Breaking in new shoes or old feet ? How many Xmas ties ? and Kfed is influential how ???

I am breaking in a new pair of oxford wingtips (I can already feel the abuse from the Ferret) and it begs the question – Do you break in new shoes or do the new shoes break in your feet ? All I know is that I am going to have cuts and blisters for a weeks now and my broken left foot (which I never got anyone other than Mrs. swampy to look at) is going to really hurt. Should be fun going through the airport and slipping these things on & off this week.

Atlanta – client cocktail/dinner party – thank god it is a fun client who will want to find a sports bar with the NFL Network.

I referenced The Useless Celebrity Index in my football blog the other day – I just wish that it had been more than 5 people long – they give you the formula in the article so I am sure some enterprising young person with even less to do than me can expand on it – at least we can hope. I am actually surprised that Page Six Magazine didn't come up with this one first since it's pages are crammed full of faux celebrities and wanna be socialites. It may be the best read of the whole Sunday paper after Pearls Before Swine.

Speaking of useless celebrities, according to Courtney Hazlett of The Scoop, Details Magazine has a cover story on "The 50 most influential men under the Age of 45" – sadly being 45, I am not on the list but cover boy Kevin Federline is at 7 and Anna Nicole Smith Baby Daddy, Larry Birkhead, also made the list. Thank god I didn't go to the Details website to see the whole list.

Got some of my younger friends headed to Cabo soon – I should have gone there back in the day but if I had, I would have no doubt wound up in a Mexican jail so I guess I am glad that I didn't.

Christmas is in full swing in the city – lights are everywhere, salvation army bell ringers are blocking the stairs to the subway – counterfeit wallets, purses, perfumes & watches ($20 for Faux-Lex – not bad) clog the sidewalks and the free newspaper guys are wearing Santa hats in hopes that you will be nice to them. And now that I mention newspaper guys, my psychotic NY Post salesman at the corner of 33rd & 7th has been fired. I won't buy my paper from his replacement. The psycho is now handing out free passes to a strip club instead and glaring at people who do buy a paper from his replacement. I take the 2 free passes and ditch them in the next trash can I walk by. I don't need yet another person in nyc wanting to kill me.

I really need to get some new ear buds (headphones) for the world's worst iPod – which by the way has been attacked by a download of Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus. I think the swamprats do this to me just to torture me.

Skipped Sick Charlie's in the rain yesterday and was rewarded by finding fried calamari in the building's ripoff deli. I was a happy camper at lunch for once even though it was cold.

A Creole Christmas is the best obscure xmas collection out there – hands down

Bryant Park is charging the Sex in the City movie $100k a day to film in it. The NY Post is showing pictures from the filming almost every day. If you saved them all, you would have a pretty good idea as to the plot though that really shouldn't be too hard to figure out anyway.

Brett Favre is 0-8 in Dallas. Just thought I would let you know.

First run episodes of scripted TV shows are starting to run out – caught the last new CSI Miami and the last new (and maybe last ever) CANE is tonight. I missed Dirty Sexy Money last week and HEROES last night – thank god for the internet – I now know how my afternoon will be spent – listening to both shows in the background of all my paperwork

My feet are killing me…..

Finally saw "The Bee Movie" with the voice of Jerry Seinfeld and a host of other A-Listers – think Jerry had any pull on who he got for each role ? Even Oprah was in it. And speaking of Oprah, she will be in Iowa, South Carolina & New Hampshire actively campaigning for Obama. Have to wonder if she can do for Obama what she does for books ? And do you think Hillary beat up some staffers when she heard the news ???

Two thousand Brits were asked what their favorite word was – the winner was "Nincompoop" – I'm not quite sure what that says about our friends across the pond - I am hoping that some will chime in

The crew at night waiting for Eddie to give us the track at Penn Station has been growing of late – they better all chip in on Eddie's Xmas bonus – and how much do you tip the guy who gives you an early heads up on the track so you get a good seat ? More than the paper boy ? Less than the muffin guy ? More than The Ferret gave Snaggles ???

A teacher in Italy was recently suspended because school officials found out she was moonlighting as a porn star. I can honestly say that I would have been scarred for life if any teacher I ever had in my elementary or high school days ever moonlighted as a porn star. Not sure about college since I never went to class so I am not quite sure what my teachers looked like.

Fried calamari at Sick Charlie's today – unlike Bistro's, it's warm and it's spicy – now all I need is a mango dipping sauce…..

We had the roof redone at the new house and I think they roofers trapped a family of squirrels in the attic. You can hear them early in the morning but I haven't seen them as yet. Not that I am real thrilled with going up to check since I am sure they will probably try to either bite me or escape into the main part of the house. There is no animal control in our little town and the local humane society won't return my calls. Hmmmmm……

Sometimes I feel like a garlic flavored all-day sucker……

Someone just told me that I would do really well in the Potpourri section of Jeopardy or even be a good lifeline on Who wants to be a Millionaire. I would actually like a chance to ride in the Cash Cab but I can't ever seem to find him in NYC – just stupid pedal cabs…..

I have quit walking down 38th street at night recently and going down 37th instead – less foot traffic though I do miss looking in the window at The Wedding Café. I still don't understand how they can be in business when there is NEVER anyone in there. It boggles the mind.

And back to Christmas and decorations and whatnot – next week begins Christmas ties every day of the week and a different Christmas tie every day of the month. I will actually have some left over because of casual Fridays. Yes I have that many of them and none of them light up or play music……

Great new show on CMT that may help fill the 4am writer's strike void – Trick My Trucker – giving fat ugly big rig drivers makeovers – this is almost as good (if not better actually) than Project Runway 4…..

And as always – pimp yourself, pimp your blog, pimp your old lady, pimp your whatever – there are no rules in the swamp other than don't get et by the gators……

Quietly thinking I probably should have stretched this blog into a second day of writing because people actually expected me to work so I couldn't get everything shook out of my head like I really needed to…..swampy (and his sore feet) abides….

our first broken glass incident

in a store that is….
I was in the juice aisle at Target this morning and Woody picked up two sparkling grape juice bottles and I said no Woody put those down we don’t need them. He said NO in cart. I said no Woody put them back and before I could take them away from him he smashed them down on the floor. Sparkling grape juice all over the place, all over my jeans and shoes. *sigh* Luckily another mom was behind me and said she’d call someone for me. I thanked her and the Target personnel was very nice about it but man…..what a mess.

Planet For Linuxers

At ILC 2007, i had a chance to talk with Vavai about a plan to make a new planet which will aggregate all news from Linux communities, like Slackware-ID, Ubuntu-ID, Fedora-ID, OpenSUSE-ID (and probably LUG's website), so people could read them easily using RSS Reader application without having to visit them all every time they want to read a news about Linux development in Indonesia. We (me and Vavai) are planning to put this application using a new sub domain, http://planet.linux.or.id. I already asked Ronny Haryanto as the maintainer and i'm waiting for his answer (i know he's busy, so i don't mind waiting).Another idea was about distributing a new LiveCD that contains a phpBB application that is already equipped with all post from Indonesian Linux Forum. We hope that this CD can be distributed for those who can't access the Linux Forum daily. We are planning to release this version once a year, just like IlmuKomputer. For this, i'm coordinating with Budi from Baliwae. He has just finished making targeT Linux, so making a new variants won't be a big deal for him. I will try to supply the data from Linux Forum with some help by Ronny (again), and hopefully, we can make it happen (even though i can't promise you the exact date). Any suggestions about this ideas will be accepted...

GMail Offer Old Version

Not everybody likes to change and GMail realize that fact. That's why they offer the old GMail interface to their users via a link on top of your screen (near the sign out). I personally likes the old one, since i tend to have my Firefox hang up while loading the inbox or when i wanted to delete the spam messages. So i switched back to the old one. It's also faster when you want to permanently delete the previously deleted messages. Here's the screenshot on my account:

Taking the “Bla” out of “Blogs”

Taking the “Bla” out of “Blogs”

Taking the “Bla” out of “Blogs”!

Every second of every day thousands of people are searching the internet. Many are hoping to find the “right” information - the kind they so desperately desire - some want to know the "why" of an issue they are having with a family member, others want to know how to perform a magic trick to impress their friends and other just want to know what in the world is going on in the world in a language they can comprehend.

When it comes to blogs the "online buffet" is unbelievable!

Take into serious consideration the amount of blogs which are composed and posted in cyber space, those that are being launched into the matrix we call the internet this very moment as I am typing this article or the second your eyes are now scrolling across this sentence … many of the blogs are what I like to call “Bla-Blogs” one acronym for this could rightly be: “Better Left Alone-BLOGS.”

Less than 25 years ago there were still door to door sales people who would boldly go to your door and attempt to sell you a set of encyclopedias or a dictionary. And thousands like you and me invested in these books, of which, many are still in use or are collecting dust at this very moment. And one may ask "Why did we purchase these books?"

Maybe we wanted quick word answers for a scrabble game or we were thirsty for truth, or hungry for knowledge. The person knocking on our door offered to give us this information in the convenience of our home. It was cost effective and gave us insights into other parts of the world and filled our heads with diverse topics to fuel cravings for information.