Archive for August, 2004
I’m a celebrity!
MTV.com – Boiling Points
Apparently, I’m famous. I don’t watch this TV show, but while I was at the airport in Atlanta yesterday, three different people, at three different times asked me if I’ve ever been on this show. Until yesterday I have never heard of it….
Too bad I’m not home to set [...]
Working together for the greater good.
Volunteer Your PC – Make a Difference – Find a Cure!
My computer is now helping to fight cancer…. how you might ask? I simply signed up with Grid.org!
Grid.org is a provider of distributed computing services. This means they combine the computing power of tens of thousands of computers from all over the world by [...]
Roommate Horror Stories
My freshman year at Auburn was an interesting one. It was my first experience with roommates. Until that time, I had my own room and didn’t have to share a bathroom or anything. It was quite nice. Then, all of the sudden in September of 1994, I went from no roommates [...]
Olympic Weightlifting
http://flash.trojangames.co.uk/tgames/movies/movie2.html
Amazing… Pevic Powerlifting…. I’ll bet this guy gets all the girls. I guess if I’m going to win in the next Games, I’ll need to start practicing!
Sorry for a couple of short-blog days, boys and girls…. I just haven’t felt much like writing recently.
Subject: French Terrorist Alert
AP and UPI reported that the French Government announced yesterday that it has raised it’s terror alert level from “run” to “hide.” The only two higher levels in France are “surrender” and “collaborate.” This may have been precipitated by the recent fire which destroyed one of their White Flag factories, disabling their Military for the [...]
John Kerry’s Military Service Record
John Kerry does not want his service record questioned. This is the reason why.
On 18 Feb. 1966 John Kerry signed a 6 year enlistment contract with the Navy (plus a 6-month extension during wartime).
On 18 Feb. 1966 John Kerry also signed an Officer Candidate contract for 6 years — 5 years of ACTIVE duty & [...]
I’ve been Googled!
I was checking on the web statistics of my blog, and I noticed there’s been a lot of “Search Engine” traffic lately. Not the search engine’s spiders crawling my site, but real live eyeballs following links to my blog. Can I really be above the fold on page one of some of these [...]
The Final Payment
In this world of buying everything bigger, better, and bad-asser (is that a word?) on credit… there’s a certain unique good feeling about making the final payment on your car. You know that feeling you get when you buy a new car? You go out and wash it once or twice a week, you [...]
Amazon Wish List
Facebook
MySpace
Twitter
Picasa
Yelp
YouTube
BriteKite
Barack Obama Is Not My President