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I Know Some one Famous!!!

So the other day I was watching Buffy and I couldn't believe it. I know some one there.  It was the coolest thing ever.  Take a look...


Azura Skye


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Can you belive it... I know cool people.  Who wants to touch me. I said, "WHO WANTS TO TOUCH ME!!!"


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Computers for Dummies

For todays blog I would like to teach everyone something about computers. I figure everyone uses computers but very few people actually know how they work. I like computers because that is where all my friends live.


A. When you press the power button on your computer a surge of power powers it all up. There is something called a power supply that controls the electricity as it enters your computer. The power supply creates a constant stream of electricity that is not possible by just plugging the hardware directly into the wall.


B. The first thing that loads on the computer is called the BIOS or Basic input/output system. BIOS runs a process called Power-On Self-Test. BIOS verifies RAM (Random Access Memory), PCI Cards, CPU and the like. If BIOS finds any error during startup it will notify the user by a series of beeps.


C. Basically what BIOS does is it turns a pile of electronic chips and tells them all that they are part of a computer. On many machines the BIOS will display text describing a variety of data that includes but is not limited to: the amount of memory installed, the type of hard disk and the clock speed of the CPU.


D. The CPU is sort of like the brain of the computer. All the calculations that need to be performed by the computer are done by the CPU. The speed or power is measured in clock cycles per second or hertz. The higher the hertz the faster and thus the better the CPU. Current processors can run as fast as 1.8 GHz. The G is for 'Giga' or Billion.


E. At this point your Operating system is loaded from the hard drive to the RAM. The hard drive is basically is data storage center. It stores things in bytes the more bytes the more information. Current hard drives can store as much as 300 Gigabytes. The same prefix system applies. 'Mega' = Millions and 'Giga' = Billions.


F. RAM stands for Random Access Memory. All RAM does is it acts as a temporary storage location for information. The hard disk cannot retrieve information fast enough for the CPU so it temporally stores it all in RAM. The RAM is different than the hard disk in that it is volatile. That means that all the info is lost when power is shut down.


G. Once the operating system is loaded the only thing that you see is the GUI or Graphical User Interface. That is just a point and click program that allows the user to control the computer. GUI is pronounced 'gooey.' There is such a thing as text user interface but it is less intuitive than the GUI.


H. The OS also establishes protocols for device management. What that means is that it allows control for all input and output devices. It will do this through a variety of ways. Now days it does this using USB (Uniform Serial Bus), which is great because with USB the connections are faster, and you can connect up to 127 devices to your computer.


I. Input devices are things that allow you to send information into the computer. The Keyboard, mouse and scanner are all input devices. So they take information and instructions from the user that the computer then interprets. When the computer is done doing it's thing it gives of information.


J. The Keyboard is an input device whose design was based on the original mechanical typewriters. The used to be connected by USB but now they seem to come in wireless form. The keyboard that is used now is called a Qwerty keyboard named after the six keys on the top left of the keyboard.


K. Mouse is another type of input device that allows the user to point and click on anything on GUI. The ball type mouse has little wheels that measure the movement of the ball along two axis. As appose to the optical mouse it takes multiple pictures of the surface that it rests on that it compares to measure movement.


L. The computer gives of information in the form of output devices. These include printers and monitors. The user selects something and then the computer outputs your file in some way. This can include printing out your text document. To remember the I/O difference; one must remember; if it is going into the computer then it is input.


M. There are many parts inside the computer that interact to proved the user with a complete computing experience. The problem is that with so many parts manufactures and so many software manufactures it is easy to understand why a computer can crash all the time. So just be patient and be happy that it works to begin with.


N. Inside the box that is called your computer is the motherboard. This is the nerve center of the computer. All devices plug into the motherboard to create on cohesive device. They connect through a protocol called PCI or Peripheral Control Interface. The new version is called PCI Express.


O. Sound Card. This is the device that creates sounds inside the computer. All your CD-ROM drives are plugged into the sound card. This device has input and output sounds under control of a computer program. With current cards being capable of outputting 5.1 surround sound one can enjoy a plethora of games.


P. Video Card. This just creates graphics and images that are generated onto the display in front of the user. The better the video card the better picture quality. Images on the monitor are created using pixels that the video card controls. The GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) also controls the refresh rate that is also measured in Hertz.


Q. Removable Storage. These allow you to add more information to your computer very easily. They come in a variety of forms and shapes. They are either Read-Only or write able. Storage is measured by how much information can be stored. An old fashioned Floppy disk can store 1.44 Megabytes.


R. CD-R and DVD-R's hold a large amount of data. A CD-R can hold as much as 650MB and DVD-R can hold as much as 4.5GB of data. Reference the storage capacity of hard drives above to get a perceptive on the matter. All data is stored in binary form. That means ones and zeros in ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) form.


S. The monitor is the TV thing that the user looks at. They come in CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) and LCD (Liquid Crystal Display). CRTs are the ones that look like a TV, as appose to the LCD are the thin ones just like a laptop screen. The refresh rate measures how fast the monitor repaints the image. The faster refresh rate, the crisper the image.


T. Network Interface Card. This device allows the computer to communicate with other computers. People used to use modems for that so they would communicate with other computers but soon they realized that the bandwidth was to slow. So now with NIC's people can access the Internet and their porn a lot faster.

There is so many more things that I can talk about but the night is getting late and alas I should go to bed so I can go to work tomorrow. I hope everyone enjoyed this post. Actually I hope that someone actually read it... I know it can be very boring. This computer lesson brought to you by the number 01001001 00100111 01100100 00100000 01101000 01101111 01110111 01101100 00100000 01100001 01110100 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 01110010 00100000 01100010 01100101 01100001 01110101 01110100 01111001 00001101 00001010 01001100 01101001 01101011 01100101 00100000 01100001 00100000 01100100 01101111 01100111 00100000 01101001 01101110 00100000 01101000 01100101 01100001 01110100 00001101 00001010 01000001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01001001 00100111 01100100 00100000 01100011 01101100 01100001 01110111 00100000 01100001 01110100 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 01110010 00100000 01101000 01100101 01100001 01110010 01110100 00001101 00001010 01000001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01001001 00100111 01100100 00100000 01110100 01100101 01100001 01110010 00100000 01100001 01110100 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 01110010 00100000 01110011 01101000 01100101 01100101 01110100 00001101 00001010 01001001 00100111 01100100 00100000 01110011 01100001 01111001 00100000 01110000 01101100 01100101 01100001 01110011 01100101 00101100 00100000 01110000 01101100 01100101 01100001 01110011 01100101 00001101 00001010 01001001 00100111 01101101 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 01110010 00100000 01101101 01100001 01101110


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Behind Blue Eyes

No one knows what it's like
To be the bad man
To be the sad man
Behind blue eyes

No one knows what it's like
To be hated
To be fated
To telling only lies
But my dreams
They aren't as empty
As my conscience seems to be
I have hours, only lonely
My love is vengeance
That's never free

No one knows what it's like
To feel these feelings
Like I doAnd I blame you

No one bites back as hard
On their anger
None of my pain and woe
Can show through
But my dreams
They aren't as empty
As my conscience seems to be
I have hours, only lonely
My love is vengeance
That's never free

When my fist clenches, crack it open
Before I use it and lose my cool
When I smile, tell me some bad news
Before I laugh and act like a fool

If I swallow anything evil
Put your finger down my throat
If I shiver, please give me a blanket
Keep me warm, let me wear your coat

No one knows what it's like
To be the bad man
To be the sad man
Behind blue eyes


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Retail: Doing Returns

How much will someone fight to get the correct price on something? At what point do you say, I think I can live with that price. At what point do you say, Hey maybe I am not eligible for that discount?

A couple of scenarios... I take in a custom framing order for a diploma from a very attractive and obviously successful girl. She likes what I have designed and is agreeable to the 40% off discount that the store is running. Then, after I have printed out the order and finalized everything, her mom comes in and says that she has a 50% off coupon that has expired. Now the reason why she could not have used the coupon while the promotion was running was because she was on a cruise in Europe. EUROPE. Surprisingly I was rather nice to this woman and her ugly daughter. Yeah thats right, she because ugly as soon as she became greedy. The manger gave her the extra 10% which ended up being a ten to fifteen dollar difference. So the question still stands. Why does the fact that you were on vacation an excuse for not being eligible for the discount?

Another scenario... a woman buys 200 packages beads and other craft items at $0.59 each. The grand total for the purchases is $118.00. Once she is fully wrung up and pays for everything she remembers that she has a tax exception form. Now the way the registers work, and for audit purposes, one can not just void a cash transaction. The person at the customer service desk must do a complete return of each item. Scanning 200 pieces the first time was bad because the customer service clerk had to manually adjust the price of the receipt. When someone does a return they have to manually adjust the price of each individual item. Once everything was returned and then repurchased, which took well over an hour and a half the woman saved $9.27.

Let us think about this in a mathematical sense. I believe the average Joanns worker earns somewhere in the vicinity of $8.00/hour. If you figure that EVERYONE in the whole tax paying world gets paid more than that the numbers become easier. Someone who earns $50,000.00 and only works forty hour work weeks for fifty-two weeks earns $24.00/hour. So it would stand to reason that if you do make 50k you would consider that your time IS worth $24.00/hour. Now let us say that I make $10.00/hour at Joanns. So if am doing something such us washing my dress shirts and dress pants I would think about that financially. One must ignore the fact that I would not be wearing dress shirts at Joanns because it is not that kind of place. If washing three loads of laundry, which includes washing, drying, and ironing takes approximately 3.1/2 hours I can put a monetary value to that. That means that financially the act of washing my shirts is worth $35.00. So if I can pay someone to do that for me and it costs me less than $35.00 I would say it is a financially astute transaction.

So that is what gets me about the whole return I was talking about was that according to my time/payment argument the lady is only worth $6.18/hour. Is it just me or is it the principle of the matter. Why is it that when someone really want their money back they forget that the argument is not worth the price? Or maybe next time she should just mention all her discounts before the matter.


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In The Words of Larry, The Big Kahuna

You are here for cosmetic purposes. You are here to represent research. The brains of the company. Even though you do not have very much experience you are representing the company. Still, that does not matter. You as a person do not really matter. It's what you represent. When you think about it. At work... you do not really see people. You see functions. That is the nature of work. If you look at it in the stand point of why we are working... "What" we are is more important than "who" we are. Yes that seems a little impersonal. But of course it's impersonal. Why do you think your office building looks the way it does. Is there anything about that place that smacks of personality.

So your boss. They are an idiot! That is a moron... I would not trust that person to wax my car. I have met them. I have gotten an earful of him. I can tell you for a fact that your boss is full of shit. Granted you work for them so maybe you don't see it. But maybe you just don't know what to look for. Or maybe you might have different standards.

There are people in this world who look very official while they are doing what they are doing. Do you know why? It is because they do not know what they are doing. Because if you know what you are doing, you do not have to look like you know what you are doing. It comes naturally. So now do you know how you can tell the difference? The way you tell is... A little voice pops up in the back of your mind thats says that this guy, or she, who is sitting before you is lying through their teeth or telling you stories. Now once you get that little piece of information what do you do... Here is what I would do. I would say, Buddy... I have heard a lot of horse shit in my time because god knows I am salesman and we all have to wade our way through our share of the snow to get to the cabin... but you take the cake. I don't believe that you have the first idea what you are talking about. Your children admire you, I'm sure. As we all hope they do. And maybe your wife doesn't know... but I know. And my knowledge forces me to call you on the fact that you are a god-damn cock-sucking lier from the word... Go! Then I would sit down and finish my soup.

And I have done this.

That is why there is hope. Because of people like me... who listen. So what happened? Well what do you think happened? What would you expect to happen? The guy got angry. They guy got furious. He just sat there through the rest of the meal just fuming not saying a word. Of course I lost the account. You can not speak to a man like that and expect to keep the account. And if you do. If you say that to a man and he puts down his fork and he says, You are absolutely right. I have been faking like I know what I am talking about from the moment I sat down and I am sorry. Not to you because I don't owe you anything. But to myself, because I want to be the best human being I can possibly be. And I want to be honest above all else. Well then you forget about the account. You forget about everything. You shave your head. Put on a saffron robe and sell pictures of this guy at the airport because he has no fear and he has just proofed it. This guy deserves to be worshiped. Do yourself a favor... Do not ever become one of those people. I do not want to confront you at lunch one day like I did that other guy. But I will. For your own good and because I like you.


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It's Official: I Have No Life

"Supposedly if you've seen over 70, you have no life. Mark the ones you've seen."

(X)Rocky Horror Picture Show
(_)Grease
(X)Pirates of the Caribbean
(_)Boondock Saints
(_)The Mexican
(X) Fight Club
(X)Starsky and Hutch
(X) Neverending Story
(X) Blazing Saddles
(_) Airplane
(X) The Princess Bride
(X) Young Frankenstien
(_) AnchorMan: The Legend of Ron Burgandy
(X) Napoleon Dynamite
(_) Saw
(_) Saw II
(_) White Noise
(_) White Oleander
(X) Anger Management
(X) 50 First Dates
(_) Jason X
(X) Scream
(_) Scream 2
(_) Scream 3
(X) Scary Movie
(_) Scary Movie 2
(_) Scary Movie 3
(X) American Pie
(X) American pie 2
(X) American Wedding
(X) Harry Potter
(X) Harry Potter 2
(_) Harry Potter 3
(X) Harry Potter 4
(X) Resident Evil 1
(X) Resident Evil 2
(X) The Wedding Singer
(X) Little Black Book
(_) The Village
(_) Donnie Darko
(X) Lilo & Stitch
(X) Finding Nemo
(_) Finding Neverland
(X) Ghost
(X) Signs
(_) The Grinch
(_) Texas Chainsaw Massacre
(_) White Chicks
(X) Butterfly Effect
(X) Thirteen Going on 30
(X) I, Robot
(_) Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
(X) Universal Soldier
(_) A Series Of Unfortunate Events
(_) Along Came Polly
(X) Deep Impact
(X) KingPin
(_) Never Been Kissed
(X) Meet The Parents
(X) Meet the Fockers
(_) Eight Crazy Nights
(_) A Cinderella Story
(X) The Terminal
(_) The Lizzie McGuire Movie
(_) Passport to Paris
(X) Dumb & Dumber
(_) Dumb & Dumberer
(_) Final Destination
(_) Final Destination 2
(_) Halloween
(_) The Ring
(_) The Ring 2
(X) Harold And Kumar Go To White Castle
(_) Practical Magic
(X) Chicago
(_) Ghost Ship
(X) From Hell
(X) Hellboy
(_) Secret Window
(X) I Am Sam
(X) The Whole Nine Yards
(X) The whole ten yards
(X) The Day After Tomorrow
(_) Child's Play
(_) Bride of Chucky
(_) Seed of Chucky
(X) 10 things I hate about you
(_) Just Married
(_) Gothika
(_) Nightmare on Elm Street
(_) Sixteen Candles
(X) Coach Carter
(X) Bad Boys
(X) Bad Boys 2
(_) Joy Ride
(X) Seven
(X) Ocean's Eleven
(X) Ocean's Twelve
(_) Identity
(_) Lone Star
(x) Bedazzled
(X) Predator
(X) Predator II
(X) Independence Day
(_) Cujo
(_) A Bronx Tale
(_) Darkness Falls
(_) Christine
(X) ET
(_) Children of the Corn
(_) My Boss' daughter
(_) Maid in Manhattan
(_) Frailty
(_) Best Bet
(_) How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
(X) She's All That
(_) Calendar Girls
(X) Sideways
(X) Mars Attacks
(X) Event Horizon
(_) Ever After
(X) Forrest Gump
(_) Big Trouble in Little China
(X) X-Men
(X) X-2
(_) Jeepers Creepers
(_) Jeepers Creepers 2
(X) Catch Me If You Can
(_) The Others
(_) Freaky Friday Original
(_) Freaky Friday Remake
(X) Reign of Fire
(X) Cruel Intentions
(_) The Hot Chick
(X) Swimfan
(_) Oracle
(X) Old School
(_) Ray
(X) The Notebook
(X) K-Pax
(X) Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
(X) Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
(X) Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
(X) A Walk to Remember
(_) Boogeyman
(X) Hitch
(X) The Fifth Element
(X) Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
(X) Star Wars Episode II: Attack of The Clones
(X) Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of The Sith
(X) Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
(X) Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
(X) Star Wars Episode VI: Return of The Jedi
(_) Troop Beverly Hills
(_) Swimming with Sharks
(X) Air Force 1
(X) For Richer or Poorer
(X) Trainspotting
(_) People Under the Stairs
(_) Blue Velvet
(X) Sound of Music
(_) Parent Trap
(X)The Terminator
(X) The terminator 2
(X) Terminator 3
(X) Empire Records
(_) SLC Punk
(_) Meet Joe Black
(X) Nightmare Before Christmas
(X) The Silence of the Lambs
(X) Sleepy Hollow
(X) The Godfather
(_) The Godfather 2
(_) The Godfather 3
(X) Goodfellas
(X) Pulp Fiction
(X) Jackie Brown
(X) Kill Bill: Vol. 1
(X) Kill Bill: Vol. 2
(X) Reservoir Dogs
(_) Scarface
(X) Full Metal Jacket
(_) Taxi Driver
(_) Master and Commander : The Far Side Of the World
(X) Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory
(X) Charlie And The Chocolate Factory
(_) Crash
(_) The Breakfast Club
(_) Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
(_) The Good Girl

83 hahaha I guess I have no life Oh Well


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Now This Is What I Call Commitment

MARTINSBURG A Martinsburg man charged with felony child abuse Wednesday allegedly stapled his 16-year-old daughters ear and leg because she refused to give him her MySpace.com account password, according to court documents obtained by The Journal Thursday.

The name of the36-year-old man will not be published to protect the identity of the victim.

He was arrested Wednesday at his residence on Faulkner Avenue at about 3:15 p.m. by Patrolman Eric Neely of the Martinsburg City Police Department, police said.

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Still something tells me that this guy did not use my seven rules of stapling.


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It's That Time of Year

I do not know why I waited until now to talk about the things that I wanted for my birthday... Still I got none of these things but I figure I can get them on my own. The watch I want just to drive Caren crazy.... Actually the watch that I got two years ago for my bithday just broke and now I have to have it repaired. I wonder if the fact that the watch broke means something. It probably does but I am not changing my mind.
The Watch

I still have not gotten my car repaired. That sucks. I have been talking about fixing this damn thing forever. Granted there are other things that sucked about the old birthday but what can be done about that now...
The Car


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