Western Arab

Katie Holmes?

What the heck is that? Is that Katie Holmes? Or should I be saying Katie Cruise? She looks like a keebler elf. Her relationship with Tom looks more and more like an ownership policy. And everyone says “In America, we don’t own our women”. Well Tom Cruise owns this one. He is transforming her or upgrading her at a fast rate, like he would to his car. Except he is making her look like … HIMSELF.

I think she is going to be the next Michael Jackson. Michael made his skin white, she is making her self Tom. This is like looking at Tom Cruise. Yuck. Ewww. Gross. Nasty. Click the picture and you will probably say one of those words too!

The real Katie Holmes

Attention everyone, attention everyone. Will the real Katie Holmes please stand up? Will the real Katie Holmes please stand up? We’re going to have a problem here.

Look at the real Katie vs the Tom Katie. Come on, what the heck happened? She became an ugly guy. She became Tom Cruise! Or maybe Tom looks like an ugly woman? Or both.

Now I only noticed her short hair and Tom Cruise looks because I stopped by the supermarket yesterday and as you expect I saw a picture on the covers of those tabloid magazines as I waited to check out. Maybe there is a reason I don’t go to the supermarket. Maybe there is a resason that women do the household shopping. MAYBE this is a sign that I shouldn’t go to the supermarket ever again!

So I was having some problem with printing. And I fixed it and was able to print a test sheet and I tried to print again. Only thing, I got something else. A thin maybe two inch something was flapping on the printer top.

Well I found the lizard. Or at least a piece of it. I printed a flapping tail.

The poor lizard. I tried to capture it to avoid something like this. Noose on a stick didn’t work. Jar with food didn’t work. Sticky paper didn’t work. Printer CHECK. I was h0ping he would have left the printer the other day when I saw him there. I would print a sheet and he would run out as the paper he was standing on got rolled in, like running a treadmill. I figured he would have left by now.

I removed the flapping lizard tail. Opened up the printer, removed the ink cartridge and there he was not moving, part of his body was squashed. Poor fellow. I then needed to remove the jammed sheet of paper which was printed on with ink and blood. Poor fellow, I was hoping to get him out without him getting hurt. Yah I kinda felt too bad to take a picture. Use your imagination.

Was at the mall today. I wasn’t in there for five minutes and I see a Muslim couple with their children. We pass each other. Normal as anything else, until some random woman walks to me and says something. I didn’t really understand what she said at first. So she tells me again, looks at the Muslim couple that passed me, points to them and says the ones that wear that on their head, he makes her walk behind him. What the heck? How do I respond to this woman?

So I tell her, they look like they are walking side by side to me. She said no they aren’t, they always do that. wtf?! They? always? Who is she talking about? This woman has no clue that I am a muslim and is telling me what we always do? I didn’t know how to respond to her but I said something like you don’t know that. And she maybe realized that I may be muslim, gave a “I don’t know” look, shut her mouth, and walked away.

I was surprised that a strange woman would walk up to me and say things like this. She doesn’t know me. How can she just openly admit her discrimination? A dumb ignorant woman. I should of said something like I can’t wait to make my wife walk behind me. I am a Muslim! Walk behind me woman!

She was probably mad because she can’t get a husband to walk behind.

What ever happened to “behind every great man is a great woman”? I suppose if you are Muslim, you should walk as a family all side by side and block the entire isle. Ever thought that maybe the woman was stopping to look at crap to buy? Or maybe she walks a little slower and can’t keep up?

For the record, we don’t do make our women walk behind us.

Got fed up with the hosting provider I was using. There were too many days with very slow loading, in addition to downtime. Webmaster tools showed that google kept having problems loading some pages some times and other times it loaded them fine. So I have been thinking about moving it for the past two weeks. And that happened today. Even downloading database to move to new host took so long on the old host. They were decent before, and I was using them for atleast two years. Now they just were horrible.

So hopefully this host performs great. I’d hate to have to move the site again but the move was pretty smooth. So yay for new host I hope.

One of these little guys gets in the house every now and then when I open the front door. They like to hang out at the door step and when I open the door, they panic and run inside sometimes. The smart ones run away from the door. This guy has been hanging out in my office for a few days, I thought I had forced him out the front door after he got in, but I lost him for a second while chasing him out. Click the image to see it larger.

Lizard on my Cable Modem

So I remember seeing an exotic food show on discovery channel I believe where they would capture lizards for food. I think it was in Thailand. They had a stick with a string noose attached to it, and would lower the noose over the lizard’s head and snatch it up to capture it. I decided to make one. I took a clear plastic ruler and made the best noose I can with a piece of string. I really don’t know how to make a noose so it isn’t the best.

This lizard seems to like my cable modem. He comes out and sits on it watching me. When I try to get to him, he runs out to the back of the desk. He eventually returns, he came out on it atleast five times and got away each time. My first attempt with the noose scared him before I got near him. I had too much slack on the string. So second attempt I got the noose right next to him, and was trying to slip it on his neck, but the flimsy string doesn’t stay straight. So it rotated and brushed or tapped his face, and he got scared. I didn’t really try the noose more than that.

I also tried placing a sticky sheet of paper on the modem so he would walk on it and maybe stick, but he didn’t seem to come near it, at least I think he hasn’t. My dad brought over a small jar with some bird seed in it and a cracker, so if the lizard climbs in it, I would close the top on it. So far he hasn’t entered and I haven’t seen him much anymore. I gave up on the sticky paper, the noose is still ready and an option. Let’s see if I can capture him.

I was getting shaky video on my desktop thru the kvm switch the past few days when playing Left 4 Dead. After investigating, it seems the shaky video is being caused by wire interference. I have had like a million wires and cables all wrapped and twisted together. I spent more than two hours cleaning this up. I disconnected everything. I did re-arrange things as well. My desktop went back down in the desk cabinet instead of sitting on my desk. I have more desk space now.

Finally after doing that, I went thru the same comcast crap as the last time. What appears to be comcast dns issues. Resetting router, modem and all that to fix it. Wasted I don’t know how much time on it. All I know it caused a lot of stress, cursing and anger. I hate you comcast. But atleast my desk looks cleaner and there are much less wires. It is 3:46 am right now. I will go get what sleep I can now.

And hopefully my video output on the desktop is corrected, but too tired to test anything right now.

Hamza Robertson with Sami Yusuf – The Mountain

A video of my parakeets out in the screened patio. They like being in the cage more it seems, atleast for now. I need to get them comfy enough to sit on my finger or hand.

I didn’t get to see Watchmen today at the IMAX. So just to do something I went to city place by myself.

City Place

I walked around, they had a band performing some old songs. I am guessing 80′s songs. So I had some good pistachio and strawberry icecream. Walked around some more, there was someone walking a huge dog which everyone seemed to like but atleast the dog was well behaved. Then I had a tuna salad sandwich at panera bread on honey wheat bread. Good sandwich and it came with a bag of highly fattening potato chips. Walked around some more … and that was pretty much it, but it was a nice night and it was something different for a change.

There was a bar on the upper level that had on arabic music and they had atleast two belly dancers going around from table to table, dancing and collecting the dollars. Inside they had another dancer and customers dancing on a table. Not sure what to say about all that … but I think one of the belly dancers was indian.

When I was leaving panera bread, a girl with her two friends opened the door to go in just as I was going out. So NATURALLY I walked through when she opened the door for ME. She didn’t seem very pleased with that, I think she muttered something about manners but I didn’t care to listen. She thinks because she has breasts, I am supposed to wait for her and her two friends to walk in. Logic says I don’t wait for three people, three people can wait for me. 

we will never submit. we will never leave. we will never be silenced. we will never forget.

لن نخضع لن نرحل لن نسكوت لن ننسى

Video of Sami Yusuf’s “We will never submit”.