an e-mail i wrote..

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	to			me@gmail.com
	date			Apr 16, 2007 2:59 PM
	subject			Immokalee Workers Tell Chipotle to Walk Its Talk

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=174214012&MyToken=353bb3ee-de07-4084-8c48-35728c837dd9

he was reccomended as one of myspace's cool new people on the front page. fox news? conservative? i won't think it'll be a conspiracy if they show a democrat on there soon.


my only problem is that this is something that gmail won't give me an ad for. what gives man?

U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq at 3,452

I honestly want the name of my blog to mean something, but I read this headline and even people like me who are foragainst the war, thinkdonthink that we shouldshouldnt displaynotshow this headline enoughnotenough.

because any way you look at the world, that's a lot of people to sacrifice themselves for the idea of something that's good enough, and i think that deserves a sentimental thought about how many dedicated people have stood up for me and the free idea.

2007/05/26/a-boy-and-his-pet-velociraptor.aspx

just so everyone knows, there's a new museum opening soon. they spent a lot of money on it, so.... i guess... we should go?

2007/05/26/a-boy-and-his-pet-velociraptor.aspx

the simpsons movie.

U Can't Shine Like Me- Lil' Romeo
If You Let Me Go - Jay-Z featuring Omarion
So Emotional - 1 Chance
High Away from You - Lifehouse
I Don't Wanna Understand - Jennifer Lopez featuring Three 6 Mafia
I Believe You - Lyfe Jennings
The Way You Roll With Me - T.I.
Dancing Machine - Maroon 5 featuring Lil' Flip
Simpson - Beanie Sigel featuring Jazze Pha
Since You Get Off The Computer - Fall Out Boy
Back Again - Kai featuring Akon
I Will Kill You - Panic! at the Disco
You Gave My Heart - Keyshia Cole featuring Ludacris
The World Is Yours - N.W.A.
In the Rain - Young Jeezy featuring Lil' Wayne
Lockdown - Joe Budden featuring The Game and Mike Jones
Roll Tide - Ja Rule featuring Lloyd and Nelly
I'm Your Mama - Chris Brown featuring Nas
Go to Bed - David Banner
I Don't Wanna Your Stupid Of Me - Ben Folds
Get Off The Porch - Obie Trice featuring 50 Cent and Eminem


this is how you know what style of music is the most prominent now. this is a looooong awaited movie so the soundtrack obviously has to live up to the hype.
obviously.

e-mailaphargoria

i used to love e-mail.
when it first came out it was a source of contact with people.
i always enjoyed being contacted by someone, whether it for was for something pointless, or something that actually had a little substance.
ie. keeping up with family members who live in other states, or, live in the same state but you're just too lazy to pick up a phone and call them. or, you're both too busy to call either other. who cares, whatever it is with a family member or some random school chum.

i'd come home after work and if i wasn't going out, i'd sit on my computer refreshing my e-mail every few minutes just to make sure in those 2 minutes, someone didn't write me from far away with something to say to me.

i personally see a few things weird about that, and i'm still confused.

1.(wow, i'm ranting. i've written numerous blogs with numerical lists describing my disappointments.)who was i waiting for?
and
2.why?

and to this day, i don't really understand why and who i was waiting for, and what i wanted them to write.


Now, back to my original point, i don't really like e-mail anymore. every day i sign on i don't get information i care about. i get ads, ads, ads, ads, ads, ads and ads.
and it's ridiculous.
EVERY DAY i have to clean out at least 10 e-mails that i'm receiving. half of it's are sights which hold a username and password for me, but the other half is just wild.
i mean, i like receiving them, but i think i need to filter everything from everyone NOT in my address book to go into a knowledge folder and every one i know to stay in the inbox.
i guess i've gotten into a cycle with it. everytime i sign on i'm expecting to clear away 10 ads before i now realize no ones written me.




(p.s. i went and looking at my still open e-mail after i published this and wanted to state that it just doesn't have stubstance, it's just ads, or forwards that someone you don't even know wrote and that's how people are now expressing their personality.
ie, passing a long a joke someone else wrote, instead of writing you something funny.)

"knocked up"

after watching a brief video for Rambo 4, i decided i'd do a little searching around on imdb.com to see if i could find some more info.

low and behold, i was distracted by a movie entitled "knocked up", with the plot line and plot line keywords are as follows.

Plot keywords for
Knocked Up (2006)

• One Night Stand
• Drugs
• Casual Sex
• Premarital Sex
• Television
• Unplanned Pregnancy
• Marijuana

television seems a little out of place, considering all those "un-christian" keywords in the movie.

now, the plot line.

"For fun loving party animal Ben Stone, the last thing he ever expected was for his one night stand to show up on his doorstep eight weeks later to tell him she's pregnant."


maybe i should have stated that i have nothing wrong with any of those things either. the fact that those are what defines this movie is fine with me.
i'm honestly curious how a marijuana/drug related one night stand of casual & premarital sex with an unplanned pregnancy either..
a. resolves itself... or
b. television.

sigh...

i know, 2 times tonight?


i've been convinced lately that the world is getting dumber. things are getting simpler and soon nothing will be a challenge.

we don't need to know how to spell correctly because when we make a mistake spell check will ALWAYS be near by. an instant spell check, whether it's via e-mail or this thing.
the whole point of how i can argue we've officially gotten dumber?
(i know that wasn't really a question)
but, this is how.

http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9719950-2.html?tag=blog

i hope you read it, but the entire point of the article is that a web-site/business that has been around since 1985 is now getting a lot of "lost traffic" to youtube. No no no, don't ask "well, are they in a business where their product wasn't in high demand in 1985 and now in 2007 it is?"
no.

initially, you wouldn't think the mistake is too big of a deal. "ok, whatever, people made a mistake, blah blah blah no big deal". the only problem with that is, the error is in the fact that people are confusing the word "you" with the letter "u".

so the idea with this, is that one of the most popular websites on the internet uses incorrect spelling as it's name, and not only is that a problem, but a MAJORITY of the population accidentally goes to a website with the name utube as their first instinct for spelling something phonetically lame as you.
and just because that was their first instinct is why i have a problem.

ie. you-tube.com
ewetube.com (that's actually a site. haha)
youtube.com

any one of those would be a perfectly good website to visit if in the news you heard about a website called "you tube". but instead the first thing you go to on your computer to see what this site is all about and type in is "utube.com"

come on



i'll post an ad for google
http://www.google.com/search?esrch=RefinementBarLhsGradientPreview&q=airplanes

De-Volution; or how i stopped worrying and succumbed to all the ads there are

"it hit me like a ton of bricks".
mike judge is on to something.

when you stop and realize how many ads there actually are all around us, i go numb.
i became extremely upset the other day when i was pumping gas, watching my nbc 5 day forecast in between NBC tv show ads and State Farm Commercials.

pumping gas.
watching ads.


watching ads while pumping gas.


just let it sink in, and realize how insane that actually is. of course, once you're aware of it there, every 5 minutes of tv viewing becomes that and the first 20 pages of most giant magazines and every thing on the internet...
but...
the thing is. and it's also weird, because i just installed the NEW firefox 2.0 w/AdBlock Plus!
ironically enough with my non-paid ad i just did, they have LITERALLY blocked ALL AD's on any ad-driven web-site.

so, to rephrase, the 2.0 firefox figured out a way to block all flash related ads, while myspace was able to incorporate the ads into your friends profile.
so.. even if firefox blocks the AD, they won't stop you from visiting your friends "live fast die hard [sic]" myspace page.
it's humbling.

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Tom

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FW: Don't Pump Gas on MAY 15th

i'm the idiot that doesn't get gas may 14th at night because he's had a long day and band practice and got home around 11. now, his car is just over a quarter tank full, and he has to drive roughly 60 miles tomorrow.
the car's a '96 and to be honest, it usually doesn't get the best gas mileage.
go figure.

i wrote another page today. accomplishment.

MLS

i've been thinking about getting a 3 unit, or something of that sort as i thought that could be fun to try out. i've talked to a lot of people at work that have gotten themselves in trouble, but i usually like to think that maybe i'm a little more intelligent than them.

The only reason i bring that up, is because i've been looking at MLS listings of the properties. i came across this, and i'm completely shocked by how dumb this person apparently is.
they're trying to sell their property, wouldn't you think they'd use spell check?

Remarks: Logan square/avondale 2-flt w/ formal dining rooms.In-law in bast.(2br.) & partially finished attick ( 1br.)can duplex up or down . Big bathrooms, new roof,new cament parking pad for 3 cars, and 1 new c.b. box. needs some updating,great potencials. Close to transportation( metra,blue line (el) & buses.

peanut buttertella-itos

peanut butter, nutella & tortilla shell(s).
(repeat)


from time to time in my state of conscienceless i will post these stupid little recipes of what i make, with what's in the cabinet.
a good rule of thumb is, if i don't say anything negative about it, it was probably really good. as combining good things in fridge creates something really good.

2 things that piss me off...

http://tv.msn.com/tv/article.aspx?news=261169>1=7703&

1. the fact that in this country, we have a name such as "paris" to conjure up the things she represents. when i say her name, everyone can think of a bunch of negative describing words. how they point out in the article how people love her, and her going to jail will make her even MORE popular. She's now, after 25 years (guessing), taking responsibility for something and now people are going to like her more? It's only odd because we normally shun these people in every other aspect of society. Recently, Florida and other states are NOW giving convicted felons, well, people released from jail, the new right to vote.
the new right to vote. now. after they've been in jail.
and on the other hand we're now, going to give someone more money for doing this? maybe not give her money directly, but by making her more popular, we'll be giving her more money through whatever endorsement or tv she has out there.
especially when the name used to be synonymous with romance and what the city stood for, and now....

2. there was an article there to read about it. and i read it.

Streams of Conscience

The only odd thing to think about when that word is brought up, is what it actually is.

For instance, when we do this in writing, more specifically and recently in e-mails and/or blogs, we know what we're thinking when we're writing something. but what actually comes out of our fingers to translate as communication to another human being, it gets all jumbled up, and the idea can barely come to fruition, for lack of a better word.


we skip small words and sometimes put the "punchline" in the middle of sentence, but it's weird to think that this, as we're doing this, is passing as getting our point across.
Then personally it makes me wonder about how it comes out in arguments verbally. or whites it's only brain + mouth = correct wording. While brain + writing = nonsensical.