Sorry for the lack of updates. Been bogged down with work and other personal stuff — in particular, vehicle troubles. Ugh. Anyway, here's a few random sites for you.

Exhibit 19: MyPoints
I'm a sucker for freebies and rewards so, back in 1998 when this website was created, I signed up and have been earning "points" and redeeming them ever since. Anyway, if you decide to sign up, before you do, send me your email address and I'll send you an invite. I can get like, 100 points per friend referral. Ha! Shameless plug. ^_^

Exhibit 20: Locks of Love
If you've got long hair or are growing it out, before you visit your stylist, be sure to check out this website first. I donated my hair a few years ago and it was pretty neat and creepy at the same time; neat cos you're helping a child with no hair; creepy cos your hair's going to be turned into a wig! Anyway, if you're thinking of being charitable this lent and have quite a bit of hair… lol, check that site out.

Enjoy! …and anyone in the Los Angeles area selling their vehicle? I'm in the market for a new (used) one. >_<

Roger roger, here's the RPI niner.

Exhibit 17: France24 Live
Watch the news online. Who cares if the telly feed is from a French station? LOL. Anyway, the reports are in English. So, if you are stuck in front of your computer for hours on end, and feel like being a part of the world by finding out what the hech is going on in the world, that site is for you.

Exhibit 18: World RPS Society
Yes, there exists a society dedicated to roshambo. Rock, Paper, Scissors — yah! You can also read about strategies, look at their tournament schedule, browse their online store, or download some collectible "campaign" posters.

Until we meet again.

Kudos to Damon for posting this joke @ the forums I frequent. Thought I'd share it cos I found it hilarious!

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has approved a 5-year phase-in plan that would become known as "Euro-English".

In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.

In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.

Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.

Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.

By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v".

During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensi bl riten styl.

Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.

Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.

Kudos to Johnny for sharing this site. Actually, I have not even installed the software associated with it but I have "reserved" my virtual identity there. LOL. Anyway, let me introduce myself to you… I am… Imogen Bing. Lovely to meet you. LMAO.

You can register for free and it's up to you whether or not you want to subscribe to their service; it's something like, The Sims 2 or an MMORPG game but the "gameplay" is more like "real-life". Iono, if you're interested, please use me, Imogen Bing, as your friend referral. ROFL. Here's the Imogen Bing link you can use to register for free: Second Life (there's a field that asks who referred you to SL).

See you at the virtual flipside! (Oh yah, let me know your name so that I can add you as a friend after you have registered!)

Hearty props to the publishers (or distributors) of the Nintendo Power magazine for sending me my first free issue… in fifteen copies!

Fifteen (15) copies of Nintendo Power April 2007/v214 issue. Hehehe. Pics below for posterity and send me an email if you want to get one of these — lol, I don't know what to do with the remaining fourteen.

I checked to make sure the other 14 copies weren't addressed to anyone else; they aren't and it was delivered to me all taped together! Thank you Nintendo Power. You're so nice.

Here it is… The completed Sector Nine A-Frame Bamboo longboard! (Click photos for larger image)

The 3rd pic is a close-up view of the angled riser-pad. For those interested, here are the specs:

Deck: Sector Nine A-Frame Bamboo (with built-in clear grip tape)
Trucks: Tracker Racetrack "S" [rear] and "X" [front] (149mm)
Riser pads: Angled
Bearings: Pig Ceramics
Wheels: Kryptonics Classic (65mm – Black)
Hardware: Shortys 1 1/4"
Bushing: Tracker custom (bottom) and Independent red/soft (top)

I gave it a test run earlier this evening and it was a dream to ride; glided ever so effortless-ly on the pavement. Can't wait until the weekend to really cruise with this at the beach. ^_^

Can you believe? Lucky Number 8.

Exhibit 15: What to Do After a Car Accident
An article off the Edmunds.com website layout the steps you need to do after you get hit The Accident Form is something that you should keep handy in your glove compartment, BTW. Just print it out, here.

Exhibit 16: Online Television Guide
Handy website that has television program listings — I prefer this one now, over the Yahoo! TV listings and the TV Guide listings; both of which are clunky and made (poorly) with Adobe/Macromedia Flash.

Hope you have a good one!