Oct 20
Today In History
Highlights
1803 - United States Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase. (I was born in Louisiana)
1947 - The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its investigation into Communist infiltration of Hollywood, resulting in a blacklist that prevents some from working in the industry for years. (ha ha I just thought it was funny)
1955 - Publication of The Return of the King, being the last part of The Lord of the Rings
1967 - A purported bigfoot is filmed by Patterson and Gimlin (Nashville Shores????)
1977 - A plane carrying Lynyrd Skynyrd crashes in Mississippi, killing several band members, including lead singer Ronnie Van Zant and guitarist Steve Gaines.(FREEE BIRD!)
1995 - Filmmaker Kevin Smith releases Mallrats.
BIRTH HIGHLIGHTS
1819 - The Bb, Persian founder of the Bb Faith (d. 1850)
1882 - Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-born actor (d. 1956) (The man is a friggin Horror Legend!!!)
1891 - Jomo Kenyatta, President of Kenya (d. 1978)
1897 - Crown Prince Eun of Korea (d. 1970)
1913 - Grandpa Jones, American banjo player and singer (d. 1998)
1928 - Joyce Brothers, American psychologist and television personality
1931 - Mickey Mantle, baseball player (d. 1995)
1935 - Jerry Orbach, American actor (d. 2004)
1942 - Earl Hindman, American actor (d. 2003) (Willson from Tool Time)
1950 - Tom Petty, American musician
1956 - Danny Boyle, English film director (all I can say Is Trainspotting and 28 days later…Need I say more?)
1958 - Dave Finlay, Northern Irish professional wrestler (Crazy Irish Wresler is more Like it)
1958 - Viggo Mortensen, American actor ( Have you seen lord of the rings?)
1958 - Scott Hall, American professional wrestler (Razor Ramon)
1965 - William Zabka, American actor (the bully from karate kid)
1969 - Juan Gonzalez, baseball player
1972 - Snoop Dogg, American rapper
Full Rundown after the jump.
No commentsMar 8
YEA so it’s been a while
Wow, so like with every blog from time to time I disappear and leave it abandoned like a car in a Tennessee snow storm (If you lived here you’d understand). A lot has been going on recently. I’ve hit the dating scene once again and things have been going well. Speaking of I think i may write a story about all of my relationships and all the crazy stories that go along with them. I’m not sure how but each relationship thus far has been extremely comical in some sense or another. Yes MK20 gave me the idea, but only because he wanted to write a romantic comedy about my relationships. Well I gotta get back to work, more on my life later
Feb 12
Latest Addiction
Alright so as all my friends know, I love the television show “Heroes”. Before the writer’s strike I had it arranged where I could leave work early so I wouldn’t miss a minute. Recently I stumbled upon a facebook application where you are given an ability, health, and experience and you form groups and attack others. As you rank up you are able to get more attacks and more abilities. The name of this application? very appropriately it is called “My Heores Ability”. The abilities are all based off of the shows characters and range from super strength to healing. All I can say is that I crave power and respect. Go Sword Saints
Feb 12
Database and Systems Consultant
So I got a random message from a man asking me if I could do some computer work for him. He did not tell me who he worked for or what he wanted me to do but left his name and number. I didn’t get the message till after six so I waited till today to give him a call.
When I called him the gentleman seemed laid back. He began by asking about web design, and my heart fluttered…yes I said fluttered. He went on to explain that he was unsatisfied with his current web designer and wanted to create a database of his contacts. So I dug a little deeper and discovered he wanted an in house database…SCORE!…and that his partner wanted to keep using outlook and their domain email accounts but it was so over loaded with spam he was struggling to sort out the good from the bad. But wait that’s not all. He also has an auto dialer (one of those machines that randomly calls you and sounds like a robot is on the other end) that he would like rebuilt and updated so that the information could be easily transfered into the database. So I humored him and discussed some options with him, and low and behold I landed a sit down to discuss it further.
So needless to say I have been quite stoked today, and really hope this works out because I can do the work in my spare time, 2 jobs=2 times the money…hells yea
Feb 6
Rehab Returns as Southern Discomfort

Rehab fans, huge news! Steaknife, Brooks Bufford, and Danny Boone are getting back together to form “Southern Discomfort”. That’s right folks, the guys who brought us such great songs as “Sitting at the bar”, “It doesn’t matter”, “Aim to Please”, “That’s Love”, “Lawnchair High”, and so many other great songs are back together at last. You can check out some of there new tracks on myspace at http://www.myspace.com/therealrehabreturns or visit their official site at rehabmusic.com
Feb 6
KFC Bumble Bee Action Figure

A Chinese boy who couldn’t afford A Transformers toy instead create his own amazing masterpiece out of KFC lunch boxes using the motto by Chairman Mao ‘People can achieve anything he wants in case of his courage’ as his motivation. He loved absolutely the Transformers movie and after watching it decides to show his passion by creating this awesome model which had more than 60 movable joints and 36 cm tall. This is one of the more impressive models I have ever seen. More pictures after the jump.
No commentsFeb 6
Pepsi EnAble Super Bowl Ad
This ad was actually run before the Super Bowl during the pre-game show and hands down was one of, if not my favorite. Now before we go stepping on toes, pay attention to the begining, and realize that the commercial has gotten great reviews from the deaf community. Enjoy.
Feb 3
Snakes on a Blog Revisited
I originally posted these in a blog on August 16 of 2006 and felt they should be revisited
Feb 3
LEARN SOMETHING NEW EVERYDAY
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
A “jiffy” is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
A snail can sleep for three years.
Al Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
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Feb 2
Another Beautiful Saturday That I Had to Work
Yep, so it was another one of those Tennessee days where the temp peaked out in the uper 50s lower 60s (in February mind you), the Sun was shining and I was trapped at work until dark yet again. Not that I hat my job, most days I do enjoy it, but I really need a new job, one that will actually use my brain and be focused somewhere near my major if not directly related. I am almost to the point of considering sales. I did it once before for a company who has since changed names due to an extremely bad reputation for lying and screwing over unsuspecting customers, but maybe this time I could find an honest sales job? But, we will see how that goes since I still have not ruled out the possibility to return back to school for a second degree.
Well In other news I think I may be taking a trip out to knoxville before the end of the month to get a little change of pace. I’ll be crashing with one of my buddies for a weekend and who knows what kind of trouble we will get into. I think I may take the lego man costume with me.
