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31MarMonday Mission 3.XX

1. How old will you be on your next birthday? I will be 26 years old. Eeep! thats a different drop down menu on surveys!

2. One of the presents I was given for my birthday was a “George Foreman Grill.” I’ve always joked about them, so it was kind of a joke gift. But it turns out, it is a really neat little grill. Then it hit me, this is a gadget, except it is for the kitchen. Then I thought about it and realized that “gadgets” aren’t just techno-toys, gadgets are everywhere. What is your favorite gadget? My favorite gadget is my new toy. An X10 with “ninja scanning capabilities” In other words its a remote control cam.

3. Tell me about someone that you lost touch with several years ago. Would you like to get back in touch with them again? What caused the separation? Has enough time passed? Would you still get along? My old roommate Shaun, we talk on email now. he actually lives about 10 hours from us here, but the sad thing is that he’s moving back to the west coast soon.

4. I’ve not met many online friends in real-life (I.R.L.), but I’ve always assumed we’d get along great if we met. But then again, if we would since my online personality (brash, outgoing) seems so different from how I see my RL offline version (introverted). Is there a difference between your online personality and your real-life version? Or are you pretty much the same person either way? I’m pretty much the same, most of the time I am quuiet and I complain that no one messages me, however when they do, I don’t really wanna chat with anyone!

5. Being the quiet type, I have often felt like the online world has given me a greater chance to meet people I’d never meet IRL. In fact, I would bet that I would have never met any of you IRL if we had been in the same bookstore or coffee shop. So in that sense, I think the internet has helped inter-personal communication for many people. Can you think of any ways that the internet hinders person-to-person communication? What could we do to change things? I can’t think of any ways it hinders. It helped Crystal and I get to know each other quite well before even meeting in person.

6. Last night, about 1AM I was overcome with this amazing sense of inner peace. I hadn’t prayed, or done anything spiritual, yet, I felt like life was truly good and things could only get better. It seemed like I was given a mental “nudge” as if to say, “You’re doing great kid, stay with it and everything will keep getting better.” When was the last time you felt truly happy, or had that sense of perfect inner-peace? What does it take to get that feeling back when you need it? Most of the time I always feel happy. After a good sleep I feel all refreshed and happy, thats always good.

7. There are times when I just want to tell someone off. I don’t usually, since I have to work with them. Sometimes it is a family member and that would be even worse on down the road if I cut loose. If you could just verbally let loose on someone and be able to say anything you want, without repercussions, who would you say it to and what would you say? My boss and some of the people I work with. Really it depends on the day.

[Monday Mission 3.XX]

31MarCharge up the Flux Capacitor, Marty… (ie: for lack of a better post)

‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING

By CHAD KULTGEN

NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!

Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January 28.

“We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.

“But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over $350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be pure luck.

“The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”

The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall Street watchdogs.

“If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret, Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing investigation.

When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mind-boggling four-hour confession.

Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.

“It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught in the moment.”

In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.

All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”

However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.”

Officials are quite confident the “time-traveler’s” claims are bogus. Yet the SEC source admits, “No one can find any record of any Andrew Carlssin existing anywhere before December 2002.”

Weekly World News will continue to follow this story as it unfolds. Keep watching for further developments.

31Marhcotd needs your help!

I can’t think of the next hot chick of the day. If any of you (with about 3 people reading this site) have any ideas, leave a comment here!

Help!

31MarInteresting end to the francise

I just watched Star Trek: Nemesis. It was a pretty good movie, A little grainy cause I was watching it on my computer, but none the less not a bad movie. If you looked really hard you could see Wil Wheaton. I think I like the movie, however I didn’t feel it was totally nessicary to kill off a great character.

Data was on of my favorite characters in the series, but I guess all good things come to an end. Here’s to hoping there more “heart” in the next movie, if there is one.


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