Did you see the speech Dean made after the Iowa Caucus? It was funny. His face turned red and he barked about how he will go on to win the upcoming primaries. He ended the outburst with ‘yaaaaahhhhhh!!’ I can’t write any more. It was just too darn funny. I was waiting for him to go ‘arrgghhhh!!!!’ It was anything but gracious. It was a battle cry I guess to rally his campaign. Today I was trying to figure out why my computer was using ports 1900 and 137. I can’t do the troubleshooting I wo...

I was going to call this blog entry the golden gerald award, but then I realized it was going to be more of a list of my favorite movies from last year. I have seen a few films last year that were very good. The best movie I saw last year was The Last Samurai (A grade). I feel this film met all the requirement for a film. The story was told through intelligent dialogue and, most importantly for a movie in my opinion, visually. The characters achieved depth not only through dialogue, but also...

I was never a part of the Fraternity and Sorority system at the college I attend. I never really wanted to be part of a collective where one must go through strange initiation rights and other practices throughout the college years. However there are advantages to being a member of Sororities and Fraternities. The network created just by being a member is an advantage. By becoming a member you have generations of ‘brothers’ or ‘sisters’ out in the working world that could be a big asset i...

I was lying in bed the other night using my remote channel surfing when I came to a program on the Scfi network called Tripping The Rift. It is an animated series in the tradition of South Park but there is a distinct difference (in appearance of characters). One of the female characters on this series is generated to look like a very voluptuous female with full, shapely T and A (with a certain bounce). I was prone in the bed when a felt a little stirring in the gonads (rocks, diamonds...

I was very surprised that Mel Gibson’s movie The Passion Of The Christ was as good as it is. The last A grade movie I saw that used subtitles was Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (A grade). There was an English dubbed version of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon that came on TV a couple months ago, which felt weird since I saw it twice in the movie theaters with subtitles (I think its better with subtitles). Believe me, if I sit through a subtitled movie then it is pretty good in my opinion. I...

After thinking about my last blog entry at joeuser I realized that I was beginning to get sidetracked. Reading comments is one thing but then answering is quite something else. I was reviewing some of the blogs on this site and noticed that there were varying opinions on what a blog should be. Many of these opinions do not agree with my view. There is nothing really wrong with that. I guess a blog could be pretty much whatever one wants it to be. Many at joeuser think blogs should be deb...

The funniest story I heard on television last year was on the program Live With Regis And Kelly (Yes, I do peek in on this program occasionally. I watch many programs occasionally. Rarely do I regularly watch any program on television though.). Regis told a story about meeting Jack Nicholson at a dinner party after screening a film Nicholson starred in. I’m going to try and tell it but I probably won’t do it justice. I can’t capture the unique mannerisms of Regis. Anyway Regis was sit...

I love living in a part of the United States where one can experience Mother Nature’s four seasons. We are about four weeks into fall and this part of the earth is cooling off because of less sunlight hitting the land (days are getting shorter) due to mother earth leaning back (earth tilting away from the sun). Leaves are turning orange and red and falling from the trees as less sap rises within the trees to nourish the leaves (although colors of leaves are less brilliant this season b...

I’m ‘sweating’ at the purchase of a much faster CPU. I guess it’s because the prices seem so high to me. I had to drop my desire to get a 3000+ Athlon chip because the price was just not right. The quote I got was $199.00. I just can’t do it! The four motherboards I have purchased (which includes the one I intend on using with my faster chip) in my days tinkering with PC’s cost approximately $273.00 dollars (think four computers). One 3000+ xp CPU would cost almost as much as four mothe...

Mother Nature is pouring it on in Florida. Just three weeks ago the state was walloped by Charley and now, or what seems like forever the hurricane Frances is hovering and slowly sliding across the state of Florida. It will have covered the whole state of Florida as a typhoon or tropical storm before it moves on. Boy, I’m glad I don’t live in Florida. There are a lot of states that am happy I don’t live in largely due to the constant weather extremes that affect those areas. I mean nature ...

I purchased a used auto and without going into too much detail about such things like make and model I think I’ll talk about lessons learned. First of all the vehicle is a lemon and I feel ‘ripped off’. The immediate investments in repairs for this vehicle just in order for it to pass inspection are high. This is what I get for buying a used vehicle from an owner without having sufficient knowledge of auto mechanics. Luckily, so far, the engine and transmission seem to be in good condit...

As with most people I get my information from many sources. This is the benefit of a free society. When you live in a free country it is very important that you keep up with what is happening in government at all levels. It is important that you be an educated consumer with well-developed critical thinking skills. It is important that you stay up to date with what your elected officials are doing. Are they trying to follow the policies they enunciated to the public on the campaign trail? A...

I had to order copies of my credit reports today. I used the toll free numbers given by the three major credit reporting companies and for Experian [(888) 397-3742], and TransUnion (1-800-888-4213) things went pretty smooth with their automated credit report request service but for Equifax (1-800-685-1111) things went quite different. First of all the speaker was speaking too fast but the major problem was after giving them the requested information the automated service informed me that ...

May It Rain In The Northwest US: I read the Northwest US is pretty parched and the need for water is critical. Lets hope storm clouds gather and raindrops fall on the forest, mountains, deserts, and plains of the Northwest. They need it with water needs being so great and all. I hate to see precious forest go up in flames as has happened quite a lot these past few years. They need heavy rains in the summer and heavy snowfall in the winter for the next year or two to make up the very large...

It’s been an unusually warm winter so far this year. We have had brief spurts of below average temperature weather followed by very short periods of seasonal weather. The above normal temperature days have by far outstripped the normal days. There have also been an unusually large number of thunderstorms this winter. In a normal winter there are no thunderstorms. The only exception is when there is a heavy snowstorm or blizard and then you’ll sometime here thunder when it is snowing heavil...