The-Roommate-Formerly-Known-as-Matthew-Maynard sented this link to The Editors of Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com.

Knox News: What’s the Greatest Car Chase in Movie History?

Of course, the first one on the list is the granddaddy of all Big Screen Car Chases, the Dodge Charger vs. Ford Mustang classic of Steve McQueen’s “Bullit”
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Was there something going on around the Whole May-Day-Rights-of-Illegal Immigrants Day, yesterday?

Cause Tucson didn’t notice.
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SpiderMan 3, starring Bruce Campbell, opens this weekend, and The Editors of Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com, Growler, and about 20 or 34 of our closest friends are going to see the first show on Saturday at the Ex-Con Mall. We already have our tickets.

Its gonna be awesome. Cause any movie with Bruce Campbell is gonna be awesome!
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Walter Marty Schirra, Jr. died yesterday, marking the fifth of the original seven Mercury Astronauts to pass on; leaving Scott Carpenter and John Glenn as the only two remaining.

Schirra was portrayed by both Lance Hendriksen, and Mark Harmon in biographies about the Mercury Program.

He flew in the Mercury 8 Mission, the Gemini 6A, and the Apollo 7 missions.
He participated in the first Space Rendezvous, between Gemini 6 and Gemini 7. Where two spacecraft came within 30 cm of one another.
Of the original seven, he flew the most missions.
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Some of you might have noticed, there was a Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com outage yesterday. It was resolved in a reasonable time… almost.

But as I looked this morning, the Vernacular Glossary is malfunctioning again.
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Growler and I got into a discussion about the idea of a Ninja Pirate.

His claim, there cannot possibly be a Ninja Pirate, as the two beings are natural enemies.

I, however, have a different opinion. And since I have a public website, I’m spreading it around.
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Fox News has been reporting about a recent Pew survey, I found it rather interesting.

The Pew Internet and American Life Project found that adult Americans are broadly divided into three groups: 31 percent are elite technology users, 20 percent are moderate users and the remainder have little or no usage of the Internet or cell phones.

They even offer a Quiz

So where does this non-cell-phone user fall in Pew’s Topography?
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Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com continues to have server issues.

Updates can be found at The Backup Blog.

Please Stand By

Its up, its down.

I can’t make heads or tales of what my web host is doing.

Thanks to Imago Dei for the inspiration.
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I’m depressed.

While I’m not an ice cream fanatic, I did fall in love with a particular flavor of Ice Cream.

Ben & Jerry’s Black and Tan flavor.

It had everything.
Tasty adult beverage reference
Controversy [Since removed, see below, -ed]
And dang did it taste good.

And Who knew Ice Cream people needed a Brewmeister?

Cisco introduced me to this flavor over a Two-Headed-Monster, and I scoured Tucson for it.
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Ever since 2006 rolled over, this day has been looming on my calendar.
Who am I kidding? This whole week has.

You see, this week marks three particular “celebrations”.

• May 13th: Mother’s Day
• May 16th: My Mother’s 59th Birthday
• May 17th: The first anniversary of my Mom’s death.

It’s the trifecta of a bad reminder.
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As I mentioned before, I was almost finished reading Michael Crichton’s “State of Fear”. As of this weekend, I finished it, and crossed it off the Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com Required-Reading-List. It was quite a read, I enjoyed it a lot.

It was quite poignant to this reader, given all the Fear around Global Warming, which is where the book was written around.

This Wired Article was sented to me by a co-worker this morning.

Hundreds Click on Google Ad Promising to Infect Their PCs

Some guy, posted an Ad in Google with the words:

“Is your PC virus-free? Get it infected here!”

And at least 409 people clicked it.

*shakes head ruefully*
Though,I think that number is surprisingly low, for the average internet-intelligence of the average user out there.
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Autovantage released a survey on the worst Road Rage cities in the nation.

For the second year in a row, Miami tops the list.

Residents in the following 25 cities were surveyed and are listed in order from those reporting the most incidents of road rage to the fewest:
1. Miami
2. New York
3. Boston
4. Los Angeles
5. Washington, D.C.
6. Phoenix
7. Chicago
8. Sacramento, Calif.
9. Philadelphia
10. San Francisco
11. Houston
12. Atlanta
13. Detroit
14. Minneapolis-St. Paul
15. Baltimore
16. Tampa, Fla.
17. San Diego
18. Cincinnati
19. Cleveland
20. Denver
21. Dallas-Ft. Worth
22. St. Louis
23. Seattle-Tacoma
24. Pittsburgh
25. Portland, Ore.

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Sorry everybody. Several of you have said you were unable to leave comments. I think it is related to my continuing issues between PHP and MySQL.

I’ve disabled some of my anti-spam protection, and it looks like some of it cleared up.

Hopefully the spammers won’t take advantage of one less layer of protection.

Yeup, you can now say that you are helping the environment when you visit Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com.

Why you ask?

Well, you are using less energy when you load a page in Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com, than say Wikipedia, or Google.

Because… Black is the new Green.

AlGore would be so proud!
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If you are like me, and you misplaced your Encyclopedia Galactica, we have this:

Earth Guide
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I was going though a few things on a not-so-lazy afternoon, and I came upon a document. My Mother’s Advanced Directive for Health Care form, often called a “DNR” because it is most used by patients to say “Do Not Resuscitate” in the event of a medical emergency.

Mom wanted me to have a copy of this for some reason. I think to remind me, if ever the choice had to be made that her children were of the same mind as her.

I don’t think I need to keep this around anymore.
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Time for some Geek-To-Geek web support. The Editors of Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com‘s patience is waning, and even though I’ve talked about this before, I’m now actively looking for a new webhost.

Ipowerweb was a great starting point, but I think my grandfathered account with them is now more trouble than it is worth.

My problem, I don’t know who to go to.

What do you other web guys use?
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Cisco, who enjoys goading my Anti-Cell-Phone stance, sented me this link from AutoBlog:

Anti-Cell Phone Senator Crashes SUV while grabbing phone

Oh, the Irony!
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May 25, 1977

A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away

30 years ago, today, those words scrolled upwards across the screen for the first time.

I was 3 years old. But I remember…
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I’m trying to figure out which buzzword/phrase is winning the significance war.

Or, which is misused, or over used. (Perhaps the two descriptions contradict, but I don’t care.)

So which of these words, do you think, describes 2007?
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The-Evil-Doctor-Merlin-Channing-Lowe-Jr. sented me this YouTube vid from yesteryear:

Fox Sports is reporting the emergence of a rival to the National Football League
The UFL

Bill Hambrecht, a Wall Street businessman, and Tim Armstrong, a senior executive at Google, have decided to start up a rival football league, the United Football League, according to a report on the New York Times web site Wednesday.

For those worried that the UFL will lack name recognition, Hambrecht and Armstrong already have one owner lined up: Mark Cuban, the billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks.

And though the league is having a difficult time finding other owners, it appears Cuban is committed to the plan. The league intends to play its first preseason games in August of 2008.

And where will the league find the talent necessary to attract fans?

“(Former NFL coach) Bill Walsh used to tell me that the last 20 players cut from every team were almost interchangeable with the last 20 players to make the team,” Hambrecht says.

So far, the UFL has decided to put teams in Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Mexico City. Cuban, unsurprisingly, is considering buying the team in Vegas, according to the report.

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Its been a good while since the last Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com Where-are-the-Carriers? Post. But with all the news about the Troop Surge, and Iran, I thought I’d look up what’s going on with the mighty-mighty SuperCarrier Fleet.

Fortunately, details are not as sketchy, as navy-dot-mil, and some other websites are keeping up in the excitement.

Sources

Navy-dot-mil
Global-Security-dot-org
Google Maps (Note, Google Maps are not up to date and change on an infrequent basis. I’ve centered on where the Carrier is homeported, when available)

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