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Hope this helps

Paris Hilton sucks...

 

and not just dick.

 

Ok. So Brad and Angie are donating to charity all of the $14 Million dollars they are getting for selling their twins to People Magazine. That's fine. That's dandy. But like when I recently wrote about Matthew McConaughey and his baby-mama selling the first photos of their new baby... I have to say it again... the money doesn't belong to you, dear parents.

My opinion on children and income is that in a poor family any income from anyone in the family should go to support the family. I don't have a problem with that. If a child's income is the sole income, then I DO have a problem with it. If that income is used for the self-indulgence and luxury of the parent, yeah too, I have a problem with you, dear parent.

I also have a problem with it if you sell photos of your kid for $14 million dollars and donate all of it to charity. Sorry, but it isn't your money to donate. It belongs to the kid(s).

Children are a parent's responsibility... not their property.

  

A book you MUST read:

The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder by Vincent Bugliosi.

Bugliosi had a heck of a time getting this thing published and he is a best selling author! There is so much fear in this country, this home of the free and, the once, brave. Even the news media has been essentially blacklisting this book, not mentioning or reviewing it, but despite that it is now on the best seller lists. Word of mouth and Internet commentary is really moving this book! Thank God for US on here, eh?

Post the link if you can so that people will know this book is out there. It is a book that needs to be read by everyone... whether you like Bush or not.

Try out this:

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/

Software is given away on a daily basis. :)

 

 

 

 

You will not catch me getting an iPhone. I don't care how many people in my life and acquaintance are telling me that this is the next best thing since sliced bread, it doesn't matter, because I am not getting one. I don't care that it acts as a cell-phone, a camera, a video player, a music player, allows you to surf the web, massages your colon as you drive, or that it might be of use as an Easy-Bake oven in a pinch. I don't care! I am not getting one.

I have a cell-phone. I've had a cell-phone since before the dawn of time. Before I had the cell-phone I had a pager. In fact, I had two pagers; One pager was for work so that the bosses could bug me on my day off. The other was private and for my friends to let me know that they'd lost me in the bar. That was before the days of text messaging. We had codes. 911 meant emergency, 8008 meant there was a girl with large breasts at the bar the friend was at, and 9110111 meant "I got thrown out of the bar! Please come outside so we can go find a bar that will let me in in this condition."

I have the Internet at home, I don't need the expense of having it on my cell-phone too. Oh, I DID have it on my cell for a time but quickly got tired of that. It was too hard to use to find the things I needed to find at the time - Usually at the bar, semi-drunk, trying to find some information that was not percolating out of my semi-intoxicated brain. I also found that I was spending too much time staring down at the phone and was missing the fun times I could have been having with my in-person real-life friends.

If I want to watch a video, I'll watch a video on a TV screen, or on a large computer screen. If I want to listen to music, I'll listen to music on my Bose. If I want to take a photo... well... that is a good thing to have on a cell-phone, I must admit. Still, a lot of cells already have that capability. I don't need an iPhone for that.

One of my (adult) nephews just went down to get an iPhone. He had to put down more than $200 for it. The iPhone will be delivered to the store in about 10-14 days. When it comes in he'll have to give them $500 for the activation fee. They required a credit card to order the phone, he couldn't just pay cash. When the phone comes in they'll let him pay the $500 activation fee in cash, but to pay the initial $200 bucks he had to use a credit card. Lord knows why! I'm sure his mom doesn't know why either, and it was her credit card he had to use. ;)

This is the same nephew who couldn't keep up with the $85 a month cell-phone bill of his last cellular service; He was always late, always over, and eventually... turned off. This is the same (adult) kid who broke his PS/3 when he became enraged at a game he was playing. I don't know if he was drunk at the time or just frustrated, all I know is that the game station ended up trashed. ALL of his old cell-phones are all banged up too. You think an iPhone is going to last long in his hands? I don't.

I've been into computers and technology a long time. One of the things I learned a long time ago was that when you have a thing that is many other things, if something happens to that thing, you've lost more than one thing.

If you have a TV and-or DVD/VCR combo and it dies, you've lost your VCR, your DVD player, and perhaps your TV too (if the DVD/VCR is combo-ed into the TV). For some people that also means that they've lost their CD player. The same rule applies to the PS/x game system(s) - if one uses it for DVD and CDs as well as for game-play. When you lose the one thing, you tend to lose the many things.

Integrated devices can be convenient... but they are risky things. Me, I have always resisted integrated computer systems. I've loathed the idea of a box that is all-and-one a thing. If the Keyboard goes out you can't simply grab another keyboard; If the monitor fails, you can't just replace that and get back to your work; If the video card dies, you can't pull it out and stick in a new one. You can't! Not with an integrated system. The video card is built-in, the audio card is built-in, the modem is inside AND built-in, and nothing can be easily swapped out at 3:00AM when you need to finish something on your computer before a 9:00AM deadline. Work, school, or whatever... you are screwed.

So. No iPhone for me. No "everything in the palm of my hand" device for your old friend Symian. I'll keep my devices separate and safer, I'll save the money for a better thing (like a real vacation, not a virtual one), and I'll let all the rest of you skip-to-the-loo... and probably drop the damn thing into the toilet by accident.

Luckily, the iPhone looks to be too large to flush.

;)

I am currently busy adding several hundred new entries to the database. Cross-referencing AKA names and titles, rechecking birth (and death) dates, and so on, is a time consuming task. It will take me a few days to go through my existing "new adds" lists.

Once I complete working with that data, I'll put the form for sending new data to me back up on the site. I don't want to put it up again until I've added what I have now. Doing this will help (I hope!) to cut down duplications of sent information.

I do not agree with celebrities selling their kids. I just don't.

Matthew McConaughey and his girlfriend have sold the first baby photos of their newborn to a tabloid for $3 million dollars. Adding into this mix will be the kid's first Christmas photos, and perhaps the wedding photos if Matthew ever decides to wed his baby's mother. I'd be surprised if he ever did that, 'cause really, why buy it when you've already used it to its effective production value? No reason at all.

That's mean. Yeah, I know. I still say it. You think he's going to marry her when he'll have to split all of his money and property if they break up after? Nah. Who's got the balls to ask the mother of his child for a pre-nup! That'd be really ballsy.

There used to be a time in this country when the children of celebrities were inviolate. Select photoshoots were sometimes arranged, but the overall privacy of the children was never made into a news item. The child is not the celebrity, not putting themselves out for public attention; The parent is.

It's bad enough that "news" rags are out there hunting down these innocents, but now we also have the parents putting the kids on display for money. That reeks to me of a person who considers a child to be a piece of property. That's just not right.

I do hope that Matthew and his girlfriend realize that that $3 million dollars belongs to the kid. At 18 that kid can legally come after that money if that money wasn't put aside in a trust. Now wouldn't that make an interesting news story!

I hope such a thing happens in my lifetime. It would give me a reason to buy one of those news rags and not feel like a traitor to humankind.

 

;) 

I like to play on-line movie games, like the "guess the movie title by the photo" type of games. I am not too bad at it. I am, after all,  a minor movie buff. I do have a very good memory for movies, the various scenes from movies, and the actors and actresses in the various roles in said films. I do not have a good memory for exact years, the directors, which studio, and I certainly do not have a memory that keeps track of who the Best Boy was. Some people can remember those kind of details. I am not one of them.

On all of the sites that I play the movie games on, on every single one, there are relatively few people playing the "guess the movie by the photo" game. That confuses me because there is loads of activity going on in the other movie topic thread, that thread being the "guess the movie by the movie quote" game. I just can't wrap my brain around the idea that so many people can remember an exact line of dialog from a movie, but can't place a screen capture from the very same movie. That simply doesn't make sense to me.

Oh, if you said to me "Don't get saucy with me, Bernaise." I'll know that that is from History of the World, Part I. I remember it because it is a great line. If you said "Hey, where the white women at?" I can remember that that comes from Blazing Saddles. Some lines are famous lines, completely and totally memorable. Most lines are not such, and never will be. Not everything is a "I see dead people."

I don't know about you, but to me: "Al, you old S.O.B! How ya doing? How do you feel about that call today? I mean the dolphins! Fourth and three play on the 30 yards line with 34 seconds to go!" is not something most people are going to be able to recall comes from The Birdcage... unless, of course, they google the text first.

If you are one of those people who (and apparently there are LOTS of you out there by the looks of the movie quote game) knows that "Whores don't get a second chance" comes specifically from the movie Identity... well now! You are really really good.

Personally, I believe that the winner of most Movie Quote games on the Internet today is a fella named Search D. Engine.

I do.

 

 

Yes! As of today (just now in fact) the Scenes of Nudity Database is back up and running on the website. I will be adding new data to it shortly.

I do not plan to try and compete with other sites of the kind because, well, I just don't want to. SONDB was the first such animal on the Internet and if it is old hat and behind the times...  just consider it an old (and pervy) grandfather.

 

:)