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Saturday, July 29, 2006

Cool magic trick

Give this a try. After you do a few in a row and see that it works 100% of the time, then try to figure out how it works. It's kind of easy once you really think about it, but it freaked me out the first couple of times.

Link: Ellusionist.com

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Ha! World's Last Chance

Well, Google read my email and here's one of the (insane, crazy, paranoid, fundamentalist) websites that popped up on the advertisement sidebar.

With that said, here's YOUR WACKY PARANOIA SITE OF THE WEEK. Oh, and I strongly advise you to send plenty of hate mail to these idiots.

Link: World's Last Chance

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Friday, July 28, 2006

Greatness

Every now and then a professional wrestler is so multi-talented that he can achieve the greatest success, not only in the business of professional wrestling, but also go on to make millions on the big screen. I discovered that one such wrestler exists in our modern times. Read the following quote from the 7/28 PWInsider Q&A:

"Hey, isn't the guy the beat the crap out of Undertaker the big guy that couldn't speak English from "The Longest Yard"?

Yes, the Great Khali did appear in the Adam Sandler version of "The Longest Yard", which also featured Kevin Nash, Steve Austin, Bill Goldberg and Bob Sapp. He is listed in the credits as Dalip Singh."


Yes, it appears that The Great Khali appeared in "The Longest Yard" (with a whole bunch of other nameless jabronies.) I think I know what I'm watching tonight!

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Thursday, July 27, 2006

AOL Co-Founder Offers Merger Apology

You realize that if the AOL-Time Warner merger hadn't taken place that WCW would still be on the air?

Of course, when I think about the last two years of WCW, maybe that wouldn't necessarily be a good thing.

Link: My Way Finance

Tuesday, July 25, 2006

WorldNetDaily: Meet the 'neo-coms'

So I ended my WorldNetDaily.com boycott today (for no reason other than boredom) and what do I find, but a big mud-slinging battle between Joseph Farah and Pat Buchanan. Anyhow, this article shows what I always liked so much about Farah. He holds nothing back and is not held accountable to any party or ideology. Plus he's attacking that ridiculous term "neo-con."

Link: Joseph Farah: Meet the 'neo-coms'

Buzz Aldrin: We Saw a UFO

Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the Moon's surface after Neil Armstrong, says space agency bosses covered up their sighting.

Link: The Daily Record

Monday, July 24, 2006

It's a girl

I wish Stephanie could give birth every week. Raw was great tonight with no McMahons or H's running around ruining everything. The focus of the show (gasp!) wrestling and titles. Also, the commentating team is 100% better without Vince feeding them lines all night. The stuff with Michaels was bad, of course, and I think it is kind of dumb to turn the birth into an angle.

Also, I wonder if the child (who is most likely the Anti-Christ) was really born during Raw. That would be fitting.

Stephanie McMahon and her husband Triple H welcomed their new daughter, Aurora Rose Levesque, into the world. Aurora weighs 8lbs 7oz. Both mother and daughter are doing fine. WWE congratulates the entire McMahon family.

Link: WWE.com

This kind of sums things up.



Link: Dilbert.com

Thursday, July 20, 2006

American Evacuees From Lebanon Arrive in Baltimore

Ooooh. I'd rather stay in Lebanon.

Link: FOXNews.com

Sunday, July 16, 2006

Kung Fu Batman

Wow! I just watched Batman Begins for the first time. That's the best movie I've seen in a very long time.

Link: IMDB: Batman Begins (2005)

Omaha, NE to be new U.S. Capitol

How do I know? Because a Seventh Day Adventist traveled through time from 2036 to tell us.

Also, a civl war will break out in the United States in 2005. So I read this a few years too late. Maybe our time traveling friends helped us avoid it.

Here's some quotes from his interview:

In 2036, I live in central Florida with my family and I'm currently stationed at an Army base in Tampa. A world war in 2015 killed nearly three billion people. The people that survived grew closer together. Life is centered on the family and then the community. I cannot imagine living even a few hundred miles away from my parents.

Religion is a major part of people's life in 2036. Pain and change tend to bring people together and closer to God. However, religion is far more personal than it is now. There are no huge, centralized religions and people talk openly about their beliefs. It might also interest you to know that the day of worship is Saturday, the day God meant to be the Sabbath and the 10 commandments have been restored to the "10" that God gave us.

In 2036, a great deal of effort is going into "repairing" our environment. I was sent to 1975 to get a computer system and take it back to 2036. Time travel is not a secret in 2036 and I expect it will become more common.

Wait a second... They need to build a TIME MACHINE in order to got back to 1975 to get a computer?????? My neighor's dog is barking right now. I think I'll build a time machine so that I can go back to 1952 and grab a sling shot.

Click on the link to read the whole thing AND see ACTUAL PICTURES OF HIS TIME MACHINE!!! How could anyone pass us this opportunity?! (Perhaps I'm not adjusting well to my gf being out of the country....)

Link: Alienshift.com - Time Travel

EDIT: I just discoved an entire website devoted to our time traveling friend: John Titor.com Alas, our dear John returned to the future in 2001.

Saturday, July 15, 2006

Saturday Night's Main Event

I'm only about half-way through watching, but I had to pause it and say that there's really something kind of surreal about seeing Sabu on NBC prime time.

The show has pretty much sucked so far, by the way.

And for what it's worth, I'm predicting they put the WWE title back on Cena tonight. I hope they don't, but it would be the worst thing they could do and as all wrestling fans know, if WWE creative can make a bad decision, they do.

Happy Birthday Mother Angelica

Happy birthday to the woman who stood up to the bishops in California and Boston. The woman who helped keep the "Catholic" in the American Catholic Church. The woman who overcame a lifetime of physical handicaps and started her own global network, independent of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. God bless you, Mother Angelica.



Link: EWTN.com: Mother Angelica turns 83

Joke: Three things to think about.

THREE THINGS TO THINK about:

1. COWS
2. THE CONSTITUTION
3. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

COWS
Is it just me, or does anyone else find it amazing that our government can track a cow born in Canada almost three years ago, right to the stall where she sleeps in the state of Washington? And, they tracked her calves to their stalls. But they are unable to locate 11 million illegal aliens wandering around our country. Maybe we should give them all a cow.

THE CONSTITUTION
They keep talking about drafting a Constitution forIraq. Why don't we just give them ours? It was written by a lot of really smart guys, it's worked for over 200 years and we're not using it anymore.

TEN COMMANDMENTS
The real reason that we can't have the Ten Commandments in a courthouse.......
You cannot post 'Thou Shalt Not Steal,' 'Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery' and 'Thou Shall Not Lie' in a building full of lawyers, judges and politicians -- it creates a hostile work environment.


Ha!

Friday, July 14, 2006

Update: I have video games

So I figured that sense I technically won Gothic II, I could use a cheat code to win the game. I killed the last guy and the stupid game crashed again. Oh well. Time to move on. Great game though.

Day off

I took the day off to screw around. So I go to the driving range (in the 100 degree weather) and almost die. Not literally, just in the golfing sense. Why is it that the first fifteen balls are just awesome, and then the next fifteen are so horrible. By horrible, I mean 1) Not hitting the ball at all and 2) When I do hit it, it goes five feet, off to the left, and sometimes backwards.

Actually, I know the reason. You're arm gets tired half way through. Oh, well. It's still a lot of fun to go out there and get a can of beer and hit away.

On the frustrating side, I'm at the end of Gothic II: Night of the Raven and I can't beat the final dragon. I finally (barely) beat him today. Pretty cool. I had over 400 bolts for my crossbow and had him almost beat, then ran out of arrows. Yes you have to shoot the guy 400+ times. So I pull out a magic crossbow that only has 10 arrows. Miss... miss... miss... finally I hit him a few times and killed him with the LAST one. After all the coffee, my heart is pounding and I'm finally going to finish this games that took almost 130 hours to complete. They start the cinema, and ........ wait for it...... my stupid computer crashes! Grrrrr.

Sometimes, there's just no love.

Thursday, July 13, 2006

My new roommate

I'm babysitting for the rest of the month. Here's some pictures of the baby.



Tuesday, July 11, 2006

Find five errors

This is a lot harder than the naked girls one we used to play at WC's.

Link: Find five errors

Gotta have my wrestling news

I'm such a mark. My PWInsider account expired yesterday and I made a promise to myself that I wouldn't renew it. That great oath lasted one day and I paypal-ed the forty bucks about ten minutes ago.

Shine On You Crazy Diamond

Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Now there's a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
You were caught on the crossfire of childhood and stardom,
Blown on the steel breeze.
Come on you target for faraway laughter,
Come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine!
You reached for the secret too soon, you cried for the moon.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Threatened by shadows at night, and exposed in the light.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Well you wore out your welcome with random precision,
Rode on the steel breeze.
Come on you raver, you seer of visions,
Come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine!


Lyrics by Roger Waters, 1975

Pink Floyd legend Syd Barrett dies

Sad news here. The founder the greatest band of all time passed away.

A spokeswoman for Pink Floyd told the Press Association: "He died very peacefully a couple of days ago. There will be a private family funeral."

I not joking when I say that I hope that they put the following on his tombstone:

I know a mouse, and he hasn't got a house
I don't know why, I call him Gerald
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.


R.I.P Syd. I hope you finally found peace. Shine on.

Link: CNN.com - Pink Floyd legend Syd Barrett dies - Jul 11, 2006

Sunday, July 09, 2006

Bruiser Brody VS Lex Luger (steel cage "shoot")

Here's a youtube.com link to the legendary Brody/Luger cage match where Brody just stopped cooperating with a very young Lex Luger. Basically, they wrestle as they should for the first three or four minutes and then for some reason Brody just starts no-selling everything (and exposing the business.) It's kind of funny to see Luger put "everything" into his punches and Brody not even flinch, but totally unprofessional from a so-called legend. Also, here's some neat trivia. Bill Alfonso is the referee here.

Link: YouTube - Bruiser Brody VS Lex Luger (steel cage "shoot")

Friday, July 07, 2006

Ooparts & Ancient High Technology

Here's a crazy-fun, cryptozoology, UFO's, wierd Bible stuff ("Are you saved?" and "the world is 6000 years old" BS) site for a Friday afternoon.

Link: Ooparts & Ancient High Technology--Evidence of Noah's Flood?

Wednesday, July 05, 2006

EC f'n...Whatever

I just watched this week's ECW show. I don't even know what to say. I'm just so angry. Last week we were told that Vince McMahon was taking over the writing for the show, so I guess we should all see this coming, but come on. Now we just have a complete Raw clone with Paul Heyman as the heel owner instead of a McMahon. What's the point?

Link: WWE: TV Shows > ECW

Monday, July 03, 2006

WWE Champion arrested on drug charges

Things don't look good for ECW when their World Champion (who is also the WWE Champ) and top star are arrested for drugs.

Robert Alex Szatowski, aka WWE and ECW champion Rob Van Dam, and Terry Michael Brunk, aka Sabu, also a former ECW champion, were pulled over on U.S. 52, near Patrick Street in Hanging Rock at about 10:15 p.m. The two were apparently driving from their performances at the Big Sandy Superstore Arena earlier in the evening.

I'm guessing they pull the title off RVD tonight. Didn't anyone tell him that the pot smoking was just his gimick?

Link: Ironton Online

I watch stuff

I watched Grizzly Man this weekend. It was okay. If you haven't heard of it, it's a documentary about this hippy who lives with grizzly bears and films himself. He did it safely for twelve years and then on the 13th year, the bears finally got tired of his hippy ways and made him hippy lunch. Good movie, but WAY too long to keep me interested. It's kind of sad too.

Meanwhile, The 4400 has continued to rule this season. Watch it. Buy the DVD's!