February 24, 2000

Go back to my Grammy predictions and see how I did!

I am feeling a little blurry today, thus the picture.

My next-door neighbors (the Mormons, for those of you long-time listeners) are still confusing to me. At first, I thought they were running a cult because there were so many kids so close in age. Then I thought maybe it was a day care, but I never saw anyone getting dropped off or picked up. Then I found out that they are Mormons, which I guess explains the proliferation of children. And I'm all for religious freedom, so more power to them.

Except, they are really irresponsible pet owners. They have a beautiful chocolate lab named "Cocoa". They leave this dog tied up outside all the time, and no one plays with it or pays any attnetion to it, except to yell "Cocoa, stop barking!". Duh! The reason your dog barks all the time is because it's bored and it wants attention. Here's a thought. Have one of your thousand children take it for a walk once in a while, or play fetch or something. Why have a dog if you're just going to leave it tied up all the time?

The reason I bring this up is because either they are dog-sitting or they got a new dog. There's a new puppy over there today, tied up and barking.

I was reading Mo's picks for the Diarist.net awards today. I am so out of the loop. I hadn't even heard of most of the people nominated. I think I read a lot of journals, but I haven't added many new ones lately. Usually I only add a new one if someone quits or I get sick of them. Anyway, maybe it's because I don't read the nominated journals regularly, but I didn't find the humorous entries very humorous or the dramatic entries very dramatic. But I can't complain about the nominees unless I want to get off my butt and nominate someone myself.

I've been listening to the Lori Johnson/Richard Kramer show on eyada.com. It's not bad. The only thing that bugs me is that Lori always tells people they can "instant e-mail" here. It's either "instant message" or e-mail. There's no such thing as "instant e-mail". Well, there is, but it's just regular e-mail. One other peeve of the day: a local radio station has this commercial where a woman says, "Hey guys! If you can't get it anywheres else..." Anywheres! That's not a word! And they play this commercial about a hundred times a day. It drives me insane.

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There's a correlation between salary and home computer use, i.e. those who use computers at home tend to have high salaries. [via Brig]

How The Smoking Gun got the scoop on Rick Rockwell, multi-millionaire. Harry Knowles would do well to take note of their journalistic integrity.

Webmonkey has some commentary on doing web research, particularly as it pertains to Web standards.

NBC puts "Twenty-One" at 9 on Mondays and puts "Freaks and Geeks" back at 8. Please let F&G catch a break and somehow get renewed! Please!

EW's take on the Grammy Awards. I didn't watch them, so I can't tell you what I thought. I know you were all dying to know.

Jim bought me that cool mousepad with the websafe colors on it as a surprise! Thanks, Jim!