Rhetorical question: Why does it say "Trashed messages more than 30 days old will be automatically deleted" when you look at your trash in Gmail? I've never had anything "automatically deleted" from my trash. I have stuff dating way back to when Gmail was first launched.
I was leaving the gym today and there was a high school track meet (state?) going on. I held the door for two kids and realized that they were wearing my old high school colors. Sure enough their jackets confirmed that they went to the same high school as me. Here's the conversation. Keep in mind that I grew up in a very small town and my graduating class only had 23 people in it:
Me: Are you from East Butler? Them: Yup. Me: That's where I graduated. Them: Really? What's your name? Me: Jason Bougger. Them: Hmm. Never heard of you.
And that's it. No name-recognition in my home town anymore.
Edit: To avoid lawsuits, I must credit my friend Warren for letting me know about this petition through the kindness of his heart. You may view his photograph here.
I read this on Wrestlecrap's mailbag this morning. Then I almost had to call 911. (death by laughing)
"I was just watching CNN, and they had a report on the new Washington Nationals baseball team. Anyways, the reporter was standing next to a giant egg, that he says will hatch on Sunday and introduce the team's new mascot. Yes, they're publicizing a new mascot that will come out of a giant freaking egg. Where have we seen this before? Somebody tell Gene Okerlund to grab his dancing shoes."
So I was playing with my pet guinea pig the other day and I realized that I haven't been calling him his given name very much lately. His name is Hannity Hogg, name after Sean Hannity of AM radio fame.
This got me to thinking, maybe it's time for the pig to get a new name. Something a little hipper. You know, something the kids could relate to, something we'd all remember. Perhaps a even new role model. Maybe even something a little more marketable... Hmmm.
Scroll down to see what I came up with.
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The new gimmick for Hannity Hogg ... DOUBLE H ! See the resemblance?
A black He-Man??? Oh come on, someone had to make the comment. :)
I think it'll be great if The Rock gets the role. Maybe a REAL He-Man movie can erase that other disaster live action "He-Man" movie from our memories. In my perfect fantasy world, this movie will be great and get enough people interested to bring back the 2002 series with new episodes. The new series ruled.
Checkout the link for all of the nice things Edge's wife had to say about him cheating with Lita.
"Edge and Lita may be one thing, but take away Adam's steriods and what would he be? Another 6'4' skinny guy and take away Amy's oppenents like Gail Kim, Molly Holly, Victoria--Girls that know how to wrestle and guess what? That nasty bitch will bust her knee cap every other 7 months. Good riddance to them both. They deserve each other."
I wasted the entire day trying to do something that should be very simple. I'm upgrading a Tomcat server, but can't get the stupid thing to search on foreign characters. Very, very frustrating.
"Got sick days? If you do, think about taking one now. Last week was a roller-coaster ride, to say the least, and you need some time to come down from it. You also need to relax, without anyone around you. It's not the weekend, so everyone you usually end up tending to will be at work, leaving you free to stay home, snuggle up and spoil yourself. Oh, c'mon. You know you want to -- more importantly, you know you need to."
What the heck? I'm gone for one week and we see Matt Hardy get released from WWE because he's an "internet guy", Molly Holly get released because she wants to WRESTLE (imagine that), and a judge in Ohio who apparently understands the Constitution (I know there's not too many of those left) and OVERTURNS the Ephreda ban. Meanwhile I'm at a convention that should be named "Everything Jason is doing wrong in the world of System Administration and why he isn't allowed to fix it."
Just to fill everyone in, I'm at the USENIX '05 Conference in Anaheim this week. I'll have a lot to say when I get back, but the only observation I need to make now is that I'm pretty sure the hotel that the conference is held at is also where scientists are trying to achieve ABOLUTE ZERO temperature. I think that this hotel actually serves as the central cooling unit of the entire globe. You'll note that some of the hottest places on Earth are exactly on the other site of the globe.
As of right now, I can no longer speak since my tongue has frozen off. I lost both of my ears on Tuesday and I'm typing this with a stick that I'm holding with my two remaining fingers. Yet my PowerBook G4 is still holding out.
Calling to friends and neighbors... You might have heard about our other site, FactVersesFiction.com. I thought I'd see if anyone reading wants to help out. Here's what we need.
1. Someone with some web designing skills to revamp the site. It's set using the Mambo content management software, based on PHP/MySQL. My skills with web design are pretty limited, and I would love to pass the responsibility to someone a little more creative.
2. Someone to take over or help with the financial part. The site hardly costs anything, but if any of my good friends or relatives want to take over the ownership of the site, that would be great!
3. Writers, writers, and more writers. We accept fiction, non-fiction, political, poetry, screneplays, novels, essays, opinions, and just about anything else. I also wouldn't mind adding a section for comic strips and art.
I think that sums up what we need. If you're interested, send me a message at jason@factversesfiction.com. I don't want the site to die, but if we're going to keep it alive, I want it to be worth it.
If you haven't heard by now, WWE Monday Night Raw is moving back to the USA cable network in October 2005. I always think WWE's downfall started right around the time they moved to Spike TV, so maybe going back home will turn things around. Well, that's only if they leave Stephanie M. behind...
Set your DVR's for this special on A & E tonight. They have a short preview on the website and it looks freaking awesome.
"In this A&E SPECIAL PRESENTATION: MONSTER HOAX: OPERATION LOCH NESS a team of special effects experts create "proof" of the existence of one of the world's long standing myths: the Loch Ness Monster. For over 1,400 years people have talked of a strange monster living in the dark depths of Scotland's Loch Ness. There have always been those who believed and those who did not. Actual sightings have been rare.
In this special a team of movie-making masters of animatronics set out to create the ultimate Loch Ness monster. Using state-of-the-art animatronics the team built a life-like monster to convince the world that the creature in the mist-shrouded waters of the Loch Ness was real – or not. Viewers watch as masters of the art struggle to turn the Loch Ness myth into what could pass for reality."
As a Catholic, it's a little sad, but I'm totally impressed and almost inspired with the respect of which the mainstream media had been covering him in the last few days.
