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Have I ever?

July 31, 2006 at 10:35 am · Filed under General

Stolen from Blork…

Have you ever . . . (bold means Yes I Have)

01. Bought everyone in the bar a drink (ok so there were only 5 people in the bar)
02. Swam with wild dolphins
03. Climbed a mountain
04. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
05. Been inside the Great Pyramid
06. Held a tarantula
07. Taken a candlelit bath with someone
08. Said ‘I love you’ and meant it
09. Hugged a tree
10. Bungee jumped (chickened out in NZ)
11. Visited Paris
12. Watched a lightning storm at sea
13. Stayed up all night long and saw the sun rise
14. Seen the Northern Lights (still trying)
15. Gone to a huge sports game
16. Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa
17. Grown and eaten your own vegetables
18. Touched an iceberg
19. Slept under the stars
20. Changed a baby’s diaper(!)
21. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon
22. Watched a meteor shower
23. Gotten drunk on champagne
24. Given more than you can afford to charity
25. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope
26. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment
27. Had a food fight
28. Bet on a winning horse
29. Asked out a stranger
30. Had a snowball fight
31. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can
32. Held a lamb
33. Seen a total eclipse
34. Ridden a roller coaster
35. Hit a home run
36. Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking
37. Adopted an accent for an entire day
38. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment
39. Had two hard drives for your computer (only two?)
40. Visited all 50 states
41. Taken care of someone who was shit faced
42. Had amazing friends (All friends are amazing, aren’t they?)
43. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country
44. Watched wild whales
45. Stolen a sign
46. Backpacked in Europe (in but not across)
47. Taken a road-trip
48. Gone rock climbing
49. Midnight walk on the beach
50. Gone sky diving
51. Visited Ireland
52. Been heartbroken longer then you were actually in love
53. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger’s table and had a meal with them
54. Visited Japan
55. Milked a cow
56. Alphabetized your cds (my wife has)
57. Pretended to be a superhero
58. Sung karaoke
59. Lounged around in bed all day
60. Posed nude in front of strangers
61. Gone scuba diving
62. Kissed in the rain
63. Played in the mud
64. Played in the rain
65. Gone to a drive-in theater
66. Visited the Great Wall of China
67. Started a business
68. Fallen in love and not had your heart broken
69. Toured ancient sites
70. Taken a martial arts class
71. Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight
72. Gotten married
73. Been in a movie
74. Crashed a party
75. Gotten divorced
76. Gone without food for 5 days
77. Made cookies from scratch
78. Won first prize in a costume contest
79. Ridden a gondola in Venice
80. Gotten a tattoo
81. Rafted the Snake River
82. Been on television news programs as an “expert”
83. Got flowers for no reason
84. Performed on stage
85. Been to Las Vegas
86. Recorded music
87. Eaten shark
88. Had a one-night stand
89. Gone to Thailand
90. Bought a house
91. Been in a combat zone
92. Buried one/both of your parents
93. Been on a cruise ship
94. Spoken more than one language fluently
95. Performed in Rocky Horror.
96. Raised children. (well up to 8 months old anyway)
97. Followed your favorite band/singer on tour
98. Created and named your own constellation of stars
99. Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country
100. Picked up and moved to another city to just start over (ok, not just to start over)
101. Walked the Golden Gate Bridge
102. Sang loudly in the car, and didn’t stop when you knew someone was looking
103. Had plastic surgery
104. Survived an accident that you shouldn’t have survived.
105. Wrote articles for a large publication
106. Lost over 100 pounds
107. Held someone while they were having a flashback
108. Piloted an airplane
109. Petted a stingray
110. Broken someone’s heart
111. Helped an animal give birth
112. Won money on a T.V. game show
113. Broken a bone
114. Gone on an African photo safari
115. Had a body part of yours below the neck pierced
116. Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol
117. Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild
118. Ridden a horse
119. Had major surgery
120. Had a snake as a pet
121. Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon
122. Slept for more than 30 hours over the course of 48 hours
123. Visited more foreign countries than U.S. states
124. Visited all 7 continents
125. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days
126. Eaten kangaroo meat
127. Eaten sushi
128. Had your picture in the newspaper
129. Changed someone’s mind about something you care deeply about
130. Gone back to school
131. Parasailed
132. Petted a cockroach
133. Eaten fried green tomatoes
134. Read The Iliad - and the Odyssey
135. Selected one “important” author who you missed in school, and read
136. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
137. Skipped all your school reunions (assuming there were any)
138. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language
139. Been elected to public office
140. Written your own computer language (kinda sorta)
141. Thought to yourself that you’re living your dream
142. Had to put someone you love into hospice care
143. Built your own PC from parts
144. Sold your own artwork to someone who didn’t know you
145. Had a booth at a street fair
146: Dyed your hair
147: Been a DJ
148: Shaved your head
149: Caused a car accident
150: Saved someone’s life

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Freaky advert

July 27, 2006 at 8:11 am · Filed under Movies + TV

We are Jeopardy devotees; we watch it almost every night. Sad but true.

One of the interesting features of the Jeopardy broadcast is the advertising (thanks to our PVR we skip over most of it but still catch bits and pieces). Apparently Jeopardy viewers are in a bad way as nearly all the adverts are for some kind of medical product. Cold remedies, pain relief, vitamin supplements, prescription drugs and Head-On.

I’m still not entirely sure what Head-On is, but the advert is the freakiest piece of advertising I’ve ever seen. It consists of a ten second shot of a woman applying a tube of something to her head and an excited, urgent voiceover which says “Head-On! Apply directly to the forehead! Head-On! Apply directly to the forehead! Head-on! Apply directly to the forehead!”. I’m not sure if it’s three repetitions or four, but you get the idea.

So we know what it’s called, and we know what we should do with it but we’re still not entirely sure what it does. I decided to investigate, and headed (excuse the pun) over to their website. Here’s what it says:

You are seeing this page because there is nothing configured for the site you have requested. If you think you are seeing this page in error, please contact the site administrator or datacenter responsible for this site.

Well I’m glad we cleared that up.

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Geeky and proud of it

July 25, 2006 at 12:19 pm · Filed under Games

Some friends of mine (who I won’t out here in case it gets them shunned on the golf course) are trying to get me back into something; something which I haven’t been involved in for at least fifteen years; something which some people hide and carry on with in secret as it is often considered weird, nerdy and even satanic.

But not me, oh no. I’m not ashamed to admit that I once played Dungeons and Dragons, and I’m pretty sure I will be playing Dungeons and Dragons again in the very near future. Yes, I’m a geek. No, I don’t care who knows it.

Anyway, they were playing it at the beginning of ET, so it can’t be that uncool, can it?

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Biggest ad break ever

July 20, 2006 at 1:51 pm · Filed under Movies + TV

I watched The Island yesterday, in which Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johannnssseeennn are escaped clones on the run from just about everybody and Sean Bean plays the evil genius breaking every eugenic law in the book.

The story was ok, although some of the scrapes Ewan and Scarlett got into were ridiculously unbelievable, like falling off the top of a skyscraper and not sustaining a single injury. The action sequences were well done, with lots of good CGI; there was some good humour and the storyline held my attention.

So why will I never watch it again? Because it is basically one big commercial break, with a story thrown in to keep you interested. Five minutes into the movie, Ewan opens a drawer to reveal rows and rows of Puma shoes, with the Puma logo prominently displayed. And that was just the beginning. I saw XBox, Aquafina water, Honda cars, Cadillac cars, MSN Search, Mack trucks, Amtrak trains, Ben and Jerry ice cream, Calvin Klein perfume, Michelob beer and the list goes on. These products weren’t subtly placed in the background, they were centre stage with the camera carefully lingering on every one. The camera actually zoomed in on the Michelob bottle before Ewan picked it up and took a swig.

But hey, Steve Buscemi’s in it, and he’s awesome as always.

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Published at last

July 18, 2006 at 12:57 pm · Filed under Blogging

Hey look at me, I got published!

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I miss him

July 17, 2006 at 8:41 am · Filed under Family+Friends

Dad - 1946-2006

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Back, sort of

July 12, 2006 at 8:26 am · Filed under Blogging

Thanks to a mysterious disappearing webhost, lambic.co.uk was down for almost two weeks. Now I have a shiny new provider (ecohosting.net, they give some of my money to charity!) and I’m working on getting everything back to normal.

Sadly unless my mysterious disappearing webhost re-appears, I’ve lost all updates since January. That’ll teach me to take more regular backups.

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