Surfergeeks

Is it sweeps again already? Must be. Of course, that can only mean one thing: special guest stars. A veteran actor, Terry O’Quinn, appears in no less than 3 TV series…in ONE WEEK! His first appearance is this Sunday on Law & Order: Criminal Intent. He next pops up on Tuesday night on Navy: NCIS. He then quickly rushes to Wednesday to show up on The West Wing. He has a recurring role on that series as General Alexander. He’s also a recurring character on ABC’s hit series Alias as some high up in the FBI. He’s also been in a million other things as well. His last regular role was in Chris Carter’s Millennium with Lance Henriksen.

So, if you’re keeping count: L&O:CI & West Wing are NBC, Navy:NCIS is CBS, and Alias is ABC. If you throw in his handful of appearances on The X-Files and his role on Millenium on Fox that gives you all 4 networks in a span of two years. (His last role on The X-Files was Jan 2002. Also, he was in The X-Files movie as well.)

Ah well, whatever pays the bills I guess. I suppose I’d be just as big of a TV whore if I had the opportunity.

Woot! The email came out at work today. There was an incentive-type thing over the past couple months where if an agent had 0 points (for attendance/lates/etc) at the end of December and kept at 0 points for January then they were entered into the draw. They also had to be meeting all the requirements of their job.

The list just came out and there is only 12 names on it. Needless to say, I’m one of them (would be kinda pointless to write about this if I wasn’t). These 12 names are in a draw to be held next week where the winner walks away with 2000 Simoleons! (well, Canadian dollars actually – but the worth should be pretty close)

WooHoo! Everyone keep your fingers crossed for me. Great big Visa Payment here I come!!!

PikaJen sent me a link today that I meant to send to myself at work so I could post it up here on lunch. Never again can I consider my mother to be queen of the packrats. This link has a bunch of pictures of a woman’s house in Sacramento, CA that puts most people’s to shame. All of the stuff in this woman’s house is shit she bought off eBay. Most of the boxes aren’t even open yet! She buys it, it arrives, and she leaves the box with the piles of other boxes ALL OVER the house!!! When I get home I’ll post the link.

**UPDATE** Okay – here’s the link: Packrat House

Another gem from Zero Intelligence. Middle schoolers (that’s grades six, seven, and eight for us canucks) in Lawrence, NJ are limited to 15 trips to the bathroom at school a month!

The school board claims that bathroom breaks are “privlidges” and are being abused. They are also locking the bathrooms between classes. Man, if I were one of those kids parents I’d be telling my kid that if they had to go and the teacher said no to just whip it out or squat and let it go right in the classroom.

Seriously. ebay is addictive. VERY addictive. Someone should come up with a 12-Step program to treat those addicted to shopping on eBay. I bet it would get incredible bids on eBay!

I was so busy doing nothing on my days off that I plain ole’ forgot to post here. That SUCKS! Oh well – I probably didn’t have anything important to post anyway.

In other news – Happy Valentine’s Day Nikki! (okay, so it’s not big. or red. but more people will see it here!)

So, to everyone else – how was your Valentine’s Day? Did Cupid bring you want you wanted to make this day all gushy good? Feel free to comment and leave the details. Or, if you really want to, email me the video clips!

Darwin Awards 1, Stupid People 0

Okay, this person apparently has done the world a favor. CNN reports here on a 19 year New Yorker that met her demise as she hopped down onto the subway tracks to retrieve her cellphone. According to the report she saw the train coming but couldn’t get off the track in time. Ah well. With any luck she hasn’t reproduced.

I just finished reading Tom Clancy’s novel ‘The Teeth of the Tiger’. In it, Clancy introduces Jack Ryan Jr. as an up-and-coming replacement for his good ole’ Dad, Dr. John Ryan, star of many of his previous novels.

The premise behind the new series is an interesting one – a new organization has been set up with private money that goes and looks after America’s problems with terrorism. It’s not restricted to laws and such like it’s offical 3-letter counterparts.

The book itself was pretty good. I definitely wouldn’t say excellent though as I had no trouble putting this book down to do things like eat…or sleep. (Ask Nic, I’ve done silly things like stay up all night to finish reading a book) The ending of the book kinda sucked though – it was an obvious prelude into a future novel. Almost makes me think I’m reading Terry Brooks.

I have to say I’m thouroughly disgusted with the Disney Corporation after I read an article on CNN today. The article is here. Disney is apparently refusing to admit patrons into the park if they are on a Segway. These aren’t everyday folks too lazy to walk around. These are people with certain disabilities such as Multiple Sclerosis that make walking extremely difficult, if not impossible. Disney’s response is “we allow wheelchairs” (paraphrased, not a direct quote). Great. I certainly would not want to be a Disney guest and have to sit all day long in a wheel chair.

The kicker to this whole thing is that Disney employees themselves use Segways to travel throughout the park. They are especially visible in Epcot.

Come on Disney! Show some compassion!

The WOC? What the fuck is that you ask? That, ladies and gentlemen, is the White Oaks Crew, a “loosely structured group of individuals” currently terrorizing my neighbourhood. The police department refuses to classify them as a gang. Why? Oh, that’s easy: London Det.-Supt. Rick Gillespie says, “it doesn’t have a list of members, isn’t having turf wars, and is transient.”

You hear that Hell’s Angels? Tear up your membership lists, stop having turf wars and don’t have a clubhouse and *poof* you’re magically no longer a gang.

Did the police consider for a minute that a) there might be some “crew” with a list of people that it considers “crew”. b) there’s no turf wars because no one else is stupid enough to think they’re cool by having a “gang”/”crew” c) may in fact have a clubhouse or some sorts. (Now, this is my interpretation of transient – without clubhouse) The current bru-ha-ha has them dragging some 18-year old kid into a house and beating him silly. Since they used that house why could that not be considered a “clubhouse”?

Fortunately, I don’t walk around my neighbourhood so it’s highly unlikely I’ll ever be subject to an encounter with these misguided children. However, that wouldn’t stop me from shaking the hand of any person that used a big, heavy baseball bat to help guide these children.

The worst part of this is that the stupid Young Offenders Act prevents these idiots from being publicly identified AND when caught, prevents them from getting any type of serious punishment. Throw these punks into jail with real criminals. It wouldn’t take many hours of being someone’s butt-buddy before they were crying like the real bitch they are begging for their mommy. Maybe some of the real criminals (you know, serial killers, rapists, murderers, etc.) will come up with some creative way to dispose of these punks so that not only never bother anyone again but also are no longer a financial drain on our taxes.

Oh, by the way, the bird’s gone. Kicked it off the balcony last night when I got home. It sorta spiralled down to the ground before going THUD on the snow below. Kinda cool. Not sure what the hell the bird was doing on the balcony though. It wasn’t even really near a window. It was in the corner of the balcony being very dead. It almost looks as though it was huddled there trying to stay warm – if so, it failed.