I have decided that I keeping two seperate journals is a real pain in the ass so I am officially ending this journal with this post. You can keep up w/my exploits on my other journal lostinjersey If you're a friend here, I'll make you a friend there.

Thanks for reading.

Man claims he was attacking a goat with an ax, when it turned into his brother. Now this isn't the weird part, it's the final paragraph. Murder suspects in Nigeria, where many people believe in black magic, sometimes claim spirits tricked them into killing. In 2001, eight people were burned to death after one person in their group was accused of making a bystander's penis magically disappear.

Woman spends 14K over a period of 40 years on a leased rotary phone. The obvious questions and comments aside... I'm wondering how she returned it. A phone installed in the 60's would've been a hardwired phone. How does one return a hardwired phone?

That nurse in Oregon who caught a burglar by surprise and strangled him? Turns out he was there to kill here, a hit hired by her husband, whom she was divorcing.

Gas prices are down signifigantly. How pleasing! Course some folks are claiming that gas companies costs have dropped by a lot more and are reufsing to pass the full savings on to the individual station owners or to us...

How to use a bidet. Ok, it's pretty much what i expected, so I won't be as hesitant as I would've been otherwise.

The Tom Sawyer diner in Paramus burnt down two days ago

So who watched Survivor race war Cook islands. I was not surprised by the reaction to the announcement that this years Survivor was going to be seperated by race. I sort of expected that sort of nonsense. i think it was a lot of hullabaloo, the question is, was Mark Burnett hoping for the hulabas reaction or not? Because once you look at it negatively, it's lose-lose. If there is racial drama, you're racec baiting and a horrid person. And if there is no racial drama and it's just Survivor as usual (which it turned out to be) then folk say that there was no racial issues and it was all a stunt.

Perhaps it was a stunt. perhaps not. But I don't think you can say that it was a stunt simply because there was no racial drama. If seperating by race is bad, then so is gender and age, and I don't recall anyone whining about it last season or in Amazon. I also think that having much more non-whites is a good thing. When there's one lazy black guy, or one whiny asian woman, you can sterotype all black men as being lazy, or all asian women as whiny. When there are five black people or five asians, it's not so easy. you realize that everyone is an individual after all.

In short, STFU about how horrid the racial divide is and just watch.

That said, it was a somewhat boring premiere. But then again, to me, almost every premiere is boring except for the one with Rupert when they to neogitate with islanders, and the season where they hiked for 15 miles. THAT was drama. i generally don't get too into the show until about 6 or 7 people have been eliminated cause there's just too much going on to follow....

I won the amazing race contest, I was #11 out of I don't-know-how-many-entries! I definately have to say thanks to all the folks who helped me with the clues, I couldn't have finished it w-o you. Now I'm sure you're wondering "what did I win?" and the answer is "I DON'T KNOW!" there are 35 prizes for the first 35 finishers but they are distributed randomnly, so I'll know probably by tuesday. I didn't drive 2000 miles in 18 days and spend $300, on gas for nothing!

THANK YOU GUYS!

Bookcases, bookshelves and other book related things, and all made from books be sure to check out the funniest shelves page.

Dead Flowers video in brooklyn live... and the guitarist on the left is a co-worker of mine! Cool! I know someone on youtube!

This is insane. A police chief quit his job because of the fact that the town disapproved that his wife posted nude pictures of herself online Not I said *his wife* not him. District Attorney John Wampler has asked the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation to investigate. "In my opinion, the photos that I was shown are obscene based on local community standards," he said. what an asshole. I apoplaud the mayor for standing up to the media and critics, that took guts.

Memory device the size of a shirt button sends info out to reader device. This RFID style chip actually sounds very very cool. I can imagine readers being built into cell phones. It makes perfect sense.

Interesting article about Warcaft. I really want to see the youtube video described in thre article, but have had no luck. ANyopne know where I can find this?

Another example of questionable behavior is viewable in a video that more than 80,000 people have accessed on YouTube. When one guild member died (in real life, not Azeroth), his grieving friends decided to hold a funeral for him inside the game. The solemn affair was disrupted when a rival guild burst upon the unarmed mourners and slaughtered them mercilessly. "It's unfortunate that someone would do that to people trying to honor one of their guild members," says Mike Morhaime, Blizzard's president. Another event that bothered Blizzard's management was an in-game protest march, when hundreds of naked Gnomes gathered to call for more powers




work stuff:

A few months back we started a new *ahem* security procedure. To discuss your account you have to verify any of the following: your account #, a recent payment amt, the contact # you gave us, or a toll call on the bill. We all scoffed, thinking "this is sooooo stupid." It's not gonna keep the kids from cxalling to lift the 900 block" or whatever stuff the billnig name might notm want changed.

Turns out it was never implemewnted to keep family away.

As the recent scandal at HP reminds us, pretexting is a real privacy issue. (pretexting is when someone calls a company and pretends to be the responsibile party in the hopes of gaining access to account information and/or making changes) There was a huff about this not long ago over these companies that brazenly advertised that they could get you your ex-girlfriends phone bill for $100, and they did it by pretexting.

So if we require you to know something off the bill you can't pretext apparently. or at least it's much harder anyway.

oh, in other news, I want this phone

man postrs fake online ad seeking male sexual partners, then discloses all the respondants personal info online

Here's his LJ where he discusses the results of the "test, along with links to the respondants info, their names, email addresses and photos they sent... Here's an article about the law clerk who wrote about her sexual escapes and is being sued by one of the men she posted about, where the following argument is made (which is why it's relevant...)

rfjason could be sued civially if...

The disclosure is public. The facts were private. The plaintiff was identified. The publication was "highly offensive." And there was an "absence of legitimate concern to the public" with respect to the publication. we're not exactly talking about Dateline's "to catch a predator folks...

I tunes is set on random but I decide to play Bohemian Rhapsody wgich is the Waynes World Soundtrack. What should play next randomly buy Jimi hendrix Foxy lady, which was also on the WW sountrack.

In other news, anybody out there have a garden? We bought the place in June and planted a garden. Got cucumbers ok, but the tomatos habve grown but never turned red. I've got dozens of tomatos on the vines weighing the plant down like lead weights, but none ripe enough to pluck.

Whats up w/that?

Instead of banning smoking, this restaurant bans children. I think jonthedull would prefer a place where both are banned.

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. Looks somewhat funny.

Now this looks really funny... Stranger then fiction. It looks funny but in a trippy mind bending way, sorta like Being John Malkovitch

Idiocracy

Check out Reyes inside the Park HR on the NY mets homepage sweet.

and finally a quick rant: my cell phone only gives about 15 seconds notice before its battery dies... quite aggrevating.

I went to gamestop and had a long conversation with the manager about the PS3. Sony has delayed the European launch so they can devote their supply to the US & Japanese launch but even then there are going to be shortages. We were debating whether there will be bidding wars on PS3s at Xmas because of the high prices they will command to start and the manager said he was positive that the prices will be thru the roof. he saw an Xbox go on Ebay at xmas for over $1300 and there will be a great shortage of PS3s then there was of Xbox 360s last year.

I was thinking of preordering one, but now I am thinking of preordering three. One for me and two to sell. Figure let it close on 12/23, get paid by paypal and overnight it to the buyer in time for Xmas...

Blind teenager has mastered echolocation. He can say something adn tell the difference between a garbage can and a fire hydrant by the echo he hears back. he can roller skate, play foosball and even play video games.

I don't care if it's the worlds smallest cell phone, if you can smuggle it in your ass in prison that's gotta hurt...

Cryme Tyme the newest tag team in the WWE, is a pair of black guys from the hood who work on their speed and moves by sticking up the smoothie joint.

Who could find anything objectionable about this? Nothing stereotypical here.