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I am sorry, but I will no longer be going through the comments filtered out by Akismet. After this weekend there were over 250 sitting there and only one that was not spam. So I would just like to appologize now. If your comment does not show up here, it’s because it either got flagged as spam, or it was stupid and I deleted it.

Thats right, I might not have time to reply to every comment, but I do read them all. And yes, if it’s a stupid comment that does nothing but waste bandwidth, I wll delete it. Doesn’t happen very often, and everything else gets published. Even if it’s an insult or jab at us or the site. Should I stop rambling now?

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OK, maybe the title is a little weird for that post, but it’s true. I did it and I’m sorry. I just wanted to have fun for a little while. I was burnt out, had a load of stuff to deal with and I have been having fun with my new girlfriend.

So yeah, I have skipped out on a couple of weeks of posting. Will it hurt this site? I guess we will have to see. Can the writing stop for a few weeks and just pick up where it left off? Not exactly why I’ve been gone but at least it will make a nice case study.

And please don’t be too upset with Aimee, she has been working hard on a project and has no free time right now. Plus she is a girl so she gets forgetful.

Anyway, I think things should get back to normal now. I am fully refreshed and ready for battle. I guess I should go check my e-mail as the box is probably full, and I have not yet decided if I’m going to bother going through the 1000+ spam comments. Time for some house keeping!

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The commercials make this movie look great. I love that fat guy in a lot of other movies he was in. But the best parts were in all the commercials.

Now this movies was not horrible. It was sorta watchable and there were a few laughs but it was just not enough. Having the fat guy just spout off and use as much profanity and crudeness as possible just got old very fast. I guess it was partly my falut because I expect a little bit of intelligence in my comedy. Swearing and sexual references every 30 seconds is not funny. It is boring. No wait, it is Super bad… so what I did there? Nice.

There is not much point to going into the plot as the charecters just react the same no matter what they are doing. So if you are going to go see this thing, at least wait until cheap tuesday or just rent it.

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I’m reading this really neat book right now called “How to Talk to Anyone - 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships” (by Leil Lowndes) so I thought I would share my thoughts on it.

Obviously the book has 92 tricks to use when communicating with people. You might think (as I did) that it is probably a bunch of fluff with no real useful advice, but there really are some beneficial communication tips in here. The ones that I find most interesting are the tips that involve body language. For example, the author has a technique that she calls “The Flooding Smile” where she advises for you to hold back on smiling when you meet someone until you get a chance to look at their face for a split second. Then, slowly start to smile until your face lights up with joy.

This slight delay gives your smile credibility. It makes the person you’re talking to feel special instead of making them think that you smile at everyone you see. I have to admit that this one would really work on me.

There are a lot of other tips like this in the book that are just as effective. I have to say that i’m really enjoying it. I know it’s kinda cliche, but it really is true that 80% of your communication with other people is body language.

Here’s a video about body language, it’s not really related to the book but I thought it was entertaining.

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WTF? I mean where do people get these ideas from?

This is from the site:

Self-Sustainable Chair, a dress made out of polyethylene, connected to shoes that pump air into an inflatable bubble attached to its rear part on each step. The dress slowly transforms into a chair with each step and holds the person to sit on it naturally. With his or her body weight the chair is slowly deflated and forms back to the original flat dress. Self-Sustainable chair is a conceptual garment that motivates users to consistently switch between walking and sitting as a loop behavior on the street. The balance between exercise and rest would be maintained by wearing this suit. The purpose of this project is to transform the humdrum experiences produced by routine walking commutes into an amusing interactive performance.

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OK, let me start off by saying that I am sorry I have not been around the last 2 weeks. A lot of stuff has been going on. Life changes for one, and relaxation for another. Thats right, I have been running away to my private piece of paradise up north. Fishing, bonfires, beer, swimming and afternoon naps. I really needed to do stuff like that this summer as I usually waste it.

Anyway, I am back now and things will get back to normal around here. I will leave you with this today as I have a large backlog of work to pound through. This is todays greatest ‘found in the spam filter’ gem.

Er, one temperate rattlesnake goodheartedly slapped until the quaint krill. Eh, one ruthless kookaburra huskily snuffed outside of that indifferent baboon. Oh, one insect is much less kindhearted than a wanton lobster.

You can thank me for that later.

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Just thought everyone might appriciate this insightful comment that our spam filter caught today. We are getting between 30-40 a day, but I could not let this one pass by…

Yikes, a masterful ape variously dismounted including the satanic woolly mammoth.

I think we are all a little dumber fom having read that, I am sorry :p

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I was a kid in the 80’s. I loved G.I. Joe, Transformers, TMNT and He-man. I watched all the shows, knew all the characters and had TONS of the toys. I have mahy great memories and can still talk about them all to this day with fondness.

So I would like to ask Hollywood why they are ruining all those memories? Why do they have to make movies with my childhood memories and screw them up?

Lets just take the latest movie as an example. Transformers. My favorite from when I was a kid. And they plain and simply did not do them justice with this movie.

Now let me do some explaining before you flame and e-mail me death threats. Transformers is FOR KIDS. The shows are there to sell toys to KIDS. Try and remember that part. There is a bunch of transformers cartoons out right now. All for KIDS. Get it yet? They make the kids love the transformers and then they go out and spend crazy amounts of money for the toys.

So a movie comes out and the kids of the world rejoice, including myself. And it was all wrong. Lets look at what was wrong with it.

1. Too many people. This is transformers, and people should not be more than a small supporting roll. We all remember Spike from the old show and the only reason he was there was to create rescue battles. Everyone hated him. He was like Wesley Crusher. But this movie is all about some idiot trying to get some car/girl. Who the hell cares. Show me more autobots damn it!

2. Why the hell do we need a scene talking about masterbation in a transformers movie? Transformers are for KIDS, they do not need to learn about shit like that from a movie. The person who wrote that scene should be punished.

3. No autobot screen time. The reason we all loved transformers was that we knew them. Hell there was more character development in a 30 min episode than this entire movie. So what if Jazz died, he didn’t do anything anyway. No one cared.

4. Giving Optimus Prime a mouth. WTF was that?

5. If a dog peed on one of them, they would have crushed it. Hell I would punt a dog off a bridge of one did that to me.

Now please don’t think I hated it. It looked really great, nice action and whatnot. But stop taking kids TV shows and making them into movies unsuitable for kids! Maybe in the next care bear movie they can all get rabies and run around killing people and teach the kids about oral sex and drugs?

Anyway, sorry for ranting about that. I was really hoping that this movie would be more than what it was. Just a bunch of CGI animations supporting some stupid story about humans does not cut it. Hopefully the next one will actually be about the Transformers.

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I just liked this one :p

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Ok in response to Jason’s post 8 stimulating facts about Jason and being tagged, I’m writing 8 things about myself and tagging 4 other people so here it is.

* Each player must post these rules to begin the meme.
* Each players starts with eight random facts or habits about themselves.
* People who get tagged must blog about their eight things and post these rules.
* At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.
* Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.

1) I love investing and saving money. My boyfriend and I are about to buy a house and it’s so much fun planning and finding that perfect house that will give us a good return over time.

2) I think Jason will attest to this that I am really really bad with directions. Unless I’m in my own neighborhood I can not tell which way is up.

3) I love sushi

4) Like Jason, I have also been kissed by men on more than one occasion.

5) I have a dog named pepper. She is a really energetic Australian Cattle Dog. She could run around for hours and never get tired.

6) I use my phone as my alarm clock

7) I work from home so my commute is really short. It takes me about 2 seconds to get from my bed to my computer desk in the morning. I love it!

8. My feet never stink.

That’s it! I am now tagging:

Tricia from Blogging away Debt
Natron
Beccagirl
Ted at Devil Works

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