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  • adam 23:18 on 2002/06/28 Permalink  

    Hardware Wars on DVD! 

    hardwarewars.jpgJust saw that the very first spoof of Star Wars, Hardware Wars, is now available on DVD.
    I remember seeing this back when it first came out. I think it was in middle school – as part of a class, in fact – and we all loved it. If you check out the cover, you’ll see that the “Chewbacca” actually looks like the Cookie Monster dyed brown. Low brow? Low budget? Who cares!
    Now I can enjoy it again and again, along with a directors cut and a Antiques Roadshow type introduction. Fun for the whole family!

     

  • adam 15:07 on 2002/06/28 Permalink  

    I told you! You can find anything.. 

    So, for a while now, there’s been this show from the 80′s that I could remember bits and pieces of, but nothing specific – like, say, it’s name. With the help of JumpTheShark, I’ve been able to figure it out: Otherworld.
    Yes, it’s b-tv material. Yes, it was only on for like half a season. But it was in my head, and I wasn’t the only one who saw it!
    Check out JumpTheShark and see if your favorite show has “Jumped the Shark” (see the site for an explanation).

     

  • adam 14:38 on 2002/06/27 Permalink  

    Weight loss continues 

    At my weigh in today, I was pleased to learn that I had lost another 4.8 pounds – bringing me up to 40.6 total! Twelve weeks, 40 pounds… and still going strong. This is very good.

     

  • adam 10:46 on 2002/06/26 Permalink  

    A wise man once said… 

    Loyalty can’t be tested by questions and answers. True loyalty can only be demonstrated through the display of manifest actions, often defiant, when confronted by insurmountable obstacles in the form of confrontational and irrational enemies.
    -Cooper Hawkes – Space: Above and Beyond

     

  • adam 09:27 on 2002/06/26 Permalink  

    Anthology: Minority Report 

    Philip K. Dick has got to be one of the BEST sci-fi authors ever. Minority Report is a collection of short stories, including the title piece (which is also a new Steven Spielberg flick starring Tom Cruise). I picked it up at WaldenBooks at the mall while stumbling around, half-blind… I’ve only read the first few stories, but I really enjoyed it.

    (More …)

     

  • adam 09:00 on 2002/06/26 Permalink  

    S. Koreans "scuffle" with U.S. Troops over accident 

    Yahoo! News brings us…
    UIJONGBU, South Korea (Reuters) – About 500 South Koreans clashed with U.S. soldiers at a U.S. military base on Wednesday, protesting against an accident last week in which a U.S. army vehicle killed two girls during a training exercise.
    The military has apologised, but they’re still pissed – understandable. But when they tore up the barbed wire around Camp Red Cloud just outside Seoul, to enter the base then I have to say that the soldiers trying to defend the base showed LOTS of restraint when they only fought back with shields and steel batons. In a case like this, I myself would have started out with teargas, then escalated to rubber bullets and maybe even some M-50′s firing over their heads.
    This kind of behavior should not be tolerated. Yes, it was wrong that the 2 girls were killed, but if it was an accident, then try to get on with your lives, damnit.

     

    • Anonymous 11:27 on 2003/01/15 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      This isn’t the only time some U.S. soldier(s) has killed a citizen in a different country.

    • Adam 11:47 on 2003/01/15 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      That’s not the point – the point is that the local citizens don’t need to attack the base when it happens. If they attack the base, it’s possible that even more people will die – and who does that help?

  • adam 02:11 on 2002/06/25 Permalink  

    Point of Origin 

    HBO’s been doing a lot off good stuff – this time around, it’s a look into the mind of an arsonist. Ray Liota plays Lt. John Orr, an arson investigator who’s very good at his job – maybe too good.
    Excellent camera work- including some interesting fire scenes with Orr walking through a fire as the building comes down around him – adds to the compelling storyline. I thought the ending was a bit lame though – Jen and I were coming up with different possibilities, and it was…. well, just not like we expected at all.

     

    • Melissa Allie 20:46 on 2003/01/25 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      I am searching for any information about Arsonists. I am doing a research paper on the Mind of an Arsonist. I am attending school at Eastern Kentucky University and getting a degree in Fire, arson, and explosive investigations. I would appreciate any information that anyone can give me. Thank you!!

  • adam 15:00 on 2002/06/24 Permalink  

    eBay offering health plans? 

    EBay to offer health insurance to small entrepreneurs
    Looks like eBay is looking to make some of their larger clients, and biggest sellers, happy – by offering health benefits to folks who’s job is to sell stuff online.
    I myself have made a couple bucks off of eBay, and I can see how you could make a living off of it – so this is an interesting move on their part.

     

    • Josh 03:20 on 2002/08/13 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      it just hit me today, that you can really make money on ebay. its obvious you can make income on the net, just ebay never occured to me.
      Im in the tech support industry. and talk to many customers who make their comfortable living off ebay.. hmmm interesting, anybody have any suggestions>??

  • adam 12:19 on 2002/06/24 Permalink  

    Yeah, smoking's not bad for you… 

    (added at 07:57 on 11/22/02:
    Ok, one last try…. I AM BEING SARCASTIC when I say that smoking is not bad for you. The point of the post below was that if Nicotine is bad for you, and it hangs out in your body for years after you stop smoking (if you stop), then how can the other effects of smoking in anyway help you? How can something that leaves a toxic substance in your body not BE BAD FOR YOU? If you pay any attention at all, that is what I say further down. The title of this post is SARCASM. I’m not the one saying that smoking is good for you – that would be the tobacco companies and their lobbyists. If it was up to me, smoking would be illegal, punishable by many years in jail. But it’s not. Instead I have to deal with people who see 6 words when they do a search on google (or where-ever) and don’t even bother to actually READ the contents of the page they’re commenting on. Most of them don’t even bother to leave a name – not too bright of them, considering that they’re flaming me from behind a wall, so I can’t even reply to them directly.

    (added at 23:07 on 10/30/02:
    please read this posting with a grain of salt. If you want to add something useful to the comments, feel free – but be warned that if you post something along the lines of “smoking can kill you, you are dumb,” then I will remove the contents of your posting and ridicule your lineage and question your intelligence. You are warned.)


    Scripting News
    Joshua Whalen: "Over the last 10, 20 or however many years you smoked, Nicotine accumulated in your body’s fatty tissues. Whenever you come under stress or eat badly, (or worry) your body burns some fatty tissue, and some of the stored Nicotine is released into your bloodstream, and in this way, it is kind of like having a dozen nicotine patches trickling the stuff into you. Definitely do not use the patch if you are already cold turkey. It will only maker this worse. Instead, you want to clean out your fatty tissue."
    Dave Winer (author of Scripting News, blogging pioneer, and software author) recently spent some time in the hospital and has quit smoking because of it. He’s been talking about quitting and all the fun it is on his blog – and so this entry (above) was interesting.
    Now, if the Nicotine is being stored in your body, and if Nicotine is bad for you…. then how can smoking NOT BE BAD FOR YOU?? Just more proof of how sleazy the tobbaco companies are.

     

    • clara 09:14 on 2002/10/01 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      i do think that it is bad for you and you should not do it

    • ALLISON 15:37 on 2002/10/16 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      u suck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! what in the heck are you talking about cigarettes cant hurt you?!?!?!?!?!!?!? do you know of how many of millions of peoples have died just from smoking a year????????? you suck!!!! take this god drned thing of the internet NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

    • Adam 15:59 on 2002/10/16 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      You Allison, are a fool. You’re lucky that I didn’t delete every single entry you posted – and trust me, I was tempted to.
      Have you ever heard of something called sarcasm? Did you bother to READ any of the information o the page beyond “smoking’s not bad for you”? Why don’t you just unplug your computer from the phone, turn it off, and wait for someone to come and take it away from you – you’re obviously not ready for the internet just yet. And next time, don’t be a coward and not leave your email address – I’d like to defend myself to you directly, but you don’t seem to think enough of your “argument” to make it possible to do so.

    • amanda 10:20 on 2002/10/21 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Smoking is bad for you.. why would you write something like this telling people smoking is bad..When millions of people are dieing each year of smoking.. Your DUMB!!!

    • Adam 11:04 on 2002/10/21 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Guess what, amanda? You’re ignorant. You contradicted yourself in your own statement, and you apparently didn’t even bother to read anything that I wrote.
      PLEASE DO NOT POST A COMMENT HEREIf you have nothing to add and if you’re just going to claim that I’m dumb.

    • adam 21:50 on 2002/10/23 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      One last time: READ THE POST. Then re-read it. And make sure you understand how sarcasm works. Then re-read it again. And don’t leave a note saying that smoking is bad for you – I’m pretty sure that everyone and their mother knows that by now.

    • Anonymous 16:05 on 2002/11/04 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      blah blah blah
      ive jsut read his new post
      who fuckign gives a damm
      smoking costs u lots of money
      blah blah blah
      Wow. This idiot is a prime example of an AOL user who just doesn’t have a clue – how to spell, how to form a coherent thought, or how to express himself. It’s a wonder he’s managed to remember to breathe this long – let’s just hope he doesn’t manage to breed.

    • Noel 12:28 on 2002/11/10 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Studies have proven that the leading cause of most lung diseases is from smoking tobacco. What you’re saying is that Nicotine is good for you, and your probably right. Nicotine has quite a few chemicals that are good for you, or at least not harmful. But there are also chemicals that are likely to kill. I’m not saying that I agree with you, but you do raise a few good points. I do know one thing, that when it comes time for all that pure pressure about smoking, I won’t have anything to do with it, no matter what you say.

    • me 20:11 on 2002/11/21 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      i respect you saying that cigarettes are good for you, however, i do no agree. you can reply and way you want to but you more than likely never convince me of that. you see, about 2 or so years ago, my mom got diagnosed with lung cancer, the doctor said it was from smoking. she wasnt that heavy of a smoker, only around 6 cigarettes a day. about 5 months after she was diagnosed, she was hospitalized and got a tube in her throat. she smoked through the hole in her throat. it was a horrible sight for me b/c i though that there was something i could have done to prevent it. i was only 11 at the time, im 14 now. a couple of months after she was hospitalized, she died. i blame her death on cigarettes and i think that any decent human being with a little bit of common sence can see that smoking kills. i know that you may not post this, but if you dont, you are denying yourself the cold, hard facts and are probably just scared b/c you know its true

    • George 14:58 on 2002/12/17 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      smoking can kill you, you are dumb
      and it kills because both my grandma and grandpa are dead from it so don’t tell me that!
      u are a russian burn in He**!
      george here seems to think that being russian is a bad thing. and he also is apparently paying for his internet access by the character.
      george, guess what? my grandparents are dead too! it doesn’t have anything to do with smoking though, so i didn’t mention it before. maybe you’ll write back and tell the rest of the class what your grandparents have to do with smoking being bad. and why you’re such a tool for not actually reading the whole page first.

    • George 00:05 on 2002/12/21 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Your dumb have you ever seen what someone with lung cancer has to go through? Well no you haven’t so don’t say “smoking is good for you” and yes i read your dumb article and when your dead from lung cancer i’ll be at your grave tell others about how stupid you were, saying smoking is not bad for you. and if you delete this, you are just being a coward not wanting other to see what i say because it’s true and you know it even if you don’t admit to it.
      again i come out on top and you lose.
      I see that George is back again. I also see that he’s still not able to type coherent sentences, and that he didn’t actually bother to read what I have on this page.
      The title of this page is not true.It is sarcasm. It is intended to be ironic. This means that when I saw “smoking’s not bad for you,” I’m really saying that you’re the stupidest person in the world if you believe the lies that the tobacco industry are spreading. If you pay any attention to this site, you’ll see that I support such causes as “The Truth” and other anti-smoking campaigns.
      I also don’t smoke. But all of this is lost on George, who’s so convinced of his own bizarre logic that he’s sure that my deleting his comment will prove him right. Keep it coming George – you’re a moron,and every time you try to prove otherwise you just make me laugh.

    • George 16:15 on 2002/12/21 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      So, if you say smoking is bad for you than why didn’t you say that in the first place moron? Your pretty dumb not to say that and make everyone think that your saying smoking is good. So in some instance your a idiot prime example of an AOL user who just doesn’t have a clue. like you said before. So again everyone knows i’m right and you are wrong so quit being the russian you are and just delete this website.
      George, you poor fool. I never said that smoking was actually GOOD for you – except to say it with sarcasm – and, George, since you obviously don’t know the meaning of the word, you can click on it and get a definition that will explain it to you.
      You still don’t seem to have a grasp on the English language, so I have to assume your schooling ended just after 4th grade. Too bad. This would obviously explain the fact that you continue to argue with me, your bad logic, and the fact that you seem to think I’m “russian” – which, as far as I can tell, has no bearing whatsoever on the whole discussion.
      As far as just “delete this website” goes, well, I’m not going to. It’s my website, which means I can put whatever I want to on it – including saying things with sarcasm so that peons like you, who don’t read more than the title of a page, start arguments with me.
      Next time you leave a comment George, why don’t you leave me your email address and take credit for your “winning”? Or perhaps you’re afraid to? Or maybe your mommy and daddy won’t let you?

    • George 21:42 on 2002/12/22 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      hey i’m right here so if u have anything to send me, please do so, and if you play any musical instrument please give me the rusty trombone. thanks talk to u later aligator.
      P.S. your dumb smoking is bad for you espcially russians like you.

    • Adam 00:00 on 2002/12/24 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      George-
      While I appreciate you coming out from behind the curtain, the hotmail address certainly does make me wonder if you’re really who you say you are.
      The fact that you have some kind of hatred towards Russian people makes me wonder why you’re so paranoid.
      The fact that you want a rusty-trombone makes me think you need to spend less time on my weblog and more trying to find someone who’s willing to try that on you.
      And the fact that you can’t spell reinforces the thought that you didn’t get very far in school.
      And the fact that you can’t grasp a simple concept like sarcasm makes me whole-heartedly believe that you should just turn off your computer, throw it out the window and go find a good comic book – the internet might not be ready for you (nor you ready for it).
      Come back in a few months when you’ve matured a bit, ok?

    • George 12:15 on 2002/12/24 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Wow adam your the most mature person i know using all those big words when you talk! Wow you must have gotton out of highschool all by yourself! Wow i give you some props. But keep trying on those combacks because they are really weak. But you can do it so keep tying sport and good luck.

    • Adam 16:17 on 2002/12/24 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      George-
      Why do you give an email address if you never bother to check it?
      I’m sick of dealing with you. And since this is my site…. you’re done! Go bother someone else, ’cause you’re no longer welcome here.

    • Goerge 22:38 on 2002/12/24 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Adam if you were smarter than a nail and i hope you are, why in gods good world would i give you my email adress think really hard on this one. Same reason you don’t give me yours! Oh and yes i check my email thanks for asking sport and happy barmitsfa
      Thanks for playing George, but you REALLY don’t pay attention. All these comments come right to me. And if you look to the left, you’ll see a :contact: link, which will allow you to send me an email. So while I may not publicly post my address, I do make it easy to send me notes.
      The real reason you don’t give your address is because you know that I am right about my posting – it’s sarcastic, and shows just how far the tobacco industry is willing to go to hook you on their drugs and keep you their unwilling client for as long as you live – and considering what they sell, it’s not that long.

    • kit 20:08 on 2003/03/02 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      i a doing a reach paper on smoking HELP ME!!! thanks kit

    • sexi 04:21 on 2003/03/18 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      i thought that it should have shown pictures with all the writing. because some people like me don’t really like reading. thank you for nutting i learned so much.this is meant to help me stop smoking and all i see is a bunch writng rarther then pictures. because of you i will not stop.

    • teagan 06:34 on 2003/05/03 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      i agree that smoking is bad for u but there’s really nothing that can be done to stop people unless they admitt it themselves that they want help. im doing an assignment on smoking but i can’t find any info and im sick of all these sites with shit about quitting smoking… nothing about wot is does to ur body or ne thing… nothin saying wot makes it so adictive… i’ve smoked and i noe how addictive it can be but i onli did it for like a few months and i still crave it…

    • Elshan 17:40 on 2003/05/05 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      why cigarettes can kill you

    • Anonymous 09:00 on 2003/07/01 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      DEAR SMOKERS SMOKING IS BAD 4 U. U ONLY NEED COMMON SENCE 2 FIGURE THAT ONE OUT. IF U SAY THAT SMOKING DOSE NOT KILL US THEN WHY DO PEOPLE DIE FROM IT LIKE EVERY SINGAL YEAR.

    • adam 22:30 on 2003/07/01 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Does anyone know how to read anymore?

  • adam 00:44 on 2002/06/23 Permalink  

    Fun day at the salt mine… 

    So, today started early. Jen cleaned out the van, I puttered around the back yard with the kids (well, :abby: was asleep in the house, the other two puttered). I also did some stuff in the garage. And put training wheels on :emma:’s “Barbie” bike. Not quite a Barbie bike, but that’s what she calls it…. anyway, now she can ride it – if she could figure out that whole peddling thing.
    :noah: was all over the place, getting into all kinds of trouble… Including trying to ride :emma:’s old tricycle. He fell over once (that I know of), but then sorta gave up. He did, however, spend a while running around the house/yard with :emma:’s helmet on. Yes, he looked pretty ridiculous. And it didn’t get better when he added :emma:’s pink rain boots. Good thing I have photos! When they’re developed, I’ll post them here and on the family site.

     

  • adam 01:21 on 2002/06/22 Permalink  

    Guided tour of the ISS 

    Cosmiverse.com has a guided tour of the International Space Station, complete with photos. It sounds good, right? It would be, if the images would load. Hope it works for you…

     

  • adam 01:57 on 2002/06/20 Permalink  

    Harmony among people is thhe basis of the Way of military operations; the right weater and an advantageous position help.
    Chapter 1: “On assessments”

     

  • adam 01:55 on 2002/06/20 Permalink  

    Overcome your opponent by calculation.
    Chapter 3: “Planning the attack”

     

  • adam 01:55 on 2002/06/20 Permalink  

    Great wisdom is not obvious, great merit is not advertised. When you see the subtle, it is easy to win – what has it to do with bravery or cleverness?
    Chapter 4: “Formation”

     

  • adam 01:54 on 2002/06/20 Permalink  

    A military body goes through myriad transformations, in which everything is blended. Nothing is not orthodox, nothing is not unorthodox.
    Chapter 2: “On waging battle”

     

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