Read Enron's Email

My friend Dave sent this to me. Follow this link and you can browse through 2 years worth of company email from the employees of Enron. It will make you think twice about saying personal things over your work email. The employees' full names are in the emails and any of their email secrets have just been outed to the world. The link makes you create a login, but it is worth it. Be forewarned, it is addicting.

http://www.enronemail.com/

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Fish Tale

Wow. This story speaks for itself.

See news article and more pictures here.

PoPoZao

Ok, this is just to hilarious not to post. They're showing a new video on MTV with Kevin Federline's (or K-Fed) new video from his new single named, "Popozao." This video in itself is funny, albeit painful, to watch. He just sits there in his studio jamming to his own song.

Watch it here.

After you watch that video, now check out the guys from G4 TV's 'Attack of the show' totally parody this process. It's even more hilarious, and NOT painful to watch. Pure fun!

Watch G4's parody here.

P.S. If 'the video isn't working', it's not my fault. It just means that you don't know what you're doing and you probably shouldn't be on the internet. ;)

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I'm Lazy

I must admit, January has been a lazy month. I need to get off my butt and be more active. Participate more in life. I think it's SAD. Seasonal Affective Disorder. I'm blaming it on that self-diagnosis. February will be different, I promise. I'm going to get involved in some extra-curricular activities. I'm thinking of taking an acting class. I don't really want to be an actor, but it'd be fun to take a class.

Crime doesn't pay (me)

I got my first parking ticket since living in L.A. this morning. I have no reserved parking where I live, so I always have to scramble for a spot on the street. And they have all these funky street cleaning rules on Mondays and Tuesdays. Between 11:00 AM and 2:00 PM you have to be parked on a certain side. So you have to learn the timing and when is the best to move. I tried to find a spot on the correct side early this morning, but couldn't find one, so I parked on the nearby cross-street, but I had to move it by 8:00 AM. That was unwise and unfortunate. I meant to move it at 8:00, but got tied up with work and forgot. And of course, two hours later there was a parking ticket on my car.

P.S. I realize that this is perhaps to trivial for a blog posting, but this is my life. :)

Indie 103.1 FM rocks

I'm usually not a fan of radio because it seems there's never any good music, or they play the same stuff over and over and over, or you get extremely annoying egotistical morning DJ's.

Until I met Indie 103.1 that is. This is a local L.A. station that plays a great mix of independent, good quality music. They do eclectic, against the norm kinda stuff all the time. Like 5:00 with Frank, where they play a Frank Sinatra song at 5:00 PM. Or just randomly play the Winnie the Pooh theme song as they just now did. Check it out online. Now you don't have to be local to appreciate this great station!

http://www.indie1031.fm/listenlive.php

And if they play a song and you like it, but don't know the artist, just go to their home page and they have a "Now Playing" feature that displays the current song playing.

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Grillz

The number one song on Billboards Hot 100 chart right now is "Grillz" by Nelly. In this song, Nelly talks about outfitting his teeth with diamond and gold jewerly, which he calls "Grillz". The song opens up with "rob a jewelry store and tell them to make me a grill" This is the number one song. What is the world coming to? Are we really this materialistic? And I guess Nelly has 30 teeth at the bottom and 30 teeth at the top, which is an awful lot of teeth. I'm not sure how that happened, maybe it was a birth defect or something. Below are the lyrics to this chart topping song. The video is even more hilarious.

Rob the jewelry store and tell 'em make me a grill
Add the whole top diamond and the bottom row's gold

[J.D.]
Yo we bout to start a epidemic wit this one
Y'all know what this is... So So Def

[Nelly]
Got 30 down at the bottom, 30 mo at the top
All invisible set wit little ice cube blocks
If I could call it a drink, call it a smile on the rocks
If I could call out a price, lets say I call out a lot
I got like platinum and white gold, traditional gold
I'm changin girllz errday, like Jay change clothes
I might be grilled out nicely (oh) In my white tee (oh)
Or on South Beach (oh) in my wife B
V V and studded you can tell when they cut it
ya see my grandmama hate it, but my lil mama love it
cause when I..

[Woman]
Open up ya mouth, ya grill gleamin (say what)
eyes stay low from the cheifin' (cheifin')

[Nelly]
I got a grill they call penny candy you know
what that means, it look like Now n Laters, gum drops, jelly beans
I wouldn't leave it for nothin only a crazy man would
so if you catch me in ya city, somewhere out in ya hood just say

[Chorus]
Smile fo me daddy
(What you lookin at)
Let me see ya grill
(Let me see my what)
Ya, ya grill ya, ya, ya grill
(Rob the jewelry store and tell 'em make me a grill)
Smile fo me daddy
(What you lookin at)
I want to see your grill
(You wanna see my what)
Ya, ya grill ya, ya, ya grill
(Had a whole top diamonds and the bottom rows gold)

[Paul Wall]
What it do baby
Its the ice man Paul Wall
I got my mouth lookin somethin like a disco ball
I got the diamonds and the ice all hand set
I might cause a cold front if I take a deep breath
My teeth gleaming like I'm chewin on aluminum foil
Smilein showin off my diamonds sippin on some potin oil
I put my money where my mouth is and bought a grill

20 karats 30 stacks let 'em know I'm so fo real
My motivation is from 30 pointers V VS to furniture my mouth
piece simply symbolize obsessed
I got the wrist wear and neck wear dats captivatin
But its what smiles dat got these arms lookin spectatin
My mouth piece simply certified a total package
Open up my mouth and you see more carrots than a salad
My teeth are mind blowin givin everybody chillz
Call me George Foreman cause I'm sellin everybody grillz

[Chorus]
Smile fo me daddy
(What you lookin at)
Let me see ya grill
(Let me see my what)
Ya, ya grill ya, ya, ya grill
(Rob the jewelry store and tell 'em make me a grill)
Smile fo me daddy
(What you lookin at)
I want to see your grill
(You wanna see my what)
Ya, ya grill ya, ya, ya grill
(Had a whole top diamonds and the bottom rows gold)

[Gipp]
Gipp got dem yellows, got dem purples, got dem reds
Lights gon head and make you woozie in ya head
You can catch me in my 2 short drop
Mob got colors like a fruit loop box

[Ali]
Dis what it do when the lou
Ice grill country grammer
Where the hustlas move bricks
and the gangsta's bang hamma's
Where I got 'em you can spot them
On the top in the bottom
Gotta bill in my mouth like I'm Hillary Rodham

[Gipp]
I ain't dissin no body but lets bring it to the lite
Yeah was the first wit my mouth bright white
Yeah deez hos can't focus cause they eyesight blurry
Tippin on some 4's you can see my mouth jewelry

[Ali]
I got fo different sets its a fabolous thang
1 white, 1 yellow, like fabolous chain
and the otha set is same got my name in the mold
(Had a whole top diamonds and the bottom row's gold)

[Chorus]

[Woman]
Boy how you get grill that way and
How much did you pay
Every time I see you
Tha first thing I'm gon say hey....

[Chorus]


If you so dare, you can watch the video here: http://music.aol.com/artist/main.adp?artistid=416191


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Sick

I'm sick this weekend. :( I think it's from taking a walk on Thursday night in the chilly wind. My body just hasn't been prepared for cold weather for a long time and I just think it couldn't handle it. So, I'm hoping I can just sleep a lot this weekend and be better faster.

My nephew online

I've recently designed a webpage for my brother's family that displays pictures of their son, J.D. Check it out!

http://www.hurldesigns.com/jd


Below are the boring details of the scope and design of this project:

I wanted to give them a central webpage that they could send to family and friends when they had new photos. This would make it easier for everyone because they wouldn't have to attach photos to emails and people could see pictures of J.D. at anytime in one location without having to search their email inbox.

I wanted it to look prettier and more elegant than just sending users to the Buzznet.com gallery page. I also wanted the site to automatically display all of the photos contained within the Buzznet gallery. This way the page would never have to be updated, it would just sync up with whatever has been uploaded to Buzznet. To do this I had to learn how to display RSS feeds on my site and then feed the syndication link from Buzznet. It was fun to learn this new technology. The process for updating photos is very simple. Buzznet.com allows users to upload new photos by emailing the photo as an attachment to a specific Buzznet account email address. Once the photo is emailed, presto!, the photo is now in the Buzznet gallery and automatically displayed on the new webpage I designed for them.
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Awkward moments with Heidi

I just had a very awkward moment with my 50 + year old neighbor, Heidi. I got an extra issue in the mail of an LA magazine I subscribe to, so I thought she might like to have it. I went upstairs (I live in a duplex split top/bottom) knocked on her door, and no answer. I was heading back down the stairs when the door opened. So I went back up and there was Heidi, soaking wet in a towel.

I said, "Oh, I'm sorry".
She said, "That's Ok, how are you?"
Realizing that she wanted to chat while soaking wet in her towel and trying think of something to say, I said, "Great, I'm loving the warm weather!"
She replied, "Yeah, well I'm hot. It's no fun for a menopausal woman."

And the conversation kept going. We talked about Christmas, New Year's, her boyfriend, Palm Springs... I tried to hide the fact that I was rather uncomfortable standing there because I didn't want to offend her since she was obviously fine with having a conversation wearing only a towel and talking about her non-existent menstrual cycle. After a while, I gave her the magazine, she thankfully accepted it and we said our goodbyes.

Poor Service Report

Seattle's Worst at Border's in Hollywood at Sunset & Vine makes horrible lattes. Their workers are very slow and added way too much foam. It's a latte, not a cappuccino. 6 thumbs down.

Did you hear?

Jon Stewart is hosting the Oscars this year! Cool.

Help me find 2003!!

I've spent some time the past couple of days updating and organizing my online photos at Buzznet. I plan to use this site more as a 'photo blog'. So now you have one more site to check daily. Once I start posting more new pictures, I'll change the code on the sidebar to display the most recent pictures I have posted automatically. Right now, I've just been organizing past photos. And when going through all of my photos, I have made an alarming discovery.

Where is 2003??!? I've lost a year. I don't have a single photo from the year 2003. What did I do? Did I do anything? Did my life exist? Was I just down in the basement watching TV with Daryl all year? This is an appeal to my family and friends. If you have any photos of me, or activites I was involved with from the year 2003, can you email them to me? Please help me find this lost year! Maybe I don't want to know. Maybe that year has been erased for a reason. I hope that someone from the future didn't go into my mind and erase that year. That would suck. But with your help, we can fight the future and reclaim this lost year for me. Do it for the children.


P.S. Unrelated. But it's been raining like crazy over here!

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