Archive for March, 2003

Bargain Wines

Monday, March 31st, 2003

My high-school buddy, Kevin, and his wife, Danna, have been experimenting with some new wines… lots of them are pretty inexpensive – including a 5 dollar bottle (yikes).

Pop News Today

Monday, March 31st, 2003

When I was growing up, I loved Knight-Rider… evidentally, these guys also did. Check out this video. I have no idea what the website at http://www.blackmarketkittens.com/ is about – but its gone now. I’m sooo curious to know what used to be there… Google’s cache has this If anyone knows more about this site, please […]

NYC Bans Smoking

Monday, March 31st, 2003

Last time I was in NYC in January, you couldn’t go 10mins without hearing someone bitch about the smoking ban that was about to occur… Quite frankly, I couldn’t see how they could ban smoking in NYC… LA? sure! But NYC? Well they did it – you can read all about it here. What’s really […]

The Weekend

Monday, March 31st, 2003

NO MORE DRINKING. I’m done for awhile… Friday night I ended up hanging with some of the boys out in downtown… at which time my comrades proceeded to pick up an entire harem of Miller girls. I swore I wouldn’t drink that night but I ended up being a victim of my strong team-player attitude… […]

This past week

Friday, March 28th, 2003

Fairly busy week… Started out touring the ArtPace building – pretty neat stuff. It seems that they have a new exhibit every month… I recommend you check it out. Checked out the movie Old School — it sucked. I don’t recommend you watch it. With that said, it seems that the Filthy Critic loved it […]

Pop News Today

Thursday, March 27th, 2003

Wanna talk like Ali G? Go here. Love linux? Tired of the Apple-Switch ads? Go here. Check out the eye-lash creatures! Go here. Since it seems lots of people don’t know what CBing means… Go here. Meat hats? Go here.

Whassup!

Thursday, March 27th, 2003

Ok… so this is poor taste… but oh well… check it out. Also, you can look at the rest of my Whassup collection here.

Pop News Today

Tuesday, March 25th, 2003

Ever wonder what the “ten-four” meant when you saw movies and people said “Woohoo! Ten-four good buddy!”… Well, read all about it. Evidentally, the people at Clonaid have finally released some info about their cloned baby… who knows whats really going on. Want to spend 30% less on shoes next week? Check this out. And […]

Man Vs. Nature

Monday, March 24th, 2003

Back in the day, I had a friend explain to me that running into a moose would do more damage to the car than the moose… in fact, she claimed that the moose would just trott off without a scratch… I didn’t believe it until I saw this.

Ice Luge

Monday, March 24th, 2003

This is the coolest thing I’ve ever seen! Every party needs one of these…

Japanese Humor

Sunday, March 23rd, 2003

This shouldn’t be funny, but it is… hope you enjoy it. Watch the video.

Another Big-E Party

Saturday, March 22nd, 2003

We laughed… We cried… we drank… we danced… and drank some more. What can I say? It was another classic Elmendorf party… Happy Birthdays to Brett and Paul! I think this particular event was amazingly well documented with quite a few digicams floating around – and Dirk turned it up a half-notch with recording video […]

They’re coming in!

Friday, March 21st, 2003

Everyone seems to be coming out of the woodwork to visit San Antonio this weekend…. Wes and Rebecca pulled in from Dallas today… Along with Prasanth from Temple, and we might be graced by Joe’s presence from Houston… They all must’ve heard about the big party tomorrow… The more the merrier! Meanwhile Wes and the […]

411 for Cell Nums

Friday, March 21st, 2003

So it looks like the cellular companies are going to start publishing cell numbers in the 411 directories… I think this is pretty crappy… check it out.

Endo!

Thursday, March 20th, 2003

If you’re gonna endo, you’d better do it right… and if you can’t, you probably should make sure your buddies aren’t taping it so you don’t get made fun of…

San Antonio on Alert

Thursday, March 20th, 2003

From here: No delays or cancellations at San Antonio International Airport. Show up at least 2 ½ hours early for your flight. Lackland AFB and Fort Sam Houston are at Alert Orange. Expect traffic delays around all military bases. The San Antonio Police Department is watching city hall, SAWS, and City Public Services offices. There […]

Miss USA

Thursday, March 20th, 2003

When Kim asked if I wanted tickets, I honestly wasn’t sure if I was going to enjoy this whole pageant thing – I mean really, its just a bunch of girls prancing around and stuff right? Well…. I gotta say – if you bring the right mix of bone-head buddies with you, it can be […]

Patents

Wednesday, March 19th, 2003

Anyone who says “Hey! You should patent that!” has never EVER gone through the patent process – what a pain. If you want an utterly dumbed down version of what happens read this. The real-life version is much more painful. Anyhow, I’m off to the the Miss USA pageant prelim’s down the street.. later on.

Elph vs. EXILIM

Tuesday, March 18th, 2003

I love my Elph, but I want something smaller… I’ve looked at the EXILIM from Casio, but it didn’t have an optical zoom… well… it didn’t used to have one… hmmm….. View Image Here

Licorice?

Tuesday, March 18th, 2003

Who in the hell actually eats Licorice jellybeans?

Pop News Today

Monday, March 17th, 2003

Lets try a new format… Wanna learn what t.A.T.u. means? Read this for a complete brain dump about the band. Only in America would this happen. View image And here we have Chris defining what orange-alert is.

Lunch Conversation

Monday, March 17th, 2003

Today’s lunch conversation: Rich: “How’s school going?” Steve: “Oh it sucks – I have to read Wuthering Heights in my lit. class” Rich: “Really? Didn’t you read that in high school too?” Steve: “Nope.” Rich: “Dirk, didn’t you read it in high school?” Dirk: “Nope. I read it for fun.”

OD-ing on Austin

Sunday, March 16th, 2003

Four nights in Austin in the past week. Wow. Its like I live there now. Paul and I did the math and figured out that it would be cheaper to just rent hotel rooms every time we went up instead of leasing an apartment – so be it! There are so many stories I can’t […]

Pop News Today

Friday, March 14th, 2003

Are these spec-ads? Do people actually air this stuff? Am I missing good commericials because I’m too quick to skip them on my TiVo? This is some GREAT stuff! Back in the day when I was still in high school, people had this major issue with dropping their beepers in the toilet. I have no […]

Super Heating Phenomenon

Friday, March 14th, 2003

First it was aluminium foil… then people started throwing CD’s in them… and now, people are putting WATER in microwave ovens and causing mayhem! Evidentally, this phenomenon known as “super heating” is well known — I dunno about you but I’ve never had a hot cup of water EXPLODE like this video shows.

Red, Blonde, and Blue?

Friday, March 14th, 2003

Let me start by saying that I think that Chis is awesome. He’s fun to hang out with and is the life of the party when called to duty, but WTF is this? And if you’re so inclined you can see the full-on music video of how it went down here.

Austin City Limit

Friday, March 14th, 2003

Driving home at 2am from Austin is not the most entertaining thing in the world once you’ve had a few drinks in your system. I did make it home safe, but I don’t think I’ll be doing that again. Anyhow, my attempts in attending SXSW for music was a complete bust last night. I got […]

Pop News Today

Thursday, March 13th, 2003

A couple of years back I spend a few weeks in London. To this day I’m not sure if stuff like this or this are really just “British-isms” or if they’re trying to be funny. One of those things that make you go – Hmmmmmm New Scientist reports that “Stupidity should be cured“! Thank GOD! […]

FIESTA!

Thursday, March 13th, 2003

There are only a few things I like about San Antonio. but I gotta say, this is one city that knows how to party… and San Antonio folk party ALL the time. Fiesta is coming up next month– a whole two weeks of back-to-back events, and its probably the biggest party this city has annually. […]

Geek Newz

Thursday, March 13th, 2003

For those of you who use MSN Messenger and have installed the MSN Add-on for instant Hotmail access, you might wanna check this out so you can get rid of those pesky ads on the bottom. Since we’re already talking about Microsoft, I thought I’d throw this into mix. It seems that they know that […]

ANNIE!

Wednesday, March 12th, 2003

Annie in the hizz-ouse!

Pop News Today

Wednesday, March 12th, 2003

Every so often you stumble on a gem of a link… this one happens to be from E-bay… The Instant Girlfriend – gotta check it out. Its approppriately in the “Everything Else:Weird Stuff:Slightly Unusual” catagory. Funny stuff. I had some friends over Tuesday night… primarily to watch Fear Factor since this particular episode was filmed […]

Perfume

Wednesday, March 12th, 2003

So I was at this wedding in Houston this past weekend, and my college friend Mefi was wearing the most amazing perfume… I LOVE IT. Its “Issey Miyake” and I’ve been told that its pretty expensive as fragrances go – I have no idea, but whatever it costs, its worth every penny. Just look what […]

Pop News

Tuesday, March 11th, 2003

Ok, the rising cost of gasoline is starting to get a bit ridiculous… check out this picture and this one from Yahoo. Apparently, My ***damn rock solid ghetto shiznit name is Rock Hard Kool. What’s yours? Chris has decided to start some bizarre “business” of some kind… so I figured I’d plug it – go […]

FOUND

Tuesday, March 11th, 2003

Speaking of All My Life for Sale, I also find FOUND fascinating… (that sounds a bit weird… I find found… bah, anyways) you can found the skinny on it here… go check it out.

Trillian

Tuesday, March 11th, 2003

Ok so people have been asking me stuff like “Do you use Trillian?”, “Do you like Trillian?”, etc, etc, etc…. I do actually use Trillian… but only for MSN, AIM, and Yahoo!…. My primary IM network is ICQ. There are three reasons why I don’t use ICQ on Trillian: * Complete lack of server-side contact […]

SXSW Interactive

Tuesday, March 11th, 2003

Wow, what a long Monday… Drove into Austin in the morning for SXSW Interactive. I had a great time… Met John Freyer of All My Life For Sale . I find that whole project absolutely fascinating – I first found out about it when he appeared on TSS with Leo… pretty cool that I ran […]