>Merry Christmas from the SNL XMAS episode with Justin Timberlake. I actually think this was funnier when I thought they were saying “It’s my cock in a box!” but it’s just great to hear it unedited. I think it’s the hard C K & X sounds, not rhyming or illiteration, but it just sounds right.D K X mixes it up a little too much.

>I can’t believe it was that easy.I have the login I use for my blog set to automatically jump to the directory it needs to be in. Manually that works just fine, apparently blogger still needs the full path. .:sigh:. BTW… BLOG’S FIXED!

>This little ditty won the contest for “Best Warcraft Movie”. I know, it’s lame, but it’s funny, and well done. It’s really sad that those level 60 chaps have nothing better to do. Raise the roof! Raise the roof, let those without lives become martyrs. *updated*Speaking of level 60 – The Ballad of the N00b is a rather comical musical tale. (modifier modifier modifier)

>I don’t have exact numbers right now, but after receiving my cards and doing a couple of a tests – I have not found as large of a difference as I thought. I went up to a 7800 3D Mark, but that’s without any AA, which is what’s really supposed to be helped by these particular cards. Running the super high resolution of 2650 x 1600 is possible, and even playable, but not smooth. I clocked it down to 1600 x 800 for Need for Speed Most Wanted and that seemed an ideal resolution. I’m able to run FlatOut2 at…

>I saw someone else searching for “cleaning SPT intake” and realized I never actually figured out how to do it. I know you unscrew the clamp, but whether you’re supposed to just brush the surface or actually use water is where I’m wondering. In any case after an inspection it was just fine, so not needing a cleaning after 3 oil changes.

>Merry Christmas!

>It may not be the first step… but it's progressing.I've just purchased a book for $40 entitled: Microsoft ADO.NET 2.0 – Step By StepBuilding Database Applications in .NET 2.0 I was attempting to teach myself via the examples and forums on the web. Unfortunately I was mixing the 3 different ways of doing things and twisting myself up in my own inferences about what was needed as a basic groundwork. I was setting it up programatically then dragging and dropping, and apparently the drag and drop adds extra bits (table adapters) that interfere with the programatic way I was attempting…

>test

>I’m scared of the new version of blogger.I think they’ll take something away, I don’t think I’ll migrate correctly. Maybe I’ll back everything up… ha, back everything up. Blogger is my backup. Should everything go blahooi (and it has) I just republish from blogger. Anyhow, I’ll stick with old blogger till they kick me out.At any rate: FRENCH – check it out. It is indeed french, and I have no clue, but there’s this chick from Ireland featured on there with music videos and such and that part is in english. Sounds really cool. Check her out =) Oh yeah,…

> Just checking in…Didn’t want to go so long without posting. I haven’t even come up with any good links. Yesterday I was working solid right through lunch. I finally got moving on my access to VB.NET OLEDB connector goodness Survey program and almost got there by the end of the day… then found the right settings for the DB which would have done the trick but they did something to corrupt the code. It wouldn’t load and I’m going to have to strip it out and start over. I have to get it done by the 2nd week in…

>Red TV – think “America’s most exciting police chaces” with added bonus of surveilance footage.

> OK, I’m posting this because I want to see more of this in the world:Elegant sexy:darker sheer top, or detailed sheer top w/ elegant bfnets with a more demure dress, basic blackpair basic dress, pair with high heelshigh waist pants, low cut top, long sleeve, tucked into pants, unbuttoned top Everyone loves sexy, but it tends to look trashy when done over the top. Elegant sexy creates a sexy look from otherwise conservative clothing.

>Spent the weekend relaxing. We headed up to VT for Thanksgiving, and it was good to see a few family members. It was larger then normal, still felt a bit odd. I’m more at ease with Nicole’s family then my own =] I will put this right up at the top to show my friend Bim how easy it is.He’s currently getting hooked up with his mom’s friend (his age, you sicko!) and recently went on a date with her. He tried his best to act like a dingo – letting her pay for everything, not opening doors, and just…

>Turducken, ’nuff said.

>So I went down to the local Holyoke Mall to interview those waiting in line for the PS3. Here are the results: Total People: 48 Best Buy – 20 Target – 16 Circuit City – 12 Hours Waiting: 44 – 1 29 – 1 28 – 2 26 – 2 25 – 19 24 – 5 23 – 3 < 23 - 15 Entrepeneur: Selling – 36 Keeping – 12 Not Sure – 3 HDTVs: NO – 35 720p – 2 1080i – 8 1080p – 4 If you’re interested in the details: PS3 Survey Details A few people of…

>I’m certainly excited about PS3 coming out, and so are a bunch of other people. Check out the links above for a few of the more enthusiastic PS3 hopefuls. I won’t be buying one and I’m not as excited as I could be if I could realize the full potential of the PS3. That made me wonder how many people were buying them for themselves vs selling them on eBay. I also wondered what kind of TV they had at home. I’m about to hit the local mall to ask some questions of the patrons waiting in line for their…

>Life imitates fiction – ever see Trading Spaces?

>I forgot to mention the funny moment from Saturday night.I walked to the store with Jon to go get some cigars, and the guy behind the counter was quite a character. 20 something, he reminded me of a classic highschool character: the big dumb jock. He was large, blonde, and spoke slowly:“So did you hear about Northampton?”“No”“Apparently the power went out… they… they got people looting downtown.”“Wow”“They don’t really think it’s terrorists or anything. I mean… they’re not going to come here, knock out the power then go back over the ocean.”“huh” We were both amazed at the connection this…

> Not much to post.I’ve been playing a lot of Battlefield 2142, unlocked all the Engineer’s items, and I’m now working on the individual abilities so I can run faster, jump higher… it’s very fun, and I think I’m better at it then BF2, but I’ll attribute that to the new tools. We went to Paul’s party on Saturday, it was fun – I played guitar hero for the first time, and Jon and Heather were back from Cali, so it was good to see them. We didn’t stay all that late, Nicole was tired, and I guess I was…

>There was hay ride craziness in West Springfield yesterday, Hayride Goes Awry in West Springfield, MA! or there is this link from MSNBC

>Video, the final frontier — these are the voyagers of deinterlacing.It helps explain (far better then I possibly could) what makes good video look good.

> Never ran out of gas before… I don’t think, but I did today.I was cutting it close. I had 150miles to empty last night before heading down below Hartford to a fun little party at an art gallery. I got home and had 70 miles to emtpy, about average for a trip to work and back, 35 miles either way. I figured that would be enough to get to work and get gas on the way home. I woke up late, sleeping in with a very big hangover headache from the party — got going and the guage was…

>Spluch: Welcome to beard society

> I got it working! (now to put it all back together) =)