most impressive star sighting to date

star sightings

the samsung cell washer/dryer test

babies!

"Among his other activities, Woz collects phone numbers, and his longtime goal has been to acquire a number with seven matching digits.... After more months of scheming and waiting, he had it: 888-8888. This was his new cell-phone number, and his greatest philonumerical triumph.

The number proved unusable. It received more than a hundred wrong numbers a day. Given that the number is virtually impossible to misdial, this traffic was baffling. More strange still, there was never anybody talking on the other end of the line. Just silence. Or, not silence really, but dead air, sometimes with the sound of a television in the background, or somebody talking softly in English or Spanish, or bizarre gurgling noises. Woz listened intently.

Then, one day, with the phone pressed to his ear, Woz heard a woman say, at a distance, "Hey, what are you doing with that?" The receiver was snatched up and slammed down.

Suddenly, it all made sense: the hundreds of calls, the dead air, the gurgling sounds. Babies. They were picking up the receiver and pressing a button at the bottom of the handset. Again and again. It made a noise: "Beep beep beep beep beep beep beep.""

funny

I was on a spring cleaning kick of my hard drive and found these 2 gems teehee

"i just flew in from the civil war, and boy are my arms amputated"

"It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness. To unbendingly trudge through pelting precipitation, turn to Page 17."

awesome virus spam

this is some funny creative shit right here! I love the exclamation points when they mention the attachments:

1.

From: Mail@cia.gov
To: management@sugishop.com
Subject: Your_IP_was_logged
Attachment: question_list.zip

Dear Sir/Madam,

we have logged your IP-address on more than 30 illegal Websites.

Important:
Please answer our questions!
The list of questions are attached.

Yours faithfully,
Steven Allison

++++ Central Intelligence Agency -CIA-
++++ Office of Public Affairs
++++ Washington, D.C. 20505

++++ phone: (703) 482-0623
++++ 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., US Eastern time

sidekick software upgrade

the sidekick has just gotten even cooler with the last software upgrade the web browser finally supports javascript, links in im conversations are clickable and buddy icons now show up in the top right corner as well as show up next to the person's screen name when you roll past them in your buddy list. sweet!

phone calls

my poor friend gets stuck answering phones at her company every once in awhile - well more often than she'd like - and there is never a shortage of idiot callers. they are literally comical!

"hello, <company name>"
"can I speak to <person no longer at company>?"
"sorry, no one here by that name"
"well, how do you know?"

there are lots and lots of scenarios like this, they crack me up! especially dreaming of responses like

"I actually make up this shit on my own"

"how do _I_ know? how DO I know? HOW do I know? how do I KNOW?" ::wait for them to hang up::

car hunting

I found a car I'm really interested in in escondido. not close. 2 hour drive 1 way. I call truesports car company to see if they still have the car and if they are open and available for me to come look at the car on sunday when an extremely rude man tells me that if I had read the listing I would know to go to their website where I could fill out a form for manny, who's at six flags this weekend, to get back to me. and the car is being loaned out to people to drive in the meantime. *click* that should have been enough for me to say, nevermind I can find another car, but I took to the time to go to their truly obnoxious website where you must literally wait minutes to be able to get to the almost invasive form (age and birthplace) that without it's completion you can't even view the inventory of cars for more information on the car you're interested in (mileage, options, stupid details like that). I don't know who this works on but I don't need to be treated so poorly nor do I need to join a little club to buy a $3K used car.

update: we bought a car from a private seller for the same asking price as the dealership that blew me off. their loss!

orlando

oh yeah, they started filming pirates 2 (and 3 presumably) on the lot last week so I saw orlando bloom in his get up at the commissary. he had his black lab with him. he's taller and more normal looking in real life. although no one bothered him, no one didn't exclaim to someone, "there's orlando bloom! with his dog!" there were more filthy pirates at the commissary yesterday as well, the attention to detail of the make up people is quite amazing, does there really have to be dirt under their fingernails as well?!

5 more things about me

famous firsts

tonight at the grocery store a guy came up behind me in the produce dept and said "excuse me" followed by the oh-so-witty "are you single?". since I have had zero practice with being picked up or even approached I in my state of shock blurted out "NO!!!!!" (said like someone asked me if I were stupid to add that extra dig) to which of course he vanished - le poof - into thin air while I tried back peddling with a "wait, why?" hehehe sadly if I were single, this probably would have worked on me. don't get discouraged, mr. guy with a cane!

I went ahead and did it

after much debate, I played racquetball tonight. and it was great! nana! and while only one reader will get why that's anything to mention, it's worth it muwahahahahahaha! stay tuned for more easter eggs

too steamy to pass up

yahoo's buzz index has a little editorial recap of what terms are being searched for the most and why. this one about ashlee's orange bowl performance was just too seething to not capture for posterity!

I don't want to brag --

yes I do! I had a GREAT christmas! I got neat stuff from neat people! click more to see a few of the highlights! yay ME!

«...less "I don't want to brag --"

tlc: too little coma

last night on tlc were two back to back 2 hour programs: a haunting in georgia and a haunting in connecticut. yeah... I didn't sleep last night...

what is this, seattle?

it hasn't been this cold or rained this much in LA since - well I don't know since I've only been here a little over 2 years - but really. plus the stairs to my house aren't covered and yesterday when I went out to my car I slipped and fell on my tail bone. I have an enormous line bruise across my ass where I landed on the edge of the stairs and it hurts to walk and sit. makes me wish I had health insurance. I'm surprised my neighbors didn't come running because I let out a cry something awful. they were only there for me when I screamed because a possom was 10 feet away from me. neighbors....

holy crap!

Gwen Stefani's Surprise Stepkid
(E! Online, 10/22/2004 7:35 PM)

By Charlie Amter

Gwen Stefani 's not only "Just a Girl" but an angry one at that.

The No Doubt star's husband, rocker Gavin Rossdale, may have aged Stefani a few years with the revelation that he's the father of a 15-year-old girl.

the LA traffic life

I saw a license plate holder this morning that read "#1 styx fan" that cracked me up. almost made up for the mexican in the truck that kept honking and high-beaming me in barham gridlock. hey buddy, where do you want me to go?

I'm weird

team baby seal!

quick recap, more to come including "rub and tug" and "get to soddery." I just had a huge chai latte, the whole thing, I'm wigging out! this is my favorite picture of the trip a self portrait in front of the sagrada familia :)

ofoto album
london 2 nights: ghost tour of alleys, westminster abbey, covent gardents, soho, china town, the theatre district, the tower of london, a bar on the thames

barcelona 2 nights: the house of lamb, sagrada familia, parc guell, and so much cool street art that I started deleting pictures off my camera

madrid 3 nights: I thought the belkin media reader wasn't working so I pulled off as many pictures as I could and deleted some off the camera and started taking pictures sparingly: los gabrieles and plaza mayor

valencia 3 nights: bars and street art

not pictured: TONS. reina sofia and retiro park in madrid, the park converted from a river in valencia,

ah work

I thought I'd dedicate this glorious friday to the thing that keeps us busy: work, what are your stories?

at my last job a girl was interviewed and then called back to try out the position. she got there at 9 and and 9:45 before she'd even started working told a, for all practical purposes, random person that she didn't think it was working out and left.

and at my last last job a receptionist was hired who left at lunch and never came back! I love it!

davey

I saw david spade again today at the commissary. the first time I saw him was last tuesday I think it was, he was eating with the cast of 8 simple rules apparently but was standing outside when I saw him. scruffy beard, fedora type hat, I instantly knew it was him without a doubt and started grinning like an idiot at him. as I got closer I thought of saying "hi david" or pulling out my camera and doing a snap-and-run but I was scared, what if it wasn't him? today he was wearing a visor and I overheard him saying something like "...it's important to call me..." I still want to say hi or take a picture but he got alot shorter since last tuesday :P

Teen Found Alive 8 Days After Car Wreck

no police search?
and the mom had already given up?
after 1 week?
if it was my mom, she would have MADE the police get involved at 2am the night I went missing and then would have found me herself. it's been almost 6 years and I won't let my mom be "dead in my heart." what kind of a mother is that? who says that?

ok, wtf

I have NOT been posting, I think of things to post all the time but 5 minutes later I'm like ... nah ...

reality show pitch

let me first state for the record that I hate all reality shows (except the surreal life, ron jeremy? tammy faye? flavor flav? fan for life! who's with me!) but I think a funny show would be arrogant-single-platform-IT-guy-swap where mac guys were sent to work on pc's and vice versa.

mtv satellite radio coverage of the vmas

...was AWFUL. where to start. um. ok let's see the 3 djs, brad, evan and kim were all the opposite of interesting, intelligent and articulate. one was standing next to jay-z and asked "so got anything new coming out" right after they acknowledged his retirement. they would play loud techno music over the interviewees. when they didn't have a celebrity to interview, they'd interview each other "so you got to talk to p diddy? what was that like?" "it was so awesome, he said stuff, it was off the chain." they like saying that. alot. kim was not only yelling into her mic but her levels were maxed out so she sounded distorted and I imagined that I could hear the level needles banging. one of the guys sounded like his speakers were on so the mic was picking up him and his slightly delayed broadcast. a pa called into a booth at one point on speaker and was like "is so and so there" and instead of moving right along the dj took the time to say "um hello we're on the air." incredibly bad. but not as bad as chaka khan who apparently went suddenly and completely tone deaf, dear lord. maybe they rehearsed it in a different key. hoobastank was pretty awful too but I wasn't expecting pavarotti. dirrty xtina must've taken a shower cause she was actually the right color, she must've been 5lbs lighter without her usual drag queen make-up. yellowcard acted like they'd found the cure for cancer when they won the mtv2 award. every year I say I won't watch, why can't I follow through!

I'm ssssssssirius you guyssssssss

did I mention mister mike (as my nieces call him) got me xm radio for my bday? it's pretty a little bit of alright. we listened to it for 20 hours in 4 days on our little road trip north taking my dad to fremont and then visiting with my aunt at her cabin 5 hours more north of that and the only repeated song we heard outside of the top 20 on channel 20 which I think is literally only the top 20 songs only was D12's how come which reminded me of the time me claudia and ben went to visit stef in sd and we heard eminem's "I'm the real shady" at least once an hour for a grand total of a minimum of 10 times that trip...good times good times... anywho I have 2 favorite commercial free stations 47 ethyl and 54 lucy. almost every other song I was writing down the name of so I could get the albums since you can see the band and song title on the display and the other half made me straight up smile, good songs, old songs, forgotten good old songs, good stuff. there are also channels like e! and discovery so we listened to a few true hollywood stories along the way. once you get past the initial cost $10 a month for the service is not a hard sell. there are like 250 channels, I probably only listen to like 10 but there are news channels, comedy channels, it's nutty. mike said the guy selling it to him said outside the ipod (check :)) it's the fastest selling product/service. I like it when someone else is dj-ing for a change otherwise I would just play frou frou and travis over and over ::play::

TEAM BABY SEAL!

so mr. man surprised me and booked us a trip to london and spain for our anniversary! he was covertly setting it up with jendhi who - I'm sorry but everyone knows can't keep a secret ;) - but did! I was totally in the dark! it helped that he gave her fake stories to throw me off and that she had some "technical difficulties" aka logging off so I couldn't pester her for details but it worked! team baby seal will be in full effect, I CAN'T WAIT!! we fly to london for 2 days then into barcelona to meet jendhi and fluffy and go around to madrid and valencia. I just hope SOMEONE (fluffy) keeps track of me this time and I don't end up 2 cities away like last time and wake up at 10AM wandering like an alzheimers patient crying "ruiz de lihory!" good times, good times :)

trivial

we were playing trivial pursuit this weekend and one of the questions was: what tonto expression is navajo for soggy shrub? kemo sabe! he called the lone ranger SOGGY SHRUB! I love it!

new car

man I've been away awhile. there's been SO much going on too. I almost don't know where to start. but here's a funny one. mike's dad used to own a 66 chrysler newport. the car ray liota pulls up in in good fellas before he beats karen's neighbor with a gun. he was the 2nd owner but last year decided he'd sell it before it started falling apart. mike is constantly scouring ebay motors just like jendhi and I are constantly scouring the goodwill auctions for goodies like her wool hat when he came across a familiar car. his dad's. it was a surprise and a 10 day auction. mike emailed me as soon as he saw it and 2 weeks later as I went through my emails in a cleaning spree I clicked the link one last time before I trashed it. to my surprise this is what I see:

I guess someone bought a car! «...less "new car"

slamming

Slamming is the unauthorized change of a subscribers telephone service provider without the consent of the customer. The slammers hope the victims do not notice the change and proceed with payment of the bill. Often times the telephone charges are at a much higher rate. Although slamming most frequently impacts long distance service, it can also occur as a change to toll or local service.

To combat slamming, customers can request a freeze on their selected carrier. The freeze is free of charge and will assist in preventing any future unauthorized carrier changes.

well good luck with that, I got slammed again by a new company: excel communications this morning after switching back to SBC 3 days ago. I called excel to refute the service and they said I'd contacted them 3 days ago to dispute charges - but I had contacted vartec telecom - 2 dirty subsidiaries of the same filthy company slamming me 2 times in one week. another hour on the phone with sbc to switch back AGAIN and they let me know the freeze only works if an order is placed to switch the local and/or long distance service but does nothing to protect against an order to switch over the whole account (dial tone) which is what vartec telecom did to me. so basically this will be my new ongoing struggle instead of worry about comment spam.

vartec scam

I have sbc local telephone service since I live in the bermuda triangle and my cell doesn't work and also since mike refuses to use a cell. my bill's like $20 a month. incidentally my cell bill is like $40 a month. I get a bill from vartec communications for my home number for $54. um I'm gonna notice something like that. it looked like cell charges $39.95 for local service and $15 in taxes 'n stuff. I called sbc and they said I'd been switch to vartec. well switch me back. half an hour later I was done and I called vartec to let them know I wouldn't be paying the bill. the unintelligible chick said that I have vartec and owe them for their services. after I flew off the handle a little for not wanting their services, and never authorizing their services I was put on hold for half an hour while being transferred to another department where I could dispute the charges. the guy that finally came on said "a couple hundred people were accidentally switched over". mmm smells like scam to me. bitches.

dammit, superman *exasperated sigh*

"The great thing about carbon is that you can crush it to make diamonds if you're Superman and if you ignore certain thermodynamic principles. He did it all the time, too, it was one of his shticks. Every time he wanted to propose to Lois Lane or replace the needle on his turntable or simply make the point that, yes, he can crush charcoal into diamonds, it was the old diamond-fist again. I bet he ruined a lot of barbecues with that one. 'Okay, let's get this grill started, we'll just grab some briquettes and the hey? Diamonds! Damn you, Superman!'"

genius jack-o

claudia was watching a documentary on michael jackson last night where they showed pictures of him from the 80s and 90s and he was often wearing surgical masks. I like the rest of the universe assumed it was because he was a germaphobe. nope. claudia finally made the connection that he was covering up bruising and scarring from recent surgeries!!

tetanus shot

that's hot

this weekend was crazy crazy crazy. mike and digger went through HELL with the incompetent and rude staffs of the Burbank and West LA VCA (more on that later). claudia and I got tattoos and saw blink 182 and no doubt at shoreline. good times. ben was in rare form and cracking us up. claudia couldn't stop saying "that's hot" like paris in a monotone-opposite-of-exicted way. claudia managed to get me to sneak my camera in: I had it in my back pocket when the guy was going thru my purse but between him and the frisking lady I slipped it back in. I literally think my heart has never beat so fast. here we are on our way to drop samantha off at kim's and samantha and me taking a self portrait. I love how she knows to look at the camera, she has a bright self portrait career ahead of her!

I'm blonde in the matrix

I think my matrix self would be blonde. even though I haven't seen my natural (with highlights of course) hair color since I was 15 and have been dying my hair black since 2000 I still think of myself as a blonde. so does my friend from college. I still tell blonde jokes about myself and get blank stares. not sure why that is really, I mean aside from the several stints as a bleached platinum blonde and the one time I had blonde dreds I always had darker hair colors: purple, green, blue, blood red, blue, blue... I'm fond of the blue, lately I've been dying my hair blue black but if I could dye it navy blue I would. do you hear me wella?! damn you for getting rid of your #52 blue black, it was the best! oh but I digress, I never really was a blonde, not sure why I continue to picture myself as one.

dane cook's car alarm song

scrubs

I've only seen scrubs a handful a times now but I'm convinced it's the best show currently on. last night I caught episode 60 which included guest star brendan fraser who was surprisingly good and very funny in an unobtrusive way that won over even me. not only does the show have great writing and great dialogue but great acting. zach braff, who wrote, directed and stars in the movie garden state; donald faison, who was awesome in clueless, one of my staples; and john mcginley, one of the bobs in office space, to name a few have impeccable comedic timing. I like the show alot.

elvis uber alles

I heard a strange version of viva las vegas on the radio: the dead kennedys! ha!

let's get @#$%@#ed!

everyone heard that bep song called let's get retarded, right? well apparently (kids cover your eyes) retarded is a bad word! the radio version of the song is "let's get STARTED! let's get started IN HERE!" what is this, the 60s and the ed sullivan show? this country is so wacked with it's random puritan influence we're like a country of catholic gays or republican homeless or oil supporting tree huggers!

weekend recap

saturday morning I sprang it on mike that I needed to go to the garment district to get boas for next weekend's bachelorette party in vegas so we dashed down town at just the right time ie before it turned into a crowded living nightmare and scored the feathers. then we decided to go looking for one of mike's bday presents: a new recliner. so we went to the west side, to a roche bobois warehouse sale by the airport (what a joke, there was nothing there for less than $3G), and then back to la brea where we found the holy grail of recliners: the lafer billie recliner.

then we headed back to mike's 'rents for a spell before hitting the hollywood home depot and stopping home in altadena to check on things there. if you haven't been keeping score, we drove all over the damn city! «...less "weekend recap"

OMFFFG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the coolest of all cool things has happened to me, gary BASEMAN sent me an email!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dear Jen,
Thanks for the mention on your site.
Sincerely,
Gary Baseman

!!!!! can you believe it?!!!!!!!!! aaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!! I drink out of his good boy mug every morning, I'm nobody, just a fan, this is incredible, I think my head is going to explode!!!!!!!

popdex shmopdex X(

someone did a search for neil armstrong's the awful truth thing, you know that thing that was so funny, well my site came up #2 in a search, not too shabby, well #1 was this site listing all the other sites that link to neil armstrong's the awful truth MINUS MINE! nana! should be right there under AUGUST 22, 2003 the effers!!

X(

if I'm not cranky enough from not living at home, not sleeping very well and pms-ing I always have the granite guy.

quick synopsis:

april 17: go down to lovely city of commerce, pick out granite, get estimate, get sample of granite, leave information, expect installation in 3 weeks

may 5: call them to follow up on installation, no record of order, no recollection of our meeting. the guy asked me to describe him to him to prove we had indeed met. I held back from telling him he looked like slimer from ghostbusters. he came out to measure. we paid half. check was cashed.

may 20: call them to follow up on installation, no information

may 21: call them to follow up on installation, the guy lost his book and needs to come out to measure again. I leave work and go home to meet him. mike calls them to make sure they have our address, they haven't even left yet and it's past the appt time. super. mike went home to meet them. again.

installation date? who knows.

50 questions

taken from jen's VBB

1. Your name spelled backwards.
refinnej yhaf, damn I sound like a terrorist

2. Where were your parents born?
california

3. What is the last thing you downloaded onto your computer?
spybot search and destroy and firefox

4. What's your favorite restaurant?
maybe the thirsty bear in sf

5. Last time you swam in a pool?
stef's house for my bachelorette party

I love LA

or to be more specific, I love all the traffic in LA, and all the self important people in their bmws in the traffic in LA. a light was out at the bottom of cahuenga and barham, lovely traffic, plus one lane of oncoming traffic on barham was coned off for us oncoming traffic. following the car in front of me onto barham it suddenly made a sharp 90 degree right turn back into a real lane to miss a cone. I'm sleepy. I hit the cone dead on, push it a bit and stop. the bmw behind that had driven in the left hand lane on cahuenga up until the last second and cut over to turn right on barham had a coronary. HONK HONK HOOOOOOONK HONK HONK HONK *exacerbated arms up in the air gesture* HONK HONK HONK HONK after he managed to reverse 3 inches and go around me I did the same to the cone. to the bmw guy behind me, I'm so sorry I took those 10 precious seconds of your life you spent frantically trying to get around me away from you, can you forgive me?

I am jack's utter sense of disappointment

I dropped my ipod today from clutched arm level to the hard wood floor of my living room. as if that wasn't horrific enough, the itrip snapped off and broke leaving behind one of its 2 plugs, the plug that got away fucked up the area of input on my ipod. sucks. ::dies::

axl and slash

Hard rockers also have a habit of changing their names to fit the image. "Guns n' Roses" lead singer Axl Rose shed his small town image along with the name William Bailey. His bandmate Slash (Saul Hudson) traded in his name too.

william bailey!!! saul!!! bwaaaaahahahaha!

wrongo numbero, I know the lingo ;)

this is all the same caller in rapid fire succession at 8:55am:

call 1
me: good morning, *company name*
them: can I speak to *person that doesn't work at company*?
me: I think you have the wrong number
them: *instant attitude* well is this 555-5555??!?!?!!
me: no
them: ..oh..

call 2
me: good morning, *company name*
them: no! he gave me the wrong number, I'm dialing 555-5555!!!!!
me: ok talk to you later

call 3
me: good morning, *company name*
them: what is your name!!
me: jennifer
them: can I talk to someone else there, maybe they can help me!!!
me: no one else is here
them: can I talk to your supervisor, I know you have a supervisor!!!
me: there is no one here, they get in at 9
them: well I'll be calling back then!!!
me: ok talk to you later

call 4
me: good morning, *company name*
them: fuck you fucking bitch *click*

human antenna

what is it that makes humans the best antennas: the tv only comes in clear if you stand .5 feet away from it and to the left corner, the radio only comes in without static if you stand right in front of it, and the itrip on my ipod only produces a decent signal if I hold it in my hand at 12 o'clock on the steering wheel. is there nothing that can mimic our conductiveness? I'd rather be lying down on the couch across the room to watch tv, or be able to move around listening to the radio, or being able to put the ipod down so I can answer my cell phone and drink my coffee as I drive stick in LA traffic.

the great ebay scandal

did you know you can retract bids? and that people are creating dummy accounts to drive up the price of their auctions? if you see someone trying to outbid you and they are new or have little or no feedback, don't get into a bidding war, let 'em have it.

I found a domo-kun on ebay, being sold by colorcomputercases (19). along comes former_supra_owner (0) who drove up the price until they were the high bidder but then retracted their highest bid. the "winner" gets stuck with an artifical and unwarranted huge ending price. makes you rethink the next time you put in your maximum amount doesn't it, there's something to be said for bid sniping!

from Chim-Chim Applemouth to Zippy Bubbleshorts (aka from bp to sugi_grl)

The following is an excerpt from a children's book, "CaptainUnderpants And the Perilous Plot of Professor Poopypants" by Dave Pilkey. The evil Professor forces everyone to assume new names

Use the third letter of your first name to determine your new firstname:

bp, are you reading?

get ready for something! sometime! soon!

new music

in happier news, jendhi ftp'd the cd she received: french DJ Zebra's remixes including go home productions' bootlegs. I still love go home's radiohead v the beatles but zebra's sex pistols remix is pretty exciting to me! it made me smile at how I couldn't decide if it was the most annoying song I'd ever heard (johnny's vocals) or the best (zebra's catchy as hell techno remix). verdict: I have new music to listen to!

grrrrrrrrrrrr

so member that scam I tried to participate in to get an ipod? and how they kept raising the stakes until I gave up and simultaneously found out apple offers financing? well I did have enough to get a portable dvd player and a scanner. the scanner finally arrived today in it's own original and minimal packing, box ripped, scanner bed shattered. the ups delivery guy set it on the ground and I said that sounds broken. he just asked me to sign for it. I said who do I contact if it's broken? he said the customer. great! I'll get right on fixing my own problem! amazon should have packaged it better - I mean, they should have PACKAGED it - and ups sucks anyways. *whine*

«...less "grrrrrrrrrrrr"

another reason not to see the movie

as I mentioned earlier my reluctance for getting excited for the hellboy movie: the director guillermo del toro seems a little green, having directed 2 american movies out of 7: mimic and blade II. I didn't see blade II and people tell me it looked cool, but I did see and didn't like mimic but must admit I wasn't paying attention to specifically the direction. on to the screenplay for hellboy: written by the director (who's written 1 american screenplay: mimic) and another very green peter briggs for whom this will be his first project of 3, the other 2: alien v predator and highlander. god forbid they get the creator mike mignola involved.

then I read today that del toro planned to put hellboy's stone hand, his RIGHT HAND OF DOOM, on his left arm, so that the actor would still have the free use of his right hand. that is quite a liberal use of creative license.

the crap mike has to put up with

I got mike a ben sherman shirt that was purposefully and stylistically "wrinkled". as a girl, if I got new clothes, I would wear them instantly, but as a guy and it being a friday when I gave it to him, he didn't want to get "dressed up" in a shirt he'd rather have pressed first. when he finally did wear it to work, wrinkled, he said: "Hey, so 3 people so far have told me that my shirt is wrinkled ... BUT [my boss] came in and said NICE SHIRT! I told her that I didn't wear it right away because I was going to have it pressed, and [she] rolled her eyes and said ... Oy ... the crap jen has to put up with!!"

mike likes to plan surprises and heard about something he knew I'd love and went to great lengths to plan it without iDetective finding out. only he told me not to make any plans for this weekend ... 2 mos ago. so naturally it's been driving me crazy. he brought it up again at dinner last night and I started to panic not knowing what to plan for or how to dress and got all upset until he finally told me: we're driving up to santa barbara and seeing seinfeld that night. !!! !!! !!! oy the crap mike has to put up with!!

spartan

as promised to bp, we saw spartan last night and here's where I say what I thought about it! I thought it was an excellent movie, a political thriller that runs deeper than the general's daughter, one of the most suspenseful movies from beginning to end I've ever seen (had a little trouble getting to sleep I was so pumped), and all around good acting by a well cast group: val, macy, ed o'neill, derek luke, and tia texada. this is actually the first mamet film I've ever seen, hearing of him for the first time only because we were making fun of the dialogue in the tv spots for identity ("we couldn't get out! because of the storm! because of the storm! we couldn't get out!") and it was explained to me that mamet writes the way people really talk which doesn't sound that good, or at least not the way we are used to hearing dialogue. that having been said, I thought the dialogue was perfectly accessible, building plot and characters at the same time. really, no complaints. if I had to be nitpicky tho, tia, a military person (since I can't remember her rank), always had perfect makeup. heh. what's not to love? :)

virus spam

I wonder how many people will fall for this? for those of you who don't know me, I AM sugishop, there is no management@sugishop.com. I like how the password is a broken image so even if I wanted to unzip the virus I can't. good job spammers!

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why I hate netflix

netflix is great for those that can access the site, but for people like me who get permanently redirected to oh so cleverly named entrytrap.html, it's completely worthless. there is no email support, they'd like you to use customerservice.html. ah but that brings me to my first problem. there is no technical support, only a girl that comes on after you've been on hold for 20 minutes and asks you if you've enabled cookies. she also asked me if I had any anti-virus software that could be blocking the netflix cookie. this is curious to me that netflix's cookie would be virus-like. after she asked me if I knew anyone with a computer I cancelled my account. others have encountered this too.

random study

so I took this "iq" test yesterday and one of the questions asked you to hold your hands with your fingers interlaced, left thumb over right. after sending the link to a friend who remarked that that was difficult I started going around to all my coworkers to see what they thought. here are my preliminary results:

MY GOD THINK OF THE CHILDREN

I can't believe janet's half time show set us back 200 years to the puritan age. I see commercials for the shield that are 100% violent, every scene there are guns drawn or people brutally fighting but that maroon 5 video needs to be censored. on vh1 they are omitting the vocals for "coming" and "sinking", but on mtv they are stopping the song altogether during those 2 words like they have a 4 year old in the broadcast booth turning the volume down during the "dirty" words and they put obnoxious floating flower petals (?) over 50-70% of the screen so we can't see her face or his naked upper body (see more for screen shots). no way kid, you don't have a body under your clothes, you were born clothed, where did you get that crazy idea, mtv? I'm writing a letter! I wonder if they will but those awesome petals all over the place in the nickelback video where the chick dies in a violent car crash, probably not.

omg my eyes! I can't believe vh1 allowed me to see these pornagraphic images!

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if marriage were a horserace

that's why

BFD

burbank firefighters: the busiest guys ever

how scary is this

happy bday samantha!

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it's here, but...

when?

so after my ipod didn't ship on the 12th like it was supposed to I got an email that due to unexpected supply delay it would ship on the 13th. after I spent the 13th refreshing my email every 5 seconds looking for the ship confirmation I got an email at midnight that said

We need your response to continue processing your order.

My order number is ____________________.
__ YES. Please continue processing my order.
__ NO. Please cancel my order and issue a prompt refund.

ohmyjezuz YES PLEASE CONTINUE MY ORDER and now it won't ship until the 17th???? how will I make it?

but then this morning I got an email that it shipped from sacto and it should be here on the 17th!!!! how will I make it!

soon!

ipod blues

what on earth

word of the day

that new car smell...

HAPPY BDAY, BPARBS!

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chair envy

so I picked up my chair from a loft down town - can I just say I love down town? it's so cool looking with its tall buildings, nothing like the rest of sprawling LA, impressive graffiti starts to appear along with more colorful people, and you actually feel like you're in a city. so as I was saying the loft belongs to uber cool ebay seller and hubby who are both sporting amazing neck tattoos (in addition to many others), I'm pretty sure I didn't even try to look them in the eye and was hardly listening to them either as I was preoccupied with the thought of pulling my camera out of my pocket and just snapping their picture. would they really mind? so I grabbed my new chair (which I forgot in the van, I can't believe I haven't even brought it in the house yet, man I'm tired, what a long week, but I digress) and they started telling me about all the cool places to go in silverlake and la brea street and I just was thinking, can you guys be my new friends?! heheh

weird

I'm constantly doing yahoo (google) searches for nanalog to make sure I'm the top search result and while I've noticed discrepancies on when pages were cached between my mac at work and my peecee at home I didn't give to too much thought until today when I noticed a very drastic difference in search results based on browser.

nanalog is #1 in internet explorer

but #7 in netscape!! wtf!!
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aaaaah... stupid people...

don't you just love them? I know I do! yesterday I had to sign my boss up for a conference she's attending in vegas. there's an online registration form-questionnaire combo that's mildy tedius but I'm moving right along. until I get to the last page and the continue button doesn't work. I view the source and see that the continue button is input type="button" instead of input type="submit" so while the continue button looks like a button, that's all it does, is look.

christmas tree lane

last night mike and I drove down christmas tree lane on our way home. it's a historic street lined with huge christmas trees that the city or somebody decorates each year. and when I say decorate I mean they dangle 1 or 2 lines of big colorful lights from the tops of each. it is quite a sight because of the size of the trees and the lights that go so high but it's no rockafeller center tree kind of lights and what's even more surprising is that the people that live in these gorgeous houses on christmas tree lane don't put lights on their houses! I would say maybe 10%? put up icicles but that's it. and it's only 7 more days until christmas so I'm not sure what they are waiting for! we have our very first set of icicles up ala mike but sadly no reindeer I haven't had a chance to steal my neighbor's yet. but the best lights I've seen so far were on a dog house in someone's yard, how precious is that!!!

show off:

your worst spam email subjects, I'll start:

Clean your colon!

what a productive holiday!

wednesday nite I got to see stef, kelly and mary for a little bit in an area embarrassingly close to my house that I got lost trying to find!

thursday mike and I had fun showing off our new lil honda del sol to his parents and eating too much food

friday we did mucho cleaning

saturday lindsay girl stopped by!!! and showed us pictures of her mexican vacation, aaaaah. then mike and I took our "kids" and went to bakersfield to see the allisons, it was so wonderful to see everyone again!

sunday we got some firewood, some icicles from target aaaaaaand...

the most productive thing we did this weekend was sunday we got this desk

with this drawer

and this monitor stand

63" by 31.5" of surface area love! yay getting organized :) «...less "what a productive holiday!"

happy thanksgiving!

mike and I are going to the "in laws" for thanksgiving!! and then driving up to bakersfield on saturday to visit my cousin who just had her little girl, Kate Sharon, my uncle and my mom's cousin. maybe my other cousins will be there too! I love these mini reunions we have every year or so especially now that I live in southern california. I went thru 2 engines in my scout trying to get down here! then I sold it to a guy that drove it all the way to san diego no problem, I think I'm honorary irish!

in da hood

so last weekend I took mike's van down to sd to visit my girl stef and left him with only his bike for transportation. undaunted he decided to do the easy 3 mile downhill ride to old town pasadena to see master and commander. cruising down fair oaks it gets a little seedy right around washington street where mike saw "a gang" of non-irish people *wink*wink* *nod*nod* *knowwhattumean* *saynomore* and thought to himself, gee this would be a bad place to get a flat! just then his back tire goes flat. mike thinks he's a perfect target with his bright yellow backpack on and rides the rim for 2 blocks before walking his bike the whole rest of the way. luck o' the irish!

t mobile is the suck

while we were in hawaii and in desperate need of cells to get in touch with everyone as they got lost around the island, t mobile decided to shut off our service because my bill was returned to them undelivered. apparently they just needed my new address and this was the best approach. I just sent them the following, I hope it was scathing enough, I'm just so tired!

What kind of policy is it to DISCONNECT my phone because you didn't have my address??? I pay ALL my bills in full on time, it is my thought that if having my address was so important DESPITE continuing to receive payment, you could have CALLED ME. I can't wait until my year is up so I can cancel my service. I will advise all my friends to do the same.

so anyone with t mobile, do the same, k?

quip of teh day

"Steve Jobs could shit in his hand and sell it as the iShit for $999 and Mac fanatics would be lining up around the block to buy it."

holy shnikies!

what a way to wake up in the morning!!! mike's brother sent me this email this morning:

I wanted to pass along what my editor at William Morrow said about your website:

That is a GORGEOUS website. No kidding, it's one of the best author websites I've seen in ages. I think it's going to help the book's publication immensely.

So thank you again for all of your wonderful work! You rock!!!

wowee!! and I thought he'd be annoyed with me for taking all summer to do it!

rip my 02

I never thought this day would come but it's here. the day I where I have to say goodbye to my lil 02. she needs more fixin' than she's worth. anyone want her? I'm selling. cheap.

pet !@#$ing peeves

I feel compelled to make a list motivated by my frustration with the first one:

• comments (and the people that make them!) on what I'm eating @#$&!@#*&
• loud motorcycles
• people who'd rather ask than look

ok I can't really think of any others right now due to my blind rage at the first one, but I'm sure more will come to me, what are yours?

where's the RED BONE?!

so bailey girl has a proficiency for chewing, boxes of our books that haven't been put away, a bag left on the floor, the pile of crap the workers left in our driveway... so I got her a top of the line rubber "virtually indestructable" red bone. I got it for her wednesday nite. I saw it thursday morning. I watched her sleep all day on the webcam. I saw workers feet occassionally but that was a good thing, it was the first time they'd shown up in almost 2 weeks. I get home, there's no red bone to be found anywhere. I couldn't let it go, I walked around all nite like lady macbeth trying to figure out where it could have gone. I took a xanax and was able to sleep but then got up this morning and weeded the backyard for an hour looking for it. I am CONVINCED that the workers stole this $15 red bone. "ok jen, let's put on your jacket"

manic weekend

mike and I both went to the bay area this weekend, him for his bachelor party and me to get my dress. sue got me from the airport and after the seamstress got my measurements we hit tapioca express, the mall for a lil shoe shopping, and berkely for THE BEST manicure and pedicure I've ever had. period. so awesome. then we went back to the seamstress who had finished my dress, went to palo alto for japanese food, and then went to the sound factory in sf where xtina was wrangled into a lil fashion show by her agent. sounds great right?!

drugs

ok everyone sees the commercials for drugs pushed by pharmaceutical companies. ask your doctor if the purple pill is right for you - who cares what it's for, hurry up and ask your doctor, we need our revenues to continue to be larger than countries'! the best part of these commercials? the side effects. may cause weight loss, weight gain, headache, nausea, dizziness, drowsiness, the list goes on forever. even evolution spoofed it when david dukovny's character tested his anthrax vacination on 1000s of soldiers who then suffered side effects dubbed the kane madness which included vomiting, diarrhea, chronic flatulence, erectile dysfunction, temporary blindness and insanity. haha right?

well I literally couldn't believe my ears when I heard a commercial for femring for alleviating menopause symptoms like hot flashes has side effects like UTERINE CANCER! god I'm dying of incurable cancer but at least I'm not hot! who approved this drug? way to go fda. and who's gonna prescribe it? unbelievable!

txAYma

jen and txema and I go way back. back to '95 when we all first met and when jen and txema started going out. that was... carry the 2... 8 years ago! jen's sister is getting married in october and recently sent out the invitations. hilarity ensued!

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no new dog

so friday nite jane and I hit the pound (before hitting the bar and hitting the invations that would take 3 hours...) and we saw 2 perfectly adorable companions for digger: a white jack russel terrier/hot dog mix with brown ears and a lot of energy and a black long hair hot dog with a loud bark. both would be available sunday and after seeing a little boy interested in the same white dog, I decided to be the first one there on sunday and steal it from him! well we got there 10 minutes early on sunday morning only to see about 30 people waiting outside. once they opened the doors they handled out raffle tickets and RAFFLED THE DOGS OFF! it was totally crazy. needless to say we didn't win. but mike took a liking to a shepherd mix that will be available next monday... so we'll see!

finally

with some massive help from jane (design) and jorge (feeding the printer 1 piece of paper at a time) I managed to get my wedding invitations done. saturday mike and I headed down town to japan town to look for rice paper for the sleeves and after we couldn't find it, went all over china town. after giving up and going home I found online a place in old town. so close! anyways they are done, yay!

roof test!

so last night I broke down a got a new 17" monitor for the puter. the one we have now mike "borrowed" from work a year ago is 13", has 3 resolution settings and is so dark that endymionscircle.com looks like the background is solid black. no more! so with the $50 rebate and financing, I'm looking at a monthly payment of $16.67, I think I can handle that! it was weird signing up for the sony credit card, in order to make sure no one is fraudulently using your identity they ask you these multiple choice questions like on what street have you recently lived: pacific, hatch, beaming, shore or none of the above? I'm so rusty at taking tests I almost didn't know the right answer and was a little nervous about 1 of the 3 questions but as luck would have the form was broken and someone called me this morning to verify my identity with even harder questions! but when I gave semi-vague answers she said "good enough," good enough for me too!

don't come here looking for the truth

from now on I'll just talk about superficial fluff, post pictures of the house (unless mike tries to sue me), maybe post pictures of myself (with the other people blacked out), I think I can still post pictures of digger which altho may be unethical there's nothing he can do about it (oh crap now peta will sue me on his behalf), and links to other people's blogs who are actually able to write about what's really going on in their lives.

ween

ween makes for an interesting onion article