It's summer, and we all know what that means!

Bugs.

I was just getting a drink of water when I spotted a spider on the ceiling. This scared me (just a little duh) so I slowly backed away out of the room. The thing was only the size of a silver dollar or so but I still was sufficiently startled. I don't usually mind spiders, scorpions, snakes, what-have-you but on occasion I find them yukky.

We live in an old house (100+ yrs) in a historic neighborhood so we've come to live in harmony/symphily (Google it you uneducated twit) with the creepy-crawlies. Over the years we've played host to mice, wasps, bats, even raccoons. Plus there are always the weird macropterous (Google it you uneducated twit) insect nymphs that cluster around our porch light, our screen door, and our windows late at night.

Goodbye June, hello July.

Apple merges iPod and iPod photo!!!!!! (plus iTunes 4.9)

You heard it here first!!!!! well, no you didn't or maybe you did because you depend on my blog for all your news which is sad because it's really not a news blog

CUPERTINO, California—June 28, 2005—Apple® today announced that the iPod® and iPod photo lines are merging, creating a single line of white iPods that all feature color displays with the ability to view album artwork, photos and play slideshows in stunning color. The simplified iPod lineup features a 20GB model, holding up to 5,000 songs priced at just $299 and a 60GB model, holding up to 15,000 songs priced at $399. Also starting today, iPods will offer an easy to use Podcast menu, including bookmarking within a Podcast and the ability to display Podcast artwork in color.

*jealous* I want one even though my fourth-generation iPod is perfectly fine. But then again I'm a sucker for shiny stuff. I wonder if freeipods.com has one yet? (no that's not how I got mine I bought it with my hard-earned money thanx)

In Other Apple News: iTunes is out. yy podcasts. So far I have downloaded: BBC News, a French travel program, a German news program, iTunes New Music Tuesday, a KCRW political debate show, a Mac news show, and an Al Franken one that doesn't work :(

Another observation: This is the first time ever that all of the posts on my main page were written during the same month. Wow. This is huge.

Watching Bush give his speech

I can't even concentrate on what he's saying because he's so bad at reading off a teleprompter. GOD.

So that was basically a speech about nothing except "Shut up, we're doing fine, God bless America."

Who else is cruising over to americasupportsyou.mil right now?

Edit: I just ordered my free "America Supports You" dog tag! Proudly worn in red states everywhere!

Free Cameron!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Q

Spammers, stand back!

I've just added SpamPoison to my "Stuff" section.

Remember, kids, SpamPoison: for your annoying Hawaiian relatives.

ba-dum-ch

Copyright thieves, stand back!

My blog is now under the protection of a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 license, as can be seen in my sidebar.

I dunno if there's much on here to protect, but at least the brushed-metal look is pleasing to the eye.

We're going orange!

See the little orange accents? I made them. Me. ALL OF THEM. BY ME. RIGHT NOW. IN MS PAINT.

So there.

Edit: Okay, so I sold out and replaced all the accents with official Blogger ones. Why? Because I can. Plus they looked pretty and pastel and clean and not thrown together in eleven minutes.

Screenshots of the layout blunder are now going for $.19 on eBay. Catch them while you can!

First French, then. . . Romanian?

I got this email today in my throwaway guestbook signing-up-for-stuff account. I can't read a word of Romanian, so. . . huh.

Stimati Domni, Stimate Doamne,

Va aducem la cunostinta ca mai sunt doar cateva zile in care va puteti inscrie la cursurile organizate de XxxxXxxxxxx.ro si partenerii sai

Calitatea de membru Xxxxxxxxxxx.ro va asigura o reducere de 15% pentru participarea la oricare curs prezentat mai jos.

Pentru cel putin doi participanti din cadrul aceleiasi organizatii se acorda o reducere suplimentara de 10%

Toate detaliile despre cursuri le puteti afla accesand urmatoarele linkuri:

27- 30 iunie - Administrarea salariilor - in parteneriat cu B&B Expert COM

8-9 iulie - Curs practic pentru certificarea ISO 9001 - in parteneriat cu Asociatia Economistilor din Romania

Nu ezitati sa va inscrieti si beneficiile vor fi de partea Dumneavoastra.

Cu deosebita consideratie,
Echipa XxxxXxxxxxx.ro

To unsubscribe from: Office, just follow this link:

http://www.xxxxxxxxxxx.ro/cgi-bin/mojo/mojo.cgi?f=u&l=
maillist&e=%5Bmyemailaddress%5D&p=9460

Click this link, or copy and paste the address into your browser.

New picture time!!

I like my new haircut.

WILL THE HOTBED OF SCAMMERS IN MY HOMETOWN NEVER CEASE???

I guess not.

Today I was hanging out at Barnes & Noble (as I am wont to do), and I heard "Talk," by Coldplay. I liked it a lot, but I haven't bought it nor the album yet. I'm still a little leery about buying anything from a band whose name reminds me of Cold Stone Creamery (the best ice cream ever, btw).

Anyways, my dad and I are about to pull out of the parking lot when this guy comes walking up to us. He looks to be in his 40s, brown hair, mustache (Ryan, he looked a lot like your dad ). He said he was from [small town in our state with about 14,000 people], and that he had ran out of gas trying to get home. My dad said "Sorry" and drove away. He said that he had seen the guy in the bookstore before and "he sure wasn't looking for gas" (ha ha!). And after last time especially. . .

It's so hard to trust people anymore. How do you tell the difference between a single mom who has a screaming baby in the backseat and a scammer with a flour bag wrapped in a blanket?

In other n00z, my blog shows up on SproutWorks!!!! I've never heard of it either. Apparently, it is

an index of blogs that frequently updates itself.

How 'bout that?

I show up under the search terms "starbucks", "i love lucy", "yucatán" (but not "yucatan"), and "peninsula". YAY IM FAMUZ.

Google, however, has still scorned me.

Hola

studying for final exams. . . must stay. . . awake. . .