Matthew Allen Thiel

Terri Schiavo has died

2005-03-31T18:11:00.000-05:00

Thus ends her 15 years of suffering.

Terri Schiavo has died

2005-03-31T13:29:00.000-05:00

Thus ends her 15 years of suffering.

I'm still here

2005-03-26T12:19:00.000-05:00

No, I'm not dead.

Nearly 200 reality TV shows set for 2005

2004-12-26T00:57:00.000-05:00

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=596073

In other words, I will have extra time to watch reruns of DS9 or Larry
Sanders. Thanks, TV industry!

I am giving away five Gmail invites

2004-12-22T22:02:00.000-05:00

The first five (5) people who email me at 'matt.thiel (at) gmail.com' and request a Gmail invite will receive one.

This is NOT a joke.

P.S. I'd appreciate it if you would click on the ads on the left of the page ;)

Sheriffs investigate 11 year-old national security risk

2004-12-22T13:22:00.000-05:00

Zero Intelligence: Loudoun County sheriffs investigate 11 year-old national security risk

This is scary. This kid didn't bring any weapons into school.
I guess freedom of speech is really dead.

Your JC Penney receipt may list your credit card number

2004-12-16T23:42:00.000-05:00

I'm cleaning out my desk and I found a receipt from JC Penney from when
I bought my coat. It listed my entire Credit Card number!
Good thing I have my paper shredder.

(Does JC Penney WANT their customers' credit card numbers to be stolen???)

Apprentice 3 Hour Finale

2004-12-16T22:28:00.000-05:00

Thank you, NBC, for giving me an excuse not to watch your network. Now I have the time to do other things because you fill up the airwarves (or cable waves) with crap.

Zero Intelligence: Self defense forbidden at Calcasieu

2004-12-16T15:41:00.000-05:00

Zero Intelligence: Self defense forbidden at Calcasieu

Yet another 'kid who defends himself gets suspended' story.

If an adult male is attacked for no reason and then fights back against his agressor, does he get arrested, too?

Prescription medication gets girl suspended for the school year

2004-12-09T23:03:00.000-05:00

Zero Intelligence: Prescription medication gets girl suspended for the school year

Today's 'Kid gets suspended for having prescription medicine' story brought to you from Mustang, Oklahoma.

'The Librarian'

2004-12-06T18:18:00.000-05:00

So last night the TV is on TNT and they are showing 'The Librarian'.
Based on the commercials, it could have been a fun adventure flick,
but it was pretty bad.
And why is Bob Newhart is this movie????
(Still, it was better than 'L.I.E.', but that's not saying much)

My Lexar Sport USB drive died today

2004-11-30T21:32:00.000-05:00

Last night it was working fine. Today I put it in and get a message saying 'do you want to format?' WTF?????
At least I made a backup of my data last night. Whew!

(Repeat, it was a drive from the LEXAR corporation. Keep that company name in mind when you are buying something)

College Football Playoff Proposals

2004-11-28T13:17:00.000-05:00

Sports Fans of America Association College Football Playoff Proposals

Here is a list of 6 proposals for a college football playoff system.

STUDIOS SUE PIXAR, DEMAND BAD MOVIE

2004-11-20T13:58:00.000-05:00

Dateline: Hollywood: "STUDIOS SUE PIXAR, DEMAND BAD MOVIE"

Wait a minute, I thought that marketing was the driving force in how successful a movie is, not the quality of the movie itself...

A idiot story, told by the idiot

2004-11-15T15:29:00.000-05:00

This tale of stupidity is brought to you by something that I did.
A Certificate of Deposit of mine had matured at a large national bank
(think of people inquiring about the contents of your wallet). Before
I could call the bank up and properly close the account, I needed to
have the account number (I was about a hundred miles from the forms
which contained my account number). So I went to the bank's Web site
and plugged in my username (let's call it "QWERTY") and password...and
got an error message saying that my username or password were invalid.
I tried again, same error message. I typed "QWERTY" in again and
clicked on the "Forget Password?" link, and I get another error
message. I assumed they were having computer problems at their end,
but then I remembered that I changed my password when I logged in a
few days earlier. But I made sure I was using my new password to log
in, so I tried to use my old password. Nothing.
A scary thought then occurred to me: was the "Change Password" page a
fake? Did I inadvertently give somebody my bank password? Did somebody
log into my account and change my password, so I couldn't get back in?
Did this person clean out all my savings there?
I called the bank's tech support and told them I could not log into my
bank account. I told him my username was "QWERTY" the username , and
he said he couldn't find it...but then he said there is an account in
my name, and it was called "ASDFGH".
I realized what happened: I was using the wrong username! "ASDFGH" was
my account name for this bank, "QWERTY" is my username for my local
bank!
I apologized, hung up and tried again. Sure enough, I was able to log
in using "ASDFGH". I called my bank (got a different person, whew!)
and was able to close out my account.
I actually have my username and password written down; if I had looked
at that beforehand, you would not be reading this.

Boilers lose again

2004-11-07T01:26:00.000-05:00

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!
How can you go 0-4 after going 5-0? How????

Anti-Spyware Vendor Partners with Spyware Company?

2004-11-02T18:10:00.000-05:00

Slashdot | Anti-Spyware Vendor Partners with Spyware Company?

Yet another example of "Sleeping with the enemy"...

Cobra Commander for President

2004-11-01T17:22:00.000-05:00

Something Awful

I predict he'll get more votes than Nader.

GTA - training game for murderers?

2004-11-01T17:03:00.000-05:00

NewsFromRussia.Com GTA - training game for murderers?

Here's another 'Violent Video Games Turns Kids Into Killers" article. In my opinion, watching Purdue lose their third game in a row is more likely to drive people to violent acts.

Revenge of the Sith Teaser poster

2004-10-28T20:29:00.000-05:00

Latino Review

All I have to say is this, were you guys even TRYING?

Red Sox Champions at Long, Long Last

2004-10-28T06:56:00.000-05:00

Yahoo! News - Red Sox Champions at Long, Long Last

The Curse of the Bambino is broken. The curse of the billy goat lives on...

Ashlee Simpson Jig

2004-10-25T09:44:00.000-05:00

ASHLEE SIMPSON JIG

Personally, I'm waiting for Jay Leno, David Letterman, Conan O'Brien, Jon Stewart, Roe Conn, and the next episode of SNL to make their own comments about this incident.

Ashlee Simpson lip sync on SNL

2004-10-24T17:16:00.000-05:00

Home Theater Forum - Simpson lip sync on SNL

A classic "D'oh" moment. Still, this won't cause as much controversy, especially comapred to Sinead O'Connor (at least Sinead actually finished her song!)

Purdue Loses to Michigan

2004-10-23T23:38:00.000-05:00

For the second week in a row, a Purdue fumble sealed a Purdue loss. Pathetic...

Purdue Accounts Broken Into

2004-10-21T14:35:00.000-05:00

I got an email today saying that Purdue's computers were hacked into
and passwords to many student accounts were stolen. The University
has informed us we should change our passwords ASAP (I already did).
This is scary stuff, I wonder how the hackers were able to get in.