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Link of the day:

AbeBooks.com: Want a book but don’t want to pay full price? AbeBooks.com is a network of used book stores. You run a search for the book you want, srcoll thru the results to look for the cheapest one (or the nicest one if you are a collector), then buy online. I have used it many times and have never been disappointed.

I’m SO tired. It’s 12:39am and I’m SO tired I can barely keep my eyes open… but I want to web surf, blog surf, do some blogging, do some reading. Sux. I wish we never had to sleep.

Um, so are they putting jewelry UNDER the skin now? (girl’s forehead) … photo via hunkabutta.com.

Use
Spybot Search & Destroy and/or
Ad-Aware
to find and eliminate spyware from your computer.

Back in the 90′s I used to play Tetris on the mac and it was great, you could press “p” to pause the game and still see game pieces so you could think about strategy while paused. I cannot find a good version of tetris for the pc. Any suggestions?

UPDATE: Don’t download Tetris-2000 from Web-Entrance because that installs spyware on your computer.

From CNN: “‘Matrix’ makes its way into courtrooms as defense strategy”
CNN story
“…it remains to be seen whether jurors will buy the “Matrix”-based insanity defenses that have cropped up lately. So far, they have.”

Later tonite I hope to play w/ my css template. I want to see if I can move the code for the left sidebar to the bottom of the html page. That way, it’ll look the same in web browsers on the computer but when being viewed w/ other devices (like cell phones and pda’s) the content will load first and then the sidebars last. (see this.) If that doesn’t work then I’ll just kill the left sidebar (although I just love my layout). I have no way to test it, my cell phone and pda do not surf the web. Well, my new pda CAN surf the web but I’d have to go buy a cf-card modem for it. I’ll play w/ it probably tonite.

I can’t read websites that are white words on black (or white on dark grey, etc.). Some of them look interesting and so I WANT TO read them, but I just can’t because they give me bad eye-strain and often a piercing headache. Espeically the ones w/ a SMALL white font on a dark background. Ouch.

Man, yesterday I took TWO naps and still was tired. Today I slept 7 or 8 hours, got up, took a shower, and I still feel tired. I could go back to bed. About five minutes ago I thought I was going to throw up. Then a minute ago strong “digtestive problems” began. I hope I am not getting sick.

My Friday Five………
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Saw in a Lomography newsletter about the ColorSplash Flash, a flash for the Lomo which has a color wheel so you an splash color onto your subjects. Looks neat!

Doctor’s should prescribe Turkish Angoras for depressed people. I mean, nobody could be depressed when they have a Turkish Angora in their home! The cat …… is SO loving, so attentive, so affectionate. (That’s my kitty Crystal.) When u walk in the room, they get ALL excited to see you, going “BrrrRRRRRRRRrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!” when they see you. They follow you everywhere, and give you sandpaper-tongue baths for 15 minutes at a time. So cute! So mood-lifting.

Bejeweled is SO addicting! (windows) (Palm). I have it on my Palm (Sony Clie) and it’s SO addicting!

Man. This makes me sad. Not only is it just sick, but I used to GO to Popcorn Park when I was a kid! When I was ten I’d go all the time w/ my grade-school buddy Jacinda. This is just horrible. (via Jodiverse.) Jodi’s blog title is “Why I Fucking Hate People”. Do u know how many times a day I say “I fucking hate people!”? And I’ll say it again.

Geezus, this can’t possibly be true: Tree That Give Meat Instead Of Fruit

Update: via Jodiverse

The newspaper was bragging that in our area the FCAT scores went up (standardized testing in the public school system), and yet at the same time the paper also reported that our school system (which I heard is one of the very largest in the country) has a 25% drop out rate! So, perhaps the fcat scores went up because they are encouraging the low-scoring teens to drop out! Gotta love it. >:|

So much stuff has been going wrong lately. I could easily become dep ressed about it. It’s enough to make anybody not want to leave the house at all or even get out of bed. I feel like at every turn I am being butt-f*cked; screwed by society, screwed by insurance companies, screwed by pharmaceutical companies, screwed here, screwed there, and then I can’t even get from point A to point B without some *sshole trying to KILL me w/ his vehicle on the road. I could easily become very depress ed. I’ll try not to, though.

No wonder this country is getting fatter and nobody can lose weight, there’s so much conflicting info;

Get this:
An AP Wire story reports that the Atkins diet is better than a low fat diet:
Click here for story.

… meanwhile at the same time,
a Reuters story reports that the Atkins diet is NO better than a low fat diet:
Click here for that story.

Both stories are on Yahoo News and both stories are dated the same day! (yesterday)
Update: via Fark.

Thanks to Geeky Chick for this link to www.IUsedToBelieve.com, a website where people submit silly things they used to belive as a child. It’s quite a riot! Go check it out.

I got “Spirited Away” on DVD used today. Wheee! Movie Gallery (at least the one in my area) has a buy two get one free on Previously Viewed DVDs, buy two get two free on previously viewed video tapes.

I went for sushi today (as usual) and my sushi chef made me a treat. It had no name (yet) but was what I would call a “Salmon Martini”. I’ll upload photos later. It was a groovy martini glass w/ a curved cobalt blue stem and in the bottom was rice and then on the top was many small pieces of salmon which has been stirred in lemon juice, sesame seeds, and something spicy. It then had paper-thin lemon slices and a cucumber stick. It looked SO cute! And tasted great, too.

UPDATE: Photos of the Sushi Martini

FYI: the movie Office Space is a freaking riot!

I finally uploaded the photos from the other night’s Lunar Eclipse.   .:PHOTOS:.

Update: Used the Canon D60 for these shots.

For those who are looking for video shot w/ the Aiptek DVII digital video cam (about $99), I have a clip in the middle of my Mayday Project photos. A direct link is here.

Ok, so I watched Spirited Away and was quite surprised. It was really good and I’m going to watch it again before I return it. This Hayao Miyazaki guy is something else!

Now, is Spirited Away considered animae? I’ve never liked animae. And so far I have not liked anyone whom I’ve met in 3D who was “into animae”. (I said “so far” and I said “in 3D”.) I was at Best Buy today and noticed that they had it filed under Animae. Ugh, am I becoming an animae fan?

I like Spirited away. What I have not liked is the kind of animae where the characters are slutty or saucer-eyed or make noises like they are having sex when they are just… not. Maybe Hayao Miyazaki’s animation is considered a higher-grade of animae. I have no idea. All I know is that I really liked Spirited Away.

I rented Spirited Away tonight. I have no idea what it is, it just sounded/looked interesting. I also rented Real Women Have Curves.

We watched the lunar ecplise last night. I put my D60 on a tripod and also used it attached to M’s telescope. I have yet to download the photos, but when I do (tonite) I will of course post them online.

I’ve uploaded some more Pencam photos:

here’s one … … … here’s another

Don’t forget to surf this site’s various photography categories:
All pencam photos: http://www.laserblog.com/archivesmt/cat_photography_pencam.html
… then on the front page are links to my other categories, including pix taken w/ my D60, U60, and more.

Also see my moblog, laserone.textamerica.com

I love using the pencam to catch people sleeping in public:

I love my Pencam (Aiptek mini pencam). I almost always have it around my neck. Good thing, as I’m able to catch photos I’d have otherwise missed, things like the coke-bag in the bathroom (previous post) and this:

I was in the Sears bathroom tonight and saw this on the counter. It had what white powder in it. I had my pencam around my neck so I shot it. I’d have gotten out my new Clie w/ the 2mp camera on it, but I did NOT want to have my bag open near that thing lest somebody walk in and think it was my baggie. Crimeny!