The last 8 search terms which brought someone to my site, not including variations of “atomon”:
“sparkler burnt my thumb”
“mosquito sound”
“rumspringa pictures”
“cock and bull story”
“rumspringa pictures”
“camel non filters”
“how to disassemble a couch”
“RUMSPRINGA pictures”
This post will probably just make the whole rumspringa thing worse.
In view of this news item, which tells us of a woman awarded $11.3 million in a defamation lawsuit because someone said mean things about her on the internet, I’d like to offer the following completely true facts about people I know.
Ferrari – weekend drag queen.
Julie appears to be young and attractive – she’s 73 and maintains her looks by bathing in the blood of infants.
Ethan owes everything he has to Statan – except for his lil’ buddy, which Satan said he can’t do anything about.
On the internet. Completely true.
I’ve been deluged with comment spam all of the sudden, so now when you make a commment I’ll have to approve it. Once I’ve approved your first comment any future comments by you should automatically be approved. So go ahead, leave a comment.
A couple of days ago I couldn’t open Firefox. I gritted my teeth, pulled up IE, kept unsuccesfully trying to browse with nonexistent IE tabs, and eventually found what I thought was the problem. There had just been a Firefox update, and obviously there was a conflict somewhere. Maybe it was a firewall issue. Maybe something else. I’ll just go check my email while I try to work this out and…
…my email won’t open. Outlook can’t read my email data file. Thunderbird still works though. Well, I have a couple of years worth of emails in the Outlook file, maybe I can work it out, but this looks like it’s going to take a while, so I’ll just put on some music, which goes fine…
…until we hit a song it can’t play. Eventually my boot drive wouldn’t even boot anymore due to corrupted files in the OS, and at this point it looks like the whole drive is imploding. Luckily I have a 2nd, larger drive that was being used as a backup. This drive seems fine, but I had to install the OS on it, update it for a couple of hours, reinstall all my drivers, etc, etc.
I can still access some of the stuff on the old drive, and I’m in the process of pulling over what I can from that sinking ship. I’m taking this opportunity to try and clean up my file system, the old drive is a mess of junk that’s been piled on top of other junk for years.
Bad:
It’s fiscal year end, work is crazy, and I might have to go in this weekend.
Good:
It’s Friday and the weather is finally getting cooler.
Tonight’s Drink:
Micheladas on the carport. Bring a chair.
32. Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
A movie that attempts to capture an unreadable mess of a book turns out to be an (almost) unwatchable mess of a movie. It’s a shame, the preview made it look hilarious, and there was the unexpected bonus of Kelly Macdonald, who we like. She, however, like everyone else, had almost nothing to do. I understand making the movie all meandering and poorly structured like the book (very clever, nice work), and there were a couple of chuckles, but 2 laughs and a clever premise do not make an interesting movie. In this case, they make for a pretty dull one.
Well, if you win. Engadget is giving away a bunch of stuff I wouldn’t buy for myself, but wouldn’t mind having – and all you have to do is leave a comment on the post. Stuff like an Xbox 360, a 42-inch Philips plasma, a couple of Slingboxes and, if you swing that way, a Zune. Best of luck, and if you win the Xbox you have to let me borrow it.
31. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, I’ve been busy. We’ve had 3 Netflix movies sitting by the television since July, and last night decided to finally watch one of them.
I wasn’t so sure about this movie for the first 15 minutes. It takes it’s time getting everything set up, and it took me about that long to get used to the structure and narration. After that it takes off. Well done, funny popcorn movie. I might watch it again before I send it back.
30. Hollywoodland
Saw this earlier at the Drafthouse on a work offsite. Adrien Brody and Diane Lane were great, as I expected them to be, and Affleck was really good, which I didn’t expect him to be. Not a great movie, but really good, and overall I would recommend it. I’ll give it a 75 out of 100. It gets 5 of those points as a bonus for the small role given to Caroline Dhavernas, who we still like from Wonderfalls. In fact, if you have limited time, just go watch Wonderfalls. Hollywoodland is sad.
And I quote, “Image of the solar transit of the International Space Station (ISS) and Space Shuttle Atlantis (50 minutes after undocking from the ISS, before return to Earth), taken from the area of Mamers (Normandie, France) on september 17th 2006 at 13h 38min 50s UT.”
Scroll down for the big picture, then click it for the really big picture. I vote for more of this.
