National Black History Month

02.28.2003

Today is the last day of National Black History Month, also known as "The shortest month of the year". Traditionally, I call Jarvis (my African-American brother from my video store days) and wish him a happy NBHM (followed with the shortest month of the year comment), but I've moved so much around that I can't find his phone number anymore. Between cel phones, beepers, and home phones, I don't know which number is right anymore. So, in honor of the month, and not being able to find his number, I share with all of you mine and Jarvis' traditional phone call:

[phone rings]
Jarvis: Hello?
Me: Jarvis!
Jarvis:Russ! How's it goin', man?
Me: Alright. I just called to wish you a happy National Black History month.
Jarvis: [starting to laugh, because he knows what's coming next] Aww, don't!
Me: Also known as The Shortest Month of the Year.
Jarvis: You bastard!
Me: I feel your pain, my brother. Down with whitey!
Jarvis: [laughing more than he wants to now] You're wrong. You're just wrong!
Me: [in my extremely "white" voice] No no. I am down with you and yours. We should go get some forties and some bling-bling.
Jarvis: [I'm not sure, but I always think he's rolling his eyes about now, but he's still laughing]
Me: [still using super white voice]Excuse me, you there. Yes, Mr. "Gee", would you happen to have any forties for me and my homey? Thanks, guy!
Jarvis: [still laughing]Aw, that's just wrong. You know that. You're going to hell. You know that.
Me: Yes, I know. But tomorrow starts "Up With Whitey Month" so I should be ok. Just as long as I don't die in February.

And that's pretty much the way it goes. I'm going to have to track down is number before the end of the day, it's just too much fun to pass up.

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Random Surfing

02.27.2003

Not much going on, so I thought I would throw up (ugh, just skip the obvious pun) a couple of news bits I've run across.

Internet Pornography Meets its Match. My favorite quote is "We have created a safer way to surf by building an effective software tool that provides relationship-based accountability for online behavior. It will assist in healthy life-change and lead people to view more appropriate content on the Internet." This, of course, goes totally against the purpose of the internet as put forth in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, the internet is a place for people to share porn and bitch about movies.

Telezapper is now a bookend. A company has come out with technology to beat the Telezapper. Jerry's Dad, also known affectionatly as "Old Man Poplin" around these parts, is the only person I know that actually has a Telezapper, and he's said it works pretty good. I wonder if the companies that buy the Telezapper killer will go back and call all the people that they were zapped by?

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Evil Hobbies

02.26.2003

Yesterday after lunch Jerry and I wandered in to the latest geek store, Hobby Town USA. This is mainly a bad thing to do because they carry lots of r/c cars and planes. I like r/c cars and planes. I've wrecked many of them.

The first thing that caught my eye was a 1/18 scale BMW. It's just small enough to look really fun. More power than the little Hot Wheels sized car, small enough to still be able to play drive around inside. May have to think this over for a while.

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still thinking....

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Can't Sleep

02.25.2003

This was one of those morning when I just couldn't go back to sleep. I wok eup about 2:30 this morning and knew it was going to do me no good to try and go back to sleep. Trying to make the best of it, I went ahead and got up and started doing some of those things that I had put off over the weekend.

Dishes, sorting laundry, paying bills, even working a little on the Fuqua Osborn site. It's ended up being a productive morning. Scary that I had done so much by 5:00. Now I have to see how much of the day I make it through before I start to constantly yawn. That's the part I hate about waking up so early. It's always in the back of my mind, so I mentally talk myself into getting tired a lot earlier than I should.

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More Ramblings

02.24.2003

I came across a quick blurb about how you can be arrested by Beans & Franks in Memphis. It might be a little pixilated, but here's a pic of Beans and Franks.

In trying to broaden my web development mind, today I delve into smarty, hopefully to find something useful.

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