Category Archives: Friends

08.06.02
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Visit digitaljaz.com Today!

I am SUCH an idiot. Here I steal a link from Julie, promise her a link back in exchange, then just like the mouth-breathing knuckle-dragger that I am – forget all about her. Ain’t that just like a man? So that said, the excellent link posted in the prior message in regards to Lego men building a computer came courtesy of DIGITAL JAZ found online for your viewing entertainment at http://www.digitaljaz.com/blog/. It’s kid tested – but just wait – it’s also mother-approved! And if that’s not enough, Alex approves of her webcam.

Making a second evening post also gives me a chance to gloat. Seeing as I live in Canada, yet love Southwestern food, let’s note that certain ingredients in my favourite form of cooking can be hard to come by. These include masa dough, tamale husks, and most of all, tomatillos. So a few months back I bought some tiny tomatillo plants (along with habanero, cayenne, honeydew, and cantaloupe) and planted them along the back fence in my yard, 10 feet in the air, in a perpetually shaded area. The neighbours – they scoffed. They said “crazy man, you can not grow Mexican vegetables against your 10 foot tall shaded fence!” However, I continued to trounce dutifully to the fence with my pail full of water and properly fed said plants as any loving farmer would. Mornings I would stare lovingly at my children from the bedroom window – alas, when would they grow? When would they bear the fruit I so seek?

TODAY! BOOYAH!! I’S GOTS ME SOME TOMATILLOS! SOME CAYENNES! SOME HONEYDEWS! OH HECK YEAH!!

So, like, I rule now.

Cheers!

08.04.02
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Bulletin Time

Hey all!

I’m going to hit this point form today:

* Don’t forget, if you’re bored today at 5PM EST, yours truly will be on A&E from 5-7 on the “Hitman Hart: Wrestling With Shadows” documentary that will air. My appearance isn’t made until near the end – scroll down the page a bit for info.
* Do you live in the Vancouver area? Tonight at 7PM is the BandFEST 2002 BC Provincial Finals at Mavericks on the Waterfront. A friend of mine, and someone I used to play in a band with around the Toronto area, Mark Belsito’s band Wayside is in the finals and opening the show. Head on down and let me know what you thought! The address is 770 Pacific Blvd in the Plaza of Nations.
* Tonight I make the move to an internal network – the final transition in my transformation from “guy that dabbles in technology” to “geek”. I’ll be setting up a D-Link router and running, initially, two systems through my Cable connection. It’ll give me a firewall too, which kicks butt.
* I twisted my ankle again at baseball. Told you I was an idiot. I’ll take two weeks off. I promise.

Cheers!

07.30.02
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Three new shots added to

Three new shots added to the Webcam Archive, including the item from below. So if you came to the party late and you can’t find the image referred in the post below this one, hit the archive and look under July 29, 2002. In the meantime, if you ever find a shot you think deserves to be in here send it along! The July 26, 2002 shot was sent in by GoalieGirl with a note of: “Awww, are you sleepy?” Haha.. the truth being, I’d just rubbed habanero pepper juice into my eyes and the pain was caught for all to see. I won’t tell you the story behind July 19, 2002 – for that one you want to ask the master of Drive-By Rack Lovings, Alex.

And on that note, a couple *HONK*HONK*s for Julie and Michelle and I’m off to get some lunch.

Cheers,
Rick Jessup

07.26.02
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Oh. My. God. Obese Man

Oh. My. God.

Obese Man Sues Fast Food Chains

What part of the article do you like best? Is it: “They said ‘100 percent beef.’ I thought that meant it was good for you,” Barber told Newsday. “I thought the food was OK.” Perhaps you prefer “Those people in the advertisements don’t really tell you what’s in the food,” he said. “It’s all fat, fat and more fat. Now I’m obese.” Now let’s see those marketing wizards on Bay Street come up with a catchy slogan for that! I can’t even begin to tell you how much it bothers me when people just refuse to take responsibility for their own actions. Caesar Barber is a corn-fed mouth-breather because he chose to shove his fat face full of greasy hamburgers and fries, and now he expects the courts to agree that anyone with brains above those of a tsetse fly could not realize that this food was bad for him. All because some wretched old battle-axe once won a lawsuit for spilling coffee on herself. Caesar, you’re fat because you choose to be fat. You’re not fat because Burger King threw your dimply arse on the floor and poured poutine down your throat. You’re not fat because Grimace and Hamburglar promised you riches untold for just one more Royale with Cheese. You’re fat because you’ve spent the last 50 years jamming crap down your pie hole in excessive quantities. In the amount of time it’s taken you to find a lawyer willing to soil their reputations at the hands of Dave Thomas’ Bacon Mushroom Melts you could have joined a gym and trimmed a few off the side.

Don’t mind me, every now and then a boy has to vent.

In other news, I tossed a quick design up for my buddy Alex so he can have his own blog. We’ll update it as time goes by – he wants something that looks like the Matrix. Right now, he has something that looks like a blog template. But he’s got a lot to say, bookmark it and check in now and then.

.. i think he went over here ..

Cheers,
Rick Jessup

06.28.02
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The Phantoms game last night

The Phantoms game last night was a lot of fun. As you can see from that beautiful webcam shot it was free mask night. Alex and I bought some cheap seats and, keeping my tradition alive, promptly strolled down to the railing against the end zone instead. I’m making a habit out of this. Some would say I’m being immoral and committing illegal acts, I just say I’m making the arena look a bit more full on television. I wish I’d taped it because, being seated at the end zone, and me with my stupid-a$$ mask on, we would have been all over Sportsnet last night. I even wore my XFL jersey! :) Unfortunately our beloved Phantoms lost the game after giving the ball away three times in the second half.

I’ll be posting the Friday quiz a bit later tonight so check back.

In the meantime, for those of you leaving early for the big Canada Day weekend, have a great time, play safe, don’t drink and drive, and remember – celebrate the birth of our great Country by blowing up a small part of it. Get them fireworks! WOOOOOO!!!!

Cheers,
Rick Jessup