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Archive for July, 2005

Lynda Carter making a come back

By Marc • Jul 28th, 2005 • Category: Pop Culture, the Geek

I am sure many guys my age will agree that Lynda Carter is one of the most beautiful women to ever grace the small screen. Well, what makes her even cooler is that when life happened and she gave birth to her first child, she considered raising her children a priority and put her [...]



Paramount’s looking at doing a Smurf movie

By Marc • Jul 28th, 2005 • Category: Pop Culture, the Weirdo

WHY WON’T THEY JUST DIE!?!?!?



Braves Sweep Nats to Stretch NL East Lead

By Marc • Jul 28th, 2005 • Category: Sports

First the good news, I don’t really know how the Braves did it as many games as they’ve lost this year, but they did. They are in the lead in the NL East. I really haven’t kept up with my favorite team this year as much I have in the past. [...]



Disgusting new Target commercial

By Marc • Jul 28th, 2005 • Category: Pop Culture, the Ranter

Has anyone else seen the new Target commercial? I’m talking about the back to school “backpack” commercial. I have a real problem with it. It uses a parody of the 80’s song “Baby got back” by rapper Sir-Mix-A-Lot. OK. So what we have here is a song about how much the [...]



Learning to get out of the baseball’s way the hard way

By Marc • Jul 27th, 2005 • Category: Sports

OK…..This sounds like it would hurt.
Matt Clement was hit in the right side of the head by Carl Crawford’s line drive Tuesday night and carried from the field on a stretcher.
We’re talking about a ball that hit line drive from a 90+ MPH pitch. OUCH! I mean I’ve been hit by a baseball [...]



Mel Gibson’s next movie

By Marc • Jul 25th, 2005 • Category: Pop Culture

Well, I don’t really know what to think of this……..
“Apocalypto” hardly fits the traditional definition of a summer film. Set 500 years ago, pic will be filmed in an obscure Mayan dialect, presumably with the same kind of subtitles Gibson reluctantly added to “The Passion of the Christ.” It will star a neophyte [...]



Google Moon - Lunar Landing Sites

By Marc • Jul 25th, 2005 • Category: On The Web, the Geek

I don’t think you can get directions from your front door to here. But it’s pretty cool anyway. If you like the new maps from Google, check out what they did with the Moon!



Let’s get OS/2 open sourced

By Marc • Jul 25th, 2005 • Category: Computers, the Geek

I think this would be pretty cool . I installed OS/2 once not long after Warp came out. I was working for a little service company that let me give you my assurance I won’t name because I hated working there. We had a customer while I worked there that [...]



Who’s the new Doctor Who?????

By Marc • Jul 25th, 2005 • Category: Pop Culture, the Geek

Well, I gotta say the first season of the new Doctor Who series has come and gone and it was an absolute blast. It started off a little slow with the typical character development, but once they gave you an idea of what the Doctor and Rose were all about they really picked up [...]



Site move….Complete!

By Marc • Jul 23rd, 2005 • Category: the Site

If you’re seeing this, it’s because you are getting it from the new server home for Thicke.org. I was up til real late last night doing the move, so excuse me while I go find some caffeine…..



RIP Jimmy….RIP

By Marc • Jul 20th, 2005 • Category: Pop Culture, the Geek

What admission can I make above having been a Star Trek fan that would make me even more of a geek? I’ll tell you, my favorite character was the engineer. Yes, Scotty was always my favorite on the show. I can see where he influenced me quite a bit too. I [...]



How I learn from my mistakes

By Marc • Jul 20th, 2005 • Category: GTD, the Geek

Over at lifehacker.org, Danny posted about to learn from your mistakes. As I read it, I realized I already knew all this because in my life, I’ve have plenty of oppertunities for practice.
He summed it up in a nutshell here:
The most important points are that you have to acknowledge mistakes you made, respond to [...]



Update on the site move…

By Marc • Jul 17th, 2005 • Category: the Site

It didn’t happen. Not long after I posted about it Thursday night, I got called into work. I was there until about two am. So after getting early to back to the office Friday morning, I simply didn’t feel like doing anything after watching Battlestar Galactica except going to bed. I’ll [...]



Tagalog - English Dictionary

By Marc • Jul 17th, 2005 • Category: On The Web, the Geek

Click here for the best online Tagalog-English dictionary I’ve been able to find yet. I wouldn’t have found it either if it wasn’t for del.icio.us. As most of you know, Suzette (my wife) is from the Philippines where the national language is called Tagalog. I am making an effort to learn this [...]



Latest Harry Potter Adventure Goes on Sale - Yahoo! News

By Marc • Jul 17th, 2005 • Category: Pop Culture, the Ranter

Yeah, this happened Saturday. While I’m sort of on the fence on the positive/negative value of these books, I do hate the fact that it made it dangerous to go within a mile of a bookstore yesterday.



14-Pound Baby Girl Born in Kentucky

By Marc • Jul 17th, 2005 • Category: the Ranter, the Weirdo

Ouch! This sounds like it would hurt. It’s a good thing they decided to do cesarian. What a huge baby.



Zenit News Agency - The World Seen From Rome

By Marc • Jul 14th, 2005 • Category: The Pope is Dope, the Church

According to Zenit and many other outlets, Papa Ben is working on his first encyclical. I can’t wait to read it, even though I have no idea what’s going to be about. I’m kind of hoping for something good on the liturgy, but only time will tell. What do you guys think [...]



Keep the heretics out of the Eternal City

By Marc • Jul 14th, 2005 • Category: Pop Culture, the Ranter

This is pretty cool.
But it seems Cruise and the film’s director J.J. Abrams have come up against one truly impossible mission: filming inside the Vatican city state. Italian media said the Vatican denied them access.
Good, keep these folks off our sacred ground. By this I mean Tom and his Scientologist masseuses. [...]



Brad and his marriage fell apart….

By Marc • Jul 14th, 2005 • Category: Pop Culture, the Ranter

OK…Go read this story here.
It’s about how Brad Pitt is sick. He was in the the hospital. Let me break this news story down.
Actor Brad Pitt has been diagnosed with a mild case of viral meningitis and was released from the hospital Wednesday, his publicist said.
OK…That’s important. meningitis is a nasty thing. [...]



Warning! Warning! Warning!

By Marc • Jul 14th, 2005 • Category: the Site

OK….do I have you attention? This site will be down for a little sometime this weekend. I’ll be moving to a different server. Because of the way names like “www.thicke.org” work on the internet, you might still be pointing to the old server after the move. It should all be straightened [...]