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  • Hello out there

    Things haven’t been updated here in a while. I’m getting lazy, not too mention busy. Lots of things have happened since I last wrote anything. Christmas has come and gone rather quickly. It’s been nice, though. Greta and I made out well this Christmas. We got a new 27 inch Sony flat screen TV (dead link) from Santa Rice, a JVC digital camcorder from Santa Betts, and a JVC DVD player that we bought for ourselves. Not too shabby.

    Along with that, we purchased a new car for me (a 2000 Jeep Cherokee Sport, pictures to come). we decided not to trade in my Chevy S-10, we’re gonna sell it ourselves. If your interested (or know someone who’s looking for a nice little pick-up truck) take a look here for all the details. I’ve been having a discussion with this guy from the cmh.forsale newsgroup about my asking price. He’s been haggling me over the Kelly Blue Book value. I think everything on my little page there is self explanatory, but he thinks I’m wrong. Whatever.

    School is going pretty good, I finally feel like i’m making progress on my Masters Thesis project. Classes are going good, too, so that is always promising. I even get to take a class with my esteemed advisor, Dr. Paul Berger. This is my first 800-level class. One down, one to go!

    I’ve found some new fun stuff online. At Launch you can make your own radio station. By rating music, you can filter out the crap and listen to what you like. Sometimes things get kinda warbled with heavy traffic, but for the most part it isn’t a problem. Techbargains.com and Slickdeals.net are two great sites for locating computer hardware/software sales. At half.com I got a 150$ textbook for 80$. Not bad, eh? And for your entertainment pleasure, check this site out. The third one and the last one are my faves. The gun game is fun, too. Sweet stuff!

  • Bellisari who?

    Ahh, the sweet glory. Fourteen years in the making, the Buckeyes have made everyone proud once again to be a Buckeye. Hail to the… opps, wrong school.

  • Bellisari, part 2

    Well if you haven’t heard already, here is the latest bit of good news for us Buckeye fans. My confindence was finally being restored in the oft’ booed #8 but that all went down the crapper. McMullen my take us to the promised land but I’m not holding my breath. He is untested. Two weeks ago I would have cheered at the prospect of not seeing Steve at the helm. Now I’m not so sure. I thought we had a chance against Illinois. I’m not saying we still don’t because you will never hear me say a disparaging word about my Buckeyes but I think Steve’s absence will be noticed. Did I just say that?

    On a lighter note, I’ve been using the peer-to-peer file sharing program KaZaA looking for the MTV commercials with the taxi driver guy. If anyone knows where i can find these commercials (I think they were the best MTV commercials ever) let me know.

  • Pizza’s on its way

    I got some coupons in the mail today (nothing big there) but one of them was from Pizza Hut, touting their ‘order online’ trial going on in Columbus. I know that Papa John’s has been doing online ordering for about six months now, along with other food establishments on the web. That is nothing out of the ordinary. It’s actually quite convenient. But what strikes ME as odd is the resemblence to a paper I wrote five years ago for my English 101 class at Cleveland State. In it, I predicted that there would come a time that the web would evolve to the point that if a person didn’t want to, he wouldn’t have to leave his (or her) computer desk. I compared it to the futuristic cartoon “The Jetsons.” I’m not saying I’m some visionary, I just like to toot my own horn. I have seen a lot of business ideas that I have had come to pass during the internet boom. I had the wacky idea of starting a grocery delivery service, as witnessed here and here that someone beat me to. Unfortunately, the idea hasn’t been kind to Pea Pod. If I find the paper, I’ll post it here. I sometimes dream of being a writer. The paper isn’t that great, but my literary skills have improved since then.

    I also finally got around to adding a bunch more links. Hopefully they’ll be more to come.

  • We want a pitcher…

    Oh wait, that’s, “we want a quarterback.” After two-and-a-half seasons of supporting #8, I have given up hope. I hoped that tressel would look down the bench and see what else he has, but that doesn’t seem likely to happen. To me, it makes sense to play McMullen the next two games because SDSU and PSU should be easy victories and would give him a good chance to get some extra snaps. If he fails to kick start the passing game then we will accept Bellisari. But I’m not the coach, so there you have it

    I just read this article (dead link) and I just don’t understand some people’s way of thinking. I guess I don’t understand the leftist way of thinking. Anyway, I don’t really think there is a “profoundly difficult social problem” at hand here. They hit us and now we must hit back. It hurts people, but we’ve been hurt as well.