Dongle Tuesday, Oct 31 2006

Ok I just couldnt pass this up. why is this just the funniest sounding word of all time. Dongle Dongle Dongle Dongle Dongle. I dont know it makes me laugh so hard. It is probably the dodiest sounding word of all time. If I remember correctly, this definitely coinsides with the cartoons where the character would go,”which way did he go george?Which way did he go”. They would say it in the goofiest possible way with big buck teeth and crossed eyes and pointing in both directions. So naturally when I came across this word in a slashdot article i naturally had to see where did dongle come from? Well never fear because wikipedia is here

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

(on a side note if you use firefox you can type in the url bar wp then the word you want to look up and the wikipedia article associated with it comes up)

So I kept digging(yes i love www.digg.com), and kept searching, I kept on sweating, and bleeding ok…..I will stop. Anyways there is a whole study of words and language (linguistics). I dug so far I came out in China. Actually i found this cool word called spoonerism

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

If you read at the bottom they have funny spoonerisms in other languages, especially Polish. According to wikipedia spoonerisms are really popular in Polish. So why everybody cracks jokes about Polish and stupidity they have one thing going for them……..yes you guessed it a sense of humor coupled with spoonerisms. I take this straight from the article

“They often require a bit of imagination in order to find out which letters need to be changed to get a new meaning.”

This just goes to show it takes a lot of brains to be Polish. ( I will now cease and desist on making fun of Polish people)

I cant help it one more…………..does this mean the ultimate diss is actually a Polish spoonerism. In the great words of a very funny man Brian Regan,”I submit that it cannot”

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Mondays are the bomb…. Monday, Oct 30 2006

Wanna know why mondays are the bomb? Well its because everyone else hates them, so naturally I’m going to like them. I had an old friend of mine which shall remain nameless(oh what the heck his name was jared) that always had a nack for liking things that other people disliked, especially in the area of video games. He had the best one liner ever which went like this…

Hey Jared this game is awesome.

“No its way to commercialized”.

Then we would all get a good laugh. Well jared i’m playing a way too commercialized game right now, its called splinter cell double agent and what you choose affects which side believes in you. If you do one mission or side objective for one side you have to do another for the opposing side so no one side will not trust you. Its almost like the show Alias. Anyways this monday is also the bomb because we get one extra hour. Thats about it. Check me out at www.myspace.com/jcashion or on facebook.

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The good ole grind Thursday, Oct 26 2006

No I’m not talking about your speciality coffee beans from the little artistic neighborhood coffee shop called Star bizzles(Malibu’s Most Wanted). What I am talking about is the day to day almost zombie like unchallenged routine processes our minds go through. Well I’m here to stop that, errr um  for me not for you because that is your businassssssss.  So I’m stretching my brain by clicking the random article link on wikipedia. Yes its random useless information nonetheless but hey, who is the most entertaining person in a group. You got it the random useless information guy.  No I’m not saying i’m that guy wink wink nudge nudge.

Now is the time for the next grandiose paragraph. WOOT WOOT!!! We have inventory. Ok thats the end. Let me expound just a little bit. We have inventory for the next two days, so basically i wish I had some volleyball knee pads.  In other news I’m going to see Flags of our Fathers.

Ok until next time………….

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I will keep writing Monday, Oct 23 2006

There is nothing like writing and writing and writing but nobody checking out your stuff. I mean cmon people how hard are RSS feeds. Anyways enough of my I write useless material rant, there is more to life than blog hitz(note hacker spelling). Good news, I am going to corporate headquarters to talk with a lady about the possibility of being over an ebay store. Which would be a very interesting and fun job for me. However at the same time, we would probably have to move to Dallas and leave a really good church and the people that we are getting accustomed to behind. Plus we are just feeling settled in here in Houston. Hopefully all is well with the faithful readers(whoever that might be).

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Xbox Live and other schtuff Thursday, Oct 19 2006

Well I have to say I love xbox live. I play a lot of halo2 on there under the gamertag slurpeyatari. Every night i usually play with some friends from www.xboxmission.org/forums and friends from memphis.On october 17th my world turned upside down because xbox live was down for 24 for upgrades/maintenance.  During this time I pulled out my gamecube and played mario superstar baseball. Speaking of gamecube……………………….

Donkey Konga is an awesome game

Ok back on track anyways I have been playing under the gamertag slurpeyatari since Halo 2 came out about 2 years ago in November. When I first started playing I was a lost puppy due to being an avid halo 1 player but I caught on and honestly like halo 2 better. I’m trying to coerce my wife to buy me a 360 for christmas. I have 2 games I really want to play

1. Full Auto- This reminds me a lot of my favorite game of all time twisted metal 2

2. table tennis- I love ping pong. Since there is really no other game promoting table tennis this is going to be good.(especially since this game is made by rockstar who is infamous for grand theft auto games)

I have always been a gamer since the atari 2600, which was the first and only console my parents actually bought me. Since then I have owned around 6-7 consoles. My favorite is probably my n64 which has my favorite game of all time Goldeneye 007. Dang I wore that game out. ***Note while I might like video games they are definitely not my life***

Oh well enough about video games because i think you get the idea.

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Part 2 for the weekend trip Wednesday, Oct 18 2006

So here is a brief summary for the day the angels sing. No not when Mother Theresa was born, it was the day I married my wife. No she isnt Mother Theresa either. Well we went to the Alamo to check out some awesome history. You would think the Alamo would be bigger but it isnt. It has 2-3 small rooms and a large room in the center but other than that it really doesnt have much. Although that is not the true original alamo. If you are ever in San Antonio go check it out, but make sure to read all the info off of the little boards. They also have a scale model in the little gift shop to show you how it actually went down. So then we went to ripley’s believe it or not and to the wax museum where I was interviewed by oprah. During the heat of the moment, I had to do my Tom Cruise impression which turned out pretty good. Later that night, we went to eat for our anniversary and I rented a private dinner barge which took 2 hours. It was awesome because we toured the whole riverwalk(which actually is a natural river). During the whole course of the cruise everyone was yelling and whistling at us and we even got to cruise in the middle of the ampitheater and the little stage. (dangit i wish i had pictures to show you which i will when I get home). So anyways it was an awesome night and an awesome anniversary. I am the luckiest guy in the world.

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One year weekend Tuesday, Oct 17 2006

Well this weekend katie and me (sorry katie and I doesnt sound right does it…..but yet it is) went to San Antonio to celebrate our one year anniversary. It was a shorter drive than what I thought it was going to be. According to google maps, it was going to take over 4 hours. However, downtown San Antonio is a crap shoe trying to navigate through all the one way streets. So basically we drove by it at least 3 times before we pulled into the marriott and asked where the sheraton gunter was. Well we get to the Sheraton Gunter to find out they only have valet parking! I’m so not used to valet and dont like other people driving my car so I was reluctant but thought what the hey its my anniversary. As we check, the lady gives us free complimentary breakfast buffet tickets which was a pretty nice perk. Anyways, we got up saturday to go to sea world. We got our pictures taken with an albino snake and the Budweister Clysdales. Those things are so huge!!!!!! We also got to feed dolphins, watch shamu, and a cirque du soleil type show that had porpoises flying out of the water. I should be going now, there is another day I will describe where I received major brownie points. Stay tuned

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Friday….the day for madness Friday, Oct 13 2006

So here is my normal friday. I get up around 6- 6:15 a.m. I iron my clothes get dressed, brush my teeth (never had a cavity), put a dime sized amount of gel in my hair. Rabbit trail #1. The reason I put gel in my hair is my hair is very very wavy, thick as a shag rug and basically looks like a tennis ball if i dont have anything to tame it. I hop in my car to look forward to the wonderful Houston, TX traffic. I know it takes me 10 min to get to my house to the expressway. However I usually am a minute or two late because I have never seen less coordinated and alert drivers in my life than here in Houston. The rubberneckin that goes on here is borderline criminal. Normal circumstances in everyday driving seem to cripple the thimble minds that I encounter. What the drivers dont realize is that if you press on your brakes and you have 50 – 100 people behind you. THERE IS GOING TO BE A CHAIN REACTION!!!!!!!!!!! So while I used to leave at 6:50 to be at work at 8:00, I now leave at 6:30 for 7:30. You would think traffic would be thinner, less agitated at that time……..um WRONG!! Oh well I guess I should let it go since I have to be in it every morning. Good thing their is music to calm the nerves. Speaking of music check out a really good “piano” rock band called Waking Ashland. More specifically check out their song called All Hands on Deck, it is one of the best songs I have heard.

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My Very First Post Thursday, Oct 12 2006

Alright so i guess I will hop on the lets tell the world of my life bandwagon. I tried this before on a little obscure website called myspace and no one liked my quarky random….note title…..So i decided to discontinue it and go for a more professional looking blog that people could use their little nifty RSS feed readers(i use sage in firefox). Do you like how I go off on little sidebar, rabbit trail, fox trot(wait is that one??) doh see I cant help myself!!! Parenthesees are your friend because you get to delve into the little corner of the left hand side of my brain(do you know why I said left) that controls these thoughts. Actually I dont know if it is the left side that actually controls these thoughts. Anyways I will be posting on a regular occasion. So stop by anytime.

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