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Today is really the first chance in a while I've had time to post here, and it's only on my lunch break...which so far consists of Garlic Pita Chips and a Cherry Coke. Blarg. - Demotivators.com presents: Addressing Employee Complaints. Hosted by the same people who bring you short bus kids radio. Absolutely worth watching if you work in a corporate environment at all. - Bicyclist vs. littering automobile...um...ist. What could possibly go wrong? Personally I'm on the biker's side of this. The sheer look of fury on that guys face just screams unstable. - Biggest Loser audition cancelled. They didn't have enough room...sometimes the jokes just write themselves. And last but not least, and remember Chicken Tonight. It was a line of sauces made a while back by Ragu. Remember...those stupid commercials with people walking around like chickens and somebody singing "I feel like chicken tonight...like chicken tonight"? I loved...LOVED their chicken cacciatore sauce, and was wondering why I couldn't find it anymore. I guess they discontinued it a while back. I mention that because I tried some cacciatore sauce from Trader Joe's and it was horrible, nasty, rancid shit. Just plain awful. So my quest continues to find a replacement sauce.

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Pictures of Juliet:
I'm not fat...I'm rubenesque.
Thank you, please pay at the second window. Oh, and I vomited in your frosty, and i'm not sorry at all.
Juliet after her shower today. No love lost though, I'm sure she hated us already.

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- What is your IP rating? Stupid cute little site

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Ever hear of dead peasant insurance? It means that when you die, your company has a policy out on you, and they get the benefits. Apparently it's more common than you think. Do a google search on it, scary stuff man... http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&rls=GGLD%2CGGLD%3A2004-18%2CGGLD%3Aen&q=dead+peasant+insurance

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Dammit, my DSL is down again! I swear to god, lazy people who can't take the time to actually check for DSL signal on a pair before swapping it drive me nuts. At this rate your gonna find my camped out next to the cross connect box waiting for the tech to show up and put me on a loaded pair. Now how am I going to get my spam? Speaking of which, here are a few titles of which I get almost daily. Cum again and again (um...no thanks)
Erections like STEEL (again, no thanks)
What IS OEM Software AND Why D0 You Care? (I don't)
Invest your money in this company for success (no thanks, i only invest for failure)
We cure any desease (including inability to spell?)

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Finally the mystery revealed:

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I had, what can only be described, as the single worst dream idea of my life. This happened a couple of nights ago, but I had forgotten about it until Jen reminded me of it last evening. Tinfoil Bubble Gum. In my dream, I picked up a piece of it, and started just chewing away. If you've ever accidentally bitten into a piece of aluminum foil you know the horror I speak of. Gives me the heebie jeebies just thinking about it. Why I would dream about chewing gum made out of tin foil is beyond me. Also, I think we're pretty sure on a date now for the wedding. If your interested, feel free to check out a webpage Jen setup over at theknot.com. We'll update it with more information as we go, we're still working on picking the place.

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Irony as defined by me, is being a DSL engineer, and having your DSL go down. Just got back online today. Crapped out about 9:45am Friday. Couldn't even get a single frequency channel to sync (32kb). Of course everybody said it was either IW, or NID Splitter, or the Modem. Turn out, after working on it this morning with the Telco guy who came out, somebody swapped my pair from the SAC to the pedestal with a loaded pair. Yup, somebody took a functioning DSL line, and move it onto a pair with load coils. Oh well, at least we're back online. thank god....

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....as you can see in my webcam. I decided to increase the history to 30 images total. Figured why not, since the program can do it....might was well use it. Now I just need to design a graphical overlay for conquercam....figured something stupid in the top that said dennisjudd.com or some crap like that. Oh well, at least now i'm off the call. time to go to bed. really tired, haven't slept well in like 24 hours and tomorrow is another long day.

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This guy does:

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Haven't been writing as much as I normally do. As I sit here, I've been working almost 12 hours as is, and after I go get something to eat, I'll be heading right back to work. I've been working on how to fix a problem that occurred at work....and it's a dozie. Of course I can't comment here on it, and honestly, most people wouldn't even understand it. Argh!....that last email was not the answer I'm looking for. Dammit, this is going to get messier than I thought. On the bright side, I learned that egrep can do a search for multiple variables and return them both in order of appearance. Thankfully, I can smell the aroma of beef stew, wafting up from the kitchen downstairs. I'm so thankful Jen thought ahead and made dinner for me before she left, it's probably the only thing that's going to keep me going until 5am. Well...that and the crack....

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Yesterday was volunteer day at the food bank. There really is nothing more rewarding than dragging your half asleep ass out of the bed at 6:15am on a Saturday morning, and then driving for 45 minutes with everybody crawling up your ass because they can't comprehend the concept of only going 5 over the speed limit. Seriously, if you want to pass me...find....pass me, but when you do...don't just slow down about 20 feet ahead of me and then match my pace. I mean, what was the purpose of passing me then? Anyways, the volunteer group I had today did pretty good, even if they weren't talkative. About 7 pallets worth of Hamburger Helper/Potato Helper sorted...that's roughly 3200 pounds of stuff. I tell you what, that's a pretty good workout for 3 hours. After we got home then we cleaned the basement a bit to make room for painting trim....figured we'd work on the rest of the house here a bit, since we already have most of the stuff for it. Then we ran out to Bed, Bath and Beyond to pickup a new Duvet cover that was on sale (yes, I know I am sooo cool). Anyways, here's my point, afterwards we ran to Costco, to pickup cat liter. So it's saturday....at Costco....there are lines of course everywhere. So we get in line, and the lady in front of us tells me to put down the litter on the convayer belt. So, I'm all like "no it's ok, it's good exercise". So somehow, this develops into her letting us cut in front of her (all we had was litter...it literally took us 30 seconds to checkout). And of course we're goint the obligitory thankyou small talk. And this lady busts out the best thing I've heard in a long time. "If you looking for sympathy, try looking in the dictionary. It's right between shit and syphilis."
Sometimes I swear....only me.....

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God I love this MP3 player Jen bought for my birthday....I've always been one of those people who work better with music playing to distract my mind. Like a poor man's ritalin... Anyways, Jen ordered the new Roisin Murphy CD I mentioned a while back, and it arrived today.
- Need a laugh? Go read the Tard Blog. Web postings from a special Ed teacher from a few years ago. Sometimes, when you can't cry, you just have to laugh. - Speaking of laughing, you need to read this site. Its posts from people who deliver pizza about some of the worst and best stories they have. Sort of reminds me of stainedapron.com, but a little more simply laid out.

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So Jen brought home a new CD a couple of days ago called Morningwood. Now I didn't think much of it at all until I tripped across another site where somebody mentioned how excited they were about it coming out. So I decided to listen to it. It's really not bad, quite good actually. Turns out they have a whole website and even a section where you can watch a couple of their videos. For example, here is their video for "Nth degree" their first single. Now it's quite obvious they've got some money backing them up. The production is way to slick, the video was way to well done, and ....well honestly, if you pop up on any of the MTV channels it's obvious "the man" wants you to do well. That aside, there's a really cool energy behind this music. I think I really like it. If you have any taste you should go buy it. now if you'll excuse me, i need to go finish my dancing lessons. update: lol, just noticed that one of the album covers in their nth degree video is a total rip of the icy hot stunaz....

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How ironic is this.... Go to google, do a search for the words "sacre blu", and who do you think is the 1 hit? Of all the random things I swear... I just found out yesterday that the lead singer for Moloko, Roisin Murphy, released her own solo album this past summer. How cool is that? It feels a little more bluesy/funky, and less dance/techno...but that's all I can tell from the tracks on her site. Even though it's an import, I hope to have it soon so I can listen to it. So we made it to Bed, Bath, and Beyond the other night to put stuff on the wedding registry. It truely is a shame that are no power tools there :( But on the plus side, with any luck we'll be able to get some new dishes out of it. It just kind of feels weird to me to be making a wish list, and asking people for stuff. I think we've both been so used to providing for ourselves that it just feels weird.

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Letting Jen and I go to Binny's when we're broke is both cruel and foolish. It doesn't help when the manager emails me to let me know when beers I like come in :( On the bright side, we picked up a lot of belgian and other beers that were on clearance. Some of them were even brands we had been wanting to try for a while, but just couldn't justify the cost per bottle. Of course we were also able to pickup some old favorites. ....sorry, had to step away. I left the ironing board up for a second to cool, because I had just patched my jeans....and of course the cats just knocked it over...*sigh* Anyways...I digress... - Dell is now selling a new 30" widescreen flat panel monitor. It costs about $2,199 dollars...does anyone know the going street rate for a kidney? I only really need one right? - I think we should change our wedding date to June 6th. It would be kind of hard to forget the anniversary date of 6/6/6 right?
- Ironically I was just thinking about this the other day. 2 postal workers arrested for stealing Netflix DVD's. I bet this kind of crap happens all the time. - Nick found this one, probably one of the biggest scams I've ever seen. Lifegem...turn your loved one into a diamon after their death. First of all, I don't believe it....secondly their prices are a freaking joke.

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Something I've been wanting to do for awhile, create an archive for the webcam. Well I finally was able to find a program to let me do it, called ConquerCam...apparently it's a pretty popular choice among others. Haven't been able to find another program yet that allows looping unique naming that loops between ranges. So another stupid little tweak to the site I think is cool.

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Did you know that there was a netfix widget? How cool is that. Need a quirky game to waste your time? Every hear of Samorost?

Neither had I until Samorost 2. They are both pretty damn cool. Oh and here is the walkthrough for Samorost 2's online level. You know, in case you get stuck or something. Here's a really cool site that let's you make your own motivational posters. Or like me you could do something dumb.
And finally, I leave you with the gift of Jewerly. There is no better way to say I love you than with a Goatse Claddah Ring. Optional ruby center stone available upon request.

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One of my neighbors (Tim) is rebuilding a motorcycle he got for free. A 1980 Yamaha sr500 I think that's been sitting for like 20 years. Well aside from the standard joys of having to rebuild the carb and replace any cracked seals there's always the worry of mouse damage. For some reason those little guys love to burrow into the air filters, and apparently chew wires. Well, they completely stripped 2 wires from the turn signal auto auto shut off thingy, and chewed up a few others. Now I had no idea up to this point that wire insulation must be made out of recycled mouse food, because I cannot for the life of me figure out why they cleaned that thing end to end like it was corn on the cob. So about an hour later, I had finished repairing all the wires using some heat shrink tubing, and all was pretty well (except for my getting a couple of wires reversed) and we hooked everything back up to make sure it worked. Now, while I had been working on the electrical, Tim had been working on the fenders. So we had removed the rear fenders, disconnecting all the rear wiring. Keep that in mind, it will factor in later. So anyways, we hook back up the turn signal canceller thing and they don't blink. They just stay on constantly....mocking me with their ever present glow. So of course I'm sure that I must have miswired something, or fried something or who knows what. So after some careful thought, I come to the conclusion that the flasher relay must have gone magically bad at the same time I was working on the whole system. So we gutted the flasher....and of course it looks fine inside. So we hook it back up the box and start testing it with a multimeter...everything looks fine except for the fact that we've got it strewn apart. And wouldn't you know...can't find a damn thing wrong. Every thing's working like it should be, except of course for the blinking. Tangent: Ever notice how when a bulb burns out in a car, the remaining turn signal blinks faster? Well since we had the rear turn signals disconnected, the only side effect I expected was that the front's would just blink faster. Apparently however this is not the case....apparently, they don't blink at all. We finally hooked them up as a last ditch effort and low and behold they worked just fine. We had eviscerated the relay for no valid reason at all.....and then we drank some beer :) Also, yesterday, I signed up to be a beta tester for Windows Vista. How freakin' cool is that? I can only hope that I get an acceptance email, but it helps to know somebody on the inside. I'm really jazzed about it. Makes me just want to go buy another cheap little computer to throw it on so I don't have to mess up my main machine.

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Let's take a second here to talk about Christmas card etiquette. Now, I'm not going to split hairs about whether you should include religious meanings or not. Hell I even don't care if you send pictures of your entired family dressed up as reindeers that you took at sears. There is simply just one rule; If somebody sends you a card, you send one back. That's it, very simple. If we send one, then you send one next year. See people there's a 2 year lag here....you get the 2nd year to turn around and return the favor. Not doing so is the holiday equivelant of Santa flipping you off. We sent out 20 cards this year....we got 5. And one of them was from the food bank we volunteer at. WTF is this crap? Do you know what 20 cards are worth? Pack of 20 cards (fancy ones, not generic) = $14 bucks
20 stamps = .37x20 = $7.40
Time = 1 hour = $7.25 (based off minimum wage) That's $28.65 dammit, and for what, the crushing rejection I used to only associate with Valentines day growing up? Why that money could have gone to better uses such as:
2 1/2 packs of Golden Monkey
4 delicious meals at Quizno's (mmmm...toasty)
Almost half of the price for a G1 Megatron...seriously how cool would that be. Bah humbug! *Note this rant does not pertain to my sister, Jen's family or you Tim...you already told us you weren't gonna send a card because you guys suck...and we're ok with that :) On the bright side, I leave you with this funny comic, even though you probably don't deserve it:

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