resolutions revisted #1
This post isn't really intended for anyone but myself as a reminder of what my new years resolutions were and if I'm keeping them to myself. If you want to read it then by all means be my guest.
Here are a few of my resolutions for 2007
1.) Get a loan and register for spring semester
2.) Test my blood sugar at least 3 days a week.
3.) Starting a low carb, low calorie diet and hopefully lose 20lbs
4.) Use my car less, my bike and feet more
5.) Spend more time with Jill
6.) Make an effort to keep contact with old friends.
1.) DONE (although I need to stop spending the money for personal use and put some money back towards the loan.)
2.) I'm doing this now but I need to test more than once per day and test 2 hours after a meal to see if my levels are staying okay.
3.) I haven't worked on this at all yet. I wanted to get used to testing myself first. Now it's time to work on my diet.
4.) It's been too cold to use my bike yet and too hard to walk when its below freezing. But I have been doing exercies with dumbells in my spare time.
5.) Depends on who's answer you get for this. (I think I've been doing okay at this, not great but just okay. work also has kept me busy)
6.) I haven't started yet. I have a couple people who's birthdays are coming up so I'll have to make sure to get them gifts.
I'll come back to this at the end of February to see how I'm doing then.
Spammers take it to the next level
Heres a situation that happened to me recently.
Last Friday, I was checking through my voicemail which was the first time in what seemed like forever and for some reason my phone doesn't tell me that there are any messages, just if I missed calls. So as I was listening to the messages, I got one from this guy named Ryan on the 18th who said he was calling me back about a part time job and to give a call back at this number which is local to me. I found it strange that he didn't tell me what I had applied for or what company he was working. Nonetheless, I was curious so I called back, left a message and expected a call back on Monday.
Sure enough he called me back this morning and left me another message to call back by noon, so I called again and finally got on the phone with him, the first thing he asked me was if I was looking for full or part time work, I said part time then he asked if I was working now, I said yes then he wanted to know where. As a sidenote, I am pretty protective of just telling anyone where I work so I said "politics" and he wanted to get more specific. I finally had to interrupt him and ask who he was, who he worked for and what he did, all of which he failed to inform me about when he answered the phone. I had to repeat the question twice before he finally told me.
Somewhere along the way I thought I heard "medical sales" and "telemarketing" and realized I never applied for any job in that field and just hung up in the middle of his little pitch.
Okay dumbass, first of all how are you going to try and sell me on this mystery job without even telling me in your 2 voicemail messages what exactly you do? All it does is make you sound incredibly shady which in fact you really turned out to be.
Oh, and a gold star for trying to fish out as much information about me as you could before I started questioning you right back. What did you want know next? my SSN? my bank account #? fuck my sister?
I guess I didn't expect this to happen over the phone but I suppose people wised up to deleting email so they're only taking it to the next level. I'm thinking this person may have gotten my information from my monster.com account which really hasn't done anything for me. Has anyone out there EVER had luck with those online job sites?
Oh well, fool me once shame on you...
Unless you're George Bush, you know how the rest of it goes.
It's been decided.
This whole issue of HD DVD vs. Blu Ray had me confused as to which format to embrace (not really) but I think this is the clincher. If its good enough for Porn well then by golly! it's good enough for me!
Actually I think both formats are going to struggle for awhile until the rest of us decide on spending over $1000 to get HD televisions capable of taking advantage of all that this new technology can give us. In the meanwhile I'll be content with a 13'' television and a PS2.
CES 2007: HD DVD versus Blu-ray - The porn industry says HD DVD
By Aaron McKenna
Published Thursday 11th January 2007 12:39 GMT
Las Vegas (NV) - Knowing their audience quite well, the adult entertainment industry holds their annual get together in Las Vegas to coincide with the CES. There is also a very pertinent crossover between the adult and tech industries - porn has a tendency to drive, and be driven, by technology. Which means HD DVD when it comes to high-def.
Quite famously in the war between Betamax and VHS the latter won especially because the adult industry preferred it. If you've been around long enough, you probably remember that the very early home video rental stores were primarily responsible for driving Betamax out of the market. And those stores carried almost exclusively pornographic content.
Although the market environments from then do not really compare to today's home video market, parallels are drawn between the Betamax-VHS battle to the ongoing and escalating fight between Blu-ray and HD DVD. One of the key questions at this year's CES actually is "Which high-def format will win the current format war - Blu-ray or HD DVD?" Surprisingly, it seems that there is no such question in the minds of the adult industry luminaries.
Putting myself through the arduous trek through the floor of the adult expo I did a quick straw poll on, the virtues of HD DVD versus Blu-ray, and the answer from a dozen companies, big and small, including Pink Visual and Bangbros editor-in-chief, is going into a single direction: HD DVD is the preferred format. Period.
One of the big problems they have with Blu-ray is its expense, followed by its market share. "Blu-ray has superior quality, yes," said a spokesperson for porn studio Bangbros, "but HD DVD is easier to produce, cheaper to produce and there are more HD DVD players in homes than there are Blu-ray players, for example in the Xbox 360."
Pink Visual heavily complained about the fact that Blu-ray discs cannot be replicated and a range of other studios, who did not want to be mentioned by name indicated that the cost of going with Blu-ray cancels the technology as a possible HD solution for this industry. "Only bigger studios can afford Blu-ray, and even then it's not economical," we were told.
It would seem that either Blu-ray has to do some catching up very quickly. But we got the strange feeling that HD DVD has won the format war already, at least in the porn industry.
http://www.tgdaily.com/2007/01/11/ces2007_hddvd_blu_ray/
world wide web social networking and messageboards.
In one of my many stints of boredom at work recently I've been thinking about all the social networking and messageboard websites I've signed up for over the years. Now while I'm sure there are many more than the ones I have listed, this is just what I could think of off the top of my head.
Some of these are so old but are still around. If you can think of anymore I could add to the list, let me know.
Blogger (obviously)MyspaceLivejournal2nd and much older LivejournalFacebookLast.fmn00dzplz (screenname: verbalpollution)Mitchclem.com (screenname: lojus)Project Playlist1up.comYahooLaunch
conflict of interest?
I was watching television the other day and this new advertisement for UPS came on with this guy drawing a diagram on a whiteboard about how UPS can ship packages from China to the United States and blah blah blah...the real reason I bring this up is because in the background I heard a sample of "Such Great Heights" from the group The Postal Service and found it strangly ironic that a band by that name would be sampled for a UPS ad. Isn't that a conflict of interest?
If you dont know the ad yet, I've included a link to the website, click on TV Spots
http://whiteboard.ups.com/I'm glad to see that I wasn't the only one who caught this.
http://tinyurl.com/y4ceqrThe bands agreement with the USPS has only got to complicate the matters more. I wonder how quickly the ad will be pulled or changed. You'de think that for a company that is investing $35 million dollars into this ad campaign they would've caught this before putting it on the air but I guess thats why they get paid the big bucks and we dont.
