<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss xmlns:atom='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' version='2.0'><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2662877381723388431</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 16:16:13 +0000</lastBuildDate><title>Ready to laugh in 3.. 2.. 1..</title><description/><link>http://www.ericlitvak.com/</link><managingEditor>elitvak</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>32</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2662877381723388431.post-7967857902373122485</guid><pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 07:25:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-01-27T02:37:12.268-05:00</atom:updated><title>Music Update</title><description>Heard this a long time ago.. glad I heard it again tonight!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BAM!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Safri Duo Feat. Ayla - Sunrise&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And for S&amp;Gs, click on the INFO button (located on the thumbnail picture displayed during this song) to check out the expansive lyrics :P</description><link>http://www.ericlitvak.com/2008/01/music-update_27.html</link><author>elitvak</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2662877381723388431.post-5883965727396017309</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 02:50:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-01-24T22:08:19.849-05:00</atom:updated><title>Music Update</title><description>One quick song to add here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dj Gollum (featuring Felixx) - Fairytale Gone Bad&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's a song about a guy that is fed UP with his girlfriend/wife/whathaveyou and it's his 'peace-out, bitch' song.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think the original version of this song is kinda countryish.  Good luck listening to it though.</description><link>http://www.ericlitvak.com/2008/01/music-update.html</link><author>elitvak</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2662877381723388431.post-6292591810116518318</guid><pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2007 08:39:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-12-26T03:42:04.388-05:00</atom:updated><title>Music Update (finally)</title><description>I've added the following songs to my tracklist:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Anzej Dezan&lt;/span&gt; - Mr. Nobody&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Kate Ryan&lt;/span&gt; - Voyage Voyage Remix&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Venice Beat Ft. Tess Timony&lt;/span&gt; - In The Year 2525&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Magnus Carlsson&lt;/span&gt; - Live Forever&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Taco&lt;/span&gt; - Puttin' on the Ritz&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All are great to listen to - I suggest you all follow along with the lyrics I provide via the INFO button on each thumbnail pic for each song :-&gt;</description><link>http://www.ericlitvak.com/2007/12/music-update.html</link><author>elitvak</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2662877381723388431.post-6729507361861766823</guid><pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:01:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-11-08T13:10:40.083-05:00</atom:updated><title>Force a smile here!</title><description>I'm a QAA - Quality Assurance Analyst.  My job is to design, create, execute and automate tests using nothing but my own CPU and the two in my intel core 2 duo.  If tests pass, I let the business know "Hey - we tested the stuff you told the developers to create, and it works flawlessly - go ahead and make it avaiable for our customers to use."  If tests do not pass, I need to determine whether or not the failure was a result of a flaw in the test, or if it is inherent to the actual code.  If it's in the test, then it's my responsibility to fix it and re-run.  If it's in the code, I need to be all like, "Yo!  Dev guys!  Check out this notness!" and after a while they'll tell me "Okay we think we've fixed it - test it out" and it's a rinse &amp; repeat business.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, the software is giant and tests are written on a per-module level.  In essence, breaking up a big piece of ace into smaller kings and queens.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, there is a failure occuring on me even logging in!!  It's an "environment" issue, which is completely separate from the code.  So I can't even begin to see whether or not the code works.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I feel so unproductive when my entire day consists of logging in.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In other news, have you all read the article about the prostitute who was raped?  When she went to court, the judge (female judge mind you) dropped the offense from "rape" to "theft of services":&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;She'd been doing it a few months when, on Sept. 20, she arranged to have protected sex with a man and his friend for $250. But when she showed up, the man pulled a gun and forced her to have unprotected sex with him and three other men.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hero? or a Zero?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.philly.com/dailynews/local/columnists/20071107_Jill_Porter___Hooker_Judge_is_not_denied__but_justice_is______.html"&gt;Read about it, and learn!&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://www.ericlitvak.com/2007/11/force-smile-here.html</link><author>elitvak</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2662877381723388431.post-6800339747029966726</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:21:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-04-30T15:29:01.885-05:00</atom:updated><title>Absolutely Ridiculous "Acapella Vocal Techno" Remix</title><description>So there's a DDR (&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_dance_revolution"&gt;Dance Dance Revolution&lt;/a&gt;) song called DXY.  It's all right, nothing fancy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is a link to it.  Please listen to this song in its entirety (only 1 minutes 44 seconds in length):  &lt;a href="http://www.ericlitvak.com/music/DXY.mp3"&gt;DXY Original&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's technoish right?  Right.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now here is an "acapella vocal remix" made of it.  Please make sure to listen to the whole song in its entirety (also 1 minutes 44 seconds in length).  Wow: &lt;a href="http://www.ericlitvak.com/music/DXYremix.mp3"&gt;DXY "Acapella Vocal Remix"&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://www.ericlitvak.com/2007/04/absolutely-ridiculous-vocal-techno.html</link><author>elitvak</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2662877381723388431.post-3312063220578833335</guid><pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:12:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-04-25T10:14:05.344-05:00</atom:updated><title>Music Update!</title><description>I've added the following songs to my tracklist:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gabry Ponte - Point of No Return&lt;br /&gt;Ritmo Caliente - Terra Negra &amp; Alicia Stefano&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It took me a good 2 weeks to find the Gabry Ponte tune.  I heard it on an online radio station and immediately set to work.</description><link>http://www.ericlitvak.com/2007/04/music-update.html</link><author>elitvak</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2662877381723388431.post-3385010239417877378</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:53:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-03-30T14:55:54.439-05:00</atom:updated><title>Music Update!</title><description>I've added the following songs to my tracklist:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Luca ft. Deejay Jay - Bachi Bachi 2005&lt;br /&gt;Evan - Nobody Else Like You&lt;br /&gt;D. Meo - Tienimi Stretto&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm trying to find a certain remix of the Evan - Nobody Else Like You song... so if you know where to find it, please leave me a comment!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This version isn't horrible but it's a bit too slow for my liking.. the other one is more of a techno remix!</description><link>http://www.ericlitvak.com/2007/03/music-update_30.html</link><author>elitvak</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2662877381723388431.post-2821894760497944630</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2007 18:27:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-03-29T13:41:25.386-05:00</atom:updated><title>Music Update!</title><description>I've added the following songs to my tracklist:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Danny Saucedo - Tokyo&lt;br /&gt;Borat (Korki Buchek) - Bing Bang song&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For your listening and reading pleasures, I have also written the lyrics to the Bing Bang song found here: &lt;a href="http://www.ericlitvak.com/BingBang.txt" target="_blank"&gt;Click for Lyrics&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://www.ericlitvak.com/2007/03/music-update_29.html</link><author>elitvak</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2662877381723388431.post-2115910981712963415</guid><pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2007 18:12:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-03-09T13:21:08.209-05:00</atom:updated><title>Music Update!</title><description>I've added the following songs to my tracklist:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Scooter - How Much Is The Fish&lt;br /&gt;Paul Oakenfold - Starry Eyed Surprise&lt;br /&gt;Erotic - Help Me Dr. Dick&lt;br /&gt;Rob Dougan - Clubbed to Death&lt;br /&gt;Fastball - The Way&lt;br /&gt;Dirty Vegas - Days Go By&lt;br /&gt;Ace of Base - Beautiful Life&lt;br /&gt;Amber - Sexual (Li Da Di)&lt;br /&gt;Coolio - Gangsta's Paradise&lt;br /&gt;Ivanov - Les Nuits Sans Soleil&lt;br /&gt;White Town - Your Woman&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is actually two updates smashed together, but I just decided to include them here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Funny thing about How Much Is The Fish... if you listen very closely, you will hear that this song is in fact about Jews.  And transforming them.</description><link>http://www.ericlitvak.com/2007/03/music-update.html</link><author>elitvak</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2662877381723388431.post-1888983506152685368</guid><pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2007 13:10:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-03-06T09:01:34.607-05:00</atom:updated><title>World of Warcrack!</title><description>Ah!  I just dinged 65 yesterday fighting some trash in the Bone Wastes near Auchindoun.  Chances of spelling that last word right.. I'd say 60%.  Let me check...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yup!  Not bad!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.ericlitvak.com/uploaded_images/Auchindoun1-783224.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://www.ericlitvak.com/uploaded_images/Auchindoun1-769263.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:78%;" &gt;Here's a little glimpse of Auchindoun&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Anyways, the name of the zone that Auchindoun is located in is called Terokkar Forest:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://ic3.deviantart.com/fs15/f/2007/050/3/a/WoW__Terokkar_Forest_by_Astrophen.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://ic3.deviantart.com/fs15/f/2007/050/3/a/WoW__Terokkar_Forest_by_Astrophen.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:78%;" &gt;Such a calm forest&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Yes yes... it's a great place for leveling.  Mobs are dense, and almost all of them are required for one quest or another!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is a final overview glimpse of Terokkar, where Auchindoun is clearly visible:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.ericlitvak.com/uploaded_images/Tero-754051.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://www.ericlitvak.com/uploaded_images/Tero-737436.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Map overview&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;So there you have it!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am currently 25% into level 65 and should hit 66 hopefully before my trip to Puerto Vallarta next week!  My goal is to burn through my rested experience bonus by then, so that while I'm gone in PV, it can re-accumulate.</description><link>http://www.ericlitvak.com/2007/03/world-of-warcrack.html</link><author>elitvak</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2662877381723388431.post-6412115971580903746</guid><pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2007 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-03-05T10:55:30.426-05:00</atom:updated><title>Very Tiring Gabcast - Sleep Inducing!</title><description>&lt;object codebase='http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0' height='76' width='150' classid='clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000'&gt;&lt;param value='http://www.gabcast.com/mp3play/mp3player.swf?file=http://www.gabcast.com/casts/7772/episodes/1172912047.mp3&amp;amp;config=http://www.gabcast.com/mp3play/config.php?ini=mini.0.l' name='movie'&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param value='transparent' name='wmode'&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param value='always' name='allowScriptAccess'&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed pluginspage='http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' name='mp3player' height='76' width='150' wmode='transparent' allowScriptAccess='always' src='http://www.gabcast.com/mp3play/mp3player.swf?file=http://www.gabcast.com/casts/7772/episodes/1172912047.mp3&amp;amp;config=http://www.gabcast.com/mp3play/config.php?ini=mini.0.l'&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;</description><link>http://www.ericlitvak.com/2007/03/ready-to-laugh-in-3-2-1-13.html</link><author>elitvak</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2662877381723388431.post-6451943524822871849</guid><pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2007 18:15:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-03-02T13:45:30.292-05:00</atom:updated><title>The Woes Of Ohio Soccer-Mom-Minivan-Drivers</title><description>&lt;object codebase='http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0' height='76' width='150' classid='clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000'&gt;&lt;param value='http://www.gabcast.com/mp3play/mp3player.swf?file=http://www.gabcast.com/casts/7772/episodes/1172859027.mp3&amp;amp;config=http://www.gabcast.com/mp3play/config.php?ini=mini.0.l' name='movie'&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param value='transparent' name='wmode'&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param value='always' name='allowScriptAccess'&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed pluginspage='http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' name='mp3player' height='76' width='150' wmode='transparent' allowScriptAccess='always' src='http://www.gabcast.com/mp3play/mp3player.swf?file=http://www.gabcast.com/casts/7772/episodes/1172859027.mp3&amp;amp;config=http://www.gabcast.com/mp3play/config.php?ini=mini.0.l'&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;</description><link>http://www.ericlitvak.com/2007/03/ready-to-laugh-in-3-2-1-12.html</link><author>elitvak</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2662877381723388431.post-7616736817111953407</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2007 21:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-02-28T16:04:29.251-05:00</atom:updated><title>Bladder Almost Exploded!</title><description>I just pissed for 71 seconds straight.  Let's put it this way.  I had to pee SO BADLY, that as I was walking to the bathroom, I had a strange stagger and limp of sorts.  I had to walk slower so I wouldn't look odd.  Even then it was difficult.  I knew it would be a huge relief, but I felt like timing it for S&amp;G.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;71 seconds!  Needless to say, I'm about half the weight I was 5 minutes ago.</description><link>http://www.ericlitvak.com/2007/02/bladder-almost-exploded.html</link><author>elitvak</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2662877381723388431.post-4763331524721657394</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2007 20:50:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-02-28T15:57:36.201-05:00</atom:updated><title>Politically Incorrect</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.engrish.com/image/engrish/special-for-deformed.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://www.engrish.com/image/engrish/special-for-deformed.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Political Correctness - a term used to describe language or behavior which is intended, or said to be intended, to provide a minimum of offense, particularly to racial, cultural, or other identity groups.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Example: "Jamal was offended by me calling him a perverted gay fairy black boy all stung out on crack.  The politically correct thing to say would be that Jamal is leading an acceptable alternative lifestyle as an African-American homosexual who has the disease of drug addiction." - www.urbandictionary.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.ericlitvak.com/2007/02/political-correctness-term-used-to.html</link><author>elitvak</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2662877381723388431.post-8687372937867154161</guid><pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:39:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-02-27T10:45:37.479-05:00</atom:updated><title>Cheburashka Smokes Up</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://lads.myspace.com/videos/vplayer.swf" flashvars="m=2011508037&amp;type=video" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="321" width="400"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:78%;" &gt;Straight off my Myspace&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.ericlitvak.com/2007/02/test.html</link><author>elitvak</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2662877381723388431.post-2237006409647587907</guid><pubDate>Mon, 26 Feb 2007 21:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-02-26T16:01:17.896-05:00</atom:updated><title>Mud-Filled Paradise Engrish</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.engrish.com/image/engrish/mud-filled-paradise.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://www.engrish.com/image/engrish/mud-filled-paradise.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:78%;" &gt;Wow, what a great spa.  I always wanted to enter right into hell.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.ericlitvak.com/2007/02/mud-filled-paradise-engrish.html</link><author>elitvak</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2662877381723388431.post-4964209714581964385</guid><pubDate>Mon, 26 Feb 2007 20:09:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-02-26T15:43:46.826-05:00</atom:updated><title>BlueMountain.com Retardedness</title><description>Ok... So I got this great idea to send my girlfriend a pleasant little e-card from my friends over at BlueMountain.com.  I found this cute teddy bear one that asks "What do you feed teddy bears?"  And then you click and it shows a big teddy bear hugging a smiley face he undoubtedly stole from the Wal-Mart dropping prices ad campaign and he says "Nothing!  I'm already stuffed!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://ak.imgag.com/imgag/product/full/ap/3043372/graphic3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 231px;" src="http://ak.imgag.com/imgag/product/full/ap/3043372/graphic3.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Exhibit A: Teddy Bear with Smiley&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Smiley.svg/180px-Smiley.svg.png"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 169px; height: 169px;" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Smiley.svg/180px-Smiley.svg.png" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Exhibit B: Official Walmart Smiley&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;I decided to personalize the card with some of my own verbages and clicked send!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;For the security of our users and their recipients, we do not allow URLs to be sent. Please remove the URL from the message field and try again.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Strange.  I don't remember adding any URLs to my message field.  I go back and look... nope.  Nothing there.  Just some good old fashioned humor of mine.  I click send.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;For the security of our users and their recipients, we do not allow URLs to be sent. Please remove the URL from the message field and try again.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now I'm like "Ok.  Hooker of a website, wtf?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I go back and look.  Ah-Ha!  At the very bottom of my email lay the culprit, disguised in a shroud of cuteness!  My last word in the email was "Чмок", which in Russian means "Kiss".  Maybe somehow bluemountain converted the russian characters into some type of URL object?  I deleted the word and replaced it with the transliteration of it, "Chmok".  Clicked done.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;For the security of our users and their recipients, we do not allow URLs to be sent. Please remove the URL from the message field and try again.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whores!  I go back and take a look.  Where the hell is this mysterious URL?  Ok, I used a freaking smiley face like :) once near the end.  Maybe it sees that as some URL character somehow.  I delete it and resubmit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;For the security of our users and their recipients, we do not allow URLs to be sent. Please remove the URL from the message field and try again.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You Jew-bastard website you! (I'm Jewish by the way, so it's ok to use Jew negatively, kinda like when black people call each other ni**ers and get away with it.  I tried that once in 6th grade.  Did not go down very well)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyways so what the shit?  Now bluemountain is messing with me for sure.  I take a closer look and see that I have another form of a smiley face, ^_^, once near the top.  Ah, okay.  Simple enough.  Delete, Submit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;For the security of our users and their recipients, we do not allow URLs to be sent. Please remove the URL from the message field and try again.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;RRRRrrrrrrrgggh......... I'm like OK time to take it to the house.  I cut the entire message out and click Preview.  No error box!  Ok so I've confirmed that it isn't my browser inserting BS invisible URLs into the message box.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I go back and paste the whole email into the field, but then I cut the second half of it out and resubmit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;For the security of our users and their recipients, we do not allow URLs to be sent. Please remove the URL from the message field and try again.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ok... so it's in the first half.  I go back and look.  I look closely.. what is so URLish (yeah, that's the adjective form of URL) about the first half of the message?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It starts innocently with "awwwwwww." and the second line begins "I am stuffed with yo.." wait a second.  You don't think some idiot in bluemountain decided that anything that is three w's followed by a period, such as awww. could be mistaken as a URL?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I deleted the period from awwwww., clicked resubmit, and realized that yes, yes they do hire paranoid retards to work for bluemountain.com.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why did it have to be the VERY FIRST WORD though!  I always go down up!</description><link>http://www.ericlitvak.com/2007/02/bluemountaincom-retardedness.html</link><author>elitvak</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2662877381723388431.post-1443637521951218101</guid><pubDate>Sat, 24 Feb 2007 03:52:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-02-26T15:04:04.877-05:00</atom:updated><title>En Route To Kan Zaman With Friends</title><description>&lt;object codebase='http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0' height='76' width='150' classid='clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000'&gt;&lt;param value='http://www.gabcast.com/mp3play/mp3player.swf?file=http://www.gabcast.com/casts/7772/episodes/1172288846.mp3&amp;amp;config=http://www.gabcast.com/mp3play/config.php?ini=mini.0.l' name='movie'&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param value='transparent' name='wmode'&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param value='always' name='allowScriptAccess'&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed pluginspage='http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' name='mp3player' height='76' width='150' wmode='transparent' allowScriptAccess='always' src='http://www.gabcast.com/mp3play/mp3player.swf?file=http://www.gabcast.com/casts/7772/episodes/1172288846.mp3&amp;amp;config=http://www.gabcast.com/mp3play/config.php?ini=mini.0.l'&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;</description><link>http://www.ericlitvak.com/2007/02/ready-to-laugh-in-3-2-1-11.html</link><author>elitvak</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2662877381723388431.post-2674841090551008326</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2007 20:09:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-02-23T15:10:21.491-05:00</atom:updated><title>Ridiculous Japanese Snoopy Apparel</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.engrish.com/image/engrish/attorney-snoopy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://www.engrish.com/image/engrish/attorney-snoopy.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;What!  Are you kidding me?  What the hell is this shirt trying to say!?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.ericlitvak.com/2007/02/ridiculous-japanese-snoopy-apparel.html</link><author>elitvak</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2662877381723388431.post-4887228750671262914</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:35:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-02-23T15:08:48.325-05:00</atom:updated><title></title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 264px; height: 264px;" src="http://thumbs.photo.net/photo/1873212-sm.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Rowr..&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.ericlitvak.com/2007/02/rowr.html</link><author>elitvak</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2662877381723388431.post-3056008828622047813</guid><pubDate>Thu, 22 Feb 2007 20:22:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-02-22T15:25:05.087-05:00</atom:updated><title></title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://myextralife.com/strips/06-21-2006.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://myextralife.com/strips/06-21-2006.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;I feel sorry for this caveman's left nipple in the second cell.  It's about to get &lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;OWN&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;3D&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.ericlitvak.com/2007/02/i-feel-sorry-for-this-cavemans-left.html</link><author>elitvak</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2662877381723388431.post-6280601832599245920</guid><pubDate>Thu, 22 Feb 2007 19:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-02-22T14:57:18.996-05:00</atom:updated><title>Go Go Gadget Workout</title><description>I'm still in my quest to achieve Greek Adonis-hood.  I have always been naturally skinny but sometime during junior year of college, in 2004, I noticed that my haphazard eating habits were soon coming to an end!  I had a flat stomach and slim sides, but now I was noticing this unsightly protrusion of a stomach :(  Wa waaa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My poor habits of eating did not stop there.  At least I was playing DDR very frequently then.  DDR is Dance Dance Revolution, a video game where you step on arrows matching a pattern flashing across the screen.  This allowed some of the calories to burn away.  Soon the DDR fad stopped, but the food did not!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So time has passed to today.  I have tried some workout sessions with friends and others but they fell through for one reason or another.  I was resigned to the fact that I would forever be a lardass.  There were already two pairs of pants I couldn't fit into.  One was a pair of nice dark blue Calvin Klein denims... another was a pair of destroyed True Religion jeans.  The TR jeans ... good luck to me on that.  They're extremely narrow and tight.  The Calvin Kleins were nice, but still, couldn't fit in to them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My friends Abhiram, Ron, and Tom and I planned a vacation to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.  Obviously the goal there was to have a great time, enjoy the sun, scope the babes, etc etc etc.  Ron propositioned to me one fine day that we make a resolution.  Go work out at least 3 times a week, and try to eat a little better.  A nice body would be a great way to impress the fine fauna that the western coast of Mexico has to offer!  This was about 5 weeks ago or so.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ever since then I've been going to the Solon Rec Center 3-4 times a week with Ron, my roommate, working on cardio and then 3 weeks ago, toned down half the cardio and included some resistance workouts on the stomach region.  I include sit up, back extensions, seated crunches and rotary extensions as part of my workout, along with treadmill and stairmaster action.  My workout usually takes about 1:15 to complete.  I save the stairmaster for last since it usually kicks my ass real nice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have changed my diet.  I used to eat fast food as a quick lunch if I didn't have time or didn't want to think too hard about what to eat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I would eat sweets and chocolates whenever I pleased, I would eat in the evenings past 10pm, sometimes moments before going to bed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These are all unhealthy diet practices, no?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since 3 weeks ago, I have hardly touched fried foods.  A few tortilla chips here and there, but otherwise no breaded chicken, no french fries, none of that jazz.  I eat more pasta and veggies now, and I do not drink any pop.  In fact, I only drink water, and milk.  Milk has been toned down to skim, and I try not to chug through half a gallon of it every night (even though I god damned could).  I try not to eat past 9:00pm so that my body doesn't have to have it sloshing around in its low metabolism sleeping state.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have even forsaken my favorite cereals for... other favorite cereals!  I used to eat cookie crisp and Cracklin' Oat Bran (mmmm) but now I stick to Special K (but with strawberries.. strawberries are real pimp).  It kinda seems like a lot of effort, but really it isn't.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After my workouts I usually drink this nice shake.  Here is shwat it looks like:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.nicemuscle.com/p/images/80595-l.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 123px; height: 167px;" src="http://www.nicemuscle.com/p/images/80595-l.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;I really enjoy the taste of this, in strawberry flavor.  I have the 2lb jug.  31 tall-glass servings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;So have I seen results yet?  Sure have.  I can fit into those CK jeans!  It's a tight fit but I can fit into them!  Also, many of my other jeans are showing some slack.  Awesome.  Soon hopefully within 2 months or 3 maybe I'll have visible abs?  Es posible?  Any body builders or people that know about nutrition and exercise reading this?  Please write a comment with your email address so I can ask you a question or two!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My goals for Mexico have been altered SOMEWHAT... you see.. for I no longer have the need to impress any girls there.  I have my hands full with a charming and beautiful girl!  I wonder if she's reading this?  Leave me a comment if you are, Катя.   My motivation now is to just get in better shape so that I am healthier and stay lookin' at least decent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.ericlitvak.com/2007/02/go-go-gadget-workout.html</link><author>elitvak</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2662877381723388431.post-805303479732131093</guid><pubDate>Thu, 22 Feb 2007 17:21:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-02-22T13:19:24.148-05:00</atom:updated><title>Bad Sushi + No Macaroon = Pissed Eric</title><description>&lt;object codebase='http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0' height='76' width='150' classid='clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000'&gt;&lt;param value='http://www.gabcast.com/mp3play/mp3player.swf?file=http://www.gabcast.com/casts/7772/episodes/1172164588.mp3&amp;amp;config=http://www.gabcast.com/mp3play/config.php?ini=mini.0.l' name='movie'&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param value='transparent' name='wmode'&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param value='always' name='allowScriptAccess'&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed pluginspage='http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' name='mp3player' height='76' width='150' wmode='transparent' allowScriptAccess='always' src='http://www.gabcast.com/mp3play/mp3player.swf?file=http://www.gabcast.com/casts/7772/episodes/1172164588.mp3&amp;amp;config=http://www.gabcast.com/mp3play/config.php?ini=mini.0.l'&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;</description><link>http://www.ericlitvak.com/2007/02/ready-to-laugh-in-3-2-1-10.html</link><author>elitvak</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2662877381723388431.post-774972137379384530</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2007 17:41:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-02-21T13:02:26.155-05:00</atom:updated><title>I'm Not Incontinent!  Really!</title><description>&lt;object codebase='http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0' height='76' width='150' classid='clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000'&gt;&lt;param value='http://www.gabcast.com/mp3play/mp3player.swf?file=http://www.gabcast.com/casts/7772/episodes/1172079321.mp3&amp;amp;config=http://www.gabcast.com/mp3play/config.php?ini=mini.0.l' name='movie'&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param value='transparent' name='wmode'&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param value='always' name='allowScriptAccess'&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed pluginspage='http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' name='mp3player' height='76' width='150' wmode='transparent' allowScriptAccess='always' src='http://www.gabcast.com/mp3play/mp3player.swf?file=http://www.gabcast.com/casts/7772/episodes/1172079321.mp3&amp;amp;config=http://www.gabcast.com/mp3play/config.php?ini=mini.0.l'&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;</description><link>http://www.ericlitvak.com/2007/02/ready-to-laugh-in-3-2-1-9.html</link><author>elitvak</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2662877381723388431.post-1291343084599801447</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2007 16:09:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-02-21T11:18:01.433-05:00</atom:updated><title>Cheesecake Factory</title><description>MMMMmmmmmmmmmmmm....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Such a rare treat it is to enjoy a wonderfully large and &lt;a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/sumptuous"&gt;sumptuous&lt;/a&gt; slice of cheesecake from the factory itself!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tonight my coworker and friend Dave Zeager is inviting me and Katya (Катя) over to his place for some fine dining!  Him and his roommate are concocting a smörgåsbord (go auto spelling correction) consisting of many types of appetizer foods, some tofu sausage somethings or others, stuffed peppers, nice fruits and cheeses along with Canadian ice wine.  Supposedly his roommate is crafting a delicious lemon-cream cheese cake of some kind.  In any case, I'm swinging by the Cheesecake Factory to pick up some of this goodness:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://shop.thecheesecakefactory.com/images/05132.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 217px; height: 183px;" src="http://shop.thecheesecakefactory.com/images/05132.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:78%;" &gt;Mmmm.... Dulce de Leche Caramel Cheesecake.  VERRY NICE WAWAWEEWAA!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;So yes, it should be a great dinner tonight, with a dessert to match! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And yes, two s's distinguish the dessert you eat from the desert you dehydrate in.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://www.ericlitvak.com/2007/02/cheesecake-factory.html</link><author>elitvak</author></item></channel></rss>
