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We were over at friend's house for a Christmas Eve party. The adults play Trivial pursuit. Not many questions were being answered correctly, even with teams. So after a while we switched to Scrabble. It seems to me that since you can't play names, that basically all the words you can make have to be all lower case letters. So it seems to me that the Scrabble letters should really be all lower case printed on them instead of all upper case. And the blank should have a little zero printed in the corner. Just another on of those things I'm told I think too much about. :)

Between getting up early for the new job and being sick, I haven't had a lot of energy for much. The new job is okay. The people are nice. The guys training us are a bit rapid fire, but don't expect that I will get everything the first time. But I am picking up things rather quickly. Which is nice that I can get up to speed quickly. But it also gives me a feel for how un-creative this job is likely to be. My boys started 'winter' break as of this afternoon. I get off Friday (no pay). But I will not lose another paid day around New Year's. Which is mostly good news.

My youngest son kept asking to go to the beach while we were in FLorida. It was cool and windy for Florida on Saturday, but we went to the beach anyhow. I took some pictures along the same stretch of beach as the last few times I'd been down there. 2004-12-11 Sun going down on Fort Myers Beach Bird flying Birds in flight Birds along the shore Wind blowing interesting patterns with the sand Windy, cool day on Florida beach Beach - Gentle waves on Fort Myers Beach 2004-12-11 Fort Myers Beach Pier

I'm back from Florida. We all went down for a long weekend for my father's service. It wasn't as emotional as I expected. I got to see a bunch of relatives I don't see much, including a cousin I hadn't seen for about 9 years. The kids had a lot of fun in the hotel pool quite a few times over the weekend. The time just flew by. We got in late, and I drove down from Denver while the rest slept. I managed to catch a nap this afternoon which helped a lot. I wanted to thank all my blog friends for all their great support during this time. All your comments meant so much to me! Thank you all!

My father passed away on Sunday afternoon. He had Alzheimers for a number of years. I keep explaining to everyone who expects me to be devastated that I've already done a bunch of mourning. I know the service on Friday will be sad and emotional, but so far I haven't cried. I last saw him this past summer. I am sure he recognized me, but he was already showing that he didn't know who I was. So in my mind, I started to say goodbye then. When I went to my uncle's funeral a few months ago, and saw much cousins speaking about their father, I realized that I would be in that same spot in not too long. Sometimes with Alzheimers, the person's body stay much longer after their mind has gone. My dad was just at that point of slipping both complete beyond who he was and beyond the point of living comfortably. He was no longer happy. So it was a very good time for him to have his final rest. I was glad my sister was able to be with him to the end. His lung

The other day I got a call from home: there was no hot water. As the house and hot water heater was less than 4 years old, I was hopeful it was something simple - like maybe the kids played with a controls or that the pilot light somehow went out. I had trouble with the pilot light going out about 3 times back in New Jersey. When I got home, I hadn't remembered that the hot water heater was out. I remembered when I went to wash my hands with hot water. After I had just formed a bunch of hamburgers. Bad time to remember there was no hot water. I cleaned my hands as best as I could, and started warming some water on the stove. After dinner I went down to check the water heater. As I opened the door, I could tell it wasn't a simple problem. I heard a hissing noise. I saw water on the floor. As I got closer, I heard water spraying on top, going up the vent. And there appeared to be no heat in the system. I turned off the water and took off the top.

Reuters.com - Townsfolk Face Fight Over Cats and Dogs

Reuters UK - Eiffel Tower offers sky-high ice-skating challenge On the first floor platform. So all of you planning a visit to Disney in Paris can plan on a side trip - for a limited time!

From the interview I had Monday, I was told to expect a call from the section head on the East coast yesterday or today. I did not get the call yesterday. At work Yesterday I got an email that today they had a team-building outing planned. A number of the groups were going to see the movie National Treasure . I had just see the movie this past weekend. Also I wasn't sure of the value of going on a team-building outing with only 3 days left on the job. I was still undecided as the day went on. It was getting close to time to decide when the phone rang. It was the section head from the interview. He talked to me for about 10 minutes. Overall I thought it went well. I figured I had enough time to make it to the movie, and I decided that I was in the mood for popcorn. I also was losing concentration on the project I was trying to finish up, so I thought the movie would be a good break. I'd have to pay for the movie, but the company should pay for my time as if I

I have noticed that driving styles seem to change depending on the area of the country. I have noticed some trates in certain area. In New York, people are very likey to rush by in the right lane to cut you off at a squeeze - and this often backs up traffic. In New Jersey, many people like to run through stop signs. In Florida, they like to cut back very close in front of you after passing on the left - much closer than safe following distance, so you either have to slow down or wind up tailgating the person in front for more than few seconds. I hate driving in Florida. When I moved to Colorado 4 years ago, I noticed differences in the average driving style. You will see people move out of a merge lane way ahead of the merge - even when there is bad traffic - this lets traffic keept moving at a better pace than places where people rush to cut in front, stalling the merge. I noticed here that people would almost always come to a full stop at a stop sign. People also seemed to

Is it impersonal? Is it worth the seemingly improved doctor care? I love seeing interesting uses of robots - and this one has some practical use - yet I question if there might be another solution on Roboton: Rosie - Doctor's Telepresense Robot

It snow yesterday and last night. We got maybe an inch. But the schools we on 2 hour delay. I can understand - it was cold, blowing, and the snow created a layer of ice on the road, and they were not sure if we would get more snow. When I looked on the weather report, I saw a hole from Colorado Springs down to Pueblo with no snow expected. Weird to see a hole like that. But it did bode well for getting the kids to school in time before my interview at 1:30. But thinking about getting the kids in at 10, I debated going into work. I would lose time going in and having to leave not that long after. So I decided to dial in instead. I'm glad I have a good boss for that - for one more week. I redressed in my best suit and headed over for my interview. I met the boss of the group. He seemed like a very nice person. I think he may be descended from native Americans, not that it matters. He spent a lot of time telling me about the position and the work. The biggest surpr

A plant that changes colors in response to leaking chemicals from a land mine. Now this is something smart! Core77 - Materials and Processes Found on BoingBoing - Genetically engineered plants detect land mines by changing color

We got a babysitter last night. We went out to dinner, then to see the movie National Treasure . It was a fun adventure if you don't take it too seriously. While most of the movie is pretty plausible, there are some parts that are just a bit unbelievable.

For the first time in ages, I watched Real Genius again. I wasn't feeling great, so this movie was the perfect lie-in-bed-and-get-some-rest movie. I think I have this movie on video tape someplace, but I'm not sure where. So I watched it from broadcast TV. I wonder what I missed being 'edited' for television. I could tell there were at least 2 places they voiced over curses. :) I checked on IMDB on some of the actors to see what they were doing. It was interesting to read that the woman who played the hyper-girl, named Jordan in the movie, has moved out of acting. She is supposed to live in Canada, is a mom of 3, and has taken up being a Zen Buddhist.

The day after thanksgiving is nicknamed black Friday. It is a huge shopping day, and it often the day that merchants turn a profit for the year. Most places have the biggest sales of the season just on that one day. So it makes a busy shopping day even more crazy. We looked through the circulars and say a number of very good prices. My wife was planning to get up early to go up to Denver when the Disney store opened at 5am. Instead she only got up a little early to hit 3 or 4 stores here in town. Mostly it was technology stuff. She got herself a new color palm. It is a Zire, that is also an MP3 player! I'm so jealous. But not enough to spend another $100, when the palm I have works just fine. She also got a 256M SD memory card for it. And she got me some DVD-Rs real cheap. And a new hard drive. A 160G for only $40 after rebate - now that is a bargain! She picked up a DVD player for the kids. There was one for $20, about half the price of the cheapest normally. But

Site Meter does not seem to be working for my blogs today. I wonder what is up? Maybe they had a database crash and everybody is off enjoying the 4 day Thanksgiving day weekend! Maybe it is time for a secondary hit counter.

Counting down. One more week. Next Friday is the day my contract runs out. And I know it will not be renewed. With Thanksgiving yesterday, I lost a day;s worth of hours. Not great when I only have one more week. So I figured I might try to put in some extra hours today. But I managed to get to work a bit later than usual. And when I pulled up there were maybe 10 other cars in the parking lot. A parking lot that usually has a couple of hundred. So I guess everybody else has it off. Not the first time it happened. Last time they had the door I used shut off, so I had to go way around front to get in. And then the agency questioned if I really worked that day. I knew they could check the door logs if they wanted. It would show that I came into work, even if everyone else didn't. It wasn't a paid day off for me. So this past Tuesday evening, the job situation was getting me down. I was wishing I as least had an interview. I have about 4 recruiters that are supp

Picture Theme: Prosperity I am not a big fan of fish-sushi, other's in my family love it. It is a rare treat due to it's cost. When we are prosperous, we can afford a treat like this occasionally. Picture posted for Photo Friday 's theme this week: Prosperity

I ran adaware and spybot. Adaware came back clean. Spybot came up with something. It seems that Windows Media Player added a ClientID field in three places in my registry. It warns that this ID can be sent up each time Windows Media Player goes online: get CD info or get a codec. I let Spybot clean out the ClientID.

I have a couple of observations with windows XP service pack 2... The first involves the change to wireless. Some of the dialog windows with wireless have changed. I don't see any real problem with that. The other change is the icon in the system tray in the lower right. They changed the wireless network icon from the standard two computers, one behind the other, to an icon that just has one computer with some curved lines going away indication radio waves. The problem I have is that the new icon steals functionality that I liked. With the standard network icon, you see outgoing and incoming packets when the monitors 'light' up. With the new wireless icon, you only get a 'light' when the data goes either way. I like the separate incoming light, as it tells me when the computer is getting an IP address from my router when first connecting to the network. It also shows me if I'm not getting data back on things like downloads. But that is not the mos

Well, after many weeks of procrastination, I finally did it. I let Windows XP Service Pack 2 install. I had hesitated for a couple of reasons. One was a couple of horror stories I'd read about SP2. Of course, I believe most of those horror stories came from people running, shall we say, non-standard versions of Windows XP. And I wanted to be sure that all my data was decently backed up. So after copying most files over the network to my desktop, I also burned a few CD-Rs today. Normally I wouldn't be quite so paranoid about doing an upgrade, but I realized I would have some extra challenges with a laptop if I had trouble. If it were a desktop, I'd have the option of taking out a hard drive, and making it a secondary on another machine to get data off. But with the laptop, I don't really have that option. So I wanted to be safe. I managed to clean up some space just as the SP2 install was loading. It turned out well, as SP2 used up about 850M on my hard

An interesting article: Workers of The IT World, Unite! - Computerworld Having been out of work about 14 months cumulative in the last 4 years, I am upset about the excessive number of computer jobs going overseas. And in theory, I think having a union to represent us might be an advantage. This article points out 2 unions that have some in-roads in the computer field. One of them is CWA. I've had some dealings with the Communication Workers of America. Due to my interactions with them before, I do not feel comfortable with going to CWA. Let me tell you about being a union worker under CWA. When I started with AT&T back in 1984, I was given two choices. I could have union dues taken out of my pay check, and join the union, or I could have the same amount deducted from my pay anyhow. Not too hard a choice, but it sounded wacky to me. The job I had before AT&T did not treat us very well, and I practically organized a union in that shop. So joining the u

I had this idea a number of years ago. Instead of trying to stuff more and more candles on a birthday cake to represent the age, you could represent the age in binary. It seems I'm not the only one to think of this. I guess I shouldn't be surprised with all the other creative geeks out there. I found: A Binary Birthday Cake and Binary birthday candles . I have done binary birthday candles two different ways. The way that seems to be done most often is to light candles for the one bits, and don't light the candles for zero bits. I've done this, and the two sites I found did it this way too. I've also done it by color coding. One color is on, the other color is off. Of course from the left, the first candle color is the one bit. So in the case above, the order of the candle-bits are 32-16-8-4-2-1 with the 32, 8 and 1 on. So 41 [decimal] in only 6 candles. Don't forget the parity candle-bit for good luck! Binary conversion

Today I got an anonymous comment today on an entry I wrote on my shared TechChatter blog: ...thank you! I was having the exact same problem and it was very frustrating. I also noticed the SCRL and typed in SCRL under help and got nothing; looking under SCROLL also got me nothing. It wasn't until I yahoo'ed the "excel scroll" that I got your answer - I really appreciate your help!! This is exactally why I post information like this on my blog. To help other people! This is the kind of anonymous comments I like. Although I'd prefer if people at least put their first name at the bottom of their comments. Interesting to note: The commentor appears to be from Singapore. The search term they used excel scroll , my TechChatter entry comes up as the second item found. Neat!

New dual screen successor to Game Boy Advance to go on sale in the US on Sunday. BostonHerald.com - Technology: Review: Nintendo DS a sleek powerhouse

"More than 10 tons of Chinese-made plastic toy bricks will go up in smoke when the largest customs haul of illegal imitation Legos ever seized is incinerated, a Finnish customs official said on Friday." "more than 54,500 fake sets" Boston.com / News / Odds & ends / Record haul of fake Lego to go up in smoke

Nov. 18 - RoboCoaster G2, a new 'robotic' roller coaster ride promised to change the face of amusement park rides. It was unveiled today to amusement park executives in Orlando, Florida. On Thrill Ride Experence it looks 4 passenger beam on what looks like an industrial robot arm riding down a roller coaster track.

Picture Theme: Pattern We set up the kids' wreck (sp) room to look like a caravan tent for a celebration. There were a number of different patterns. For: Photo Friday: Patterns

For those of you who are new to the situation, you can read the earlier parts of the story: Suspended Part 1 Suspended Part 2 It seems the teacher at the core of this situation has some views on the situation. He thinks the situation is a bit out of hand. He thought my son would only be disciplined by the one administrator when the teacher gave the picture to this administrator. It turns out the teacher was amused by the picture of the dragon attacking him that my son drew. The fact that he does *not* particularly feel threatened is a good thing for the assessment. My son drew a picture of a dragon attacking a teacher. Does this sound like a child, an 11 year old, who is a real danger? Columbine has made people a tad over sensitive. Well the good news is that my son will be back in school on Monday. The bad news is that the situation is not resolved, and technically he is still suspended. But on Monday, he will be on an in-school suspension. That means he will be i

A note to the person from RoadRunner ISP in the SouthEast of the US running Windows XP who left an anonymous comment about my son's suspension. I might take your comment a little more seriously if you had the courage to sign your comment. I might take your comment a little more seriously if your writing wasn't simply inflamitory. At best it was a cheap attempt to upset me. But the inflamitory wording stole any valid meaning from your comment. And your saying that I accept and excuse his actions shows how little you really read of what I wrote and how little you know me. But that is okay, I wouldn't care to know someone like you. I debated deleting the comment as having no value. But instead I'll leave it so other visitors can also enjoy laughing at your pathetic attempts to hurt with your closed-minded words.

Disney has relauched the muppets with the new site: Muppets.com -- the New Official Home of the Muppets! Of course, like all things Disney, this redirects you to a go.com site.

I have added a Homeland Security Advisory System to this blog on the sidebar. Sesame Street characters define the security threat level. Current Level: All the terror levels: So, when Elmo comes out, it is time to be very, very afraid! Found on: Moogie's World

The other night I rented the movie 50 First Dates . When I had seen the previews for it, it looked really silly. The last couple of movies I saw with Adam Sandler seemed pretty dumb. I was not expecting much from the movie. And there was a bunch of dumb stuff in the movie. But the movie itself was rather touching. It was sweet and even caused me to get choked up. So this movie turned out to be surprisingly enjoyable.

Snow Pictures - Winter 2003-2004

On blog Hello World it's me.. Sweety , she posts a wild picture about once a week, asking visitors to post funny captions. The last few times, I went to post a funny caption. I get carried away each time. I think this week was a new record: I think I posted 25. You might even think some of them are funny! :) It was odd. For some reason the 'Caption Time!' entry did not show up in my RSS Reader.

I found out a couple of more details to the situation. It seems that yes, my son had drawn a picture of killing his teacher. It seems he was mad at the teacher. And he didn't know how to say it in words, and he had been told by a people back in New Jersey that if he was having trouble, he could draw a picture of how he felt. But it gets interesting. Want to know why he was mad at his teacher? He had been switched from one class to another situation. The teacher gave him words that my son thought were too simple. My son wanted harder words. The teacher told him to prove himself with the easy words, then he would be given harder words. My son refused to do the simple words. He wanted the harder words right away. The teacher refused. So my son was frustrated. Instead of doing the simple words and proving himself, he decided to draw some cartoons to show his frustration, and to prove that they couldn't make him do the work. Sigh. It is just so stupid. A

In Colorado they are still rather touchy on the subject of any threat of violence in school. My eldest boy was drawing a picture when a teacher came by. It seems the picture showed some sort of violence against another teacher. I know him, it was probably just a silly cartoon. But they reacted very strongly and very quickly. He has been suspended for probably the rest of this week. The issue has to go to a treat assessment team to decide if he will be let back in. And it seems that he narrowly missed getting arrested. If he had handed it to the teacher or spoken to anyone he could have been arrested. Sounds excessive to me. He was sorry and a little bit upset. But not very upset. So I figured I had to take him to work with me. Luckily they are really good about that at work. Of course what are they going to do if they don't like it? Let me go? They are already letting me go. I got official email notice yesterday that my contract officially ends Dec 3. I had hop

Snow Pictures - Winter 2002-2003

Netcraft: Domain Transfers (and Hijackings) to Become Easier As found on Looking Out - Lock your domain(s) The new standard is that someone can take over your domain if you don't actively deny it withing 5 days. 5 days!? - what if you are on vacation for 5 days and don't check your email?? NASTY

I only match 20% on my Zodiac sign. I wonder if I match another better? Note, on the quiz web page there are two Aries (at this time) The second one is really Pisces. You are 20 % Leo How much do you match your zodiac sign?

1. Who was the first person to look at a cow and say, "I think I'll squeeze these dangly things here, and drink whatever comes out?" Probably a woman who was tired of breastfeeding - said: "I'm worn out, you want more you can share with the calf over there" 2. Who was the first person to say, "See that chicken there? I'm gonna eat the next thing that comes outta it's butt." Some starving person, watching all the animals eating eggs, figuring that it must be safe to eat if they eat it 3. Why is there a light in the fridge and not in the freezer? Could be any number of reasons: not used as much, so why run extra wires and save some money; Don't want to add the heat of a bulb to the freezer; Worry about the bulb shattering from the temperature change 4. If Jimmy cracks corn and no one cares, why is there a song about him? I always heard the version where Jimmy cracks corn and *I* don't care. You can care if you want,

Photo Theme: Busy A busy downtown Denver street. For: Moody Monday: Busy

Thanks to the people who signed my GuestMap so far! I got two from people who were new to me. One look like a nice person from Connecticut. The other was a post from a guy, calling himself Tom. His pin showed that he said he was from Austrailia. He post that his town was oompaloompa. His comment said "Oompa loompa doopity doo.... HI!" The IP address he posted from was 172.163.249.122, which is part of the America Online domain. Doesn't sound like Austrailia to me. His website tomtom.net is just a place holder. His email tomtom@tom.net bounced. I have deleted his entry. Tom, if you are a real person, but are just avoiding spam, please contact me and I'll let you repost. Only real posts on my guestmap please.

I've added the popular Guest Map to my main blog. Please sign my guest map - I love to see where people are! Thanks for signing! Use the icon below or on the sidebar   Bravenet.com - Free websites, guestbook, forum, counter, classifieds, calendar, journal and more!

Snow Pictures 2001-2002 It is a snowy day today. A lazy snowy day. I am posting a bunch of snowy pictures from the first winter I had my digital camera: 2001-2002. I have 50 pictures posted on my Keith's Pictures blog.

An interesting anonymous blog entry related to the topic is linked to in this article. Electronic Arts faces overtime lawsuit | Tech News on ZDNet

Stories of problems with getting a Dell Computer. Dell Hell A number of the stories talk about Dell turning over items to collection agencies and ruining peoples credit ratings on items that were returned and acknowledged at Dell. Considering how many times it has happened, and how poorly it was handled, I would say that I would recommend against buying from Dell.

Grab the nearest book. Open the book to page 23. Find the fifth sentence. Post the text of the sentence in your journal......along with these instructions. ++++++++++ You may be sorry to hear that the nearest book is a book on Java programming - but I'll give it a shot... --- "This feature has been enhanced for the 1.2 JDK release to employ HTML frames and tables for greater ease of use." +++++ Found on i n n e r o u t i n g s Who got it from My Chaotic Neurotic Klutzy Life...

Photo Theme: Tree Taken riding around the lake from Frisco, CO, in the Brekenridge area. For I-Gizmo

Picture Theme: Family A giant family of prairie Dogs, located a block away from where I225 starts at I25 in Denver. Just in front of a big apartment building. And these wild animals are known not just for putting holes in the ground, they are also known for carrying the plague. That is one of the reasons I didn't take a closer picture. They are also very timid, yet noisy creatures. For Photo Friday Challenge: Family

On more disturbing news on going out of your way to overdue trying to capture the little guy. This product takes pictures of a group of people when it thinks it sees a video camera. Yet the product had lots of false positives. And by taking pictures of a group, it may well be identifying more innocent people. Who knows - you could be sitting net to someone who set up a camera you didn't know was there. Next thing you know, you could be in court, trying vainly to explain that you didn't know anything about it. Have things gone too far already? Boing Boing: A new tech eye on in-theater piracy

You're Watership Down ! by Richard Adams Though many think of you as a bit young, even childish, you're actually incredibly deep and complex. You show people the need to rethink their assumptions, and confront them on everything from how they think to where they build their houses. You might be one of the greatest people of all time. You'd be recognized as such if you weren't always talking about talking rabbits. Take the Book Quiz at the Blue Pyramid . Found on: Aurorealis: Book Quiz I remember this book well. I loved it as a young teen. I had a friend I loaned books to. She never complained about wacky science fiction. But this one book she complained about. She didn't like it. 'A book about damned talking rabbits!'. LOL.

I have an apology to make to a bunch of my blog friends. A week ago I whined that it looked like no one was blogrolling me . Since then, I've had two people showing up in blogrolling. But that is not why I need to say sorry. I'm sorry for putting too much importance on having people linking back to me. I'm also very sorry to a number of friends that have blogrolled me, but *I* messed up seeing that they linked to me. I suddenly realized when I was on blogrolling, that I had another URL pointing to this blog. I gave out the link: http://blog.kah731.com to a number of people, especially earlier on. It is just a hidden frame that points to the blogger server for my blog: http://kah731.blogspot.com. When I typed in the blog.kah731.com, I saw another friend that has been blogrolling linking me for a long time. Then I took a page from blogshares, which sometimes catalogs a site both with and without the trailing slash in the URL. When I took the slash off, I ha

Boing Boing: Shaw is censoring Internet feeds and lying about it

"Po' Mans Burritos, Cell Block Fudge or Jail Mix, anyone?" AP Wire | 11/11/2004 | New cookbook celebrates cellblock cuisine

A little odd - but a neat way to get attention. In English or French . Found on Dusting My Brain She found it on Chasing Daisy And she found it on Bleu Blanc Log Who found it on KopiKol

I've just finished writing up a visual guide to using Google's Picasa/Hello/BloggerBot for uploading pictures to Blogger blogs. It doesn't cover everything about the product. Just a lot of important things to know when using the product, especially when just starting out uploading pictures. Read it on TechChatter: Posting Pictures - Hello/BloggerBot Guide

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: AP - High-Tech: Online learning has schools nervous We were one of those online homeschooling families until last year. It seems there is one factor that the article doesn't tell you about. The Colorado school system has pushed very hard to make the online school have to report as much or more than physical schools. This means the pressure from the online systems to the parents and students using the online system has gone up dramatically. We found COVA way too stressful as a full-time education system. That is one of the reasons we don't homeschool anymore. And you should know why it was extra stressful. As homeschoolers, there were more opportunities to teach other than the online system. But the online system can take up so much time, that it can be very hard to take advantage of some of the other opportunities.

I found this open gun range in the hills. When I saw how many shotgun shells were left littered all over the place, I just thought how wrong that was. So I took photographic evidence. I also appreciated the artistic colors of the shells. All 6 photos I took at the range Photo Theme Wrong for Moody Monday

Jewish Celebration Trade Show Tries to Set a World Record for Highest Doughnut Wedding Cake ...Made with Krispy Kreme doughnuts ABC News: Event Tries for Doughnut Cake Record

'Was Berlin, and the slight the copes...' Boing Boing: Jabberwocky in machine-transcription

eBay item 5527273221 (Ends Oct-22-04 17:40:07 PDT) - 2 invitations to a wedding I don't want to go to This guy was selling a wedding invitation for two, to a friend's wedding. Turns out the bride was a former girlfriend or some such. And he parted on not so nice terms with her. But it gets quite sticky when you read all the followups. It seems there were other invites added to the sale. Then at the end, he pulled back his sale of the invitiation. It seems the bride called him. He decided to go to the wedding. It seems his plan was to go to the wedding to win her back, and get her to marry him instead. Sounds very sticky. His last comment was a promise to post a followup on his website: twinklydog.net

I just watched the trailer for Episode 3 - Revenge of the Sith on the starwars.com site. For the first half of the trailer, it was just old footage. Reminding us of where the story was. Then at halfway, the new scenes started showing. Maybe I'm just a sap, but the trailer gave me chills watching it. I can't wait to see it. Yet I have to wait until May 19th!!! That is over 6 months away!!!!!!

Found on Misanthropic-Tendencies From the NY Times - The Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made I've highlighted the ones I've seen from the list. As it is a big list, I've set it to be hidden. I've added some favorite quotes to ones I've seen. Show/Hide the list below A À Nous la Liberté (1932) About Schmidt (2002) Absence of Malice (1981) Adam’s Rib (1949) Adaptation (2002) The Adjuster (1991) The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) Affliction (1998) The African Queen (1952) L’Age d’Or (1930, reviewed 1964) Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972, reviewed 1977) A.I. (2001) Airplane! (1980) "I picked the wrong week to give up sniffing glue" Aladdin (1992) "Poof! Whaddya want?" Alexander Nevsky (1939) Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1975) Alice’s Restaurant (1969) Aliens (1986) '...In space no one can hear you scream.' All About Eve (1950) All About My Mother (1999) All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) All That