tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63875032011-06-08T09:41:33.934+03:00way too much about me, my thoughts, and what i read online...Adinoreply@blogger.comBlogger1161100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387503.post-1159387170329245792006-09-27T22:55:00.000+03:002006-09-27T22:59:30.346+03:00

Before I went to bed last night, this guy was hanging upside down from the ceiling directly above me. I moved him from hanging directly over me, but otherwise I think I'll let him stick around as long as he wants. I think he'll kill any bugs that come around.

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at least for a little while. I've started using Vox and am really enjoying it, so I'm gonna stick with it through its beta and see if I really prefer it to Blogger. Ask me for my Vox address if you want it -- and give Vox a try -- it's all the best features of Blogger, LJ, MySpace, and MoveableType rolled into one. Amazing Flickr integration. Worth trying no matter what you use now. It's

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This blog is turning into where I write down my weird dreams. And even that doesn't come up much...Anyhow, last night my dream started with me walking along a road in the Midwest somewhere with really tall grass that hadn't been cut on the side of the road. It was a sunny day, and clearly summer, but not so hot that it bothered me in the slightest. I walked a bit on the road and was greeted by

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I'm at an afterparty for some concert. The whole vibe was very mid-to-late 90's. Mike, Blake, and Scott are there, as well as my friend Sarah (and tons of other people that were normally at Chicago afterparties). I think we are all in Chicago. Sarah asks me to grab her a drink that I have never heard of -- a "(something) ear". The bartender gave me some other kind of the drink at first, but

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So I had two weird dreams this week...#1 - I met a witch who showed me how to fly on a broomstick, so I did that near a beach while these huge waves were coming in and ruining a bunch of treehouses that people had built near the shore. I would fly up to the treehouses and talk to the people a bit but then fly away when the waves swept the treehouse away.#2 - I was in Iran with some other

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I'll be totally moved in by December.

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I decided. Don't really have any pics of the fall, but maybe I'll edit some in or something soon. Nevertheless. It's fall now. Enjoy.

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Lots of cool museums and what-not become free to the public during Passover, so my old friends from Chicago (who also live in Israel now) Neil and Tova Somers decided that they would take the opportunity to visit both Haifa (which neither of them had really been to before) and myself. Despite all of us living in Israel, I hadn't seen them since their wedding (which was so long ago it is just

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So I did it for the iPod shuffle, and now I have that, too. For anyone who thinks these deals are a scam, I now have two ipods to disprove that theory. Awesome. Now I'm gonna get the 60GB photo ipod. You guys totally have to get in on these free ipods!I'll get back to regular blogging soon. I've been really lazy lately, but I have a couple old stories to tell that I'll post in the near future. In

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Actually, I have three free iPods now. I'll upload the update pic of the family soon.This is so awesome! So I completed the free iPod web site deals and now they sent them to me! I actually have the free iPods! You are looking at them! Coolest. Thing. Ever. For all those people that keep thinking this doesn't work, let me assure you that it really does!All you have to do is sign up, say no

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Haifa is home to Israel's only subway/underground line (The Carmelit), but because of massive money loss and total lack of ridership there has been a lot of talk lately about shutting down the Carmelit for good (possibly as soon as the summer of this year). With that in mind, Inbal and I thought it would be fun to take some pictures of it so we can have something to remember it by when it's

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So I am applying for a new job. If it works out, lots more fun and interesting updates will flow forth like milk and honey...if not, I'll be updating this when there is news that is actually worth telling people. Until then, I'll give you a couple tidbits that I meant to post, but never got around to...This is a picture from the Bahai Gardens. I have already post a few pics from inside the

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I know it's been too long since I've updated this, but I'll put a few pics and tell a few army stories in the near future... In the meantime, you can be as amused as I was (or even more amused, if you so choose) with Iraq's color-coded threat level chart. The fact that they even have the chart shows just how much progress is really being made in Iraq. I've read that the current threat-level in

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and studying for the GMAT. Well...kinda. Anyhow, I'm gonna make one more plea for that free iPOD thing because I've just heard from a few different people who have already gotten theirs. If you sign up for the Free Blockbuster Rentals (it is a NetFlix-like service for DVD rental) you can just not use it (or use the free rentals) and they won't charge you a dime -- then you can keep it if you

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Eat your heart out, America. All soldiers in combat units get it automatically here, so I got lucky. Also, this is my last week in the army! That's pretty exciting for me cause I'm totally sick of the grind of being in the army. I have the GMAT in mid-november, so studying for that has already started and will hit full throttle next week. Due to all this madness I haven't been very on top of

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Time management is easily one of the most important things people in there army need to learn as quickly as possible. For some, this isn't the time management you might thing, rather, how best to use the numerous excuses at your disposal to get out of being at your base. First of all, it's always preferable to use these days at times when it adds to your weekend (generally, Sundays or Thursdays

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I got the day after my birthday off from the army (that was nice of them), so I decided to use my free day to renew my soon-to-expire (Israeli) passport. I wasn't looking forward to doing this, as trips to the interior ministry typically involve lots of numbers being taken, very little progress being made, and waits long enough to meet someone, fall in love, get married, and conceive your first

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both my mom and my girlfriend are asking me when my next post will be up. I'll try and do it tomorrow. I have two posts to write and neither of them are terribly exciting, but everyone seems to be ok with "not terribly exciting." Until then, just know that Madonna is on the front page of every newspaper in israel right now.

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So I turned 25 today. Can't say I have ever been one to really "feel" my birthdays, and this was no exception. Inbal text messaged me at midnight to say "happy birthday," so that was a good start to the anniversary of my birth (she didn't want to call because she knew I was sleeping and didn't want to wake me up). A couple years ago I actually forgot it was my birthday until people started

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I was working on some tank-related business today when I stumbled upon the bravest pigeon I have ever seen in my 24 (but 25 tomorrow!) years. What, prey-tell, made this pigeon so brave? What made this pigeon brave, my friends, was that this pigeon was not afraid of humans. This may seem like no big deal to you, but when was the last time you met a pigeon that didn't fly away as soon as you got

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So one thing I'm really known for is being totally crazy for army food. I eat till I am about to explode just about every day and end up regretting that I can't fit more in there somehow because the food is so good. The thing is, I even love the combat rations! Seriously! And nothing better represents the combat rations of the israeli army better than the mystery meat in a can that is

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Ok, so there is this site that is giving away ipods for free. I know what you're thinking -- that there is no way that it is totally free with no catch (and you'd be right). The catch is that you have to accept one of several "free" offers (and get five of your friends to do it, too). One of the offers is 30 days of AOL Broadband for free (with no obligation past that), another is a free eBay

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So I brought my camera with me to my base today thinking that I would snap a few pics to give you an idea about where I work, when I remembered that literally right across the street from my base are... the ruins of a 2000 year old Roman aqueduct! Classy! So this is what I am looking at when I get off the bus to go to my base. I enjoy the scenery. This is the view from the top of it. It's a

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So the whole reason I am actually on vacation this week is because my good friend Cara Passman came to visit from The States, so we decided to use our single full day together to go to the beach... So this is the view up the coast from where we decided to set up camp. The nice thing about the beaches in Haifa is that they are nowhere near as crowed as the beaches in Tel Aviv, so you can always

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..so I should be taking plenty of pics and what not. Stay tuned.

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First of all, I'm sorry I've been so lazy about posting lately. I've had lots of people asking about when the next post is...so here we go! Today the army gave us (the people of my base) what is called a "fun day." This means we get to (actually, we are required to...it is the army, after all) come to our base as usual, but then get taken via buses to whatever they have deemed "fun" for the

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Is great, in general.  It's a Golani base, so it's a totally different vibe from being at a non-combat base.  Also, the tanks that I see are actually in fine working order now (other than the stuff I'm supposed to fix).  I'll be at this base till December or so, and then I'm all done.  I'll post pics as soon as I feel comfortable enough at this base to show up with a camera. I'm home every day,

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With my course, at least.  Sunday I have to report to a new base and see what they wanna do with me.  But before that, more pictures!   So when I get to the base the morning of the "graduation ceremony," I find this guy from my course passed out in the corner of the classroom...bootless.  Turns out he was pounding beer and vodka at the BBQ that the course had the previous night in Tel Aviv

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I will get assigned to a new base. I don't know where it will be yet, but I'm hoping I'll be close to home and able to sleep in my own bed every night. Either way, this is the last week at my current base before I get to go out into the army with my newfound tank-fixing skills and make a difference. I'll post some more pics in the middle of the week, if they let me come home. If not, it won't

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So I'm gonna exposit a bit so that this short (and still boring) story makes some sense. Ok, so the base I am currently in is really one "big base" with a whole bunch of "smaller bases" in it. The military police have a large base there, so does the medical corps., and, obviously, my base is there as well(ordnance corps). This means that once you enter the first "main gate" that gets you into

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...cause I have a few pics of it. So I walk past this stuff about 30 times a day. Ok, I'm exaggerating, but it's safe to say that I see it a lot. The pic of me with the D9 was taken in the garage on the left, but the tractor in this pic is not the same tractor from the other pic. Anyhow, everything in the picture is really big. This picture does very little to convey that. This is a

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I finished the part of my course that qualifies me to work on the engines of the armored personnel carriers. It only took 4 weeks. The next two weeks will be all about the electrical system. As JAP-y as I can be, I'm totally shocked by my automotive knowledge right now. You should be, too.

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So I had to go back to my base Wednesday morning, but I got to the train station about 20 minutes early and decided to go across the street to the beach! This is a wednesday morning at about 9:00am. The only other people there were quite old. The school kids are already out for the summer, but they're not about to wake up that early. This is for sure one of the benefits of living in Haifa (

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So the journey back to my base on sunday mornings (or tomorrow afternoon, for that matter) starts with a short bus ride to a train station with this view of the beach. This is where I was standing on the platform. The beach just taunts me as I have to continue my long journey. There are much better views of the beach from this platform, but it was really early and I was too tired (or lazy, or

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or at least my computer does. If you wanna talk to me then get this number from me and it will ring me in Israel if I'm home (usually thursday morning-ish to late saturday night-ish, american time). And get Skype if you don't already have it.

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So I've been way too lazy about posting, lately. The army has that effect on me. I'll give you a general rundown on some things in my life. Also, it's worth mentioning that I might start turning this into a photoblog of sorts. I mean, I have a digital camera and I have free/unlimited hosting...so I might as well put that to use, eh? Guess we'll see if that materializes. Anyhow, this week:

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So after many hoops jumped through and much money parted with, I have received my drivers license! With how long it took them I was hoping my picture would move like in Harry Potter or something, but alas, I'm frozen in time. Good thing I got it, too, what with my complete lack of access to a car and free usage of all public transportation in Israel. Yippie! Just like turning 16 again (other

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Does anyone that reads this not yet have GMail? I have a few invites, so if you want in comment on this with your email address and I'll see about hooking you up.

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I had just left my base for the weekend and sat in the bus that was gonna take me to my train when the radio staion (which was one of the two army radio stations) played "Sweet Home Chicago" (Blues Brothers version). It felt really weird to be on my way home (on a bus in Israel) and be listening to that song.

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I had a "comedy" column in a school newpaper, so this was one of my attempts at being funny. The column was called "Soliloquy Of Chaos." - Britain's House of Lords recently concluded 12 days of hearings to determine whether former Chilean dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet is immune from arrest and extradition to Spain on charges of torture, kidnapping, and murder. The conclusion to these hearings

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So yeah, the army is pretty tiring shit. I did see 50 First Dates recently and totally cried at the end. I'm such a wimp. Anyhow, I'm going to a new base Sunday and am gonna be there for at least the next 6 weeks.

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I have some things I have to do for work (read: army). It'll keep me very busy, away from home, and unable to post for weeks at a time. I might be able to resume normal programming in a month. Bye until then!

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I have it, and I can tell you that it's pretty amazing. I'm totally in love. There is more info in this article from the NYTimes.

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and I passed! BUT, lemme explain what a mess it was for me to get it. So I started driving in the states when I was 15, meaning I've been driving around 9 years. When I came to Israel, I was able to drive on my Chicago (ok, fine. Illinois) license for a year, but to drive more than that I had to convert it to an Israeli license. Here is the process of that: First, I had to go to this office that

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I'm sure a lot of you have heard about this, but a Picasso painting called "Boy with the Pipe" was sold yesterday for $104,168,000 at Sotheby's. The piece is considered a masterpiece and was painted in 1905 during Picasso's "Blue Period." I don't really have much to say about this, it just struck me that someone would pay that much money for one painting. It's probably really bourgeois of me

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So lately I've been watching this show on the National Geographic channel here that is telling me things that it seems better not knowing. The show is about commercial flights that crashed (or almost crashed). It's an hour long show. The first half hour is about what happened from the point of view of the passengers and the pilots and the second half hour is about what actually caused the

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is that sometimes you are permanently screwed. Take the case of Miss Britney Spears. Apparently, she is a big fan of the kabbalah because her friend Madge turned her onto it, so she decided to get ink-ed "hebrew-stizz." Problem is, she don't know hebrew and was unable to verify if what she had permanently written on the back of her neck was "deep and meaningful" or "gibberish." Turns out it's

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there is something about it I find rather bothersome. The problem is that the bathroom is right next to the kitchen. And when I mean "right next to," I mean that the window in the bathroom opens right to the kitchen. This means that when "number two" is in play and someone is cooking in the kitchen I have to just hold it till they are done. I was cooking in the kitchen once and it got too

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Right now I'm listening to the song "Crazy For You" by Madonna over and over again and thinking about how in love I am. I'm totally not kidding.

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Most people I know have already seen this (make sure you have your speakers on before viewing). It's the Atlanta Grape thing. For broadband only though, cause it's about 14MB. But totally worth it. Soooo funny (again proving that I'm an asshole). Worth doing a "right click/save as."

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There are three sports channels that come with the cable package I have: ESPN, EuroSport, and Sport5 (it's the sports channel for the country). ESPN and EuroSport are the standard fare, but on Sport5 I am currently watching two teams of 12 year-old girls playing soccer against each other on half a pitch. What's even weirder is that there is a huge crowd there cheering for them. They seem more

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I made this pasta and tomato sauce. It was actually a special kind of pasta that is actually shaped like rice. It's also called "Ben-Gurion Pasta" here because David Ben-Gurion was apparently the one who told them to make the pasta like that. Anyhow, I was making this pasta, and when I added the salt I just poured it from the bag rather then bother putting it into the salt shaker and then into

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I can take apart and reassemble an M-16 in about 22 seconds. I think that is a talent that I never (ever) imagined myself possessing before living here.

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So today was "Holocaust Remembrance Day" here. This means that there was nothing but really depressing shit about jews getting killed on tv all day. It also means that, at 10am, sirens sounded all over the country and everyone stoped whatever they were doing (even driving, which is a big deal for Israelis). Anyhow, I was sleeping when the sirens went off. I stopped what I was doing.

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So not long ago I was in the checkout aisle of the grocery store on a Friday afternoon (which means it was crazy busy), when this old lady tries to cut in front of me in the line. I was kinda stunned by how blatant it was, so I nicely told her that I was in front of her and she needed to get behind me. She instantly started yelling at me that she is an old lady and I am a young man, so I should

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But I knew this even before it was published in THIS story in today's NY Post. I was also happy to learn that the Sisters Olsen are officially "jew friendly."

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(via The Onion)

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(via Best Week Ever)

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It's gonna be on the next Caviar record. If you don't know who they are and you love good rock music, then you should investigate them a bit. Anyhow, right-click on this badboy and save as...

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Easy, if your Nickelback. Check out this mash of Nickelback doing "How You Remind Me" in the right channel and "Someday" in the left channel. At least they changed the lyrics. (via Stereogum via the Magnificent Bastard)

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- I found this story a little weird. Short version: A 15 year-old girl sent pics of herself "in various states of undress" and is now being charged with "sexual abuse of children, possession of child pornography and dissemination of child pornography." So you can be charged with sexually abusing yourself? Also, does this mean that any minor can go to jail for owning a naked pic of themselves

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to thank The Black Man for being nice enough to invent modern music. It was nice of him, and we are all forever in his debt.

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So I haven't seen Brit Brit's new live show, but according to The Sun, it's pretty porn-y. I must admit the pics even surprised me a bit given how many youngins are in her (no longer) target demo. Guess she didn't get the memo of this thing in the post-Janet/Superbowl era. I saw Good for her. As Grambo would say: Buzz. (and if you follow the link, click on the first pic and check out the

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So this article I just read in The Sun goes over the highlights of what Trudie Styler (better half of Sting) had to say on Stern recently. Lemme give you the highlights of the highlights -Trudie and the Stinger are Swingers -They both sleep with lots of women -Mrs. Sting has never met a drug she didn't like -There must be some sort of crazy truth-serum mixed into the water that Howard Stern

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I didn't actually know that Gwen Stefani had classic beauty in her, but these pics say otherwise: via Miss Slash Temp

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She's even got an effing Macromedia Flash thing-y for her banner. It's hot. I totally have blog-envy. As an aside, I'm starting to wonder if Lindsay has an "only red shirts" policy. I mean, she's even wearing a red shirt in her animated banner. Something to ponder.

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If I want to talk to my girlfriends father about his field of expertise and keep up the charade of having something intelligent to say, probably best to ignore all the information I gleamed from this particular graphic: via The Onion

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I now know that Mischa Barton (aka "American Starlet" who loved working with "Leonardo" in Notting Hill, aka Marissa effing Cooper) is into NYC's own Stellastarr*. For the life of me, I can't think of the "explicit" part of Sweet Child O Mine. Nope. Just checked and still couldn't find anything explicit. WTF are they talking about?!? Maybe Axl Rose being in the band is enough to make every

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The more I watched THIS the more I laughed. He is saying "Bah! I'm a lamb!" in Hebrew. Funny.

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Thanks to this article on today's New York Post, I can sleep sound with the knowledge that a day or two before March 31st I'll get to see a Passover episode of The OC! I love this effing show so much! Oh, and I also watched tomorrows episode and love it. I thought they were home free at the end...how wrong I was. And if her son and grandson are any indicator, I think its safe to say Sophie

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This ad:

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Page Six has a nice little bit on how Courtney Love let some random (but not homeless) guy suckle her right boobie. She doesn't seem to remember but, if you're curious, HERE is a link to the photographic evidence. I realize how unexciting I am knowing that I can't really imagine having such a wild life that a complete stranger suckling my boob in broad daylight (as well as a in front of a man

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It's just sad how proud I am of my newly-upgraded computer. I just put 512MB of 333MHz DDR RAM into this bad boy (in addition to the 256 I already had) and added an 80GB hard drive to go with the 30GB that were filled to capacity at all times. I almost downloaded Independence Day in Spanish just cause I have the space/bandwidth.

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I mean, who has time to breed these things? It's safe to say that they order a "large diet coke" with all their candy and butter-laden popcorn when they go to the movies. (link via Lauren)

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I'm not sure at this point. I don't really feel bad, but I don't really feel 100% either. More news as this develops.

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so I'll try to start updating this thing every day again. I figured out that it took me a little over 24 hours to get from my parents home to my home. No small journey. Anyhow, it's nice to be home again, but now I have to organize all this crap I bought! Thanks to everyone who game me the time of day in Chicago, and I'm sorry we couldn't hang out longer.

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sorry about being so bad with updates. I'm in the states right now at my parents house and feeling like I traveled back in time about 5 years. This is way too weird. I also missed Smallville tonight because of some basketball game that was on instead. It's not like Smallville is as important as The O.C. or something, it's just that I've watched the show for over 3 seasons now so I'm pretty

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in a couple min. Chicago here i come (well...via Milan).

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I found this today on the NY times and thought it was a cool piece. It is about the New York City sets that the major movie studios maintain in Hollywood. Enjoy.

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I'm really into the song "All My Only Dreams" by The Wonders. Always have been (and how cheesy is that?). I can understand why Jimmy wanted to get a few more takes of it, but I really think it turned out fine with just the one take (it's the b-side to the song "That Thing You Do"). Is it a problem that the band doesn't really exist?

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by dust. It got in my computer and caused a few problems, so I had no internet access for about 24 hours. I'm a bit too computer dependent, I think (but my computer is my phone, tv, stereo, newspaper, and white noise machine when I sleep). Guess that's what happens when your geographical region is an effing desert. Oh well, at least it didn't cost anything to get fixed.

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This is one of the most amazing hip-hop albums I've ever heard. It's actually a good argument for modern music having real artistic expression. Basically, DJ Danger Mouse took Jay-Z's swan song, "The Black album," and mixed it with the Beatles classic "The White Album" and called it "The Grey Album" (Rolling Stone review). Other than Jay's rapping, not one sound on that record comes from

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Look! It's my old building and neighborhood! Many a good swim was had on that deck...

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I hate the fact that there are some things I can't blog about cause if anyone Googles me they will get this www page. Anyhow, it's a funny story that I can tell you if you ask me.

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I found this in the NYTimes and it made me very happy...

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about American Pie is that after it came out, previously unfunny people crowned themselves the next Chris Rock just because they could say the line "This one time at band camp..." Further, everyone else would react with a fit of pavlovian laughter at this random (and still thoroughly unoriginal) reference. I prefer a world where it takes a bit (even if only a very small bit) of talent to be

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Over the weekend I came across two stories that, together, struck me as interesting. First, the NYPost did a piece about how "shocking" it is that American Idol judge Simon Cowell said that last years Idol winner Ruben Studdard is "fatter than he's ever been." Simon then went on to say such "shocking" things as "Britney Spears can't sing" and "Mariah Carey has a great voice but needs to lose

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...and the car ended up taking all the damage. So it was dark, cold, and rainy as I was walking to a friends house when, while in a crosswalk, I saw a car coming towards me out of the corner of my eye. It wasn't going too fast, and my only reaction was to jump. I landed (on my feet) on the hood of the car in a crouched position. At this point I looked in the window to see a pair of stunned

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Two stories of interest from Page Six... First, while whale-watching on a boat with other like-minded Scientologists, Tom Cruise got so excited by the whole thing that he "spontaneously flung himself into the water" to "play" with the whales. Upon investigation, Adi Eliyahu (dot blog) has learned that this seemingly bizarre move was inspired by an early screen test Mr. Cruise did for a

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I got this yesterday. It is really easy, but it came to me with comments making it sound like it would be hard. I had finished before even half of the time was gone and it still said I failed?!? Also, I tried to put Michigan on the U.P. and it said it wasn't the right place. Haters. (link from Sharone)

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Something happened at work yesterday. I can't really say what (for aforementioned reasons), but it wasn't really my fault. I can tell you that a lush like Sarah would probably laugh at it, though. Oops, I think I've said too much! Ask me on AIM or something and I'll tell you all about it.

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I had my first earthquake today! I mean, my first real earthquake. A 5 on the Richter Scale. Noice. I was sleeping when it woke me up and lasted for about 20 seconds. I had no idea what was happening at the time but was slightly freaked out. When it was over I just thought "what the hell was that?" and went back to sleep.

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So I know that Members Only jackets were coming back, but now I saw Seth Cohen wearing one on the latest "The O.C." Are these things becoming the next "trucker hats"?

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Apparently, a woman's chastity belt set off a metal detector in an airport in Athens. Her husband made her wear it so she wouldn't cheat on him during a trip to Greece. First of all, I thought these were only worn in movies. Second of all, how does a woman pee in that thing? I mean, if she took it off it would kinda defeat the purpose. For real-sies, what's the deal here? I'm confused. Is

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Uncle Grambo nails his first Grammy summation (obvs). The Aquariuspotting birthday party turns into an attempt to reconstruct K-2 in Brian Battjer's bedroom. Sarah Jessica Parker has the hands of an 80 year old woman.

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It's been easy to remember why I moved here the last few days. Mid-70's and sunny every day and 60's in the evening. I'm so happy.

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No. He is old. Really old. Has a face like an effing catchers mit. Bad hair, too. Looks more like feathers. Anyhow, the NYPost has a story about how he is "always the bridesmaid, never the bride" at the Grammies, and how poor Rod just won't be able to stop his children from teasing him for not having 300 Grammies like Sting unless he finally wins this year. I can understand that. I give

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So Sarah's blog has the option of comments now, too. Here is the story of how these comments came to be: Yesterday, Lindsayism had a bit with a random link to a blog called "Hot Abercrombie Chick" and I, being the curious person I am, followed the link. Turns out the Abercrombie girl (who, it seems, only picked that has her title to get people to come to her blog...so it's just marketing)

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I was listening to this song (by Caviar) and thinking to myself "you know you have an amazing album when this song isn't good enough to make the cut." Enjoy.

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This site has so many answers to life's questions that I felt it was my duty to pass the knowledge on to all my friends. Enjoy.

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