You think the Star Tribune would have picked a better image of the First Lady, but nooo…. They pick the one of her checking the mic and looking all cross eyed and stuff.
MSNBC: 13 financial tips for college kids – Interesting short read. The list is what I found the most interesting part of the article. Makes me glad that I keep track of everything in Microsoft Money.
I have 6 5 Gmail invites to hand out. If I know you and you want one, post a comment with your name and emal.
Over the past month I have been tracking stats on this blog with a program called bbclone to see where people are coming from, how long they stay, and what they are looking at. It is interesting to see what they look at, but what I find more interesting is what people search for to find me. Now, all of the search terms that I list require a search on google and I’ll only list the ones where I am listed in the first ten results.
So, some of them are pretty reasonable on why they would get my site as a result. However, some are a little odd. The one that really gets me is the “greenlake rape” search query. I understand the greenlake part, but not the rape part. Oh well, guess that is the beauty of search engines.
Selectsmart Presidental Candidate Selector – Interesting. Also has a pretty decent description of where the candidates stand.
Kono kuni wa mada, hontô no hero wo shiranai [Japan] (“This land doesn’t know a real hero. Yet.)
Because of lines like the above tagline I wanted to see Yimou Zhang’s Hero. From the previews I was kinda excited to see the movie and to see what it would end up being about. I did not, and still don’t, know the history of what the movie covers. The plot seemed interesting from the trailers and it seemed like a movie that I would enjoy. So, what the heck, why not see it? However, after sitting though the almost two hour movie I have some thoughts about what I saw. Read more…
Today was the last full day that we had in Minnesota. It was a pretty relaxed day.
The day began with breakfast made by my mother and then it was off to the comic book store to see if Jamie could find a comic that she was looking for. After that it was to the local mall to shop and see a movie.
At the end of the day an observation was made by Jamie; that was the 1st time that we had ever seen a movie in a theatre as just the two of us.
