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January 29, 2003

Yeah, It's Been Warm...
...but Alta's forcast for today is lunacy! (check the predicted low temp):

Forecast For Wednesday, January 29th

Sky Cover: Partly sunny
High & Low Temp: High today near 44, and low tonight near 230 degrees
Winds: Light
Expected Snowfall: 0"
Extended Forecast:
The extended forecast calls for this pattern of scattered snow flurries, partly clear skies and mild temperatures to continue though the weekend. More snow is possible on Thursday with a stronger system on Saturday

January 23, 2003

January 17, 2003

Must Flee TV

Happened to have NBC on last night for the majority of their prime time fare. I don't usually do this. Sure, I've watched an occasional Friends this season and Scrubs is kinda OK, but, WTF? At one time during television seasons of bygone days, NBC on Thursday nights could be reasonably counted upon to produce at least some chuckles if not outright LOL. Now?

Friends - a dismal characterization of its former self - and it was never all that funny to begin with. These people are total morons bordering on the psychotic. There is no way they'd ever be able to live in the NYC apartments they have since they wouldn't be able to hold down a job at McDonald's. Any children they have would already be in the custody of Children's Protective Services. The writers ran out of ideas for this a long time ago.

Scrubs - sorta sometimes smile-inducing, but these clowns are just as annoying as Friends. Sad it only took 0.6 seasons to become so.

Will & Grace - this is one of the most unfunny, unsexy, steaming pile of turds being broadcast. It makes no sense that it has received as many awards as it has over the years, unless all the voting judges of all the awards were given free blow-jobs by the cast.

Something about Miami I think? - I don't even know the title of the piece of shit waste of a half-hour that comes on after W&G.

Maybe I should just start watching reruns of South Park on Thursday evenings. NBC's fare makes me want to soak my head in a bucket of lye and pull out my eyeballs.

January 16, 2003

A Rough Holiday Season


Just in case you haven't seen this 40,000 times already on the net

January 13, 2003

Retribution for Saturday Night Fever


BeeGee Maruice Gibb dead at 53.
Two down, two to go.

January 07, 2003

Should I? Nah....


Should I see Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers? Finally decided against it. Having not read any of the books (just never found them compelling enough to want to wade through), I was looking forward to the first film. And then I saw it. Almost 3 hours of my life irretrievably wasted. Everyone who read LotR told me it was exciting and engulfing and grand fantasy. Instead I endured 3 hours of vague to intense boredom and pretty poor CGI effects. How could the producers and directors take something supposedly that good and reduce it to tedious dreck? At least Liv Tyler was pleasant to look at.
I'll not make the same mistake again.


Weak on the Concept


I received a spam email today. It came from Computerworld. Specifically, from a third party using CW's subscriber list, as was stated at the start of the message:

Third Party Rental Use of Computerworld E-mail List

The following is vendor information on new products and services
which you opted to receive when you submitted an application for
Computerworld. We hope it is of interest to you.


Then came the content of the spam:

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For a FREE copy of the "Effective Spam Management", simply click on
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Idiot ass-clowns. I wonder if my last manager at UDV is working for Clearswift.