Know somebody that lost it all on the internet…

Well, now you can lose it all, too! I had seen this game at Game Keeper for a while and finally went ahead and purchased it. It’s a pretty cool little game called “Burn Rate - The dot-com card game“. Be the last one to lose all your money and you win.

Things to do while watching LOTR

Do you have a hard time sitting through 12 hours of movies? Need a little something to do? Try these helpful hints:

  1. Stand up halfway through the movie and yell loudly, “Wait…where the hell is Harry Potter?”
  2. Block the entrance to the theater while screaming, “YOU…..SHALL….NOT….. PASS!” - After the movie, say “Lucas could have done it better.”
  3. Play a drinking game where you have to take a sip every time someone says, “the Ring.”
  4. Point and laugh whenever someone dies.
  5. Ask everyone around you if they think Gandalf went to Hogwarts.
  6. Finish off every one of Elrond’s lines with “Mis..ter Ander-sonnn.”
  7. When Aragorn is crowned king, stand up and at the top of your lungs sing, “And I did it…. MY way…!”
  8. Talk like Gollum all through the movie. At the end, bite off someone’s finger and fall down the stairs.
  9. Dress up as old ladies and reenact “The Battle of Helms Deep,” Monty Python style.
  10. When Denethor lights the fire, shout “Barbecue!”
  11. In TTT when the Ents decide to march to war, stand up and shout, “RUN FOREST, RUN!”
  12. Every time someone kills an Orc, yell: “That’s what I’m Tolkien about!” See how long it takes before you get kicked out of the theatre.
  13. During a wide shot of a battle, inquire, “Where’s Waldo?”
  14. Talk loudly about how you heard that there is a single frame of a nude Elf hidden somewhere in the movie.
  15. Start an Orc sing-a-long.
  16. Come to the premiere dressed as Frankenfurter and wander around looking terribly confused.
  17. When they go in the paths of the dead, wait for a tense moment and shout, “I see dead people!”
  18. Imitate what you think a conversation between Gollum, Dobby and Yoda would be like.
  19. Release a jar of daddy-long-legs into the theater during the Shelob scene.
  20. Wonder out loud if Aragorn is going to run for governor of California.
  21. When Shelob comes on, exclaim, “Man!Charlotte’s really let herself go!”

… and speaking of lost graphics…

Possibly the best Windows text editor of all time is Ultra Edit. And, since I can’t take my same configuration with me from place to place (work/home/etc…), it’s become necessary for me to upload a graphic of my Ultra Edit Toolbar so if I need to reinstall at any time, I can get my configuration back in order quickly.

Some cartoons I thought I’d lost…

When I changed servers a while back, I thought I had lost some images that were my favorite Doonsbury and Dilbert cartoons. While looking for something totally different tonight, I found them on my hard drive. Woo Hoo!

Tis the season!!

Well, it’s almost Christmas. Time to send out this year’s Holiday Greetings. Enjoy!

Ouchie!

My mom went to Sweden for her 50th Birthday and all she got was this lousy cut…

The sad part is, people probably buy this crap…

So, I’m browsing through my filtered spam just to make sure nothing legit got blocked before I delete it all and the subject of one of the spam messages catches my eye. Not because I’m interested in their product, but, more because I want to see if they are serious. And, without fail, it’s a real product… The subject was “Name A Star For Someone Special…”. My first thought was that I’m sure there’s a cost involved…, of course, there was… So, a quick look at the email and it points me to their site. Ahh yes. Now I see. I can name a star in the sky after somebody I love. And, as luck would have it, it makes the PERFECT holiday gift… This reminds me of the Seinfeld episode where as gifts they told people they made a contribution to some charity in their name… My lord people, do like the rest of us do… Wait until December 24th, run to Save-on and purchase all the Whitman’s Chocolate samplers…

Survivor: a novel


I’m on vacation from work this week. The first thing I set out to do was read another book by my current favorite author, Chuck Palahniuk. My latest read is called Survivor: a novel. If you have never read a book by Chuck Palahniuk, well, this is as good a place to start as any. It’s very off the wall and unique. It’s a story about what happens to people who grow up living in a religous cult society. Well, not so much about the cult, but about what happens to a guy who makes it out alive. After the entire clan commits suicide, the rest of the people who make it out alive are supposed to “deliver” themselves the minute they find out about the rest of the clan being delivered to heaven. Well, this guy ends up being the last guy to be left alive from the cult and he ends up going on to be famous as a televangelist. Growing up he did everything he was told to do because that’s the way it worked in their society. When he’s out in the real world, he gets jobs that give him that same type structure. And, when he becomes famous, he has a team of agents & assistance that continue to tell him everything he should do. It’s an easy read as it keeps you entertained the entire time. I didn’t want to put it down the entire time I read it.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year

Man, I sure do love December. No, it has nothing to do with the fat dude in the red suit. Actually, it doesn’t have to do with any sort of holiday. For me, what makes December so great is that every channel on TV has to air some sort of “Top [insert anything here] of the past year” show. I don’t know what it is about these types of shows, but I’m freakin’ addicted. I love them. It’s sad, really… “Top 100 hairstyles”, yeah, I’ll watch it.. (the “Mullet” got robbed. It should have been in the top 5).

Well, I gotta get going… The “Top 100 Best Car Commercials” is coming on… (my money is on the Ford Focus)

She waited all her life for THIS???

Wow, you would think that since women focus so much time and effort in to their wedding, it would only make sense that they would want the dress (which, I have heard is the most important part of the whole thing) to be as nice as possible.. Well, apparently, not every woman feels that way. Yikes!