February 23, 2004... M.B.S.It's been a few days. I thought about 6 or 7 topics for my next entry, but none of them blew me away. None gave me the desire to dictate to you all. First, week 2 of NASCAR is in the books and my fantasy team is 1-1. The first week was strong but my team lost. Yesterday at Rockingham, my entire team finished in the top 10, including winner Matt Kenseth. Now I'm tied for second in my league, and I'm leading in overall points.
Next week is the Academy Awards. It's almost March and I think there has only been two new episodes of Alias, and Kristie didn't tape one. Speaking of the Oscars... here's my quick picks.
I'll probably write more later this week about Oscar. Finally, SunFyre's Top 100 Blogs has added a couple participants. Only 97 to go! Please visit their sites. Goodnight, February 20, 2004... More Sex?I've seen perhaps 25 episodes of Sex in the City on HBO. It isn't a show I look for, but it's on the satellite dish frequently. We get about 7 HBO channels and one of them is probably showing Sex reruns at just about any moment.
Most consider this show a show for women, and I guess it is, but four women in sexy clothes (and sometimes out of them) talking about the sex they are having or the sex they wish they were having, is... well... sexy. I think if it were an hour show it would annoy me, but for 27 minutes, I'll watch it occasionally. I think this movie would be a good date movie. First, you get points for taking her to see a chic flick. Then, during the movie, you might even get a quick nipple peek or three. Finally, afterwards, maybe you're honey will want to go home and try to emulate her favorite character, and with any luck it will be Samantha. The movie isn't a done deal. I think the producers are trying to get a reaction to find out if people want more Sex. To the producers: Yes, yes we do. And if you are looking for plot points, think lingerie pillow fight! February 19, 2004... Minor UpdateI updated two more pages with the new SunFyre look. If you haven't seen them, visit Nice Tits and I Like Monkeys. I also saw this story on the wire:
De-caf is for wimps. February 17, 2004. SunFyre's Top 100 BlogsIf you are a blogger like me, chances are you also read other people's
weblogs. I'm creating a top list simply called
SunFyre's Top 100 Blogs. I
want to get an eclectic collection of bloggers, content and personalities.
If you are a blogger, you can register your site. My visitors and yours can rate it and rank you among the top 100. We want to maintain an exclusive group therefore the following types of sites won't be accepted.
A couple more short notes about SunFyre's Top 100: We won't have any image buttons. Many bloggers don't have the time or talent to create banners and buttons. I want all bloggers to be equal, so our topsite list is text title and description. I'm inviting bloggers from the US first, but eventually hope to include blogs from other countries. Each blog will have a flag next to the name indicating the country of origin. I won't be adding any banner advertising, with one exception, I am an Amazon.com affiliate. After we get a couple dozen sites listed, I will probably add an Amazon.com banner ad. To keep the integrity high, I also reserve the right to ask any blogger to update their description to accurately reflect their content. For example if your description reads "Blog of Hot Naked Teenage Lesbian Babes" your site better be written by hot naked teenage lesbian babes. If you have a favorite blog, please invite them to participate. Please visit the Top 100 list, then visit member sites. Hopefully more will sign up every day.
February 16, 2004... Funny Pet PhotosI updated the Kids Who Look like Their Pets page to match the new SunFyre look. If you haven't seen this page, now is a good time to peek. I also added a Funny Pet & Animal Photos page. It's just a couple photos I've collected. Send more if you have them. Enjoy, February 15, 2004... Daytona 500 and Chocolate WithdrawalsLet's start with chocolate withdrawals... I put a new mini-poll up this month, all about Valentine's Day. I don't even really like Valentine's day that much. Red and pink hearts everywhere is just annoying. Most other holidays have at least a couple symbols to choose from. Anyhow, go to the gray bar >>>>>>>>>>>> and take my poll. Speaking of surveys, I updated the survey page, adding the new poll and changing the look to reflect the new SunFyre style. Check it out. For those of you wondering what we did on Valentine's Day, we made little heart-shaped (of course) sugar cookies with red sprinkles. My dad was in town, so he visited with the kids in the afternoon. After the twins went to bed, Kristie and I watched a movie she rented. It was called The Secret Lives of Dentists and if you thought visiting the dentist was painful, you haven't seen this movie! I'll review it later in more detail, but suffice to say "Don't rent it." NASCAR hits the track with the Daytona 500 today. I always said that I was an open wheel racing fan who only watches NASCAR because it's work related. My old business was selling licensed sports merchandise, and NASCAR made up about 60% of my total sales. So I'd watch every Sunday and talk with NASCAR fans/customers every Monday. This year I don't need to watch NASCAR, but I found myself looking forward to this season. I realized, one of my favorite things about NASCAR was fantasy racing on NASCAR.com. I joined the free league for the third time. You select four drivers for your team and keep them all year, then you compete against other players in a six person league. To prevent people from choosing the same drivers, they have a live auction. You receive $100 to start and must purchase all four drivers using that money. My drivers:
The top 10 drivers in the auction and the prices they demanded. My picks are in gray. Notice I spent $89 of my 100 on two picks. I got the other two for $11 combined.
Each week my team goes head-to-head with another team. This week my opponent's drivers are Kevin Harvick, Tony Stewart, and Elliot Sadler. My three starters, Gordon, Kenseth and Busch, must score more than his three. Well, I'm wearing my Jeff Gordon shirt and ready to watch the race.
February 14, 2004... St. Valentine's DayI wasn't able to get out much this past week. We only have one vehicle, and I don't drive. I didn't have the opportunity to get anything for Kristie for V. Day. (In college we called it V.D. Day, figuring that more venereal diseases were passed around college campuses than any other day of the year.)
My personal assistant offered to pick up something for her this year. She said she'd get me a card, some flowers, or something silky and sexy. I said "Ok, but how about something for my wife too!" Three rules I have about Valentine's Day!
Ok, I followed rule #1. Rule #2 was a little more difficult. My assistant offered to pick out a card, but I had this vision of Kristie saying "This card is so beautiful and romantic. Thank Michele for picking it out." Rule #3 was completely ignored! I asked our nanny to pick up a bag of Hershey's Kisses and a bag of caramels. She got them and we poured them in a little paper "LOVE" gift bag. (At least I'm helping Kristie eat them.) Happy V. D. February 13, 2004... Heeere's JasonToday is Friday the 13th!
Usually about once a year, usually on Friday the 13th, a new Jason movie would debut. I actually hated slasher movies, and to a degree still do. Some people dislike gratuitous violence and nudity when it isn't important to the plot, but when the plot is gratuitous violence and nudity, at least you know what to expect. Anyhow, I'd go see the Friday the 13th series pretty religiously, not because I enjoyed fake blood spatters, but because the next day in high school I'd wander up and down the halls hearing whispers of "look out, here comes Jason" or "kill, kill, kill". I had to know what they were talking about before I could laugh it off! I especially liked the one where the guy in a wheelchair gets whacked just before he gets laid. Granted, I would have let him get laid first! I just hope the next slasher movie isn't called "SunFyre Attacks". Kill, kill, kill... February 11, 2004... Talk to Me, BabyA minor site improvement... Reader Comment links will be placed at the end of each entry. Share your opinion about each post. Flames are welcome and encouraged, but don't just say "You're an Idiot", tell me why I'm an idiot. February 10, 2004 ... More Power!SunFyre gets juiced! I was away for a few days upgrading the systems and my web service. I'm back and better than ever, well technologically speaking anyhow. It would be nice if I could upgrade to Brain 2.0, with New Improved Writing Capability, but I'll settle for new computers. I added a second computer to my office. My assistant and I were sharing, and that was becoming increasingly unproductive. I'm the boss, so I got the new system and she gets my old one. I went with a built-to-order system this time. Previously I'd owned Gateways (when they didn't suck) and then HPs. Each time I got a new computer they arrived with less and less bundled software, and more and more free demos and trial software. My HP, purchased two years ago, had AOL software, Earthlink, AT&T Worldnet, MSN Internet providers all pre-loaded. It also had a games bundle from Wild Tangent and a Music Match MP3 player. All these were demo software or only partially enabled. There was no useful software, not even Microsoft Works, (a.k.a. Office for Dummies). This time I even decided to avoid Dell, who was the last company to jump on the trial software bandwagon.
The best part about this system is the box. It's big! It has two empty front slots, and five empty slots in the back. It's big and beige and ugly, the way a proper computer should be. It has three internal fans and plenty of room for expansion and cooling. It's the base computer that would make Tim "The Toolman" Taylor salivate. Remember, it's not how much power it has, it's how much power it could have!
I see new computers like new homes or apartments. I don't want a moving company to transfer all the crap from my attic, basement or garage to my new place. I want to go through that garbage and see what's worth moving, what's worth selling, and what goes into the great recycling bin. A new computer gives you the chance to decide what to new with your old shiit. You get to delete AOL 6.0 and 7.0 and 8.0. I also love starting fresh on my favorites list. I always start with good intentions. I organize my true favorites (only about 25 sites) into folders. Then, for about a week or two, every new favorite gets dropped into the applicable folder. Then it happens, I run across something like this or this or this, and they certainly don't fit into any category I have. So I save them in the general favorites list to be categorized later. Then like rabbits they multiply. Next thing I know my favorites list is 12 pages long. Simultaneously, I upgraded my web server. This took far less effort on my part. I simply had to write a big check. They had a deal, sign up for a year, get two months free. I realized that thanks to Janet Jackson's Boob, I would run out of bandwidth about February 15th. I figured it was as good a time as any to upgrade. Now I'll have virtually unlimited bandwidth, I went from 25 GB a month to 1500 GB a month. I'll be able to give my readers a little more technology for their enjoyment. I'm hoping to add a music area and image galleries with large images. Eventually you'll be able to click on just about any image and see a larger version.
For those of you wondering if the bubble has burst on Janet Jackson related web hits, the graph above shows my statistics as of today. The initial burst of hits is long gone, but apparently several hundred of you like SunFyre enough to come back again. Overall traffic has increased about 300% over the average. To all you new readers: Welcome!
Super Charged, SunFyre February 5th, 2004... Janet Jackson's Super Bowl Video Clip
As you've probably heard by now, she's admitting it was a publicity stunt. (Go figure.) Honestly, I think it's great. It succeeded amazingly well. Some people may bash her, and others will buy her album, which by the way is due out soon. We are living in a new capitalist society where we vote with our dollars every day. If you hate what Janet did, don't buy her records. If you admire her, pick up the latest CD. You are a voter. If you vote against her, she'll be out of business and never bare herself again, or at least not make news doing it. There are six billion people. If 99% hate Janet and 1% love her and buy her album, that's about 60 million albums sold. She doesn't need to please everyone. Even if only 1% of that 1% by the album, that's still 600,000 sales, plenty to insure Miss Jackson is around for a long time. The bad news is, if you don't buy Janet's album because you were offended at her actions, she only needs to sell albums to a fraction of people who love her to make millions. The good news is, if you use your dollars to vote for crap no one else likes, you stand a pretty good chance that the crap artist will still be around next year to make more crap for you. You voted with your dollars to keep more crap coming. If you aren't sure about the crap to which I'm referring, let's get specific: Celine Dion, Michael Bolton, anything produced between 1982 and 1986, and disco. Is that specific enough? (Yes, the list was in order.) February 4th, 2004... Janet Jackson's breast shot is an Internet boon.I've finally discovered the secret to Internet success. First you spend hundreds of hours writing about issues important to you, or just fun. Then you post one grainy image of Janet Jackson's right breast. One little screen shot of one nip slip and you're famous. Here's a chart of my web traffic over the past 32 days. The image doesn't even reflect all of today's hits.
My hits are up 1300% and my visitors are up over 1100%. I didn't even have the new photos of Janet and Justin until today. Thanks to Dunlap! Let's analyze the phenomenon that is the Janet Jackson Super Bowl Half Time Show, with "show" being the key word. People are appalled, yet more Internet searches were done for "Janet Jackson Breast Shot" than any other topic in the past two days. In fact, yesterday 394 of you found SunFyre using that exact search. Another 285 of you arrived after typing "Janet Jackson's Exposed Breast" and several dozen of you used simply "Super Bowl Nip Slip".
Later on this year, someone will win the Pulitzer Prize for photo journalism. Whoever that is won't make as much money as the Associated Press photographer who got the first Janet Jackson Breast Shot. In fairness, I at least researched the photographer before I stole her image, and I cited her. I'm getting more hits now than I did with Hurricane Isabel. Although, I still get a few dozen hits each day from people searching for Isabel. I don't think Janet Jackson will produce hits for long. I'll just ride the wave. To all of you first time visitors, please read last month's archive or the month before. My site is actually interesting to some. Sign up for our email newsletter. And, back after Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake are gone. The Hit Master, February 2nd, 2004... Janet Jackson Super Bowl Exposed Breast Screen Shot
If you are morally against exposed breasts, don't click this link! If you enjoy breasts, go ahead and click it. If you have other shots, send them to me, I'll give you credit or credit to the originator. Clicking, February 2nd, 2004... Super Bowl Nip SlipI should have stayed for half-time. I checked my email, and got some chips and dip. Instead of dip I could have had nip! Here's the Associated Press version...
Possibility #1: CBS blames MTV and look like the wholesome network. MTV can accept responsibility, like terrorists to a bombing, and get credit for being the anarchy network. By the way, both are owned by Viacom and no one will get fired over this one. Viacom, CBS and MTV all get a boost.
Anyhow, I added this great picture of Justin Timberlake exposing Janet Jackson's breast during the Super Bowl Half-Time Show. It was taken a few seconds after the exposure. The looks on their faces are priceless. I'll add more photos as they become available. February 1st, 2004... Super Bowl SundayYou go away for one day and miss a lot. The Patriots are NFL champions and SunFyre has a new look and feel. First, let's talk football. Both Carolina and New England had a history of playing strong defense throughout the game and then scoring just enough in the fourth quarter to win. What an unbelievable fourth quarter! Fifteen minutes left and the score was 14-10 Patriots. Then the flood gates opened. If anyone told me the fourth quarter would have 37 points scored I would have called them crazy. I usually hate games that end with a field goal, but after Vinatieri missed two earlier, even that was exciting. Tom Brady and Jake Delhomme both played masterfully in the fourth quarter after barely holding on throughout the game. Either of them could have won MVP. Tom better drive Adam around in that new Cadillac any time he needs a ride. If Adam had missed that field goal, Jake could've been in that convertible. Patriots 32 - Panthers 29 -- Recap - Stats - Photos Ok, now you are the executive of ABC, NBC or Fox. Your job for the night is to schedule something opposite the Super Bowl on CBS.
For those of you watching the big game, here's what was on the other channels:
Last on the agenda for tonight is the "old school" look of SunFyre. I'm not sure it's really old school, considering the world wide web has only been around a decade or so. I'm just falling back to older fonts with more words and less graphics. No dancing hamsters here. (If you don't know about dancing hamsters, you haven't been online long enough to know what old school is anyhow.) There's a wide bar over there ----------->>>>>> I'm not sure exactly how I'm going to utilize it, but I knew eventually I'd need a wide blank bar so it's there. I'll fill it with some stuff tomorrow. Also, the top header links aren't working yet, and January hasn't been archived yet. I'll do those tomorrow. It's time for bed. |
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I
was disappointed that 
Anyhow,
I saw that today the producers are floating a rumor about creating a big
screen version of Sex. While I wouldn't block out a TV night every
week, I probably would go see it at the movies.
My
Two Cents -- I'll have another cafe latte, I can have another, can't
I? I love cafe latte. Cafe latte is delicious and I really
love cafe latte. Have I had too much caffeine? Is my heart
supposed to pound like this? Can I get another cafe latte over
here?!
Kristie and I agreed, as we do almost every year, that we wouldn't
exchange Valentine's gifts. Also, as I do every year, I completely
ignored this agreement. After eight Valentine's days and seven
anniversaries you'd think she'd figure out that I will always get her at
least a little gift.
I
was a teenager in the '80s, when slasher movies were popular. Elm
Street had Freddie, Halloween had Michael and Fridays had Jason!
My
new system is a
My
computer guy built it and created a network between the old HP and the
new machine. He offered a data transfer service. He boasted
his software could make an exact replica of my HP on the new machine.
"Why the hell would I want that?!"
I asked.
All
of this comes at a cost. I'll probably set up a tip jar, so save
your change. I'm trying to avoid this. I'd love to have this
site supported exclusively on
Ok,
I'm getting a little bored with Janet. I'm going to publish this
little animated 
Sunday
millions of people had never heard of a "Nipple Shield". Now,
not only are most of you aware of this new apparel, several white haired
old guys with multi-million dollar manufacturing companies are seriously
considering manufacturing these because of the predicted spike in sales.
Within weeks some of you factory workers are going to re-tool to make
nipple shields.
"CBS
deeply regrets the incident," spokeswoman LeslieAnne Wade said after the
network received several calls about the show on Sunday.
The
two singers were performing a flirtatious duet to end the halftime show,
and at the song's finish, Timberlake reached across Jackson's leather
gladiator outfit and pulled off the covering to her right breast.