1. How much money is in your wallet right now?
I think about eleven bucks. Why? Are you looking for a loan?
2. How much money would you need in the bank to feel secure? Rich?
At least $10,000 to be secure and 10 BILLION dollars to be rich. Those sharks with the freakin’ lasers are expensive.
3. If someone gave you $100, no strings attached, what would you do with it?
Look up in the sky to make sure that a planet sized comet is not hurtling toward us. After I’m sure that everything is okay, I’d go buy some new shoes for the family…. or fill the car with gas, can’t do both.
4. If someone gave you $1 Million, no strings attached, what would you do with it?
Get out of dept completely, set up a couple of college funds for my kids, buy a new car, and put any that’s left in a savings account.
5. How much does something have to cost before it starts counting as “real” money, as a purchase to be considered and evaluated, but below which you’ll buy without really thinking about it?
$1. I am really a tight wad.
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For those of you using Movable Type and experiencing the dreaded “500 Server Errors” , you should have the problem solved by tonight. Even I got this error today and I thought I was going nuts. It seems that CPanel, which is popular with Linux servers, downloaded a buggy version of a MySQL driver and all hell broke loose.
Now I understand why my hosts wants to switch from CPanel.
1. Do you live alone, at home with your parents, with your boy- or girlfriend or in a apartment-sharing community?
I live with my wife and kids in a stand-alone house. It is not much, but it does for right now.
2. Which piece of furniture would you like to trash?
My fold-down couch bed in my living room. It is old, torn, and just not comfortable any more.
3. Which piece of furniture would you never give away?
My entertainment center. It was a devil to put together, weights a ton, and monsterously huge, but it does what it is supposed to do – hold all the entertainment equipment.
4. In which country would you like to have a summer cottage?
Scotland. I’ve always wanted to visit and having a summer cottage there would be nice. The visit would be just long enough to be ready to leave at the end of summer, but not long enough not to want to come back. And it is a lot cooler there this time of the year than it is here.
5. Describe your apartment/house of your dreams!
Two story wood with bay windows on both floors in the front of the house, wrap around porch, four large bedrooms, two and a half baths, medium size kitchen, medium sized living room, small den, medium sized dining room, good sized laundry room, library, study, two car enclosed garage, deck, full attic, and a pool. Yes, we have already planned our house.
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Headlines you thought you’d never see and… well, the chances of you seeing them are slim to none and it is sliding toward none.
Resurrected Dogs Escape From Army Lab
Thought to be looking for Milla Jovovich.
Fossil Found In South Dakota Actually Dragon
Little Jackie Paper calling for Puff
President Bush Has A Thought
Entire nation aghast.
Tom Cruise Quits Scientology
Blames alien anal probe for tirades.
Oil Drops To $2 A Barrel
Flying pigs over Saudi Arabia sited as reason.
Cheese Found To Be Perfect Food
Stock prices on cheese soar to $200 a wedge.
Hurricane Dennis Meets T.S. Cindy
Get married, have little his- and her- icanes.
Aliens Invade Hollywood
Claims War Of The Worlds movie shows them in bad light.
U.S. Annexes England
Bush: “England has been our bitch since the war in Iraq, might as well make it legal.”
Ringo Starr Shaves
Sites beard not growing to full potential as reason.
Chickens Armed With Ray Guns Attack White House
Demand equal time on Chicl-fil-A commercials.
Paris Hilton Invents Time Machine
Hilton: “If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits eighty-eight miles per hour… you’re gonna see some serious shit. ”
Lost Secret Revealed
TV show actually dream by Gilligan.
Women’s Breast Size Increase Overnight
Scientists drooling over chance to investigate strange phenomenon.
Voyager Probe Unexpectantly Returns From Deep Space
Wants to merge with maker, needs Sarah Conners address.
Is it me or has this whole Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise thing gone really wacko? First, out of the blue Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise start dating right after she goes to see him about a part in MI:3. Let’s backtrack… sometime around April 11 (yes, of this year) she goes to see Tom about a part in the movie. Then she disappears for 16 days! No contact with anyone, not her family, not her friends (two of which she was never far from before), not even her agent and her manager. She comes back in the limelight on April 27 with Tom doing this song and dance about Katie being his life love (16 days? What the hell was he doing with a nice Catholic girl for 16 days.) and Katie fires both her agent and manager. She returns with a new best friend Jessica Feshbach, whose family has been knee deep in shady dealings and is still on the SEC’s watch list, and shuns her old friends. Then Katie is assigned a Scientology adviser by the name of Jessica Rodriguez that is the bane of all press people since she monitors and, on more that one occasion, intercedes on questions posed to Katie which is raising the ire of Warner Bros. (Don’t expect to see her in any more Batman movies, nor in much of anything coming out of WB.) Now Katie has decided to join Scientology! You think the poo-poo hit the fan before.
Then there is Tom, the once quiet, serene mega-star is now a raving, sofa-jumping maniac who spouts Scientology dogma at the drop of a hat railing against the use of drugs in cases of postpartum depression (Scientologist don’t believe in the use of any drugs, whatsoever, for anything) and calling psychiatry a pseudo-science (coming from an advocate of a pseudo-religion). Tom, are you sure those vitamins you are taking are really vitamins? Tom Cruise has turned into a media circus, in a bad way. If I were the leaders of Scientology I would be pulling in Tom’s reigns as hard as I could, maybe send him to a “retreat” for a few weeks.
Then there is this whole crap about Scientology. I’m a fairly reasonable person that will acknowledge any belief system calling itself a religion on the flimsiest of dogma, but I have to stop at Scientology. Though they don’t really call themselves a religion per se (a cult is more like it), they sure do a lot of religious “stuff” to make it look like one. Now I have a problem with a following that is predicted by its founder (take a gander at the book The End Is Not Yet)… sounds too much like a self fulfilling prophecy to me. There is just way too many unanswered questions, too much skullduggery, too much deceit (just look how they changed L. Ron’s history), and too many lawsuits. All this from a man who was a fairly good writer who could have easily been more if he had stopped trying to con the VA out of money and stayed away from the John Whiteside Parsons and the Aleister Crowley followers, the Ordo Templi Orientis (some of us know better than to deal with the OTO).
But that is just my opinion so you Scientology lawyers can put your papers back in your brief cases.
BTW, Scientologist, the OTO unfortunately still exists, it just not as public… sort of.
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1. Photo albums or picture frames?
I have loads of both at my house. I prefer to archive my older photos in the photo album and put the latest professional portraits on the walls. Home grown photos usually go directly into a photo album.
2. Digital camera, disposable, or point-and-click?
I have a cheap digital camera that I prefer to use, but if I want quality pictures I use the point-and-click model. I normally use disposables when on vacation.
3. What facial expression (of yours) is usually captured in pictures?
My dimple-rific wrinkle-eye smile.
4. What’s your favorite picture and why?
The one of my daughter and I at her first college football game. We didn’t stay for the whole game but she toughed it out in the cold as long as she could. She waited the few extra minutes to get the picture.
5. Do you take the picture after you say “1, 2, 3″, or after you say “2″ and right when you say “3″, or do you use another method or not count?
I usually point an click. I like to get people in the natural and not artificial smile.
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