What's a WWE?

05.14.2002

I've been asked (twice now) what's up with the WWF becoming the WWE? Well, highlights of what happened are:

• Back in the late 80's/early 90's, a dispute arose over who had the right to use "WWF" between the World Wrestling Federation and the World Wildlife Fund.
• An agreement was made to where the World Wrestling Federation could use "WWF" withing the US, while the World Wildlife Fund had rights to use "WWF" internationally.
• World Wildlife Fund brings suit against World Wrestling Federation (sometime last year, I think) in court in England stating that the World Wrestling Federation breached the agreement by using "WWF" to promote events in Europe, Asia, and their websites.
• English court rules in favor of the World Wildlife Fund. Obviously I'm skipping a lot here, but this is the result of what happened.
• With their stock listed as World Wrestling Federation Entertainment, they drop the "Federation" and become World Wrestling Entertainment.

See? Long story short. Court made Vince change the name.

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Friday....

05.10.2002

I don't know why it's been such a long week, but it has. Today has been my day for catching up and doing those things I've been putting off. I updated the DVD list with the last couple of movies I've gotten. For anybody that's curious, I'm now up to 300 movies.

What am I doing with 300 movies? I've got to be insane!

I've also spent most of the day searching job websites and submitting my resume to a couple of places. It seems a lotof sites are now following the monster method of filling in a lot of forms to create a "customized" resume instead of just emailing your resume as an attachment. It's probably more efficient for the employer, but it makes for a lot of typing if you're the one applying.

I've also been teaching myself Macromedia Flash (version 6). I've gone through the included tutorials and think I've got the basics of animation. Now I've got to learn about ActionScripting (which they describe as being a lot like JavaScript... but different) so I can do super cool things on the website. I'm limited now to pretty much rotating logos. I've downloaded some extra tutorials from FlashKit to try out, so I've got a basis to work from.

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Pictures From 6 Floors Up

05.08.2002

Just for fun, I've posted some of the pictures I took at the beach last week. Granted, I don't think there's a grain of sand in any of the pictures, but did I go to the beach to see sand? No! I went to see women working on their tan! Tans. Whichever.

And just to keep Ying from worrying, there's nothing here you couldn't see on Baywatch. Just not as much slow motion running in the waves.

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Back From The Doctor

05.07.2002

My trip to the doctor turned out to be 2 trips to the doctor. Doctor #1 ended up saying "That's going to need to be sewed up, and I don't do that." At that point I was reffered to doctor #2 (A general surgeon) who said "That's going to need to be sewed up. We can do that in the office. You want to do it today?" Duh! I've gone through 3 office visits trying to get this stupid thing finished up. Well, long story short, or at least as short as I'm going to make it, is that all of my mole/nevus is now cut out and I've got 6 stitches to show for it. And stiches itch. A lot. Along with a little throbbing occassionally, but that I can handle. The hard part is not to scratch. Don't even think about scratching. That's hard to do when I'm sitting here typing about it.

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Goin' To The Doctor

05.02.2002

I've got about an hour before I go off to the doctor to get the rest of my nevus surgically removed (see last entry for all the gruesome details!), so I've snuck over to the international headquarters of bitHalo to grab a bite of lunch. Sweet, carb-loaded McDonalds. I'm glad Gina doesn't read this.

The other night Jerry and I helped JD and Matt unload video game cabinets for the MAME machines they're building. I found 2 important things from that experience:

• The cabinets are really cool
• They're also @$#%ing heavy

I also got to see one in the early stages of working. It's amazing how different a video game looks going from a regular pc to looking at it in a game cabinet on a 27 (I think) inch screen. I've gotta go find more wrestling games!

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