As I an sitting here listening to the Galaxie Hot Country Channel, I've just been thinking how good things have been lately.

Sure, the job that I thought I had turned out not to be, although I am doing it, somewhat and sort of, except for the next 2 weeks when I am training another new hire class, which I hate doing because it never turns out right and is frustrating and a pain in the ass, with the exception of, well, we'll get to that.

I'd like to continue this rant with, after looking at the last paragraph, I've had too much pepsi and Gilmore Girls today (Almost done the first season ,the second one is next followed by Firefly and Then veronica Mars.

so where was I? Oh yeah, new hire classes. They were a good thing when they got me off the phones, but I'm doing other things now and they are not a challenge. Hell, I get bored telling people how to create a dialer, and ICM and Freedom and everything else. I need new challenges.

Everyone at work is so stressed out and pissed off that people are starting to think about leaving. I was thinking about leaving, but with Sandy now, I can't imagine leaving where I am. It's amazing no matter how bad a day that I've been having, as soon as I see her, it makes everything all better. Yes, those of you that have known me a long time will be happy to know that I am in love, and don't care who knows it.

there I said it :p

New Harry Potter Trailer

Get it Here I cannot wait to see this Movie

I'm turning into willie..I'll see if I can take care of that

Yes, I know it's been a while since I updated. I've been really busy, and this has been the thing that has taken the brunt of it for awhile. Let's see if I can get you caught up.

• I've got a new job. I FINALLY got my promotion to supervisor for the Aliant department at ICT. It's been a long time coming, but I've enjoyed it so far, and it will be nice to get back to it.
• Speaking about that, I am on vacation, 12 days off till the 26th. I don't know what I'll be doing other then the Halifax trip where Carrie and Shawn are going to be heading to the Pearl Jam concert. Tara and I are going down for the trip, going to spending some time at the casino, then the split crow. I'm hoping that I run in to some of the gang from work, as Stewie and Bindy are heading down.
• Poker wise, I've been running a bit of a hot streak. I won the Labor Day tournament at Dooly's in chatham. It was only 18 players, but I'll take all the 1st place finishes I can. Online, I've had a real good run getting my bank roll up to over $170,000. My game is really coming together, although it seems to be better at tournaments rather then home games. I think it's the competitive juices get flowing when I'm not playing against the same people. I love playing in the home games that I do, but the tournaments are where I shine.
• OK, Carrie, here's the story. I can take the "single" checkmark away from my name. I am dating a young lady that I work with. Her name is Sandy and It's been a long time since I've been this happy. It's a little tough right now, as she lives in Doaktown, so the only time that we see each other is at work, but she's moving in to town in the next couple of months, either first of Oct or November. It shouldn't be long after that when we find out if she passes the "Carrie and Tara" test :P It's been a long time since I've found someone who I don't have to be "In character" for, if that makes any sense. Everything is a little brighter right now. OK, I'll stop now.. :D
• I've actually bought CD's lately. As I speak, I'm listening to the new Rob Thomas cd "...Something to be", It's pop rockish, very matchbox20 ish, and I'm enjoying it. Anna Nalick's "Wreck of the Day" gets better every time I listen to it, and Sugarland's "twice the speed of life" has brought me back to some country music.
  
• I'm having mixed feelings about buying the "ECW One Night Stand" DVD. On one hand I am a bit of a compleatist, looking to keep the collection going, but on the other, I've got a live version of the PPV, that is uncensored, with all the real music and chants for the night. I don't know. Willie will be happy to know that I did pick up hitchhikers Guide to the galaxy and WWE Vengeance from his store today, so I've done my part.
• I've ordered a few t-shirts from a place called Jinx A place to pick up stuff for "Hackers, Gamers and Geeks" I just like their stuff, especially this, this and this. I thought this was cool too. Diggnation is a podcast that goes over the biggest stories from Digg.com They always have interesting tech stories and just general stuff. I've put a link to the stories that I've Dugg on the sidebar. Feel free to check it out. I'm also going to place a link to Jinx on the sidebar.

That's about all that's been going on. I hope to update more as we go on. and remember it's hockey season starting this saturday night and Life 101.1 is going to be doing live coverage of Timberwolves games both on their radio station and website. Be sure to check it out by going to the webpage and clicking listen Live. and GO T-Wolves!!

Wrestling Trivia

Ricky Steamboat You scored 92% in wrestlingosity, brother!

Technically one of the greatest performances, ever, just lacking that little something extra to take it into all-time level. This was a mat classic you've put on, and definitely something to take pride in. Pro-wrestling trivia enthusiasts will be studying your work for a while to come.

Duck Hunt + Doom = Duck Doom - Shoot 'em down DOOM style

Weird, stupid and pointless. I love it! Download the FULL GAME at this link.

"An overhaul upgrade to the original Duck Hunt, featuring new difficulty levels, graphics effects, remixed music & enhanced sound, the BFG-9000, and more!"

I love the BFG!!!
Level 13 so far

Willie this one is for you

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Google Talk

So google is taking over the World with a google IM service..I've downloaded it and have it running now...download it and add me at cdlawrence at(NOSPAMPLEASE)gmail.com. just remove the (NOSPAM PLEASE) part. Can't wait to get a few people on this so I can really test it out

Blogger Blogs To Be Banned From Blog Search Engines

This is the one reason I don't like blogger, keep hitting the next blog button and getting "Hotel Rooms in Alberkerkie new Mexico" , Let's put a report blog button on the nav bar

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Furniture Causes FedEx Fits

Wired News: Furniture Causes FedEx Fits

So now after the downloading fits the music and movies, Looks like Fed-ex is part of the next "Fair use" lawsuit

White House "Lost In Space" Scenarios

White House "Lost In Space" Scenarios - August 8, 2005

Found on @.com, it's a copy of the speech that The president would have given if the first moonlanding was a failure. While I'm glad that it was never used, it is a great statement, and I can see it all unfolding on CNN, if CNN had been around in those days.

I know, I know

• I know it's been a while, but Work has been a very busy place lately. Our Head trainer has been moved to ottawa for another client for 8 weeks, which in and of itself is an't bad, but everyone else is on vacation over the past couple of weeks which is the reason I've been pulling a whole bunch of Training and Senior Support hours. It's not too bad as soon as a schedule is figured out. My schedule changed 7 times in 5 minutes earlier today
• Played poker at the tide, the tournament lasted less then an hour, then I sat in a couple of cash games. Both cash games, I got beat by 4 of a kind, Aces and then sevens.
• Went to the KOA campground last friday night, with Carrie, Jess, John, Tara, Dana and the kids, it was a great time with Smores and a campfire. Just a hang out night, something that we needed at the time.
• Another LJ that I read is here. Kyla is someone that I've known a long time and it's an interesting read. Not a tech blog or anything, just a friend blog.
  

Droogle! It's Google for Drunks

A Search Engine for finding the recipes for drinks. Where was this when I was in college...read more to go to the site

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The latest 50 LiveJournal images updated every minute

This site shows the latest 50 images uploaded to LiveJournal, refreshed every minute. Clicking on an image will take you to the original LJ post. Hypnotic, voyeuristic, addictive and occasionally NSFW.

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Slashdot | Canadian Telco Admits to Blocking Union's Website

Slashdot | Canadian Telco Admits to Blocking Union's Website

Two things:

1. Why did Aliant not think of this during the Strike last year?

B. This proves that if they want to, an ISP can block any website that they wish, meaning that they could block access to any site (Kiddie Porn, Warez, Music Downloads) they see fit. hmmm, time to watch the lawsuits fly

Sugar crash

This is a game that I first saw on G4's Attack of the Show. It's another great time killer. Click Read more to actually play the game

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Freeware Linkage

So this was on Digg, and it's from James's @.com blog. It's a list of the best programs that replace others that you actually have to pay for

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Holy Wrestlemania Batman!!

It's as clear as the nose on my face

The WWE is looking to put me into the poor house.

Being released on DVD on November 1st (in the states, meaning probably January here, if only someone I knew had access to a canadian release date datebase...Hint, hint) is a new legends DVD on Jake "The Snake" Roberts as well as a Wrestlemania DVD Boxed set, numbers 1 to 21, as well as Sets 1-5, 6-10, 11-15 and 16-20 at 69.99 a piece (US). On the 15th, it's a 3 DVD set called "Screwed: The Bret Hart Story"

When it comes to the Wrestlemania set, I already have 17-21 on DVD, if I can just pick up 16 somewhere (Ebay here I come) I'd only need 3 of the 4 sets. With the entire set retailing at $299 american, it might be worth my while.

OK, Let's try this again

I started this post a couple of nights ago, but had to stop as it was too fricken hot, but tonight is not too bad.

• I got and finished the new Harry Potter book and all I can say is wow. I'll wait a bit for spoilers and that whole jazz, but everyone should read this book and get into the series. I will say the most dissapointing part of the whole book was the end, when I realized that there is only one left
• I went and played Poker again last night at the Tide, ending up out about an hour and half in. My pocket 10's was no match for Jacks. I ended up up on the night by hitting 7's on one of the machines. About $150 for the night, damn good thing too, as Dad asked to borrow $100 this morning
• I gotta work this weekend, as a Senior Support. It's been a while since I had to work a weekend. It's weird for Friday to be your wednesday.
• As I'm writing this, My launchcast starts playing "What's the Differnence?" from Dr. Dre's "2001" album. and I realized that it's been a while since I listened to that CD. In my opinion, the best Hip Hop/Rap CD ever.
  
• So the Muhammad Hassan thing has ended with UPN telling the WWE that they don't want him on their network. This thing has turned into one overreaction after another. Looks like the character is going to get killed off at the "Great American Bash" this sunday.
  
• One of the big things in the news around here has been the city at first denying access to a "Gospel Concert" by one of the local churches that was supposed to take place at Ritchie Wharf, a local tourist destination. I don't have any problems with people going to play their music, my problem has been with the preaching. If I wanted to hear preaching, I'd go to church more then twice a year.
• More Shitlist Willie!!!!
• Last saturday I ordered 2 sets of 12 decks of Casino cards from the shopping channel. I figured I'd have them by the end of the week. I got an email on thursday, when they left the wearhouse.
• I've been trying to get rid of the toolbar that is at the top of the page, although it dosen't seem to show up in IE. It's almost enough for me to drop the dokoffice.ca.tt address and just go back to the blogspot address. Although I finally got rid of the ad on the side.

• CD Alert: Anna Nalick- Wreck of the Day. Another singer/songwriter album that has caught my attention with Breathe (2 AM), if you like that song, this album is for you.
  

That's it for now......leave a comment here or in the tagboard!!

More Hassan

OK, So since my last post, I've spent a lot of time having a very lively discussion on thesmartmarks.com forums about the Muhammad Hassan character. Now this might get rather lengthy and the non-wrestling fans in the room might want to go for a walk but I'm going to try to make my points.

One of the main things that I've been discussing has been the way that Hassan has been portrayed, the main knock against it being that there was no reason for his Arab heritage to be brought up, with the example of TNA's Sonjay Dutt being used to show that an Arab looking person can be used in wrestling without it becoming an issue. I think that is a case of apple's and oranges

Sonjay is a wrestler who is a member of the TNA X devision, who comes out and does some flips, Don West calls him the “playa from the Himalaya's” then he usually loses to a mid-card heel

Muhammad Hassan is a character who was born and raised in Detroit, who had a fairly normal life up until 9/11. After 9/11, he began to see that he was being treated differently, due to his looks and heritage. This pushed him deeper into his heritage, hence the wearing of the headdress and robes, along with his entrance music. He feels that he has been discriminated against due to people's fears of Arab's , when he was as victimized by 9/11 as much as they were.

See, there is no reason for TNA to bring up Sonjay's heritage, as it's not central to the character, such as it is, that he plays. As a matter of fact, I would be more offended if TNA out of nowhere, said “This is Sonjay Dutt, a great X division wrestler, oh and by the way, he's an Arab.”

I love the character that Hassan plays. I liked it when it came in as it was different from what a lot of people were playing. A character with convictions like he has, there are really good story lines that could last years, if written correctly. The best part of it is that he looks like he really believes what he says.

(For the record...Hassan is played by a Italian-American by the name of Mark Magnus)

Sometimes I don't understand what it is wrestling fans want, The WWE brings in guys that are one dimensional “Hosses” and they complain, so they bring in characters like Eugene (Who I think could be the “Hacksaw” Duggan of the next 10 years) Mordecai (who was another character if brought along correctly, could have had years of shelf life) and Hassan, and it's complain even louder.

Hassan reaction

It's taken over a week for it to hit but the WWE is back in the mainstream news.

Taped last monday, Muhammad Hassan was involved in an angle where his manager, Davari was in a match with The Undertaker, Hassan's opponent at the upcoming Great American Bash. Following the match, Undertaker was attacked by 5 men in ski-masks, choked out with wire followed by a Hussan Camel Clutch. After the beating, Davari was carried out held over the heads of the 5 men

This has been seen by a lot of people that follow WWE as the introduction of a "terror cell" to back up Hassan, who is looking like he is heading towards Summerslam to challenge Batista for the World Heavyweight Title. Other's like myself just saw it as a heel getting heat on a babyface heading towards a PPV match. No big deal, happens at least twice a month

Then on thursday morning, Bombs detonneted in London

All of a sudden, this is seen as a terrible idea and maybe something that should be deleated from airing later on that night. For reasons that is not known, neither WWE, UPN or The Score decided to delete it, instead opting to run a Parental Guidence crawl in each half of the show (For the record, SKY sports, The WWE broadcaster in England, did remove the angle)

The media has began lambasting WWE for doing this angle, most of them not meanting that it was taped 3 days before the London Bombings, check out some of the articles here. UPN has asked that Hassan not appear on this weeks edition of SMACKDOWN!. An interview taped last night that may appear on this weekend's edition of Velocity and can be seen here is all the reaction that the wwe show on it's own programs this week.

What I don't understand, and I think what the irony of this entire situation is, all of this reaction, the jump to the terrorism conclusion and the vitrol that the WWE crowds are showing as seen in that interview clip, is excatly what the character is talking about.

When Hassan first appeared, he was supposed to be a face. It was the people that made him a heel. And what was the reason? No one knows, they just knows that the crowd started booing the vingetes that appeared on RAW, knowing nothing about this character, other then the fact that he was arab-american. So this is used in the character, and other then the whole "I've never been beaten on RAW" thing, He's pretty much been right with what he's been saying. I think the media and the online wrestling fans are proving the entire point of this character, and don't know they are being worked.

If it was JBL and the cabinet that did this beat down, the exact same movements and senario, would this be in the New York Post?

Wireless Rocks

So I am writing this sitting at the kitchen table on my wireless connection with my new laptop :D It's working great, although it is a little weird that I get a better wireless connection from upstairs then I do in the kitchen. but oh well, as long as it's working. It took me about 3 hours to get it up and running with the software that I need and the battery time is great on it as well. I can't wait to show it off :D

Sorry about the new frame, it's from my domain company and it's in german. If I can get some time later on in the week, I'll get babelfish running to try to get rid of it. I've been thinking about going to dokoffice.com or dokoffice.ca, but I can't seem to find an easy and cheap way to make the conversion.

I'm back to early mornings at least for tomorrow, I just don't know what job I'll be doing. It seems to depend on if James makes it back from Boston. I'm sure that he'll tell the story on @.com when he does get back.

Harry Potter and Homeland security

Telegraph | News | Harry Potter and the ring of steel around book's American launch

The next Harry Potter is out next saturday night at 12:01 and the publisher is taking no chances on Security so that nothing leaks before hand.

I wonder what the trucker's employer thinks of him talking about being told not to stop for 10 hours? Gotta think that's against the law :D

My copy should be here that monday or tuesday..

That's Simply Incredible!!

So it's been a while since I brought the content so lets do some updating.

• I really like Digg. It's like a tech news/lifestyle site that all the way user driven. If you like a story you "Digg" it and if it gets enough Diggs it's placed on the front page. It's another one of those finds from @.com. Digg also has it's own podcast called diggnation that goes over the weeks best stories. It's been added to TWIT as my weekly downloads.
• Those downloads are going to get much easier with my latest purchase from e-bay. I have purchased a Laptop. I have been thinking about one for a while and then Tara got one from e-bay as well. I was pricing them from Dell and it just was not going to happen for a very long time. So I went to e-bay and saw this It's about a $2500 laptop that I picked up for about $850 Canadian. I was all over that. It should be here on Monday, so I'm going to head to walmart today with Matt Stewart and we're going to pick up a router so I can then be wireless through out the house and yard with it. I can't wait.
• On the Poker scene, I played 2 nights this week. Wednesday night back at the King's, I ended up second in the first game and won the third game, putting me up about $35 for the night. On Thursday night I took in the tournament at The Tide. I got knocked out when we were at 4 tables, I just played more hands then I should have. Shawn Hubbard took town the tournament for a decent amount of cash (sidebets, just incase the ALC is reading this) as well as wings/fries/Onion Rings for 10 from the bar. This weekend is the regular Saturday night game at the King's followed by a possible appearance at the Tide's Sunday tournament. This time is for a HUGE but very nice Hold'em table top. If I won it, I don't know what I'd do with it, but it would be nice to have. Add all of that to my appearances on PokerMountain and PokerStars and I'm throwing a lot of cards lately.
  
• Thursday night wasn't a total loss, as I ended up taking $180 out of the machines at Gators, with a row of red hot 7's. There's the money for my Router.

• Another E-bay find. Missy Higgins- The Sound of White. It's a great Singer/songwriter album that I heard on my Launchcast station and it interested me enough to head to her official site. There was enough on the site to interest me in the record, so I got it off e-bay. One song that I love is called "Scar". Just a great album

That's about all that's going on. If you arrive here from the "Next Blog" button, feel free to sign the guest book or Tag board and check out some of the links on the side.

The Quotations Page

The Quotations Page - Your Source for Famous Quotes

I use this page sometimes when I need a new MSN name that fits my mood, or are just looking for the right words in a situation

Google to buy Mozilla

Two of things that I use online more then anything else are firefox and Google, can those 2 become one? I found this story on Digg talking about that possibility

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Digg Podcast #001 Released

Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht (former G4/TechTV hosts) have completed the first official digg podcast. Have a listen! Topics they cover can be found at: http://digg.com/users/diggnation

It's just like the TWIT, but brought to you with Tounge directly in cheek. A great listen. Podcasting Rules :D

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TV News

OK..Let me say that this is my second time writing this, as I was using "Blog this" and out of nowhere my firefox crashed. It was a pretty good rant as well.

So on June 30, Canadians will no longer get their MTV. It's a complicated story, starting with a company out of Vancouver (Craig Broadcasting) getting a digital Television license from the CRTC for a "Youth Oriented lifestyle" channel that somehow morphed into "MTV Canada" when Craig cut a deal with Viacom. Someone wasn't happy with that, Moses wasn't happy. That's Moses Znaimer, the guy who has brought you CHUM-TV, owners of the MUCH channels (MUCH, MUCH MORE MUSIC, MUCH LOUD, MUCH VIBE, and I think MUCH MORE RETRO is still on the go). CHUM thought that MTV didn't match with the license they were up against. Somewhere along the line, they also launched MTV 2.

Well, eventually Craig decided that it wasn't "fiscally responsible to continue the MTV experiment" (translation "We lost a pisspot of money and need a bail out"), all of a sudden, CHUM wasn't complaining anymore, because the now owned their competition, buying MTV and MTV2.

Viacom wasn't real happy with this, as it is a little knows fact that MuchMusic does have a US video station. So that ended up with an agreement to end the MTV name in Canada.

What does that leave us with? Razer, a channel that is filling it's schedule with reruns of "Dawson's Creek" and "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" along with it being a dumping ground for CHUM properties like "America's top Model" and a Canadian version of "Jackass". I'm a little disappointed with losing the "MTV News" specials and new episodes of "True life" but I think the more interesting part is what's going to happen to MTV 2.

It's going to become "PunchMuch" "Canada's first fully automated, all-request music video service" where people are going to be able to request videos with their text messaging cellphones. I'm thinking we're going to be seeing alot of "Simple Plan" and "Good Charlotte" videos but the most interesting thing for me,being the bit of a geek that I am, is if it's all automated and all request, how are they going to get their CANCON requirements that I am sure that they are going to need?

Both these channels launch on June 30

Rick Mercer's Blog

Rick Mercer's Blog

Thanks to the Tagboard, I went to this link and it seems to be real and pretty funny. Take a look

How Old am I?

You Are 24 Years Old

24 Under 12: You are a kid at heart. You still have an optimistic life view - and you look at the world with awe. 13-19: You are a teenager at heart. You question authority and are still trying to find your place in this world. 20-29: You are a twentysomething at heart. You feel excited about what's to come... love, work, and new experiences. 30-39: You are a thirtysomething at heart. You've had a taste of success and true love, but you want more! 40+: You are a mature adult. You've been through most of the ups and downs of life already. Now you get to sit back and relax.

What Age Do You Act?

So, you want to shoot do you Cowboy?

-OK, The weather is starting to really piss me off. We have one really nice day followed by a week of just terrible stuff. It's summer people, and while I'm not a big fan of 35-40 degree days, a little sun would be nice.

-I did something that I haven't done in a really long time. I bought a pay per view. It was ECW One Night Stand, and let me tell you it would have been a bargain at half the price. Great matches, although the Benoit/Eddie match did leave something to be desired. The one thing that it had more then anything was emotion. From the opening when Joey Styles came to the ring to the ass kicking of Eric Bischoff by the ECW group, it was worth it. I hope there is more ECW on the way.

-I've also seen The Road Warrior DVD, that chronicles the career, lives and death of what I think is the best tag team I've ever seen. I know that is supposedly sacrilege for a Canadian wrestling fan to say that, with the Hart Foundation right there, but I guess it's the same reason that I was always more of a Shawn Michaels fan then a Bret Hart one, but that's a rant for another time. So far I've just made it through the main program, with a disc and 1/2 full of extras left to go. They were just a pair of Badasses that looked like they could kick their ass. Face Paint and spikes, "Snack on Danger, Dine on Death", What a Rush. A power tag team is just what the WWE needs right now, but with Triple H making sure no one looks better then him, it's not going to happen.

They took a lot of what made The Road Warriors great and made Goldberg with it. Batista could very well have done that, but I have a distinct feeling that the Hell in a Cell match at Vengeance is going to end with Triple H and the gold once again.

-Went and saw Batman Begins last night. It was the best "Comic Book" movie I've seen and that's coming from a guy that liked the Spiderman Movies. It was what an origin movie should always be, tells the story of a guy and why he is doing what he is doing. Everyone must see this movie.

Stuff and things

-Remember that run of luck that I was having..no longer. I can't seem to get a good run of cards. Maybe it's a good thing that I can't play for real money online

-Went up to see the Grand Prix Wrestling show in Sunny Corner on Thursday night. It was a great show with 4 great matches and a OK main event. I did find it amazing that people did not know who these guys were, then ended up cheering or Booing 5 minutes later. I notice on the Maritime Wrestling that there are shows coming up in Neguac and the Baie. Hopefully there will be a show in the city soon.

Crazythoughts.com

Crazythoughts.com - Life's Unanswered Questions

Amanda sent me this website, as we were talking on MSN...it's got some funny stuff on it. Just watch for the popunder

The Biggest Angle Ever

TheSmartMarks.com Forums -> The Biggest Angle Ever

This Thread from The Smartmarks Forum is usually stuff I stay away from, but let me just say, if I could come up with stuff like this, I'd still be using the CD Lawrence character somewhere.

Take me to your Machines

So another one of my friends..Actually another 2 of my friends are married. It was a great day for Shawn and Amy and they are very happy, and I'm happy for them. I even got all the music right :P

The reception was a blast, as it seemed like the whole crew was there. But the big part of story happened on Thursday night.

After the rehearsal and decorating of the hall, we decided to throw a few cards around, where I got my 2nd ever 4 tens, 2 in the pocket and first 2 cards on the flop..I ended up knocking 2 guys out. Shawn and I played for a bit then we decided to just take the pot and split it up so we could head down to dooly's

We got there and I decided to throw a little bit of money in the machines. I took $80 out. I sang a couple of songs, then I threw in a few more dollars and after just trying to get away from them by making a few max bets...got 5 armadillos for $125. So I pulled that out. After a while, Derrick goes over and I join him and decide to throw some more away. once again just trying to kill it off..5 oil wells on a max bet..$225 later it's time to go home. People are starting to look for my horseshoe :D. Lucky in cards, not so much in love I guess.

It didn't take long to spend. Breakfast out, a few rounds at the reception, got some groceries and paid some bills, and I got enough for some cards tonight. Maybe the lucky streak will continue

No Pearl Jam tickets for me, Tara and I tried to get some but they sold out in less then 2 hours. Looks like I'll be making the trip just to the casino that night. Oh well..

Does Vader Eat a Whopper?

Star Wars Fanboys...Light yourself on Fire!!!

Mirror.co.uk - News - Showbiz News - LIGHT-SABRE DUEL PUTS TWO IN HOSPITAL

If this is not the most idiotic thing I've ever read...I don't know what else to say...

A good thing I can say for G4

I've said it before and I'll say it again, It's great to be a Twit.

A follower of the guys over at This Week In Tech that is. The old Screen Savers gang is back together again and it's a gread download every week. It runs about an hour each week, and it'sa ll the technology news and Screen Savorish stuff that "Attack of the Show" is not.

That being said I did enjoy the G4 coverage of E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo) and the launch of both the X-box 360 and PS3. I'm a big PS2 fan, but I am strongly looking a the X-box 360

BTW: I've just finished downloading Systm...haven't watched it yet. The host Kevin Rose is leaving G4 to do more stuff like this, which is great for him. There is more on Kevin and Systm and that stuff here
James says it better then I ever could.

Virtual Bubblewrap and Poker Winning

Virtual Bubblewrap - Pop Now! Pop bubble wrap online - since 1996

First, Thanks to Raging Red I found this, It's virtual Bubble Wrap, to take out all your frustration

As for the poker winnings part, I ended up in 3rd place, plus I got the champions bounty for knocking out the previous champion..making it a $563 day.

A not so great Star Wars review

I'm not a big star wars fan, but from all the reviews that I've heard, this one is the most damning, of this movie and the whole series

Edit: Now with the Actual review Here

Harry Potter News

Apple - Trailers - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

That's looks cool. It's the best book in the series thus far so the movie should be just as good

Following the Crowd:

Stolen from Jessica's LJ:

Something to pass the time.
01. Reply with your name and I will write something about you.
02. I will then tell what song/movie remind me of you.
03. If I were to apply an o'clock to you, it would be...
04. I will try to name a single word that best describes you.
05. I'll tell you the most memorable moment I've had with you.
06. I will tell you what animal you remind me of.
07. I'll then tell you something that I've always wondered about you.
08. Put this in your journal.

This WEEK in TECH

this WEEK in TECH | your first podcast of the week is the last word in tech

So I did give them some Money. $20 for a subscription to thier Podcast. The TWIT (this week in tech) is the show that The Screen Savers was in the old days. . If your interested in tech at all. It's worth a download

Welcome to the Shitlist!

Welcome to the Shitlist!

Willie does it again with a few differnet rants, including a great one (Although I don't agree with it) for walmart, and one I do agree with about much music. Check it out

Music Taste

Your Taste in Music:

90's Hip Hop: Highest Influence

90's Pop: High Influence

90's Rock: High Influence

Country: High Influence

R&B: High Influence

Classic Rock: Medium Influence

Gangsta Rap: Medium Influence

Hip Hop: Medium Influence

80's Rock: Low Influence

90's Alternative: Low Influence

90's R&B: Low Influence

Adult Alternative: Low Influence

How's Your Taste in Music?

Candido

-If 2 years ago, I had read on a message board that Chris Candido had passed away, it would have not been that much of a surprise. Candido had the reputation for being a major partyer on the wrestling screen, messing around with drugs and fast living that made other people in the dressing rooms of WWF, and ECW, where drug abuse was an everyday thing, cringe.

In the past two years however, Candido had cleaned himself. He looked great in the ring, winning himself a job with TNA with a great IMPACT match against AJ Styles. Both in the ring and as a manager for The Naturals, he looked like he was having fun.

Last Sunday, He suffer a broken leg and needed surgery to attach screws to his ankle during a throwaway cage match on the TNA LOCKDOWN pay-per-view. I watched that match last night. No official cause of death yet, although both a blood clot or a staph infection are both rumored causes.

He was a lot of fun to watch in the ring, and was a true Natural, and I think that's the best tribute I could give.


-I really haven't had much to say lately, I guess it's because nothing much has changed for me. I'm still working the same job, doing the same things. I'm having a lot of fun but nothing more then that. I haven't heard about the new Supervisor job yet, but should hear one way or another next week. My much maligned personal life may be looking up (More on that later) MAybe the times be a changing

Saturday Poker Night

-A saturday night down at the King's was a poker night. I won 2 out of the 4 games, putting me up $40 for the night. I just kept getting the pocket cards and hit a couple of straights when I needed them. in about 2 weeks, it's another night at the King's for a birthday celebration. I can't wait

Join FireFox...Be one of us :D

-There is 2.6 million people using Firefox now. No popup's and a bunch of plug in's. Tabbed browsing is great. Actually the story is that there were that many people viewing the firefox website...but they all downloaded..I'm sure :D

-One blog I always take a look at is Raging Red. She's always got something interesting to say.

-So I went to the poker tournament on sunday. I ended up in about the 52nd place or so. I had 4 10's on the third hand of the day that I didn't get anyone to bite on, and had a king high straight get beat by a full house, so just bad luck all the way around. Made most of my money back in side games, but it was for the experience, that's what I'm telling myself :D

-I also picked up a couple of Games for the PS2, the World Championship Poker the Link pretty much sums up my thoughts on it. I also picked up Pride, it's an older game that's missing a career mode, but is a great game none the less.

Poker Night

SO this is How my poker night went:


This is Willie, after a bad beat


This is Willie after a great Win


This is Willie, after beating both Tara and I on all in bets with a Flush


This is just here, because I want it to me, and Masters of the Universe Rocks

Why am I not in any of these pics...Because I didn't get the cards tonight

Update: I finally got the pics working, Thanks to Carrie and Photobucket

This is Pearl Jam Me

take the which pearl jam song are you? quiz, a product of the pearljammers community.

Day 10

-I got my Digital Camera today. nice little Canon a400 Powershot. Still learning how to use it, but expect some pics soon

-Thanks to Paco, found a neat little page called NewsGator. It uses RSS or XML feeds to bring all your websites together. It's cut down onthe sites I visit. If you read a lot of newssites or Blogs, it's worth checking out.

Google Gulp

Google Gulp


Is there nothing that Google can't do?

:D

Friday

-It's April Fools day and I didn't prank anyone

-So I found out the the uncomfortable feeling I've had in my chest lately is a muscle spasm. I got to keep it stretched out. I took the day off, but I'll be working the weekend as a supervisor. Should be interesting.

-Next Sunday, I head to moncton for a poker tournament. Can't wait to get there

-I'm always saying that I wasnt to put more on my BLOG, then I go to wirte...and can't remember any of it

Joke-e-oke

Wired News: Now You, Too, Can Be a Comedian

Stole from @.com

This might actually be fun

Websnark.com: The Passion of the Sessler

Websnark.com: The Passion of the Sessler

Ok, so i may be a day late and a $ short on this one, but I enjoy this rant on the demise of Tech TV...

Also, another reason to hate the channel, the Screensavers are no more, being replaced by a show called ATTACK OF THE SHOW.

BOO

I don't want to go to work tomorrow

-I really don't want my Vacation to end. I stopped in for a few minutes tonight and just got an overwhelming sense of Dread. Usually after being off this long, I'm ready for a return. Not this time.

-Spent some time playing cards at the Kenny's last night. I won one hand, the one we played for fun. The ones we played for $5, first one out, first time and 3rd second time. I've decided to enter a tournament in April in Moncton. It should be interesting.

-For the few wrestling fans that still come around here, I saw the most interesting interview today. It is Jim Cornette and Bobby Heenen, sitting around and telling stories in a Ring of Honor Straight Shooting tape. There is nobody like Bobby Heenen, and Cornette ain't that far behind. It's available at your favorite Wrestling Torrent site :D

Google OSX

Google

It's a cooler Google with the OSX "Dock" effect to choose which search you want.

Google pulled it down after a day after Apple pressured them (check that out here but I like it. Hope it comes back

WRONG!!!

This is so very Wrong

Walmart Findings

So I went to walmart to pick up a few Groceries and got some great deals:

• A 500 Chip Bicycle Poker set, with 2 decks of cards. The chips are not the best quality..but it's a decent little set for $25
• 12 355ml Bottles of Pepsi for like $5
• Welcome to Death Row A documentary look in to Death Row records from the people who were there. I've seen this on Much a few times and it was very interesting.

I've also picked up a couple of things on e-bay, WWF InVasion and Beyond the Mat Barry Blaustein's movie that opens your eyes about the things that really go on with the Wrestlers behind the scenes. Between that and the Timberwolves tickets I got today, I spent a Shite load of cash on my first day on Vacation :D

Vacation Afternoon

-It was bound to happen. The Telegraph Journal has a front page story about the "fad" of Texas Hold Em, basically outing bars in the Saint John area that have been running poker tournaments. The Atlantic Lottery Commission is threatening to pull VLT's out of any bar that lets people play. That will last right up until they can figure out a way to get a cut. I'm not usually one for Goverment regulation, but they should allow the bars to run games, for smaller prizes, to make up for some of the money lost to the smoking ban

-Speaking of Poker, played a couple of games last night at Carrie's. The first game didn't last long, as John played power poker with decent hands, leaving me with second place. The second one lasted longer, with me getting knocked out first to Tara's miracle queen on the River...I was the dealer for a while, then decided to buy back in for 5 bucks and ended up taking second place again, ending up $5 bucks down for the night.

-Oh, yeah I'm on vacation.

-The Times and Transcript's Sleuth is reporting that the next big concert for the moncton Coliseum may be Pearl Jam...just a second, I think I just heard willie fall to the floor

I am worth $1,271,000.00 on HumanForSale.com

I am worth $1,271,000.00 on Humanforsale.com

So there...I knew I needed a raise

Saturday Morning Cartoon Blogging

-I was planning on sleeping in this morning, however I was woken up by work calling....It my day off..leave me alone

-I've downloaded both 50Cent's album "The Masscure" and The Game's "The Documentry". While I enjoyed 50's; I really think that the Game is the best Hip hop album I've heard since Dr. Dre's "2001". When it comes to the beef now between 50 and his former Protege It is a bit disrespectful for Game to take the side of others against his Clique. He had to know what was going to happen after that. I guess the question is if he thinks he is big enough to go out alone. This will hurt "The Documentry" as he mentions G-unit in most of the songs and 50 is all over the album, so I can't see many more singles or videos coming from it.

-The Timberwolves have their last home game tonight and it is a must win against Campbellton. The Wolves are 1 point down and tonight is the Tigers last game. Here's how it breaks down:

a win= Timberwolves Championship
a Loss= tigers Championship
a Timberwolves win in OT=a tie=A timberwolves championship (Tiebreaker is more wins)
A tie=Tigers Championship

Should be an interesting night in the Civic Center

-After the Game, I'll be trying to get back me rightful place as Trivia Champion. Watch out..it's coming :D

The Atlantic Canadian, eh? Test

OKCupid! presents: The Atlantic Canadian, eh? Test


I scored an 80%

The Top 100 Gadgets of All Time

Mobile PC - Features - The Top 100 Gadgets of All Time

I don't know if I beat James to this or not, But it's an interesting list. and as a self proclamed gadget guy, I'm surprised how few of these I've had.

One other thing...Golden Oreo's are addictive. Don't start them. That would just be stupid.....damn stupid.ca ads

It's True..It's Damn True

The Streak is Over

Last night, for the first time in a very long time; I lost a game of Trivial Purcuit. Carrie did mount a comeback to take the win. It is something for which I don't know of my psyche will ever recover.

She also beat me in a game of Texas Hold Em. No money exchanged hands, but after knocking Willie and Tara out, I was defeated with an Ace on the river.

I did make a comeback beating willie in a second game so the night was not a total blowout. Now, If I can just get them to play for 10 bucks :D

HGTTG

-as of tonight, Amazon.com is doing the World Premier of the Hitchchikers Guide to the Galaxy trailer. After watching it, I want to see the movie...and might even look for the book.

http://www.amazon.com

I ain't got to promote it for you to know Dok is off the benches

- Training is almost over for this time around and I have never been confused about so much that I understand about in all my life. It's going to be interesting to start HSI on thursday, so I guess we are not going to have to wait long to see what's going on. High Speed seems to be easier to do as there is only 3 differnet ways things can end, escelated, fixed or Tech. The Repair part is the confusing part, using different programs and things of that nature, just the fact that we are doing more then internet; working on phones. Turns out at 11pm, Aliant pretty much shuts down and we take over.

-I booked my vacation today, starting on March 12 till the 18, but if the schedule stays the same, I won't go back untill the 21st with regular days off. I'm looking forward to it, as there's something that we're working on for that weekend, but I guess we'll see.

MEDIA RELATED RANT

So this week we saw that the "Unholy Alliance" (Stolen from Primetime Sports) of Bell Globalmedia and Rogers had decided to team up to win the bid for the Vancouver/Whistler Olympics in 2010, oh yeah they also got the 2012 Summer games, although I'm not sure they realize that yet, as it was in almost the last paragraph of the sportsnet story online.

For those of you that don't know, Bell Globalmedia owns CTV, TSN, Comedy, CTV Newsnet, OLN, ESPN Classic Canada, Bell Expressvu and the Sympatico internet service, among other properties including ATV and ASN in the atlantic provinces. Bell owns so many Digital networks that they have one (Talk TV) that is still showing repeats of the last original programming they had (The Chatroom) 3 years after the show went off the air!!

Rogers is the same Rogers that provides Cell phones, Cable Tv and Internet. They also own the Toronto Blue Jays and the newly renamed Rogers Center (Skydome). As for media, they are mostly sports oriented with the FAN radio stations and the Rogers Sportsnet channels.

These 2 companys could not agree that the sun was going to rise before they decided that they could agree on the fact that it was a good idea to screw the CBC out of one of the few "sure-bets" in canadian television, The Olympics.

It reportally cost the alliance $153 million dollars to get those two games (The 2006 and 2008 games will still air on CBC). It's already been announced that the Opening and Closing ceremonies along with the medal rounds will be on CTV with the rest of the games being spread around the digital networks, with the 4 sportsnet stations (East, Ontario, Central and Pacific) being dedicated to specific sports (East= all baseball, Ontario=all track and Field, Central= all Gymastics, Pacific=all soccer would be the way I'd do it for the summer games) and the others getting whatever's left over.

All of that is a lead in to this, What if this successful bid at the olympics by Rogers/Bell gives them the confidence to go after what may be the holy grail of canadian televison

Hockey Night in Canada

Now on the eve of the NHL canceling the season, it may sound a little weird, but if you think about it, it's not that far fetched.

The NHL contract with the CBC has three years left on it; regardless of when the next season is. So when this thing is all over, one of the first things that the NHL will need to look at is the next contract. The League is going to need to bring some money in, as sponcership will be down after this labour situation. Rogers/Bell is in a much better place to overpay for the rights to the NHL, and can offer more eyes.

Right now, CBC offers a doubleheader every saturday night with 2 Tripleheaders a season, along with full coverage of the Playoffs. CBC does not have much of a Digital Presence, with Newsworld and Country Canada, a channel that Bell does not make available on it's 2nd tier channels.

Lets use this as a template

Saturday night's Hockey Night in Canada: CTV
National Games on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday nights: TSN
Regional Games on Monday Night, Wednesday and friday nights: Rogers Sportsnet
Radio games on the FAN radio network
The First 2 rounds of the Playoffs get regional coverage on Sportsnet with the Confrence finals nationally on TSN
The Stanley Cup finals nationally on CTV

What would you go with?

@.com: Rogers HSI Cap

@.com: Rogers HSI Cap

That's the news we've been expecting

It does not really affect me as I don't really download that much but for people that download a lot like James...it really sucks.

Reaction

-Well, I was right....with 1:48 to go....Damn Eagles had to make it interesting. DL American Dad although it seems the net reaction is a little mixed and The Simpsons Now...

Nightmare Tonight!!

My Super Bowl Prediction

New England by 10 points

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Update

Just a couple of things while I kill time before going to work:

-Went to the OH with Lori and Carrie Saturday night, it was a good time, just sitting around talking. Music wasn't bad and there were a few around I knew. I'm good for OH exposure for a few months

-The Best part of of Saturday night is it didn't cost much for the evening. I won $100 bucks in a draw at work. So my night was paid for

-Yes it's true, Jamie (My Brother) is home and now working again at ICT

-Went to Walmart on Sunday and was very impressed. Hope to have a few dollars to pick up a couple of things in the next couple of weeks

-For tech stuff, don't forget to check out @.com

- New Album to listen to: The Game: The Documentry

-Things are getting interesting at work with new contracts...I'm sure I am going to have some new stories soon

-I got my Nightmare Game from E-bay as well...Can't wait to get the game together to have a game.

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MSN Problems

So MSN seems to be having some problems lately..so anyone trying to get a hold of me, your best bet may be gmail (cdlawrence@(g)mail.com) or on Yahoo Messenger (dok2001). I've been trying to check my hotmail as I know there are a few people still sending some stuff to it.

I've installed the latest version of Trillion on to my PC and am not as happy with it as I was the last version. Most of the Plugin's and skins have not been updated and are now broken. I've been opening up Yahoo more often as well as it seems to handle Webcam better, and I've got a few friends who for some reason want to see me while we chat...weirdo's :D. Yahoo is also nice as I can open my Launchcast Radio station..the same way you can, from my link section (/cheap plug)

Updated MSN to 7 as well, the little I've used it, I was not that impressed. A few more eye candy things but that's about it.


As I am sitting here..CNN is reporting that Johnny Carson has passed away. Yet another legend has died. I was watching his farewell show and remember it like it was yesterday. It's too bad, that the good ones keep leaving us.

RIP: Johnny...Here's a golf swing for you...

The Ultimate X

It is Matches like this that, even after all the crap that WWE puts out, remind mw why I am a proud wrestling fan

FAMILY GUY IS BACK!!

FAMILY GUY :: FOX Broadcasting Company


It has been announced!

May 1 will be the return of Family Guy to Fox with new episodes, followed by the new show from the crew behind Family Guy "American Dad"

again..a pox on Global for claming new family guy when it wasn't

An evening with Googles Marissa Mayer (alan.blog-city.com)

An evening with Googles Marissa Mayer (alan.blog-city.com)

A very interesting look at what happens inside Google

AND I SCOOPED MOOSE :D

Counting Blue Cars

• Well, I'm glad I stayed with Blogger as it seems as if LJ has had some problems in the past couple of days
• I got my new MP3 player and after figuring out how to use it (Thanks to Moose) I'm amazed that more people don't have them. Mine is a 256MB one that can fit about 2 1/2 hours of music and has a battery life of over 10 hours. It's also an FM Radio and a voice recorder. It got it's first road test today when I decided it was nice enough to go for a walk. The sound is great and it's not too heavy. Not to meantion that it's great to be listening to Green Day's "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" when walking down a almost deserted road
• It's been super busy at work lately but at least it's making the nights go quicker. I think there is a shift bid coming up and I'm hoping to keep my weekends off. I've taken to this Monday to Friday workweek.
• I'm in the midst of watching New Years Revolution now, just making it through the Tag title match and Women's Title match. Talk about the walking wounded. I'm sure I'll have a rant about Triple H once I watch the Main Event.
• I like this Launchcast Plus Player the more and more I use it.
• Walmart opens on Jan 25. I can't wait to take a look at thier Home Entertainment section. It seems like one stop shopping. It will be a couple of weeks before I take a look as I'll probably wait for the hubbub to die off a little bit
• Song that should have done better then it did: Jason Mraz- Curbside Prophet. People keep talking about wanting something different and one thing it is is different.
  

G4 Drops TechTV Name

Slashdot | G4 Drops TechTV Name

It's about time. The Bastard child that was G4TECHTV was nothing but a blight on the TechTv's good name. It's officually turned into a 13 year old's network.

Oh well...I'm running out of reasons to keep my dish

Willie, This one's for you

Actually Stewart and Moose Might get a kick out of it as well. It comes from a group in the states showing some of the best canadian bashing that I've ever seen.

Enjoy MSNBC, Tucker. I'm sure that you'll enjoy batting cleanup for Debrah Norville

Mom's Site

Mom finally get her site up as well, you can check it out here

Frickin Opera House

So against my better judgement, I decided to go out to the Opera House with some of the people from work for a few drinks tonight. It reminded me why I hate the place.

There was nobody around, the music was terrible. I thought I had taken a wrong turn to the Rockin Rodeo, as he played country most of the night, and while I don't mind country (I'm listening to Rascal Flats right now) It's not what I want to hear when I go out to the club. As I said to one of the guys I went with, "I'm like the cop one day before retirement, I'm getting too old for this shit."

I had a lot more fun just hanging out at Mike's, talking sports with the gang that was around there. Ah well, I won my night on the machines with $20 to spare so I guess I can't complain too much

A wrestling update

It's been a while since I did a wrestling update. I guess the reason for that it I really didn't have that much to say. I guess I'm just getting tired of seeing the same thing over and over againon RAW, as it dosen't matter what happens, Triple H is always going to come out on top. I've always been a big Maven fan so for him to be getting a bit more TV time is nice to see. Kane's return is also a welcome site. I think that it's time for Hunter to step aside and get off TV for a while, to allow guys like Batista amd Orton to get away from under his shadow.

As for Smackdown, I'm not a big fan of anyone over there with the exception of Undertaker. Everyone else seems to be "Second Rate" RVD does not give a damn anymore and Rey Mysterio does the smae match every week. I thought they were on the right track with Paul London, but his fued with Billy Kidman seems to have been quickly squashed.

Damn G4, Screwing up my Tech TV

This is the reason I don't watch anything on G4TechTV anymore. I turned on The screen savers once since the relaunch and lasted 1 segment.

What song from 2004 are you?

1985 by Bowling for Soup

"Where's the mini-skirt made of snakeskin? And who's the other guy that's singing in Van Halen? When did reality become T.V.? What ever happened to sitcoms, game shows?" You took the bitter with the sweet in 2004 - and kept laughing.

What 2004 Hit Song Are You?

Gift Card Bonanza

- So I went and spent my Giftcards today, Picking up The Blue Collar Comedy Tour Rides again, as well as a couple of other DVD's involving the guys on that show, Ron White and Bill Engvall. I've already watched the Blue Collar one and Ron white, and my side are hurting, it was so funny.

It's New Year, Baby

- So We've made it through yet another holiday season, wrapping with the now somewhat traditional Kenny New Years Party.

I guess christmas first. Jamie made it home, so that was nice. I got cash for my grandparents, a jogging suit from mom and dad along with a $25 gift card from CD Plus. It was a smaller christmas, but was fun.

I worked through the week inbetween Christmas and New Years, fighting a hell of a Flu along the way, but made it to the party last night. It was a great time, pics can be found at http://spaces.msn.com/members/grumpy77 which is Carrie's newest Blog I guess. The night was complete with a couple of phone calls from out west. Made me miss some people a lot, but in the year to come, I'm going to take care of that.

The fox is in Microsoft's henhouse (and salivating) | CNET News.com

The fox is in Microsoft's henhouse (and salivating)

This is the best case I've seen for making the switch to Firefox. You can download it from the firefox button on the side of the page.

ECMA's

The Nominations are out for my favorite awards show, no not the golden globes. It's time for the East Coast Music Awards. Here are the nominations in the most important catagories with my choices in bold


Album of Year: High Low, Nathan Wiley; House of Ill Fame, the Trews; Sunburn, Gordie Sampson; The Bridge, Shaye; Truthfully Truthfully, Joel Plaskett Emergency.

Female Artist of the Year: Jill Barber, Natalie MacMaster, Rita MacNeil, Susan Crowe, Teresa Doyle.

Male Artist of the Year: Dave Gunning, Gary Beals, George Canyon, Gordie Sampson, Nathan Wiley.

Group of the Year: Brothers In Stereo, Great Big Sea, Joel Plaskett Emergency, Shaye, the Trews.

Rising Star of the Year: Duane Andrews, Garrett Mason, Gary Beals, George Canyon, Madviolet.

Single of the Year: Bad Enough, Crush; Butterfly, Jimmy Rankin; Happy Baby, Shaye; Not Ready To Go, the Trews; Sunburn, Gordie Sampson; When I Am King, Great Big Sea.

SOCAN Songwriter of the Year: Alan Doyle, When I Am King; Gordie Sampson, Brian Daly; Troy Verges, Sunburn; Jimmy Rankin, Butterfly; Kim Stockwood, Damhnait Doyle, Tara MacLean, Jay Joyce, Happy Baby; Nathan Wiley, High Low.

Video of the Year: Butterfly, Jimmy Rankin; Not Ready To Go, the Trews; So Perfect, Mir; Way Back In the Day, Universal Soul; When I Am King, Great Big Sea.

Alternative Recording of the Year: Goodnight Nobody, Julie Doiron; High Low, Nathan Wiley; Life Is Not That Hard, Vetch; Oxcart, Mars Hill; The Night And I Are Still So Young, the Heavy Blinkers.

Country Recording of the Year: Don't Forget About The Rain, Shanklin Road; It's What I Do, Jason Williams; Message From Above, Brian Mallery; One Good Friend, George Canyon; The Struggle, Terry Penney.

Instrumental Recording of the Year: Blueprint, Natalie MacMaster; It's About Time, Allie Bennett; Variations, Beolach; Vivacious, Samantha Robichaud; X8a a mandolin collection, J.P. Cormier.

Pop Recording of the Year: Last Man Standing, Barry Canning; Something Beautiful, Great Big Sea; Sunburn, Gordie Sampson; The Bridge, Shaye; Worry The Jury, Madviolet.

Rock Recording of the Year: -- 2 Days After Yesterday, Three Season Ant; 7 Directions, Mir; Bulletproof and Ignorant, The Danny Mainstreet Band; Something To Dream Of, Forever; Truthfully Truthfully, Joel Plaskett Emergency.

Roots/Traditional Solo Recording of the Year: Blueprint, Natalie MacMaster; Cuts, Andrea Beaton; It's About Time, Allie Bennett; Jenny Gear and The Whiskey Kittens, Jenny Gear; Vivacious, Samantha Robichaud.

Roots/Traditional Group Recording of the Year: A Clearer Path, Banshee; Blou, Blanc, Rouge, Blou; On Fire!, The Cottars; Variations, Beolach; Vishten, Vishten.

Entertainer of the Year: Crush; George Canyon; Jimmy Rankin; Natalie MacMaster; The Trews.

I haven't forgot about this place, it's just that there has been nothing going on lately. I worked the past couple of till midnight, which had me up till 2 or later and sleeping in. On top of that, My back has been killing me.

On to other stuff...I was supposed to see a young lady from work, but it was decided that it was probibly not a good idea to date someone you work with. so it's a friend thing again.

Christmas is coming up, and my shopping is almost done. Thank God

MICK FOLEY IS BACK ON RAW !!!! My night just got better

The Hip's set list from Friday night

the tragically hip :: home: "Vaccination Scar
Fully, Completely
My Music @ Work
Gus: The Polar Bear From Central Park
Bobcaygeon
Nautical Disaster
Summer's Killing Us
Courage
As Makeshift As We Are
Gift Shop
Ahead By A Century
It Can't Be Nashville Every Night
At The Hundredth Meridian
Are We Family
Poets
Little Bones

1st Encore:
You're Everywhere
It's A Good Life If You Don't Weaken
New Orleans Is Sinking

2nd Encore:
Heaven Is A Better Place Today
Long Time Running
Blow At High Dough"

Been There, Got The T-Shirt and The Hat

The Hip was a great concert last night. They hit all of the songs that you would suspect. I would not call it the best concert I was ever at, as Great Big Sea in Bathurst was more fun, but this was a solid number 2.

Friday night 2

-I'm still working my way through the Third season of the West Wing. I'm up to the 15th Episode (including Isaac and Ishmail). I hate to meantion it again, but this show is great. Funny and Smart. The new season is showing promise, with CJ replacing Leo as the Chief of Staff. When everyone including the president resigned on CJ's first day, I could almost feel her pain, then laughed with the rest of them.

-One of the best things that I've downloaded lately was the entire Top 100 of 2002 from Casey Kasem. I'm slowly working my way through it, and it's nice to hear the legend again. (It's also kind of cool hearing him say "Here's Murder Inc")

-Worked my way through Smackdown Vs Raw and I am very disappointed. Last year's Smackdown game (Here Comes the Pain) is so much better it's almost scary. The voiceovers sound like they were done in a bathroom. I beat the season in about 6 hours of playing time. The only thing that you do in the season mode is fighting for Diva's. Not worth a buy.

-Now downloading: The Rise and Fall of ECW. No matter what happens I'll be buying it, but I can't wait to see it

It's a sunday

-It was a fun night last night as I went to the Timberwolves game followed by a night of Trivia at Carrie's. The game was good with Miramichi winning 4-1. Afterwords, played a game of Scene it and then DVD trivia, which I won both. (was there ever any doubt :) ).

-Picked up a couple of books yesterday, Adam Copeland on Edge and To Be The Man: Ric Flair. I'm about 100 pages into the Flair book and it's very interesting. I've heard the Edge book is good, but I'll start it in a couple of days.

-I'm working my way through Def Jam: Fight for NY at about 70% of the storyline. I'm going to try to finish it before Smackdown Vs Raw arrives (Hopefully on monday)

-G4/Tech Tv has done it again by "Revamping" The Screen Savers, firing most of the staff with the exception of Kevin Rose and Sarah Lane. The show is going into repeats untill after the american thanksgiving then will return. I imagine when it does comeback it will have more of a gaming edge. "Unscrewed with Martin Sargent" has been totally cancelled, leaving X-play as the last remaining show from TechTV, leaving a lot of crappy gaming shows (and a good canadian girl, Amanda Mackay). I can be very honest that I very rarely turn on the channel anymore, as even the returning Call for Help has fallen off.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

-Check out Willie's Page link for one of the best mini-rants I've ever read. As the words continues to wait for the return of the full fleged Pissing Vinegar.

-For those of you that don't speak Frenchy (otherwise known as Leblanc) from the tag board: You Miramichi people are very cool, by the way is that a quarter I see on the bar?

-Actual call that an agent got yesterday:

Agent: Now read me off that phone number please?
Caller: I can't
Agent: Why not?
Caller: The numbers are in French

Same agent, different call:

(overheard) Sir, It's that thing with all the letters and numbers on your desk (talking about a keyboard)

-You would be surprised by the number of people that tell me that they "Are not very computer-illiterate"

-So a couple of months ago, I ordered Smackdown Vs Raw from Amazon.ca. I then cancelled it because Futureshop was supposed to send it to me quicker. No go, still taking orders (Although it's in the stores) So I've gone back to amazon who is SUPPOSED to have it here by next wednesday or Friday (Holiday). Some of the reports I've read have some disappointed people, but these people seem to always be expecting the world then bitch when it does not come. I'll make up my own mind, if the game ever gets here.

-I've said it before but I'll do it again. The best show on television is The West Wing. The current season so far shows excellent writing that makes anything else on network television look like a 3rd graders language Arts homework. I've also got the 3rd Season on DVD and am slowly working my way through. We should make Martin Sheen the real president (As long as he keeps the same writers)

-Poker update: I've won two straight Hold em Tournaments, amounting to about 5500 in play credits. I'd still have most of them if I hadn't accidentally registered for a Omaha Hi/Lo table. WOW, what a confusing game.

Random Update #2

-America deserves everything it gets. That's all I'm going to say

-I really like this song

-Playing poker at a different place these days. Pokerstars.net is a download that allows you to play for free against real people. I've got nto a few turnaments and finished in the money once. It's the same place that the last 2 World Series of Poker Champions play online.

-Went to a halloween party at Gully's last saturday night. Dressed in my Hip Hop best. If you want to see pics you can go here, although I guess my "Da da da da" picture didn't make it.

-not really anything going on right now..other then the fact I REALLY want a Pepsi Ipod

Episode 3

Episode 3 Teaser Poster

While I am not a huge star wars fan, I am not ashamed to say that I have this as my background on my PC, just because it looks cool

Friday night

-Went to the OH tonight, it was the first time there since january and we had a great time. just a bunch of the guys. I had entirely too much booze ( I think that might have something to do with the 2 trays of shooters that we baught between the bunch of us) but I guess I'm playing poker later on today so that will be ok. The best part is, I didn't pay for most of it as I hit the machine at mikes waiting for the rest of them. Took about $90 out and spent most of it. It was great.

-Forgot about this; Dave, this is something we'll have to get back working on

Another Update

-Sorry for being so long between updates, but It's just been that quiet around here. I'm working nights so by the time I get home I don't want to be creative. I just want to veg. Espically the past few days, as it's been so busy. 80 calls in about 7 and a half hours is about what I'm averaging. and everyone wants to argue with me.

When you call tech support there are things you should do and things you should not under any cirmantences do

• DO be in front of your computer with it powered on. Yes, you can be on the phone and have the computer on at the same time. It will not cause a tear in the time/space vortex that will send you and the PC to the land of purple monkeys.
• DON'T ARGUE WITH THE TECH!!! You are calling me becouse you don't know what the problem is. I am trying to help you, and wish to do so.
• DON'T LIE TO THE TECH!! This is a big one, even a little white lie will piss me off and you will find that if I am pissed off at you then thw less you will get. I will always do my job on a call, but it's the little extras that you will miss out on. If you really anger me, you will pay the stupid tax of going to see a tech.

People say "You can't be angry becouse people don't know" and there is some truth to that. I am not angry when people don't know, It's when people don't know and don't care to learn that gets my goat. I don't know about anyone else but when I spend a good deal of money on something, I learn how to work it; and by work it; I don't mean anything too technical; just knowing the difference between left and right click would be a treat.

-Went to the Timberwolves game last night; which they lost, but they played what I thought was a decent game. Who didn't have a decent game was the Official BJ Young. Missing Key calls including a hit from behind and a player drawing blood was bad enough; but the best one that I saw was the puck actually leaving the ice; hitting a kid on the top of the head and coming back to the ice, Truro picking it up and bring it back down the ice for a goal. There is no excuse for missing that type of call. These officials keep making these types of idiodic calls and then are brought back the next week. It's terrible, and one of these night is going to lead to something bad happening on the ice when one of this idiots calls leads it out of control.

- @.com is a blog that one of the guys from work has put together. It's a very Tech intensive blog, but if you want to learn, he always seems to have the most detailed articles on what's going on. First time I saw about the Halo 2 leak is on his Blog.

-I've kind of been getting back in to ER this year, after catching last season's season finale. I had to find out what happioned and now I find myself always downloading the next episode to keep up. We'll see if they can keep my interest.

-West Wing update: The new season starts this week, and a article on Canoe.com/jam states that it may last longer then the Bartlett Administration. That would mean an almost full change of the cast that most of the fans have grown to know, almost making a West Wing 2 kind of feel.

Gmail

PRoblem with g-mail invites...not owrking..will send some out when it is fixed..thanks

Another Year Older and Deeper In Debt

-Yes I know I misquoted the song.

-So as you can see from the new countdown clock; another birthday has passed making me 26. I didn't see things like this when I was 26, but you take what you can get. I spent the day in moncton with Mom and Jamie, who is home for a week or so. I spent way too much money buying some clothes. Finally picked up a new Vest, Although I don't think I'm going to retire the black one just yet. Picked up a really nice knit sweater and finally a sports jacket. Then we went to Chapters and I picked up a few books including "Broken Harts: The Life and death of Owen Hart" I finished this one already. It's an interesting read; The only thing that I can't get over is if Owen wanted out so bad, why hang around so long? Wrestling must be so hard, seems to be a lot to do just for the money.

I also picked up:

• A couple of George Carlin Books, Braindroppings and Napalm and Silly Putty

• and The West Wing Episode Guide. I looked at picking up the shooting scripts but found that they were really hard to read.

Of course the one book that I wanted to get while I was there was nowhere to be found. Maybe once the christmas season finishes up; I'll pick it up.

- Went into Old Navy Today too, I don't see what the big fuss is about. It seemed to be all over-priced stuff with stupid logo's on it. The funny part is I didn't see an simple Old Navy t-shirt anywhere.

-Anyone see the new Britney Spears Video: My prerogative, Bobby Brown must be rolling over in his grave..Just a second...Are you Sure?...Turns out Bobby Brown is not dead, just his career is. Speaking of which, I see that there is a new video from Bobby's former Group, New Edition as well. Bobby; Jump on the bandwagon and hit the road for the reunion tour.

-I just can't fand any decent music to download. That dosen't jive with the fact that I want a MP3 player. I was looking at Ipods and they are just too expensive. I've also heard that the batteries in them don't last past a year. I was looking at a Creative 40GB one at Compucorner, almost did it, but too much $$$. Hopefully the prices will drop in the hard drive based MP3 players after christmas...or I hit the lottery between now and then.

-I also saw the new G5 IMac's today. I really like the way it looks and the screen is beautiful. It will be interesting to see how long they last before burnout happens

-I've got a bunch of G-mail invites again. Just hit the E-mail link and I'll hook you up with one.

-Wow, all the computer and Gadget stuff...Have I become a Geek? I guess so....

-New Winamp Playlist