Off to the annual girls trip to the Big Easy.
Road trippin' this year and taking 3 new rookies. Watch out NOLA - the Tuesday Night Girls Club is on their way. Heh.
(It's been a year now, so surely they have forgotten about last year and will let us back in, right? Right??)
Christian Links: Blessed links?
Isreali Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Speaking of religion
Faciniating World of Mapping: To find out where Isreal is*
*(yeah, I know, that was pretty bad, but I couldn't think of anything else to link it to the others.)
Need a few links about Relativity? This guy is right - that is definitely much too many links - but I bet you would have a pretty good shot at what you were looking for if you were, well, looking for stuff about relativity.
Took the kiddo to see Star Wars yesterday. Besides feeling like I had been there for 5 hours, it wasn't horrible - but it wasn't fantastic. I mean, I am not a 30yo white guy, so maybe I just don't "get it", but I am pretty sure that wasn't it. It was just okay.
Visually it was amazing. Lucas can definitely do that quite well (save for a few "bit obvious" moments), but as for the story and the directing - eh, not so much.
Natey did his usual squirming, stretching and looking bored routine for the whole time and afterwards proclaiming it to be a great movie "that he had never seen before today", but I know he was more into Spiderman when we saw it a couple of weeks ago. I think Spiderman was just more fun. It had better obvious one-liners than the lame ones from C-3PO in Star Wars that had me groaning out loud they were so bad.
The least I can say that it was better than "The Phantom Menace".
While this site is pretty cool to see where a site ranks and who linky-love's back to them, I don't think that it's cool that it shows the contact info for that site if the contact has registered with Amazon.
Yeah, I know it's an "amazon.com" company, but sheesh, even on their wishlists, it doesn't show the contacts address. Even though it looks like you can remove/update your contact info (which may take up to 6 weeks to update), it seems odd that the default would be to show the address in the first place.
Seriously, how many people know that that specific information is out there without their permission? I mean, do you think Matt would mind if I dropped over to his apartment, because I happened to find (or searched for) his site rankings and got his apartment number? Seems a bit of an invasion of privacy to me, and I think it should be addressed, so I emailed them at customerservice@alexa.com.
I wonder if they will reply. (And, yes, I know I am late to the party, but that bugs me even more that it was brought out a year and a half ago and it's still the default).
I am pretty sure that the driver of this Mitsubishi Eclipse is heading for the local emergency room to get that poor girl having convulsions some much needed help.
Pretty bad ad.
"Need you to be a buddy and get off the shed. Okay? Thanks."
*more SNL transcripts here
Soaprocks
"The Cat's Meow"
"Mulholland Drive" analysis
Advertising Safety Guide
Behind the name
Plastic surgery tips
Planet Family Guy
"Profit"
CHICKS DIG TARGET
Skankadelic
"Death to Smoochy"
Plushie Page
a.s.p. FAQ
Live your life
mac.com Webmail
Natural Remedy Encyclopedia
PacLand
Positive quotes
Congress pensions
FindLaw
Yea, I use my Tivo to skip commercials, but that doesn't mean I hate all of them. And now, since AdCritic is going pay, maybe Ads.com will pick up the commercials-on-the-internet slack.
It's a tad weak so far, but looks promising and they have a humorous Privacy Policy, too. (What we do with your information?
Mostly we use it to make jokes at your expense.) Heh.
It's really simple - just don't call them to let them know where the end of season team pizza party is and then lie about it when asked why you didn't.
Nathan's dim-witted soccer coach did just that last night.
After his last game on Saturday, she said she would call everyone to let them know where she would arrange for it to be, "prolly some place with a buffet". Well, Tuesday rolls around without a call, so I ask the coach's son, who goes to Natey's daycare, where the party was going to be held. He tells me Cici's, which makes sense, and we go on home.
So I take Natey to where I think the party is going to be - noone there. I then take him to 3 other places that it might have been, call the coach's house twice, call everyone on the soccer list - which of course, noone is home, since they are at the party - with Natey's spirits sinking with each parking lot, but he is so sweet he just tries to make the best of it. (He ended up having a great evening with his daddy - but still....).
So, I get home and she has left me a message on the machine saying that she is really sorry we missed the party, but she had left a message for us Sunday night. Welp, only 3 things wrong with that - I was home Sunday night - no phone call, there wasn't a message on my machine, and her number wasn't on my caller ID. Yep - not gonna work.
So I call her back, all friendly-like - (not fucking likely) - and explain all of these things to her and she is all "I'm so sorry" and seemed a bit surprised when I wasn't all "That's okay" and instead was "Fine" before I hung up - well, apologizing doesn't fucking make up for it, you fuckwit, my kid still got his feelings hurt and didn't get to celebrate with his team. Ya' know - a team: a group of individuals that do something together, like, I don't know, celebrate a winning soccer season. For fuck's sake - even if you did call us in your world, doncha think you might have wanted to speak to someone to verify that he was or wasn't going to be there for a headcount, or at least, when he wasn't there by like 15 min into the party, you might wanna call to make sure I got your fucking non-existant phone message from Sunday? Jeez, it's not like you were supposed to be calling to reschedule practice or something - it's trophy time.
Sure, you brought his trophy and medal and pictures to school and left them in his cubby for him, but ya know what - he also got pointed out by a classmate/teammate saying "You didn't come to the party last night - you missed the party". Yeah, real cool. Granted you didn't know that was going to happen, but it did and he got the joy of being reminded that he wasn't with his team celebrating last night. Thanks - appreciate it - mean it. Bitch.