Spring is still not here!
by So is it spring yet or what?
Stupid spring. stupid moon messing up our warmth.
I blame KIDS
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i am so happy right now, b/c the worldies at my job were bugging me about never going out to lunch with them
so i stopped by the VW dealership and me and jenkins got some food real quick- soooo much better than worldly people
i love this organization
you know, i was going to call you this morning and say we should do lunch, but in the end i ended up not moving from my desk... im as sick as a dog, am im leaving at 4. maybe monday?
mondays are rough but maybe tuesday?
yay i love lunches!
yeah actually tuesday is probably better... :) hopefully ill be feeling better by then too
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FINALLY i think i got this dog's energy out.
An hour walk/run on the beach, including running in the water and playing with another dog... finally he is PASSED OUT
whew!!
Awww this reminds me of how @ lunch I parked next to this adorable lil dog he totally wanted to introduce himself as I passed =D
If he were my little guy I would name him Jodhpur, it just fits!
There was a bit of a dog dialogue in the office today boss lost her dog of 13 years =( I found out that larger dogs don't live as long as the little ones makes me want a little one even more. Hope when I get where I'm going pets are allowed (fish, birds, cats need NOT apply). Don't get me wrong, I luv ALL animals but a dog is a pet pet =)
yo perrin on you on here?
can someone PM me his number?
thanks
/users/show/perrin hasn't logged in in almost a month
ahh nice early service morning, and i'm home now and it's nice out so i'm gonna take my dog to the beach.. and then come home, get some work done, and chill
yes i'm so ready for summerrrrrrrrrrr
So my parents have to put my cat to sleep. Kidney failure. He was nine years old.
Poor Rosdale.
ughhhh :(
btw kidney failure happens from the food recall stuff!!
:( sorry to hear that, stef
im sorry :(
this job i work at has the most birthday obsessed people EVER
it's so obnoxious
I JUST QUIT MY JOB!!!!!
or ... did you get fired?
Pshh, I quit. :P
thats awesome!! what are you going to do now?
Who knows. I've got some time to figure it out, fortunately.
woohoo!!! go out and celebrate tonight!
liberation! congrats!
best feeling evah!
wow that's awesome, what pushed you to the brink?
We're actually moving. Donovan was offered a job in Connecticut, so we're outta here!!! I'll post a journal with all the juicy details at some point.
oh, wow! what company?
It's called Standing Stone; they design medical company software. Don's going to be revamping GUIs and designing new software.
heh that's like what chris does. i think.
I only have 3 patients in my schedule today. It's going to be a very long day. :(
i'm going to new york today hey hey
for what? the chocolate restaurant?
visiting with my girl friends. even managed to swing up to connecticut also! absolutely gorgeous weekend in the city.
Next time your in CT, you'll have to come visit Donovan & I! We found a great apartment yesterday in Norwalk, 5 blocks from the beach, restaurants and art galleries. Yippieeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!
you already signed on an apartment?! where at??
South Norwalk. We're so excited! I had a talk last night and Donovan had the announcements, and it hit that that would be the last time we would ever be on that stage.
Have you turned your husband on Pennsylvania?
Haha - I'm not admitting to that. He's excited about the move, mostly because we'll be like half a mile from a huge aquarium. He wants to adopt a penguin and keep it in a habitat in our basement.
fun fact: you can adopt penguins. and you don't have to have a pool but they do have to be constantly wet. i met a man in philadelphia that keeps one as his pet.
^^^^^^^^I hope Donovan never sees this^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I bet he wept and wept and wept during March of the Penguins
Haha - it wasn't a sad movie. Just poignant.
Its a true fact that that aquarium is one of the best ever.......
you're finally moving!? I'm happy for you. I will def come visit. I love aquariums-I don't love pennsylvania, but i love penguins (i keep trying to get andrew to let me have one, too).
:) We'd love to have you come visit! In fact, Donovan asked if we'd be any closer to you guys so we could see you more often. (I think we're 3.5 or 4 hours away now instead of 5.)
i'm not sure how much closer, but CT just seems so much closer than PA
Everywhere was so amazing this weekend!!!! Conneticut sounds nice I know some ppl there. I was in PA all weekend... New Hope Saturday night, lots of cool places, we just parked walked from place to place. On Sunday out @ Buckingham was really great even if we didn't hit DQ or the outlets =(
Nxt time 4 sure
one of my kittens is ridiculously greedy for my attention. if any of our other animals come near me, he "attacks" them. then, when i pick him up, i can't just hold him or put my hand on his head...he walks in circles over me nudging me to pet him.
animals are so funny & can be so human like.
Yesterday, I took Atlas to the local pet store to get his nails trimmed & the store owners had two big cats that were literally stalking Atlas & trying to attack him! It was so weird, cuz Atlas was growling ferociously and could have destroyed them, but the cats were relentless. so funny.
for the record, pwnin' noobs does NOT make you a people pwner in REAL life. video games DO NOT create killers. HOWEVER, there are disturbed people who are predisposed to violence and don't have a grasp on reality and acceptable social behavior. i can see how these people can derive a very different and unacceptable pleasure from violence in games, almost treating it like a violence simulator, one where the lines of freedom and technology in games are blurred unrecognizably into sick, demented, potential real life situations. i DO think that some games that are out there today shouldn't have been made in the first place.
it's a really tough topic.
you are a tough topic....
you don't know the half
what's sping?
Man, this poor mom and her son :(
http://www.pulitzer.org/year/2007/feature-photography/works/byer01_jpg.html
I can't imagine going through all of that
it's a rough world, charlie brown
Someone explain to me the point of showing the VA Tech killers video? Looks to me it was revealed for entertainment factor. Makes me sick to my stomach...
There was a psychiatrist on Good Morning America that shot down the networks for showing it. I don't blame him. Kids don't need to see that.
I dont see what the big deal is? I mean, its a reality, it happend, you cant change that now. The kids see much worse on the news, in movies or on TV. I understand that it's more personal to them, but because of this crazy man, other people can now see potential signs of another crazy person. This could help prevent another future attack if possible. It just proves that this world is near its end...
Yeah, but I think they should limit it to just talking about it. Showing a psycho rant in a video is the same as showing a kid a movie about a serial killer that is graphic. At least thats the way I see it. Up until now, I can't remember seeing footage like this shown on network TV. But yeah, just echoes how close the end is.
i don't know about there but here we've always been exposed to things like that on the news. I can see your point tho. they do show WAY too much & they live for exposing someone else's misfortunes and its sad.
BUT in their defense, they do let the viewers know how graphic etc the images will be so its up to the parents to change the channel or turn off the TV.
Yeah. I just can't remember anything recently like that. I was shocked they put it on.
i was like in high school still, i think, when they were showing this standoff and the guy turned and shot himself....live on the news.
Well, that you can't forsee. They knew what they had with this footage. That's kind of like during the WTC coverage. They had no idea the buildings would fall or that people would jump out windows.
When I was in college there was a crazy kid who shot his head off with a shotgun in the parking lot in-between two dorms so that everyone could see... he started screaming his ex-girlfriends name outside the dorm, wanting to go inside and when that didnt work he went outside and started screaming again in a way that he drew so much attention that he looked up at her while she was watching out the window and he blew his head off... The sound of the shotgun was heard campus wide... and all the students who heard it ran to the scene... It was probably one of the most disturbing things I have ever seen, but it is a reality, it happens, it wasnt a movie or a show or a game. The only way to get over it is to realize what happend. And to learn from it. Of course it was more dramatic for everyone who watched the whole scene and the poor ex-girlfriend was so dramatized that she dropped out of college and no one really heard from her again...
I think brotherman's beef is that, while of course these things happen in the world and can't be avoided, he doesn't want his kids to be exposed to these things needlessly.
I can see where he's coming from; you could easily say that the media is glorifying him by showing the stuff. Does the general public need to see his manifesto and video tapes? What do we gain from it?
It's like when they show Al Qaeda or Bin Laden tapes on the news. It may be interesting to some, and certainly help ratings, but if I had children, I don't see any reason why I would want them to see that sort of thing.
ooh totally i think that they are glorifying it and posting all the "bad" or "scary" pics to get people to check it out.
I feel bad for this kid, he obviously had ALOT of issues, he didnt even really say what he was upset about... just a buncha weird ramblings.
yeah the kid was obviously sick and in need of help that he didn't get
wait wait wait... ok, so i looked at the news coverage. How is this disturbing? I mean yes, the guy is obviously crazy, but he doesnt SAY anything thats particularly disturbing or DO anything that horrible.
Should little kids follow this coverage? I dont see why they should, there isnt anything in that footage that they can learn from. I think this will def put a scare in everyones minds of how serious mental illness is and how lax some of the schools are with providing care for those that need it.
it's not disturbing, but i don't think kids need to see it over and over either. the only problem i have with it is the copycat factor. by showing this loser's "manifesto," by giving him so much air-time, by making him a rockstar, you're showing that if you kill people you'll get on TV, you'll get noticed, your case will be scrutinized, and everyone will talk about you after you've killed yourself. mentally ill people love the sound of that, especially if they have something they think needs to be said.
now, i wouldn't call this thing he did a manifesto. he sent out a press kit! he didn't single out anyone or any institution. he didn't attack anyone in particular. he rambled on and on about hate of rich kids and religion and then he shot up a bunch of students. that's not a statement. his reality was swapped for a fantasy world where he was this hated, tormented figure. still everyone has all this psychological reasoning and blah blah blah. whatever happened to plain crazy? today, i mourn the death of "crazy" in america.
my favorite is the picture of him holding a hammer.. he looks real tough.. hehehehe
It looks like all he wanted was to be loved...
dont worry, that will come up in like a week... everything else does! I was saying the other day, i play video games and what not, but i dont think i could even SHOOT a gun, let alone shoot at something alive. But ill pwn all u n00bz at CS... ya know? im leet wit my hax0r skillz
i love shooting guns but i don't like shooting in video games, go figure
real life CS is more fun than the video game!!!!
What did he say? Is there somewhere I can see a clip of it. I was at the gym and I saw this happening on the news so I tuned my head phones in to the tv, but they didn't play the video they just talked about it. i wanted to see the video so bad and hear what it is he said.
Am I the only one who thought of the Clueless scene when Cher debates violence in the media and says:
"Like, so, ok. The surgeon general says there's too much violence in movies, and that should stop. But even if you took all the violence out of shows, you could still watch the news. And so, until the world is peaceful enough not to have violence in the news, there's no point in taking it out of shows that need it for entertainment value! Thank you."
hey what's a good photo sharing site where you can just send people a link and they don't need to sign up
hmm nevermind
Man... They're laying people off this week. What's really messed up, is that they redid the Organization Charts without certain people in them before they even told those people. So I know of 2 people that are getting canned that don't know it yet.
My job is safe. Phew....
layoffs are never fun :(
glad you still have a job, tho
The HR manager found out I saw the chart and told me to keep quiet about it. Then removed the pages on it that revealed the change.
Now's your chance to bribe them for HUGE PROFITS
Good idea! HAha...
and then you probably would get fired.....
They do that and they'd just be shooting themselves in the foot. But then again this company has no loyalty to anyone.
This guy is awesome.
Thundercats....Hoooooooo!!!!
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i just nearly died. i have this crazy important genetics exam later on today and ijust woke up to study. but my watch stopped during the night at like twelve thirty and that's usually when i leave for class. just about died thinking i'd have to go take this test w/ no studying. and i called my mom and she was like, "are you insane look at another clock! it's not even 9" thank goodness.
what are you doing on eZabel? GO STUDY! haha I have a test today too, and barely got to study. Gotta today at lunch.
Positive spin on my day... free lunch (to prevent us from leaving the office while preping for tonight's event), free dinner (while we're working) I don't think we can have the wine but, there will be butler served h'orderves before the fashion show and then dessert reception in the main hall. Anyone wanna volunteer to drive me home @ 10:00 lol! I'll sooo need to be rolled out of there I'm just gonna stuff my face ALL DAY =D
BLACKBERRY SERVICE DISRUPTED
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601082&sid=a_r1Lp6zBi_0&refer=canada
WELCOME BACK TO THE REAL WORLD, CRACKBERRY ADDICTS! ENJOY THE AIR!
soooo jealous zabel
free cone day people: www.benjerry.com
Just got a new B&J in Morristown, funny how around the same time the Baskin Robins that's been here ages left.
Did you guys hear how internet radio is seriously in jeopardy?
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/internet/04/17/internetradio.ap/index.html
I just got an email from Pandora with a link to a congressional petition to get an appeal. It's such crap; just because the RIAA has more lawyers, they get the laws that they want passed. When are people going to learn that democracy doesn't work!?
Wow, I hope listeners won't have to start paying fees to listen to online radio. I'm an internet radio junkie.
If nothing changes, the internet radio stations will probably just go out of business. Caput. No more. The fees would be per listener per song, which is nearly impossible to charge someone for per month. The email from Pandora said the fees are four times as much as satellite radio stations pay. No one will pay that much for a radio station.
Yeh, I didn't realise how much the royalty increase would be 'til reading that email just now. That's terrible. Really hope Internet Radio is saved!
I'm reading the email from Pandora right now
Yes!! Early closing! I get to leave at 3:30!
Anyone want to see Spiderman 3 on the 4th?
Ian, you need to fix the reply option on messages. Everytime I get a message I hit reply and then can't type anything in the box because the original message overlaps the box. Get to work! ;oP
that any better?
No I mean private messages.
me too. it's not fixed?
Anytime it's a long message, you either can't click reply or when it lets you click reply, it overlaps the box so that you can't type anything in it. I'll check again, but that is what it has been doing.
yup, problem still there.
The Passaic River is now officially renamed....Lake Passaic! All around my job it is a disaster.
i am a sad panda.... today harlan coben's new book is released and i cant get it becuase im the only one here at work.... :(
oh man well i'll just get it and read it and let you know how it was
you should buy it for me!
i have a 40% off coupon from borders
hey check it out lauren wrote a book and got a write-up in the paper
i think diane said you can buy it on Amazon too
i don't see it yet, maybe they're waiting on something
i just got an email from lauren and she says not yet, but soon
That's great!
that is SO cool!!
do you guys think this is for real? i couldn't pull up the trailer so let me know what you think
Yeah, it's for real. My in-laws have it. I haven't seen it yet, but everyone that's seen it has said it's very good, and favorable of the Witnesses.
wow, so its out now?
well if ADD wouldn't have interrupted i would've finished reading LOL. i guess its coming on PBS may 22nd.
I've seen it. It's pretty good. The film is by a guy who was raised a witness but never made the truth his own or got baptized. The documentary follows two witness families around. It's interesting because at the end they interview people on the street and ask their opinions of us and it's kinda funny.
That's real. I actually saw the full length of the movie back in March or February. I know someone that has the DVD.
anybody here familiar with itunes university? (aka itunes u)
we're going to try to implement it here, i think it's relatively new
link?
http://www.apple.com/education/products/ipod/itunes_u.html
there's links on that page to other university pages, like berkeley's
it opens up in your itunes store page
I hate my stupid computer smart filter that they run here. today it just blocked engadget, i'm going to be technologically stupider. It blocks everything, I hate it, and it is smater than me, there are no ways around it.
that stinks!
is Google Reader blocked? www.google.com/reader
You can subscribe to engadget (and everything else) and just read the feed there. You don't get all the nice pictures, but it's still something
what's weird is I can access reader, I can log into my account. but I can't seem to do both at the same time, so i really can't access it.
TV sucks... What happened to good programs like MacGuyver, Seinfeld, Growing Pains, Knight Rider, Baywatch, Charles in Charge, Magnum PI, etc. It's overrun now with reality crap. I hate it!!
You don't even understand how I'm in luv w/ Charles in Charge I really truly am. There's something about this one episode where Buddy had this Dog-O-matic or something that turned everything into a hotdog It WAS GREAT! And I luv'd Gwendolyne sooooo much I named a doll after her, true story.
Night Rider goes without saying but, I'll say it anywayze classic. Remington Steele was pretty hot to Pierce Brosnan *Whew* MAN!!! I might have been young but, I had good taste! I need to go watch YouTube =P
You don't even understand how I'm in luv w/ Charles in Charge I really truly am. There's something about this one episode where Buddy had this Dog-O-matic or something that turned everything into a hotdog It WAS GREAT!
BTW I luv'd Gwendolyne sooooo much I named a doll after her, true story.
Night Rider goes without saying but, I'll say it anywayze classic. Remington Steele was pretty hot to Pierce Brosnan *Whew* MAN!!! I might have been young but, I had good taste! I need to go watch YouTube =P
Trying to use the back button to edit = NO DICE =( Thanks.
Hahaha... I remember that episode! Awesome! They showed Willie Ames on one of those celebrity fitness shows. He got fat and aggressive!
awww theres an advertisement for "princess parties" in orange county. my nieces would LOVE that (and me too lol)
its off to the side --->
Didn't see it but, it sounds cute. Do you have Libby Lous out there???
whats libby lous??
Oops I missed spelled it. Libby Lu is this store for little girls they sell clothes, accessories, an assortment of lil diversions...
it's even got a parlor where they can practically play dress up right inside the store. Parents can purchase a membership in the VIP (Very Important Princess) club it's ADORABLE =)
OMG they have one like it @ downtown disney, my sis and i want to throw my niece a little party there. its SOOO cute
Ian, do we have a place for "car" talk? is that in the geek forum? haha.
I think it's time to add a forum called "Manly Talk". No women should have access. LOL! JK.
up to supposedly 32 dead in vtech shooting, even college aint safe no more
Deadliest in US history! Crazy stuff...
and they dont even know why he went psycho huh?
Didn't really read into it, but it all shows how much pressure human beings are under in these times for someone to crack like that and kill over 30 people.
I want taco bell. Go get some Mike.
I have to pass Centennary after I pick up Jake, so it works for me. :o)
poopie. discuss
not as funny as doo doo.
3.5 hours to go....ugh....
My head is going to explode...
I'm so excited. Me & Austin are spending the weekend in Philly & going to see the King Tut Exhibit & IMAX movie. http://kingtut.com/
you're going to love it! we went to the one that was hosted here @ one of the museums close to my house....def interesting and kinda eerie.
oh really? awesome! i LOVE ancient egypt stuff. The mummies section was always my fav at the Met.
I actually got to go to the Egyptian Museum in Torino, Italy. It's said to have the most artifacts outside of Cairo. (I totally forgot I went there, til right now)
ooh i went to see it in philly. really cool. the exhibit is great and the rest of the franklin institute is awesome too. like liberty science center. a little upsetting that they dont hAve the literal tutankahamen sarcophogus.
H-town is staying open. This state is strange.
Oops...I posted in the wrong spot. Haha
I almost applied several months ago to work at that exhibit
Liam wants to see that exhibit, how much longer is it there?
until september.
i haven't been over to see that yet. let me know if it's all it's hyped up to be.
Did anyone get to stay home from work today? There's states of emergency in NJ & CT, which means no one but emergency vehicles are supposed to be on the road. Day off!!!
What!! Schools are open. Both my kids went to school.
Oh geez...Maybe I should call the schools.
definetely should. the schools just called my house and they're all closing at 12 and the little kids are coming home.
wow, glad we missed most of that out in Pittsburgh area. hopefully our drive home today isn't terrible :/
22 is closed, FYI. But you're probably taking 78 to 80, huh? It's actually really nasty out here.
We're about an hour north of Pittsburgh. 80 East the whole way. It can get pretty bad up in the mountains. We'll see how it goes
Be careful! I had a client come down from there earlier this morning and he said it was crawling the whole way. I'm sure it'll be better this afternoon, but still, drive safely!
Watch yourself, there were some roads closed up in that area this morning
so we drove through lots of rain, and lots of snow, but the roads were fine, and traffic was light.
we made it home in record time, actually. not bad overall.
the delaware river is so high! there were waterfalls all through the del. water gap. it was like Hawaii haha
I had off! Sure hope I get paid for today tho!
anybody have a link to that video of the tiger biting off the monkey's head from jimmy kimmel?
what?! that happened?
I hate when that happens. especially when it's my monkeys.
somebody posted it a few weeks ago, it was a video of the tiger cub and baby monkey at the zoo, then they edited it to make it look like the tiger cub bit off the monkey's head
Giac, your profile page is working now:
/users/show/g.f.s.rocks
Sweet, thanks Ian!!
If this isn't an eye opener, I don't know what is. We are so close to the end you can taste it!
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/15/warming.military.ap/index.html
I LOVE YOU ALL!!! :o)