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October 29, 2005
God Love Apple
Cameron and I just purchase an iMac G5. I've just completed synching it up with my home computer. And I have to say, I love Apple. Because, you know, I've never said it before or anything.
The fact that I can have the same calendar, address book, files and bookmarks at home, at work and at Cameron's is amazing. The fact that I can change something in one place and have it everywhere is amazing. Hige, amazing, convenient, fabulous and magic.
Then let's talk about the iMac G5. Built in camera. That's all I have to say. Built in wireless (which is now standard, but still cool), built in bluetooth (and I'm waiting for them to come up with the 900,000 amazing things we can do w/ bluetooth b/c right now, not so much) and a REMOTE CONTROL. This remote control, I tell you, is incredible. The thing I love it for already, after 3 hours of usage, is that when I'm listening to iTunes in the background and I want to skip a song, I don't have to touch my mouse. I don't have to switch to iTunes and click "next". I don't have to select iTunes in my toolbar and select "next." I just pick up the remote and hit "next," not budging from the program I'm in, and maybe, if I'm quick, without stopping what I'm doing.
That. Is. Hot.
I must get my boy picture in picture b/c he's RUNNING back and forth between tvs. Every like 30 seconds.
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October 28, 2005
Financial Celeb
My rockstar friend Beth is not only the first person I call when there is any question as to Mili Vanili's top hits, but also a financial rockstar. She's been an analyst and writer for Schaeffer's Investment Research for 8 years, and today launches her participation in MSN Money's Strategy Lab. Having recently re-entered the stock market game as well as sharing your POV on how to buy, I think I might consider playing along with her picks.
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Na na na na na na - You say it's your birthday!
Happy Birthday to the Gateway Arch!
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October 26, 2005
Chicago, Chicago
Last weekend the Hudson Family headed up to Chicago. The reason? Do we need one?
Friday night I hooked up with Kay and Eamon to see our friend Kristen star in Drury Lane Oakbrook's Once Upon a Matress. She rocked. The Chicago Tribune says so.
Saturday we shopped. Really not that much, but we looked at a bunch of stuff. I bought two pairs of shoes (same shoe in black and brown). You'll be seeing a lot of them over the next 3 years. Saturday night we ate at Nick's Fish Market before heading to see Purlie at the Goodman. While the show itself has its problems, I love it. It's one of the first shows I saw performed live. The music is great, and it's message good too - as Ossie Davis put it "the purpose of this show is to point a finger at racism, and laugh it out of existance."
However, this production... it just fell flat. It was inconsistent. It was amateurish at times. It had holes. I left frustrated that this is a high profile production (Pasadena Playhouse and the Goodman co-produced with the plan of taking it to Broadway) and it's just not top notch. That's just it. How is this ok? In what business is it ok to forge new ground, to move things forward with a product that is not top notch... If nothing it lit a fire under me... again :)...
Photos of the weekend here.
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Craigslist, Watch Your Back
Google paves way to enter classified space
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October 25, 2005
Still Love How I Met Your Mother
"Your ego's writen checks your body can't cash"
And the Princeton a capella group references are KILLING ME.
And Threshhold is getting better and better for sure.
Suit up!
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October 20, 2005
Strange Bedfellows
Pilsbury Doughboy and Barry White.
No words.
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October 19, 2005
Matt's Wedding
More later, but here are the photos. A good time was had by all indeed!
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October 18, 2005
How I Met Your Mother
STILL FUNNY
Hilarious even.
"Italics [holds hands up in parallel slant]: This night never happened."
brilliant.
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October 13, 2005
nice
Thanks you, Beresford, for passing this along:
eBay description of Leather Pants up for auction.
Insanity that ensued.
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October 12, 2005
Slowly But Surely
Slowly but surely, people are getting creative about financing theatre. While this is purely from the tourism angle, the financial creativity is there. Now to just rope in the social responsibility angle...
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Pauvre East Coast
Red Sox AND Yankees no longer in the playoffs.
As Jimmy said: "Sports Center may just shut the frick down."
Well, that's not exactly what he said, but you get the picture. And it was the tone. And the fact that he was holding 2-Car. So I guess you had to be there. But I digress.
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An Open Letter to Drivers
Use.
Your.
Turn.
Signals.
Dammit.
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October 11, 2005
How I Met Your Mother
A - Anne Dudeck was on the show tonight - Go Cats!
B - NPH is hilarious on this show
C - The brunette totally has Britt's mouth (for the maybe 1 of you who both watches this show and knows Britt)
D - LOVE that they have this same brunette working for "Metro News 1" which is SO NY1 which is one of the few "things" I miss about NYC.
E - Overall this show gets a big ol' thumbs up.
LegenDARy.
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Cheesy Forward
Forwards are truly one of the most fascinating things about the internet. Hitting "forward" makes it way too easy to clutter inboxes, re-circulate a 5-year-old joke, send out a false alarm about a new telephone or carjacking scheme, or shut down the computer of every person in your address book.
But every once and a while - whether it's the message, what it reminds you of, or what's going on in your life or around your life at the time you get it - a forward makes it past your "delete" button, and for whatever reason, resonates.
This one came by way of one of the guitar players in my church band - but I've seen it many times over the years. For various reasons I've been thinking a lot lately about whether or not it really can be that simple. Whether or not things have just been going really well over the past 4 years, or if I've really, actually, embraced this concept. Kristen Coury and I talk about this kind of attitude (and many other new agey sorts of things in general - b/c we're like that) all of the time, and are great at keeping each other on track.
This example uses a lot of exaggeration to get the point across and is over the top, but generally, amen. YOU CHOOSE. You don't choose what happens to you, but you choose how to deal with it.
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Choose Your Attitude-
The Choice you make affects more than just you!
READ THIS. LET IT REALLY SINK IN. THEN CHOOSE.
John is the kind of guy you love to hate. He is always in a good mood and always has something positive to say. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, "If I were any better, I would be twins!"
He was a natural motivator.
If an employee was having a bad day, John was there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation.
Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up and asked him, "I don't get it!
You can't be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?"
He replied, "Each morning I wake up and say to myself, you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or ... you can choose to be in a bad mood.
I choose to be in a good mood."
Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or...I can choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it.
Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining or... I can point out the positive side of life. I choose the positive side of life.
"Yeah, right, it's not that easy," I protested.
"Yes, it is," he said. "Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people affect your mood.
You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line: It's your choice how you live your life."
I reflected on what he said. Soon hereafter, I left the Tower Industry to start my own business. We lost touch, but I often thought about him when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it.
Several years later, I heard that he was involved in a serious accident, falling some 60 feet from a communications tower.
After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, he was released from the hospital with rods placed in his back.
I saw him about six months after the accident.
When I asked him how he was, he replied, "If I were any better, I'd be twins Wanna see my scars?"
I declined to see his wounds, but I did ask him what had gone through his mind as the accident took place.
"The first thing that went through my mind was the well-being of my soon-to-be born daughter," he replied. "Then, as I lay on the ground, I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live or...I could choose to die. I chose to live."
"Weren't you scared? Did you lose consciousness?" I asked.
He continued, "..the paramedics were great.
They kept telling me I was going to be fine.But when they wheeled me into the ER and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read 'he's a dead man'. I knew I needed to take action."
"What did you do?" I asked.
"Well, there was a big burly nurse shouting questions at me," said John. "She asked if I was allergic to anything. 'Yes, I replied.' The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply. I took a deep breath and yelled, 'Gravity'."
Over their laughter, I told them, "I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead."
He lived, thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude... I learned from him that every day we have the choice to live fully.
Attitude, after all, is everything.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Matthew 6:34.
After all today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
Smile, it could be contagious.
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October 10, 2005
Rule of Three
No, not "3 times is comedy" (mostly b/c I continue to deny it), but the rule that you can't have
1. A great apartment
2. A great boyfriend
3. A great job
simultaneously. Is this just an NYC rule? Is there another place on earth that finds rules like this necessary to help them cope with
a. living in a 10x15 box with a tub in the kitchen
b. dating a musician who gigs @ 2am regularly when you
c. work ridiculous hours at a job you hate for someone who hates it more but makes a lot of money
?
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It All Just Comes So Quickly
Information that is.
1. This, which is the wrongest thing ever. Harvey Fierstein as Tevye should be illegal, as should Rosie O'Donnell playing a Jew.
2. However, this is kind of interesting. Or, could be, if people aren't all just looking for a one night stand. Or maybe it is, in theory, just to me b/c I'm the type of person who does randomly meet people who end up having a major effect on my life. Like, all the time.
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October 09, 2005
Catch up time
Trying to catch up on all the TV. Luckily FOX went into hiatus for October madness, which eliminates about 4 hours of television a week.
1. Go Invasion with the bald black woman character. Also with the character named Kira. Though that actress is perhaps, really bad.
2. Everybody Hates Chris _is_ the best show on television. Some of Chris Rock's voice over jokes fall flat (which is the case for his stand up as well), but it's a well put together show, with great characters and hilarious situations. Hilarious and poignant at the same time. Kinda reminds me of "Least Likely to Sing Gospel: The projects version"
3. This Astros/Braves game is CRAZY I tell you, CRAZY!
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October 04, 2005
Honestly
Some of you may remember the excitement and obsession with which I awaited the release of the Bubb Rubb DVD.
It is with this same anticipation that I await the release of Trapped in the Closet: Chapters 1-12 on DVD November 1.
However, I am torn. Because with Bubb Rubb, the whole point was that they were complete idiots, he's a complete idiot, and while that's so sad, it's hilarious and after all, it was only $11. But this. This is someone who actually thinks he has a career. Someone who, when the DVD goes off the shelves like hotcakes, will congratulate himself. While I must see it right away, I'm really against monetarily supporting this man's effort to be a complete idiot. Rather, in supporting it accidentally help him think he's anything but.
May R-Kelly's Trapped in the Closet: Chapters 1-12 fall victim to the deflated sales numbers that accompany high bootleg sales. Fitting.
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