Watching the news this evening they had a story about how to get out of your cell phone contract if you don’t like the service.  Basically if they change the “Terms or Conditions” then that’s your out without paying some huge termination fee.  Not new news though the interesting part was the idea of swapping your contract with another person.  They mention CelltradeUSA as one site but a quick search yields a few more sites that does the same thing.  Cool concept if you want to try a particular company and without the long term commitment. 

On a similar note of cell phones, check out Youmail – a beta site that allows you to change your voice mail greeting per incoming phone call.  No more dull voice mails greetings!  Personalize your greeting for your significant other or your various friends.  So far it only works with a few carriers (Sprint isn’t one of them) so make sure you check before you play. 

And I thought my engrish was bad…

This was the “Chinese Horoscope” place mat at New Fortune restaurant in Gaithersburg.  Some family friends were in town for the weekend so we had dim sum here on Saturday.  Normally the food is decent, especially since it’s so close to where we live.  (still doesn’t beat Oriental East)  But the food was cold and well as most Chinese restaurants the service was somewhat lacking. 

Anyways, back to the “Chinese Horoscope” … notice the lack of proof reading and if you’re the Year of the Pig notice what the last line says: Beware of the Snack.  Not sure to take that as being made into a snack or the weight gain from snacking.  Either way it’s hilarious!  Good thing I’m a Tiger.  A tiger that looks like Colonel Mustard. 

We’ll last longer then we will against that Death Star <insert dramatic pause> Transformer. 

First they gave us the chaos bringer Unicron in toy form (via the Transformers Armada storyline) then the maker of the transformers race and Unicron’s brother Primus (via the Cybertron storyline).  And now with the Star Wars Transformers line a transforming Death Star (I’m assuming it’s the first Death Star from A New Hope and not the half finished but fully operational Death Star II from Return of the Jedi).  Toy technology is so cool. 

From a friend who knows one of the relatives of these two girls:

A tad bit more info about their story.

If you like Mythbusters, here’s a site that has compiled all the Busted, Plausible and Confirmed myths onto one webpage. 

I work at the “ghetto of the IT world” as my co-worker calls it.  For years we’ve sported pagers.  Then someone didn’t pay the bill so we were walking around for several weeks with non-functioning bricks on our belts.    Then we got these large Nextel phones that our department doesn’t have to pay for.  It isn’t so bad since they are functional and someone else is fitting the bill.    Yet, as we were getting these phones every other IT group got Blackberries.  Always a step behind. 

In a moment of silliness, my co-worker cut out a picture of a Blackberry and attached it to his belt.  He was so proud to strut around with his new piece of technology.  Yep, definitely ghetto.

Not sure how many people saw this the other day but these are the things that absolutely scare me about our government (whether federal, state or local).  Parents should have the ability to choose how they discipline their kids.  Is there a moral dilemma in this particular action?  I think not.  I know my parents spanked me when I acted out of line whether at home or in public.  I’m sure they didn’t like the attention that was brought to them at that particular moment but the lessons I learned are there for a life time.  My parents put the fear of God and of them into my life!    Kids run so rampant these days because parents are scared of their kids and the potential call from the local Social Services group.  It’s scary to hear these proposed laws pop up.  

Plus spanking is Biblical! (I’m still trying to remember the sermon a previous pastor gave about this.)

With the upcoming Transformers movie coming out I can’t tell if they (Hasbro/Takara) have become total sellouts or they just hired some really innovative people.  Soundwave as an MP3 player (sorta ironic since he’s a cassette player), Optimus Prime as an iPod docking station, Nike shoe Transformers and my two favorites – a transforming plush Optimus Prime pillow and Otimash Prime.   

Whoa … that’s Jacks brother?!?  (remember him from Season 5?)  There are more twists than an M. Night Shymalan movie.  Milo is proficient in LISP?  Who uses LISP these days?

Sports are a good enough reason. 

Oh My Goodness!!!  First time I’ve really watched Scrubs and it’s only because my bro told me it was going to be a a musical like they had on Buffy.  (Oh how I miss Buffy.)  This episode is so friggin funny!  They just did a whole song about poo.  I’m dying laughing.