this is why I don’t like the media
Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner wed; Jessica Simpson criticized for ’slutty’ video; Elizabeth Hurley’s pooch dognapped?: “CRUISE: ‘I BELIEVE IN ALIENS’
Actor Tom Cruise believes in aliens, claiming it would be arrogant to think we, as humans, were alone in this universe.
The movie star is currently promoting his new film, ‘War of the Worlds,’ which sees him on the run from extra-terrestrials who cause havoc on earth.
In a interview with German newspaper Bild, Cruise says, ‘Yes, of course (I believe in aliens). Are you really so arrogant as to believe we are alone in this universe?
‘Millions of stars, and we’re supposed to be the only living creatures?
‘No, there are many things out there, we just don’t know.’ “
None of this is outlandish.
I don’t believe that we are alone either, but the sensationalistic title is crap.
dream
I’ve been dreaming a helluva lot lately.
Kramer has been a guest star (not one of *those* dreams, just around because I miss him) and then there was one last night that I remember, and now that I’m thinking about it, it wasn’t the first one of this ilk: my former boss showed up at dinner and I started yelling at him for not writing down all this SHIT that I have had to figure out on my own since he abandoned me. (Not to mention yelling about all the absolute crap from certain people that I have had to weather because he left without properly training me.)
OK, so intellectually I know that he doesn’t owe me squat. He took the other job for his life and I don’t have a damn thing to do with his life. But still, emotionally, I hate looking like an idiot, the last two weeks have been utter hell and I still am a long way from being where I KNOW I need to be to run this project and be able to plan for thefuture of the app.
regarding Tom Cruise…
dooce: “All the other vitamins I take — the Neurontin, the Valium, and the Prozac — I call those Thank God Tom Cruise Is Not In Charge Otherwise I Would Be Dead Right Now Vitamins.”
and regarding people who don’t seem to have chemical imbalances or other basic problems with thier bodies… how do you fekkin’ know about any of this? The minute that you go through an imbalance or some other problem (like some people do have) then you can try the whole vitamin thing.
Until then, I am not saying that drugs are the answer to all of our problems, but there are certain people whose body chemistry is inherently off kilter and need this.
Flinstones chewables won’t solve severe problems.
..that’s CHOCOLATE.
Get it straight, man.
Missing Teen’s Mom Devastated by Release – Yahoo! News
Missing Teen’s Mom Devastated by Release – Yahoo! News: “The mother of an Alabama honors student missing in Aruba for a month said Tuesday she is devastated by the release of a Dutch suspect’s father and convinced the high-ranking judicial official is hiding information.”
I’m really tired of this woman going on an on about how she’s devastated by these changes and how she’s happy when ANYONE is arrested. I’ll bet she couldn’t care less about who it was that they arrested. All she cares about it being a harpy and making someone…ANYONE pay for her daughter.
Random payback isn’t justice.
rangelife: Jan Wahl’s Failed Audience Uprising
Yeah, yeah, audience uprising WHATEVER… the interesting thing about this was in the comments:
rangelife: Jan Wahl’s Failed Audience Uprising:
“Secondly: Bittorrent. Am I *ever* getting tired of entertainment industry types blaming the freakin’ protocol. Bittorrent is not a filesharing network. It’s a file transfer protocol. Albeit more efficient than FTP or HTTP, it’s in the same league. Why stop at blaming Bittorrent? TCP/IP itself must be fucking evil too, since all the traffic on the internet is sent via TCP/IP, and we all know those internet people just trade movies.”
Things to do in Paris when you are not dead
PLEASE NOTE: I wrote this back before the EURO took over, so I don’t have cost approximations anymore… I think it was about a 1.5 FF=1$ conversion then. Happy Paris-ing!
Whether you are backpacking around or just on a regular vacation, here’s my list of things to do:
- Buy a liter of Evian and carry it around in your bag (see the packing list for details) to drink. Cokes cost 25-50 FF ($5-$10) each. Think about that when you order drinks. Outside of a cafe or restaurant, you will want to drink the water and get carryout food to eat in a park or walking along.
- Buy a carnet (10 Metro tix) and use the Metro to get to the farthest point out, then walk back to your hotel. It will be worth the walk back. You will see so many more things than you would if you just took the Metro everywhere. Don’t get me wrong, the Metro is incredibly efficient and all that, but sometimes, the goodies aren’t on the main streets or in the guidebooks.
- Go to any cafe and order coffee (say this: “Du cafe, s’il vous plait.”), its actually espresso, but drink as much of it as you can. That way you’ll have a nice buzz and the world will seem to move slow, thus extending your vacation time. If you just can’t take the espresso route order the cafe crème, which is more like cafe au lait here.
- Catacombs (Metro: Denfert Rochereau) It will take you about 3 hours to walk all the way through the catacombs and longer if you decide to really look around you. Check in your guidebook when the catacombs are closed, like all the other museums they are closed one or two days during the week. If you are sensitive to ghosts this may not be the best place to go.
- Au Pied des Cochons, near St. Eustache cathedral (Metro: Les Halles)
is a restaurant that I adore! They love to hear about how wonderful their food is and the chef will basically treat you like royalty even if you speak only English. Most places will sort of do this, but this place I really think they deserve the praise. Carpaccio is wonderful if the have it on the menu still. - Eiffel Tower(Metro: Bir Hakeim),
but do yourself a favor and walk across one of the bridges to get to the tower. Its really big. Yes, its cool looking, but the thing that always strikes me is that its soooo biiiiggg. Underneath the tower itself are hot dog vendors. Buy one and get the homemade spicy mustard. Then, go back and get another one. - After you have eaten too many hot dogs, sandwiches niçoises, sandwiches au jambon et beurre on baguettes, then it is time for crepes. My favorite is the one with Nutella (a hazelnut chocolate spread.) but you can get different toppings.Most vendors of food on the street have wonderful food and MUCH cheaper than restaurants. Good for the daytime eating. At night go to a cafe on the street that has “menus prix fixes.” Eat outside on the sidewalk tables.
- Musée D’Orsay (Impressionism and more modern art) (Metro: Musee D’Orsay) has my favorite paintings in the whole world: “Les Raboteurs du Parquet” Gustave Caillebotte, “La Charmeuses de Serpent” Henri Rousseau and the sculpture by Degas “La Petite Danseuse” Orsay is an old railroad station recently converted into a museum. Look around at the architecture as well as the art.
- Cluny Museum (medieval art)(Metro: Cluny La Sorbonne)
- Louvre basement
with base of old chateau in the North wing…I can’t remember which wing that is, Richelieu, I believe. The Louvre is worth several walk throughs. Go one day and nose around. Leave for lunch, rest, then go back (your ticket will let you back in for the day) Then a few days or a week later go back and concentrate on the areas you really want to look at.
Don’t try to see everything and avoid the French painter’s wing if you value your sanity. - Luxembourg gardens (Metro: Luxembourg)
was near one of my old stomping grounds in the 5th arrondissement. Its gorgeous. Go there and look around the grounds, don’t miss the bee keepers hut near the west entrance and then go sit in the center near the fountain and people watch. - Pantheon (Metro: Luxembourg) is also in the 5th, just up Rue Soufflot. Go out of the East entrance of the Luxembourg gardens and then walk straight up the street.
- Pigalle (Metro: Pigalle), the red light district, is cool during the day, but at night you’ll have more propositions that the Legislature after a reformist movement. Anyone and anything will proposition you, then your husband/wife after you say no…they really don’t care. If its transvestites you are wanting to see, go to the Bois de Boulogne after dark and just watch as the entire cast of La Cage au Folles seems to seep out of the woodwork. Its really cool!
- Arc de Triomphe (Metro: Charles de Gaulle Etoile) is the absolute largest tribute to one’s own ego I have ever seen. Napoleon really loved himself. Another good place to go is…
- Les Invalides and the musée de guerre (Metro: Ecole Militaire). This is where Nappy is entombed. A very large monument to a very short man. The real attractions here are the gold covered dome (beautiful on a sunny day with those Paris blue skies), the Musée de Guerre inside the back wings of Invalides with suits of armor form the middle ages… ) and finally the Rodin museum out in the open air. Acid rain and all.
- Picasso museum (Metro: 3rd arrondissement, I believe.?.) Need I say more?
I hit that point.
where I just said to everyone, you know, this is what we need NOW.
If you can’t give me this, I can’t give you THAT.
I will be glad to help you to get your stuff, but otherwise, give me
this or you can’t have anything. My job is to protect my team from
your neuroses and put something that isn’t utter crap onto our
production server.
(yes, I couldn’t be more vague, but I am not one to spew details of my
job all over my blog… my feelings are different. Company details,
not so much.)
I put on some music and settled into the next two weeks.
I’m moderately good at crunch time.
I’ll triage the necessary stuff, toss the fluff and am brutally honest
about whether I care or not about certain things when I have a
deadline looming… of course, getting me out of that mode takes a bit
and I tend to project manage all those around me by default.
I’m lucky my friends are patient…
Funny, i never thought as night gardening as particularly hot…
Search:free erotic weeding night pics – WebCrawler: “‘free erotic weeding night pics’”
But, to each their own…
The Young Labeled ‘Entitlement Generation’ – Yahoo! News
The Young Labeled ‘Entitlement Generation’ – Yahoo! News: “Now, deserved or not, this latest generation is being pegged, too — as one with shockingly high expectations for salary, job flexibility and duties but little willingness to take on grunt work or remain loyal to a company.”
When I am treated as more than something to throw away with little more than 20 minutes of decision making at midnight the night before, I will consider loyalty to a company more of a top priority.
Also, outsourcing…. if you off-shore regularly and claim to be pro-american, you are full of crap. ESPECIALLY if you lay off people here in favor of off-shore workers.
Monday.
Several thoughts…
bad coffee is a travesty.
the fact that I have next monday off (7/4) shouldn’t make me want to cry because I’m so deleriously happy.
its funny how I feel fatter when I feel stupider… also that one person can effortlessly (and consistently) make me feel like I’m too stooooopid to even put on my pants by myself.
dream TV show
Not a “dream tv show” in the manner of one that I would love to see, but that my dream last night was a tv show.
I can’t remember much in the way of details, but that Julian McMahon was the star of the show.
He’s a Leo, you know.
Blogthings
 You are elegant, withdrawn, and brilliant. Your mind is a weapon, able to solve any puzzle. You are also great at poking holes in arguments and common beliefs. For you, comfort and calm are very important. |
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You are |
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| Slow and Steady |
 Your friends see you as painstaking and fussy.
They see you as very cautious, extremely careful, a slow and steady plodder. It’d really surprise them if you ever did something impulsively or on the spur of the moment. They expect you to examine everything carefully from every angle and then usually decide against it. |
The Keys to Your Heart |
| You are attracted to those who are unbridled, untrammeled, and free. |
| In love, you feel the most alive when things are straight-forward, and you’re told that you’re loved. |
| You’d like to your lover to think you are stylish and alluring. |
| You would be forced to break up with someone who was ruthless, cold-blooded, and sarcastic. |
| Your ideal relationship is open. Both of you can talk about everything… no secrets. |
| Your risk of cheating is high. You can’t resist desire and lust. |
| You think of marriage as something precious. You’ll treasure marriage and treat it as sacred. |
| In this moment, you think of love as commitment. Love only works when both people are totally devoted. |
nope.
obviously not going to get what I want today.
When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping.
I found some cool pants and a skirt on sale at J Jill… bought some 1$ flip flops at Target and voila! it must be summer.
Now, if it would get over 60 degrees…
What I want today…
a day without angst or drama.
I think about what I want for tomorrow… tomorrow.
encore de suckage
Leo (July 23- August 22)
Your June Horoscope by Susan Miller
“It is also possible that if you belong to a club or group, you may suddenly find yourself in the middle of a political power play when you make a move to head up a committee or run for office. It always helps to know that this MAY happen ahead of time, so that you are not broadsided by other club members, should this happen. Whomever Pluto represents in your life may act in a very unfair way. They may try to bully you or manipulate you, and I am sorry to even suggest this possibility. Now that you know this might happen, you may be able to build a contingency strategy ahead of time.
The month’s mood will change dramatically at the full moon June 22 when you will need to focus on a work assignment. You will need to crystallize a long-term project, and it will take all the energy you have to finish it up. Coworkers may be uncooperative or difficult in some way, which will make you pull your hair out. With Venus, the ruler of your tenth house of reputation, linking to Saturn shortly after that full moon (June 22), it seems your boss won’t be sympathetic. In fact, she’s more likely to be a taskmaster”
