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Just regular kinds of stuff that happened (that doesn’t fit in other categories).

Free 1 TB of mail! (?)

Posted on June 11, 2004 | 7 comments

It looks like You’ve Got Post is giving away free accounts with more storage than gMail. My account with just a few small messages says I have 976 GB of storage. No promises but that’s what it looks like. If nothing else it it’s another account where you can still get a “good” e-mail address.

NOTE: This post is from months ago and if the link doesn’t work they probably don’t exist anymore (it worked when I posted it). I have no affiliation with the site. There is nothing I can do to fix the link…

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Ronald Reagan in the Funny Papers.

Posted on June 10, 2004 | 1 comment

I used to be a HUGE comic, sci-fi, etc. collector. Huge as in comics, posters, matchbook covers, trading cards, glasses from taco bell, etc. Still probably have 15,000 of them here and there (I’m really looking to sell if you know someone who buys in large quantities).

Here’s the point, every so often in comics, real people make an appearance. Including presidents. You’d never believe how many times President Regan showed up (sometimes as Gov.) to speak to the nation, make a request or be saved from an accident or assassination.

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Impact! – Wednesday Matinee

Posted on June 9, 2004 | 1 comment
1. What is the coolest movie gadget / prop you’d like to have in real life?
The prop works!?! Just like in the movie?!? All sorts of sci-fi gizmos, gadgetry and starships flash before my eyes. Let’s be more practical… Maybe a Stepford Wife? The DeLorean from Back to the Future? A magic lamp with three wishes? Oh! I know! The gizmo Arnold and Danny used to make Arnold have a baby in Junior. Or I guess I could just use the lamp…
2. What movie has your favorite / most passionate kiss scene?
All I can keep thinking of is the scene from that thing you do When Faye (Liv Tyler) says, somekind

I have wasted thousands and thousands of kisses on you–kisses that I thought were special because of your lips and your smile and all your color and life. I used to think that was the real you, when you smiled. But now I know you don’t mean any of it. You just save it for all your songs. Shame on me for kissing you with my eyes closed so tight.

But that’s really kind of a non-kissing scene. Maybe when Craig Stoltz finally kisses the Mary Stuart Masterson character (Watts) in Some Kind of Wonderful. (I need to think a little more on this one.) The first time Max kisses Liz on Roswell (but that’s not a movie…)

3. What movie had the most impact on how you view life and why?
flightnavI’ll give two answers.

  1. Flight of the Navigator (the best Disney movie ever, which finally just came out on DVD last week): Because it always makes me feel like a little kid. Every time I’ve seen it. and that’s worth something.
  2. Sabrina (the remake): I’ve always wanted to go to Paris after I saw that movie I kept thinking about it and a day (or two) later I realized “hey! I can go to Paris”, so I signed up for a French class and realized if I really wanted to do it I could, it really changed my perspective on things.

From Wednesday Matinee.

FYI, I never made it to Paris, got fed up learning the language, went to Prague instead. I’ve been to Costa Rica twice and England since, but still no Paris…

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Chinese Restaurants

Posted on June 6, 2004 | Leave a comment

Why are so many Chinese and Thai type restaurants closed on Sunday? I’m at Red Robin instead…. :(

Do you think they just call them “Restaurants” in China?

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If Boogers can strengthen your immune system…

Posted on June 1, 2004 | Leave a comment

And sunlight can suppress it then (according to this) we should just “sit in the dark picking our noses”.

Saw this in a magazine and found it on my first google attempt (“children eat boogers to increase immunity”).

The only concern is that too much Mucophagy may lead to Rhinotillectomania.

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Imagine the world with NO text

Posted on May 31, 2004 | Leave a comment

notextThey redo photographs and separate the images from the text. ” With the removal of all traces of text from the photographs, the project explores the manifestation of power between large groups of people in the form of public and semi-public language.”

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Feast Two

Posted on May 28, 2004 | Leave a comment
Appetizer
Where do you plan to go on vacation this year, or where would you want to go?
I’ve still never been to Roswell. But I think I’d like to go to London while it’s nice this summer. Maybe back to Costa Rica when it’s cold up here…
Soup
What color is your bedroom? If you could redecorate it, what would you change?
Plain, flat off white. I’m pretty happy with it, maybe a new bigger bed. Oh, and I’d paint the Windows black!
Salad
Do you have a bumper sticker on your vehicle? If not, make one up!
HONK IF YOU’RE BLOGGING!!!
Main Course
What’s the worst pain you’ve ever been in?
When I was fifteen I walked through a glass door at the mall, cut up both of my arms pretty bad, bad enough that my mom probably didn’t have any problem following the trail… Hours later the shot they gave me at the hospital for pain hurt much more than the actual accident (but I wasn’t in shock any more either.
Dessert
Who is your favorite celebrity? What do they do that inspires you?
Gene Hackman. He always does great and he does different roles from being a spy to Lex Luthor to…

From the new meme Friday Feast.

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Can anyone help me find this?

Posted on May 23, 2004 | 1 comment

night-sky-05I found this picture on a web site and they linked back to hoshinavi and I can’t find the image. Mostly because the site is in Japanese(?) and I can’t get babelfish to translate it.
You can see really small on the picture there is a URL and such but I’d really like to get this from somewhere if anyone has any idea of where, how, etc. Thank you for any help…

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