Should I be frightened? I am now the number one listing when someone searches Google for my name. Now people from my past, people from my present, and any random person will come across this site when they “Google” me. I am not quite sure how I feel about that. I guess it is a natural effect of blogging and being in their index. Still, I am now officially revealed to indices of many different search engines. I now find myself thinking back over everything I have blogged and archived here, fretting that there are some damning statements buried deep in my archives like landmines, waiting to scuttle my chances for some future professional relationship. If you found me through Google, welcome. If you find something you don’t like in my archives, sorry. If you are someone from deep in my past, feel free to contact me. Just watch out for landmines.
https://ammonbrown.com/2003/07/oh-silly-me/
Oh, silly me… Christine and I celebrated our 2 year anniversary last weekend, too. So pay up all you naysayers who said she would not be able to tolerate me for more than 2 years! We went and saw Stomp and then got Tibetan food, one of her favorites. She bought me the Band of Brothers DVD set and a Homer Simpson Rubik’s Head. I gave her a Sony Ericsson P800, a sweet little device. We are still very much in love, thank you very much.
https://ammonbrown.com/2003/07/slacker-well-votes-are-counted-and/
SLACKER Well the votes are counted and recounted, the polls are closed, and the results are in! In a landslide victory, “Ammon Please Update Your Blog” beat “Ammon Please Die” by one vote to zero! Thanks, Jared!. Quick update: It is raining in NYC, my sisters came to visit for a little while this week, and I found a vaccine for Polio. It was under the couch cushions. It was cool to see my sisters for a spell, even though they were here midweek and I was at work most of the time. They rock.
OK, today’s rave will be about Google, a company about which I have strong feelings. I love Google. They provide some excellent search results, I jump from there all the time when I need to know absolutely anything. The size of their index is impressive, and the relevance of their results is good enough. Only good enough because plenty of dirtbags have figured out how to get to the top with crap, but that is another rant. Google constantly combats the ‘spammers’ with new tweaks but they cannot win them all. I use Google’s toolbar as well, and find it to be an indispensable tool. I recently got the new version with some cool new features. But Ammon, you say, whay are you not linking to them? If you can’t find Google, get off my blog.
Update: I just did a vanity search, and Google has finally updated their index! I am now the second site listed when you search for Ammon Brown! Yay, me. See, You still gotta love them!
https://ammonbrown.com/2003/06/welts-rain-and-disappointments/
Welts, rain, and disappointments. Well, paintball turned out to be a mixed bag. All of us there had a blast slogging through the mud and shooting each other without mercy. I tell you, there is nothing like laying seige to a castle full of 14 year olds with guns. Makes you feel so manly. I escaped paintball with only one welt, which is rather upsetting. Our opponents seem to have lousy aim. Our whitewater rafting adventure was neither whitewater nor an adventure. Due to the high water they would not take us down the challenging portions of the river, so we floated down flat water for two hours and chatted with our guide. Kind of boring. All said and done, the weather was not our friend. I do not mind the rain itself, but it caused too many disruptions. A lot of people cancelled, the rafting trip was changed around, and driving there and back was not as easy as I would have hoped. And I was very disappointed with the turnout. This is not to say that I am upset with any one person in particular. All 6-7 people who cancelled had valid cop outs. It is more along the lines that I am annoyed in general that things have a tendency to work out this way. Not a big deal, since all deposits were refundable and we still had a blast in our small numbers. Oh, and a huge round of applause for Albert’s friend Eric and his crew for making up the difference when we needed number and for providing the extra firepower we needed. Thanks, guys (and you too, Anne) for showing up and sticking it out through the puddles. In conclusion, I would say that while it would have been nice to have more people there, we all had a blast regardless. For those of you who cancelled, try to make it next time. So I can shoot you twice as much! It will happen again later this summer on a larger scale, so stay tuned!
https://ammonbrown.com/2003/06/fo-shizzle-dizzle-for-those-of-you/
Fo’ Shizzle, Dizzle! For those of you learning to speak English but would rather read my blog in Shizzle (Snoop Dogg’s native tongue), May I present my site translated into Shizzle… Courtesy of the Shizzolator at AskSnoop.com. Try it, you like it.
https://ammonbrown.com/2003/06/ok-apologies-for-not-posting-in-while/
OK, apologies for A: Not posting in a while and B: Posting twice in rapid succession. If you did not read my last post, you need to do so, it is important. Christine and I went to Cornell this weekend to check the place out, since she will be going to Law School there and all. Ithaca is a beautiuful town. One might say Ithaca is gorges. The campus is huge, spanning more than 700 acres. The town itself seemed to be populated primarily by hippies and gays, but that was due to the lack of demographic diluting Ivy Leaguers and the fact that it is pride month, the time to rise up and march! The campus is incredible, I just can’t say enough about it. Because Christine will be going to law school there for three years, I am considering making a run at their Business School next year. That will have us both graduating at the same time. In the interim, I can’t leave my job when things are going so well, and she cannot pass up the opportunity to go to Cornell. So we will be a commuting couple, restricted to seeing each other on weekends and holidays. Not a pleasant prospect, so this is why I want to have the option to go to Cornell for business school. Not that I will, especially if Christine can transfet to an NYC school, but I want the option. To this end, I have signed up to take an intensive GMAT prep course at Manhattan GMAT. My first class was last night, and it looks to be intense. The instructor is on break from Harvard Business School, and I would bet she is somewhat intelligent. Anyhoo, I am looking forward to studying up for this thing over the next nine weeks. Phew! Now y’all are up to date!
https://ammonbrown.com/2003/06/maybe-it-is-your-animal-magnetism-and/
“Maybe it is your animal magnetism” And with those words, Jared Vallejo was launched into stardom. My TV popped itself on this morning at the usual 7 AM, and what should I see, not 15 minutes into SportsCenter? Why none other than Jared Vallejo in a Miller Lite commercial! Expect sales of Miller Lite to skyrocket in the next few weeks. For those of you wondering which central plot-driving character he is, you will see the side of his face for about three seconds after his friend runs away from a charging bull. I thought the entire commercial made very little sense and the plot was convoluted and choppy, and the acting was terrible. Then, 27 seconds into the film, a stunning young actor delivered the climactic line, tying the whole story together in a wry twist that brought me quivering to my knees, both overwhelmed by the dramatic delivery and awed by the stunning conclusion of the film. Oh, Jared, you saved this potential disaster from itself, and elevated beer advertising to a fine art form! Bravo, Jared, Bravo! FYI, it is not posted online yet, but I will link to it when it is. Cheerio, pip pip!
https://ammonbrown.com/2003/06/and-now-just-to-piss-off-peta-courtesy/
And now, just to piss off PETA, courtesy of AdRants…
https://ammonbrown.com/2003/06/go-mariners-christine-and-i-had-chance/
Go, Mariners! Christine and I had a chance to see a doubleheader today, the mariners against the Mets. Shea Stadium is a nice place, an even nicer place when we get to watch the Mariners lay a spanking on the Mets there two games in a row! I tell you what, it si a good time to be a baseball fan. Nice day, two games, hot dogs, and wins! Hooray! Other good news to report… Christine received an acceptance offer to Cornell law school. She now has an opportunity to go to a top ranked, Ivy league school, an opportunity that cannot be passed up. Ithaca is fairly close to NYC, so we will have to figure out how we are going to balance her school and my job. I like my job a lot, it offers great opportunity for me, and the economy sucks. So we will have to make some decisions in the next few months. But no matter, I am sure we’ll be fine, just fine. More to come!
https://ammonbrown.com/2003/06/wow-few-new-fun-things-to-report-my/
Wow, a few new fun things to report! My friend Brad insisted that I sign up for Friendster, so I did so. It is sort of a six degrees of separation crossed with a dating site. And no, I am not there to get a date, I am there to facilitate others. It is pretty cool. If you know me, and you would not be here if you don’t (unless you have nothing but time to waste), you should sign up here. I am curious to see how my life in intertwined with others. I have also linked my Amazon Wish List from the left sidebar. I don’t want anything from there, but I figured I’d link it anyway. The final tidbit I have for you all is that Paintball and Whitewater rafting has changed slightly, so check the site for updates. For those of you who have already signed up, there will be more updates to come.