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My HD Wallpaper folder

I have been going a little crazy with high definition desktop wallpaper. I started by downloading a few and decided to use Mac OS X’s change wallpaper every one hour feature. I later dropped this to every 30 minutes. But having this feature meant I must have more and so it went, I downloaded more and more. I now have 363 hd wallpapers in this folder all set to rotate randomly every 30 minutes.

These are mainly gorgeous nature scenes and city scenes. But I also have some from movies, cartoons and of course a few of Megan Fox and one of Keeley Hazell. I like to get them in 1080 size which is 1920×1080, but when that size isn’t available I get the 1920×1200 size. My desktop monitor resolution is 1920×1080 running with macbook docked.

And so it continues, I will probably find more and download them.

Florida Sheriff

It is hunting season in South Florida. I was out this afternoon in a car and there were police cars everywhere. They were hiding waiting for their prey to go by. Saw one pulled over getting a ticket in the summer heat of Florida. The state needs money and this is one easy way to get it, but what state doesn’t need money now? What state isn’t doing this?

Tickets all over the place. Would be nice if they ticket the people who actually don’t know how to drive, the ones that stop to move to the turn lanes and the like. And of course Florida drivers who don’t signal when turning. Those should be double ticketed!

Ice Age 3 Poster

I saw the movie Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs today. Compared to the list of bad movies I saw this year, this one was the most enjoyable after Megan Fox 2. This was a good movie, an entertaining movie. Not the greatest movie and not expected to be. I finally got to see a decent movie. After paying for so many dumb movies this year, I got to see a movie that was good and it was FREE. That is right, a simple complaint to the manager made the movie free. And yes the complaint was valid and legit.

After the movie I dropped in a Brookstone store to get my massage. That’s right I go into Brookstone and Sharper Image when they were still in business and get a massage. One day I will buy one of those massage chairs but until then since I haven’t decided which one I like and they keep making them better, I can’t buy it yet. It’s not the price that is holding me back! Don’t you hate when someone is sitting on the massage chair and won’t leave?

Volleyball Diger

Luckily this time there were 2 chairs with just one in use by a young cute girl. I soon find out she had the better massage chair, but that is fine, can’t always have it all. I had a nice conversation with her while we both sat our asses down and refused to leave. Even her mother came by and asked if we were ever going to leave the chairs. Poor girl had some metal bracket or brace around her leg from the knee down that had a cover on it. The cover it seems was not just to hide the metal structure but also her scars. I was able to see one scar above this brace. I thought she was in some car accident. NOPE it was from volleyball. YES VOLLEYBALL. I never knew you can get so hurt in volleyball. She explained to me she joined a volleyball team and was playing a “digger” and explained what that is. She dove for a hit and I have no idea how twisted up her leg.

So as you can see, conversations with strangers can not only pass time but also be informative. So I got a free movie, a little massage and a nice chat with this cute girl. I thanked her for the chat and wished her well at which she was all blushing and smiling.

Foxxy Megan

I saw Transformers 2: Rise of the Fallen on Sunday. From here on I will call it Megan Fox 2. Now I expected dumb plot events as the first one had, and I expected to enjoy this movie like I did with the first. The first was entertaining, the second was as well, except it really dragged at the end. The action got boring, I stared at the screen wondering when it will end. And I stared at Megan Fox running for 5 miles with Sam. Therefor I am stilling demanding my good movie this year!

So as usual Megan Fox was THE movie. Sure there was some nice Hollywood effects, some good transformers action but too many dumb scenes that dragged the movie. We had ghetto twin auto-bots saying “we can’t read”. I really didn’t enjoy any scene with the ghetto bots. A new human skinned Decepticon, I figured she was not human before they revealed her when I thought oh no, she is a terminator. We had her sit in the car with Sam, the car is bumble bee, who was not able to detect she was a bot rather than a human, yet at the start of the movie an auto-bot announces he can smell the Decepticon bot. We had a horrible weak trap involving kidnapping Sam’s parents from Paris to Egypt. We had Sam have bumble bee take Sam’s parents to safety while he ran on foot to the soldiers, only to find out that bumble bee drove the parents to the soldiers were Sam had to run for miles instead. We had the sector 7 guy decide to assault museum guards to enter the museum instead of just going for a regular visit and of course he just happened to have maybe 8 tasers in his purse on him. All this and so much more!

So this just left me with Megan Fox. And that is why this movie is now called Megan Fox 2. And with that I leave you with some Megan. Oh and Megan, you can only wish I would get ANY tattoo for you, especially not one with your name. But if you like you can get one for me since you have, 8 was it? Alright back to Megan…

Megan Fox 2

Megan Fox Bike

Megan Fox Action Pair

Famous Megan Fox Shot

Prisoners in Philippines do a tribute to Michael Jackson with Thriller. May God have mercy on him.

Video is from July 2007.

“1,500 plus CPDRC inmates of the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center, Cebu, Philippines at practice!”

When are the Lebanese going to learn? When are they going to grow up? Why is the blood of Arabs so cheap?

So the Lebanese news today. Nabih Berri was re-elected to be speaker of the parliament. No surprises, everyone expected this to occur. Yet dozens of Lebanese took to the streets to celebrate this “political victory”. Some danced, some sang, and some fired aks and rpgs into the air. Yes in 2009 we still have people in Arab countries that celebrate by shooting guns, rpgs and mortars. And every time this happens, people are wounded or killed. What a great victory they had on June 25th when 11 were wounded and one woman died. Oh how great victory is, it is even greater when people are hurt. Or is it that our blood is so cheap? I read that the woman died of a heart attack after gunman fired near her apartment, but in Lebanon the story changes from one to the other, but I don’t care for how or the reason, the point is people were hurt and killed for some lame victory.

This happens in other countries as well. People think it is a great idea to shoot at weddings. There was a story a few years ago when someone fired a mortar during a wedding in Afghanistan in celebration. If I recall correctly both the bride and groom were killed. So let us just stop this stupid behavior.

My hair cut

I got my haircut today. I think it was well needed. When the hair on the back of my neck gets too long, it is irritating.

This woman cuts my hair now, the last 4 times maybe now. And she does a good job so I use her. She was sitting outside smoking today and dropped her cigarette when she saw me so she can cut my hair. I was asked by her once before and by another guy who cut my hair if I wanted to trim my eyebrows. I always refused but today I felt a little daring and after initial hesitation I told her I will try it. She promised me that hair isn’t going to grow by cutting it or else bald men would get hair and that it is just a trim, not a big deal. Blah Blah!

Well it turned out it wasn’t a big deal. Nothing really noticeable, no one noticed and I like it. So going forward I will have them trim them, every now and then!

Me at Nickelodeon Hotel Pool

I went to Orlando for some business and some pleasure this weekend. I left Friday evening and returned today in the evening.

So business is just business. Nothing really to discuss.

The pleasure part. I went to Nickelodeon Hotel and being that I have been to Disney World, Universal Studios, Typhoon Lagoon and River Country before, Nick Hotel was awesome. It was the first time I went there and it is a water park inside the hotel. Now there is so much you can do but for a 3 day weekend, it was perfect. The water slides are fun, they are not crazy but rather simple half pipe loops. One of them starts as a closed pipe so you start off in the dark. There is also a bucket of slime they pour on people at specific times and of course a pool. There is in fact another side of the hotel with another set of slides and pool. That side, the slides drop you in the pool instead. I liked the first side better. I also got to use my face mask in the pool, but still managed to lose a contact and a group of young teenage girls were attempting to talk to me.

Now Orlando, specifically route 192 or what they call highway 192 feels very much like New Jersey’s Route 1. Just has that feel and look but with great weather and a lot of parks and places to visit.

Orlando seems to have a large Arab population as well. I went to Soq al Qahera or Cairo Market for lunch. Saw a sign in Arabic and it said halal food, great so why not drop in for lunch. Ordered some sandwiches and browsed the store. The store was full of Islamic books, frames and clothing as well as all the Arab food store usual. So I grabbed up a few types of teas to purchase after the sandwiches. I was being picky on what I wanted to drink and maybe there was a reason for that, as eventually I found a can of something, I didn’t pay attention to what was in it. The can was made by an Israeli company. This can was so out of place, why was it here between all this Islamic and Arab stuff? I decide to just ignore it, pretend it wasn’t there. Only the owner of this store just doesn’t know to keep his mouth shut and opens up a political conversation shredding him of any honor. No need for the details here, but I no longer was willing to purchase anything and the boxes of tea bags stayed in the store. The food was also not good and I lost my appetite. Thanks for nothing, this store is on my list of never to go to again.

Swim Mask

Went to the pool again today, Thursday, just like last week. I was prepared with my swim mask this time and it works great. I got one for like $10 from Walmart. You have to be able to see underwater, or you are missing out. Just makes the swim that much more fun. Besides how else can you see all the bikinis in the water?

I did a better job with the sun block this time I think. Last time I got a little burn on my shoulders, had skin peeling. I think this time was better. I did a lot of laps mainly across the width of the pool which was not bad, but mainly because I didn’t want to swim between the people on the vertical ends of the pool.

There was a group of young teenagers in the pool on one end with the girls trying to pull each others tops off to the amusement of the guys with them. I am not complaining. On the other end, there was a group of older women in bikinis as well. And then there is me in the middle of all this. Needed an in between group.

And finally, my weight is moving well. I weigh myself between 196 and 200 depending on what I am wearing, time of day and whether I had just ate or not. Ideal weight of 185 is not so far off now.

Completed MacBook

Ok so apple released a new macbook. Wait let me rephrase that, apple released the completed macbook, adding the features that were missing from the incomplete. The new macbook which is now macbook pro has a firewire 800 port, an SD card reader and a back-lit keyboard. In addition, the CPU is 2.26 instead of the 2.0 and the price is lower at $1199. I think the battery may also be better. So it seems Apple does it again. They have been doing the same with the iPhone, releasing incomplete products and then selling what they call new or various generation products when really it is the same product but more complete.

Apple get your act together. I am not upset about the macbook, but clearly leaving out firewire caused a big outroar that apple finally caved in and corrected it. I would like to have the firewire but don’t necessarily need it. SD card reader is nice and so is the back-lit keyboard. But there is no way I am going to buy another macbook which also happens to be cheaper even though I got mine for about the same price or less for the original macbook aluminum. Now the new iPhone is out and I have to still decide between it and the blackberry storm. I have a few more months to decide, blackberry hasn’t released a new storm yet, just a big software update with many fixes. So in a few months I will decide if I make a change to either phone but possibly neither.

I looked at the new 13 inch MacBook pro some more, from what I see in the picture above, they removed the audio in port and made it so in/out are the same port. Odd! The 15 and 17 inch have separate in/out for audio. They also moved the Kensington lock slot to the other side right next to the dvd slot.