Late today... tired tired tired... You know it is no wonder the airline industry is so in trouble these days. I was looking for flights from Houston to Miami for this summer, well it turns out if I fly from Dallas through Houston to Miami I can get a flight for $340 for two people, but if I get on the same plane in Houston for the last leg of the flight well that cost $420... WTF?!? Anyway let me throw a few links at you...
It turns out there was some real terrorist bad shit goin down right after the 911. scary!
This is hillarious! Some people put this book on computer so it would last forever, well the media they used is now obsolete(laser disk) so you cannot access the book in that format anymore. :: !The real book is still good to go though!
I just have to do a rare Sunday blog entry... I am still bouncing from our "date" last night! You know, once you get married it's usually just "goin' out". Well some friends of mine L and J have a deal they call date night. They go on dates about once a week or so! I always thought that was pretty cool. Anyway I decided Angie and I needed a date so I offered to take her to Pappa Bros Steakhouse. For those who don't know, PBS is a really nice place, reservations required on a weekend but not to hoity toity if you know what I mean... I dig it. Anyway we went shopping before we went to dinner. I got some kick ass Kenneth Coles and she got a few other things. We had reservation at 8:45 and despite that reservation we had a little wait before we could sit down, so we went to bar and had just enough time for one drink, which set the mood just right. Once we sat down, the waiter was awsome, the food was great, the service was great, everything was just perfect. So much so we even had desert which we never do! Anyway after that we went downtown and met J and L at the Mercury Room. It was L's birthday and she wanted to dance. The MR was very damn cool... I mean bad ass but the parking situation sucked! We had to park about 3 blocks away and it was 25 degrees and a 50 MPH wind blowing so that was the pits. Once we got in J and L had a table so we sat with them in the Frank Sinatra room for a hour or so listening to a Earth Wind and Fire kind of group jam and having some cocktails. My fav drink Vanilla Stoli and Diet Coke! Then we made a mistake, we stood up! We wanted to dance so we went upstairs to the dance room and BAM! nut to butt! You couldn't walk in that place. It was very cool but way to crowded so after fighting our way around a big circle we decided it was done. It was already 1:20a so at that point it was a bit to late to go any place else so it was off home. The thing is there was no great event that set the night off, it was the fact that we were out on a date! It felt really good to be having that date mentality again instead of the old "where do you want to eat?", " I don't care.","how about 'sitos?","I don't want mexican food."... routine. I can't wait to go on anther date! Well it will have to wait for now... maybe we can adopt that date thing...hmmm. I think I hear a #'s Friday or a Roxy Sunday calling me... or maybe J can have the TSO party he's been on about. No matter we are there!
OOOOO I feel the weekend coming! Pappa Bros saturday! I'm gonna pig like have never eaten red meat in my life! Hell I might even drink!
Remember awhile back I sent you to oddtodd.com? He was the guy who was laid off and hanging out in his bath robe all day... well it looks like he's gonna have to pay some money back thanks to that site! read about it
In the long line of What XXX are you? questionaires comes the What Sex Toy are you? version.
You know us oldtimers forget that there are new people on the web all the time. Here is an oldie for ya! Babelfish will translate anything you cut and paste into it from one language to another. You can even point it to a URL and it will translate that page...a very effective tool well worth a bookmark.
You know that stupid DirectTv commercial where the guy reaches the end of the internet... here it is.
Looking to tweak you OS? TechTV posted some great links here. Don't mess with this unless you know what your doing...please!
Let me start by saying congrats to J and T. They adopted a newborn this past week!!! Way to go!!! As E said that kid was the luckiest person on earth that day. Did anyone see the hockey this weekend! Richter is the man ... as Rome would say that man has a slinky for a spine... incredible. Well First I had jury duty on the same day as my friend S. Then Angie had it 3 days later, today my mom had it and my dad is in 2 weeks ... WTF are they just going down the phone book!
Over in the UK they have traffic cameras everywhere! They have cameras that will get your plate at one point along the motorway and then when you pass the second point 20 miles down the road they calculate your speed between the two points and if your over the limit BAM! Points on your license and a fine is in your mail box. Well the Brits have gone over the top now. They want to outfit every car in the UK with GPS tracking devices and charge them 45p / mile they travel on the road!WTF this is ridiculous! I have friends over there and I have not heard thier opinions yet but I'm betting it's not going to be favorable.
Who did not like Porky Pig or Daffy Duck as a kid? How about Elmer Fudd, Tweety or Bugs Bunny!? All of these characters were created by Chuck Jones. Well he died last friday... some of the best classic animation ever done was created by this man. Visit his website and see for yourself.
Speaking of winter olympics... some scientists are convinced they can build a never-ending ski slope. Looks neat, but will it work?
Some of the reason of why I blog is here the others are personal...
Time magazine has an article on Spyware... no duh! This article is worth looking at, apparently MS is keeping track of every file you ever play with Media Player.
I have to many hobbies... I need about $3k to get my aquarium where I want it to be, I'm going on a cruise this summer so there's that, I want to add a room on to my house, that ought to be big $$$$, that room is gonna be a theater so there is still equipment to buy, I want to learn to scuba so I need about $2.5k for that... damn it!!! I want to get my Camaro out of storage $$$ I need some web work BAD! On the other hand I don't HAVE to do any of this... and that is a good position to be in! I need to drop some hobbies I think...
Anyway couple of kickin' links today... This is a link I have had before, I think?!? Anwyay it tracks all of the satelites in 3d that are over the earth right now. You can zoom and spin and look all around... very interesting to see all of them clustered in that ring way the hell out there. Thanks to E for the link about 2 years ago!
The next time to you need to look for air fare you might want to try ITA Software. They don't sound like they would do this but they do and it is cool! Go there and click on the Fares button on the right and put in a trip. Make sure you select the Java version before you get the results. It comes up with this cool grid type thing that help you pick your flights, v.cool. I had a blast playing with this thing.
They might be getting close to the guy who mailed the Anthrax letters last year. If you read it you'll see there is some conspiracy theory there.
"...and I haven't even saddled my pony yet. " you gotta love ZZ... sometimes it's just what you need to get you in the mood. Anyone out there need a website... i'm itchin' to do something!
Have you ever been watching a movie and noticed something that they missed during the edit... like during a car chase when in one scene the windshield is smashed then it isn't then it is then it isn't... you get the idea. Well these guys have taken that noticing to a whole new level. Who would have thought The Matrix was such crap!
Amazon.com is auctioning off 3 Segways for charity. The bids are approaching 30k as of this post!
