Random Link of the Day

Welcome to the 419 Eater

This is the anti-nigerian scam site. It's really great. These guys do something called "scambaiting" where they wait for scammers to get into contact with them and then scam them. Fun stuff. Check it out.

Sorry I haven't written lately. I want to show

off the fireworks from 4th of July. It was a lot of fun.

Today after work, Terezita and I went to Macy's and registered for some new stuff. So, that's good. Then we walked around a little and went home. I'm going to bed early because we're going to go see Pirates tomorrow at the midnight showing. Gotta get some sleep. Good night!

The Simpsons... LIVE!

A real life version of the famous opening sequence, made in the UK.

read more | digg story

Yay! More computer for less money!!

Nothing better...

Well, today was eventful-ish. This morning I went with Terezita to the doctors. She has one more appointment before we get married. Just a little bit longer. We only have two more months! So, after that, we went and had breakfast with her parents at Denny's. Then, we went and bought fireworks for tomorrow.

Now, I have never bought fireworks before. I used to live in a place where fireworks were illegal. This was a whole new experience for me. I had fun buying them. So we got a bunch (about $20 worth) and we plan on setting a few off tomorrow morning. Fourth of July morning is the traditional pancake breakfast at my house. Since my parents are in Utah, Terezita and I are going to make pancakes at her apartment. They are plate-sized pancakes with blueberries, strawberries and whipped cream in the shape of an American flag. I'm very excited. Then we'll be going with her parents to watch fireworks somewhere in Ontario. Maybe we'll see Superman, too.

The rest of today, I spent mostly at home. I did go to the store, though, and bought stuff for tomorrow and some stuff for dinner (Terezita is at work again). I made pizza. It was a little too sweet for me, but besides that it was pretty good. I know that the picture is bad, but you get the idea. I used pepperoni and olives for the top and a seven cheese blend for the cheese. I think the problem was the sauce. It was the one included with the crust. I think that next time I will find a different one, one that is less sweet. I have about half of it left over. I don't know when I'm goign to eat it. Maybe for lunch on Thursday.

Well, I hope that all of you have a wonderful night. And have fun tomorrow, but don't get your hand burned off or anything.

ACP-EP 1 GB High Speed USB 2.0 Aloha Style SurfDrive Flash Drive - Wal-Mart

These are awesome.

ACP-EP 1 GB High Speed USB 2.0 Aloha Style SurfDrive Flash Drive - Wal-Mart

Magnetic Floating Bed: Oh. Your. God. - Gizmodo

Wow.

Magnetic Floating Bed: Oh. Your. God. - Gizmodo

Last post of the day, I promise!

Well, I finally got down to an After Hours to get my tuxes done for the wedding. It was a really good experience. The guy who helped us was just the right amount of helpful. We got cool jackets and all. It will be very nice. It felt good to get it done, too.

Terezita's first day as a Cast Member at Disneyland went really well. She loved it. They did something called "Traditions" today, which is somewhat of a presentation and tour of how cast members are supposed to act in the park. She loved it. I think that she's really going to like working there.

Other than that, not much happened. I finally got in touch with Best Man II, Allan. This got me thinking. I've known Allan for years and years and years. He is without a doubt my oldest friend. We hung out a whole lot in our lives. But recently, our lives have taken different tracks. He was always a lot... deeper than me. He is a dark poet, long hair, a dirty prophet, standing on the corner screaming for all the world to hear that the world is most certainly coming to an end. And he's often right. Whereas I may pen a poem to disclose - to let out - to flush onto the paper, Allan seems to live a poetic existance. In politics, we often agree (Socialists as we are), but he takes a more active revolutionary role. Why don't I? I have often coveted Allan's commitment to a cause. He is a far better man than me. He may very well change the world. I seem to stand on the shoulders of giants with my friends. Kasey too, is on his way to a promising political career. I'm sort of "Greg, friend to the stars!" Now, I'm really not depressed or anything by this. I am very happy for my friends. They are great men. They will do great things. I hope that I can join them. My life, though, is a different one. I have a different path. As Mohandas Gandhi said, "As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves." Or, as my mom says, "Different strokes for different folks." I love my friends. They have always been there for me and I wish them the best of luck in their futures. To them, I propose a toast. Cheers!

Dugg!

From Digg.com:

Simple question: if Rush Limbaugh, who is not married, is against premarital sex, then why does he need viagra?

read more | digg story

Know Your Rights

Interesting video on knowing your rights from the ACLU: [note: this is very long.]

Kase, can you verify this?

Random Links

Best looking myspace page ever: link

This is crazy. I'm not sure how I feel about this. This is pretty bad. He should of handled it more... discreetly. Now thousands of these pages will pop up: link

The Story of Net Neutrality and the Crazy Senator

Maybe you guys haven't heard about net neutrality. It's sort of like a... On the other hand, I'll let the ninja from AskANinja.com explain:

So here's what's happening: The phone companies pretty much run the ISPs (Internet Service Providers). Recently, there's been this cool revolution in phones: VoIP (Voice over IP (Internet Protocol). This is where you can make a phone call to anyone in the world using a phone that's hooked up to your computer. Companies like Vonage do this and Skype to a lesser degree. These are not run by any of the Baby Bells (phone companies), which ticks them off to no end. So, basically, the phone companies are charging you like $24 a month for high speed internet and you're using it to make calls instead of using their service. This causes the phone companies to lose money. It turns out that their real income comes from phone calls. Go figure.

This business plan is not working out for them. So, they decided to break out the big guns. What they want to do is block certain bits of data, or at least slow them down. This is where it starts to get confusing.

Say you have Vonage and you want to make a call. Right now, when you make a call, the data that is sent from your service is treated the same as the data you send and receive when you're surfing the web or downloading a movie or chatting using AIM. It all travels using the same speed. Under the ISPs' plan, they would purposely slow down your Vonage data so that the quality of the call decreases and you'd be forced to use their phone service.

Recently, the movie companies have come out in favor of this plan as well. They have asked the ISPs to slow down movie bits too. That would include NetFlix' new service where you can download movies online. It might even include things like YouTube and Google Video. The ISPs would then return these bits to their normal speed if you signed up for a sort of premium service.

The crux of this is that this is not the way that the internet was supposed to be. The internet is a true democracy. Anyone can post, download, look at anything they want. Data is data. It should not be bought and sold. This is straight out big business greed.

So I thought that this would never go through. No way our politicians were dumb enough to limit something so revolutionary as the internet. And then I saw this. This is Senator Ted Stevens from Alaska. It's a little hard to read, but apparently, the internet is a bunch of tubes and his staff sent him an internet on Friday. Here's the digg story. At last try, his webpage at the Senate website is suffering from the Digg effect, but here's the link.

With people like this in the Senate, my hope is dwindling. But we need to mobilize. Get out the word. Write your congresspeople. Tell your friends. Save the internet.

• Wikipedia article
• savetheinternet.com [They have a good video here about it. Better than the ninja one!]
• John Kerry on net neutrality
• The bad guys

Comment on this. Tell me your thoughts. As always, have fun and have a good day.

Of Clocks and Music

Hello, all. Well, we made it down to San Diego. It was a lot of fun. We drove down early this morning, listening to the new Dashboard Confessional CD. Yes yes, I know. Certain people reading this blog are quite happy that they weren't there, knowing what happens when Terezita, Dashboard and Greg get in the same car at the same time. The new CD is good... but not great. It's not like his other stuff, but it's good. Worth checking out if you are a fan of his, or of other people like him (which has become a very large genre).
Anyway, we drove down and got to Seaport Village about 11:00. We walked around for a while, ate, did stuff like that. I got a really cool clock. It tells time on that gear thing and the minutes are on the little silver knob thingy. Weird, yeah, but really cool. They had a cooler one there though. It had marbles that moved to different levels as the time passed. I tried to find the website, but it kinda looks like they are now defunct. Oh well, you can still buy them down in SD.
So, we had a good time, just walking around and all. They had a lot of good eating there. I had a pizza that was very good and some baklava afterwards that was... ok. Not as good as yours, Kase! So we saw a lot of cool stuff and everything.
On our way back home, we went to the San Diego County Fair. That was pretty cool too. Lots of animals and food and stuff. We saw this really good musician named Tim Mudd who was pretty darn good. I am writing this knowning that a full 50% of people who read this will not like his music in the least (*cough*Kasey*cough*). Still, it was good even if he's an "emotional young man". He was a nice enough guy, as well, in the short two seconds that I talked to him. We had good funnel cake later on. Then we came home. Terezita dropped me off and she went to her apartment. Tomorrow is her first day working at Disneyland. Hooray!
So, two odd things for you to chew on:

Strangest thing we saw at the fair today:

Read the sign.

-And:

Worst Music Video Ever.

Okay, two techno-geek links for y'all.

Cool for like two seconds, but will probably just take up space on my dresser after a few months

Stinkin' awesome. Anyone got $500 I can borrow?

Howdy y'all. Well, all two of you at least.

Shouts out to: Kasey and Terezita. Yeah. The two people who visit my blog. Oh yeah.

Anyway, as usual, I'll talk like I'm talking to the world. Terezita and I are going out to San Diego tomorrow as both of us have the day off and nothing to do. At least, that's the plan. We'll see what happens.

This morning on my way to work, a UPS truck exploded in front of me. Well, not really exploded in the fire and death sort of way. It sort of exploded into smokiness and sprayed water all over my car. At least what looked like water. Then it swerved over to the shoulder, cutting me off and almost causing an accident. Now, eight hours later, my car still has the stuff that was sprayed on it. I think evaporation would have taken care of any water. Hmmm. Well, Terezita is now over, so we're going to make dinner and all that. Later.

Sorry I haven't posted for so long.

I've been internet-less for a while here. My new house-mates just got it running again. I tell you, these girls have been so useful: fixing the internet, washing my dishes... man. Anyway. Same ol, same ol as far as everything goes. But I did find this cool farce on those cool Mac ads with the PC and the Mac guys talking. If you don't know what I'm talking about, you probably won't find this as funny as I did.

Good night, all.

Something funny?

Sad. Simply sad.

Multimedia message

This is quite the car, eh? I'm really doing this to test if i can post from my phone. Have a good day, all.

--Edit: Apparently, the whole "Multimedia" part of the "Multimedia Message" does not post. I had a picture with this. Maybe I'll post it later.

So, I helped Terezita move today.

Her cousin's place is really nice. Her husband is a cop, working the gang unit now. He is really nice. Two cats live there, both of them very cute.

After we got her moved in, we went to "The Block", which is a mall nearby. It was very nice. I ate a Rubios and had some of the best fish tacos I have ever had there. I wanted to buy an incense holder thing, but instead got this thing that holds scented oil in a dish with a tea candle beneath it. This heats up the oil and releases the scent. I haven't tried it yet, but I'm just about to.

Seems to work pretty well. I'm not sure how much oil to put in, so I didn't put in too much. I can smell it. It is a very... light scent. Like a hint of a scent. The oil is actually kinda smoking now... weird.

So yeah. Then we went to Virgin and Borders... you know, the staples - music and books. That was nice. It was really great just spending time with Terezita again. She's been sick for so long.

Well, hope all is well with whoever is reading this. Have a nice night.

It's been a while since I've posted, I know.

After some gentle pushing by Kasey, I'm gonna try to start posting again.

My car is dying. It makes a horrible noise when I'm at a stop and the engine is on. It's really horrible. I'm gonna take it to Terezita's dad (who is a mechanic) and hopefully he'll be able to do something with it. To tell the truth, I really want a new car. I've been sorta looking around. I mean, if I had all the money in the world, I'd get a Maserati no questions asked. These are the most beautiful cars on the road. What road, I don't know. I've never actually seen one driving around. More realistically, I'd like to get a Toyota Yaris. They're small, cheap, fun and Toyota is a good brand. Right up my alley. If anyone wants to do something nice for me...

Well, I'm gonna go help Terezita move into her new place today. Have a good day, all.