Brittany Murphy died. What a coincidence I happen to be in middle of a movie with her as the star actress when I found out about her death.  The one I was watching is "Deadline".  Before that I have watched her in "Ramen Girl" (2008).  She did other movies ofcourse. 

 It's just my personal speculation.  But I have linked source articles below which discusses the death of Brittany Murphy.

Left is ad cover of movie "Ramen Girl" which I enjoyed.  She was probably more well known for, playing role of Eminem's gf in "8 mile".  Which I did not enjoy.

She was also in "Clueless"  Maybe we are all just clueless what we do to ourselves.  I don't blame the media for her death but I do blame it for not making anything easier for her by blasting the news about her being fired from a movie.  When things are good, media profits, when things are bad, media profits, when you die, media profits.

L.A. Coroner: Brittany Murphy Dead at 32

Dec. 20, 2009, 2:42 PM EST

TheWrap
Actress Brittany Murphy has died, according to the Los Angeles coroner's office.
The 32-year-old actress, who starred in "Clueless" and with Eminem in "8 Mile," was declared dead at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, according to Selena Barrows, an investigator with the coroner's office.
"We have a preliminary death report of someone with the name of Brittany Murphy," Barrows told TheWrap. The report came from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center at 11 a.m. on Sunday.
The news was first reported by TMZ.com.
TMZ said multiple sources reported that the actress had gone into cardiac arrest and could not be revived on Sunday morning.
Photos: Brittany Murphy through the years
Barrows said cardiac arrest could mean any number of things, and was not an indication of the cause of death.
However, Murphy's suspected excessive use of drugs had been the subject of widespread speculation, and was even the subject of a parody sketch on a recent "Saturday Night Live" Weekend Update.
The Los Angeles City Fire Department said a 911 call was made at 8 a.m. from the Los Angeles home of Murphy's husband, Simon Monjack. She was pronounced dead on arrival at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
Born in Atlanta, Murphy started acting in regional theater at age 9; by age 13, she had signed with a manager and began appearing in television commercials. Her first roles were on TV series such as "Murphy Brown" and "Parker Lewis Can't Lose," which led to her breakthrough film, 1995's "Clueless."
She had five movies currently in production, including "Poor Things," with Rosario Dawson; "Shrinking Charlotte," with Kathleen Turner; and Sylvester Stallone's "The Expendables," with Stallone, Jet Li and Jason Statham.
In 2005, she signed on as the spokesmodel for Jordache Jeans. She has been named to both FHM's 10 Sexiest Women List, and Maxim's Hot 100.
In 2006, she released the single "Faster Kill Pussycat," which became a club hit on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Play chart. She also covered Queen's "Somebody to Love" and Earth, Wind & Fire's "Boogie Wonderland" for the film "Happy Feet."
She married screenwriter Monjack in 2007; before that, she was engaged to talent manager Jeff Kwatinetz, and production assistant Joe Macaluso. In late 2002, she dated Ashton Kutcher, with who she co-starred int he film "Just Married."
Kutcher late Sunday morning Twittered about Murphy's death: "2day the world lost a little piece of sunshine. My deepest condolences go out 2 Brittany's family, her husband, & her amazing mother Sharon."

This proves things need to be a bit more strict when it comes to driving laws.  I personally think there's a good reason why she kept failing and this time she passed only by chance.  A simple random chance that she just happened to make the right mistakes on the test.  I think at least here in US, the rule should be that if you fail written test 10 times then you clearly are danger to others on the road and should not be allowed to take anymore written test and be banned from driving a car.

One thing Windows (er... Microsoft I should say) does well is steal ideas.  Here's a visual technology that has been around in other platform(s).  One thing Microsoft is finally FINALLY doing right is not just making visuals pretty but actually making those purrrty visuals a functionally useful thing.

Here's one.

When you have multiple windows you used to have to Hold down Alt and press Tab and go through each window if you wanted to see the window you were looking for (if you had multiple of the same program for example)

Now to make that visual appear so you can easily see all windows open at once and easily scroll to the one you want, Use the Windows Key+ Tab.

Step1: Down below on your keyboard right next to "Alt" is a key that looks like windows logo.  Hold that down and then tap press "Tab" key right next to Q and let go of Q after you tapped it but do NOT let go of the windows Key.  Keep holding that one down.

Step2: While you are still holding down that windows key, if you press Tab again then the windows switch in position forward.  If you press Shift+Tab instead then windows shift backward.

OR instead of tab, you can scroll the mouse wheel.  It's much faster.

Step3:  When the window you want is at the top most position and you can see all its contents, you can let go of the windows key OR mouse the pointer over the window you want to switch to and click it. (mouse method works even if the window you want is not at the top)

V is NOT for Vandetta and yes they are making a remake of old TV show V.  Also, if you were NOT born before 1980 then trust me, you will not remember V.  It was on TV back in 1983 and even if you were out suckling on mommy at beginning of 1980 you would be too young to remember.

Hollywood has the biggest ego. When europeans make excellent drama movies, what does Hollywood do? Make a remake cause original just wasn't good enough. When japanese or philipines make some great horror flick, what does Hollywood do? Make a remake cause original just wasn't good enough. And what does Hollywood do when they run out of ideas for new TV shows? Make a remake of old ones cause old ones just wasn't good enough. I loved old TV shows and they were great. Alot better than TV shows are now. In my opinion honoring the amazing shows and movies of the past isn't by remaking them. Remaking is like a slap in the face to the original saying "You weren't good enough." Imagine saying that to your wife. "I'm gonna get one of my other ribs taken out and made into a woman because you just aren't good enough."

So the new exploitation of one of the greats of the past is V. Remake on the old V.
The Villain. - Original villain played by Jane Badler is now being played by Morena Baccarin.  They should have chosen Elizabeth Mitchell to play that role who instead is playing a different role.  Jane Badler played well with the female villain role because she could carry the role as a tough alien who could kick your butt if you looked at her funny.

Hollywood as it always does opted for beauty and no toughness.  Sex sells and hollywood is dishing it out like condomn at HIV centers.  Actually I don't think Morena Baccarin is pretty, I'm just saying hollywood thinks she is and that's the reason they went for her.

Clearly Elizabeth Mitchell would have been better match for the role because just looking at this photo you can tell she could carry sexy and "kick yer girly butt" at the same time.

I KNOW the story is, none of the aliens are anything but sexy because they are trying to fool humans into practically worshipping them and be blinded into full trust.  But still...

If I'm gonna get butt kicked I want to at least have an excuse why I got mine kicked by a woman.  She was one tough sexy lady.  No doubt about it and I liked it.

The Hero. - Played by Marc Singer.


He looked like he could fight.  Not only did you have to know how to act back in those days, you also had to be able to look the part.

He played the freakin Beast Master.  He talked to animals man.  That's some serious skill right there.

Ok he didn't really talk to animals but he played his parts well.


But now instead we got guys like this who just er... wears fancy suits.


Nice suit bud.  Where did you get it?  Wardrobe?  Btw, Hollywood also tells you you are too fat, not good very good looking and your life isn't interesting if you don't own mansions, and normal thing to do is fall in love and get married within 2 days of having met.  So there you go.  Also, hiring Chinese actors to play Korean or Japanese roles is ok cause they all look alike according to Hollywood.

What great points he makes is and that no one can deny is,

1 Science doesn't have all the answers but they refuse to teach alternatives.  "Science class is incomeplete."
2 Religion is more moral and science is not.
3 There are more believers than non-believers and that should be taught. And believing in the extra-ordinary act that Jesus did is more powerful than Science's "we'll figure it out and while we don't have all the answers, we'll just ignore religion". And science looks down on religion.

Today it rained in California.  I don't know about everywhere else but here in Western part of Los Angeles, it had a very light drizzle or mist yesterday and most may not have noticed but I still consider that the first rain of the season.  Today it actually rained like it was supposed to.  And I hope people are driving carefully but this being LA I know there are going to be douchebags causing accidents cause they just wanna get home faster so they can watch their large flat screen TV.

In Korea, way back before there was seperation of northern and southern part of Korea into what we know as North Korea (communism), South Korea (republic), there was one Korea, and back in 1441, there was an invention that allowed measuring of rain.  It measured how much rain had fallen in very simple way.

This invention called Cheugugi is simply a container that had set on stone and measuring stick was used to tell how much rain it had collected.  Just like we currently tell how much feet of snow had fallen because snow's height can be measured, so can height of rain because of this invention.

And no this is NOT the Rain I'm talking about.

He's some kind of Korean male entertainer who happens to go by the name Rain, and this blog has nothing to do with him.  So... why are you still reading?  Move on to the next blog entry.

According to TMZ, Marge Simpson from Simpsons animated show will be on cover of Playboy magazine.  No not the the Playdude the fake one in the show.  The real playboy that gets sold at liquor stores and such.

quote from msn article:
Marge Simpson has landed on the cover of Playboy's November issue, reports TMZ.
Yes, the blue-haired matriarch of Springfield has revealed a bit more of that yellow skin than we've ever seen before for an alluring pose that makes us feel, well, kind of disturbed.
We love Marge, but sexualizing her? That just seems wrong somehow. Then again, sexy cartoons are nothing new. Jessica Rabbit comes to mind.
Marge reportedly also poses in sexy cartoon lingerie in a three-page spread inside the magazine.
The choice of Marge was part of a larger effort on the magazine's part to reach an audience that's in their 20s, according to the Sun Times.



Ok, I get that but it just seems wrong to do it with Marge Simpson or any of the characters from Simpsons show because what Simpsons show is.  It has been a very family oriented show and sort of the all-american family we no longer see on TV.  We miss that and we need that.  And to take away the last remaining show that brings us reminders of family closeness without excess cheap drama seems like loss of family values.

I know we shouldn't be seeking family values from TV, but tv shows like simpsons CAN be a reminder of what we often forget.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091009/us_time/08599192939500

This article linked above agrees with me that Nobel Peace Prize is not what Obama needs right now.  What comes to my mind is less talk more action and I'm sure he has done actions but it's still too early to tell wether his actions truly will be beneficial and if it truly is for peace or merely to get reelected.  Giving someone peace prize simply because he shows up on TV a whole lot making speeches about peace does not seem valid in my opinion.  Let's focus on the issues he said.  Then's focus on the issue and leave the prize until he has proven himself not just end result but his intention and his dedication for peace.  If someone wins a Nobel Peace prize I expected it to go to someone who worked on bringing harmony and peace to domestic and international.  His focus has been financial and growth of our economy.  I want economy to grow but if that's what he's been accomplishing how does that relate to peace?  More money means more peace?  Then how come rich people still commit suicides?  Well that's a bit going off but you get my point.

It's amazing to some.  To me it's pretty cool and fun to watch.  A boy's recorded voice digitized and converted into signals for a machine to press keys on a piano.  By perfect sequence, the words spoken are being played back.

This truly is a comical find.  If you own a truck and some guys do, and some dykes.  You will quite happily be amused by nutsfortrucks.com  Don't let your truck roll looking like it's been castrated, like you by your wife.  Give it a nice set of balls to show off.

Yeah give it some balls.  Just cause you've been castrated doesn't mean your big truck has to be.

They also come in chrome.

I so..........................
can't wait!

I loved 8.10, but wasn't quite happy with display portion of 9.04.  It kept displaying funky invert boxes when I was dragging icons.  Hopefully with 9.10 that's all fixed and we can all sleep soundly.  I don't like to install beta OS at least not in full install.  I would do it in virtual machine to try it out but for full install I would wait for final release.  Thankfully it's only days away.  It's scheduled to be released this month of October.

Brinno Digital Peep Hole Viewer (has digital view screen)

I really should have invented this myself.  You look through the peepholes in your door to see who's at your door.  But his device makes it alot simpler.  You just press a button and person outside shows up on the device's screen.

Here's some info from a store site. http://www.boldtechnology.com.au/shop/catalog/Brinno-Digital-Peep-Hole-Viewer-p-16133.html

Yes, as always there IS a problem with windows.  As sure as Kanye West is a douche.

Unfortunately this is one of those "oh crap, this isn't good, this is serious" type of problem.

What you are seeing on the left is memory usage going up and up and up as the chkdsk is being used.  When I went to command prompt and ran the program chkdsk on one of my NTFS formatted drives, memory usage (blue line) gradually went up and fairly quickly until it reached maximum available and used up all my available RAM.  Also as you can see an alert shows up giving me choice to close the program.  And as soon as I close the program the blue line (memory usage) drops significantly back to where it started.

When a  program uses up significant amount of memory like this and often not release when program closes is called memory leak.  It's basically windows having the shitz.  And it hurts cause last night's dinner had too much Kimchi or maybe Jalapenos.  *OW it burns it burns~~~~*

This isn't an app just for IT people.  This is a very handy and important program that is part of Microsoft Windows and is vital to health of your drive data.  when drives get corrupted, you need to fix it.  How?  with Chkdsk.  But now the prob is the Chkdsk.  If you can't run Chkdsk, then you can't do a repair.

References:  According to info in this page http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itprogeneral/thread/a3cd974b-4758-44bb-b1c0-289ef813b2e6 the prob is for NTFS formatted drives.  But most drives these days will be formatted NTFS.

Why would I be talking about Latisse (women's beauty product that grows lashes)?

First for people who do not know what it is, let me explain.  It initially was a glaucoma medication that was found to cause growth of eye lashes and so it started being sold as a eye lash growth product which some people claim it can also grow hair on your head.  Sounds pretty darn good right?  Everything sounds good at first.  Then you wish you didn't join the taliban.  *cough* uh.. I mean.

Both men and women persue better looks and more power to impress.  Why?  Whom?  I can partially understand because the society believe in and judge people based on physical appearance and that can cause someone to have better success than others.  It is a fact, but not one I would want to promote.  No, I am not saying I'm ugly.  I wouldn't want to live without success.  I would want to be as successful as I always hoped.  I would want to pursue that dream.  And so I can understand why people would want to look good at workplace.  I can also see that it gives people self confidence.  And it makes them more attractive for approval by others.  But why is THAT so important?  Whatever happened to self belief and not caring what others think?  Yes my blog is funny and interesting damn it.

Latisse has side effects just like any other drug.  Yes it's a drug to help grow lashes, but there are down sides whcih includes, permanent eye color change, and eye lid pigment change.  It doesn't sound all that bad really compared to so many drugs out there but those still are side effects.  Is making yourself look better for OTHERS so important that you are willing to risk side effects that includes unwanted permanent changes to your skin?  Some may try to say "oh it's not to impress others, it's for me"... really?  Who really gets to see the make up on your face?  Who really gets to see the longer eye lashes you have?  Unless you are walking around with a mirror in your hand at all times and staring back at yourself and stumbling over other people, you are NOT doing it for yourself and you ARE trying to impress OTHERS who see your face.

Ladies, if you love yourself, shouldn't you love yourself at all times, longer eye lashes or not?  And if what's important is your self belief and confidence then the good practice will be walking out to the sunlight without any makeup on and letting your natural beauty shine.  From your inner and outer.

Come and give me water dessert.

So... I was at Venice Beach on Sunday and in Venice they had an annal festival going on.  I walked through the whole thing and I honestly believe it had to be 2 mile stretch.  It just kept going and going.  It had lots of fun things like live music, food, interesting people and average people alike enjoying themselves, rides and activities, and vendors marketing their stuff.  Below are some pics and if you want to see the full gallery...[link to photogallery to follow]

In case you are wondering why every pic looks like it's got heavenly glow,... I set the lighting on wrong setting by accident.

So Totyota was parked and I honestly have no idea what this really was all about.  I just passed on by.  Didn't see anyone being actively involved with it.  It was just there looking all white and red.