Additional missing footage has been restored to a third edition of "The Two Towers" DVD, since the extended edition released last fall left out some scenes that purists felt were important.

Current Music: WVBR

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Remember yourself always and everywhere.
Gurdjieff

Current Mood: cold

IF you're going to streak naked through a Denny's, don't leave the car with your clothes in it running and unlocked

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OMFG I so remember this stuff!

Review of Pop Secret colored popcorn from the early 90's....Pop Qwiz!

Remember?! Where you had to guess what color it would be?

Is this a real photo of Saddams capture? Snopes says: Undetermined!

Drink beer, save some see turtles

The creative works sublime success, Furthering through perseverance.

I Ching (B.C. 1150?)

Current Mood: apathetic

Drunk driver ordered to carry photo of the victim in his coffin as part of sentence...

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Interesting quote, amazing how applicable it is in today's time:

"The budget should be balanced. Public debt should be reduced. The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered, and assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Article on pet Tarantulas

Officially the scariest pet on earth, if you ask ME.

Current Mood: bored

A honest review of those "GloFish" things

"The computer allows you to make mistakes faster than any other invention, with the possible exception of handguns and tequila."
— Mitch Ratcliffe.

How's this for odd.

Tom Hanks is starring in a new movie called The Terminal about "An immigrant (Hanks) from a tiny Eastern European country fleeing war is stuck in a New York City airport terminal when the war causes his nation to cease to exist, nullifying his passport and paperwork. Homeless, he lives in the terminal, befriending the staff and falling in love with a flight attendant (Zeta-Jones)."

Get this...it's based on a true story.

Check it out: The Snopes Article

Current Mood: bored

This is an old article, but given my present assignment at work (documenting and flowcharting credit, debit, ACH, and EFT transactions), it raises quite a few valid concerns, especially for this company.

The company I work for runs an automated payment service for a number of large utility companies. Recently, we began receiving a scattering of calls from end users complaining about extra fees being charged to their ATM cards, on top of the standard transaction fee that we charge anyway. The further implications of this are obvious.

Just thought it was worth mentioning.

BTW - Citibank, Bank of America, Chase, and Washington Mutual are some of the banks that currently do NOT charge fees for debit transactions. As far as major banks go, if you have an account at US Bank, they're probably charging you up to a quarter for every debit card transaction. I can't get any information on the topic out of Wells Fargo.

I have found a list of banks in the Tri-State area, and the NYC area, that charge fees for debits, as well as the amounts. I'm having trouble digging up a national list of major banks that charge these fees, but if you want the list I have, let me know.

Current Mood: busy

Yeah, I have a slight PSA for anyone using Trillian / Gaim. You may have noticed recently that your Yahoo! friends have suddenly dissapeared, but you are always connected. Well, my friends, there is a reason. Apparently Yahoo! changed servers on everyone and didn't really announce it. The result is that people using Trillian/Gaim got left behind on the 'old' server. I didn't pay much attention until I started discussing with quietexpression that we were both online but could not see each other.

scs.msg.yahoo.com is the new server. When you try to connect to it you may get an 'invalid password' error, which is actually due to having an older version of your messeging software, and you should try and get the latest version / patch.

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"Keeping people in the know since 1979."

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which isdead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.Bhagavad Gita (c. B.C. 400)

Current Mood: bored

The cosmos comes forth from The Eternal, and moves In Him. With Hispower it reverberates, Like thunder crashing in the sky. Those whoRealize Him pass beyond the sway of death.Upanishads (c. B.C. 800)

At the dawning of that day all objects in manifestation stream forthfrom the Unmanifest, and when evening falls they are dissolved into Itagain. In truth, therefore, there is the Eternal Unmanifest, which isbeyond and above same manner does good emerge from evil and mercy fromjustice, since they too are intertwined.Bhagavad Gita (c. B.C. 400)