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so I found out a about Hexic today and wanted to download the actual SWF (Flash) file so that I could play it on my Clié, but apparently I’m not smart enough for that. I really thought I was.

I’m going to the bank.

Well, the official photo gallery from OwlCon has been posted, and of the four of us that went, I’m the only one that even came close to being in a photo… Can you guess which one I am?

IN PRISON..you spend the majority of your time in an 8×10 cell.
AT WORK..you spend the majority of your time in a 6 x 8 cubicle.

IN PRISON..you get three meals a day.
AT WORK..you only get a break for one meal and you pay for it.

IN PRISON..you get time off for good behavior.
AT WORK..you get more work for good behavior.

IN PRISON..the guard locks and unlocks all the doors for you.
AT WORK..you must carry around a security card and open all the doors for yourself.

IN PRISON..you can watch TV and play games
AT WORK..you get fired for watching TV and playing games

IN PRISON..you get your own toilet
AT WORK..you have to share with some idiot who pees on the seat.

IN PRISON..they allow your family and friends to visit.
AT WORK..you can’t even speak with your family.

IN PRISON..the taxpayers pay all the expenses with no work required.
AT WORK..you get to pay all the expenses to go to work and then they deduct taxes from your salary to pay for prisoners.

IN PRISON..you spend most of your life inside bars wanting to get out.
AT WORK..you spend most of your time wanting to get out and go inside bars.

IN PRISON..you must deal with sadistic wardens.
AT WORK..they are called managers!!!!!

DO IT!!!

http://www.chuckchamblee.com/dom/fun/yankee_dixie_quiz.htm

This song wrocks!!!

Someone on is selling and antigravity coffee table. Dang, and for only $5!

To help make junk mail more clear and point out the scams in the universe.

Okay, not really, but every now and then I get something in the mail that’s very convincing to me and I decide to do a little research on it. This time it was a Refund Notice on my Mortgage Insurance Premium. A company in Austin was willing to assist me in determining if I was eligible for a refund on my Mortgage Insurance Premium with promises of up to $1,583.55. Now any new homeowner is going to be feeling the pains of a tight belt and this is going to sound like gold. You’ve paid countless thousands to the house so far, it’s about time it started giving back. Well, this isn’t a scam per se, but the offer to help me is. When checking on the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), there is a section that will tell you flat out if you have a refund coming to you, you don’t need someone to perform a service for a fee to find out if you are elligible for a refund or not. Don’t pay anyone any money for this. In fact, there’s a notification as such on the HUD web site:

Consumer Alert
Beware of people (known as “tracers”) offering to help you collect your refund for a fee. You do not need to hire someone to collect your money. You can obtain your refund directly from HUD for free. If
you feel that you’ve been misled or in some way harmed by a tracer; or
you’ve been contacted by someone asking you to become a tracer, who you believe misled or harmed you,

Let us know. We’ll check it out.
The Department has stepped up efforts to locate homeowners owed FHA premium refunds. HUD awarded Walker and Company LLP a contract to assist the FHA in finding homeowners who are owed money. The new contract will save many of the homeowners the unnecessary expense of obtaining their refund through a tracer. Additional information about this initiative can be found in the Department’s Daily Focus message of October 15, 2002.

If you’d like to see if you qualify for a refund, just go to the HUD Website and fill out a one line form, I mean, come on… its ONE LINE! People are seriously charging other people to fill out this one line. I bet they’re saying it takes a week to get the info as well. Sheesh.

Oh, BTW, you owe me $74.95 for this warning and informational service.

I’m sitting in this faculty member’s office trying to get Illustrator to
crash. I don’t know what he does to crash it but he says it crashes
frequently. This is one of the more difficult aspects of my job… trying
to recreate problems. I’m also playing with posting options for my Clié.

I have a camera on my new Clié, so now I can start posting photos that are only mildly more entertaining than my just writing text.