Month: July 2008

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Blogging Computers Hoaxes Internet Television

Blatant Promotion

Do you smell that ?  It’s the smell of your hard drive burning !  The most destructive virus ever created by mankind has infected your system, and it’s literally burning a physical hole right through the middle of your hard drive.

Read all about it on a SHOCKING ‘Thursday Night Internet Hoax Hall-Of-Shame’ tomorrow (Thursday) at 5 PM Eastern / 4 PM Central / 11 AM Hawaiian. It’s what everyone will be talking about on Friday morning over at Denny’s in Florida City (where all of the food is).

Don’t forget about the original ‘Friday Night Blogroll Review’ featuring the greatest blog entries of this past week from the greatest bloggers that are near and dear to me. That includes this crazy cat who reminds me of me because when I read his blog it looks just like my blog !  Phil – One Sunday we should really mix it all up by having me guest-write your ‘Talk Soup’ on your blog in your style, and having you guest-write my ‘Tossed Salad’ on my blog in my style. 🙄

OK enough of all of that lunacy. THANK YOU BLOGGERS for blogging on here with me. Even if you don’t have your own blog and you’re just here to read what I have to write then that still makes you a blogger. If you read blogs then you blog. It’s that simple.

So until we blog again – REMEMBER THIS from 40 years ago !

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Philosophy

The Fortune Cookie Message Of The Week Club

OK honorary club members – Here’s this week’s message straight from my fortune cookie to my blog:

‘You are known for being quick in action and decisions.’

YES – That’s me. It seems that the longer I go in trying to make a decision the less desirable the outcome is. It’s the quicker decisions and the actions that go along with them that generally seem to work out the best.

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Career Computers Food Home Life Movies Music Shopping Television

Tuesday Night Grab Bag O’ Thoughts

I know what you want. Here it is:

1.  Tuesday nights have become ‘me’ nights at home. On Mondays I’m typically away from home for 13+ hours with work and the weekly staff meeting at Life Pointe Church. On Wednesdays I only have about 3 hours at home after work and before Life Group. But Tuesdays when I get home I stay home and catch up with stuff. It’s my ‘fun’ day – my ‘I don’t have to run’ day !

2.  TODAY I extended my ‘fun’ day by 4 hours and worked just a half a day. I went to Target for the first time since perhaps last December, and I went on a 90-minute shopping spree. Actually for the amount of time that I was scouring that store I didn’t really buy too many items (17). I could have really gone wild and bought 35 items !

3.  Standing right behind me at the same checkout counter at Target ? – This fellow LPC Blogger Extraordinare.

4.  If we had a Target that was closer to home then I’d probably shop there at least once every couple of weeks or so instead of once or twice a year.

5.  Jesse wants to see “Step Brothers” with me.

6.  I’m having a lot of fun and learning a lot too with my fresh new Panasonic DVD Recorder / VCR Combo. I bought it online at circuitcity.com a couple of Saturday nights ago, and FedEx delivered it to me (free of charge) less than two business days later !  I couldn’t believe my four eyes when it arrived that fast !  😯

7.  Since my new DVD recorder has a digital tuner I’m exploring and enjoying crystal clear digital television for the first time ever. I have 90 new digital channels (expanded basic) that I always had but couldn’t access until now. That includes 50 music channels. I dig that !

8.  Last night and this morning I recorded four hours of digital television programming on DVD-RW for the first time ever. I’ve got some tweaks to make to this process. I recorded it all in EP mode (which allows for 8 hours of programming onto a single 4.7 GB DVD). The picture quality suffered a bit. I’ll have to bring it down a notch for my next recordings. I’m learning.

9.  I’ve pushed back the purchase of my fresh new HP Pavilion laptop indefinitely – but not for too long. Once the initial enjoyment value for my DVD Recorder / digital television revolution begins to wind down a bit then it will be time for me to buy my next new toy – the laptop. It should happen sometime in August.

10.  Bright and early this morning I was once again reminded why I rarely go through the drive-thru at the McDonald’s at the Oasis Plaza en el este de Homestead. It’s because the service is subpar. They get confused handling more than one order at a time !  😕

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Movies

Monday Night Countdown

It’s time to count ’em down again. This week I’m counting down my TOP 5 favourite movies that I actually went to a movie theatre to see over the past 13 months. Check it out:

5.  The Happening
I saw this one at the AMC Theatres at the Rivercenter Mall on the River Walk en San Antonio three weeks ago. After I saw it I was extremely conscious (and cautious) while walking back from the movie theatre to my hotel room.

4.  Forgetting Sarah Marshall
I saw this one for free with (are you ready for this ?) Anne J., Venus D., and Alex S. in Orlando. Venus refuses to admit how much she laughed hard all throughout it.

3.  What Happens In Vegas
I saw this one on the way home from a Sunday morning service at Pastor Nathan‘s InDependence Church up in Western Broward County.

2.  Evan Almighty
It was better than the original as far as I’m concerned, but most critics will disagree with me. It was set in my former hometown region of Northern Virginia (just outside of Washington D.C.). 

1.  License To Wed
It’s religious hijinks at the box office with Robin Williams in the role of a lifetime – as a crazy Lead Reverend of a modern church. This is probably my all-time favourite Robin Williams film.