Random Thoughts

So how do you improve Google’s Image Search?? Why, you turn it into a game. Thats right… it is Google’s new “Google Image Labeler” game. You and a random partner on the internet get shown the same photo. You both type in key words until you match a word. The better the word, the more points. It is a pretty interesting concept and it could just work. Go try it out! http://images.google.com/imagelabeler/

Fun Ben Folds video with him playing “Landed” on Letterman… Just thought I’d share this since it was stuck in my head all day

Don’t forget to vote for Otto:

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Go Cuse!

Wow…. someone out there gets it…. This quote comes from the parents of the 16 year old girl who went over seas to try to meet a boy:

“The problem is not technology, it’s not the telephone, it’s not the computers. The problem is communication between parents and children,” Katherine’s father, Terry Lester, told ABC12’s Bill Harris.

A lot of people are pointing to myspace.com as the culprit, the “bad guy.” “I don’t agree with that. I think that myspace.com, when used for its intended purpose, for people to keep in touch with each other, I think it’s a great tool,” said Katherine’s stepmother, Krista Lester.

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What the heck am I thinking. I have been accepted to do a Third Disney College Program. I will be arriving some time in late Aug or begging of September. This time my role is in Operations.
For those who do not know me, let me fill you in on a bit of my back story (and to those same people who don’t know me, welcome to my blog). I have done the Walt Disney World College Program twice before. The first time was in the Spring of 2002 (my freshmen year in college), with a role in Quick Service Food and Beverage. Most of my time spent on this college program was at Disney’s Blizzard Beach water park. However when I first arrived in January the park was closed and I was put at Disney’s All Star Sports Resort doing foods there. Then when the Atlanta Braves Spring Training started, I was moved to Disney’s Wide World of Sports to help out with a few games ushering. Now I am not a big Braves fan, but getting paid to watch baseball and to answer where the bathroom was, I was not going to complain! Finally after working at Blizzard Beach I was able to train and be a lifeguard for a few weeks at the park. Even with all the moving around, I had a wonderful time on my first College Program.
After coming home, I applied to the Disney Store and have worked there since. Also I had became the Campus Rep for my school for the college program. As a campus rep I promoted the College Program on my campus and other schools around me in exchange for goodies and perks from Disney.
Last year, because of a class I needed and being talked into it by a wonderful female I applied and did the program again (after failing to get a Professional Internship). This time I worked at Downtown Disney at the World of Disney, the largest Disney retail location in the whole world. Unlike my first program I stayed at this location for the whole time (with the exception of 3 or 4 days at the Christmas shop in downtown Disney).
I had a wonderful time with both programs. So much so that after this next time, I am hopefully going to stay in Florida and work there Full-time. That’s the reason for my third CP. I can go to Florida knowing that I have a place to live and work for 5 months while I work at getting a full-time role and a place to live.
And if that is not crazy enough, I have a trip planed for my birthday in July with some co-workers from here at home.
So there is my story. Please feel free to ask questions in my comments and I will try to answer them.

Another fun You Tube video that is making the rounds. The funniest 6 minutes you will ever see! Remember how many of these you have done! Judson Laipply is dancing. www.lifeischange.com.

(Edit: I have been receiving alot of hits on this issue, for more up to date posts and links on the topic check out this blog: http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/3011
But please note that this e-mail is a HOAX… not true, continue to use Blue Security… This was just an attempted by the spamers to scare you to stop using this program because it really does work!)

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So I got this letter in my e-mail about BlueSecurity.com, a anti-spam service I signed up for. Anyone else get this???

Hey,

You are recieving this email because you are a member of BlueSecurity (http://www.bluesecurity.com).

You signed up because you were expecting to recieve a lesser amount of spam, unfortunately, due to the tactics used by BlueSecurity, you will end up recieving this message, or other nonsensical spams 20-40 times more than you would normally.

How do you make it stop?

Simple, in 48 hours, and every 48 hours thereafter, we will run our current list of BlueSecurity subscribers through BlueSecurity’s database, if you arent there.. you wont get this again.

We have devised a method to retrieve your address from their database, so by signing up and remaining a BlueSecurity user not only are you opening yourself up for this, you are also potentially verifying your email address through them to even more spammers, and will end up getting up even more spam as an end-result.

By signing up for bluesecurity, you are doing the exact opposite of what you want, so delete your account, and you will stop recieving this.

Why are we doing this?

Its simple, we dont want to, but BlueSecurity is forcing us. We would much rather not waste our resources and send you these useless mails.

Its simple, we dont want to, but BlueSecurity is forcing us. We would much rather not waste our resources and send you these useless mails, but do not believe for one second that we will stop this tirade of emails if you choose to stay with BlueSecurity.
Just remember one thing when you read this, we didnt do this to you, BlueSecurity did.

If BlueSecurity decides to play fair, we will do the same.

Just remove yourself from BlueSecurity, and make it easier on you.

*Random Name*

“After a long illness,the obit said.He had re-injured the ribs he had broken riding after the doctor three nights ago, that was obvious, but it wasnt just pain that made his eyes blaze from his whitened face like that.Mrs Krenmitzs four brats downstairs.He could not tell her because it would hurt her badly, and in spite of all the pain she had afforded him, he found he could not hurt her in that way..

I got this e-mail three times, once from a Helen Crowell and another from Kareem Grant and a third from Elliott Farmer…. the last paragraph is all random on each… its really weird… i dont get it…. please feel free to post your thoughts about this, and if you have gotten this e-mail also.

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5/02/06 @ 2:16pm update: I did a google news search and found another blog that explains this.. check it out: http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/3011

So Google announced a few weeks back that they are going to start a free personal webpage host. They now have one out in Beta (as normal w/ google) and guess who has one???? yeah, thats right… check it out:
jimmybop - jimmybop’s Home Page

It is not much now as I dont have time to put anything in it, but I wanted to show it off and brag. All that done there was done in 2mins, very very simple to use. so check it out!

I guess I am really not that bored…. compared to these guys….

Just a random Video from YouTube that I have been enjoying. Warning, that site is addictive!

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Warning…. this is a very very very addictive song and will be stuck in your head all day long….. Fun Fact though, this bit was the very first bit on the first first show of the first season of the Muppet show….. DO DO DODO DO

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