Apple is having some secretive announcement today. Everyone one is going apeshit with predictions from Apple buying Disney, touch screen iPod, Steve Jobs wearing a red shirt…

I don’t usually do this, but what the hell, I can play Apple prognosticator as well as the Apple sites…. and not be so eyes in the sky.

And my predition: iTunes/ITMS rebranding to…

iPod Media Store: I mean iTunes Music Store isn’t really accurate now since the app does more now that just music with podcasts, music videos, and tv shows.

I also think they will announce downloadable Hollywood movies. Nothing ground breaking, I predict no new hardware.

Either that or Steve Jobs will announce he’s leaving Apple again. God forbid.

EDIT: Man was I wrong! No new hardware? WTF was I thinking? I however stand by that the ipod Media Store needs to happen. No so impressed with the boom box,, there are a few of these out already. Meh, overall. Gee glad no one went crazy or anything.

1: Cone Bra.

2: Knee high boots and a mini mini

3: Huge sun glasses that hide half your face that make you look like a Florida retiree on I-75.

4: Long summer dresses over jeans with high heels.

5: Red leather pants (or any color other than black).

6: All-white suit.

7: Visible nipples under chiffon.

8: Silky ill-fitting camisole and a cardigan sweater with sleeves that are 6″ too long.

9: Oversized “Newsie” cap.

10: This. Anyone else would be thrown in the Homeless Shelter.

Remember how I said after the elections that Ohio was a 50/50 state mired in a split personality? Need proof?

Ohio State legislator proposes ban on adoption by homosexuals spurs another Ohio State legislator to propose ban adoptions by republicans.

I don’t knit. So who wants to make me one? In black please. Yes I’m serious.

Oh and for those who are Pastafarians (that means of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster), I found this knitted hat, and pattern.

So the Sex Pistols are to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame… the band had a little problem with that.

I think it’s hilairous, and since now getting thier participation is going to be hard, the Rock Hall should use this letter to act as thier spot on that glass wall that holds all the inductees names and signatures in the Inductees Hall. That would be awesome to see that engraved in the glass and glowing blue. Ha!

This is more of a internet good deed since I am an online shopping whore and Google loves me.

I just bought one of these Bedbridge Bed Support Systems last month to go with our new bed (wood slats fall out and that sucks when you are alseep!) and since I know there are people looking for them (as I was) and might be having a problem finding a good deal on them (as I did)…

Look no more, web wanderers, just call up these guys for a set. Now, they don’t have online ordering nor do they have them listed on the site, but they DO have them, and at the best price anywhere (even below the MSRP). I got a king set for $89 shipped via DHL to Ohio from North Carolina in under four days.

My good deed for the day. These things rocks BTW, no more moving slats that make you strip the bed at three AM to fix, no more wondering it the fram will hold this mucking huge extra heavy mattress AND your mucking huge heavy butts…

$200K concept car totaled - after 9 miles of ownership.

Tax exempt + Politics = BAD TAX MOJO. So all those megachurches who sent out flyers to thier congregation to vote for Bush are likely to be investigated at some point and could lose thier non-profit/non-taxable status and possibly owe some major bucks.

How nice of the (mostly) Bush adminstration to seek these churches out to do thier dirty work, eh? The megachurch down the road with the 60 foot Touchdown Jesus is likely to be in a world of hurt (I hope!) becasue I know they sent out flyers around town as well as handed out stuff in house.

Here’s the latest jaw dropping inductee:

“my family is going to an all-inclusive resort in La Romana Dominican Republic, in June…unscape Del Mar for 2 weeks…could pick up anything related at your best time…coming from Bellbrook, basic Spanish guides would be great also since none of us speak the language”

Afford to go to a “all inclusive resort” and can’t afford a book store?

Bravestar’s Emails Podcast (iTMS link)

Oh hell yeah.

Larry the Cable Guy has been served by Tobias Funke (David Cross)

Ken Blackwell, the Ohio Sec . of State, and a big Bush backer, is keeping it in the family and running a smear campaign against his Republican opponent in the race for Ohio Governor. And the Republican party don’t like it.

Ken Blackwell winning is something I’m really afraid of. I’ve had him on my googlewatch for the last two years, he’s super sneaky. His being from Cincinnati makes him less than trustworty, becasue as far as I’m concerned the entire lot of the Cincinnati politicios are corrupt in one way or another.

In other news I am alive. Something I was hoping for.

I had my gastro scope this morning for a looksie at my Barrett’s Esophagus, and I’m still working off the meds. They always seem to either not give me enough or too much. I’m hard to put to down, and because of my size, they usually end up giving me A LOT of anesthesia to keep me there. They always end up having to give me so much my waking up is a bit of a, uhm, isssue. One year i guess they had to shoot me with something else to try to GET me awake.

I’m a mean waker upper too. One year I cursed out the nurses for continually waking me up (their job). This year I apologized in advance.

I think this time they gave me too much too late as I was awake for most of them wriggling the scope in my throat and seemed to be trying to will myself not to fight the tube, but it’s instinctive, but was out like a light as soon as they removed it. And had a hard time coming to, like always.

They pump air in as they scope as they look around and it results in constant burping around the uncomfortable pipe every 20 seconds or so. Nothing so graceful as a large woman doped to near unconsciousness with a tube down her throat complimented with a continuous series of deep rumbling belches.

I made it home about noon, and didn’t wake up till 6pm. 8:30 now and I’m still not fully awake yet (I dozed off a few times writing this).

SO here we go - if you feel you have the cahoneys:

Todays scope:

And one from 1998:

Uploaded on February 15, 2006
by dustin3000 on Flickr.com

Be sure to read the comments… iiiinterestingggg.

If you have no idea what this is, you don’t watch Lost and not worth my time if you can’t keep up.

Mr Man and I were theorizing tonight what ingredients we’d like to see as the “main ingredient” on Iron Chef America.

Oatmeal
Hominy
Goetta (Cincinnati parts-n-grease “sausage”
Potato Chips
A bad booze like MD20/20
American Cheese Food Slices (Velveeta acceptable also)
Hot Dogs
Spam
Bacon
Catfish

We always wanted the original Iron Chef to use corn or cheddar cheese since the Japanese have NO idea what do do with either.

At Best Buy toady. The long row of cart out front had one yellow intruder about 1/4 from the end. He looked so alone.

Just one of those shots that you take for Flickrssake.

And lo, let it be known, that on this day, Sunday February the 19th, 2006, Jennifer E. Segrest didst thou invent the word “FLICKRSSAKE”. It’s meaning is “for one to take photographs for the sheer pleasure of whoring yourself for comments on Flickr.com. And, yea, it was good.

Meijer’s is selling Fresh Mozzerella now! Decent price too! This Burg just stopped sucking a wee bit less. Sure I can go to Jungle Jim’s down the road, but that’s 20 minutes further. When I need fresh mozz, I now have an outlet I don’t have to plan an afternoon for (because Jungle Jim’s too large and plentiful to just make a run through).

And what does Meijer’s have against italian sausage anyway?

Why are green olives only in jars and black olives only in cans? (I actually had to look that up to find out why after wondering while shopping today. I was shocked to find out people in Ohio are actually blessed with both green and black olives for our pizzas. And I don’t even LIKE olives.)

I’m getting hit with at least three comment spam an hour, an MT isn’t catching it. I’m constantly in the interface deleting a few messages. I’m sick of it!

I’ve removed the “post” button, requiring previews, and it’s not working they are just bounding by it. I’m looking into options for shutting of comments on old posts, but in the end I might just move to Typekey authorized commenting. Don’t wanna do that but I can’t live in this damn MT window either.

If anyone has some suggestions let me know please.

All these protests about these cartoons (which were more political than funny) in Holland (and any other country that uses umlauts I guess), on the grounds that “Mohammed cannot be portrayed” in *any* way due to the islamic mandates against idolatry.

What’s the dealio on this then? And the hundreds of other similar portrayals? A drawing is a drawing is a drawing?

Damned Olympics ruined my “must see tv”, so I made a few moreRomance novel parodies.

That’s a link to the pool on Flickr I set up for them up top, feel free to join the fun.

The DC Metro tagger (I refrain from calling him a “graffitti artist” known as Borf, was arrested last July, but finally gets his day in court - gets told by the judge to bend over and touch his toes.