Wednesday, February 14, 2007

My Name


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  • There are 701,927 people in the U.S. with the first name Angela.
  • Statistically the 65th most popular first name.
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  • Statistically the 426th most popular last name. (tied with 19 other last names)

Thursday, February 08, 2007

Common Name

Keith Urban: The Site Is Mine! - Music News - Playfuls.com - Fun & Entertainment:

"There seems to be one too many Keith Urbans around – and they both have Web sites, one official and one kinda fishy…

Keith Urban the country singer and lucky fellow married to wonderful Nicole Kidman, is upset over a confusing Web site. There is one more Keith Urban in the world, a painter, whose site ingeniously says: “You have reached the site of Keith Urban. To those who don't know, oil painting is one of my hobbies.”

It then directs viewers to a gallery of paintings and offers a limited edition of prints for sale.

This has determined singer Keith Urban to file a lawsuit against the painter, arguing that the Web site is being used “in a manner likely to deceive the public into believing that the website has a connection to Plaintiff that does not exist.”

The singer filed the suit in U.S. District Court in Nashville, Tennessee, on Friday against the New Jersey painter who uses the Web site address www.keithurban.com to advertise his oil paintings for sale. ..."

You have GOT to be kidding me!!! Some one famous is suing over the use of his name, a name that other people have?? I should file a Cease and Desist order to whomever got the website Angiepants.com because that is MY nickname, and I had to settle for Angipants.com. (By the way, don't go there. I have owned the site for a year and the most I did was put up a notice that the site is under construction.) So miss Angiepants.com, stop using that domain name because it is MY nickname and you are making me out to look like a party girl!

And the part about advertising for Keith Urban, when you put ad-ware on your site, it picks up key words and advertises anything with those words. If I put ad-ware up on my site or blog, you would probably be seeing tons of ads for any manner of Pants, or any World of Pants stores or sites.

Keith, get off you high horse and stop picking on the little guy. I do not see in any way this other Keith Urban pretending to be you, or implying that his site is yours. I also think it unfair to make or expect this other Keith to post on his page that he is not the self conceded country singer.
Or perhaps he should so people won't think so low of him by mistaking him for you.

Wednesday, February 07, 2007

And you are like...

Sara: jon and i went snowboarding on saturday. it was really good weather.

me:
how goes snowboarding?
you getting better?

Sara: i'm really enjoying it and it's addictive! jon got some videos of me going down the hill. they're kinda funny. i don't have classes on the 19 so i'm going to ask him if he wants to go again.

me:
oh, send me embarrassing pics!
and video!

Sara:
jon got one shot of me taking a fall, but the funniest part was when he was filming me and he suddenly biffed it. you just see the camera spinning.

me:
yeah!

Sara:
i'm going to send a copy to gayle.

me:
he will get a big kick out of that.
Have you fully briefed Gayle on your relationship with Jocket?
Remember how he regards Joe?

Sara: what do you mean and how does he regard joe?

me:
Gayle is just very protective of Emily and basically regards any boyfriends as a very protective dad would.
So before you send him a video of you and this guy, you had better fully explain the guy. That's all I'm saying.

Sara:
there aren't any pics of jon and i together. gayle still wants me to go on a mission.

me: I'm just warning you. You send him a video that "Jon took of me" and he is going to be like "who's Jon?"
and you will be like "He is this guy I know"
and he will be like "know how well? is he YOUR guy"
and you will be like “Well…”

Sara:
gayle knows jon and i are dating.

me:
"it's kind of serious, we aren’t seeing other people, but I can leave him at any time"

Sara:
yesterday was three months.

me:
and he is like"he is a boy who likes you, I don't like him"
and you are like "he is okay, you can like him"
and he is like "no I can't. I can never like one of my sister’s boyfriends"
and you are like "yes you can"
and he says "no, not until you are married. until then I reserve the right to grill him in any way I feel necessary to ensure he treats you right. I have permission to treat him as a hostile witness"
and you are like "no, I like him!"
Three months ehe?

Sara:
i enjoyed the dialog.
yep.

Tuesday, February 06, 2007

Bad Genes Are All In Your Head

Sara: I need ideas for v-day.

me: book
funny book

Sara: book?

me: yup

Sara: why a book? that isn't valentine's dayish.

me: yes it is.
you can also get him a giant kiss.
iPod controllable gloves!

Sara: ooo! good idea! we can't celebrate on the 14th so we have to do it this weekend or next. what are those>
?
me: Marmot iGloves

Sara: nah. he mainly uses his ipod in my car.

me: for when you are snowboarding!!!

Sara:
why would you listen you your ipod when you're on the slope?

me:
because.

Sara:
that's a good reason.

me:
I think so.
I listen to my mp3 player when riding
they also sell water-tight cases to listen while swimming or scuba diving

Sara:
jon can't go swimming for a while.
also means no hottubing. :(

me:
inferior genes?

Sara:
no, because of his seizure.
or is that the same thing to you?

me:
YUP!

Sara:
thought so. I’m beginning to wonder about your genes!

me:
nope, mine are superior!
can he do supervised hot-tubing?

Sara:
I’m starting to have my doubts.

me:
with a CPR trained professional?

Sara:
what's the fun of hotttubing if it's supervised?

me:
get CPR trained!
show him how much you care

Sara:
kinda awkward. that'd be like having his parents watch us. his mom is a nurse so we'll just use her!

me:
you would rather have his mom watch you while hot-tubing then learn cpr yourself to save him?

Sara:
I don't have time to learn cpr.

me:
you do if it means the difference between safe and unsafe hot-tubbing.

Sara:
sacrifices will just have to be made. at least he's alive and won't be dying any time soon.

me:
that we know of, they never found the source of the "gene inferior-ator"

Sara:
don't steal my thunder. everything is going to be okay.
he's just made up his mind that he's not going to have another one. it's all in the mind.

me:
he he, that's a good one!

Sara:
i just realized what I wrote.
nerd.
I don't like to bring it up because he doesn't understand why i was freaking out about it. can you blame me?

me: nope. bad genes would make anyone freak out.

Sara: stop with the bad genes idea. a seizure could happen to anyone.

me: anyone with bad genes

Thursday, February 01, 2007

Interesting, very interesting

As I was blog hopping, as I am apt to do, I came across this interesting study. Seems those with less skill and ability have an overestimation of said skill (or lack thereof).

Those that are quite skilled tend to assume others are equally skilled, or can more accurately estimate their ability against others.

Anyway, you can find the complete study here. Unskilled and Unaware of It.