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January 2008
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Fri 2/1/08 11:42am # Montel pwns Fox News Good Stuff! Watch Montel pull a "John Stewart/Crossfire" on Fox News
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I want to hear your NCW # Did not pick up my books yesterday due to snow day. Will most likely get them sometime today.
New Comic Picks for 1/30/08
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Wed 1/30/08 10:50am # 
Today's Winter Anecdote It got very cold last night very very cold, and very snowed. When I went out to my car this morning I found both my car doors were frozen shut so I had to climb in through my hatch. Once on the inside, I still couldn't open the doors. So I turned the key to start the car. I had to turn it and ask it to start a couple times, "If it's not a bother, car, would you please consider starting?" "Pretty Please?" "Pretty Pretty Please?", I said. "Vroom Vroom" finally replied the car. "Thank you." with a dashboard pat, I replied back, "good car". I turned on the windshield wipers, Oh no, My windshield wipers were frozen to my windshield. Perhaps I thought to myself, I shall roll down the window, reachover and unstick them. Oh no, My windows were also frozen shut. My windows are frozen shut, my doors are still frozen shut and my hatch does not open from the inside. To quote Admiral Ackbar: "It's a Trap!"
I was trapped in my car with the engine running, Hopefully the car would warm up before the gas ran out. Hopefully. Hopefully. Hopefully. Ten minutes later, Success! The passenger door thawed enough to open it. I scootched over and out through the passenger door, I unstuck my windows and scraped off the shield. Scootched back in and I'm on my way! Until I got to the apartment complex exit... the exit on the hill. The exit you have to drive UP the hill After stopping at the stop sign, oh no, I couldn't start going again. Vroom Vroom Vroom Spin Spin Spin. No movement No go. Can't drive backward either because there 's a car behind me, can't tell how close it is becasue the windshield is so cold that it's frosting up on the inside even with the defroster on. I can't open the driver door, and I can't open the window to wave the car around. I turn on my hazzard lights. Success! The car behind me goes around. I roll back down the hill and try again. Success! I'm up and over the hill. Now to the gas station on the corner I go, I was on Empty remember? Out through the passenger door, driver one still frozen, fill up the gas tank. "Boy it's cold outside." While filling up the gas, $$$ oh my, I decide, "I'm going to take a snow day off of work." I go back through the passenger door, scootch scootch scootch, start start start, and get onto the road. "I'll take the other complex entrance, the one without the hill! That's what I'll do! Tha's the best way home." Oh no! I can't stop, I've slid past the complex entrance. I slide a little further and enter the strip mall, I drive through the strip mall to the back complex entrance and onto the apartment road.Stop Stop Stop, Whew, Almost sliding past my parking lot, I put my car back into it's spot. Happy to be home. And so we reach the end of this morning's snow story. |
Tues 1/29/08 9:57am # Change
(Slight modification I did to some great art created at obeygiant.com. They had Progress and Hope posters. Change more sums up my interest in the candidate.) |
Mon 1/28/08 2:39pm # State of the Union Bingo Here's how it works, go to my Bingo Card Site Print it out. Then Refresh the page and print another card (They are random each time without repeats.) It pulls from a list of 75 words, phrases, or situations. There are 25 squares. I typically have a few people over and we play until someone gets a horizontal or vertical row, and then often try to clear the card also. Feel free to create your own prizes and it's also a good idea to discuss any confusing squares with your party beforehand as to what legitimatly counts for any given square. Feel free to make up your own house rules. And if you're alone, use it as a drinking game, taking a drink everytime you mark off a square. (I was going to rewrite the ASP code to PHP so I could host it here, but I ran out of time. So I Googled and posted it to a free ASP host.) Enjoy the speech! |
Sun 1/27/08 11:18am # Random Non-Sequiters
Let's Go Surfing
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Sat 1/26/08 7:50pm # Random Non-Sequiters
I suppose the above brings me to Twitter. I have started a Twitter page. ckarath on Twitter. For the few of you that might be on Facebook, I've added Applications to my profile for Twitter/Jot, and this Blog RSS feed also. One note, If I don't know you in RL please don't try to add me to your Facebook Friends list, nothing personal, I'm just keeping Facebook strictly for Real Life People right now. But I still like you internet peoples... I post here after all and you can post in the comments, and if you want to talk one on one, I have that neat little Plugoo Instant Messaging application in the sidebar.
Let's Go Surfing
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 » You suck at Photoshop #3 (Youtube) NSFW
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Fri 1/25/08 10:12pm #
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Justice League New Frontier
NCW # New comic Picks for 1/23/08
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Tues 1/22/08 8:40pm # Comics Previews Solicitations for April 2008
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Sun 1/20/08 2:08pm # Random Non-Sequiters
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» I haven't had much time this weekend to create my regular weekend monster link list. I may or may not later, but right now it's looking to lean toward the "not" at least until a couple days from now anyway. Little posts here and there until then.Sat 1/19/08 11:29pm # Random Non-Sequiters
Now I find myself daydreaming about the bluetooth earpiece working with everything. It would be great to start your car, launch programs on the computer, set the DVR, etc. etc. you get the idea, or maybe you don't?
Once the action starts and it starts quickly enough, the movie is very involving, so don't let my comments above dissuade you from seeing it. Overall not bad, certainly something a little different. Do rent.
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Fri 1/18/08 10:40am # Random Non-Sequiters
Can you see co-worker John in the above office photo I took on my cellphone yesterday. It might be hard to spot him because he's employing the power of camouflage to blend in with his surroundings. Look again. See him now? |
NCW # New Comic Picks for 1/16/08
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Tue 1/15/07 1:27pm # Stevenote thoughts Macbook Air looks really really cool, but $1,799? Not interested, I could buy 6 EeePC's for that. The New Apple TV, looked somewhat interesting. $229 for the box, no Mac required, downloads off of iTunes. Movie Rentals $2.99 for older, $3.99 for new. New movies available 30 Days after DVD release, $1 more for HD versions. Nice device, but the prices are basically at Pay Per View levels, Plus they only let you watch it within a 24 hour window once you start the movie. If you got the movie for a week or a month, $3.99 might be ok, but at that pricepoint it still looks like it's less hassle to just sign-up with Netflix. They're getting close to doing this right, but they are just not there yet. They also had a wireless harddrive for $299 called Time Capsule. Probably a little pricy but the features sounded good. |
Sun 1/13/08 4:39pm # Random Non-Sequiters
After making a monumental post to consumerism earlier, and spending a fair portion of my afternoon organizing and disposing of various kipple that's collected in my home office, this page resonated with me today.
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» I like the occasional bit of light pop philosophy in my comic books. The below page is from Wonder Woman #6 (yeah... I'm really behind on my books)
Sun 1/13/08 1:22pm # Let's Go Surfing PMPs, MIDs, and UMPCs, oh my
More Tech stuff from the week of CES
Non-CES Stuff
Looks like a neat service. |
Thur 1/10/08 11:53am # CES Tech There's a ton of oddly interesting little gadgets coming out of CES this week. No real show stopper stunners like an iPhone or anything, but there's enough little incremental things that have got my mind a turning. I've been "starring" things like a madman in Google Reader all week. If nothing comes up, I might sift, sort and comment on alot of it this Sunday. |
Wed 1/9/08 9:59am # Politics
Clinton 39% (110,550) Obama 37% (102,883), Edwards 17% (47,803), Richardson 12,987 (5%) and Kucinich 3,845 (1%). You've got to figure if Kucinich wasn't in the race then most of his votes would go toward Obama or Edwards. If Edwards steps out, you've got to figure that most of the Edwards votes would go to Obama. Still even without all that What if-ing Obama only lost to Clinton in NH by seven thousand and change votes. But those 7K make all the difference in the media spin. It's also interesting that although Obama got 25% more state delagates than Clinton in IA. The super delegates are all going to Clinton. Obama even with a solid win receives 16 delgates out of IA and Hillary still got 15. Iowa delgates The whole system is about as transparent as mud really. |
» So according to CNN NCW # New Comic Day Picks for 1/9/08
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Sun 1/6/08 2:53pm # Random Non-Sequiters Let's Go Surfing
Sara Conner Chronicles and Kyle XY (and I suppose Flash Gordon and Stargate Atlantis) are looking to be pretty much it though.
Anyway, looks like an interesting service to use until either Vonage or Grand Central start providing this service for free (or at least a reasonable flat fee... Vonage is still charging per message).
Let's Go Surfing
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Sun 1/6/08 2:52pm # Videos
BTW: I disagree with the statement. There are plenty of not-so-great films that are perfectly served by watching them on a small mobile device.
 » "Lost" Star Wars IV Opening Scene (5 min). Good Stuff. (youtube)
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» Girl in Bikini plays Wii. NCW # Comic Picks for 1/4/2008
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Thur 1/3/07 7:49pm # Random Non-Sequiters
New Year
Blog Hits
Metro Detroit Area
Let's Go Surfing
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