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I’m re-posting this from my old blog* cuz I just have to.

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I am sick to death of all the christian fishes on vehicles here in the south. I wanted a darwin fish for my car, but then I heard that I could get one of a darwin fish humping a christian fish! I went on a hunt, and now I can’t decide which one to get cuz they have all kinds! There’s the science fish, the fish ‘n chips fish, THE SUSHI FISH!!!! … the alien fish, the DEVIL fish w/ a pitch-fork, the SATAN fish on fire, they even have a hindu fish with udders, plus many others. They have all these at EvolveFish.com

Also check out NorthernSun.com for great bumper stickers, t-shirts, and, emblems.

I love Flickr Random:

http://www.krazydad.com/gustavog/FlickRandom.pl

I like to just keep hitting ‘reload’ while I’m listening to something, like podcasts, people on the phone, etc.

Helllo world.

I went to bed “early” last night and then slept in, so going to bed early doesn’t seem to help me really get up any earlier.

Then I fell asleep on the couch for 1-2 hours right after getting up. I wonder if the sleeping pill was just too strong. It’s supposed to only work for 8 hours, but, idunno…

Then I took The Pug to the vet for his check-up.

The weather’s rainy. The pug and I shared french fries in the car.

Now I’m home.

Boring.

Not much to say.

I guess I shouldn’t have taken that 3-hour nap this evening. Now it’s almost 4am and I’m not tired…. again. *sigh*

I’ve added two more daily bookshelves. Since the next shelf on my to-do list didn’t have a lot of books, I did two.

The pix have notes:

Miranda IM is a program like Trillian, a program that allows you to chat on all four IM networks (aim, msn, yahoo, icq) and irc, but it’s tiny:

“Miranda IM is a multi protocol instant messenger client.No bloat, it’s Easy and Small! Miranda IM is designed to be resource efficient and easy to use. It uses very little memory and requires no installation. Just unzip and run! This also makes it ideal for users that want to run their messenger client from a removable storage such as an USB memory stick. It can even be stored on a floppy disc if not too many plugins are used. “

http://www.miranda-im.org/

You can make a “polariod” of any photo at “Polaroid-o-nizer”:

http://polaroidonizer.nl.eu.org/

It’s really neat! Check it out!

Holy cow this is TOO COOL!

makezine.com/blog/archive/2005/06/portable_rotary.html

A retro rotary phone CELL phone!

Pix, video of it working, and more.

You can buy it here:
www.sparkfun.com/…

Man, I am officially addicted to podcasts * now! I’ve never come close to filling up my iPod mini… ever. But now that I’ve discovered podcasts, I’m close!

I love information. I love to read but I’m a slow reader and I have what *I* call reading ADD; I never finish a book, I read five at once, etc. (That’s why I surf so much, it’s great for short-attention-span ppl like me.)

And when I do read, it has to be non-fiction. I don’t like fiction that much. I don’t get why someone would spend their time reading something that isn’t even true. Maybe that’s because I read so slow. I don’t mind fictional movies, so go figure. If I do read fiction, I like to learn something from it, like about another culture, etc.

One of my favorite things used to be listening to audio books in the car, and of course it’d be non-fiction. Books on tape, then books on cd. Then I tried audib1e for a year and I really hate it. It’s too locked down and alot of times the sound quality is crap and then a file will jump to the wrong chapter like they made the sound file wrong.

But now w/ podcasting, it’s even BETTER. There are podcasts about EVERYTHING! Knitting, technology, religion, and as Leo pointed out, some lady is teaching her husband the language of Zimbabwe, so she made audio files and decided to share them. Now ANYone can use them. Who’d want that you wonder? Some people DO! And you’d never see that on tv or on the radio.

Of course my favorites are the tech ones, the best being TWIT **. I asked on the Leoville forums about what are some other good tech podcasts, and I got a great list. You can view the thread here:
leovilletownsquare.com/fusionbb/showtopic.php?tid/3573/
I’ve subscribed to all of them, and have listened to some of them. (By subscribing they are automatically downloaded when new episodes come out, see ipodder.sourceforge.net/index.php )

Here’s my podcast subscription list:

There are a TON of podcasts out there. Check out PodcastAlley.com. You can search, browse by genre, and there are tons. Just under “general” there are so many.

I’m so addicted!

* Podcast: A “radio-show” put in mp3 format so that you can listen to it on your ipod or any mp3 player, computer, or burn to cd.

** About TWiT: TWIT, or “This Week In Tech”, with Yoshi Deherrera, Leo Laporte, Patrick Norton, Kevin Rose, Robert Heron, David Prager, Roger Chang and friends, from the original Tech TV, The Screen Savers and Call For Help. See twit.tv or ThisWeekInTech.com

It’s 1:30am. I’ve been online for a long time chatting and surfing. M is on the Playstation 2 playing games, and I’m getting off the computer because my butt is numb and I’m going to go read for a while. (I’ll add another bookshelf photo tonight.) I just made coffee w/ my favorite coffee maker, the Senseo… highly recommend A+++!!!

The more I use it, the more I love ePrompter, a little app that checks multiple Gmail accounts at once, as well as multple webmail accounts, i.e. yahoo mail, hotmail, whatever. I LOVE this program. It’s free, and I’ll probably donate a bit, cuz it’s REALLY good.

http://www.eprompter.com/

“No no no no no no no no no NO honey you cannot eat the ethernet!”

(as spoken to my pug as he gnawed away on a coil of ethernet cable)

Went to a new Thai place for dinner last night, not NEW, but new to us. It was pretty good, but it took forever, they’re really slow, but that’s ok.

Then we went to Mom’s to see why her internet connection was down again. We fixed that and then set her up w/ Yahoo Messenger and iTunes. She’s an avid music fan and I don’t know why we didn’t set her up w/ iTunes before.

When we got home I found that The Eskie had eaten my book. I taped it back together, but I may have to hit AbeBooks.com for a new (used but uneaten) copy.

So it’s Saturday and we slept in. I had this idea that we’d start getting up early and running our errands BEFORE it got deathly hot out, and then come home for lunch and a nap during the hot hours. But then we stay up late and sleep in, thus ruining the plan. Oh well. But yesterday I’d been to an appointment, breakfast, CompUSA, a furniture store to buy footstools, the grocery store AND the gym, all BEFORE noon and it felt great, not only to get so much done and still have the entire afternoon to goof off, but also because it’s not deathly hot at those hours.

I’m babbling.

From digg.com:

2-faced cat born in Oregon:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,159909,00.html

LOL I love this:

http://www.vimeo.com/clip=1524

As of today, anyone can join Vimeo.com. It’s no longer invite-only or closed beta. Go check it out! Vimeo.com is a site for sharing your video clips. It’s a lot of fun.

I submitted the story to digg.com, so please go there and “digg” the story to help promote it to the front page.
http://www.digg.com/links/Vimeo.com_is_finally_out_of_beta_today,_all_can_join.

My vimeo clips are here: clicky