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Wednesday Whatevers 6/8

Posted on June 8, 2004 | Leave a comment
1. Do you prefer happy or sad endings, and why?
Happy! Umm.. because they are not sad. I’m assuming we’re talking about movies (and not my life). Movies as an escape, I need the happy ending, it can me sad along the way but I need a good ending. If it’s my life we’re talking about, we definitely need a happy (ever after) ending…
2. What is the most annoying thing about computers?
People! 99% of the time they work fine and give the right messages but only 1% of the time people use them correctly and pay attention to the messages. But hey, it keeps me employed.
3. Who has the biggest influence on the world now?
Bill Gates (unfortunately), not directly but it’s there. Office is great, but it’s cross platform (and some of the open source ones are just as good). It’s that Window’s thing that’s holding the world back.

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Ten Things That Annoy You When You Drive – Ten on Tuesday

Posted on June 8, 2004 | 1 comment

Summer’s here, and that means road trips, driving with your window open, and hot and heavy traffic. I’m from California, and almost every time I’m on the road I’ve got a gripe about someone or something…What annoys you the most when you’re on the road?

  1. People not using their blinkers .
  2. People getting upset when people don’t move in the first 2.3 seconds when the light changes
  3. Streets magically changing direction (but if you go straight your on a different street) without good sign-age. This Allen Park street allenparkroadschanges by several 30 degree angles over a few mile span…
  4. Not labeled intersections
  5. Streets with more than one name but only shows one.
  6. Multiple streets with the same name (in Lansing we had three streets same name, I don’t think the Drive/Lane/Street was different, and a few were one direction and and the other in another.
  7. Construction
  8. People chatting on the phones when their kids are in the cars.
  9. People honking when you don’t turn on a ‘no right on red sign’ (heck, I don’t need to turn even if there isn’t a sign)
  10. People not using their blinkers.

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$1,000,000 – qotw

Posted on June 7, 2004 | Leave a comment

And the Question of the Week is…

If you were a contestant on a trivia-style game show, what category would you most want to see displayed when it came down to the million-dollar question?
Alex, I’ll take “20th Century Computers” for a million dollars.

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Coincidence or Should I go play the Lotto?

Posted on June 2, 2004 | Leave a comment

So I’m reading along enjoying LoveLeLisa’s LiveJournal and she’s talking about a song. hoobastankWhich as I’m reading it sounds like a Dido song and I’ve practically got the music in my head to go with it. But (of course) I can’t find anything about it on-line anywhere, because if I did there really wouldn’t be much of a story here now would there?

So I finally figure out that Hoobastank is the group so I go to the iTunes store (do you shop there? it’s way fun and they have weekly free songs now!) and immediately get distracted (there is a point here, I promise) because I see Avril’s new album, I’m not a big fan but she’s been making a big deal about “not being so angry” since she eats less fast food (and junk) now, so I figure I’ll listen to some of the 30 second clips. And in the sidebar where they list ‘people who bought this album also bought…’ it says (you got it) Hoobastank – The Reason. What are the odds? Accidentally finding it before I actually searched for it?!?

So needless to say, Apple got 99 cents from me and I’m downloading it as I write you this message.

(Oh, and now I see it’s on their top 10 list, so maybe not such a coincidence, but I never listen to the radio so what do I know…? Besides, now I have this nice hotlinked message and it’s be a bit since I posted more than a sentence unless it was a meme.)

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Wednesday Whatevers 6/1

Posted on June 1, 2004 | Leave a comment
1. What is the lowest grade that you consider acceptable?
It’s all relative. In school for history, government, etc. a C was fine. But in Chemistry (which I had problems with) I studied hard so I liked getting As since I put in the work. Computer classes I liked, I wanted an A, the dumb ones, didn’t care so much.
2. Does the universe have an end?
Yes, I cannot fathom anything that started with a bang that doesn’t have some kind of end. So while it may, I can’t conceptualize it, so therefore — it must not be…
3. Are you superstitious? Explain.
Not so much. But when I have a lot of coincidences I do notice… A week or two ago the movie Some Kind of Wonderful came up in a bunch of different conversations, web sites, blogs some about movies and some about music and none of them had any connection to each other. Otherwise it’s probably been a year since I’ve heard anyone mention it. (Great movie BTW).

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Ten Favorite Drinks – Ten on Tuesday

Posted on June 1, 2004 | Leave a comment

Summer is coming up and the heat can really make you thirsty. So this week’s theme is your favorite drinks, whether it’s alcoholic, frozen, or something you can only find at your favorite restaurant…

  1. Coca-Cola
  2. Coke in a glass bottle
  3. Creme soda
  4. Orange Crush in a bottle
  5. Long Island
  6. Captian and Coke
  7. Segrams Twisters
  8. A & W root boor float
  9. Margarita
  10. Orange Creme Cooler from Olga’s

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Mishmash – Monday Madness

Posted on May 31, 2004 | Leave a comment
1. What was the name of the last movie you watched (dvd, vhs, theatre, or tv)?
Raising Helen last night at the theater, it was fun.
2. What were you doing on the internet before coming here?
Poking around trying to see if any of the students in the school district where I work blog (or have sites) on the net. I know some do, but the search engines didn’t pick them up…
3. What color of pen do you usually write with?
Blue or red.
4. Who was the last person you talked to on the phone?
Hmm… Mark? (on his way back to the Detroit area from Lansing.)
5. When is your birthday? (month and day)
September 11th (every year).
6. How organized is your computer desk?
Not even close to organized, neither is my computer desktop.
7. How many calendars do you have in your house?
Zero.
8. Do you clip coupons and use them when doing your grocery shopping?
I used to, now I cut them and either forget them at home, leave them in the car or they are out of that item at the store…
9. Are you a morning person or a night owl?
Night person. Always have been, but lately I’ve been more disciplined.
10. Did you enjoy your weekend?
It was okay, got caught up on some sleep, grocery shopping, laundry and some computing. Saw friends which was nice…

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My categories

Posted on May 31, 2004 | Leave a comment

I really don’t like my categories as they stand. I either want to expand them or shrink them. I’m really thinking of trying something else so I can ultra categorize everything. I’m thinking:

  • TECH: gizmos, apple, computers, portable
  • MEDIA: movies, books, tv, images, joan
  • PEOPLE: family, friends, kids, strangers
  • ME: blog, meme, family
  • INTERNET: web, blog, portable
    Supposedly WordPress is pretty diverse in this manner, but I’m not sure if it’ll cross-reference (like have the FAMILY under ME be the exact same as the one under PEOPLE).

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