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09/06/2007 09:47 #40965

A Happy Happy Birthday
to you (e:ladycroft). Happy Birthday! I hope it is a great one even though you are half way around the world!!! Do they celebrate birthdays the same way there?
ladycroft - 09/07/07 05:03
Thank you Mike! Yes, I think they pretty much celebrate the same - cake and well wishes etc.
lilho - 09/07/07 00:39
i second that , happy bday!

09/04/2007 20:30 #40937

This Fact Will Rock Your World
Seriously, I am reading Tipping Point, which (e:maureen) recommended and is a pretty good book so far. It is about like what makes something big all of a sudden. how does one obscure thing become huge all of a sudden and not gradually and different stuff. ANYWHO HERE IS THEFACT...

well first I'll make you guess. If you took a sheet of paper and folded it in half and then folded it in half again and repeated that fifty times, how high would it be at the end? Seriously you will never believe the answer. I mean i don't know that it is even possible except theoretically but even then it is crazy just wait....seriously try and guess....
jbeatty - 09/07/07 00:39
definitely not possible!
jbeatty - 09/07/07 00:35
ok not that I just spent 10 min figuring this out. If you assume a standard thickness of .003 inches thickness on the paper it would be about 8.6x10^7 km. But I dont feel like looking up the distance to the sun.
drew - 09/06/07 18:55
yeah. I'm no mathemetician, but it doesn't make sense to me, either. Make like elementary school and show your work.
jenks - 09/06/07 18:03
what?! no way one piece of paper can reach the sun, no matter how many times you fold it... I wanna see this kookoo math.
mike - 09/05/07 17:33
supposedly it would reach the sun! i don't know, the math makes sense but I don't think it is possible!
libertad - 09/04/07 22:05
drew the theory is if you could fold the paper 50x (hypothetical). I still will never ever believe the answer no matter what mathematical equation you present me with mikey.
drew - 09/04/07 21:50
It can't be done. I think the limit, for any sheet of paper is 7 or 8 fold-in-halfs.

And I don't see how it could ever get higher than the longest length of the paper--due to conservation of matter and all that.

09/03/2007 21:27 #40920

666 comments
I just saw (e:libertad) has left 666 comments , is he the devil?

Thanks everyone for coming to the birthday party on Saturday. I had a great time and hope everyone else did. As the photos show I think I kept it as classy as always (hey no pics of my pantless right? so does that make it a good party?)! Well either way I had a really good time and hope everyone else did. I don't think I got to talk to everyone but I'm gald you all were there. The nihgt was a little rough with a crazy drunk (e:terry) running around and the lamp kept going on and off and there were eerie sounds downstairs. Needless to say it was scariness and i barely slept and then I woke up and went right to church in the cltohes I had wore, spilled alchol on , ran through a hose, played inthe grass, and slept in but paul lives near the church I might as well just go and dint' wake up until right before church supa dupa classy. Oh yeah and I had a huge hickey on my neck from one iof Rachelle's firend's Danielle. It made me feel supa classy like a 14 year old.

Thanks (e:metalpeter), (e:jim) and (e:paul) for posting pictures. I actually have a digital camera now but forgot it. I'm sure my futrue chances of employment will be greatly enhanced by an online video of me reading a ponr story from something most likely called Plumpers.

Also, was looking at the stats pages which I love, I always love STATS, I liked to see I am the #3 most prolific writer (#4 by the rankings but I don't count the new journal because that is not a person and I have written for the news journal before) BUT THEN i saw I am #10 for comments , so then I was like do I not evoke comments from people, and then I tought I guess not, I mostl yjust talk about me, and whlie that is pretty fabulous , I guess it doesn't lead to the commetns that issues or controversial tihngs or pictures of your food lead too. I;ve come to terms with it but I just don't want to fall out of the top 10.



P.P.S I just saw the commerical for the Holly Hunter show where she says Saving Grace is totally different, and totally dangerous. Oh how much that commerical changed my life....


metalpeter - 09/05/07 18:39
You are welcome for the pictures, I have to admit that there is something fun about taking them sometimes. I'm not sure how I missed the post. It will be interesting in the future to see how you see parties through your camera they can be a lot of fun. I admit I don't use the video on mine very often but if you can figure it out it can be a pretty cool feature.
anne - 09/04/07 09:03
in the commerical where she's "totally dangerous" does she have those wacky top of her head braids? clearly the director must've had a crazy cousin who had wacky braids and now he always associates wacky braids with wild outta control dangerous people like holly hunter.
fellyconnelly - 09/03/07 21:33
thats for the fabulousness... also for the porn reading.

08/31/2007 14:16 #40859

nothing starts a day out right...
after a night of winning (ok $8 but that is still winning) at the casino and then on a lotto ticket this morning, and then finding a wonderful suprise from (e:libertad,40851)'s journal then.........

I had a major self in front of mirror dance party after I showered today. I love those times when you just get the urge to dance your heart out cuz a good song comes on which in this case was something by Blu Cantrell followed by danicng to my eclectic mix of music on my itunes including selections from moulin rouge, starlight express, a little bright eyes, a little ataris, a little p. diddy and a little bit of lots of stuff oh and singing my heart out to the graduation song from SBTB (which i know so perfectly that i went downstaris in the basement to get pants and when i cam back up my singing was still matching the exact spot in the music, that always impresses me) anywho, what a way tio start a bday!!hopefully more dancing all day long
leetee - 08/31/07 20:41
Happy Birthday, Mike. I hope it rocks... in that clubby disco-y dancing sorta way. :)
james - 08/31/07 15:13
May your birthday be filled with fluffy winged puppied bringing you presents.
tinypliny - 08/31/07 14:54
I love it when you don't go out of sync with the music - unfortunately that's a rare occurrence with me. I am rotten in the arts department.
mrmike - 08/31/07 14:45
That's always a good omen. Happy Birthday!!
jim - 08/31/07 14:20
Happy Birthday!
jenks - 08/31/07 14:18
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MIKEY!!!

09/01/2007 11:25 #40877

My Superly Awesome Friends and Family
No I'm not talking about a new cell phone plan. I'm talking about how great my friends and family are. First I got a bottle of Captain from (e:amanda) when we went out to lunch on Thrusday which I love!! Then I woke up and got a wonderful surprise from (e:libertad) (check his hjournal) which is gonna be amazing! The nLast night (e:paul), (e:terry), (e:matt) (e:mom) and (e:dad) went to the Viking Lobster Company on Austin and Tonawanda Street for dinner. I recommend it, it was pretty good. Especilaly if you like lobster. I got steak and shrimp and ate some dabbles from other people's plates. Not a huge menu but I tihnk it definetley has something for eveyrone, oh and it doesn't have its own liquor liscence so you can bring your own wine/beer whatever.

Then we came back to my house and had oreo cookie cheese cake which was really really good. Then I got some awesome gifts like a shaker set with martini glasses that all go in this carrying case so you can take it with you. It is pretty freakin awesome! I also got a digital camera which I love so be ready for me taking way too many pictures tonight! Oh and I got this picture of a baby elephant under its mother like on a plaque thing. It is pretty cool because a friend of the family runs a charity that gives macro loans in Africa to women to start little buisinnesses and it was an actual pcitrue she took. OOH and chocolate maritini mix which we will all have to tyr tonight! Then I go outside and there are balloons from (e:beast) outside. I love balloons!

Then it was off to (e:jill) house for some drinks and to open my gifts from my friends! All I can say is WOW! My friends really went crazy awesomely amazingly this year. You see I like a lot of little different things and wowser it was excellently chosen stuff. Its like they know me perfectly. I got so many good tihngs , here are just a few,

an ACTUAL QUEEN ELIZABETH II CORONATION TEA CUP AND SAUCER! HOw frieakin awesome is that?!?!? And a DVD of the two Saved by the Bell movies (you know the Hawaiin Adventure and Las Vegas Wedding, the two finest pieces of cinematic work ever perhaps!!!!EVER), and I got High School Musical: The Dating Game which is gonna be so fun, I can't wait to play it! and Adult MadLibs which we had once bought a book of it for (e:mk) and let me tell you it is so fun and can lead to nights of glorious enjoyment!! OH AND A BLOW UP LIMBO STICK WHICH I WILL BRING TO THE PARTY TONIGHT!!

OH AND a Golden Girls tshirt that says Stay Golden and has their picture on it. I wore it out last night! IT is pretyy darn cool. LIke seirouly it is even in guys size cuz before I only had seen it in girls! I really love it!

hmm what else, a shot glass from Milan, which is tres chic, Full House Seaosn 3 on DVD and OMG A BOOK THAT TELLS YOU WHAT YOUR TV PERSONALITY IS, like all these quizzes and it tells you what person you are ion different shows ! I CANNOT WAIT TO DO IT! Oh and a supre cool elephant cnadle holder thing! AND GUESS WHAT ELSE!!! A SET OF SIX FAYS DRUGS GLASSES!

Fays is the drugstore that was around here and then was bought out y Ekcred. I loved Fays and have kept some memoribilia I have found over the years but this was a full set of SIX FAYS GLASSES!! So freakin awesome!!

OMG I almost forogt I also got SUPER SWEET SIXTEEN THE MOVIE!! YEs it is a movie based on the show sweet 16 about these girls who were friends til their plans for a super sweet 16 ruined their firendship!!! And all these magazines about princess diana and the queen of englad which are cool and have this cool poster centerfold of the royal family!

and that's not even it there was so much more I can't remember right now and it is all still at (e:jill) cuz I was relaly drunk and so left it all there in a paper warppy mess all over their kitchen. I hope they don't mind.

and yes it sounds much like th egifts a 13 year old girl would get and I love that!

and then we went out and had a good ol time at good old Frizzy's , even though our normal bartenders weren't there. And then got serenaded at Staple by two men who each sang a song on their guitar at (e:jill) request. THANKS EVERYONE FOR AN AWESOME B-DAY!!!

oh and garage sale stickers which are always handy and I was gonna take them out last night and price people while we were out but we forgot , so maybe I'll do that at theh party?!?

P.S. I KNOW I HAVE SAID IT BEFORE BUT BE AT THE PARTY TONIGHT!!! 24 LINWOOD!!!
mk - 09/01/07 12:13
:)

yay!!!!!!!

bring the stickers tonight. it can only lead to great things. AND the limbo stick. but leave the grape gum at home. that is not something that should be tampered with.