Tina Eat the Ham!

This is pretty funny check it out

Good Picture

Name that Gizmo!

Someday he can tell his kids the one time he fired a shot

Umm are they mocking the holy grilled cheese?

Fot the wealthy Star Wars Fan

LOL ">here they go again, notice the bidder

Spring

I'm soo glad winter is over. We got a ton of snow making the many parking bans difficult. I guess the good thing is that these types of winters keep people out of Maine. I don't mind people, just not too many like what is happening in Southern New Hampshire and in Massachussets. So yes the winter was not fun, but its over and we can enjoy a summer of good weather atleast until the tourists invade. The new giant ship docks they are or have put in in Portland are a bit scary. Giant tour ships can now come to Portland. This is good news for businesses and helpful for the city. On the other hand it gets annoying trying to walk down the street and have mutiple people ask you where they can find a good lobster. My answer to that question used to be or should have been a bar called The Stadium. This is a nice sports bar but until recently had a lobster machine where if you were skillful enough your prize would be a live lobster(as opposed to a stuffed animal etc). I regret not getting a picture of this as it was really one of a kind. They recently took it out as they were informed they had to get a rather expensive shelfish license.(Yes they really do like to tax everything).

Anyways I may have some time this weekend to work on the site a bit and really want to try some new blogger tools etc. Here are a couple pics of us playing bball.





I talk a lot of trash when I play bball. For some reason I enjoy it. Even if I am getting beaten 10-0 I'll talk up my one point I'm about to score so much it will determine the person I am playing against not to let me score that point!

Needies!

Needies!

Needies are interactive plush dolls inspired by codependent, high-maintenance relationships.

Totally attention-starved, they compete with each other for human affection -- or, getting touch, as they like to say.

When you give Needies touch (by hugging and squeezing them), they will return your kindness with songs and shameless flattery.

But remember that Needies always know when other Needies are getting touch! If one Needie is getting touch while others are neglected, the unloved Needies will conspire to take its place.

Fun

I may be back to more regular blogger updates! I dunno but I do know that I love sharing things like This. I got this from Lynn's site. I like the one with the poor Star Wars kid who has become a bit of an internet legend. Type in Star Wars kid in Yahoo and you will find a ton of entries. The moral here is perhaps A) do not get a silly picture of yourself taken and B) don't be silly in the first place to get a silly picture of yourself taken. With everyone having digital cameras and now cell phone cameras it's a good bet someone will get you.

I should post some NYC pics I realize but I havent even posted my pictures from this past Fall so I am a bit behind. I'll also figure out how to add an RSS feed. I am sure it's not too tricky even for myself although at times I question my web skills. I say the word skills and am reminded of Napolean and start quoting that movie again and then realize how easily sidetracked I am then also realize I probably just woke up my roomate in the room over quoting Napolean and that I used the word realize too many times and made a huge run on sentence that I am too lazy to fix.

I'm actually in the mood to write something, but it's past bedtime and work lingers in the distance. I'm not sure how gramatically correct that last sentence was not to mention my spelling of gramatically.

NYC

Took a weekend trip to New York City. We took the entire family or atleast a good chunk of us, squeezing 7 people in an SUV we rented. The drive took about seven hours due to some heavy traffic closer to the city.

Thats a lot of driving but the trip was fun. I finally saw my sister's apartment which I had failed to do on previous trips and on a week long business trip. Brooklyn is a ways away from everything else, especially for me and my lack of subway experience.

I'll write more later hopefully but like the last few months I am going to have no time this week. I'll post some pics in the pics area soon which takes a lot less time than writing )

We did see Spamalot . My sister actually got Eric Idle's tickets. The seats were superb, making my first play in NYC more memerable. This was better than I had anticipated. They seemed to take the best parts of the movie and expand on them. Up until the kind of rushed finish this was perhaps the funniest movie/play I have seen. This deserves most of the praise it has received.(more soon)

Moving Day

Another move and hopefully the last for awhile.
I did not like my old apartment and decided to cut my losses.
In hindsight I am not sure what I was thinking. When you are in your bedroom and you can see throught the cracks in the floor into the basement, that is not a place you want to be, especially if you want to stay warm.
I bought almost all new furniture at the Hub furniture shop in Portland. If you ever need to buy anything, this place is huge and not very well know.
The double recliner couch anf new computer desk are definately the highlights. I was previosly using our computer desk from our first PC from 1982 or 1984, one of those two. It was a custom desk for the IBM PC Jr.(I could write a bit about that little experiment that went very bad, the PC jr that is.)
Anyways the new computer desk was quite pricey but its not bad. I finally have a pull out keyboard so no more carpel tunnel although 22 years of pc games has pretty much doomed me in that respect.
We even have a nice porch complete with plastic chairs and hopefully a nice grill. Growing up, most of our meals were cooked outdoors on a grill so it's kind of an ingrained desire.
I took some pictures but realised they were all of TJ, oh well.

He does not want his picture taken and lets me have it!




He finds Easter Spongebob who's life was short. The good thing is this kept him happy for hours and away from all the chewy wires and feet.

This story kills me

COLLBRAN, Colo. - First there was Mike the Headless Chicken, a rooster that survived for 18 months after having its head lopped off with an ax.

Now, western Colorado has a new chicken survival story, this one involving a man who claims he saved his fowl by giving it mouth-to-beak resuscitation.

Uegene Safken says one of the chickens in his young flock had gotten into a tub of water in the yard last week and appeared to have died.

Safken said he first swung the chicken by the feet to revive it. When that failed, he continued swinging and blowing into its beak.

"Then one eye opened. I thought it was an involuntary response," Safken said. The chicken's beak opened a little wider, and Safken started yelling at it: "You're too young to die!

"Every time I'd yell at him, he'd chirp," Safken said.

Mike the Headless Chicken survived a beheading in 1945 in Fruita, Colo. Afterward, Mike could go through the motions of pecking for food, and when he tried to crow, a gurgle came out. His owner put feed and water directly into Mike's gullet with an eyedropper.

Scientists examined the chicken and theorized Mike had enough of a brain stem left to live headless. He was a popular attraction until he choked to death on a corn kernel.

America comes in second

It appears Americans are now in second place in television watching.


The newly released report from Eurodata TV Worldwide, the focus of a panel discussion at the MIPTV convention in Cannes, also found Americans' daily dose of TV climbed by three minutes last year to an average of four hours and 28 minutes -- nearly 90 minutes above the world average.

The Japanese watched the most television last year, clocking in a daily average of five hours.

Story

Clocky!

Clocky seems to be all the buzz nowadays. Sleepy people arounf the world are waiting for Clocky to hit retail shelves as one college student realizes he'll probably never have to work after this invention.

Clocky!

Ipods and fantasy baseball

I Saw a heavy set middle aged woman walking down the street with an Ipod today. All those cool kids better start finding a new product!

Fantasy baseball is in full swing. I love it and will be playing for years to come hopefully.

Weekend

Saw some movies lately. Sin City was pretty cool. Micky Rourke was probably the best character. Mickey Rourke, Bruce Willis, Benicio Del Toro, Clive Owen, Elijah Wood, Jessica Alba, Brittany Murphy, Josh Hartnett, Nick Stahl, Rosario Dawson, Michael Clarke Duncan, Michael Madsen, Rutger Hauer were all stars in the film. Some did well some were kinda bad. The story is the closest a movie has come to a comic book and used mostly digital backgrounds. For once it worked. I still do not like movies that overuse computers (Star Wars, Sky Captain).





This could be considered a classic film in years to come or at the very least a pioneer type movie. I liked it. I loved the monologues and the three main characters. There are a few cheesy scenes here and some surpisingly bad acting jobs. Considering this is one of the better casts ever assembled that was too bad.

The Jacket
This was a very cool film in the vain of Butterfly Effect. I love these kind of time traveling films. This movie is about a military veteran who goes on a journey into the future, where he can foresee his death, and is left with questions that could save his life and those he loves. It was not as depressing as the Butterfly Effect but probably as good. I would recommend seeing it.


Shiri
This was a 1999 Korean film. If I had seen it last year it may have made my top 10 list which would have been the third Korean film to make the list. Up until Tae Guk Gi came out (on my top 10 list), this was the biggest movie ever in korea, finally beating out Titanic. The movie stars Suk-kyu Han (Lost) and is a great action film. It does borrow from american action films like the Rock yet has a better story. Although the film tries to offer up a love story, it's mostly lost in the hail of bullets and loud explosions which is very nice! Intelligently paced and with a little twist in the middle, Shiri proves Hollywood and Hong Kong are not the only big fish in the international pond of action thrillers. Good acting, fine script - in short, an impressive film.

Be Cool
Great cast, kinda funny but ultimately a poor film. The Rock was great in this.

Constantine
This was a prett bad film. Hollywood is still trying to cash in on the comic book craze.
Maria Full of Grace
Good Movie about a drug runner from Columbia. The acting was great and Catalina Sandino Moreno was nominated for an Academy Award. She went on to steal the awards in the amount of attention she got which is nice as they usually focus on the same people every year.

The ultimate dinner!

In an attempt to not leave the apartment and not spend any money I had to summon every ounce of my cooking skills tonight. I had some noodles but no sauce. What I created was truly magical. I took a large can of diced tomatoes, a can of corn, some tahini, garlic, spices, cornbread mix and the magic ingredient: Peanut butter.
I turned those bland noodles into a luscious dinner.
I do things like this all the time and usually its not edible. This time it just all came together!

April Fool's

Top 100 April Fool's jokes I got these from Ben's Site