I found another little generator tool that is fun to play with. It’s called The Evil Clown Generator. I had lots of fun with this one. This guy even looks a little like me.
The controls are a little hard to play with. You pretty much generate everything randomly. Have fun.
My brother called and woke me up. He was in the area and wanted to know if he could come over. I replied “Sure”. I went to the living room and slept by the door until he came knocking.
After BS’ing for a while, he shows me the new car that he just purchased. Man … This thing was nice. I think he said he spent $23,000 on it.
We went over to CompUSA and looked around. I found a pack of 10 DVD’s with slimline cases and picked them up for under $6.00.
He wants a DVD burner, but he is picky about the color. He wants silver, but the only thing that comes in silver is from SONY. Krozy doesn’t trust Sony because they have a vested interest with media or something.
I personally don’t have a problem with Sony. Actually, I think of quality when I hear the name. I just purchased an external Double Layer DVD burner (DRX-720UL) from them just this past week. Man, that thing is faster them my old DVD burner.
We went over to the HDTVs and were impressed with the most expensive ones. I looked at some projectors that supported HDTV. The price was really low compared to the regular TV’s. Krozy pointed out that the lumens are pretty low and that the eyes can’t adjust to the projector as well as a regular TV. So we passed them up and continued looking around.
We headed on over to Burger King and then went on over to the movies afterwards. We watched Robots. There were hardly any sexual innuendos that most children’s movies have these days. It was actually a cute and innocent movie for a change. I had fun watching it.
My brother came back to the house and for the next few hours, we played Grand Theft Auto San Andreas and ate spaghetti. I found a pimp mobile at a mansion next to the VINEWOOD letters. These huge letters appear on the top of a hill and remind me of Hollywood.
Pimping is really cool. You start to rack up some big money when you pick up the girls from there customers. We ran into a problem with the fourth pickup in that a customer didn’t want to pay up. We were able to chase him down and kill him and collect some cash, but a police officer busted us before we could pick up the girl. It was horrible. This girl would run after us with the police officer, so we couldn’t pick her up without getting into trouble.
Krozy tells me that San Andreas isn’t available for XBOX and won’t be until the beginning of June. That seems to be a long ways away. I want it for the PC because I prefer the higher resolutions. It’s hard to see markers on the map when looking at a television. He also mentioned that the XBOX2 is going to be revealed at E3 this year. That’s great news. I hear that the PS3 will also be revealed at E3. If XBOX2 is going to be released this Christmas, then I hope that the PS3 will be released close to that time as well.
Every now and then my real mom sends me an email. It’s either jokes, a referral program, or for some political cause. These things are like spam. It’s not like a “Hello” or a “How are you doin?”. It’s the only contact that I have with her.
So what can I do? This is my mom. I don’t want to say stop, because that is like cutting off all contact what so ever. For now, I have decided that I would reply to everyone on the message and initiate conversation with her.
Here are a few emails that I sent back at her (and a few of her closest friends).
Hi Mom. How is it going?
Subject: Fw: Good Luck
Check out http://www.milesource.com/join/join.php3?referrer=goofyfroggy
Lewis E. Moten III
http://lewismoten.blogspot.com
lewismoten@gmail.com
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Get your own free iPod
http://www.freeipods.com/default.aspx?referer=9016083
Pretty funny stuff
Sex is like math…
U have to add a bed,
minus the clothes,
divide the legs,
and hope not 2 multiply.
send 2 10 friends and u will have great sex 4 a yr
Lewis E. Moten III
http://lewismoten.blogspot.com
lewismoten@gmail.com
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Get your own free iPod
http://www.freeipods.com/default.aspx?referer=9016083
Well, the emails still keep comming without any complaints. At least I am spreading the word of my blog and my iPod program to some new people.
Every now and then I start working on different types of software. I guess I fall into an odd cycle where I get really depressed and not wanting to do much, and then I get in this really creative and intense cycle where I just can’t stop coding and multitasking.
Anyhow, I went back to working with the Atom API again and found that the Blogger.com folks have changed it again! All of my old code would no longer work. After messing around for a few hours, I found that I can retrieve my posts by using Basic Authentication for my credentials rather then WSSE (Web Services Security).
From what I gather, they recently went to supporting SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) with WSSE. To be backwards compatible, they downgraded the non SSL connections to Basic Authentication. Ack! Basic authentication is not secure at all. It is very easy for me to decode someone’s password using that. I tried connecting over SSL, but the remote server would keep closing my connection.
I used to go to the Blogger Developers Area regularly, but it was rarely ever updated. Periods of 2 to 9 months would go by before a new post appears.
Well, it appears there is a different blog area for developers that I just discovered through the Buzz site by follwing the DEVELOPERS link at the bottom of the template. This place is updated frequently (about once a week) now. I’m also finding a lot of “real” documentation compared to what had been available before.
Let’s see if the Atom API will actually get some features added (such as the ability to fetch more then the first 10 entries).
Update: Just to show how unsecure this new basic authentication scheme is, let me provide you with a sample. With basic authentication, I can not link directly to a post.
http://username:password@www.blogger.com/atom/8179070/111302718644502407
Replacing the username and password near the beginning of that link, I was able to view it with a regular web browser. Posting to that same page would create a new entry. Using the “PUT” method instead would update that entry.
If you are lost, don’t worry. Just to keep it simple, the security is lacking …
Have you ever found something that you were not supposed to find? A while back ago, my sister in-law left the house. She left a CD case with me and told me to give it to my mother in-law when she came to visit. These two were going to miss each other that day and I was the middle man. The additional information that she gave me was that mom was dying to listen to the album for a long time.
The album was unfamiliar and looked pretty cool (Acroma: orbitals). I wasn’t sure if it was mine or not (Yes, I have that many CD’s that I don’t know what I have). I decided to back the CD up to my hard drive in case mom lost the CD. Rite away I noticed that the album was taped up on both sides. I got a knife from the kitchen and cut through the tape. I flipped the case open and discovered something that I shouldn’t have. I quickly taped it back up hoping that mom didn’t walk in the door at any minute.
I’m not going to go into what it was that I found, but man … I almost felt like I was being setup. Let’s look at the facts
Fortunately, it turned out that it wasn’t a test of my character to see if I would sneak into things. I honestly thought I was going to find a CD in there. I mean … It’s a CD case. I guess the tape was a bit odd, but I figured maybe the case was broken.
Update: For everyone that keeps wondering about it, I guess I should fess up. I will not go into detail, but it looked like some herbs. Mom has a lot of crazy concoctions that she likes to use them for.
A while back ago, my brother and I had an interesting conversation. I posted part of it on the internet (Color-Wheel Turd Pigments). Today, I saw that someone had found that conversation on my site by searching for Splenda Bowel Movements. Apparently I’m #2 on the list of results at Google.
I sent a message to my brother around lunch time. Here it is about nine hours later and he calls my cell phone asking what is up. At first, he didn’t know what I was talking about until I mentioned the Color Wheel Turd Pigments. During this time, he is washing and cutting up celery and informs me that he is now a vegetarian and that it’s exciting. I would have hung around on the phone with him, but still after five minutes the background sounds of him preparing food is really irritating to my ears. How rude is that?
Oh well. Interesting times …
I recently got my 1000th comment on my blog. This was very exciting, but also presented a flaw in my Gravatar Software that I’m working on. Haloscan exports comments in incriments of 1000. I revised the source code to support accounts that have more then 1000 comments on Haloscan. The new software has been posted on the support site as version 1.0.1924.
My most recent commentors are refreshing again after this change went into affect.
I was over at the Purple Curtain blog and saw an entry: I adopted sheep. I’m clueless what it had to do with sheep, but the link provided gave me a creative little project to create a USS Enterprise from an old floppy disk.
I hunted around my room for a considerable amount of time before I found a floppy I could use. I popped it open and got the pieces I needed. I followed the 10 easy steps provided with each picture and had my own USS Enterprise. Proud of my accomplishment, I went down to see Angel and asked if she liked Star Trek. When she replied “Yes”, I handed her the model and wished her a happy birthday.
At first she and her sister thought it was cute. Then she started critiquing it. Apparently the saucer and the tail was upside down from her memory of the ship.
I started blogging about it and she came in the room. I asked if I could take a picture and she cracked up laughing. She presented the model with the two wings fallen off and apologized.
Note: Every now and then I need to blow off steam. What better way then to tell the world about it? Any how, the following is a “Rant”. Please disregard. You have been warned.
I have so many things going on in my life rite now. To top it all off, my sleeping habits are really messed up. I come home from work and go strait to bed around 7pm. I then wake up around 1 or 2, stay up a few hours, and then “attempt” to go back to sleep until my alarm goes off at 9am. I feel as if I have no time to release stress.
I have the weekends to look forward to, but every time the weekend approaches, I’m finding out at the last minutes that I have to go and pick up my mother in-law, my niece, and my nephew to spend the day with us. I take a 30 minute trip down there, pick them up, come home, sleep, drive them pack home, and then come back home to sleep. If I don’t sleep, then I deal with the stress of being with the kids. Call me heartless, but it is just too much.
My sister in-laws boyfriend has moved in with us. He doesn’t have a job either, so now I’m supporting 3 adults and myself. I hear he has put in an application at the local gas station where my sister in-law was fired. Hopefully he gets the job and doesn’t get sick every day that he works there.
I get pretty fed up with many things as you can see. One of them is money issues. Isn’t it always? I must be the typical American. I’ve paid thousands of dollars for my sister in-law. Thinks like, paying for her to come back home after she decided to visit a boyfriend in Michigan. The boyfriend was too poor to afford a $75 bus ticket back home. Then there was another time where I paid about $600 to take care of a medical problem.
Recently I finished paying $777 for her lawyer and some fines. I paid the same amount for my wife. That comes to a total of $1554. I got my tax refund back from the IRS. I was expecting a little over $1,000. It came to about $2500. I wanted to buy a cheap projection screen HDTV for about $1100. Angel said “No”.
Can anyone see why I’m a bit upset here? I get way more extra cash then I expected and then I’m told that I can’t spend the extra money. I’ve been in a rut for the past two months due to this lawyer and court costs that were her and her sisters doing. Shouldn’t I be rewarded for staying out of trouble?
On top of that, I’m supposed to be paid back by my sister in-law for her share of the court, fine, and lawyer fees. That is an additional $777 dollars comming my way. Unfortunely, she lost the title to the car that a friend of hers purchased for her a while back, so it seems that she can’t sell it to bring in the cash that she was going to pay me with.
I remember having to buy my sister in-law a new mattress and box spring. Man, I’ve been buying these mattresses left and right for everyone. I think I’ve purchased six mattresses for my wife’s family since I met her. One day I’ll get a new one for myself.
Let’s see. There is the whole phone incident that goes on every now and then. I’m trying to sleep and I hear a knocking at one of the windows at 3am. My wife, my sister in-law and I go answer the door and find that it is Paul from down the street. My wife goes out to talk to him. I go back to sleep and wake up to a phone call. It’s Paul wanting to talk to my wife. I fall back asleep again and he calls again. I go downstairs to unhook all the phones and my wife goes on to explain why he is calling.
It appears that his two dogs ran away again. Angel found the dogs and brought them back. As punishment, Paul put the two dogs into there cages and sprayed the area heavy with Lysol. Angel couldn’t stand the smell and told him that he is mistreating his dogs. Paul is drunk at this time and pretty much gets upset with her comments. So she says she never wants to see him again.
I told her to call the Humane Society on him. She wont do it because then Paul will know it was her that called. It’s odd. She seems that she cares deeply about animals, but then she goes and lets them be tortured because she values human friendship more. But on top of that, she severed her friendship anyway.
Usually it is guys calling my sister in-law constantly at all hours of the night. Now guys are calling my wife. I’ve changed my phone number twice in the past because of this. I wish that I could just get rid of the phone all together. I don’t really use it much myself. I have my own cell phone. I keep the phone so that my wife can call her friends across the country with a flat monthly fee.
My mother in-law keeps drilling this phrase to me “Family comes first” or “You take care of your family”. It’s getting to the point where I feel like the family isn’t taking care of me. I’m being taken advantage of a lot.
There is tons more where this came from, but I just got to stop. I’m just irritated beyond words.
It would seem that The Mike has found an interesting way to make money advertising. He is moving from the central valley of California to Cleveland, Ohio. What better way to pay for it then to advertise someones’ name/logo on the car, family, pets, and blog about it on the way with video and photos. There is even a chance that local media stations will pick up on the story along the way.
The trip will be held from July 1st to July 7th and be about 2,400 miles. Mike had better get an oil change before and after that trip. Most of the trip will be along I-80 East. I personally don’t like tolls. I can see why this guy needs the cash. To bring in the revenue, he will brand himself and his family with your logo/name if you are the highest bidder on his eBay auction: 1 Dad, 1 Mom, 3 kids, 1 Cat And a Bunny on the road ADVERTISE ON US – MOVING ACROSS COUNTRY.
The last time that I looked, the current bid was at $67.66 US. There have been 11 bids and 41 watchers. Check out the auction for photos of the family and pets.