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New years resolution #1

Eat more clementines!!! 

It's that time of year again.  Actually, that time of year started back in Nov. 2005, but that's right around the time when I bailed out of MGM and took a break from much of anything computer related.  Wheee!!!  Playtime is now officially over and I recently got a gig with Disney and also just realized that between Marisol and myself, we've worked for over half of the 'major' studios in L.A. so far.  She first worked over at Fox and is now punching data at Paramount.  Crazy, no?  Anyways...

BEHOLD!!  THE CLEMENTINES!!!!

Mmmmmm......

If you happen to know Greg Ginn...

Tell him to go pick up his royalty check.

http://scoweb.sco.ca.gov/UCP/PropertyDetails.aspx?propertyRecID=6588733

Reese Witherspoon needs to cash in on her Tiffany's refund, too.  After spending a few minutes searching around, it appears that a lot of them there movie stars do. 

Sadly, I didn't have any dough waiting on me, but take a peek.  Maybe you've got a royalty check or Bvlgari refund comin' yer way, too. 

Texas peeps -  https://txcpa.cpa.state.tx.us/up/Search.jsp

Californians - http://scoweb.sco.ca.gov/UCP/Default.aspx

Harriet is the coolest nominee EVER. Oy vey...

Ya gotta love it when pundits from the political North Pole and South Pole can all agree about how dumb el presidente can be.

Eleanor  

Ann

Can you feel the love?

In case you haven't seen this already...

Greeting cards to/from the best gubner ever.

For all you LA folks not fortunate enough to own a fruit tree and too cheap to buy fruit...

This site is for you:

http://www.fallenfruit.org/

Let the looting begin!!

Ha! Found it.

Meet your new bathtub stopper.

Would you stick a cigarette butt in the snowman that your child built?

Maybe kids should build more snow-ashtrays instead of just crying about how smokers mistreat them?  Either way, this is an issue that many snowpeople have to deal with sooner or later. 

Pick up a few tips (and some sweet gif's) on how to improve your Smoking Style.

Most of this is right on and some of it is nerdly funny.

"There have been numerous interesting studies that indicate that a significant percentage of users will trade their password for a candy bar..." 

The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security

A nice Friday link for you.

http://postsecret.blogspot.com/

Yet another thoughtful juxtaposition of images brought to you by CNN...

Stumbling about...

So, I recently saw the movie Wedding Crashers.  (Definitely worth a peek for a few laughs.)  If you've seen the film, then you no doubt also remember the nympho (Isla Fisher) that was chasing after Vince Vaughn's character.

Apparently, back in the real world of L.A., she's now "stunned" by the number of women who stop her on the street - lonely gentlemen, take note - to "confide... that they really relate to her character".  Now, I find this tid bit of celebrity news humorous, but not the least bit surprising and admit that it has little to do with the main point of this post except for the fact that in the the aforementioned, stunning link, it is said that Ms. Fisher is married to none other than Ali G (Sasha Baron Cohen)  Which is interesting and relevant.  Interesting to me because I freakin' love Ali G. and relevant b/c it led me to start digging up her profile on IMDB.com, then Sasha Baron Cohen's and ultimately led me over on to the BBC Guide to Comedy website, which is quite fun to poke around in.  Go on, you'll enjoy it.  Maybe.

"Da Ali G Show" has always cracked me up, but admittedly, I've never bothered to do any research on his career until today.  Apparently, his big break (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong) was on "The 11 O'Clock Show".  If anyone has seen this, let me know what you thought about it.  Sadly, it doesn't look like the Beeb has released any DVD's of it yet and I would love to see how the character's evolution and also, how the Brits reacted to his character.  While checking up on the other work he's done, I ran across the BBC Comedy Guide entry for "Not The Nine O'Clock News", (which later on took life across the pond as one of my all time fav. 80's shows, "Not Necessarily the News") starring, among others, Rowan Atkinson. 

That's about it.  I suppose I could ramble on about how I find it kinda funny that Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson's characters in Wedding Crashers spend 1/2 of the film trying to get laid or getting laid and Isla Fisher's character is labeled the "nympho" despite her being focused primarily on hooking up with only one dude, but hey, why spoil a perfectly good Hollywood comedy?