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Lower Slower Delaware

Saturday, June 23rd, 2007

A lot of interesting things go on in this town. So much so that I seriously wish I had some kind of a Spy Camera just so I could get this all on tape and make millions of dollars selling the footage to America’s Dumbest Citizens and Pets.

#1 – Just tonight a neighbors dogs managed to get themselves out of the house and oddly enough, no one was looking for them. We’ve met them both before so part of me assumes that they remember our scent. Sean happened to be walking Bella up the block when this huge dog approached him with no real concerns at all. They sniffed each other out (Bella and the other dog, not Sean heh) and then her being the bitch she is, kind of smacked him in the face. Of course this isn’t fair because this dog happens to be rather sweet. We were knocking on the door, trying to get the dogs rounded up. All the lights were on, dogs are running wild, I finally hear “We’re not home”. Originally I thought this was Sean until I later found out (after both dogs were let into the back door by Sean) that someone was actually home. If your lights are on, I can see someone moving around, how are you “not home”? ::blinks::

#2 – The other night we were at the beach, this cross-links to my previous “Are you that stupid?” post a few days ago. Some stupid teens decided “Let’s jump on the dune” and it was followed by a year-round police officer (not the ones they call in seasonally) walking up and screaming “Are you that stupid?”. They did a quick comb on the beach and came back to seeing two rather dumb children running onto the beach. I kid you not his dialouge went as follows “I think he’s taking a piss on the sand. Is he taking a piss on the sand? He’s taking a damn piss on the damn sand.” He jumped on his bike (not forgetting his helmet by the way) and peddled over there as fast as his tight-assed bike shorts could take him. He then repeated (to a completely new group of idiots) the wonderful term – say it with me folks – ARE YOU THAT STUPID?

#3 – Another neighbor, husband of the famous “Hot Mom” that Sean more than likely has a crush on (well…her butt mainly) does some strange things at night that I just don’t understand. When he believes everyone to be asleep he’ll come outside for his nighly hit of weed. He’ll then follow it with excessive coughing that could more than likely wake up the whole neighborhood…we all know that the old people get out of bed a lot slower than the young ones – it’s frustrating that they aren’t as chipper as they used to be when they come to the door with a shot-gun screaming “Shut the hell up – will ya? We’re trying to sleep!”. That’s not exactly his ‘strange’ trait though. I’m certain he has a night job but for some reason he comes back to the house about four times a night between Midnight and 6am. Every single time I see the man, however, he doesn’t really feel the need to keep his shirt on. He’s driving a brand new car so obviously there’s air conditioning in it. The windows are typically wide open (even at night) and he loves to show off his farmer arms and pasty white chest.

While I’m not exactly in the South dealing with “Southern Drawl” I am dealing with a lot of people who’s fathers are also legally they’re uncles.

And last but certainly not least:

#4 – A few weeks ago Karen was telling me about someone she works with. Skunks are pretty typical down here, naturally when you’re cutting into their territory to clear land for the 200 homes being put on 5 acres – they’re going to hang around. One night he noticed a rancid stench coming out of the back yard. His kids had just come in from playing and it was getting fairly dark so he was making his final rounds of the evening before closing-up-shop as he put it. He peaks into the backyard where this skunk stench is getting worse. He finds the skunk in the back yard playing with all of the dog toys that the children had left out when they went inside. So now not only do they reak to holy heaven but they have dog like qualities.

Unreal…unfreaking real.

Virtual Sand Castles

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

PPPWhen it comes to birthdays and holidays and I know I’m not going to be around, I typically enjoy sending e-cards to friends and family. Yes, the bulk of the time some may find these cards to be annoying but my family sends them back and forth to each other excessively so naturally I’m always looking for a new and better site to send the cards from, that’s when I came across virtualsandcastle.com. Yes, you can literally build and send Sandcastles to your family and friends on their special day – cool huh?

Happy B-Day MoMo I played around with the site for a little while, yes it’s completely free, you even get to play with a beach-ball while it’s saving. It’s really simple, you select the “Build a Sandcastle” icon and then start playing around with the different designs, changing the colors, adding accessories and a plethora of other options. Once you’ve gotten it to where you want it, you go ahead and click on the save icon and then while it’s capturing the image you’ve created, you can bounce a ball around with your mouse to keep you entertained. I thought it was a lot of fun, it’s a very simple process though. You can choose to save it as a wallpaper, send it to a friend, or just disregard it and move on. I saved it as a wallpaper. It’s a little bit pixellized for my taste but either way I’ll send her the link and have her play around with it for a little while.

Maybe you can have some fun with it as well, just head over to virtualsandcastle.com.

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The house of my dreams … doesn’t come easy!

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

While we haven’t seriously considered anything yet, Baby and I are looking to buy a home. Naturally there are a few requirements that must be met before we even step into a place. A minimum of 3 bedrooms (one will more than likely be used as an office), a large kitchen considering that will literally be MY room in the house, a spacious living room that we can fill with over sized comfy furniture and to keep Sean happy – a large garage with lots of storage.

Now, naturally he’d prefer a shed the size of a single-wide trailer just so he can store all of the tools that most men buy and just won’t ever use. Of course, they absolutely need to have it. (Should I note I’d like to live NO WHERE NEAR a Home Depot?). But, back to the matter at hand. I think it’s important that everyone consider utilizing their spaces properly. I hate seeing an unorganized house in complete chaos, I typically tend to clean it for them. Alicia can vouch for this one, I’ve done her dishes just because they were there. A big thing for me, however, is garage storage because you seriously can’t ever have enough of it. With all of the gardening supplies and house-hold tools that you need to keep away from ‘daily life’ it’s important to store it properly. I’d love to have a huge two-car garage but this doesn’t mean that I’d like one side of it to be overflowed with junk. I like organization, I love the look of CLEAN and nothing more. Peg boards for quick pick-up of screwdrivers, hammers and whatever else you can throw on a pegboard. Clear storage bins on an over-abundance of shelving. The idea of having ‘room to spare’ is a great thing for me.

Down here it’s hard to find this kind of space unless you build it yourself. Maybe if Sean and I get lucky and win the lotto we can purchase someone’s old farm land and turn it into the house of our dreams. I know for sure we’re going to need a big enough yard to cover Bella and whatever big dog Sean happens to bring home one night (trust me, he’ll surprise me with one!) I’ll say this much, however, there’s no way in hell we’re hiring the same landscape company that does our complex. When we say cut the grass, we don’t mean drive over it doing 40 miles an hour!

Dropping the weight … the healthy way.

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

PPPFor quite some time now I’ve been reading into a lot of information in regards to Lap Band Surgery. There are quite a few resources like Weight Loss Surgery Florida which offer valuable information about the subject. They list everything from the cost to the procedure itself. They also list information about recovery and not to expect 100% results within the first few days. Since they shrink your stomach you really have to buckle down with portion control. You do not lose any weight just by having the surgery, some people don’t really understand that. The reason the weight is lost is because you basically can only fit a 1/4 cup worth of food in your stomach at one time. This is why you eat multiple meals a day and very little meals at that.

Portion control is rather hard to do, something I fully admit to. I’ve been struggling with my portion consumption since day one of my diet. I’ve figured out a few ‘tricks of the trade’ though. Instead of eating off the standard sized dinner plate, I use smaller plates this way it looks as though I’m eating more food when in actuality I’m eating the right amount. Instead of loading the plate with pasta, I’m taking small scoops and counter-acting with veggies to avoid the excess starches. Small things like this have aided in my so-far 15lb weight loss. That’s about 5 pounds a month for the last 3 months. Based on doctors opinions (yes, I’ve spoken to a few) that’s rather healthy. Losing anywhere from 1-3 pounds a week (depending on your starting weight) is very healthy for you. Naturally those of us whom are larger are going to drop a lot more weight, quicker, because our bodies have stored so much fat over the years that is now being released from our systems.

Now, this isn’t the kind of information you can find on the site I listed above. The resource above is strictly about the lap band surgery. If you’re interested in learning more about this topic you can visit MyLapBandSurgery.com or call their toll-free number (1.866.309.0036).

Plugs by Request – Navtej Kohli

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

By request, I’m plugging the following websites.

I did some reading around this users blog and found that he talks a lot about internet technology as well as internet marketing. I’ve also noticed that he has a section on Yahoo! Answers as well. Based on his LinkedIN account, he is the CEO and Director of Grafix Softech which is a software application company operating out of Costa Rica. They provide payment solutions for online businesses and have also delved into the world of internet marketing. The company employs around 250 people and has seen a steady rate of growth over the past seven years.

If this seems at all interesting to you, especially those who use internet technology to your advantage, then this is more than likely a resource you should follow.

Cutting Edge Technology

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

I spend a lot of time surfing through technology based websites. I typically do it so that I can keep in touch on what’s hot and what’s not. I look up the specifications on computer parts, televisions and many other things that I would love to have. The cool thing about some of these companies, like ComputerRentals.com, is that they offer cutting edge technology for RENT.

I’ve recently started working for someone who spends a lot of time at trade shows, conventions and other events and he’s actually noted that some of the technology they have there is fairly impressive. What he may not realize, sorry Bill, is that most of these places actually rent the technology specifically for these shows. So those beautiful screen’s you’re looking at are more than likely just plasma rentals, maybe even going as far as getting themselves a touchscreen LCD monitor rental and lets not to mention the uber-hot technology of going with a 5000 lumen projector rental. So in all actuality, these impressive items that we drool over have been rented from a company like ComputerRentals.com. They deliver nationwide and they’re the industry leader in technology for business based rentals. I just hope one day they help out us small-business owners with a test-plasma for the small office that a hubby and wife are sharing…hah.

What is Colloidal Silver?

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

When I come across new and fairly-interesting information, safe or not, I like to share it with others. Recently I came across an article in regards to colloidal silver. I had to do some research into it because I personally had no idea what it was even for. It’s true definition means the colloid of silver particles in water. It has an antimicrobial property and was, in the past, used on external wounds and burns to prevent infection. Some alternative-health practitioners claim that it is a beneficial nutritional supplement, others claim that it’s a powerful antibiotic which is relatively safe for human consumption. The intake of some silver products in larger quantities over long periods of time have caused argyria, which is a blue/gray skin condition which is otherwise benign. At proper dosage levels, however, the risk for argyria is almost nil.

So without all the mumbo-jumbo listed above. How can colloidal silver seriously work for you? Using it as an antibiotic can be an alternative to most medicines. I personally can not take most antibiotics because they contain levels of fish-oil that would more than likely worsen my immune system while the so-called-helper-pill is fixing infection. Having an alternative is great and all, but at what cost? If I take too much my skin will change color, if I don’t take enough it won’t do anything for me.

Based on the information I’ve found on this product, however, it’s commonly used in dietary supplements. Would you put silver in your body to aid weight loss if there was actually documented studies of it working for you? Has anyone ever heard of colloidal silver? What do you think it can do for you? I’d love to hear your response.

Getting some help.

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

PPPA friend of mind is having some trouble with her daughter and has been looking into Math Tutors. She considers it to be a kind of genetic defect though. I know that may sound cruel but both her, her daughter, her son and even the father of the children have all had trouble in Math, English, Social Sciences, etc. So naturally getting the tutor for them that she never had is bound to be the right way to go. It’s a shame when two bright kids just can’t cut a break.

Please just stop the spending…

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

Sean and I are working on getting his credit cards paid off. He made the mistake of maxing them out and now he’s working hard on getting everything paid back. I’m sure it wouldn’t take very long, he basically only needs to come up with $2500 so that he can be in the clear. I also think getting that one bill out of his hair every month will make him a happier person. He’s bought computers, mother boards, a digital camera and I think his XBox360 on one of his cards so naturally it’s going to max out quicker than anticipated. I think he’s working on his third motherboard or something, not quite sure. Either way if it gets to be too much for him, I’ve told him to consider looking into some form of credit card debt consolidation because it’s a bitch to have such credit problems at a young age. He’s only 22, so to have to deal with this it’s kind of absurd. He’s working hard on getting it all taken care of though, guess that’s all that matters.

Thing is, eventually we’re going to work on buying a house and what not and I don’t want to have everything in my name because my credit just happens to be better than his at the moment. I think that’s based on the fact that I only really spend what I have though, I got rid of my American Express card. I hate to cancel that thing because it was great for emergencies but even with a credit score in the mid 700’s, it was a rather high interest rate that I just didn’t want to deal with. I don’t really believe that a $100 purchase should cost me $180, you know?

Shrinkage isn’t so bad…

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

Many women are unhappy with themselves, there isn’t one perfect body out there and even the close-to-perfect ones wish they could have something more. A big topic for women is the size of their chest. Some find them too small, others too large and either way some form of breast augmentation would make them feel better about themselves.

I don’t personally have a problem with my chest. This, however, is based on the fact that the rest of my family was cursed with large chests and bad backs. My sister is pushing a double-d, and by the end of the day she can barely stand. My grandmother and aunts all have issues with their backs as well. No one in the family is under a large-c cup, and yes it can be very annoying. I’m lucky enough to be the small one of the bunch, a c-cup is just about as large as I need to go. Holiday meals are rather interesting. The women have to sit further back in their chairs just so they aren’t falling into their plates.

So when I see sites like Los Angeles breast augmentation and Beverly Hills breast augmentation, I can’t help but wonder if I should throw some cash together and load up on gift packages…maybe I’ll throw in some botox or something…heh.

Possibly changing servers…

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

I’ve been looking for an outside server to run a few of my projects on. The company I house a reseller account with at the moment isn’t really that great when it comes to support and the server is constantly up and down almost every other day. So I poked around the ‘net to the typical hot spots for hosting and they were really no better either. Today I came across Host Arcadia and after going through their plans and what not, I’m more than likely going to go through them with what I need. Since I’m going to need enough room and bandwidth for multiple domains, naturally I’m going to look towards a reseller account.

Their reseller plans are in the $6 a month range. I’d get 1GB of disk space and 30GB of bandwidth. The one that stands out the most for me, however, is considered their “Bliss” plan which is 2500mb and 75gb of bandwidth. I’m more than likely going to shift krissy.nu over to them and considering that alone is the 30gb of bandwidth a month that I’d need, having more than double so I can cover the smaller domains as well, seems to be worth it. It’s $1 less a month than I’m paying now and double the resources so naturally this is going to be the route I’ll take. I guess I’ll have all of that taken care of over time.

Happy Tuesday!

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

The sun is slowly starting to set and I’ve only been up for an hour. While everyone else considers 5PM to be hour 17 of the day, I on the other hand consider it to be hour #2 of my day…see what kind of world I’m in? Last night Sean and I watched Bench warmers, tonight we’re going up to Blockbuster to pick up Reno911 if there are actually any left, he should have gone this morning! Oh well, according to him no one rents on Tuesday’s anyway – I just hope that’s actually the case considering all the freaking tourists are down here.

We got a little bored after the movie and wound up playing backgammon online for a little bit. Then after some television we got back to work and that’s when I completed the template for blog-ideas. I still have a lot of email to go through but I’m hesitant because most of them are bitchy clients who I probably never should have put on the servers to begin with. Just recently I got rid of a kid who I’ve hated for years. He signs up, stops payment two months in and then bitches that his account is suspended. He’s done this to me on two domains, he’s now officially blacklisted. Tony loves when I tell him to put that kind of stuff through, lol.

So tonight there’s little plans made, but a lot of work to be done. I have quite a few clients to get back to, I hope to have Reno 911 in my hands sometime soon but that depends on whether or not Sean is going to get off his booty. Once that’s all completed I’m going to start completing the Beta on blog-ideas.net so even if I don’t have the database up and running I can at least get the content pages ready for all of the front end stuff. For now it isn’t hard to just setup a randomizing JavaScript for the ideas and then build from there as time goes on. I hope to get some more templates up and running as well, I’m going to need to play around in Photoshop for a while anyway.

In any event, I’m going to get my butt in gear on finishing up the email. Maybe I’ll be able to get some more backgammon in while Sean is in the shower or something. At least it’ll keep me entertained – in peace and quite no less. I need to get my iPod back in here, I’m going nuts listening to all this crap going on around me!

Shopping around…

Monday, June 18th, 2007

So I’m in the market for a car. I know this seems rather strange coming from me but enough is enough. For a little while now I’ve been looking into car loans but then I realized if I change things around financially, I’ll be able to manage it. I don’t think I would mind having to go towards loan but instead of taking the easy route, sometimes I just like to get things done without any outside help.

I guess I don’t personally have any issues with someone having to go for personal loans, this of course is based on the situation as well. I don’t understand how someone can take loans out for things that shouldn’t have happened in the first place. A family member of mine took out a loan so they could pay their credit card and not have to claim bankruptcy. I’m sitting here wondering what the hell he could have purchased that he never had the money to pay back. He makes over $100k a year so it’s not like he’s dying for cash. Then we found out that he’s been living well outside of his means, obviously. It just seems like a shame to me, I don’t know.

I’m looking into a Mustang because I adore them, I’ve also been considering some SUV’s, either way I want something that’s stylish and not a gas guzzler. Of course with my two choices, that instantly voids that statement – doesn’t it? heh.

USA’s Burn Notice

Monday, June 18th, 2007

PPP I’m supposed to come up with some extravagant story about the CIA. I can’t do it, because I don’t know anything about them. I don’t follow government because I personally can’t stand how it’s run. So naturally not involving myself in it seems to make more sense. Now, based on my knowledge the CIA was started when Will Smith and Kevin Kline saved the day in Wild Wild West, unfortunately I doubt this is the case. Damn good movie though, wasn’t it? The real creation was by Harry S. Truman in 1945, quite a few years after the movie was actually based. Damn shame.

The real reason behind the CIA was to create an espionage organization directly supervised by the President which will procure intelligence both by overt and covert methods and will at the same time provide intelligence guidance, determine national intelligence objectives and correlate the intelligence material collected by all government agencies. I know it sounds like a lot of big words but to put it lightly: Dubbya has body guards. The amusing thing, this time around, is the fact that very few people can actually publically state that they’re smarter than their boss and get away with it. With members of the CIA under Bush’s administration – they literally are. Cool huh?

So there’s this new show on television, USA Network’s Burn Notice it’s about a guy named Michael Weston who is a CIA Operative who was fired. I’m supposed to come up with some fictional story in regards to it but there’s no way in hell I can conjer up something like that. He could have been fired because he tapped into mob connections with the government. Maybe he walked in on the president doing an intern, maybe he found the president going through his daily hooked-on-phonics tests – who knows. Either way he had to do some serious damage in order to be let go, this is a government job after all.

PPP

Mp3 Duplicates Finder

Monday, June 18th, 2007

I used to spend a lot of time downloading music. With the move and then the fact that I haven’t heard any song (that I don’t already own) that interests me, it’s safe to say that my iPod is rather full and more than likely going to be staying that way for a while. On my external hard drive, however, I house all of the MP3’s that are located on my iPod, as well as ones that I never got around to transferring to it. The problem is, I used to use mp3 download programs before I got myself into iTunes, now since I can download whole albums at a time there are quite a few songs on my external drive that are literally duplicates of other files, this I find to be rather annoying but I don’t have the energy to sit down and go through them all.

Today I came across a website where you can download a program to resolve all of the issues I’m currently having with my MP3’s, head on over to the Duplicates Finder website for previews and what not. This program uses specific methods for duplicates detection. Some programs use file size or name for comparison. Their program uses the artists name, and title of the song from ID3 tag comparison. If the MP3 file doesn’t have the proper filled tags, the program tries to determine the information for you. It works with either mp3, wma, ogg and m4a files. It scans your computer, marks duplicates for deletion and overall will clear out many useless duplicated files from your computer. Makes it easier to have a more organized Playlist, I’d say.

If you’re at all interested in the program you can download Duplicates Finder and then run the free trial. If you’re interested in using the script for quite some time (those of you whom download regularly) you should consider purchasing it. There’s the option for a $19USD single license, for use on one computer. There’s also the option for a $29USD family license to use at any number of family computers. I’d say it’s worth the shot, I’m running mine now and so far it’s finding more than I thought it would, not too shabby.

Drop the burger and pick up a knife?

Monday, June 18th, 2007

Growing up, I was always considered “the fat girl”. While the 80-pounders all also considered themselves to be over weight, some have even gone as far as having liposuction in order to make their stomachs and thighs look thinner. Now, I do not condone any kind of plastic surgery based on vanity and self-hate issues. If someone has recently gone through a major change, say 100lb weight loss, naturally they deserve to have things done the easy way to finalize their new bodies because they worked so hard to earn it. Not everyone shares this mentality though, hence the reason why the business of plastic surgery is a billion dollar business.

It’s not rare to hear about cosmetic surgery. There are three states where you hear the most about popular procedures. Typically people go to either New York, Florida or California. For those on the eastern sea-board, however, Beverly Hills liposuction is just a hot item to come across, and California liposuction‘s as a whole is just a booming business. Most of the time no one is willing to do the work for themselves, so they rely on doctors to do it for them.

Rodeo Drive LiposuctionSo where is this coming from, exactly? Recently I came across a Rodeo Drive cosmetic surgeon named Lloyd M. Krieger. He did his undergraduate studies at Stanford and then went to medical school in Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine. He noticed that medical groups weren’t managed efficiently and took the time to go to the school of business so he could one day run an office to the best of his abilities. This is probably why his offices are so highly regarded in Rodeo Drive – he hit the jackpot just based on location, this isn’t even based on his skills. I will say it’s a fairly pretty office though, you can see the waiting room to your left.

So I did some poking around his photo galleries and while I admit that he’s done a beautiful job on the men and women he’s worked on, I also have to wonder why these people couldn’t put the cheeseburger down and walk around the block a little. That’s just my take on it, however. He houses some fairly short-and-simple testimonials on his website. If I’m going to have my body placed in someone else’s hands, I’d prefer a little bit more detail on the subject. But either way the man seems to know what he’s doing and since I can’t recommend someone I’ve never used, I will say that I’m sure you could find his site to be rather resourceful for you if you’re considering any kind of surgery in the future – rodeodriveliposuction.com.