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02/21/09 07:01 - 29ºF - ID#47853
Anti-terrorism Pomegranetes
So the commercial for what is coming up next on the news is "HOW POMEGRANATES ARE BEING USED TO FIGHT TERRORISM!"-- i have to see how the heck that is!!! i'll update when i fin dout
i just realized i never update this. They are used to fight terrorism because they are growing them in Afghanistan and they make a lot of money for farmers so they don't grow drugs so they don't funnel the drug money to the Taliban. I'm not really sure why they don't end up funneling the pomegranite money but next time I buy POM (which i have actually never bought ) i will think, "this just tastes just a little bit terroristy"
tinypliny writes
at 10:36:59 03/16/09 - Comment #46618
Goddamit. You never updated this. :/.
tinypliny writes
at 07:05:53 02/21/09 - Comment #45787
You chew the fruit and load the seeds into a catapult?
SO continuing my video to DVD conversion I foudn the most random tape. It has the news clip from when (e:paul) and (e:iriesara) did a sleep out at kenmore city hall to raise money for the homeless, a little clip of an old batman tv show, the music video for Joy ride, the music video for Losing mY Religio IN TWO DIFFERENT PLACES ON THE VHS, Pee Wee Show, The scene with the trucker lady from pee wee's big adventure, the scene from ferris buellers day off where the car goes over the cliff and a couple clips from happy days, soooo random! oh and this random max pies commerical where a man is like seductively rmeoving his shirt while promoting good carpets
So i am in the process of converting our VHS tapes to DVD but the only way to do it is to actually plya ll the VHS tapes, which is fun to see all these old videos. All i know is I just yelled out at my 8th brithday "yeah of course I have troll pants!" , the Debbie Gibson moment (you all know what i'm tlaking about) must be coming sooN!
So i have kept wanting to post but then not feeling like it by the time i got to the computer but this juts has to be posted. I WENT TO EAT A DELICIOUS PLUM yesterday and it was weird because I swear soon as i picked it up i just had a feeling of dread about it but i started to eat it anyway.......and as i am pleasantly chomping my way through i look down and there is like a hole near the pit and curled all up in there is a little white worm like creature! EWWWWW! I don't think i ate any of it because it was just little and in there, but maybe there were more and i ate them. End of that story is i am not just eating into fruit anymore i am thoroughly cutting and inspecting it alL!!!
Once I ate one of those oversized grapes and it had a grub like giant white plump bug inside. I bit the grape and the bug in half. When I realized, it was too late as I had already swallowed. Now I more carefully inspect grapes.
tinypliny writes
at 11:33:39 02/18/09 - Comment #45634
I was really thinking today how much I would like to own my own store. I would love it. I am not sure what kind of store, prolly knick knacks cuz that is what i know and love. Maybe a bar/knick knack store. Me and rachelle at work have talked about opening a bar called Drinks and Trinks where you get like trinkets with your purhcases, like you can buy a value meal of like a vodka cranberry and two shots and you get a free toy like a happy meal. I tihnk it could really work well, haha. Well i do really want to own a store though but the whole idea seems so daunting!
Do we still have our old "blueprints" from sophomore year??
metalpeter writes
at 05:38:18 02/05/09 - Comment #45223
Just be careful and learn you blue laws and Liquar the reason I say this is I think if you sell it you can't sell much else. The law might change though because Paterson wants stores to be able to sell wine. I think if that law changed then you might have to do something to change the law so that Liquer stores could compete with them. I guess their highest profit margin is on wine. I do have an idea for something you could sell. Some drink has a worm at the bottom of it, what about drinks with gummy worms in them or an alcohol store and a Candy store?
iriesara writes
at 04:08:52 02/05/09 - Comment #45220
you could put all those cash registers to use!
matthew writes
at 01:47:53 02/05/09 - Comment #45217
What if you put trinks at the bottom of the drinks!?! Oh wait, that would be a major choking hazard. Scratch that idea.
hodown writes
at 10:21:36 02/05/09 - Comment #45206
can I work at your store?
trisha writes
at 09:18:02 02/05/09 - Comment #45205
haha, that is a great idea! would you bartend?
james writes
at 12:02:15 02/05/09 - Comment #45203
a very nice variation on the 'if you buy enough drinks you might get to sleep with the bartender' theme.
So I always had my dad's tax guy do my taxes too cuz he would just do it in addition to my dad's and so it seemed easier that way cuz then I didn't have to do anything. This year I decided I was going to do my own online, and was super nervous about it. I had planned on doing it with (e:terry) the irs workers supervision but then on sunday just decided to see if i could do it on my own. HOly heck, it is so easy, I mean of course I have really simple taxes since I make like no money, have no dependents, property etc. But still it was way easier than I imagined. I used taxslayer on the recommendation of someone at work and it was super easy and free for both federal and state taxes. This is also the first time I did the automatic deposit so I should have my refund in 10 days. I really like getting checks in the mail and so I didn't ever like doing it that way, but i really want my money now. Well hopefully I did it all right and will not be arrested for false tax claims or something> I am still kinda nervous that will happen.....wish me luck
heidi writes
at 12:00:13 02/05/09 - Comment #45202
oh, there was supposed to be a Congratulations, Mike! in there somewhere.
Congrats! I'm glad you had such a good experience with efiling.
heidi writes
at 11:59:12 02/04/09 - Comment #45201
I've used taxact.com to file my and several other people's taxes for the past six or so years. Super easy and way cheap! :::link::: has lists of free efiling sites. Some coordinate with NYS free file to make it entirely paperless & easy so look around. Most people can file for free. In taxact.com, if you want them to save your data year-to-year, there's a fee. In my opinion, for anyone with just W-2 income, you should be doing it yourself, even if you have a mortgage. Really, it's just a matter of seeing what forms you have and putting the numbers in the matching boxes. (It's asking for box 7. Look, right on the piece of paper there's box 7! type type type) The web software does all the rest for you.
H&R Block is a total rip off. Do NOT use their refund system in particular. You earned all that money, you should get your whole refund back, not give them 10% or whatever it is this year. With direct deposit, you'll have your refund in 8-16 days anyway, so just be slightly more patient! And everyone should check for Earned Income Tax Credit eligibility, especially people with dependent kids.
tinypliny writes
at 08:02:53 02/03/09 - Comment #45087
That makes me nervous. I get anxiety attacks filing my tax paperwork. Its got more and more complicated what with the institutions I am now affliated to and different "status" at both. Ugh.
ladycroft writes
at 06:32:12 02/06/09 - Comment #45244
i completely missed this! Happy belated birthday Paul!
tinypliny writes
at 06:02:41 01/23/09 - Comment #44821
That's funny. :) (e:Paul), where are (e:Mike)'s crazy kid photos??!
joshua writes
at 01:28:04 01/23/09 - Comment #44784
I've been waiting for a scandalous photo to pop up. Thanks Mike!!
kookcity2000 writes
at 10:42:19 01/22/09 - Comment #44769
I had that little plastic Rowlf! Happy Birthday dude
libertad writes
at 07:52:53 01/22/09 - Comment #44765
how cute!
paul writes
at 06:01:10 01/22/09 - Comment #44750
Omg, I was so obsessed with the muppets. I remember reading muppet magazine and wondering if there really was a place where humans interacted with muppets like other humans.
hodown writes
at 04:25:44 01/22/09 - Comment #44749
So (e:maureen) was raving about the documentary Young at Heart about this community center senior citizen chorus in Boston where the average age is 80 years old and they sing rock songs. She loved the documentary and had seen them in person. She built it up so much that i thought for sure it oculd not be as good as she said but it was! AND BETTER! It seriuosly is so happy and sad and inspiring and entertaining. it is like everything a documentary could be. The scene in the jail is so heartwarming. It was voted the number one scene in a movie for 2008 by newsweek!!!seriously watch it!
I have to admit, I love old poeple in general so I am a little bias but i seriously do not believe anyone could not like this movie! My parents just watched it and loved it too! IT is so good!I recommend it to everyone. It is in th enew releases at blockbuster and i'm sure it is on netflix and everything too, it just came out this year!!! here is the trailer
I don't want to put any more clips cuz i want you to see the whole tihng, it is so much better as a whole!! i mean you can watch clips on youtube but the whole thing together is so much better and in context!
lilho writes
at 08:58:54 01/11/09 - Comment #44340
incredible... i think it may have to go to front of my queue right now!
mk writes
at 06:40:08 01/11/09 - Comment #44336
Watching this movie was kind of an assignment for one of my classes this summer. I didn't end up going because it wasn't an actual assignment, but it sounds like such a good movie.
leetee writes
at 02:06:05 01/11/09 - Comment #44326
Have you ever considered volunteering at a nursing home? You would probably love it!!
Those of you who know me know my family has sorta a lot of family things over the holidays and then when you add in my holidays with various friends and (e:libertad) it ends up to be a lot of christmas celebrations! Well tomorrow is the official end of the season for me. Me and (e:mk) are going to the Eastern Hlils Mall like we do eveyrwhere to exchange gifts, eat some bad chinese food prolly and scope out sales and sauciness. It is really a great tradition, that mall is like the basis of ever5ything me and (e:mk) stand for. It is empty and 80's style and now it got a makeover but is still really not graet and i love that about it. YOu can always get good deals cuz stuff gets to clearance cuz noone shops there. All in all a great christmas season!!! p.s. thanks (e:matt) for letting me borrow your white chrimstas tree to make the perfect late christams for me and (e:libertad)!!!!!!!!!!!!
P.P.S. I learned in a n awesome book that (e:libertad) gave me that Lord Byron saved the pubic hair from each person he slept with in an envelope with their name and the ocllectio njust dissappered in like the last decade! good to know
So I bought this book on clearance at Borders a couple months ago ( i buy all books that i read for like $1 on clearance, so really i only read the best), anywho that's not the point. It is called Little Chapel on the River by Gwendolyn Bounds. The back says it is a story about a journalist in NYC who has to move after 9/11 when her apt building is damaged and accidentally ends up in a tiny hamlet called Garrison outside NYC and the book is the story of the people as told though the bartender of the local bar. Anyway it is pretty good but that is not the point either. In the entire description of the book nowhere does it say that the author/main character (it is a real story) is a LESBIAN! So even after reading the first section where it talks about the author's girlfriend i was like "wow i didn't realize Gwendolyn could be a boy's name" assuming it must be a man if they have a girlfriend and it does not say she is a lesbian. The reason I find this so remarkable is that I don't believe I have ever seen a book before that doesn't specifically say like "lesbian author in NYC" or "gay writer Joe Shmo", like always that is in the description. I thought it was pretty cool that it wasn't even mentioned on the book, like it just is part of her life but doesn't really necessarily need to be mentioned because it is not the focus of the book anymore than you would say "straight author in NYC". I don't know I found it cool that it didn't even mention it. It is so shcoking though that i actually was at first more convinced that Gwendolyn must be a man's name.
tinypliny writes
at 11:11:33 12/31/08 - Comment #43883
Oh man. I feel SO vindicated. When I was back home, I was writing all these emails to so many graduate administrative staff and faculty and I was NEVER really sure who was male and who was female. So I flipped coins when I was really unsure and Gwendolyn landed on a male spin. I am totally with you here! You never know!
mk writes
at 08:22:40 12/28/08 - Comment #43825
Gotta love all those gay Joe Shmoes.
james writes
at 08:17:17 12/28/08 - Comment #43824
If you ever write a book you could be "gaytalian author, Mike Visco". Super classy.
libertad writes
at 07:00:28 12/27/08 - Comment #43808
I would not be happy if I wrote a book and was labeled as a gay author, unless of course I only wrote gay themed books.