Hmm.. The "web" went out at work today, which means some squirrel was probably hanging out on a power line. It's strange how much we rely on the Internet, email and porn sharing sof--errr hahaha...whoa.

The Fever (aka my little brother) purchased himself up a nice 2000 Toyota Celica GT-S today. It's a sweet ride, with Leather Seats, an engine and four wheels. A bargain in anybody's book.

If anybody out there can hook a brother up with David Gray's new single, The Other Side, i'd appreciate it. Kazaa and other file sharing programs of ill refute can't seem to locate it for me. I have a WMA version but it stinks.

Peace out.
posted by The H.Bomb| 11:20 PM | email | archive

All you John Edwards fans out there. I know you're out there. I guess my main opposition to his quack seances is that people shouldn't take it more than mild and amusing entertainment. When asked recently by somebody close to me if I believed in it, I said no, mainly because of a 20/20 episode I saw years ago regarding "Cold Readings". "Cold Readings" have been employed by magicians, "pyschics" and con-men for years. It's part repeated guesswork (asking several questions and getting responses to build from) and use of age old human psychology.

In the specific 20/20 episode I saw, Bill Ritter uncovered James Van Praagh as a fraud. (who also has a "Six Sense I can see dead people" trite called BEYOND WITH JAMES VAN PRAAGH) I've linked two articles regarding the "hit percentage" both "mediums" have, Van Praagh with 20-30% accuracy of his information and John Edwards at 10-20%. Alot of the show that you see on TV is in actuality, butchered and cut much smaller than what is actually filmed.

Enough ranting, a few from the sceptics:

1.) Cold Reading Primer. Learn how to talk to dead people.
2.) The entire James Van Praagh story. See how he got busted for the con he's still using.
3.) Deconstructing The Dead: Cross Over One Last Time To Expose Medium John Edward. An in depth article about a sceptic who not only participated in a recording of "CROSSING OVER" but also tons of factual information comparing Edwards to Praagh.

Also of note, both ABC News and TIME Magazine have run pieces/articles debunking John Edwards. TIME has it up on it's site, but it has to be purchased because it's an older article.

As I have stated earlier, this is entertainment. In the "Crossing Over" link I have above, the final paragraph is a great summary:

The reason John Edward, James Van Praagh, and the other so-called mediums are unethical and dangerous is that they are not helping anyone in what they are doing. They are simply preying on the emotions of grieving people. As all loss, death, and grief counselors know, the best way to deal with death is to face it head on. Death is a part of life, and pretending that the dead are gathering in a television studio in New York to talk twaddle with a former ballroom-dance instructor is an insult to the intelligence and humanity of the living.
-Michael Shermer

posted by The H.Bomb| 2:24 PM | email | archive

Anaheim and Minnesota in the ALCS? Who would of believed it. I sure didn't last year when the Diamondbacks beat the Yankees. Oh well, looks like another World Series stunner on our hands.

In other news, I finally started off my NFL2K3 season for 2003. We ended the 2002-2003 season with a loss in the conference championships against Miami. Not bad for an expansion team (Texans). The General is rated a 99 Half-Back on my team and currently commands the largest salary--although the rest of the schleps I created (all my friends that is) gave me a hell of a time in the post-season negotiating contracts.

Forsooth, this is all geek talk here. I'm over and out.
posted by The H.Bomb| 1:00 PM | email | archive

Ah, to be Norman Peppy. To be the object of unrelented desire from Ms. White, a soliloquy spoken in the contrast of the dark night. Damn you New Jersey and damn you Frank, for stealing the diamond of my eye who's value stands priceless. A fetching to me, to your friend Ms. White hath directed me a skip away form your shining heart. What a fool I have been, in which a sentence on my head hath been placed.. all these years.

Alas, I am now an Office Supply Salesman in Ohio, my own muse thousands of miles away. My life began with you, lest you take mine with you Ms. White. Thou hast taken the very breadth of me and as I have of you. As Dante profusely recanted in the Inferno:

"Wisdom supreme! how dost thou show thine art
In heaven and earth and in the pit profound,
And of thy justice make exact the chart!"
Inferno, Canto XIX

Thou most fairest in thine eyes, Suzanne. That swimsuit at Oma's; a beacon to all, as grand and lovely as the guardian at Rhodes. You are one of wonders of the world. One a lonely soul as myself can only glimpse a peck on your fair cheek, amongst the invoices and requisitions..you are worth more to me than the twenty thousand dollar order for paper from Prudential Financial.

I leave you now, quietly on the shores to be with your love. Your fair light will be the beacon to the shadow befallen of my errors, all those years ago. The boardwalk, where we got that really, really tasty fried fish, a memory of an Avalon amongst the trees. A final moment, with the poet Virgil:

"Then Heaven, the Father almighty, comes down in fruitful showers
into the lap of his joyous spouse, and his might, with her
mighty frame comingling, nurtures all growths."
- from the Georgics.

Ah yes, to be Norman Peppy.

Heh, most of you won't get that, it being "insider information" and all. Anyways, happy birthday Angela and I hope Emily/Sue get a kick out of that one!

Song of the Day:
1.) Led Zeppelin - Dyer Maker. Man..love this song!
posted by The H.Bomb| 8:30 AM | email | archive