Random Thoughts

El Vez · Post by **El Vez** » Mon Dec 26, 2005 12:37 pm

What exactly is it? A chic hotel for someone's pet hamster to take a hot date to?

selfmademug · Post by **selfmademug** » Mon Dec 26, 2005 12:41 pm

Indeed, though if our hampster gets any dates it's gonna be all brokeback mountain stuff cause we don't want no youngin's. The old cage was too small, too hard to clean, and therefore, very smelly and horrible for both the quadruped in question and his bipedal pals....

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Tue Dec 27, 2005 3:56 pm

It's official. I do not know what year it is.

invisible Pole · Post by **invisible Pole** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 3:41 am

It feels great to watch Elvis' "The Right Spectacle" DVD with my twin boys and see that they like the songs so much (early stuff most of all !).

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 12:27 pm

WHAR in mourning. RIP...

http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/12/2 ... index.html

crash8_durham · Post by **crash8_durham** » Sun Jan 01, 2006 8:16 am

My mom's surgery is tomorrow morning. They are removing the entire breast that has the cancer and I believe some lymph nodes as well. So far her treatments have done well so things have remained positive. If you folks could keep your fingers crossed for her again it would be great. Thanks to everyone's support in the past. You all are the best.

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Sun Jan 01, 2006 8:19 am

crash8_durham wrote:My mom's surgery is tomorrow morning. They are removing the entire breast that has the cancer and I believe some lymph nodes as well. So far her treatments have done well so things have remained positive. If you folks could keep your fingers crossed for her again it would be great. Thanks to everyone's support in the past. You all are the best.

Best wishes to your mom Crash. Hope all goes well with the surgery.

pophead2k · Post by **pophead2k** » Sun Jan 01, 2006 8:43 am

Yes, best wishes and let us know of your mom's progress. I've been through this (as a loved one, not patient) and I know that things can change day to day.

Boy With A Problem · Post by **Boy With A Problem** » Sun Jan 01, 2006 11:39 am

Good luck to your mom Crash.

Post by **spooky girlfriend** » Sun Jan 01, 2006 12:35 pm

Fingers and toes certainly crossed, prayers going up and good things being thought for you and your mom, crash.

Keep us posted.

oily slick · Post by **oily slick** » Sun Jan 01, 2006 3:40 pm

my mom was diagnosed with cancer in 05 crash, so my thoughts are with you.

crash8_durham · Post by **crash8_durham** » Sun Jan 01, 2006 4:29 pm

thanks everyone. i am sorry to hear about those of you who have already dealt with this. It's strange. I have been involved with cancer walks in the past and saw how many thousands of people are touched one way or another. But when it hits closer to home it seems like I meet and even already know even more people who are effected by it. Its amazing. My sister flew in from Houston today. I picked her up and when we got back my mom's sis had shown up too. People all over town have been sending well wishes. Sorry to ramble but its just been one of those days where things are put into perspective. I don't even mean that in a bad way. Its a shame that it often takes things like this to make you realize how much lower priority some things are that really consume you most of the time. It doesn't mean that they are meaningless but it can show that you can spend too much energy worrying about things that in the whole scheme of things should not be fretted over so much.

Okay, enough blabbing.

Thank you all.

Extreme Honey · Post by **Extreme Honey** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 6:17 pm

I found out today that in addition to Material and Energy there is conscience that also interacts with both. Religion, for example, is a way to explain conscience, and it is a thing that we still don't recognize. You guys will not believe this theory I heard today. It's shocking.

crash8_durham · Post by **crash8_durham** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 8:48 am

Surgery went extremely well. She is in excellent spirts. I don't know how she does it but I am happy that she does. Thanks all. Must have been all the good vibes.

invisible Pole · Post by **invisible Pole** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 11:26 am

I may have asked the question before, but how do you cope with post-New Year's Day depression ?

Extreme Honey · Post by **Extreme Honey** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 2:05 pm

You simply drink

selfmademug · Post by **selfmademug** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 2:09 pm

Actually I was going to suggest that alcohol consumed at New Year's Eve would tend to have a lingering deressive effect on January 2nd... In any case, I hope you feel better! If you have a big New Years celebration, the actual start of said year can seem a bit of a let-down. I recommend retail therapy, screamingly good sex or a killer meal. Or all three. : )

bambooneedle · Post by **bambooneedle** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 3:58 pm

An update on the Sony spyware case:

http://australianit.news.com.au/article ... 5E,00.html

Sony settles CD suit
Correspondents in New York
JANUARY 03, 2006 SONY BMG has reached a tentative settlement in a class action lawsuit over the music company's copy-protection software for CDs.

The lawsuit against Sony BMG, a joint venture of Japan's Sony and Germany's Bertelsmann, stems from its use of controversial technology aimed at thwarting illegal copying of music on CDs.

Consumers complained that the technology - known as XCP - violated their rights by potentially leaving computers vulnerable to hackers and allowing the company to track listening habits.

The CDs with the XCP and MediaMax anti-piracy software featured music from 52 popular artists including Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong and Celine Dion.

Under the proposed settlement, which still must be approved by a US federal judge in New York, consumers would be allowed to exchange the CDs for new ones without the copy-protection technology.

Sony BMG would also have to provide software to uninstall the technology and stop making CDs with XCP on them, according to court documents.
The settlement would entitle people who bought the CDs with the copy protection to a cash payment of $US7.50 ($10.20) and one album download from a list of more than 200 titles. Alternatively, they could download three albums from the list.

A separate lawsuit was filed in November by the Texas attorney general against Sony BMG Music Entertainment accusing it of violating the state's laws on deceptive trade practices by hiding the "spyware" on its CDs.
Reuters

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 8:51 pm

Good. Stuff the bastards.

Great news, Crash. Here's hoping she stays well.

I was glum at returning to work. It's such a shock to the system after all that time off, so I decided to make today very unproductive, just to get used to being at work again, leaving all the tricky work for tomorrow and beyond. Hope I don't do the same tomorrow!

bobster · Post by **bobster** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 1:49 am

Great news, Crash. I'm really happy to read that things are going well.

And, on a somewhat different note...

Who Shot Sam? wrote:WHAR in mourning. RIP...

http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/12/2 ... index.html

Damn. And here I was thinking that maybe, just maybe, Opie and Anthony had been stuffed into a giant cheese-grater.

Well, a man can dream....

verbal gymnastics · Post by **verbal gymnastics** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 6:12 am

selfmademug wrote:If you have a big New Years celebration, the actual start of said year can seem a bit of a let-down. I recommend retail therapy, screamingly good sex or a killer meal. Or all three. : )

OK - what time can you get here?

Is the screamingly good sex bit the laughter

Goody2Shoes · Post by **Goody2Shoes** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 4:25 pm

Tattooed Love Boys. Yes, please.

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 5:02 pm

ditto that.

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 6:58 pm

The worst menu translation ever...

oily slick · Post by **oily slick** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 7:04 pm

i'm torn between the "butter many privates" and "jelly joy".