Monthly Archive for July, 2007

Why am I so angry?

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Anthony Thompson
on July 31, 2007
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I was sitting here having a chat with Adam (a very short chat) and started thinking, You know, this shit with John has really fucked me over on friends.  I told Adam that I am thinking about starting to play Warhammer 40k as the Daemonhunters and all I got was a “right on.”  Now, I wasn’t expecting a party, but maybe a little interest would have been nice.  I mean, he immediately changed the subject to himself and his car and how it doesn’t have a good bumper or good speakers…  Ok.  I just couldn’t get interested in that.  How can I be interested in someone who doesn’t express interest in me?  What does this have to do with John?  I really think that Adam and Steve are starting to think that maybe John was onto something by removing me from his life.  It seems that I’m not part of any serious conversations anymore.  I tried to talk to Steve about this stuff with John and he just changed the subject.  I can understand him not being comfortable talking about that stuff, especially since he is good friends with John.

I think I was set off on this anger spiral by Adam’s comment to a note on Facebook written by Sarah.  I really don’t have any reason to be angry.  Maybe I didn’t like the apparent tone of Adam’s comment.  Maybe I don’t like how Adam appears (to me) to dismiss Sarah when Adam wants something.  Maybe I’m wrong.  I don’t know.  Not anymore.

Sometimes I get overly sensitive.  I need to stop dwelling on myself.  It’s kind of hard to do though.  I’m living with someone who straight up lied to my face for several months.  I was best friends with someone who actually hates me and will talk shit about me at any opportunity.  It’s really hard not to take things personally when you have friends like that.  I need to work on that.

That reminds me of a commercial that I saw about friends of people with a mental illness.  I’m not saying that I have a mental illness because I’m not into that whole create a new condition for every minor annoyance.  Sometimes I wish I had friends as supportive and interested as the guys in that commercial.  I know people like that exist because I’ve seen it.

God damn, I bitch a lot.  How do you stop thinking thoughts that automatically pop into your head?  *sigh*

Check out this picture

Published
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Anthony Thompson
on July 30, 2007
in Funny
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Is this the most fantastic mustache you have ever seen… EVER?

Someday, I’ll do a proper post

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Anthony Thompson
on July 26, 2007
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I found this video and thought it was rather amusing.

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Don’t worry folks. Someday, when I feel like it, I will post a proper entry. I’m just going to start to steer away from what’s going on in my life and start making observations on things that I find interesting. You know, what real bloggers do.

I thought this was pretty funny

Published
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Anthony Thompson
on July 25, 2007
in Funny
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So I figured I’d share my findings.

Hilarious.

For those who teach

Published
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Anthony Thompson
on July 23, 2007
in Interesting
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I would be somehow honored and frightened by this man if I was a student of his.

New Email Plugin

Published
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Anthony Thompson
on July 23, 2007
in Site Dev
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I updated the Subscribe2 plugin. Apparently it wasn’t working properly for some of my subscribers.  Let me know if the new version is or is not working for you.

New Survivorman!!!

Published
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Anthony Thompson
on July 23, 2007
in Television
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August 10th.  Discovery Channel.  Better than Bear Grylls.  Check it.

Do you have Netflix?

Published
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Anthony Thompson
on July 23, 2007
in Movies
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You should friend us on Netflix. We like to know what people are watching and what they like.

Visit this link to add us to your friends.

I learned some things about Facebook

Published
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Anthony Thompson
on July 22, 2007
in Interesting
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I will not import my blog entries to a data mining service. I am clearing out all of my information as well. Every piece of information you give Facebook is making them money. Your information could even be given to the US Government. Call me crazy, but the fact that Facebook can take your personal property and claim it as their own makes shivers go down my spine.

From Facebook’s Privacy Policy:
“Facebook may also collect information about you from other sources, such as newspapers, blogs, instant messaging services, and other users of the Facebook service through the operation of the service (e.g., photo tags) in order to provide you with more useful information and a more personalized experience.”

“Advertisements that appear on Facebook are sometimes delivered (or “served”) directly to users by third party advertisers. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. These third party advertisers may also download cookies to your computer, or use other technologies such as JavaScript and “web beacons” (also known as “1×1 gifs”) to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content.”

From Facebook’s Terms of Service:
“By posting User Content to any part of the Site, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to the Company an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, excerpt (in whole or in part) and distribute such User Content for any purpose on or in connection with the Site or the promotion thereof, to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such User Content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing.”

You call it Facebook. I call it violating my privacy. Be careful what you put on that website.

Some of you may think me crazy or just paranoid. However, keep this in mind: me being paranoid has turned out to be correct more often than incorrect. My thought process was started by the video on this site. You don’t have to believe me if you don’t want to, but just be careful of what you put on Facebook or MySpace.

Everyone needs training

Published
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Anthony Thompson
on July 20, 2007
in Funny and Media
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