December 14, 1999

Okay, this baby looks a lot like me when I was little. I wish I had a baby picture of myself to put them side by side, but you're just going to have to take my word for it. This is the son of my cousin Steve, and his name is Jordan. You may remember seeing his picture when he was born. I am going to get to meet him this Christmas, and that's very exciting! He lives in Colorado, so we're not in the same time zone very often. He is the first great-grandchild on that side of the family (you may remember my cousins entry from earlier this year -- that side of the family). Anyway, I think he looks just like me, which means he must be destined for greatness (ha ha).

So no unsubscriptions from my notify list after I dissed fatties and Christians in yesterday's entry! That was a relief.

I got a Christmas present from Pamie today! Hooray! I sent her one but I certainly did not expect one in return. I sent presents to some of my favorite journallers, at least those that had wish lists, as a kind of thanks for giving so much of themselves and entertaining me. I mean, none of them get paid to write their journals, and I know from personal experience that it can be difficult, so I figured I could spend $10 or so to thank them, you know?

Speaking of wish lists, I found some things to add to mine, but I couldn't add them myself, because then I would be too tempted to scroll down and see what had been purchased for me already. So I made Jim add them. I was reading the Body issue of Bust (and you should be reading it too!) and they reviewed a bunch of books that I want, so I added them to my list. Jim pointed out that as long as they keep the wish list going year round, it's a great way to remind yourself of stuff you want. Like say you see a book reviewed and you want to buy it, but you don't have the money right now. You just add it to your wish list. Then when you do get money, or if it's your birthday or something, go to the wish list! It does seem like kind of a pain for storage space on Amazon's part though, so who knows if they will keep it. It's nice to let other people access it though, which doesn't happen if you just stick stuff in your shopping cart.

That's about all I have to say today. Tomorrow night, I'm going out with some friends from school! That should be fun. Plus I have to work on my papers that need to be done by next week. So I'll be sure to stay busy. Keep it real.

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Apparently, I gave a bad link yesterday on the story about "One Mission - buy Christmas Presents" so I've corrected it.

Since I linked yesterday to the best of '99 in television, it only seems fair today to link to the best of '99 in music, according to Salon. I am so out of touch with music today, that while I have heard of many of these groups, I don't own those CDs, or am planning to buy them. But some of you might.

Al Pacino explains why "The Insider" was a box office flop, but critical success. I can explain it better -- it looks really boring. It might be a great movie, but after seeing the trailer a couple of times, I thought, "Wow, that looks really, really dull."

The RTMark group puts out a call for hackers to destroy eToys.com. This seems like a really bad idea. Really bad.