recent research-type time sinkhole site discoveries. Anyway, in this article, I found an amusing and apropos quote:
"Recovery may take 12 steps, but becoming a junkie requires only four. First comes chance - an unexpected encounter. Chance stirs curiosity. Curiosity leads to experimentation. And experimentation cascades into addiction."
Cute, huh? (And no Amy, this does NOT constitute an admission of any kind! Just a little humour.)
Grand plans for the day included going to give blood, I'm a couple months overdue on this, (I seem to be a couple months behind on everything, wonder if there's a theme...) I'd really hoped to get back on the cycle of giving every X number of weeks (7? 9?), as soon as one is allowed to do so. I think it's good karma to do this, plus it can't be a bad thing to train one's body to stay on the higher the blood cell production schedule, right? There's some kind of flawed logic there, perhaps.
Instead of the above possibilities, however, spent the afternoon attempting to bail Larry (high school buddy) out of an adware/spyware induced computer fog. Like doing computer stuff over the phone with my father, Larry also seems to be gifted with the unique ability to make electronic devices and computer software perform completely outside of their specified parameters and give completely random and unexpected results.
Speaking of Larry, in honour of an excel spreadsheet he forwarded me several years ago that basically did the same thing, but not web-enabled, here's a link to the Mueller Tourney. I can't believe I was bored enough to finish it. Angelina Jolie won in mine. Funny though, makes you think about how inherently flawed this sytem is for certain kinds of determinations.
In related news, perhaps of only marginal interest are these recent articles on how Angelina Jolie and Jessica Alba both seem to be, at least from these interviews, into very casual and/or random types of sex. Definitely a step in the right direction, but no word on their respective views on unemployed Asian guys. Developments as they become available. Wonder if there's any correlation to their being my two final choices left in that tourney thinger? The mind boggles. Angelina really only barely edged out Jessica because she'd probably be kinkier. Jessica is a smidge hotter, but that on its own might get old. So the moral of the story is that it's still better to be some combination of slutty, kinky and hot (even if it's bordering on freakish) than hot and slutty, but unadventurous.
Further proof that you can take the girl out of the trailer, but not the other way 'round:
Can anyone explain to me why anyone would buy a car with a base price well in excess of $100K, only to stick a goddamned pine-tree air freshener in it?! What, does the smell of Connolly leather and hand-finished burlwood make you sick? No class, these people, I swear. Both of them need to be taken out back and beaten to within an inch of their lives, I don't care if she is Britney. White guys with cornrows and rap clothing need to be systematically dealt with on a genocidal scale.
Interesting post on Rollertrain today on ageism in the porn industry, featuring perhaps my favorite blog quote of the day, "DAYUMN! Who dat old bitch is?" (I can practically hear Brian (ex husband of a marginal friend here, was at a party with him once) exclaiming that, he's the most flamboyant, allegedly straight southern man I've met since moving to the Carolinas; "is" is pronounced more bi (no pun) syllabically, like "EE-yez".) I don't talk enough like this in my everyday life. It's almost like hip hop confederate Yoda.
T&A link of the day is here. Good god, I miss Vegas. I guess these are from the '04 ('03?) AVN Awards...I need to get out to the '06 WinterCES (Consumer Electronics Show), so I can hit the AVN Awards too while I'm there. Sigh. Perhaps one day soon I'll get over the stigma of looking like an ass in them, and finally find the courage to re-release my mid-nineties photos with porn star chicks...perhaps some of you have seen them already, they're out there on the internet, just not widely publicized.
Downloaded Limewire PRO for PC and Mac today, and I have to say, it seems to be MUCH less of a resource hog (at least in PC testing) than the non-paid version. Of course now that I have the "turbocharged" abilities enabled by the PRO pack, I can't think of a blasted thing to download. Hrm.
Very disjointed entry today, compeltely devoid of cohesiveness. Where's my Ritalin?
posted by Gene at 5:59 AM
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