What ad wizard came up with the idea of “shooting an email” to someone? You send email, you don’t shoot it. I don’t know about you, but I hate when people are like, “shoot me an email.” Sure…I’ll do that. Let me just get out my email gun, and I’ll shoot it right at you. Talking about shooting an email is right on par with using the finger gun to acknowledge someone. It’s retarded.

Do you think if you stack enough of those O’Reilly books next to each other you get some crazy animal parade?

Today is August 4, 2026

I finally saw Finding Neverland this weekend. It was very very good. It’s most likely better than whatever movie you saw.

The As Tall As Lions show is tonight in Greensboro, and Cliff put me on the guest list again, which is totally sweet. If you’ve never been on the guest list for a show before, I’d highly suggest getting on one so you can know how cool it is to be all like, “I’m on the guest list.”

This is pretty freakin’ sweet.

Today is August 4, 2026

Wal-Mart, the clich? Southerner’s Mecca, has something called the “Wal-Mart Literacy Helpline”. They pledge to help people who can’t read get connected with local literacy organizations.

My guess is that they have ulterior motives for their literacy hotline. I think they’re training people to be workers as their stores, since I’m pretty sure the only requirement you have to meet to work at Wal-Mart is that you can half-way read some of the time.

Wal-Mart says that “More than 40,000 individuals have been helped by Wal-Mart’s Literacy Helpline since 2001.” I bet that they’ve also gotten at least 40,000 more employees since 2001 too.

If you’re interested in earning your blue Wal-Mart vest, stupid smiley face button, and name tag, just call the Wal-Mart Literacy Helpline at 1-800-929-4458; you too can work to fulfill the requirement needed to be a Wal-Mart employee by learning to read.

Today is August 4, 2026

Andy and I went to Boston, Massachusetts to hang out this weekend. It was good times. We went over to Harvard, which I had never been to. It’s really nice over there…although I don’t like that you have to have a Harvard ID to get into the library. But we saw the usual sights as Andy hadn’t ever been before. (Click here for pictures.)

We walked a long way down Beacon St., and I regret having not taken a picture down it, but it was awesome. There are some really sweet apartments and condos down that way. I could totally picture Pete, Berg, and Sharon sitting on the steps of one of them. I’d like to know how much rent is at a place on Beacon St.

We also went to see The Ring 2 on Saturday. It was ok…not ridiculously awesome, but not bad either. It was made worse by the douche bags we had to sit in front of. These people talked through the entire movie…in a language I didn’t understand, they kicked our seats the whole time, and then halfway through the movie the dumb girl starts popping her gum so loudly the entire theater could hear. The dude beside me turned around and, loudly, told them to, “shut the fuck up!” and then his girlfriend went and found an usher person to help with the situation. You’d think that having paid as much as everyone else for the ticket to the movie, that they’d watch it…or at least respect the other people who’re there to watch it if they weren’t enjoying it.

This is the problem with movies that are: 1.) Not for smart people. 2.) Not rated R. and 3.) Before 9:00 PM.

Today is August 4, 2026

This is one of the most amazing things I’ve read about in a long time…I can’t wait to see it. Here are a few screenshots too. I’m glad that he recognized the Demo Scene in his speech too…those guys are 1337 and totally deserve some recognition.

Also, I’ve had two people tell me this week that my name sounds “dignified” and “very important” like I should own a mansion or a castle in England or something…maybe it’s some kinda sign. Or maybe I do own a castle in England and everyone knows about it but me…

Today is August 4, 2026

So my dumb host freaked me out yesterday when they said I had basically lost everything. I did manage to find one competent person there who actually knew things and he fixed the problem. The problem wasn’t what the three emails I received said it was, nor was it the problem that the guy I talked to on the phone the first time said it was. This is the guy who told me that a hard drive had failed and that they “were only able to recover 1′s and 0′s.” I told him that it was supposed to be just 1′s and 0′s and that those 1′s and 0′s were what I was looking to get back. But it turned out to be a problem with their DNS and having two different instances of my stuff…no idea why…but whatever. The point is, it’s fixed now and I will be making my own backups twice a week since I no longer have any faith in other people that are supposedly making “daily backups.” At least that’s over and I didn’t have to go kick anyone in the face in Illinois.

Today is August 4, 2026

This lady tastes music.

It’s a sad sad day when going to a website is considered “hacking.” Earlier this week some Harvard Business School applicants got instructions from someone with a URL to go visit to find out earlier than intended if they were accepted. The school said they are going to reject all 119 people who went to this URL on a public server. Some lady said that, “This behavior is unethical at best”. I think that’s the exact opposite of what it was — unethical at worst. What difference does it make anyway if they found out a few weeks early…is there something they could do with that knowledge? I can’t think of anything. Somewhere Al Gore is crying for the massive numbers of people who don’t understand his creation.

Today is August 4, 2026

I saw one of the most awesome license plates I’ve ever seen today. It said “5MART 455″. How freakin’ sweet is that? Apparently the DMV needs to read the article on 1337 5p33k that Micro$oft wrote, cause I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t have allowed her to have “SMART ASS.”

Only two more weeks until The Ring 2. w00t!

Today is August 4, 2026

Paul and I went to eat lunch at this new Mexican restaurant at 54/55 a few weeks ago and they had this fish bowl to put your name and phone number in for a drawing to win lunch for you and 15 of your co-workers. Paul entered both mine and his names, and I made a comment about how I never win drawings.

Anyway, I totally forgot about him putting our names in until this morning when my phone rings and some guy is on the phone asking me if I put my name in the fish bowl at La Salsa. I was like, “yeah…I remember doing that” and he was like, “congratulations, your name was drawn for the free lunch.”

So that’s pretty sweet, I won free lunch for me and all my co-workers next Thursday.

Today is August 4, 2026

Don’t ya hate when people turn the phrase, “couple-a-three”. What they mean is “two or three”…but it doesn’t mean that. Couple-a-three is six, not two or three. Go with several, a few, triumvirate, quad-pack, or maybe even quadrilogy like Aliens. On the other hand, if you actually are talking about six of something, feel free to use “couple-a-three” all you want.

Today is August 4, 2026