Bling me up Scotty.

Saw this on the 6 forums.

Spinning muffler bling from http://shoplaser.com/

Microsoft Word

I'm surpised I hadn't seen this earlier.

Care of my friend Andy.

Holloween parties.

Holloween Parties are meant to be on Holloween. I missed one last friday because well, it wasn't on Holloween. I was really excited about it too.

Oh well, to the pain with you I say. To the pain!

I want to be a cyborg.

http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200510220144.html

Wow... I thought windows was annoying.

http://www.prangstgrup.com/startupsound/

I suck at dance competitions.

I knew going into that yesterday that I was not going to do well. I came in last and third from last. I got nervous. I don't dance well when I'm nervous.

Outside of the occassional freak out-of-towners, I have not been able to connect with this towns follows. I do lots of cool things, but I haven't figured out how to get them to compliment it. Lots of time girls just stand there. When the ladies are spinning I'm almost always doing something interesting. Sure it's not super flashy, but at least I'm still dancing. Some follows in this scene just stop dancing. Additionally I don't know any cool moves any more. I do lots of things because those are the only things I know how to do any more. I'm really struggling to find moves that make the follow look awesome. It's not like I'm not trying, it's just I haven't figured it out yet.

I need to learn how to lead the follow to compliment what my body wants to do. I don't want to dancerbate, I just haven't figured out how to help out the girl yet. The problem is that oftentimes I don't know what I want to do until I'm doing it.

People are going to lindy bomb sixth street tonight. I know I'll have more fun doing that. Hopefully someday I will be comfortable enough competing that I can have fun doing that as well.

Swinglandia.

I'm going to Ukraine.

http://www.swingdance.kiev.ua/swinglandia/index.php?page=main_en

To meet these crazy people (none of which I know).

They are apparently the Kiev Dance Club.

Well nothing's set in stone, but I've always wanted to go. I could research my family, learn a little Ukrainian, and possibly even meet a little Ukrainian. I'm really starting to get excited about the whole endeavor.

The plan right now is to get two round trip tickets. One to some Western European Country and another from that Western European country to Ukraine. The hope would be that tickets would be a bit cheaper that way. Additionally I'd get to spend some time in the rest of Europe as well. Anyone have suggestions on Cheap western European destinations?

My response to a recent naming scheme update from marketing.

From marketing
"That is what branding is all about. The name is not how you distinguish things ... like Kleenex."

My response.

"Yes but generic branding usually refers to singular products. i.e.
Kleenex -> stuff you wipe your nose with
Roller Blades -> things you'd like to race down the halls in.

Kleenex makes the
Kleenex Upright Floral
http://www.kleenex.com/us/products/everyday/Upright.asp

Or the Soft Pack
http://www.kleenex.com/us/products/everyday/softpack.asp

Amazingly all the kleenex products have something in common. They have Kleenex inside.

If kleenex wanted to make a car that had a special spot for the Kleenex Upright do you think they'd call it the Kleenex U? I certainly hope not, but this is exactly what we are doing."


I will keep you guys apprised to the situation as it unfolds. My note has already been passed up to second line management, and is being passed around the marketing group. And i only sent it out 7 minutes ago. I wish I could tell you guys more, but darn NDAs prevent it.

Help sites that make my head hurt.

I finally found a site that is worse to navigate than IBM's. Try finding drivers for the Cisco Aironet 350 on their site. They force you to create a userid for a site that is virtually unusable. To make matters worse there site is SUPER slow at the moment.

Oooh riddle me this. 4.15 is a previous release to 1.1? I don't get it. What dumb-ass thought organizing different releases in the same folder would be a smart idea?


I think I figured it out. 1.6 is the newest of the install wizard, and that's what I'm going to try first.

Backups, Windows, and the Dentist

I hate the dentist. My hygenist wouldn't shut up. She kept going on and on about how mouthwash was bad. I couldn't believe it. She basically said that mouthwash kills all the good bacteria, but doesn't kill the bad stuff. That sure is a new one.

So my work laptop hasn't been reformatted in more than 2 years, and frankly it's turned into a dog. It's so messed up that ping and ipconfig miraculously stopped working. I checked my path, and put system32 back in it, but that didn't help.

I'm trying to backup as much as I can, and I plan on blowing the sucker away. I'm already on my fourth CD of stuff I need, and I haven't even started working on my Linux partition. I doubt the linux partition will take that much though.

I can't wait till I get a new laptop.

Match.com fun and Blogger's got issues

All right for the second day in a row I try to post something, but blogger's down for maintenance. Is this normal?

Also on the match.com scene.
Wendos e-mailed me back. I'll keep you guys posted.
The one affectionately known as Match.com girl (the one that I've been fawning over for 140 days apparently) has not. I hope I didn't scare her away (maybe I shouldn't have told her about the 140 days part). At the time it sounded sweet. Now it sounds sort of stalkerish. Forgive me, but my inner-monologue powers are at only at 2. They're not at all like my disco dancing and computer hacking powers which are at a super-awesome 6. Next time I level up, I'm so going for the inner-monologue powers.

Curve balls

Empirically proven, when life seems to be going just right, be prepared. It's only lulling you into a sense of complacence, to make the curve ball hurt all the more.