Archive for April, 2004

Posted in News, Venting at 12:18 am April 29, 2004

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/28/house.pledge.ap/index.html
A Democratic Congressman, Rep. Jim McDermott, omitted ‘under God’ from the Pledge of Allegiance and there was an uproar.
Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Texas, accused McDermott of
“embarrassing the House and disparaging the majority of Americans who share the values expressed in the pledge.”
“He and those like him stand more for the liberal left than they do for [...]

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Posted in News at 4:16 am April 28, 2004

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4609992/
From MSNBC, there’s this unconfirmed rumor that Denzel Washington…
“reportedly .. asked that love scenes between him and Mimi Rogers get cut from the 1989 flick “The Mighty Quinn” after the scenes drew howls of protests from black women during screenings.”
“Denzel Washington is concerned about the way audiences react to him in an interracial romance,” says [...]

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Posted in General, Journal at 4:45 pm April 26, 2004

Instead of being the photographer, I switched roles and became the one who was photographed in a photo shoot, along with another friend. We went all out… we changed outfits, had props, went to a remote location, and had a photographer’s (and models’ :)) assistant. The scene was an abandoned fort located in the [...]

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Posted in Journal at 4:32 pm

I woke up in the morning but was too tired to get out of bed, so I thought I’d check my email on my Pocket PC. I got an error message that the mail server was not responding. I was able to wirelessly synchronize to my desktop PC, so I didn’t think it was my [...]

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Posted in General, Journal at 4:29 pm

I took a First Aid training class. We broke up into groups of three to practice different crisis scenarios. One person in each group would take turns being the victim while the other two would be the rescuers.
The first scenario was simple… no blood involved. The later ones included theatrical blood and broken bones and [...]

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Posted in News at 8:41 am April 22, 2004

http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/TV/04/22/law.order/index.html
This article describes the writer’s addiction to Law & Order. My siblings and I can relate. When we’re at home, we can watch hour after hour of L&O, especially on TNT.

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Posted in News at 12:23 am April 21, 2004

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/GMA/US/Side_crash_test_040419-1.html
Hopefully, we won’t have to ever use side airbags, but some recent tests show the importance of side airbags in some cars when hit on the side by an SUV or pickup truck.

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