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How I Roll
I am a big time multitasker. I feel awkward if I am doing just one thing. People wonder why I have four computers at my desk. I wonder how people can get by with just one. Here is what my desk looks like now, and what I am doing.
What does your desk look like?
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Happy Friday the 13th
Happy Friday the 13th. Superstitions are weird. I have them, but I don’t believe in them one bit. I avoid stepping on cracks, I have a lucky number, and I have been carrying around my lucky penny since high school. My superstitions are more out of habit and my OCD than anything. I have never had any problems with Friday the 13th though.
To me Friday the 13th has always been a great day to watch a great movie. Ok, calling the “Friday the 13th” series great is kinda stretching it, but I love the movies. I am a big horror movie fan, and nothing is better than a madman in a hockey mask running through the woods. The last few “Friday the 13th” movies have been pretty bad. I know the whole woods and campers thing has been over done, but those were the best ones.
So I hear they are releasing a Friday the 13th remake today. Why? Why not just go back and make another old school Friday the 13th? Sure they aren’t great movies, but I am sure they have fans like me. I will watch any “Friday the 13th” movie, no matter how bad. They bring me back to my childhood. The first time I ever saw boobies were in a “Friday the 13th” movie. To me it doesn’t get any better than a naked women running through the woods trying to get away from a walking Jason Voorhees.
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Happy Darwin Day
On this day, 200 years ago Charles Darwin was Born. Who would have thought that so many people would still not believe in his theories that makes perfect common sense. I wonder how long it took people to believe in the theory of gravity? There is a great opinion article in the NY Times today about Darwin. I never realized before that Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were born the same day. Lincoln gets all the hype, so I am going to spend part of the day reading about Darwin. Learning is fun, and science is cool. -
Windows 7 Beta Tempting
You know me, I love to play with anything new. I downloaded the beta version of Windows 7 as soon as possible. I installed it in a virtual machine, and have loved it from day one. It is so clean and almost Mac like. I am so tempted to replace my Vista install with it. I am not a Vista hater. It has run fine for me. It’s actually ran pretty good for me. I am still using my original Vista install. I could never last this long on an XP install. I am rough on Windows, always installing and playing with new software, so it gets mucked up pretty easily for me. I was probably installing XP every six months. My Vista install is starting to get the point where it could use a little reinstalling. I am going to try and hold out until the release of Windows 7, but the beta is really tempting me.
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Grammys Suck
I am a big music fan, but most of the stuff I listen to isn’t all that popular. I am kind of clueless when it comes to “mainstream” music. I never listen to music on the radio because most of it is crap. I found out on Twitter that the Grammys were on last night. I couldn’t care less to see them. First of all I hate all awards show, and second, I probably don’t know much about anybody involved in the awards anyway.
On another musical note, I have had this damn song stuck in my head all weekend. I don’t really know who Taylor Swift is, but the Forever The Sickest Kids version is so much better.
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You Really Won’t Go Blind
I have a little geek crush on Rebecca Watson. She runs Skepchick.org, and is also on a great podcast, The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe. She is cute, smart, and hilarious. She just started selling an awesome shirt on her site. Too bad I don’t have to balls to wear one though.
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Four More Months to Procrastinate
So now the digital TV transition date has been moved to June 12th. Why? I was really looking forward to February 17th and the end of hearing all about the the digital transition crap. Now all the procrastinators can just put it off for four more months. Sure, all the $40 coupons may be gone, and $50 might be a lot of money for some people, but it’s only TV. People can survive without it you know. If you can’t afford $50 for a converter box that you have had years to save up for, maybe you shouldn’t be watching TV.
I have been using rabbit ears to pick up our locals in HD for a couple years now. For some stupid reason, our locals are on cable in HD but not DirecTV. For the most part they come in good, but there are some days when they don’t. I have heard that once the transition to only digital is complete, the signal might be stronger. If that’s the case then I am cool, if not I plan on investing in a better antenna. Now I will have to wait four more months to find out. I just don’t see the point in putting it off for four more months.
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Celebrities on Twitter
For the most part I couldn’t care less what celebrities do. I despise celebrity gossip shows. I do think it’s cool that celebrities are starting to use Twitter though. Just something about communicating with average people. Not that I put celebrities on a pedestal or anything, I just think it’s cool. I have been following a few for years, but it seems like every day a new celebrity hops on the Twitter bandwagon. Many celebrities are pretty lame on twitter and only tweet to advertise what ever project they are working on. Lately I started following Adam Savage (@donttrythis), Ashton Kutcher (@aplusk), Demi Moore (@mrskutcher), Jimmy Fallon (@jimmyfallon), and Soleil Moon Frye (@moonfrye). They are all good twitterers. You can find a list of celebrities on twitter at celebritytweet.com. Most of them are lame, but there are a few good ones in there.
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Amanda Palmer
So have known who Amanda Paler is for quite some time. I never thought to check out her solo album because I was never much of a fan the Dresden Dolls. Today I heard my first Amanda Palmer song and fell in love with it. I think I will be getting her solo album and looking in the Dresden Dolls a little more.
Here is the video for the song I heard.
Pretty awesome, but something tells me that if MTV played videos these days, they wouldn’t play this one.
**Update**
It’s been an Amanda Palmer day for me today. I found out she is on twitter @amandapalmer, and she wrote a lengthy blog post about her video. -
Super Bowl
So I was all ready to make some Super Bowl junk food, veg out, and watch the game. I woke up this morning feeling like crap. I wasn’t in the mood for any junk food. I still vegged out and watched the game though.
I watched the game and during commercials I checked out what people were saying on Twitter. I don’t understand the people that actually want to watch the Commercials. The only commercials that I watched were the 3D ones, and honestly, I couldn’t tell you what they were for. I was just watching them for the 3D effects since we picked up some of the glasses the other day at the grocery store. I don’t know if 3D works for my brain. I could barley see the difference. I might check those commercials out again online.
One thing that was driving me nuts on Twitter were all the people complaining about the Super Bowl. People saying they didn’t know it was today, or saying they never heard of the Super Bowl, or that it was a bad game. Come on, it was a great game. Those people were getting on my nerves. I totally understand that a lot of people hate football. Good for you. Don’t watch the game. You don’t hear me complaining how crappy American Idol is. I have never really noticed that kind of thing happening during other events on Twitter. Maybe it’s just because the Super Bowl is so big. Maybe I should start complaining during the next major event that I don’t care about on Twitter. Nah, not worth my time.
So, it was a great game that came right down to the end. I didn’t really care who won. I just enjoyed the game.
Now football season is done for another year. I am missing it already.