First large test shows vaccine prevents cervical cancer in short term
Could it have BEEN a lazier weekend???
Who knows … maybe every once in a while you just need to take some time off and sleep until four o’clock in the afternoon… 
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P.S. one more irritant
Also, hands down the most obnoxious advertisements of the season are NBC’s promos for their fall line-up – its supposed to sound like we’re just listening in on a bunch of folks chatting around the water cooler about what’s on TV that night, but funny how they don’t ever even mention any of the other networks…EVER.
Sorry, but you can’t trick us into watching your latest crap – people are smarter than that – so just clue us in to who’s getting stabbed on Law & Order, which Friends knock-off is slated for the evening, and who the guests for Leno and Conan are and save us all the not so clever ruse…
random jollies and irritants for October 6, 2005
I like…
- the new show Surface on NBC, which is surprising because they haven’t impressed me during primetime in ages…maybe it’s just something about sea serpents that breaks the mold?
- where things are going now with the new Ink, Paint & Tears… strips and that we’ve managed to keep a schedule for nearly a month now; also, that Lori is actually ahead of mein comic production right now
- that I can still go to bed at night and be proud of my overall work ethic in general, regardless of my assumption that it might not look as good if the majority of people weren’t selfish morons
- winning one against the parking garage this week after learning that I don’t have to affix their stupid, new gate card right exactly where they want it after all … a simple victory, but I’ll take what I can get!
- that I can finally download and watch video on my computer again! I’m never around to catch anything the first time it airs and HBO-on-Demand hasn’t been worth a crap lately, so it’s nice to have an alternative to missing out on all the new programming…I don’t really care for…
- the traffic around this town lately and the fact that there’s been multiple wrecks on Hillsborough Ave. between my home and downtown damn near every day this week! I’ve had to change my route…again…because so many people are careless these days.
- the conservative take-over of our country. Sure, it was fun to write about week after week…for a while…but it’s just plain depressing at this point to watch one mindless idiot play government with all of his friends, throwing money all over the place while the rest of us continue to pay $3 / gallon for gas. Don’t even get me started with this one…
- the fact that I haven’t gone to Disney in such a long time. And I certainly don’t mean to point blame at anyone – I just miss it…like a lot of things that I haven’t done lately. I’ve thought about just going over by myself for an afternoon, but that might be weird – I don’t know…
- the notion that my Dad still hasn’t recognized my birthday yet…over a month after the fact. Some say that it sounds greedy because I was looking to buy an iPod for exercising with his gift this year, but even just a card or a phone call would’ve been nice. Doesn’t anybody use calendars anymore???
- that my stupid printer still isn’t working and I have comics to print out for our adoring fans. First priority when my weekend starts – I promise…
- …right after exercising tomorrow night, that is…
- …okay, probably not!
- …okay, probably not!
- …right after exercising tomorrow night, that is…
thought of the day
“A lot of people manage to make it great distances in life simply by being horrendously spoiled, but no amount of money can buy ethics, courtesy, or common sense…”
movie quote of the day…
— Silent Bob (Kevin Smith), Clerks
I love gigs…
Ahhh – this weekend just so happened to be an “Upgrade Your Computer” weekend…can life be any more frustrating fun?!
It all started out with a beautiful, new video card that was purchased with some leftover birthday money from my Grandpa (thanks again!). For some reason, the video card was the one thing that mysteriously got left out when I built my new machine last fall, possibly because somehow I believed that a 64 MB graphics card was “good enough” and possibly because after everything else, I’d kind of ran out of money! Either way, this was certainly an improvement – AGP 8X integration, 256 MB on board, and even potential for dual DVI outs once I score that huge contract and can afford a couple of 24″ LCDs…
I still haven’t even bothered to run any games on the thing to push its limits – I don’t really have time to game that much anyways – but it was nice to see that I’ll actually be able to watch anything that I want to download off bittorrent once again (my old card just couldn’t keep up with the latest DiVX codecs anymore). But of course, after a few hours of letting the downloads fly free, it was brought to my attention by one of those stupid, little taskbar bubbles that I was almost out of disk space on my last free drive. Fortunately, though, luck be with me today as a quick trip to hot-deals.org revealed a truly hot deal, indeed – 200 GB for a mere fifty bucks at CompUSA…and needless to say, I was there lickity split!
Mind you, the drive was more of a pain because first I didn’t have any free power cables (had to disconnect a CD drive that I never use anyways), then the disc tool was trying to limit me to a 137 GB partition because my BIOS was out of date…and my floppy drive wasn’t working to install the update because I was stupid when I first built the computer and put the cable on upside-down (…oops…), but as of now the new drive is spinning happily with the rest, files are getting shuffled to prepare for a new onslaught of television premieres, and all is right with the world. Well, close enough anyways…
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Oh yes, but I can’t end this evening’s tale without sharing my latest infatuation with the group – I met her at CompUSA this evening and I’m not too shy to admit that I think I’m in love… :O
http://consumer.usa.canon.com/ir/controller?act=ModelDetailAct&fcategoryid=117&modelid=9870
…that’s right – she’s a printer…what did you expect?! This beautiful work of art prints at up to 13″ x 19″ with 4800 x 2400 dpi, utilizing a whopping 8 ink cartridges, and cashing my credit card out at $500. No, no – I didn’t buy it just yet because I don’t really have the space…or the excuse…or the spare change, but just think of how cool the latest episodes of Ink, Paint & Tears… would look printed out at 13″ x 19″ – sweet doesn’t even begin to describe it! Ok, so maybe not right now, but if we ever start to look like we’re going somewhere with this, it certainly could be fun for promotional stuff…we’ll see. And by the way, as far as paper is concerned, photo paper for this beast is a buck a sheet for matte, two a piece for glossy. Has anybody ever seen reams of paper that size??? I don’t know about you, but I’m psyched!
two years in review…
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On this day in history – 2003, to be specific – I first called the tropical hideaway that is the Sunshine State my new home! Just think, 731 days ago I was pulling off of that I-275 ramp with a gleam in my eye, a spring in my step, and a song in my heart after having just made arguably one of the most important trips of my life. I had a lot to look forward to that night…the horrendous back pain that comes from sleeping on a cheap, hotel bed for three weeks being but one highlight…and the more that I thought about it today, it’s hard to believe that it’s been two years already!
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book #6 is in the can…
…and note, the time for this post actually is accurate – damn, I’d forgotten just how addictive these things can be! I should’ve known better when I layed down this evening with less than half of the book to go. Oh well.
What to say, what to say? Simply put – great book, and this one kept my attention a lot better than the last, I do believe – reminded me more of the first two in that sense. I still think that it’s amazing to think that a children’s series could gap generations like Harry Potter has … as disappointing as it was to see this one end, I can only imagine how we’re all going to feel after the final installment in a couple of years! What a fun ride, that’s for sure…
Of course, in the meantime now I can get back to my regularly scheduled life, seeing as I’ve officially blown off pretty much everything that I was supposed to do over the past few days to catch up on Harry’s latest adventure! With three hours of exercise, a weeks worth of coding, and lord knows how much writing procrastination to make up tomorrow, it’s bound to be a busy Wednesday…
But until then, g’night!
I’m starting to like Steve Jobs more and more these days…
Edgar Bronfman (head of Warner Music):“That’s not to say we want to raise prices across the board or that we don’t believe in a 99-cent price point for most music, but there are some songs for which consumers would be willing to pay more. And some we’d be willing to sell for less.”
Steve Jobs (head of Apple):“If they want to raise the prices, it means that they are getting greedy…”
Check out the full article here:
Apple, record labels to face off over pricing
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/22/AR2005092201722.html
But seriously, what’s it going to take to get these record execs to realize that in this new day and age, they’re simply not going to reap the same enormous profits that they saw when CDs first came out?! Jobs later hints that changing the rate structure as proposed is only going to encourage piracy…which I would believe isn’t far from the truth. I’m sure there’s still an overwhelming majority that doesn’t pay for its music now, and it’s tactics like these that are keeping the rest of us over on the bittorrent / IRC / usenet side of the fence, not even considering the hassle that is actually paying for our music…