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They said on the news the other day that www.freeipods.com works, and that it's not a scam. Apparently you go on there, and they make so much money from pushing people into salespitches on their sites, that they can give out free $400 20G iPods to customers. Again, it sounds 100% like a scam, but I saw it on the news, and the newsman said he already got his iPod; and if there's one thing we learned in this past year, it's that the newspeople don't lie or exaggerate in any way. So click here and fill out surveys or whatever, and see if they give you an iPod.
Nick Bushman preMTC; Scott&MaryAnn's visit
Friday, December 31, 2004
Polygamist Diabetic Christmas Tsunami
Tuesday, December 28, 2004
On the way back from Christmas, I swear we saw some polygamists. People always ask me about the polygamists in Utah, and I always have to say I've never actually seen one. Well, on the shuttle to long-term parking, there was a family of six children with handmade clothes--and the mother was wearing a bonnet! And their bone structure wasn't as ambiguous as the average 2004 person, and neither parent was wearing a ring. In terms of the bone structure, they didn't look Danish or English, which I believe most polygamists were. Their faces were too strong and symmetrical, implying to me that they must have been Dutch Aamish or something. But we're in Utah. Plus, but as far as I know, the Mennonite and Amish cultures that don't wear wedding rings wear beards. This man had neither. I guess in San Francisco I would have seen the same thing and said, "Oh, it's just a single mother of six kids who's strayed from the ghetto to give her brother a tour of this great city." But it's not like that. Bethany says I'm still stretching too far in my assumptions. In the end, the man I saw only had one woman with him, so my bet is he's a member of that religion but doesn't have more than one wife, so what's the big deal? I always laugh that polygamy is 1,000,000 times more common outside of Utah than inside, it's just anywhere else they don't get married. So you can have a wife and two girlfriends as long as you don't commit to more than one of them. Whatevah.
And was it just me, or did the rest of you hear about this tsunami in advance? By that I mean there were perpetual references in my immediate memory to a tsunami which was probably going to obliterate some coast somwhere. It wasn't just the synaptic burst we call deja vu. It was that I had heard multiple statements about how such was going to happen in the next few weeks over the last few weeks. Maybe I'm just psychic, but when I heard about it, my first thought was "oh yeah, that happened a few days ago, didn't it?" Tell me if you knew about this tsunami.
Second, Christmas was great. My mother bought us plane tickets to Kauai. Pictures of all the events and many of the gifts are in our photo gallery.
Bethany doesn't have diabetes. We're still not sure about me.
Mark my words, the stock market is about to have a bad quarter. So get out now. Interest rates will be going up, so take advantage of that. Or precious metals. But don't you dare not have a Roth IRA.
Third, Al Quaeda is less harmful to the world than the ACLU. Discuss.
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Church Sign
Friday, December 18, 2004
Colin&Bethany Radio 2.0 is up
Wednesday, December 16, 2004
To your left is a link for Colin&Bethany Radio, which we often refer to as KCNB. It is a fascinating example of evolving technology and why the RIAA/MPAA hates the internet. On the front, it's a simple radio station--but it evolves to fit your tastes. So every time you skip a song, it will remember that you skipped that song and never play it again. Then it will compare you statistically and nonjudgmentally to other people in the nation who skipped that song, becoming more and more accurate as to the songs it plays for you. All this is legal because the broadcaster has a radio station license. Right now KCNB is broadcasting solely from CDs we own which the station has a license for, but with the 300ish CDs we have and the zillions they have, that's a pretty good selection. Check it out.
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Diabetes DoSeeDo
Friday, December 3, 2004
So as of last week, Colin doesn't have diabetes and Bethany does. Don't ask. Naw, really, I (Colin) went in to see a new doctor, and he said "You have Type 1 Diabetes? There's nothing in your record that would indicate that." What? After 10 years of sticking myself with a needle 8 times a day, apparently either it all went away or I never had it in the first place. In any case, I apparently have some magical blood-sugar issue that is hormonal and not related to my pancreas or liver. So basically he gave me a pill and it's been magic. At the same time, Bethany failed her first gestational diabetes test. So the real answer is, both of us kinda' have diabetes, but neither of us are quite sure yet.
While we're at it, my newest company, sharpenglish.com, which I started 3 months ago, now has 6,000 students and 125 teachers. Again, that's an oversimplification, but it sounds better that way (colinandbethany.com is still more popular than sharpenglish.com.) Speaking of colinandbethany.com's popularity, I am now down to being only the 3rd most prolific poster on my own message boards! And 2 of the top 4 are across the world (Thailand and Finland.)
And if you haven't checked it out yet, check out colinandbethany radio to the left!
Anyway you count it, with no diabetes, the Christmas season, a new house, a healthily unborn baby, and a confusingly perfect relationship, our lives are pretty good right now...
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