| Your faces will melt |
[10 Jul 2006|04:26pm] |
My kick ass rock band needs a show... What do we sound like? We are a mix between the best band in the world, and your favorite band...
it's spacey pop type stuff... like pop sonic youth?
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| trapping animals |
[08 May 2006|05:09pm] |
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Anyone remember that arcade game a few years ago where you lasso wild animals? IF you do, what is it called? I remember thinking the game was soooo wrong, but soooo fun!
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| ghost hunters drinking game |
[05 May 2006|01:44pm] |
Every time Jason says, "Good Job."
Every time Brian says, "Dude"
Every time Donna flips her hair.
Every time Grant says, "Whoah!!"
Also, has anyone read the credits in ghost hunters? I never get a chance to.. I can't find the part that says "none of this is true" ... I'm affraid I'll start believing soon... of course, they don't time stamp anything, which is lame.
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| tears of happiness on my keyboard. |
[04 May 2006|09:52am] |
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From starwars.com. "In response to overwhelming demand, Lucasfilm Ltd. and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment will release attractively priced individual two-disc releases of Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. Each release includes the 2004 digitally remastered version of the movie, as well as the original theatrical edition of the film. That means you'll be able to enjoy Star Wars as it first appeared in 1977, Empire in 1980, and Jedi in 1983."
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[03 May 2006|10:41am] |
A mocking announcement about Canada's prime minister, Stephen Harper, was flashed on electronic advertising signs on Toronto area commuter trains for several days, and technicians were still scrambling on Tuesday to get the signs fixed.
"Stephen Harper Eats Babies. Stephen Harper Eats Babies. Stephen Harper Eats Babies," started to appear every three seconds across some LED screens late last week. The signs usually carry transit updates and advertising spots.
"It appears that this was a case of electronic vandalism," said Stephanie Sorensen, corporate communications and media specialist for the GO Transit commuter system. "We assume it was a hacker. We haven't identified the person who did this but we're working closely with the contractor who runs the signs to fix the problem."
Screens on GO Trains have been shut down since Monday. Sorensen said she expects they will remain off line for a few more days until password-protected technology is installed to protect them from computer hackers.
"We regret that it happened and we're sorry if anybody was offended, including the prime minister," Sorensen said.
GO Transit carries 47 million passengers every year on its network of buses and trains in the Toronto region.
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| june 6th, 2006 |
[02 May 2006|12:16pm] |
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We might have to have a zombie party on 6/6/06...
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| koalas aren't just cute. |
[29 Mar 2006|11:41am] |
A cranky koala achieved what an angry croc couldn't - it beat off thieves.
The bizarre incident began when Rockhampton police in Queensland received a tip-off that someone had a crocodile in their possession.
"The police came to the zoo, checked out our exhibit and we were down a female freshwater crocodile,'' said Tom Wyatt at Rockhampton City Council.
The 1.2 metre crocodile - known simply as "the girl freshie" - was dragged by thieves over a 2.4 metre fence in the middle of the night.
"Can you imagine these people struggling over a 2.4 metre security fence with a writhing wild reptile?" he said.
"It's not a baby you are holding in your arms here. We are talking about 40 kilograms and 1.2 metres of absolute fury."
"They are not man-eaters [like salt water crocodiles]. But they can still give you a nasty bite."
The thieves originally planned to take one of the zoo's koalas and only changed tack after it proved too vicious, 21-year-old zookeeper Wil Kemp told smh.com.au.
He had been told by police that four people were involved in the wildlife heist, which allegedly involved stealing a koala and swapping it for drugs.
"The original plan was to steal a koala - that's what they were going to use to swap [for] the drugs,'' Mr Kemp said.
"[But] apparently [the koala] scratched the shit out of them.''
"The blokes have quite a lot of scratches and lacerations caused by the koala.''
The thieves then decided to take a crocodile instead.
"I don't know what makes someone go, 'Oh we tried to steal a koala and that didn't work so lets go and steal a croc.'"
"The people who did it must have been quite stupid. It's the last thing I wound have thought a member of the general public would try to steal for drugs.''
Mr Kemp said the meat and skin of a freshwater crocodile was worthless, but the stolen reptile might be sold in the pet trade for about $600.
"I'm worried and angered. I spent the last three years looking after it. I hope at least [the person who has it is] looking after it OK.''
He said police had told him they had been unable to locate the crocodile.
"They can't find it because it has been passed on to someone else who traded it for some marijuana and speed.''
Two woman have been issued with notices to appear in court over the theft of the crocodile.
Sergeant Paul Elliot said a lot of rumours were flying around about what the thieves' original intention was.
"There's a lot of that going around. We can't confirm or deny if their intention was initially to get a koala. It's all specualtion at the moment."
He would not comment on the drug deal allegations.
Police believe the crocodile was taken in the early hours of Saturday morning but Mr Kemp remembers seeing it on Sunday morning.
He thinks it must have been taken on Monday morning when another drama occurred at the zoo.
"One of the wombats got bitten by a snake. No one can officially remember seeing [the female] crocodile on Monday."
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| oops |
[17 Mar 2006|05:00pm] |
I accidentally hit the wrong button and paid an agent $$$ to help me and alana with a visa to Sydney...
oh well.. see ya guys on the flip flop.
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| I, for one, welcome our swede overloads. |
[17 Mar 2006|03:29pm] |
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Swedes plan to colonise Moon
Flat-pack lunar base
We always knew the Swedes were a shifty bunch - softening hearts worldwide with a pleasing blend of inoffensive europop, cheap yet effortlessly stylish flat-pack furniture and fun-loving, pnemuatic blonde fillies - but now the horrible truth can now be revealed: they're planning to colonise the Moon thereby ensuring their own survival as the Earth's resources dwindle and lesser nations are returned to a primitive Stone-Age state enslaved to Sweden's galactic ambitions*.
The proof comes in the form of the innocent-looking SMART-Centre which, according to various reports, has assembled a consortium of more than 50 partners - including Japan's Shimizu Corporation, US NASA contractor Orbitech and the UK's Cranfield University - to turn the centre's Dr. Niklas Järvstråt's dreams of extraterrestrial conquest into reality.
Järvstråt first pitched the idea of colonising the Moon over ten years ago. His plan is to establish a self-sustaining community "where the great circle of life can be sustained in its entirety by lunar raw materials and where all life-sustaining products will be manufactured in situ".
Here's more from SMART-Centre's blurb:
The colony aims to be self-sustaining in its requirements for sustenance, but it will nevertheless function in symbiosis with Earth. As a result, trade between the lunar colony and Earth will flourish, with the lunar colony contributing towards the development of research and scientific activities, such as, for example, the supply of alternative energy based on advancements in Helium3 fusion power, and provision of structural materials for spacecraft and satellites in earth orbit as well as deep space. At this time of potential fossil fuel shortages, threats of global warming, cultural clashes, and population explosion, this concept might well be what stops man's over-exploitation of Mother Earth by uniting governments and nations, scientists and laymen in mutual cooperation and understanding.
Yeah right. Once the Swedes have got their mitts on the Moon, we can see them indulging in "in mutual cooperation and understanding" with those of us left back on Earth.
I'm tempted, at this point, to stick in a reference to Hugo Drax and the creation of a race of blonde space superbeings, but since I have no doubt whatsoever that the Swedes will succeed in their dastardly plan, I'll instead point out to Järvstråt that his Moonstad will certainly need top-quality IT journalists to participate in its breeding programme. My CV's in the post, and I look forward to hearing from you shortly. ®
Bootnote
*ie, working as slave labour in Saab's hyperdrive facility.
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| 2 rants, kinda. |
[16 Mar 2006|10:11am] |
1: anyone read what Bill gates said about the $100 laptop project? something like "why spend $100 on something that has a tiny screen and no drive when you can buy our new microsoft mini laptop for $599" ... um bill.. buddy.. you are rich. $100 laptops are going to be given to african kids that have NO money.. I think you missed the whole point and might need to get beat up..
2: Does anyone else think Pitchforkmedia and Lostatsea are completely worthless garbage? until about 2001 or 2002 I thought pitchfork was OK.. but jesus.. it just gets worse and worse. Does anyone else know of any other sites to learn about new music or get news about bands we probably enjoy?
here's an extra rant for you... Not only is myspace a place for you to stalk girls and then have sex with their corpse after your blind date.. It's the #1 place for the worst bands in the world to attempt to spam you...
People have to know weather their music sucks or not.. don't that? Like, you do realize that your friends hate it when you make them go see your show right? I'm not talking about any bands I know.. I'm just talking about shitty bands in general...
discuss.
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[01 Mar 2006|04:24pm] |
DETROIT - A 12-year-old visitor to the Detroit Institute of Arts stuck a wad of gum to a $1.5 million painting, leaving a stain the size of a quarter, officials say.
The boy was part of a school group from Holly that visited the museum on Friday, officials say. They say he took a piece of Wrigley's Extra Polar Ice gum out of his mouth and stuck it on Helen Frankenthaler's "The Bay," an abstract painting from 1963.
The museum acquired the work in 1965 and says it is worth about $1.5 million.
The gum stuck to the painting's lower left corner and did not adhere to the fiber of the canvas, officials told the Detroit Free Press. But it left a chemical residue about the size of a quarter, said Becky Hart, assistant curator of contemporary art.
The museum's conservation department is researching the chemicals in the gum to decide which solvent to use to clean it. The museum hopes to make the repair in two weeks and will keep "The Bay" on display in the meantime, she said.
"Our expectation is that the painting is going to be fine," Hart said.
Holly Academy director Julie Kildee said the boy had been suspended from the charter school and says his parents also have disciplined him.
"Even though we give very strict guidelines on proper behavior and we hold students to high standards, he is only 12 and I don't think he understood the ramifications of what he did before it happened, but he certainly understands the severity of it now," said Kildee.
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| Detroit Still Sucks and ALWAYS will |
[16 Feb 2006|12:27pm] |
anyone here about the people that got shot and killed the day before the superbowl? I think it was 2 people.. anyways, why wasn't that in the news?
Also:
Last night Matt's car was stolen in detroit
a few nights ago Jeremy's car was broken into and they tried to steal it. and they fucked it all up.
a few nights before that Jenny was mugged in front of the bronx and fucked up...
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| I can almost smell it. |
[30 Jan 2006|10:10am] |
So. The way Detroit lets people know that there is no parking on the streets until the superbowl is over, is they give you a huge ticket. they don't put bags on the parking meters, or let you know via a sign.
yesterday I had the most fun on the computer as I've had in a LONG time. I got Google Earth [the beta for mac]. on my G5 it runs GREAT.
I got out my sydney street guide, and I marked my old apartment, friend's houses, my sydney hang outs, and a few places in the burbs of detroit. I was cool to see the map, and a real photo of sydney at the same time.
I put my mixing console back on the market. a Trident series 65 24x16x8 with awesome pres and the grounding upgrade.
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| the reason livejournal was made |
[27 Jan 2006|04:02pm] |
LARRY King likes to get a little Wild West in the sack, according to his much-younger wife, Shawn Southwick. In an unsettling interview with Howard Stern, Southwick claims, "Larry has this Indian costume that just drives me wild . . . I wear chaps!" She adds that 72-year-old King's bedroom battle cries didn't ring out until after they were married in 1997. Southwick, a devout Mormon, made the wrinkled broadcaster wait until their wedding night to have sex - and only after a doctor signed off on it because of King's heart problems.
another subject for this story could have been "and another reason I will never sleep again"
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| I got h4ack3d! |
[29 Dec 2005|11:51am] |
Yup. I think? my .mac account was being forwarded to an address called "robshellby@yahoo.com" .. that, obviously isn't mine and I never
set it to do that...
my ebay password didn't work the next day... both were the same passwords.. both I've used since I was 11 years old..
I think all is fine now?
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| a break from cleaning... |
[19 Dec 2005|09:43am] |
I don't like live journal still.. I also still don't get down with blogs... BUT, I'm taking a break from cleaning the studio for a few minutes....
what does everyone thinks of the top 50 pitchfork songs of 2005? A lot of it is on.. I think the Killers should have been better than #13.. I mean everyone was singing that
freaking song... and the fact that just reading the title "Kelly Clarkston Since You've Been Gone" got that song stuck in my head again is proof that it's a great single...
I thought there was to much hip hop.. I like hip hop, but it's really the only forgetable genre...
ummm.. I can't wait for the new macs coming out in 2006!!! If I can sell my G5 for enough $$$ I might get the first generation MacTel's...
anyone want to buy a sony 19" flat screen with xBrite technology?
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| Only in Amer.... Malaysia. |
[05 Dec 2005|12:45pm] |
KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA-December 5, 2005 - It was twice as much fun at the Malaysian wedding as two pairs of identical twins tied the knot.
Guests could be pardoned for thinking they were seeing double: The best men were twins. So were the bridesmaids and the flower girls, the Star newspaper reported Monday.
The paper reported that Zeenat Begam Sawai Hamid and Zannat Begam Sawai Hamid, 23, had been promised by their parents soon after birth to identical twin brothers Hasan Mohammed Yusof and Husen Mohammed Yusof, 26. The two sets of parents were good friends, the Star said.
But the families lost touch with each other until seven years ago, and agreed to fulfill their pledge. Their children took their vows on Sunday in Balakong, a town outside Kuala Lumpur.
The Star said the two sisters, born 48 seconds apart, are medical students. The older groom is a clerk in Malaysia's central bank, Bank Negara, and the younger, born four minutes later, is a businessman.
The couples wore identical dresses, but one pair was decked in yellow while the other in purple. The twin best men, Mohammed Aswad and Mohammed Hafiz Yaakob, 20, wore identical dresses, and could be told apart only because one of them has a thin beard.
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| jkdshlf |
[23 Nov 2005|10:41am] |
I am offcially an anti-smoking nazi...
get ready to be annoyed.
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