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American Idol & Votefortheworst.com

I used to be an American Idol fan. Not a huge fan, but a decent fan. A fan such that I would try and not make any plans for the night(s) American Idol was on, and I’d make a good attempt to watch it, or at the very least have it on in the background while I did some work. This year however, sucks.

This year, there is no one that catches my eye, or keeps my attention. I found that for this year, I enjoyed the show much more watching the tryouts, and I stopped watching when they all went to Hollywood.

I listen to the Howard Stern show on Sirius every day, and recently he brought to the listener’s attention a website called www.votefortheworst.com, where they describe how, in order to keep American Idol “fun”, people should vote for the worst candidate. The agreement that Sunjaya Malakar is the worst seems to be the common theme, and I agree. 🙂

Accordingly, please do your best to continue to vote for Sunjaya Malakar and keep him in American Idol as long as possible, and may be if we get lucky, he’ll win the damn thing. You know that won’t make Eric the Midget happy.

Hi Fred.

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Airbus A380 – First Transatlantic Flight

On Monday March 19th, 2007, France’s Airbus A380 – the largest passenger plane ever assembled – made its first transatlantic flight from Frankfurt Germany to New York’s JFK airport. On-board were not real passengers, but rather 500 Lufthansa employees and crew.

The purpose of this flight was to show off the new Airbus plane to markets in the United States.

As wide as a football field is long, Airbus has created the largest passenger plane ever put into mass production. Normally, I wouldn’t make such a big deal about a new plane. However, I do have a certain passion for aviation, and while I’m not totally thrilled with a lot of what France produces, they are doing something right when it comes to flight…

Sadly, a few years ago, after an accident, France retired the Concorde line. But, they’re back now with this new plane.

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With time, come changes

In my case, it was time away. Seriously, I wasn’t in prison or anything people. I merely took a break from blogging. It became an unenjoyable chore, instead of an interesting break from reality.

For a while now, my heading had gone wider than this blog header allowed in its current form. A kind user on one of my favorite websites (www.dslreports.com) informed of this. It wasn’t so much that it wasn’t obvious to me, as it was. However, what it did bring to mind was that in addition to being ugly, it was noticeable to the reader – a distraction. So, it is with this in mind, that I have changed it. Well, not exactly.

You see, I’m not a good web designer. Sure, I can design something half decent. Anything I have done for any of my webpages has been based from a free-for-use-and-modification template that I have reverse engineered to accomplish what I set out to do. With this in mind, I decided it would be best not to edit this WordPress theme (for fear of blowing up the blog). Instead, I sort of gave my blog a new name. It is still “Theories, Predictions, Opinions, Interviews, and other Nonsense”, as shown by the subheader. From a descriptive standpoint, that gets the job done just fine. From a catchy standpoint of a recognizable name, it doesn’t. Hence, the new name of “The Ramblings of a Regular Dude.”

I’ve wanted to change the name for a while, both for style and for content, and now is a good of a time as ever.

The new name is based in part and inspired by the movie The Big Lebowski and the author Hunter S. Thompson.

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Well, I’m back. Never left, really. :)

For those of you that were reading my blog when I was updating it 5-7 times a week, I do apologize for my long absence. I never went anywhere in terms of actually being absent, it’s just that I had so much going on in 2006, both business and personal. In August, my Grandfather died. It was tough then, and it’s tough now. A month later, one of my best friends – my dog Millie – was put to sleep after a short fight with cancer. Basically, I decided to focus more on my family and business relationships, and get interested in certain things that I always wanted to do. I just didn’t have it in me to keep this blog going. I felt that all that I was talking about was depressing things; in addition to the deaths, 2006 brought: an almost layoff, a car accident, and a colonoscopy. 🙂 2006 was not a good year.

Anywho, I’m back. Better and bigger. I began some work on one of my websites the other night, fixing it up and so forth, and I noticed that I had neglected the PHPBB forum there for so long that spammers had infiltrated it, and created link after link and post after post of porno spam. So, I quickly deleted all the stuff there, and got a better control of it. 🙂 So, I figured that I probably should update this WordPress from 1.5.2 to its current version, 2.1.2. So that’s done, and I’m going to post more here as time permits.

Right now, I’m gently sipping some Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, and listening to the last throws of the 5″ ice and sleet storm we’re currently getting. 🙂

Anyway, thanks for checking out my blog. Hopefully, I’ll be doing a little better with this thing. 🙂