Oldies: Sunday, June 16 - Saturday, June 22, 2002...
Friday, 21 June 2002: For those of you who work in an office environment, you just gotta love those days when you have the opportunity to get the hell out of the office. I am doing just that today. No, I'm not taking a vacation day. I'm actually going to be doing work. I'm delivering some brochures and flyers to AU's Lake Geneva Campus for a concert series that starts this Saturday known as Music by the Lake (do note the shameless plug). It's a good hour-and-a-half drive up there from here and I'm taking Katie along with me for company (and slave labor since she'll probably help me unload the truck anyway). Our Lake Geneva Campus is absolutely gorgeous and if you ever need to just get away from it all, I highly recommend the area.
Wednesday, 19 June 2002: In contrast to yesterday's "cool" post, here's a pretty creepy
one. British engineers have developed a "tooth phone." Yes, you read that right.
It's an implant that can be surgically placed inside a tooth and contains a tiny
vibrator and a radio receiver and works like a mobile phone. Incoming signals
will be transmitted to your inner ear by bone resonance (vibration of the bones
in your head).
So, when you receive a call, your tooth will start vibrating. If you've forgotten about the phone, you'll think you're having a toothache, go to the dentist, get a root canal, and all this because little Jimmy called to get a ride home from teeball practice. Also, it's taken me long enough to get used to the sight of people using handsfree headsets on their cellphones when they drive. If you don't see the headset right away, it looks like they're talking to themselves, right? Now, you won't see jack and you're really gonna wonder who in the world needs their demons exorcised and who is just talking on their toothphone. How about the possibility of permanent migraine headaches from all the "bone resonance?"
I do have a few pretty big questions about this new technology. What kind of warranty does this phone come with? Can you imagine having to take that in to be serviced? "Um, sir, you're gonna have to rip out that tooth if you want us to work on the antenna." Imagine showing up at the customer service counter at Best Buy with your extended service plan taped to your tooth. How about charging the damn thing? Do you have to plug your head into a cigarette lighter? What about turning the stupid thing off? Can you imagine being in the middle of sex and having your head start vibrating from something other than extreme sexual ecstasy? "Yeah, baby, it was good for me, too!" Ah, who knows, it might just heighten the orgasm. You never can tell, eh? Any opinions?
Tuesday, 18 June 2002: Wanna see something pretty cool? Here's how Katie and I would
look if we were South Park characters...
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I found this pretty cool Flash application online that allows you to create custom South Park characters. The first rendering of myself found me in a strait jacket. But I decided to be a bit sweeter the second time around. Yes, I will admit that I was more than a bit gracious with my hairline. It's not my fault, the options were a bit limited. I had to customize my goatee using Photoshop. The only thing I don't like is that with this being a Flash app, it's a bit difficult for not-quite-so-literate computer users to obtain a semi-permanent copy of the character they create. I have Photoshop so it was much easier. If you know how to use screen captures, that's the best way to save this image. Oh yeah, I guess it would help if I provided the link to the site, wouldn't it? Well, here it is... South Park Creator. Ignore the German mumbo jumbo, wenn sprechst du Deutsch.
Monday, 17 June 2002: Sad news for Pam
Anderson-Lee-Rock-whatever-other-name-might-come-next. Not only is her
engagement to Kid Rock over and done with, but, it was announced today, that the
plug is being pulled on her syndicated series "V.I.P." I've got just one thing
to say... that show is still on?!?! I thought that show was gone a couple years
ago.
Sunday, 16 June 2002: Yep, I'm back, and judging by the fact that this site got
roughly 10 hits in the last week and a half, it's pretty apparent you guys
actually took me seriously when I said I wasn't gonna update while on vacation.
Ah, well. Katie and I had a boatload of fun in Florida. We visited my grandparents and our friends Jay and Kara (as well as one alcohol, dance, and cajun food fueled evening also spent with Mojo and his wife Gabriela). We hit up Daytona Beach, New Smyrna Beach, Cocoa Beach, a bit of Cape Canaveral, several spots in Orlando (no theme parks... they cost too damn much these days). It was just a ton of fun.
One thing I wanted to make note of that I found quite funny. When Katie and I were in Leesburg picking up a few groceries for one of our visits with my grandparents, we decided to buy a Central Florida map to help us get around a bit. On the map rack in a local Publix were several varieties of Florida maps as well as the requisite U.S. highway maps. However, right in the middle of one of the racks was a solitary map of... ta-daaa... the Middle East featuring Afghanistan, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia. Found that to be quite odd. We're both guessing that it's just there for those current events nuts who want to follow the goings on now that our boys (and girls) in uniform are on the march in that part of the world. The map is pretty cool, all the same, with a list of major events in the area from the end of WWII on up to modern times. Hell, the map is so recent it even includes the fact that terrorists from this area of the world hijacked planes and used them as missiles against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. I think my favorite part of the map, though, was the fact that when you open it up, the first thing you see is an American flag. That's gotta be pissing off some middle easterners. C'est la vie, eh?
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