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Over the weekend my mom brought her laptop over to my house. She wasn’t using it and it was just collecting dust. So with no need in just having it lying around, she asked me if I thought I could use it. Me? Are you kidding? Sure I’ll take any computer you want to give me. I mean even in the worse case scenario I’ll use it to build my robot. My girl robot…

Any who, now have a laptop and a wireless network card that lets me connect to the Internet magically, without the use of wires. And who’s Internet connection am I using? That I don’t know, but I know it’s not mine. So a big thanks goes out to my mom. Then another big thanks goes out to my neighbor, who is so technologically advanced, they let me connect to the Internet all while sitting on my couch and watching TV.

For whatever reason, it took me three days to post that last entry. Three days! I just couldn’t get the 5 minutes to polish it up. Ehhhhhhhh…

If I seem a little busy for the next 3 months, it’s because I may have bitten off a little more than I can chew. Here is a list of my classes for this semester:

Normally every semester I complain about how it is the hardest one I’ve ever had. I’d be willing to bet I’m going to be saying that again this semester.

If for some reason you haven’t heard from me for a long period of time please send help. I’ll be the guy buried under a pile of books.

Apparently this morning after Heather had taken a shower and come back into the bedroom; I raised my hand up and asked her for a “High Five”. After the second request she reluctantly slapped hands with me. When she asked why I had just asked her for a “High Five”, I told her it because she had done a good job waking up and getting ready.

I only vaguely remember doing this and I have no recollection as to why I did.

The other day I was home watching Ultimate Fighting Championship on one of the obscure higher channels. I kept seeing this same commercial played over and over again. Mind you I did sit there and watch the same channel for at least three hours, but I think they played this commercial once every commercial break. This commercial, the one tries so hard to embed itself into your brain, attempts to make child abuse funny in order to sell a product.

Emerald Roasted Nuts wants you to think that someone being a total jerk to his daughter and mental abusing her is funny so you will buy nuts from them. If you don’t know the commercial I’m talking about, here is a brief description:

A guy and his daughter are sitting on the couch watching the big game. The father is eating Emerald Roasted Nuts totally oblivious to anything around him. The daughter says to her father, ever so politely, “Daddy may I have some Emerald Roasted Nuts”. The father, without even so much as looking at his daughter, says to her, “Honey, if you eat an Emerald Roasted Nut, unicorns will disappear forever”. Then by an act of God a talking unicorn appears along with Santa Clause and the Easter Bunny to set this man straight. Only out pure fear of the things sitting there in his living room does the father offer his daughter an Emerald Roasted Nut.

Perhaps this commercial is funny and I’m reading way too far into it. Then maybe you’re the one not reading into it at all.

With that said, let it be known that I’m not going to be the one to patronize advocates of child abuse and buy Emerald Roasted Nuts. Other than writing a letter to the company this is all that I can do. Perhaps by me spreading my opinion on this issue, it will persuade you not to buy Emerald Roasted Nuts as well. Together, we will make a difference, no matter how small.

Here is a link to a story that I thought was interesting.

To save you some time reading, just know that last night I had a dream that involved needing a space suit and a time machine designed and built by Nick Lachey.

Apparently MSN has started making its search engine do what most people have wanted it to do since the dawn of the internet. They have finally made it answer questions. I know that for a short while askjeeves.com used to do this, but I don’t think it has worked right since it became popular. Also I think it has actually become one of the worst search engines around now.

To better illustrate my point about asking MSN questions, here is the list of what I asked and the answers it gave me:

What is the official bird of Tennessee?
The official state bird of Tennessee is the mockingbird. The mockingbird was adopted as the state bird of Tennessee by legislative act in 1933.

What is the circumference of the earth?
World: equatorial radius: 3,963 mi

Who was the 7th President?
President: seventh: Andrew Jackson, 1829-1837

What is a Mandingo?
Definition: Mandingo a member of West African people

What is a Catamaran?
Answer: Catamaran, name applied to any craft having twin hulls. Originally it denoted a form of sailing and paddling raft employed on the coasts of India.

As cool as this MSN trick is, it still doesn’t do conversions or know what batman’s secret identity is. If you want conversion information simply go to google. It even does math equations for you. Just type in what you need and instantly there’s your answer.

Dollars to Rubles
1 U.S. dollars = 28.5684901 Russian rubles

Dollars to euros
1 U.S. dollars = 0.819537781 Euros

gallons to ounces
1 US gallons = 128 US fluid ounces

feet to meters
1 feet = 0.3048 meters

feet to hands
1 feet = 3 hands

3*74+5/32-1
(3 * 74) + (5 / 32) - 1 = 221.15625

I hope that was helpful to some of you. I don’t know what spawned this techy how-to topic but I feel really nerdy now. I’m going to go take a shower and wash this geekyness off of me before I start wearing a pocket protector and speaking elfish.

I came home from work today and realized I had left the away message on the AOL instant messenger on since yesterday afternoon. My message simply said “Stepped out for bit…”. It was just something I put up to let people know that I had left the house. Now that I’ve finally gotten back to it, I saw that someone had left me this message:

Weird, but thanks JsweetS699 I think you’re swell too.

I saw this picture and it reminded me of an old Saturday Night Live sketch in which Chris Farley plays an extremely unattractive girl who gets paid to be friends with moderately good looking women. The overall point of the sketch is that moderately good looking women should always have at least one butt ugly friend to tag along when they go out. The reason for this is because no matter how plain or bland the moderately good looking girl is, she will instantly look a 100 times more beautiful compared to her ugly beast of a friend.

Can you guess which girl in the picture might be getting paid by her friends?