Friday, August 08, 2003
Another Pic
Just wanted to post another pic to the blog here. This is one of the whole wedding party. Kris was looking at this one the other day and discovered something that we have to bust one of the girls on. Kim was barefoot :)
Thursday, August 07, 2003
Wedding Pics
Well, we are still waiting for our wedding pics from Karah... Karah, where are the pics?
The only ones we have so far are some from a friend of ours that took some digital pics. Here is my favorite one so far.
The only ones we have so far are some from a friend of ours that took some digital pics. Here is my favorite one so far.
Tuesday, August 05, 2003
A bit of a smile
I was doing my normal bit of surfing today and wandered on over to B3TA for a bit. There is usually something good over there to make me laugh. They had a little game going on of finding the strangest Amazon.com product reviews. You know, for every product they sell, there is an area for customers to review the product. Well, I found this one that just cracked me up. Here is the entire review along with a link so you can check it out for yourself.
Text from review:
Reviewer: An Amazon.com Customer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania United States
This book is one of the most disjointed novels I've read in a long while. If you think about it, it's more a collection of short stories by various authors that tell the story of God and his sundry children, most of them Hebraic. God is a pretty powerful heavy, though it's implied that he incorporeal and invisible. Although he's usually depicted in the movies sitting on a throne and sporting a long beard, in "Exodus," he appears as a bolt of fire. Other places in the book, he speaks as a burning bush. Excellent special fx all throughout.
There's a lot of begats going on, and in the chapter titled "Song of Solomon," we get a nice PG-13 to R-rated glimpse of the ... sensual mores of these people.
There's also a pretty cool story about this guy named Job and how God had an ongoing bet with Satan as to who would win his soul. I don't want to give away the ending, but there's a lot of pathos, hubris and plotlines right out of such movies as "Trading Places," "Meet John Doe" and "Life Stinks."
My favorite one, though is about Moses, and how he led his people out of Egypt and to the promised land. Along the way, though, Dathan tries to make them worship a golden calf. Personally, I preferred the movie version, as directed by Cecil B. deMille: The character development of Moses (played by Chuck Heston), Dathan (Edward G. Robinson) and Moses' mother (the ever comely Anne Baxter) is much improved. And also, in Technicolor.
There is little plot to this book, save for in the second half, much of which revolves around God's son, Jesus, an interesting fellow. Definitely, the story has finally hit a stride, so the New Testament reads like a novella. Everywhere this Jesus guy goes, he travels with his posse of "Apostles," who aren't your standard yes men. Although they all sing his praises when the going's good, one gives a great "I don't know about no Jesus" performance (Peter) worthy of a scruffy rat like Steve Buscemi. Another (Judas) sells out Jesus for a bunch of dead presidents, like Sean Penn did in "Carlito's Way." Unfortunately, Jesus gets rubbed out by an Italian gang, "The Romans," who torture him and nail him to a cross in revenge for representing on their turf. Lots of high drama here.
"Revelations" was pretty weird, sort of like watching "Fantasia" while doing mushrooms, only a lot scarier.
Altogether, an excellent read.
Text from review:
Reviewer: An Amazon.com Customer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania United States
This book is one of the most disjointed novels I've read in a long while. If you think about it, it's more a collection of short stories by various authors that tell the story of God and his sundry children, most of them Hebraic. God is a pretty powerful heavy, though it's implied that he incorporeal and invisible. Although he's usually depicted in the movies sitting on a throne and sporting a long beard, in "Exodus," he appears as a bolt of fire. Other places in the book, he speaks as a burning bush. Excellent special fx all throughout.
There's a lot of begats going on, and in the chapter titled "Song of Solomon," we get a nice PG-13 to R-rated glimpse of the ... sensual mores of these people.
There's also a pretty cool story about this guy named Job and how God had an ongoing bet with Satan as to who would win his soul. I don't want to give away the ending, but there's a lot of pathos, hubris and plotlines right out of such movies as "Trading Places," "Meet John Doe" and "Life Stinks."
My favorite one, though is about Moses, and how he led his people out of Egypt and to the promised land. Along the way, though, Dathan tries to make them worship a golden calf. Personally, I preferred the movie version, as directed by Cecil B. deMille: The character development of Moses (played by Chuck Heston), Dathan (Edward G. Robinson) and Moses' mother (the ever comely Anne Baxter) is much improved. And also, in Technicolor.
There is little plot to this book, save for in the second half, much of which revolves around God's son, Jesus, an interesting fellow. Definitely, the story has finally hit a stride, so the New Testament reads like a novella. Everywhere this Jesus guy goes, he travels with his posse of "Apostles," who aren't your standard yes men. Although they all sing his praises when the going's good, one gives a great "I don't know about no Jesus" performance (Peter) worthy of a scruffy rat like Steve Buscemi. Another (Judas) sells out Jesus for a bunch of dead presidents, like Sean Penn did in "Carlito's Way." Unfortunately, Jesus gets rubbed out by an Italian gang, "The Romans," who torture him and nail him to a cross in revenge for representing on their turf. Lots of high drama here.
"Revelations" was pretty weird, sort of like watching "Fantasia" while doing mushrooms, only a lot scarier.
Altogether, an excellent read.
[Listening to: Wonderboy -by- Tenacious D ]
Monday, August 04, 2003
Working at Surfing
Another week has come and gone and I am still job hunting. It is starting to get really frustrating. I want to get out of the house and get busy with some kind of a job, but the only things in this area are very low paying ones. I actually would make more on unemployment then taking one of them. I do have an interview later this week for a copier company, but that is not my first choice for work. If only the .com bubble had not burst. I could be making money just sitting at my computer like all those e-mails I got said :) I don't really know if anyone ever got more then a few bucks from responding. I know we did answer some online surveys a while back and got paid for those. Hell, I could sit at the computer all day answering surveys. Instead, now I sit here searching want ads and getting distracted by all the cool stuff on the web.
One of those things I found has to be the most annoying game out there. Thanks to B3TA for this one.
Now back to the job hunt :)
One of those things I found has to be the most annoying game out there. Thanks to B3TA for this one.
Now back to the job hunt :)
[Listening to: The Crying Game -by- Boy George ]
Sunday, August 03, 2003
John Ashcroft
I think I have just heard the stupidist (is that a real word?) quote from our own John Ashcroft is response to questions about the newest message from al Qaida.
"If it is authentic, it would be an indication that they still hate the United States and want to inflict great harm."
NO SHIT
You really think this group is going to all of a sudden be friendly with us????
"If it is authentic, it would be an indication that they still hate the United States and want to inflict great harm."
NO SHIT
You really think this group is going to all of a sudden be friendly with us????
[Listening to: Blister In The Sun -by- Violent Femmes ]
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