What the...?

Ninjas?? Longer version number?

Who's Right?

This happened yesterday in town and it's created quite a buzz.

No one was injured in the accident.

No Line On The Horizon

U2 is awesome!

Who's Accountable?

Every year the company I work for enlists the services of a firm, who shall remain nameless, to prepare my taxes. The actual preparing occurs in Detroit but they need certain information that is prepared and consolidated by their firm here in my assignment country.

Like normal, our finance manager pulls and collates the data they need and prepares the documents and takes them to the firm. She gave them to the person who is responsible for our account and then left. This idiot woman then goes to file those documents at a government office but for some reason is unable to so she puts the documents into her laptop bag and heads to another client's office. When she gets there she leaves the laptop in her car since "it was only going to take a minute" to do whatever she needed to do there. Can you guess what happened in that minute she was gone? If you said someone stole her car you would be wrong. Apparently someone broke into the car and stole the laptop...bag and all. With my foreign tax documents which contained a lot of personal information inside such as salary and company name and address.

This idiot's woman's boss said that she broke protocol when she left the government agency and did not return the unfiled documents to the office before heading to another client. But added that just about everyone breaks this procedure because it's unrealistic for them to drive back to the office to secure documents and then head back to more or less the same area to visit another client. If this had happened a couple of years ago I probably wouldn't worry too much about it. It's just that things have really turned for the worst around here. The thief probably didn't even look at the documents but who knows? "Aye Carumba! My wife's, seester's, second cousin might like theese papers!"

This sucks big time.

He's Back

No, I'm not talking about Jack Bauer. He's been back for a few hours already. I haven't been reading anything related to the new season of 24 so I was pleasantly surprised to see Agent Pierce last night. That reminds me that I still haven't watched Redemption...which would probably explain some things. Please no Kim Bauer. Please. And I don't remember any torture in last night's episode. Drat.

A Great Deal On Planet Earth

I just ordered the Blu-ray set for $49.99(DVD $39). Order at least $50 worth and you get free shipping and some free DVDs, too. Use coupon code EML2009 and you'll get a $5 discount. Check it out here.

How Time Passes By

Nice.



One year in 40 seconds from Eirik Solheim on Vimeo.

Resistance Is Still Futile

I'm A Pepper

LOS ANGELES—Dr Pepper is making good on its promise of free soda now that the release of Guns N' Roses' "Chinese Democracy" is a reality.

The soft-drink maker said in March that it would give a free soda to
everyone in America if the album dropped in 2008. "Chinese Democracy," infamously delayed since recording began in 1994, goes on sale Sunday.

"We never thought this day would come," Tony Jacobs, Dr Pepper's vice president of marketing, said in a statement. "But now that it's here, all we can say is: The Dr Pepper's on us."

Beginning Sunday at 12:01 a.m., coupons for a free 20-ounce soda will be available for 24 hours on Dr Pepper's Web site. They'll be honored until Feb. 28.

Dr Pepper is owned by Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Inc.

Why I Get So Much Done At Work & Home

Relaxation

Tonight while my wife takes the kiddos out looking for little treats, I'm going to turn the porch light off, grab a cold beer and a bag of Corn Nuts, and watch the World Series. Can it get any better?

Come Get Some!

I received an email yesterday inviting me to be part of the public beta testing for 8-player online co-op and up-to-60-player competitive multiplayer for Resistance 2 on the PS3. Awesome! It was a little over 2GB to download so no playing last night. Hopefully time will allow this weekend for me to give some thirteen year old the pleasure of using me for target practice. Toto, I've a feeling we're not in DOOM or Duke anymore. So when are you joining me??

Damn That Hurts!

I'm sitting at my desk opening some junk mail from yesterday and not really paying much attention to what I'm doing. As I pull the medium stock paper out of the envelope...slice! Paper cut in the webbing between my thumb and index finger. After applying some Kleenex to stop the bleeding the pain sets in. And the cut is in a location that I know from past experience will continue to bother me the rest of the day because every time I use my hand the cut will reopen. I shrug it off and start to open the next envelope and...slice! Paper cut within a paper cut. I think I will call it a day. I wonder if I could get workman's comp?

Surrender Michigan?!?

Artwork by Zina Saunders

Death Magnetic

Metallica rocks!

Or is it just because I wanted something better than St. Anger? Seriously, I think it's on par with ReLoad but not the Black Album.

What The Hell Is That?

Last night we watched an episode of Destination Truth the DVR recorded on Wednesday night. After the debate of course. I've never watched the show before but this episode had a piece about Aokigahara, the haunted forest in Japan, which tweaked my interest.

So these "researchers" go to the forest and at nightfall take off in different directions to look for ghosts. Of course they all get lost but after the commercial break all is fine. One of them did find what appeared to be an abandoned camp site so the group returns there under the premise that whoever was there must have died or killed them self there. The scientific method is hard at work here, friends.

Strange things occur and their instruments detect anomalies. That's when one of them calls out for the ghost to appear before them...in English. Granted, a lot of Japanese speak a little English but I thought the chances were pretty slim that the ghost was fluent in English. Unless all things including language become known once you pass into the next world. Chuckle.

The group did record some video of something that looked like a ghost and they did think they encountered ghosts on the trail but the jury is still out. They then went to the Philippines in search of some shape-shifting, hairy, ghoul.

A Tangled Mess

It took me over an hour to untangle The Little One's Slinky® yesterday. I was almost tempted to take a pair of wire cutters to it. I can still hear the sound in my head.

Steven Curtis Chapman On CBS The Early Show

My DVR is on the blink so I'm embedding the video here for easy access for my family. I read that CBS didn't edit anything out like ABC and CNN did.


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It's The End Of The World As We Know It

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Here come the black holes to swallow us up.

Where Am I?

Since I was early for a doctors appointment I experimented with my location services on my phone yesterday. I had tried it at home before but since my subdivision is new and not on any of the internet maps yet, I really couldn't say if it was accurate. It looked pretty darned close but hard to tell when the dot on the map is in terrain. Anyway, it took about six seconds to zero in on my location and it was accurate. Very accurate. I was surprised to see that it was accurate up to which parking space I was in.