Elite Insight
I’m a Republican; I shouldn’t be saying that.
I don’t know why, but this song has grown on me. I just happened upon it while listening to Pandora (this site rocks). I created a “station” called “Jack Johnson” and this song played. It kicks some trash. This kid is a pimp too. How old is he? I can’t tell. He’s probably like 30 and I’m calling him a kid. lol.
Enjoy
Edit: Just did a quick wikipedia search and the “kid” I speak of is actually 28. (born October 28, 1979).
Oh well, he’s still cool and makes good music.
My favorite thing about the song is how he says “fwee”.
Peace Out Brett.
Just an update:
I said I would let you know how Simple Helix web Hosting handles Magento E-Commerce. It’s lightening fast! I was worried ($100 bucks isn’t just something you want to throw away), but it completely meets, and exceeds my expectations. I’m planning on upgrading from the personal account to the Enterprise Account. The Enterprise account lets you host 10 domains instead of the one domain on the personal account.
Simple Helix Customer Service:
Rocks as well. When they say 24/7 customer support they mean it! I contacted their customer support team last Friday night at, oh I’d say probably around 10:00 PM. When did I get a response? A half hour later! They answered my question and were very helpful. I contacted customer support again tonight (Sunday) and I received an email back about an hour later.
This is the response I received:
Hello,
Looks like I’m going to have to re-process the order for the domain transfer
as the system needs to re-recognize the new administrative email
information.I’ll do this first thing in the morning tomorrow.
Kind regards,
**(Confidential. Customer support person’s name.)***
How about that? It’s refreshing to know that some company’s in this world still have actual english speaking humans doing their customer service for them. Not some trained monkey that knows how to read a script!
Good Juan, Simple Helix! 
I found this pretty hilarious.
If you don’t know who Mark Hoppus is, you can jump off a cliff. 
Really though, he was the bassist/vocalist for Blink 182 (before their indefinite hiatus), and he is now the bassist/vocalist for one of my favorite bands +44. He and Travis Barker started +44 after Blink was dissolved.
He now has a free podcast conveniently self-titled - HiMyNameIsMark. You can find it by searching the iTunes music store, or you can check out his blog at HiMyNameIsMark.com.
You can tell he’s a cool guy just by looking at the picture.
Anyway, the whole purpose of this post is to tell you about a funny announcement he made on his blog. He talks about how his mom called him up yelling about how his Wikipedia page was wrong and how he needed to fix it. It made me laugh, so here’s the original text:
Wikipedia Is Wrong
April 10th, 2008
my mom called me the other day angry about wikipedia. she said there were all kinds of inaccuracies in the “mark hoppus” entry. first of all, why is my mom cyber-stalking me? secondly, why does she call ME to yell about it? in any case, i checked it out today, and indeed the entry is wrong. not that it matters, but my name is mark allan hoppus. i have no idea where markus came from, but someone is going to have to answer to a very angry mark hoppus’s mother. also, my sister’s name is anne mcmurray (not wright). so NOW someone has to answer to an angry mark hoppus’s sister. AND, as much as i wish i did, i do not own part of famous stars and straps. so now someone has to answer to a very angry mark hoppus’s bandmate. and finally, whoever the ugly guy in the photo is, it’s definitely not me. i don’t look like that, do i? i hope i don’t. it’s gotta be someone else… in fact, that photo has inspired me and chris to start a website called youhavedumbface.com where we are going to put photos of all our friends in the middle of talking or just looking stupid. i am proud to be the first entry on the site. but back on point, can someone please tell wikipedia to spell my name right? you’d make my mom very happy.
Turns out a loyal Mark Hoppus supporter has gone through the page and fulfilled each and every one of his requests. Wouldn’t it rock to be that famous? I’d love to meet the guy.
Looks like it.
I always wondered if pirates still cruised the seas when I was a little tike. It appears they do.
Check out this link: http://www.icc-ccs.org/extra/display.php
Here’s a couple more interesting pirate related links:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/04/04/cruiseship.pirates.ap/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/10/29/somalia.pirates/index.html
” The pirates are often armed with automatic rifles and shoulder-fired rockets, according to a recent warning from the agency.”
- kinda freaky. Looks like if you don’t run into an iceberg there is a pretty good chance your ship will be commandeered by a bunch of pirates.
Happy sailing.
an airplane getting ready to take off.
Just thought I would let you know.
this rocks man. this is a quick message while sitting in a tire store waiting for my brothers tires to be done. i’ll upload some pics and do a formal review a little later. peace.
So here’s the deal. A month or so ago I got real excited about buying a Mac computer. I had heard a lot about them and I’ve been getting into video editing so I thought “what the heck?” I looked around on KSL Classifieds - Utah’s classified ads website (for a good 10 minutes, definitely long enough to make an informed decision about a product you know nothing about).
There she was. Slim, slender, white hair and a gaping shiny mouth. The previous owner used it for video editing and on-the-fly jobs so he put it into a crate thing with wheels on it. How much sweeter could it get? It looks cool and supposedly performs great. So I arranged to make the purchase a few days later. I got the whole system for $900.00. Hold your horses before calling me an idiot. He gave me the complete Final Cut Pro HD 4.5 software suite (retails for more that $600 bucks) so I was happy about that. I figured that if the computer turned out to be a complete piece of junk, at least I could take pride in knowing that I own one of the most powerful video editing softwares around.
Go figure, this is pretty much how it turned out. I had the computer for about a month when I went to turn it on. Mind you it was Christmas day when I pushed the “on” button because I just got a processor upgrade for it. I watched it do it’s thing, but there was a problem. It got stuck on the startup screen. The gray screen that has the pin wheel just stayed there. I thought it would just snap out of it, but to no avail.
So now it’s just been sitting in my room for the last month. I wanted to get it repaired, but I didn’t know if it would be worth the cash it would take, so I made an executive decision. I would put it up on KSL Classifieds (the same place I bought it from) for $450.00. That decision was made tonight, and about 3 minutes after I submitted the ad I had a phone call (11:00 PM). I talk to the guy and he’s very interested. Why is it that as soon as I begin to speak with someone I form a sort of emotional bond? I hate it. It’s like I bend over and say “take me for a ride, I’ll do whatever you say.” I’m going to blame it on my Mom’s side of the family. Anyways, the guy ended up talking me into $300.00 as being a fair price. It’s now 11:54 PM and I’m wondering why I accepted the offer. I’m sure I could have got more, but at the same time I just want to get rid of it. Despite the “bad” experience I had with my first Mac, I’m going to buy another one. For the month I had with it working I made a sweet video with iMovie and I loved just about everything about the Mac OSX. They really are super multi-media computers…..when they turn on that is.
Again, I hope this post made sense, cause I’m super tired and I’m not sure it’s making sense to me either.
MAC FTW for Media
PC FTW for Data Processing
Wow, I just had an amazing and eye opening conversation.
Ever talked trash on illegal immigrants? Ever trashed a Mexican (or brown colored person) for no reason other than you subcontiously thought you were better than him? I know I have. I’m ashamed, but I now realize how wrong it was (is) and if you were in the room with me a minute ago, I’m sure you would have some of the same feelings.
I was recently watching a news cast about the British teacher in Sudan (or who was in Sudan). We all know she let her students name a teddy bear Muhammad, which was totally out of line by the Sudanese governments standards. Anyways, being questioned about the issue was the author Brigitte Gabriel, who wrote the book: Because They Hate. She had some very intersting commentary to say the least and during the cast referred to her website ActForAmerica.org. Read the rest of this entry »
What do I think about all the religion hype?
Quite honestly I’ve been having a hard time lately deciphering the fact from the fiction from what I really believe is the truth.
I’ll begin by sharing a little anecdote about my involvement in church “back in the day”. I grew up knowing only one religion. Eating, drinking and sleeping the doctrines of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (or the Mormons. Mormons being a rip off of The Book of Mormon, which just so happens to be a vital part of the whole religion). To be fair I’ll say that this church was never forced on me or anything of the like. It had just been all that I’d known. This is fine and is obviously common with family’s that go back century’s with the church. Read the rest of this entry »
