February 2002 Archives

I caught the beginning of "ER" tonight. Dr. Green was being told he has 4 to 5 months of life left. His comment was that "he was right back where he was a year ago." The doctor replied by saying he got the chance to get married and watch his daughter be born in this past year.

Somehow, knowing that your going to die soon anyways, I wouldn't have gotten married, or had a kid. Which would you choose? If you knew you were going to die would you rather die immediately? Or, would you rather choose to die within a year, but get married and have a child in the meantime and life your live as if everything was normal?

So this guy finds secret service documents in his store and tried to return them like any good citizen All he "...requested an autographed picture of Cheney, but was rebuffed." So he decided to take it the newspaper. Someone needs to teach our government some damage control and/or public relations.

My friend sent me an e-mail with various engineering jokes. I had heard of all of them. Here they are for your enjoyment:

I don't know what makes U2 more popular. Is it Bono and his care for the world, or is it the heart they put into their albums. Maybe it's both.Read Bono's Mission. Or maybe it's the red wine. [via U2log.com]

Remember the old adage, "If you give candy for one friend, you have to give candy to everyone." Well, since Canada got candy because they got hosed, now Russia is saying that they want candy too: "Canadian pairs skaters were awarded their gold medals. Now that subjective judging harmed us, we want the same for Slutskaya." - Head of Russian delegation, Viktor Mamatov.

Then there's the Koreans whining about the judging in the short track speed skating.

My Mom always told me that "If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all." I am not going to say anything. (Whiners.)

1. Hey, baby, what's your sign? Do you think it fits you pretty well? I am on the border between Libra and Virgo. You can make any astrology fit anyone with enough generation.

2. What's the worst birthday gift you've ever received? Can't say I have ever had a bad one. At least not something that I couldn't return.

3. What's the best birthday gift you've ever received? It may not be the best, but I got a cool remote control boat for my 25th birthday. It was something that I always wanted.

4. What's the best way you've celebrated your birthday thus far? Every birthday celebration has been fun. (What a lame answer.)

5. What are your plans for this weekend? Chillin' & working on Wedding things.

In every interview I have seen of Sarah Hughes, I keep waiting for her to bust out, "This one time, at band camp..." Now that she's won the gold, she'll have all of those interviews. One of these times she'll do it. Just wait and see.

I don't quite remember where I found this, but it is very humorous. It makes me laugh everytime I watch it. Watch the fight. It's about 1.7MB.

I stumbled towards the alarm clock last week in my usual haze, searching for the one button that will give me nine more precious minutes of sleep. But on the way there, I realized I was dizzy. It wasn't the dizzy you get from standing up too fast, but the dizzy you get from spinning too much and all the fluid in you ears get out of whack. Lying safely in my bed, waiting for the nine minutes to pass until the dreadful alarm goes off again, I started to remember my dream. It ended with me spinning around out of control. I then realized that I was dizzy because of my dream. Not only was it weird that I was spinning in my dream, and it carried through to semi-reality, but I usually fall in my dreams, not spin. Very odd. The real question is: Was I dizzy in real life as I turned off the alarm? Or, was I still in the haze of my dream and only feeling dizzy because of that? Either way you look at it, I felt like I was in the Matrix.

I think I have rewritten this post about five times now. I am not good at expressing personal feelings.

I got a call tonight that a friend was killed in an auto accident this past week. He was my age, and my best friend in grade school. I remember reading the article in the newspaper about it, and thought that I might've known the person as they said he was 26 years old. But they didn't publish his name, so I put it out of my mind. Now, I can't find the article. All I know was that his vehicle caught on fire after it went into the ditch.

My heart goes out to his family.

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I agree with this article. I used to just say that I am not interested, and ask them to take me off the list. (Which has worked out quite well, I might add.) But, this is much better. Another technique I had heard of was to ask the caller what their telephone number was so that you could call him during his dinner. But that I don't think will get you as far. Like I said, this one is much better.

I think this has been around for a while now, but it's still really cool. While we're on clocks, here's another cool one.

Picture this: You're at an ATM that is asking you to pay and extra $1.50 just to get your money. You know that there is another machine down the road that won't charge you. How far are you willing to walk to save that extra $1.50? Keep that answer in mind, and read on.

You are now standing on a corner. Now you know that there is a $1.50 on another corner down the road. You are willing to get that $1.50, but only if it's within a certain walking distance. How far away is that for you? Is that nearer or farther than you would walk to save the $1.50 at the ATM? Leave a comment and let me know.

So it's been a little while since I updated. Sorry. There's the whole weddin' thing. But, I did update the pictures page. You should definitely check it out.