Free Visual Studio

Okay, I work with a guy who already got his copy in the mail.  I just completed the required tasks and the status is that it has shipped to me.  If you want visual studio 2005 for free, you just have to watch some video's.  follow the link below to get signed up!

http://www.learn2asp.net/campaign.aspx

oh and in case you didn't notice

the senators are done for the season, way to go sabres!!!

scrubs deja-vu

last week on tuesday i was sleeping when my favorite show SCUBS came on.  Jill woke me up to tell me it had started.  Close to the beginning of the eposode (I missed everthing before the song) JD is having some hospital deja-vu.  Well as there was hockey on the other channel, i quickly wrote it off as a re-run, cause i was having my own scrubs deja-vu.  only later was i informed that it was in fact not a re-run.  so i'm finally watching it tonite, and dammit that is a good show.

getting close to 4 minutes!

another mile run today, i improved my time by 50 seconds.  thats what a little competition will do i guess! 

4 minutes by the end of summer!

not just in germany

ohhh june is gonna be a tough month

pants off dance off

earlier this weekend i was browsing thru the tv channels late at nite.  i came across pants off dance off which i heard about as being recommened by milla-killa.  so i flicked the tv to that channel to check it out.  so i imagine most people have not seen this show.  first i was watching a black guy doing a strip tease with some type of video playing in the background.  so that was really weird.  then the song ends a new person comes on to strip to another song.  so i'm thinking okay maybe kari wuhrer will be stripping to a guns n' roses song next, i'll stick around for a while.  well after a commercial and lots of anticipation, the show comes back on and there is a hippie-type guy stripping to an usher song.  you get to know the people as they strip and aparently this guy thought his own nakedness helped other people understand who they really are.  right as i heard that i changed the channel to a late nite cinemax movie for about 10 minutes before i went to sleep.  that did teach me a lot about myself, i want to know what channel kari wuhrer is stripping on!

4 minute mile results

well the response was almost overwhelming, 3 people took a guess! neal, i guess you have absolutely no faith in me, thanks....

the other two guesses were both pretty close. the real time was 8:22. that puts beirwoman off by only 10 seconds. defrance gets a 20 second bonus for being the only one to be under the real time, putting him at only 9 seconds off!

d'France wins! and that is something the ottawa senators surely won't do again this season!!!

NHL Playoffs!

Hurricanes 3 - 0 Devils

Sabres 3 - 0 Senators

Mighty Ducks 3 - 0 Avalanche

Sharks 3 - 0 Oilers (hopefully, sharks up 2-1 at 2nd intermission of game 3)

what could be better!  other than the avalanche being up 3-0.

SHARKS TO WIN IT ALL

some picture on a boat?

i don't know when this was taken
i don't know where this was taken
i don't know who took this picture
i don't know how is in the picture

but yet, it is the picture of the day.

the 4 minute mile

I decided to go down 2 blocks after work and run a mile yesterday, I had to blow off steam from work somehow and there is a nice track there.  I think the last time i ran a mile that was timed i must have been in high school, so i just hoped that my time did not double since then, that was my goal.

any guesses about what my time was?  if anyone guesses right on, you get a kidpurple t-shirt.  closest person gets an optional kick in the ass!

$10

ten bucks for the first person to put a bullet between my eyes.

then i expect big boobs model to pop out of my milky way bar and say "why so blue panda bear?"

i would respond "What Ev"

only skittles has a weirder commercial right now.

radar video

interesting video aparently of planes coming to memphis (fedex headquarters?).

see the video

be a geek like me

get it quick:

something is f'd up

A) 4 people voted (think) that 14 years old kids (and younger?) should be able to get married

B) some dude is in jail for what he did to (with) a minor, but thats cool if he marries that same person.

C) that no one has made any lame "dan, your not in kansas anymore" comment to me in a long time.

D) a 15 year old boy married a 37 year old woman, so they change the min age to 16 in georgia, cause in that case 21 years is acceptable, but 22 - fuck that.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-05-05-kansasmarriage_x.htm

oddly enough

you can really kill a lot of time with this stupid little thing:

http://www.thebroth.com/ehub

are your eyes too close together?

that was a line from a merle normal norman radio commercial.  thats awesome, come to merle normal cosmetic studio if your eyes are too close together, or if you put on makeup in the morning and its gone by noon.  seems a bit fucked up to me, but maybe thats just me?

What?

newsflash:

my mom was in town on monday, while at barnes and noble, she bougth jill a mother's day gift.  and no my mom isn't crazy!

hole in the wall....

I don't know exactly what happened, but i'd bet that hole in the wall had just been put there by some of us. not sure who or what was involved, but i see who looks guilty.

Tore

here are some great Tore Andre Flo facts, just in case any of you were curious about Tore:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tore_Andre_Flo

got at least one right

the oilers finished off the red wings tonite, and it was a hell of a good game.  red wings up 2-0 at the start of the 3rd, oilers fight back to tie, red wings take the lead again, oilers tie it up and with a minute left take the lead!  now if the flames can take one, i'll be 2 for 2!

NHL playoffs

its playoff time, some of the first round series are over already, but this is my prediction of how the rest of it is going to play out:

Congratulations Erik and Trish!

It was a hell of a fun weekend, best wishes you two!

long time no post

well i was in bismarck half of this past week and this weekend, only to get home today so its been a while since i've written anything here. so here is a specail treat for you tonite:

i was high and danced with a monster!

i wonder what the newest guy at work thinks when he's sitting at my comuter and google talk pops up my email notifications with the subjects:

Fun Game--I loved a Mexican because I was high
and
I danced with a monster because that's how I roll.

the universe is really big aparently

52/ The largest galexies contain a million, million stars.

53/ The Universe contains over 100 billion galaxies.

77/ Every hour the Universe expands by a billion miles in all directions.

97/ If every star in the Milky Way was a grain of salt they would fill an Olympic sized swimming pool.

from: http://www.ibzi.net/d100facts.htm

slacker

i've been seriously slacking and i'm sorry, i'll try to get back on track with the whole picture a day thing. anyway, the slacker is on the right in this pic. i don't know whats going on here, why am i wearing an orange constuction vest? go bulgaria!

wiki wiki

I was in the process of getting some new web space the other day, so I set up an account with a host that has some un-reasonable database policies.  I had to move that site to a different host, but this one was offering free .info domain names, so i snatched up danschwartz.info.  now i have 2 danschwartz domain names!  anyway, i have no reason to have such a website so i decided to create the official dan schwartz wiki.  don't ask me what the purpose of it is.  the whole idea behind a wiki is that anyone can edit/create pages and it keeps track of a version history of all the pages.  so feel free to get into it and rip shit up if you like.

here is the site:

http://danschwartz.info

silly red bulls, trophies are for screamin eagles

tryin to work this morn

i usually listen to lex and terry on q98 in the mornings, and this morn it made work really hard to focus on.  they had a hyptnotist hyptnotize 4 or 5 guys on the show.  it was too damm funny to try to be really productive during.  at one point all they guys were the guys from queer eye for the strait guy and they were talking about what they'd do to the studio and to lex and terry.  holy shit it was funny.  if you know how, you should definetly download the podcast of it.  if you don't know how to, download and install itunes, and then you search for lex and terry in podcasts.  it wouldn't take a genius to figure out. ( http://itunes.com)

here are some pictures from thier official website: http://www.lexandterry.com/Pictures.asp?Action=ShowPictures&ID=68

and here are their own instructions for gettin the podcast: http://www.lexandterry.com/doc-podcast-faq.html

you will want today's show: Monday 17 April 2006

my week off

i guess its been my week off.

i was sick at the beginning of the week, and super busy at work.

i'll come back next week i promise, maybe even this weekend, but i'm gonna be out of town.

and now i'm tired

this sounds like a great idea:
http://www.lasikathome.com/

and this sounds like a band i do really like:
http://www.nme.com/news/radiohead/22692

another wedding pic

here is another picture from the gravy/nicola wedding, its pretty self explanatory whats going on in this picture i think. or maybe its not. allright, i have no idea whats happening. blake has spotted a fight in the crowd, hungus is high fiving some youngs kids who think he's cool cause he's tall and smokes, the morkstrill is adjusting her hearing aids, and michelle just got the joke that milla-killa told her 10 minutes ago, and now she finds it awfully funny!

flood watch '06

if you watch nbc news in fargo, that is what the news starts with, flood watch '06!!

just about all our snow dissiapeared in a couple of days, and we had a lot. so in case you haven't heard, we're on the verge of a big flood. its pretty nice out so i biked over to goosebury park and took a couple of pictures. i didn't see any water actually reaching to any houses but within a couple of feet from some houses. backyard sheds were underwater in some areas. well here are a couple pictures:

ahhh some kinda test

i got 11/20, its not easy...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/body/interactives/senseschallenge/

(is this || this is) weird

ok, by show of hands, who else has this happened to:

you ever take a pee and it smells like cherioo's, then you decide you could really go for a bowl of cherioo's.

weird, ain't it?

brothers-in-law

Soon those 2 will be doing the same thing, just with the roles reversed!

picture of the day today

here is another picture from brandon. i beleive this is an action shot from the championship game that was described yesterday.

screenshots on my way to bed

i've got 2 world of warcraft characters. Beatie is a tauren druid and i also have an undead warrior, here are some screenshots:

picture of the day

its been a while since i've gotten around to posting the picture of the day due to my excessive WoW playing. My druid is kickin some ass and i'll get some screenshot here cause i'm sure thats what you all want to see!

anyway, here i give the thumbs up after a hard fought victory. i beleive this is after the game that we beat the brandon team in brandon in the championship game. our first game vs this team was brutal and we lost 2-0, but this was a great game, kevin got a red card and bob came into goal and saved a pk with his first touch. i think i had 2 goals and 2 assists in our eventualy 5-4 victory. that was one of my favorite games to play in!

the best ever

this is one of the best things i've ever seen:

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/videos/hissyfit.html

you gotta watcch the whole thing!  this is exactly how i feel somedays at work!  god i wish i knew german or whatever language this dude speaks!

signs the world is coming to an end

it is true, this proves that the world is coming to an end, starting in Arkansas.

i'm all for freedom of religion (isn't that one of the major issues that this country was founded on) and freedom of speech (another one).

so it just seems crazy to me that scientific facts would be censored because of some people's religious beleifs.  yes I say fact, it is a FACT that species evolve, and here's the proof:

the bible people who protest even the mention of the word evolution beleive that the bible is a history book, and take everything written in it as a fact (at least those who i've argued with).  in that history, 2 people were "created", and fast forward many years you have us today.  now call me crazy, but the earth is populated with many different kinds of people.  yes, argue that we're all human, but there are biological differences between you and someone that lives on the other side of the earth.  if a species did not evolve, mutate, (genetic drift) this would not be possible.  if it is, please explain.

anyway, this type of stuff just makes me kinda mad, so i flame here, and get on with my life.

annoying, isn't it.

i know, i'm done....

oblivion

here is one of my ideas for my first oblivion character, let me know what you think:

http://tinyurl.com/o4s2a

oblivion

I call up my local gamestop to see if they are selling oblivion today or tomorrow.  there is a big argument about when the game should be available, cause the publishers have said it has a ship date of marth 20th.  So I'm going ot ask if they have it for sale today or tomorrow, and here is the conversation:

dude from gamestop (DFG): "Gamestop how can i help you " blah blah whatever...
me: do you guys have the elder sc
DFG: TOMORROW
me: okay
DFG: did you pre-order it?
me: no
DFG: if you want to get a copy you should, every call has been for that game and there aren't many left.

so i at least have a copy reserved, but i thought to myself "bummer, i have to wait till tomorrow"

then i thought to myself "its too bad (maybe even a bummer) that you don't really hear people say 'bummer' very often anymore"

so no oblivion for me tonite, dammit.

picture of the day

oblivion is not here quite yet, so i have time to still post the picture of the day. this picture is probably from the same 19th birthday party, its a young mork, syverson, and dietrich!

ohhhhhhh

oblivion is upon us

tomorrow Oblivion comes out, you probably won't hear much from me after that.

its been almost a year since this particular incarnation of kidpurple was started here on blogger.  earlier this month i reached the 365th post mark, so i did average slightly more than 1 post per day, so don't ever say you don't get your moneys worth from this website.

where are all of my Elder Scrolls fans?

great stuff

i hope all you KP readers had a great st. patrick's day yesterday.  i did!

get some free software here.  this is a good site, bookmark it: http://www.opensourcewindows.org/

so most of you have experienced peer pressure (from me) to open a gmail account.  it has been my personal goal to convert all yahoo, aol, and hotmail users to gmail, and google talk.  the one person i just can't convice happens to live with me.  i guess i'm quite a failure......

19th birthday?

this picture looks like it was probably our 19th birthday at mork's house. looks like gravy got me the eazy-e cd divider from sam goody and someone got me a pack or marlboro cigarettes? don't know why that would have been, i never smoked marlboro's.

what the hell

you've read about my hatred of myspace before.  this is due to the fact that you had to be logged in to see anything more than the annoying profile page with the annoying music videos or music that just starts playing.  i want to read a person's blog and just don't care about anything that is on the profile page.  i only realized that this is very possible without logging in thanks to links on the new blog of the ultimate p experience!  So i went thru my myspace friends to see which of them actually kept any bit of a blog and this is what i came up with, enjoy:

http://blog.myspace.com/odb_of_the_nation
http://blog.myspace.com/oasisjennie
http://blog.myspace.com/airbearmc
http://blog.myspace.com/afunches
http://blog.myspace.com/nin

happy day

happy st. patricks day

i'm still pumped for oblivion to come out next week.  if it were on sale today i'd go get it right now, and probably not sleep much this weekend.

not too much interest in the tournament pick'em this year.  Balls of Gold is in the lead with 12 points, then schwartz_dj and Terry Bolea are tied with 11.  I at least have all of my eliete 8 teams alive, both of those guys had Okalhoma making it to the round of 8!!  and neither of them has picked the Jayhawks to win it all.. suckers!

nightmares?

how could you resist clicking on a news link that reads like this:

Don't read this if you get nightmares...

oblivion

Thanks to Jon I am now looking forward to a monday. this coming monday (the 20th) is the day the elder scrolls 4 comes out, Oblivion!

check this out for some vidoes. be sure to download the big one "Extensive Gameplay Footage".

Even just talking about it really makes me want to go get my morrowind disc out and install that sucker.

So on monday I'll buy Oblivion, start playing right away, develop a habit, write here about how much i love oblivion and it is the greatest game ever, piss off all my friends who got guild wars after i did, eventually lose all my friends, but I'll still be able to play oblivion. now don't get me wrong, i love being able to play online with you guys, i do. BUT, morrowind was the eassily best game i have ever played. i can only expect that oblivion will be just as good and many notches better! judging from the videos and screenshots i've seen it looks awesome. i haven't been able to read much about it yet tho.

dammit, i really wanna play, guess i have to wait till monday....... thanks jon, my mind is gonna be on oblivion all weekend.

party at thune's

this must be one of the last times we partied in thune's garage. that was a fun place to hang out. its weird looking at that picture now, at least 3 of those people have kids now!

mantronix day!

I've been listening to Mantronix all day and I can tell you that there isn't much better than that!  I beleive Joe is going to have a joe-bot that will have complete Mantronix knowledge, you can access joe-bot from google talk, I've been involved in some pretty heavy beta testing for joe-bot, and i'm very impressed!

I'm glad to see bierwoman is back in the blog-o-sphunk, along with the redundo blog for scrib of the nation more of you myspace users should come join us!!!

march madness

well its fantasy sports time, i created the dakota division for mach madness basketball picks.  heres the info you need to get into it:

http://tournament.fantasysports.yahoo.com/men

group id#: 120919
group name: Dakota Division
group password: dakota

winner gets a kidpurple.com coffee mug!

this dell is nuthin but a bitch

my work computer just got named for the first time in almost a year, her name is dell-ialiah.  Dellialiah is bein a real bitch this morning.  Dellialiah is acting like she doesn't know how to open a damm browser for me, and she's learning right as I ask her to do a task.  I gonna re-boot you bitch, I'll do it, I'm not messing around.  I'll give you a black&blue power button dammit.

movies i like to watch on monday nite

i watched open water last nite, the movie that is made up of 2 people in the middle of the ocean. i remember seeing advertisments for this years ago and thinking it looked really bad, but last nite was a bad nite for movies on tv. well anyway, for a movie that is made up mostly of 2 people floating, it was surprisingly good. i'm not saying it was a great movie or anything, but not bad like i expected. i have one of those alarm clocks that has nature sounds on it, which i usually have on ocean waves, but after watching open water i decided to fall asleep in silence.

earlier in the evening last nite i watched jarhead. i got the opposite to report about this movie. i had high expectations but it turned out to be an okay movie. it wasn't bad, but i wouldn't really recommend it either.

here is an odd one

that is me from many years ago, as the bionic man, taking a shot of chloroseptic in my old bedroom. nice glasses huh!

something for everyone

http://www.globalaigs.org/

what the hell is going on here?

well who'd of thunk it?

Your Political Profile

Overall: 10% Conservative, 90% Liberal

Social Issues: 0% Conservative, 100% Liberal

Personal Responsibility: 25% Conservative, 75% Liberal

Fiscal Issues: 0% Conservative, 100% Liberal

Ethics: 0% Conservative, 100% Liberal

Defense and Crime: 25% Conservative, 75% Liberal

How Liberal / Conservative Are You?

long morn

so i swing into work about 7:20 this morning, i know i'm gonna have to wait until a co-worker gets here before i can start on what i need to do today, and this guy usually isn't in till about 9:30 - 10:00.  so i spend what seems to be about an hour browsing just a couple of my favorite sites and my rss feeds, but then i check the clock and i feel like the wind was knocked out of me.  it mite be a long day.....

morkstriss is rocking

in today's picture-a-day is the morkstriss relaxing in a rocking chair at a heidt household i beleive.  this may have been an after prom party, i mite have even been her prom date this particular nite!  i'm sure the shoddy camera work was not cause by any alcoholic intoxication!

i thought google was going out of business

when gmail and blogger were both unavailable at the same time i thought for sure google was going out of business, so i set up an emergency diet kidpurple blog on lycos.  view the post i wanted to make here, over there: http://diet-kidpurple.tripod.com/emergency-blog/

cleaning up my computer room

the computer was just getting a good old cleaning, when i came across my box of old pictures. didn't think much of it until later i gave my desk and extreme desk makeover! it was exciting and i mite have pictures for you later. well maybe not so exciting, i just moved the printer to the other side of the desk to make room for my scanner.

so i decided that maybe i'd try to scan a new picture every day (or at least every day i'm downstairs) and post it here. most of these are really old so some of them should be interesting! maybe we'll even see dietrich in a dress one day!!

so here is the very first picture that i pulled out of the box. these won't come in any specific order, just the order they happen to be piled inside the box, which i'm sure is going to be a random mess.

one of those days

it is one of those days where nothing will work right for me.  i'll probably get run over by a bus on my way home, i'll miss you.... all of you....

super mario brothers race

this is impressive, some people racing thru super mario brothers.  how well do you think you'd do against either of them?

mp3 / media players

now i'm pissed off.  if you've been to our house, you've probably seen the computer that sits in our basement to serve one purpose: loud music.  iTunes is just about the only program that runs on that thing.  I adopted iTunes as my preferred music player about the time that i got my free ipod, becuase apple wants you to use their player and their music store.  iTunes is great, and the probably have the best music store online, and the iPod has been great too, but this one little issue pisses me off and has me ready to get rid of the ipod and itunes to buy a creative zen mp3 player (or something else).

that juke box computer had A LOT of music on it.  the hard drive died.  (i haven't tried to get anything off it yet, but still might be able to)  my ipod has a lot of the music from the hard drive on it.  this would not be a terrible situation if i could get music from my ipod onto a different computer.  it sounds like an easy task, but the way they set that shit up is i have one computer that my ipod is associated with (the jukebox that is now dead).  the only action you can take is to sync the ipod with that one computer (or one playlist on it).  SO, if i delete all music from the computer, syncing the ipod will delete everything from the ipod.  bad situation when the computer your ipod is linked to has a dead hard drive in it.

so i'm sure i'll find some software that will allow me to get all the music off my ipod and onto a different computer, but that should be an easy task.  so i've had enough of this crap.  i'm ready to get rid of the ipod and pick up a new mp3 player, and a new media player.

i want an mp3 player that will:
1.) not lock me into using only one media player, not lock me into using specific audio format, and not lock me in to syncing with only one PC
2.) connect USB and transfer files with windows explorer with no additional software. 
3.) have a FM tuner

i want a media player that will:
1.) organize my music library
2.) have some decent syncing options with the mp3 player i find

i'm thinking a creative zen, or one of the iRiver mp3 players, and a return to my old favorite windows media player.  so i'm just looking for some good advice on the subject, anyone??

PS - it would be a special bonus if the mp3 player would also sync with a good media player for linux! (i don't know anything about media players for linux)

the ultimate p experience

the ultimate p experience has opened up his own blogspot blog!  get in on all the action at the link below:
http://ultimatepexperience.blogspot.com/

super ref

Well I don't remember ever having a ref quite like this guy.

added to my wishlist

http://www.origamiproject.com/1/

do you know me, here is an old commercial, I must get one!

http://tinyurl.com/psysu

thursday mornings

this morning i wrote a little song about how much i hate thursday mornings!  well not so much wrote, casue i didn't write it down, but made up and sang to myself as i was getting out of bed and getting ready for work.

Yesterday my hate for wednesday mornings clouded my mind so much that i forgot to mention anything about it.  but i do also hate wednesday mornings.

no hairy pig for me

i'm making a sandwich for supper tonite after biking and i just wanted to show you that i don't use any hairy pig on my bread. all my pig if freshly shaved! its kinda small on this image, but its there, SHAVED!

me some nice hair

me after my daily 30 minute (13 mile) bike ride!

tuesday

i hate tuesday mornings with a great passion, but at least this morning i got my favorite breakfast, a mountain dew and a little debbie oatmeal creme pie. 

monday morn

i hate monday mornings with a passion, but at least i got my favorite breakfast today, mountain dew and a little debbie oatmeal creme pie.  damm thats good!

googlepage

google recently introduced googlepages, a free website generator thingy.  because i love everything google, i had to check it out.  if you need a real quick and simple website, this may be for you.  check out my new website here: http://dj.schwartz.googlepages.com/ pretty awesome huh!  well there's no point to it other than just to satisfy my own curiosity.

after your done with that check out this crazy puzzle, some kind of 4D rubicks cube or something...

so far so good

my olympic hockey predictions so far are on track to be right on:

Gold: Finland
Silver: Sweeden
Bronze: Russia

graffiti

i sometimes feel like i'm the only one that doesn't get it.  then the train is gone, i'm on my way again and i don't think about graffiti until i'm stopped for the next train a block away.  This happens in moorhead a lot since we moved here.  You don't see much graffiti around town but every time a train goes by, and its a lot, there is plenty to see.  so it usually looks all cool n'shit, but i'm not sure if i'm the only one that can't understand what it is supposed to say when it is a bunch of fancy lettering.  just do a google image search for graffiti and you'll know what i mean, unless i really am the only one that just doesn't get it.  some of it is some pretty awesome artwork, but i feel like i'm missing out just cause i can't usually read it.  i have to know if i am all alone in my graffiti illiteracy loneliness or not, let me know.

when will you retire?

Why is your grandfather still on ice skates? wasn't chris chelios the player to appear in the nba all-star game 18 times? isn't chris chelios one of the smallest countries in south america? did chris chelios kill king tut? wasn't world war one fought over the attempted assanation of chris chelios? did chris chelios win a silver medal at the very first olympics? did chris chelios kill off the dinosaurs to impress his girlfriend?

last nite

it made me pretty happy to read that jessica simpson is a republican. that is just great news for everyone!!!

ONE

If there is one thing I hate, its not celebrities trying to tell me what i should think or do, BUT it is on a list of things i highly dis-like.

now that that is out of the way, i bet you've seen those black and white commericals with a bunch of celebrities each saying a couple words that mesh into each other to form sentences and if we were writing things down, paragraphs. did you ever bother to go to that website brad pitt told you to? it seems like a worthy cause that they want to promote, and dikembe mutombo is aboard, so why shouldn't we be? eddie veddar, dikembe, puff daddy are all mega-rich superstars comapred to anyone who is reading this, and anyone who is reading this is a probably a mega-rich superstar compared to most of the people they want to get help to.



thanks to flyingears for this!

work is a weird thing

1. Is anyone looking for a job at a small technology company?  let me know if you are (or you know someone who is) looking for a job writing Java, writing C#, as a project manager, designer, or whatever else you think might fit in well with a small company that does mainly web applications.

2. Do you have any ideas of a product/website/application that you think would be usefull? The company I work for is thinking about product ideas that we might be able to develop, but we have not settled on anything yet, and ideas are worth a percentage of sales!  If you give me a great idea that makes me rich, you'll be properly compensated!

and now, i should get back to work...

moronic? maybe, but....

here is a funny story about a dude who goes to the police for help in getting his money back from his drug dealer because the marijuana he bought was not good.  its true someone really did that.

http://tinyurl.com/fnmoc

but the real moronic part of the story is that up to 30 grams is leagal for personal use in germany, but the dude took 200 grams with him to the police station, so he got arrested.

even dumber is the fact that 30 grams of marijuana is legal for personal use, but 40 grams will get you arrested.  that sounds like some dumb american law.  wait a minute, nope.... american laws are far dumber than that. is really makes me wish i lived in the czech republic, they have a good hockey team AND a good soccer team!

scriblog is back!

and the crowd rejoyces!

Bring It On!

This is an open challenge to take on team ____________ in a game of NHL 04 or 05. We don't have a team name but out team consists of (along with myself) NealyB and the tall urban north dakota frenchman. We are taking any 3v3 challenges that you can come up with, but you better bring it hard, we are undefeated as a team. Now we just need a team name.

this website sure does change a lot

yeah, i guess i like to fack with it. its gets stale real quick. let me know if you see a look that you like or one that you don't like. one of these days i'll get sick of changing it and leave it alone, and that'll be the day i never change my email address too!

Winning Eleven

I finally picked up Winning Eleven 9 and I am glad that I did. For many years the EA Sports's FIFA game has been my game of choice, but damm this Winning Eleven game is so much fun. I was so dissiapointed in in FIFA 06, and so thrilled with Winning Eleven 9! Get this game! I just added the PSP version to my amazon wishlist, go buy it for me! Now all i need to do is find somewhere i can download the instructions cause I ain't got any...

good news for my kids

I know some would call me some type of (computer) geek and compared to the average person i probably am, but you will see some real geeks if you take any computer science class (at least the ones i was in), those are some hardcore geeks...

read the article

SASSYPT

i wish i had a nice phone with a camera, and could send those pictures somewhere without paying sprint and extra $26/month to do it.  i wanted to snap a quick picture of this sweet looking pt cruiser in the hornbachers parking lot on my way home from work.  the license plate was too cool to pass up on, sassy pt on a pt cruiser!  what could be better!

so my mitsubishi galant is gonna need new license plates soon, any suggestions for what i should get?

almost went to the ER

its so damm cold out today that my skull cracked just form walking out into the cold.  just like you would expect a fragile glass vase to crack if you took it on an adventure of extreme temperature changes.  i almost fell in the middle of the street, surely to make it my frozen grave, but i survived, because the crazy was immediately frozen shut.  i'm never going outside in february again!

oragami world championships

so most of you know that i am an oragami grand master wizard of the highest rank.  i've never been crowned world oragami champion (due to the scoring scandal of 2001), but i think this might be my year.  have a look at some of my latest work here: http://www11.ocn.ne.jp/~origami/phototop.htm

you probably won't be able to read any of the text, but just start hitting the links in the middle of the page and you'll see some of my stuff!

new monitor

here is a screenshot with my new monitor, open it up full size just really appreciate how big this sucker is!!



edited: somehow this image got sized down, i don't know why, but you can still see how much stuff i have open there, i can fit a lot one screen!

movie of the year

Don't continue reading if you want to watch the movie, there are spoilers here.....
Just like heaven has to be the movie of the year. In this exciting and oh so funny love story Reese Witherspoon plays a doctor who has not time for a love life. Her sister hooks her up with a blind date. On the way to this date she's fun over by an 18 wheeler and sent into a come. now comes in mark ruffalo, he's looking for an apartment to rent and ends up renting her apartment on a month to month lease. It turns out that mark can see and talk to the ghost or the spirit of reese, but no one else can. at first they only get on each others' nerves, but when a sexy neighbor shows up and has the hots for mark, it becomes aparent that mark and reese's ghost are in love. her ghost thinks she's still alive, and together they figure out that her body is stuck in the hospital she used to work at, in a coma. totally unpredictably his love for her brings her strait out of the coma, but she doesn't remeber him when she wakes up. that is only until he gives her his apartment key back, the touch of his hand flashes her memory and she sees it all in a split second, they kiss and credits roll! wow, thats awesome!!!!

Re:

some of these won't make a lot of sense unless you know that this is one of those emails that keeps getting forwarded around. well i got this one from SBT, so here are my responses:

1. Sleep with or without clothes on?
only sleeping pants usually

2. Flannel sheets or silk sheets?
do i have or would i like better? don't have either, would like flannel better

3. Dress up on Halloween?
i do almost every year, some of my recent costumes: junior from reno 911, part of woody harrelson's career (white men can't jump), neal beckler robbing a liquor store...

4. Like to travel?
anything thats gets me out of wintery hell is good!

5. Like someone?
i like almost everyone i know

6. Do they know?
they do now!

7. Who sleeps with you every night?
jill

8. Think you're attractive?
i'm the most attractive dude on my block, but outside of that block i won't say much.

9. Want to get married? When?
Already am, december 2002

10. Who do you want to marry?
today it happens to be Jamie Sale

11. Are you a good student?
i used to be, probably a pretty crappy student now

12. Are you currently happy?
yeah

13. Have you ever cheated on school work?
yes

14. Birthplace?
bismarck ND

15. Christmas or Halloween?
if this question started with "which is your favorite:" i'd say halloween.  if it started "which comes first alphabetically: " i'd say christmas, if it started "which comes first in the calendar year: " i'd say halloween

16. Colored or black-and-white photo?
Colored (I think, what is this asking? What kind of photos I like better?), i'll just leave SBT's answser here!

17. Do long distance relationships work?
Some do, some don't just like all relationships (again i'll leave SBT's answer)

18. Do you believe in astrology?
I believe in their entertainment value; beyond that, not really (one more time SBT's answer is the same as mine, we're on a roll here.)

19. Do you believe in love at first sight?
I would look back to number 10 and say yes, and i've only seen her on tv.

20. Do you have a boyfriend/girlfriend?
both! what???

21. Do you consider yourself the life of the party?
depends on the party, at some parties i do, at some i don't.

22. Do you drink?
do you breathe?

23. Do you make fun of people?
yeah, but i try to limit my fun making to people who don't deserve it!

24. Do you think dreams eventually come true?
it would be a really fucked up world if some of my dreams came true

25. Favorite fictional characters?
Snake Plissken

26. Go to the movies or rent?
Rent

27. Have you ever moved?
several times, i love it!

28. Do you have a best friend?
i have many great freinds, it would be hard to pick a best friend

29. How's the weather right now?
Freaking FRIGID!!!(same as SBT again on this one)

30. How many screen names do you actually use?
i don't have time to sit and think of how many i use right now....

31. What time is it?
11:31am

32. Last time you showered?
last nite

33. Loud or Soft Music?
LOUD

34. McDonalds or Burger King?
some days mcD's, some days its BK

35. Night or day?
night

36. Number of Pillows?
1

37. Piano or guitar?
i don't play either.  if i could play one it would be piano.  i know more people that guitar.

38. Future job?
monday night football announcer

39. Current hate? winter (specifically freezing cold air and ice roads)

40. Current love?
the olymipcs

41. Current longing?
a six pack of high life and a group of people around the poker table

42. Current disappointment?
that there are 7 hours before #41 will be my reality

43. Current annoyance?
the fact that i keep forgetting to not wear something warmer to work

44. Last thing you ate?
little caesars slice of pizza

45. Last thing you bought? coffee maker for jill for valentine's day yesterday

46. Most recent thing you are looking forward to?
poker

47. What are you hearing right now? Q98, Nirvana

48. what are your plans for the weekend?
uncertain, no plans set in stone yet.

49. What did you do today?
came to work, worked, slacked, worked, started wrtiting this, went to little c's, continued writing this.

50. A piece of advice?
play em hard or don't play em at all...

guesstures

one crazy nite of guesstures without getting naked is a good nite.

one crazy nite of guesstures without a win is not so good.

change is goooood

wow, a new look to the site, again.  it never seems to stay the same for long.  click on the google ads above if you see something interesting, it really does make me money!  i'm gonna get rid of the stale blogroll and links on the right and replace it with something cool, but i'll probably procrastinate a long time on that and end up not getting anything else done here ever again...

i'm gonna be in minneapolis this weekend if any KP readers are out there, give me a call!  we're gonna rip it up in brooklyn center on saturday nite!

right here right now

there is no other place i want to be...

these are the lyrics i hear, i'm listening to jesus jones in the basement in the dark and i thought to myself "there are many places i'd rather be".  so i'm going to finish writing this, stand up, and move to a new location.  i feel terrible that i haven't written much here recently, nothing at all this week actually.  well i don't feel bad at all, i was just kidding.  i'm not a write and i make no money doing this, but it is satisfying as hell!  ok, i'm making shit up again, its hardly even satisfying.

well anyway, i'm just wasting time while scrubs downloads.  i was getting around to thinking about the crap that i like to read when i'm online and there are some cool blogs that i usually check out.  one of them is by a good friend and i'd love to share it with you but there is a problem.  the problem is myspace.  i don't want to have to log in to read your shit.  damm....  myspace is cool, ya ya, you can show off how many "friends" you have, wow.  c'mon, you've got some interesting stuff that i like to read.

the only advantage of myspace is that it gives you control over who gets to read your blog, although you are limited to the set of people that you know that are willing to create a myspace account and actually log in to read it.  so i know the person i'm talking about is reading this (or will be, or has already), so i ask:  why not ditch myspace, create a free blog ( http://www.blogger.com/ or http://wordpress.com/ or http://www.livejournal.com/) and let the world enjoy it!  i use blogger for this site!

olympics and a beard!

uh oh, its gonna be a busy couple of weeks:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10792454/

coming soon: beard watch.

i'm attempting to grow a beard for the april 28th wedding.  i've never done this before and i'm pretty sure that i'll look really goofy with a beard, if i am even able to grow something decent.  so i'll post some pictures soon i think.  that should be mildly entertaining for you!

ubuntu

I've never had an easier time installing an operating system as i just did install ubuntu earlier tonite! for those of you that don't know, ubuntu is one distribution of linux which has gained popularity recently. its much easier to install than windows, but doing stuff like installing applications could be a little bit easier. getting a new version of firefox was not the easiest thing in the world to do but now i'm using it to write this post.

i would be willing to bet that any normal computer user would have an easier time installing ubuntu linux and getting a browser to work than doing the same with any version of windows.



I like it, maybe a step closer to ditching windows on most of my computers.

a website for the ultimate p

i doubt know many people that would think this is cool, but i know at least one for sure:

http://www.elektronikforumet.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9097&highlight=