Monthly Archives: August 2006

Life is frustrating.

By Jacob Allred | Published: August 26, 2006
So lately I’ve been busy deal­ing with an absolutely crazy amount of insan­ity. Seri­ously. It is ridiculuos. But I really don’t feel like going into that right now, so we’ll talk about some­thing else. Well my new job is going well. I finally have an office and should be get­ting my first pay check soon, so it is [...]
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Crazy busy and random stuff

By Jacob Allred | Published: August 11, 2006
Yikes I’ve been busy! Let’s see… what has hap­pened lately: Well I moved to Colum­bia. No not that coun­try in South Amer­ica. The cap­i­tal of South Car­olina. Didn’t you peo­ple have to learn state cap­i­tals in school? Jeesh. Any­ways. I’m liv­ing here in an apart­ment with no TV, no inter­net (well, sort of.. I have a [...]
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Funny Blog Spam

By Jacob Allred | Published: August 4, 2006
Any­one who has a blog is used to blog spam. Basi­cally, peo­ple run pro­grams that will find blogs and put spam in the com­ments. Some of these pro­grams try to dis­guise the spam by mak­ing it sound like a real mes­sage. For­tu­nately, my spam blocker catches 99.99% of all spam, and the rest is pretty [...]
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Free $5 Gift Certificate to CSTV Team Shops online store

By Jacob Allred | Published: August 3, 2006
I won this gift cer­tifi­cate a cou­ple months ago and have no inten­tion of using it, so who­ever wants it can take it. The “pro­mo­tional gift cer­tifi­cate code” is 6971475ba. It is good for $5 towards a pur­chase at http://www.fanstore.cstv.com.
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Dove Hair Moisturizer

By Jacob Allred | Published: August 2, 2006
So Dove sent me a few hair care sam­ples (sham­poo, con­di­tioner, gel, and hair mois­tur­izer) the other day. I’ve never heard of a hair mois­tur­izer so I thought I’d give it a shot. So I read the instruc­tions to make sure it was some­thing you leave in and wasn’t a wash-out prod­uct (like sham­poo), and [...]
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Hard Candy, V for Vendetta, Dodgeball, and the US Movie Rating System

By Jacob Allred | Published: August 1, 2006
Let’s start with the US movie rat­ing sys­tem. For those of you unfa­mil­iar, there are a few basic ratings: G — Gen­eral Audi­ences. Suited for peo­ple of any age. Nor­mally like mel­low his­tor­i­cal movies or doc­u­men­taries. And Dis­ney movies (although most Dis­ney movies nowa­days are PG or PG-13). PG — Parental Guid­ance Sug­gested. Kids should have an adult [...]
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