100th post!

at 08/19/06 11:49AM
w00t!!

In honor of my 100th post I'm shutting down this weblog. If you wish to contact me do so either through email (spartacus@baize.org) my cell (352-562-3999) or my convenient other blog (el_magnifico). Peace yall, Sharpton for President, I'm outie!

Well your CD collection looks shiny and costly...

at 08/12/06 11:45AM
So I'm on my first day working the front desk on a saturday.

In the past 5 and a half hours I've had 5 visitors, 6 phone calls, and issued two parking permits.

On a busy day I'll have 50+ visitors, 35+ phone calls, 1 or 2 police reports, 6 Vehicles released from impound, and 8 sets of fingerprints taken. Just to put it in perspective.

The time is going so slow sometime it feels like the clock is going widdershins!

If you know of any interesting places to go or things to do on the internet that don't involve sound sound. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE let me knnow about them! I've played literally almost every game on Addictinggames.com.

On a different note, my wonderful wife got me an xbox for my bday. I already beat Crimson Skies. And now I'm working on Star Wars: KOTOR. I also got Prince of Persia (the first one) and DDR Ultramix with 2 dance pads. Oh how I wish I could just spend days wasting away in front of my xbox!
  • yoyoma
    how much did you pay for your bad moto-goozy?
    by yoyoma at 08/12/06 12:24PM
  • yoyoma
    or something like that...
    by yoyoma at 08/12/06 12:24PM
  • cali_dude
    hey are you with the tampa PD? do you know if they have any part time jobs let me know. Hey what church are you all attending at? See ya soon. I get to FL next week
    by cali_dude at 08/12/06 9:14PM
  • kilroy_tex
    *cracks knuckles*
    by kilroy_tex at 08/13/06 11:44PM
  • kilroy_tex
    www.kirchersociety.org, we-make-money-not-art.com, boingboing.net, www.damninteresting.com. all for interesting art/internet stuff, updated daily. also fark.com for weird news of the day
    by kilroy_tex at 08/13/06 11:46PM
  • kilroy_tex
    and i almost forgot, the one meta-website you can soak up hours with: everything2.com
    by kilroy_tex at 08/14/06 12:05AM
  • baizal
    can't forget digg.com
    by baizal at 08/14/06 10:39AM
  • baizal
    Also find a good forum to be a member of. That's where I find all my good material.
    by baizal at 08/14/06 10:39AM
  • phat_man
    how do you afford your.. pleonast life style?
    by phat_man at 08/14/06 11:25AM
  • elm
    Happy belated B-Day buddy. 104 Jefferson Ave., Moundsville, WV 26041. We gotta talk soon.
    by elm at 08/14/06 11:46AM
  • kiss_the_rain
    Happy birthday!!! Matt and I were just talking about you :)
    by kiss_the_rain at 08/14/06 10:36PM
  • mischief_mayhem_soap
    Happy Birthday...I meant to like, call you yesterday, but I totally forgot. But don't feel bad, Saturday was my parents 34th anniversary and I completely forgot to call them too. ha! anyways, hope you had a great day and whatnot. Wicked excited about seeing you this weekend.
    by mischief_mayhem_soap at 08/14/06 11:17PM
  • baizal
    You losers forgetting to call poor wittle sethie. At least you have your sister and I to count on.
    by baizal at 08/14/06 11:52PM
  • mre
    ok where is gainsville
    by mre at 08/15/06 11:03AM
  • elm
    Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting
    by elm at 08/18/06 4:11PM
  • elm
    Its your Birthday, go milk a goat!
    by elm at 08/18/06 6:33PM
  • el_magnifico
    that^^ is glorious.
    by el_magnifico at 08/19/06 8:00AM

Word of the Day

at 08/09/06 4:11PM
"widdershins"

adverb:
In a left-handed, wrong, or contrary direction; counterclockwise

Example sentence:
In the book, the members of the coven hold hands and dance widdershins around the fire.

Did you know?
By the mid-1500s, English speakers had adopted "widdershins" (which is from the Middle High German "wider," meaning "back against," and "sinnen," meaning "to travel") for anything following a path that is opposite to the apparent direction of the sun as it travels across the sky in the Northern Hemisphere (or opposite the direction of the movement of the shadow on a sundial or the hands on a clock). In its earliest known uses, "widdershins" was used to describe cases of bad hair in which unruly locks stood on end or fell the wrong way. But because many people in times past considered the widdershins direction to be "backwards," it has long been associated with magic, witchcraft, and, sometimes, the devil.

And now, Yakko Warner will sing all the words in the English language...

at 08/08/06 9:58AM
So here's my new schedule:

Saturday 7a-3:30p
Saturday 11p-7:30a Sunday morning
Sunday 11p-7:30a Monday morning
Monday 3p-11:30p
Tuesday 3p-11:30p
Wednesday-off
Thursday-off
Friday-off

It'll be that way for the next 4 months...yay.
  • yoyoma
    ew
    by yoyoma at 08/08/06 11:21AM
  • iheart2talk
    thats a crazy schedule
    by iheart2talk at 08/08/06 11:51AM
  • adampual
    i love animaniacs.
    by adampual at 08/08/06 2:33PM
  • kerrigan
    ooh yay! two overnights!
    that means random phone calls! haha
    by kerrigan at 08/08/06 4:08PM
  • cmvermont
    haha hey man!
    by cmvermont at 08/09/06 1:49PM
  • nightwalker
    u working when i come down?
    by nightwalker at 08/09/06 2:53PM
  • kerrigan
    shands?
    by kerrigan at 08/09/06 3:35PM
  • fullofgrace
    your MOM's an aquatic maneuver!
    *laugh*
    how are you doing?
    by fullofgrace at 08/09/06 5:09PM
  • baizal
    Sounds like you need to crate/kennel train. That's the only "housebreaking" we've done.
    by baizal at 08/10/06 11:05AM
  • better_than_this
    heey! hows the wife??
    by better_than_this at 08/10/06 6:36PM

I love the AP and their award winning journalistic endeavors

at 07/26/06 9:34AM
stolen from his blog

NEW YORK - "Jeopardy!" ace Ken Jennings, who won $2.5 million during his 74-game winning streak, has a few unkind words to say about the show — and dapper host Alex Trebek.

"I know, I know, the old folks love him," Jennings writes in a recent posting, titled "Dear Jeopardy!" on his Web site.

"Nobody knows he died in that fiery truck crash a few years back and was immediately replaced with the Trebektron 4000 (I see your engineers still can't get the mustache right, by the way)."

Jennings also takes aim at the show's "effete, left-coast" categories and "same-old" format.

"You're like the Dorian Gray of syndication," he says. "You seem to think `change' means replacing a blue polyethylene backdrop with a slightly different shade of blue polyethylene backdrop every presidential election or so."

A call by The Associated Press to "Jeopardy!" spokesman Jeff Ritter was not immediately returned Tuesday.

Jennings, a software engineer from Salt Lake City, snagged 74 wins on "Jeopardy!" in 2004 before he was beaten by challenger Nancy Zerg.

Trebek, 66, has hosted the show since 1984. In a "correction" posted Monday on his Web site, Jennings offers an apology of sorts.

"We regret the insinuation that Mr. Alex Trebek is a robot, and has been since 2004. Mr. Trebek's robotic frame does still contain some organic parts, many harvested from patriotic Canadian schoolchildren, so this technically makes him a `cyborg,' not a `robot.'"

  • adampual
    lol that is hilarious.
    by adampual at 07/26/06 10:21AM
  • megan_leigeber
    i read that on aol this morning. its really quite funny!
    by megan_leigeber at 07/26/06 10:39AM
  • adampual
    Ken Jennings's most recent blog:

    July 25, 2006
    Sense of humor, meet Michael Starr
    I woke up to this New York Post piece this morning. If you don’t want to read it, I can sum up for you: I’m ungrateful to be snarkily ripping on Jeopardy! in this blog entry of last week. How dare I? They made me!

    I’ve met Michael Starr a couple times, and he always seemed like a nice enough guy. Which leaves me wondering: does he know how asinine this non-story is? Despite working for the Post, I’m sure his reading comprehension is just fine. He knows there’s no way I was genuinely calling for angry bees and ventriloquist’s dummies to be added to the Jeopardy! format. It’s a humor piece, and one which gets its laughs from the outrageous non sequiturs it proposes, not the ripeness of its target for criticism. For the record: I’ve loved Jeopardy! since I was a kid, as anyone who talks to me for about five minutes knows. Making goofy jokes about TV shows isn’t “bashing.” I believe it’s the whole reason Al Gore invented the Internet.

    I am grateful to Michael for the extra web traffic, but not for the humor-impaired sock puppet users who showed up on the message board this morning to either defend Jeopardy! or make trouble, I can’t tell which. In any case, they’ve (he’s?) violated several of our posting guidelines, and the threads will be removed shortly. I welcome reasoned disagreement on a blog entry’s strengths and flaws, but this wasn’t it.
    by adampual at 07/26/06 11:09AM
  • spartacus813
    haha!
    by spartacus813 at 07/26/06 4:06PM
  • jstanley
    SETH!! You have to buy a paintball gun so we can start playing. I would let you use my extra but I think I am gonna let Katelyn use it (until she wimps out of course)
    by jstanley at 07/31/06 1:42PM
  • lilmissnursekeri
    hey seth! Ummm K so i FINALLY saw you're wedding pictures....wow she looked amazing!!! I hope you are having a great week!
    by lilmissnursekeri at 08/02/06 12:33AM
  • kerrigan
    HAHA
    you rock
    by kerrigan at 08/02/06 4:55PM
  • sonya05
    that would be fun!
    by sonya05 at 08/02/06 5:17PM
  • lilmissnursekeri
    aww thanks man! Yes i am going to FC!!! ITS AMAZING i leave in 12 days! :-)
    by lilmissnursekeri at 08/02/06 11:56PM