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We did some fun flea market shoppin this weekend. Now I just have to try and get rid of some other stuff that we don’t need. (Ebay here I come) I think when you have a small apartment you should get rid of something for every new thing that you buy.

I try to not buy stuff for the sake of having more stuff, so I think my plan will make it easier to keep the place managable.

Yankee dollar talk
To the dictators of the world
In fact it’s giving orders
An’ they can’t afford to miss a word

I’m so bored with the U…S…A…
But what can I do?

The Clash

A very nice weekend secluded at Torodel rancharia. Alanna was a little sick but we still had a great time just hangnin by the pool, reading, swimming, watchin movies, cookin and doin plain old stuff.

Alanna had some problems with her scooter on the way down so we had to make sure that we would be able to get back to the city with it. It all turned out OK though. Great ride both ways, a little hot though.

I got stung by a yellow jacket on sunday so now my finger is all swollen.

(Let me ask you something, was you ever stung by a dead bee?)

You could spend up to five years in prison, pay a $250,000 fine and lose your right to vote for trading a *single* copyrighted song if the Author, Consumer and Computer Owner Protection and Security Act (ACCOPS, HR 2752) is passed by Congress. This is a profoundly wrong-headed approach to file-sharing and it’s up to you to stop it. Write your Congressperson today and urge them to stop this unbelievable attack on the American public.

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Sruprsied the hlel out of me!

Check this out….

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rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can
sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn
mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as
a wlohe.

Fcuknig amzanig huh?

It’s Alanna’s birthday today. We are going out to a nice dinner and then I think we will go on a crime spree around town. Since we spent out birthday money on a nice weekend in Vegas Alanna gets my undivided attention for here birthday. (Well maybe she gets something else).

I signed up for that Friendster thing today. I don’t really understand why…. I guess I am giving in to pressure to have one more online account that I will ignore and forget the password to.

Sometimes real life is a whole lot funnier than people give it credit for.

I think everybody should get one patent. Based on how easy it is to get a patent for something these days I think they should just get rid of the whole process and just give everybody a patent # when they are born.

Here are a couple of examples on how easy it is to get a patent that is neither new nor novel nor interesting in any way.

Method for swinging on a swing
Method for making a sandwich

Microsoft recently lost a court case against a person who with a patent with the following description:

“(d)istributed hypermedia method for automatically invoking external application providing interaction and display of embedded objects within a hypermedia document.”

What this means, for everybody is that this person who never wrote a single line of code got a patent for the idea of a browser plugin and if Microsoft cannot persuade a judge to reverse this, all browsers sold or distributed will have to remove or change the entire method for plugins. This effects every piece of Flash, embedded video, and PDF on the web.

Well my day was cut short by the lack of power at work. It took out all the workstations and we had to power down the servers that were on batteries.

On the plus side I got to see some old family footage with my sis before the power took out the video equipment. I was really glad that the footage didn’t get damaged while I was dubbing it and the power went out. (that would have sucked)

I had a dream that I went to a city and it was just a big mall in the desert. Oh wait that was Las Vegas.

Las Vegas has certainly come of age. The once sleepy old town built on the liquor, prostitution, and gambling money of the hoover dam has turned into the city built on…………….. well, the liquor, gambling and prostitution money of all of America. But now they have corporate sponsorship. (I think each hotel should sponsor their own set of hookers. Then each year they could battle them against each other in the hooker olympics.)

Some things that I will not soon forget about Vegas:

• A woman walking around the casino at midnight carrying a 3 month old baby in one arm smoking a cigarette in the other and arguing with her friends about where exactly the craps table is.
• Watching an entire hooker, John transaction take place in one of the walk up bars in the Mirage.
• Watching other hookers circle around the bars looking for likely customers. Unlike other cities where the johns circle around looking for the hookers.
• The amount of energy it takes to run the air conditioning in Vegas is enough to run entire south american countries.
• I fully understand why so much of the show “Cops” is filmed in Vegas.
• Somehow I always believe my girlfriend when she says with a gleam in her eye “It’s just around the corner, trust me”
• I will always remember “Lance Burton”, and I didn’t even see him the whole time

George Bush, when talking about the economy, says “huge propellars for everyone.” Later Dick Cheney was trying to clarify the issue by saying that the president was really referring to having a strong national defense. Under his breath the president remarked “No, really we should all have huge propellars”