Pumpkins

I should carve a pumpkin this year. I don't think I've done it for a long time.

These are from my archive of dumb pictures I either got in my email or found on the internet.

Google Satellite Image

During the summer I often ride loops on this road that circles a park near where I live. It's technically in the park so there's not much traffic. Most of the traffic is people walking their dogs, or joggers, roller-bladers, and other bikers. It's just under a mile and 3/4 around. I usually do an equal number of loops in each direction starting with counterclockwise loops. It's not completely flat but it doesn't have any gigantic hills either. It's just hilly enough to make it interesting and different depending on which way around your going. I put together this aerial view of it using the satellite map thing on Google maps. I zoomed in as far as it would go and did a bunch of screenshots and then pasted them all together. I'd never seen the park from that perspective before so I thought it was interesting. At first I considered putting together an aerial view like this of my entire route that I go on from my house to this park. I decided against it because at this zoom level it would take forever and it would be one very gigantic image. And what would the point of it be anyway? The park is more interesting than any other part of my route.

Rest Stop

I rented Rest Stop (official site here) last night. I never heard of it before but it looked interesting enough. It was pretty terrible. Much less than I expected and I didn't expect much. I give it only a 1/2 star out of 5 possible. It had music from the Black Keys in it and at least 2 really sick scenes but other than that nothing going for it. In retrospect I'd rather that I still had my $4.50 and used that hour and half of my life for something else. I think this was even worse than High Tension.

Final 2006 Miles

I decided I may as well call it a year. I've already put the glass in my storm door instead of the screen and my furnace is running as of the middle of last week. It seems much too early for that but it was 62 degrees in my house before I flipped the switch on that. So since there's a great likelihood that biking is done for the year I redid my chart with all my cumulative miles from this year and last year. It didn't turn out as terrible as I originally thought it might when I first created the chart in August. If it weren't for my long inactive period from early June to the latter half of July I'd be pretty much in line with 2005. Next year I plan on needing to adjust the table to include numbers above 800. A lot will depend on getting a good start and the weather, but that's my plan right now. My 2005 total was 716 miles and this year it was a mere 434 miles.

Slo-mo Home Depot

This is another great gag I ran into a few weeks ago. Improv Anywhere got about 225 people to shop at Home Depot in Manhattan in slow motion for 5 minutes. Then after a 5 minute break freeze in place completely for 5 minutes. See the entire explanation and videos of it all here.

155 t-shirts at once

I love when people do crazy stuff like this. I saw a different guy a few weeks back with 121 shirts at one time. What's next?

Line Rider

I ran into this line rider thing a week or so ago. I'm not very good at it so far. There was also a link to this example which probably took an pretty good amount of time to create. I think I know what I'm doing during my lunch hours this week.

Smith

The only new show I started watching this fall is cancelled already. I watch The Unit with Dennis Haysbert which is back for its' second season and Smith was on in the time slot after that on Tuesday at 9:00. I didn't have anything better to do the first night it was on so I watched it. It wasn't great. I didn't think I'd even watch it again but I did. The second episode hooked me in completely. It's one of those shows that follows the bad guys in the same way as The Sopranos does. You find yourself in place where your sort of rooting for thieves. I can hardly believe it was so unpopular that they ditched it. I think there were only 3 episodes on altogether. It had Ray Liota in it and Amy Smart from The Butterfly Effect. Even a bad show with Amy Smart in it might be worth watching but it wasn't a bad show. I'm bummed. I like a good story and now I'll never know how it ends. Damn you CBS!

Don't shop at Undergroundtown.com

I got another one. Don't buy anything from Undergroundtown on eBay.

I've only been ripped off on by sellers on eBay twice over the last 6 years or so. I've purchased nearly 100 things from almost as many sellers and now it's a pretty safe bet I'm never going to see the Prometheus CD I bought from this guy. I bought it in June for $17.95 with the shipping. I hoped it would come before I left town on vacation but it didn't. I was surprised not to see it in my pile of mail when I got back in July. I emailed the guy and got one response back after my third email. He apologized, claimed things had gotten crazy and that he had, had a lot of spam but said he'd send it out right away. It never came. Things got busy and before I knew it the time passed where I could get my money back through Paypal. I emailed a few more times with no reply. I used the dispute console on eBay to report a non-delivery on a seller at around the 60 day mark. He got back to me on that and apologized again and said he'd send it along with an extra CD for my trouble. Nothing ever came. A couple messages later via this dispute console thing he admitted he didn't even have one to send but would get one in and send it. A dispute only stays open for 90 days after you initiate it and now we're past that and it closed. I've emailed a couple times but it's safe to say I'm never going to hear anything or get my CD. I posted negative feedback a long time ago. It was his first negative feedback ever. I even bought a CD from him before all this and things went fine. I see that recently he's gotten a whole bunch more negative feedback ratings....12 in the last month from others who were also ripped off and angry. Today I emailed him and told him he was going to hell when he dies if he doesn't send me my CD or find Jesus. I hope he does both although the latter is far more important.