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I just found out that I’m gonna be a summer camp bus driver.  I need to find a cool hat.

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Um…yeah…well, as my associate, Dr. Watson, has pointed out…I am the proud owner of 3 gaming systems myself…but I know where Iraq is…I promise! (Unlike my coworker whose knowledge of geography is based the board game RISK…I’m not joking).

Dr. Watson, you truely are a luminary.

Heard on Tulsa radio this morning:
“It’s a little wet out there…due to rain”
“Water can be deceiving…It doesn’t take much to sweep away your car”.

So I decided to use the bridge today instead of fording of the Arkansas.

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A Gamer’s Rights Advocates is defined as,

“One who speaks out publicly in the defense of a set of universal claims that ethically belong to the segment of a populus who make video game playing a lifestyle choice.” – Dr. Adam Kuert, Pgfwabf.

So there is this dude, Chris Szarek, who bought an Xbox 360 that broke.  So Microsoft sent him a second one…it broke.  So did the third one.  Then Chris, “called Microsoft again and faxed complaints directly to Bill Gates and other Microsoft executives.” He has a forth one…it works fine…so I hear.

Chris had this to say: “This whole Xbox 360 experience has inadvertently transformed me into a somewhat reluctant gamer’s rights advocate of sorts…I never wanted to be in this position. I just want what is right and what I’ve paid for. Who can fault me for that?”

No one can fault you for that Chris…no one.  And no one can fault any gamer for demanding what is rightfully his…or hers.

According to IDC research, “the average gamer spends…about 2.5 hours playing games on an average day”

I’ll tell ya what…if you can’t stand up for your right to own a functional gaming system…what can you stand for?

I mean, what would we do without video games…read?

In other, unrelated, news…”After more than three years of combat and nearly 2,400 U.S. military deaths in Iraq, nearly two-thirds of Americans aged 18 to 24 still cannot find Iraq on a map, a study released Tuesday showed”…it’s like they’re spending all their time doing something else…

“In religion and politics, people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.” – Mark Twain

So there’s all this talk about immigration laws right now.   Do we build an $8 billion wall on the border?  Do we merge USA, Canada, and Mexico together into the United States of North America (It has been suggested)? Do we change the laws? If so, upon what criteria do we accept or reject someone from our country?  The questions are endless.

As a Christian, what do I believe is the right thing to do?  Is there one coarse of action out of the many that is righteous or do they all leave us doubting ourselves later?  Do I believe that helping others who are less fortunate is only applicable when the aid I give does not inconvenience myself?  If not, to what degree of inconvenience am I willing to endure?

There are many issues such as this that we face every day.  So many questions.  And the problem with answers is that they tend to create more questions than they answer.  So, whether you’re religious or not, we are forced to accept most unanswered questions based on faith and personal beliefs.  The problem with faith and beliefs, in the words of Twain, is that they are generally, “second hand”.

So where did you get yours?

I work with the internet for 40 hrs/week and I think about technology a lot.  I know it’s not very exciting, but at least I’m posting right?

Well, I am among the 27 million user who use MSN to chat with friends.  AOL has the most with 53 million and Yahoo comes in third with 22 million. (Google has less than 1 mill, but they just launched this year, so we’ll give them some time to catch up).

The question is not who owns facebook.  The question is who does facebook own?  The answer is you.

Every word you write and picture you upload is “the proprietary property of the Company or its licensors. All rights reserved.”  That means they can do what they want with that information. They go as far as to say, “We may share your information with third parties, including responsible companies with which we have a relationship.” (I believe this is true about most social networking websites).

Facebook is approximately the 53 highest visited site in the world (these rankings fluxuate greatly).

But to answer the underlining question, “there is no one person or agency that owns the Internet.  Instead, parts of it are owned by the Illuminati and parts are owned by Free Masons.” – Dr. Internet

Opposite poles attract. If we hold two bar magnets near each other, the “N” pole of one magnet is attracted by the “S” pole of another. But…if we suspend a bar magnet by a thread, the “N” pole of that magnet will point… toward the Earth’s north.

Something is wrong here. Shouldn’t the “N” pole of a magnet point towards the “S” of the Earth? Alike poles should repel, not attract. Either the “N” and “S” printed on all bar magnets is reversed, or the “N” and “S” on the Earth is backwards.  Which is it?

Find Out Here

So many of you have asked me, “Who owns the internet?”  Ok, so only Pradeepan and Joe asked, but it did lead me to investigate the question further.  So here it is for all your anxious hearts:

credit goes to This Guy.  If you have any questions…read the article by that guy.  I just like the pretty colours.