Here is a new piece of software that allows you to make free calls. All you need is a set of speakers and a microphone, and this software will enable you to make free calls over the internet. Check out Skype for more details.
I didn't know that I had my own town? And it is even big enough to have it's own newspaper! Check out the The Beebe News.
Check out this essay on a look at a ghost town after a nuclear catastrophe (and give her a break, English is her second language).
excerpt: "In Ukrainian language Chernobyl is a name for a grass, wormwood (absinth) This word scares holly beseeches out of people here. If I tell someone that I am heading in a "dead zone"... You know, what I hear.. In best case- "are you nuts?" My dad used to say that people afraid of a thing which they can not see, can not feel, can not smell and that kills. Dad is nuclear physicist and he also says that of all dangerous things in my life, he can only think about one, which is riding my bike on fifth or sixth gear. In any way, dad and their team work in "dead zone" for last 18 years. They doing researches from the day when nuclear disaster happened. The rest of guys in a team are microbiologists, doctors, botanists.. etc. I was 7 years old back in 1986 and in a few hours after accident happened dad sent us with sister off with the train to Grandmother. Granny lives 800 kms from here and dad wasn't sure if it was far enough for us to stay away of troubles. Communists kept silence about this accident. In Kiev, they forced people to take part in their stupid labor day parade and then people start learning about accident from foreign radio, from relatives of those who died and real panic began in 7-10 days after accident. Dad says, that in those first 10 days exposure to radiation was the most powerful and can not even be compared with what we have now."
Found this nice little write up on our neighborhood, Talbot Park.
By beating Kansas 79-71, Georgia Tech is going to the final four for the first time since 1990!!
To add a little drama to the game, our leading scorer for the season, BJ Elder, hurt his ankle two nights ago. So Jarrett Jack, who Sherry has a crush on, stepped up BIG TIME, scoring 29 points. For more on his dedication to the game, check out how he spent his summers.
So now, GT will face a very strong Oklahoma State team, in San Antonio on Saturday, for the chance to play in the NCAA championship game! Hopefully BJ Elder's ankle sprain will be a thing of the past by then.
GO JACKETS!
We painted the front shutters (from red to black) and got most of the upstairs bathroom done, which included stripping the wallpaper (thank you Sherry), painting it, and putting up new light fixtures. I took some pictures on Saturday (before the bathroom was finished) and posted them in my Yahoo photos. Check out the folder called "2004-03-29."
I will take some more pictures tonight to post of the semi-complete bathroom.
Found this picture of my friend Rebekah from the UF OBGYN residents page.
A great advantage to a blog is that it decreases the amount of useless joke forward emails that get sent around the internet. Don't get me wrong, joke forward emails are an important part in the internet user's maturation process, but they are similar to zits in my mind. They are just an ugly phase that some individuals go through while experiencing "cyber adolescence." This phase usually lasts until someone chastises you for getting out of hand and calls you annoying and you start to realize you are sending out jokes that everyone else has already received or could go find on their own if they were really interested. And similar to facial hair, as the one receiving the joke forwards, at first it is fascinating, but once you have to deal with it daily it quickly gets old.
Past "cyber adolescence" comes the jingoistic period of trying to warn your fellow "cyberites" that there are things to be weary off in that crazy World Wide Web! And the new found feeling of camaraderie with your cyber pals, since you have weather cyber adolescence together, requires you to move past forwarding jokes to more important matters such as every request to mail your friends because Bill Gates will give money to
What I have seen is that all forwards have about a 2 year life cycle... they will go away for a while and then the same jokes, legends, and hoaxes will show back up, to provide the unenlightening some room to get chastised by their now cyber savvy friends.
Ok, that was quite a tangent, my point when I started to post this entry, was to share a funny quote that my big brother at Lambda Chi Alpha sent me yesterday (he seems to be regressing back to adolescence). The beautiful thing is, I am weeding out all the UNfunny quotes to just provide you with this one, that made me LOL ("laugh out loud" for those down with the "cyber lingo"):
"See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough
blood to run one at a time."
- Robin Williams
So I just checked to see if this quote was actually from Robin Williams and I found the exact text of the email that was sent to me in not 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 places... but the first 20 result from google. Just more proof to think twice before forwarding.
By the way... I think adding "cyber" to anything adds about 5 funny points to it. Try it sometime.
My good friend Andrew, seen here dressed like Don Johnson, although I don't remember Don wearing an earring) has decided that he is good enough at golf (a game that I taught him how to play!!!) to go on tour. Not quite PGA, but the Edwin Watts tour. He played his first tournament last weekend and you can see his results on the Orlando, FL Edwin Watts Tour page. Maybe I should start playing more??!?
I'm very proud of you Andrew, and jealous that you can play FIFA Soccer 2004 and watch the NCAA tournament at the same time, on the SAME TV!
You down with Palindromes?
