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This study on cellular phones that was just released seems to say that they don’t cause cancer. I’m naturally skeptical of this kind of shit because nowhere does it say who funded it and the details in general seemed kind of on the skimpy side. Plus, the way they obtained the information seems to be actually quite invasive. I wonder if they contacted these people:

“Johansen used cell phone company records to identify Danes who began using the phones between 1982 and 1995. Using those personal ID numbers, he matched phone users with the registry’s cancer records through the end of 1996, to determine if cell callers suffered cancer at the same rate as other Danes.”

I spent some time this morning, and got the links at the top working… And just so you know… I am a PHP genius. So there. The searching and archiving functions work (be careful, they’re split up now), and the about section is there. The other sections are placeholders, but you don’t really need to care about that.

I just got a new television set for my new place (which will surely be stolen, defaced, or teepeed sometime soon- read earlier post), and decided to save a little money on
Saturday night and stay in, basking in the glow of 43 inches of pure Japanese
love- on a lot of weblogs, that would be the close to a really interesting story that
I’m sure some of you aren’t old enough to read, but here at alternate.org, it’s just the beginning…

I’m not a huge fan of football, but the erstwhile governor of Minnesota had somewhere along the line convinced me that the program onto which
I was to stumble that night had a little something extra to offer. He was right.
As my remote control fell from my hand in amazement, my mind reeled. Awash in colors, shapes and sounds, this event was unlike anything
I had ever seen (short of that one parade on the hill in Denver where there was that thing with the stuff, but that’s another weblog, too).

It’s as if the marketing executives of the WWF have flat out admitted that we’re morons who simply want
explosions and T&A involved with every event we watch… the cheerleaders were strippers (which
I didn’t mind, really), fireworks shot off after every touchdown, and you could put any nickname you wanted on the back of your jersey.
You used to have to be good enough that Chris Berman gave you a nickname on Sports Center.
Now anyone can have one? Fine, from now on I’m “leader of the naked monkey clan“, a 6 foot 1 inch soph-o-more from
aaaaaal-a-bama…

Now I don’t want to go George Will on you here, but it seems to me that entertainment and sports used to be a little like church and state.
Do I think it’s any coincidence that Dubya gets into office and all the sudden I’ve got strippers on NBC during prime time? I don’t really want to
comment on that, but I’m almost certain that we’re making less of the few great games we have left
every time we figure out how to project a sponsor logo onto the court for the home viewers (tennis), or develop a technology that lets people who don’t really care watch the game without having to really think about why it’s important (hockey’s stupid
pucktracker). If you lower the bar, we simply jump lower. Then if you try to raise it, we just go play another game, because now it’s too hard, and they’ve got a cool new 360-degree camera over on the other field.
God, I hated that thing at the Superbowl…

Like I said, I don’t really care one way or another about sports… it just makes me feel bad for
the people who do that the powers that be would treat them this way. Except for
the strippers… they were okay.

One little thing Jax…

The described event occured in Denver, on Capitol Hill, on SuperBowl Sunday… Last time I lived on the Hill during SuperBowl there were riots, looting, and gun shots… it was pretty damn “depressing”.

Actually, I thought it was kinda cool. 🙂

So I just moved in with my girlfriend to a nice two bedroom apartment on the hill, refinished hardwood floors and all new appliances… The landlord looked at us with an eyebrow of concern, which I took as a good sign- never can be too careful about who you let live in your building, after all. (That’s probably why it took kev so long to find a place…)

He described the building as a “quiet, professional” environment, and pointed to the mid-thirties couple- a lawyer and a software rep- as demonstration of that fact.

We write the check.

The day weekend after we move in is my thirtieth birthday/superbowl/housewarming/wine tasting. (an aside here- everyone got the email that said it was a wine tasting, but only 3 people out of 25 brought wine…in the immortal words of Cobra Commander, “I’ve got morons on my payroll.”) The established couple across the hall moves out, leaving three empty apartments out of eight…

We meet our new next-door neighbors when they attempt to integrate superbowl parties by tossing out the always tantalizing icebreaker: “I used to be into backyard wrestling, but then I fucked up my knee.” Add to that the fact that they looked too young to buy wine- which, you’ll remember, we were sorely lacking- and we decided to politely decline. Upon exit, they promtply tied together the shoelaces of our guests- who had left their footwear in the hall outside our door- and proceeded to duct tape our doorknob to the one across from it…

Last night, we met our new across the hall neighbor. She looked pretty cute, but unfortunately, she’s really into retro 80’s music (“Oh my God, it’s Nina Blackwood!”), which she prefers to play UNTIL 5AM WITH THE VOLUME SET TO 11! But the best part of the night came around 4:45AM, when it sounded a lot like the two groups got together and had one giant Busch Light Jamboree. Break out your Billy Bass, we’s a gonna have us a sing-along! FUCK!

You ask yourself how much more depressing could this possibly get, and the answer that you get back is none, none more depressing…

Until the apartment above us is rented.

This is amazing. It’s an image taken from Squaresoft’s upcoming computer-animated movie ‘Final Fantasy.’ In case you didn’t know, it’s based on an extremely popular game that’s been around for who knows how long, and is in its 9th or 10th version. I hope I like the movie better than the game.

*That image above is NOT real. It’s computer-generated. Amazing.

Bah. I made the switch to Eudora Pro 5.0 in favor of MSOE5.0.2. And I like it. I think. The chile peppers are funny.

You know what I did on my lunch break today? I took my wife and son to the park. I think I’m going to like this working from home thing.

Vote for Pud from Fuckedcompany.com on Women.com’s Men of the Internet.

It seems that Sega has decided to stop selling Dreamcasts. Now, I don’t own one (although I might now, with the price dropping to about a hundred bucks), but this kind of thing is a little unsettling to me. I thought Dreamcasts were selling like mad, and that the more-expenive-but-hard-to-get PS2s didn’t come close in graphics quality and gameplay. But whatever. Sega is still going to make games for other platforms… it just sucks that a decent, relatively cheap system is going to the birds, and that Sony now has the field all to themselves, despite the fact that they can’t even ship enough of the damn things. I just really hope the Nintendo GameCube kicks mutha-fuckin’-ass, as I know it will. I can hear Zelda calling my name….