Retail therapy

I signed up for RoadRunner cable modem service today! It is supposed to be installed on Monday. With it patched into the AirPortnetwork in my house, I'll have high-speed, wireless Internet access all the way out to my front porch overlooking downtown Kent, Ohio. By the way, once this happens, I'll be dumping my current ISP, ExchangeNet, with extreme prejudice. At that time, my five-year-old shade@en.com address will be invalid. You will still be able to reach me through the mail link above.

Suck: Women to Avoid
"Hey love-sickos! Looking for the woman of your unrealistic fantasies, that special combination of Jodie Foster and someone a little sluttier than Jodie Foster?"

The X-Men movie trailer in QuickTime.
The clip is soundtracked by Curve.

I'm sorry it's taken me so long to post it, because I've been laughing at it since Friday. In any case, here it is:

The Superfriends doing the Budweiser "Whassup?" commercial.
Well worth the download. Requires QuickTime. (The original commercials are available here.)

After a bad week last week, I treated myself to some retail therapy. First up: a new pair of glasses from Modo. On the way: Apple's new PowerBook.

NY Times: McCain Picks Up the Mo in Motown
"Of course, like John McCain, the Capra heroes battling Big Money could often get a little insufferable. They could be sanctimonious and overemotional and flaky. The idea of virtue triumphing over greed was always a celluloid dream. But it seems even more far-fetched now, in a society where greed is a virtue."