Sunset In Redondo

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A Day At The SEA Lab

Hello Jim & Kim fanatics...and welcome to JimmyPowell.com!
A fun & entertaining site where you can get a glimpse into our little world!

Here's some more interesting "stuff" to check out...

• Scissors - Pretty soon airport security will have more scissors than God

• CyberTan - You can actually get a tan from your computer screen

• Mister Bone - Just like me, fun to play with! ;)

• Fun Game - Addictive little game, I could only get up to 27 seconds.

• MOONBASE - This is totally freakin AWESOME! (Hit F11 for better viewing)

This is my favorite of the week because it reminds me of girl I used to work with at RTP in Virginia. Actually, I used to work and she used to sleep all night but that's a whole different post entirely. Anyway, she was an ebonics pro and used words like bidness (business), idn't (isn't), wadn't (wasn't) and my personal favorite...aks or axe (ask).

I remember one night she said "can I aks you a question?" and I replied "only if I can chop you an answer." at which point me and Shane Gravitt nearly fell out in the floor laughing which didn't help cause she was pissed. We couldn't look at her for a week without cracking up. Ahh, the memories!

• Most mispronounced English words and phrases

Take a look at this sculpture. How much do you think a sculpture like this would be worth? $1,000? $100,000? Even $1,000,000?

Try $27,000,000!

That's right! This sculpture entitled "Bird In Space" by Romanian artist Constantin Brancusi (1904-1957) was found in an attic in a European mansion last year and auctioned for a record 27mil last night by Christie's in Manhattan, NY.

Now I'm a HUGE fan of art but even if I had 100 billion dollars...I couldn't see spending that amount of money on a freakin' sculpture. Think of all the homeless people that could have a hot meal and a warm place to stay with that money! Some people have more money than sense.

• http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/05/04/sculpture.record/index.html

Still reeling from the fact that Constantine was let go last week, we tuned into American Idol again this week to see who was going home and luckily, America got it right this time. Viewers sent Scotty "the body" home after weeks of poor performances. Granted, he was a funny guy at times but how he managed to stay longer than Constantine is beyond belief.

So now there are just four and it's clear who needs to go next week...Vonzell. Sure, she can sing the high stuff like nobody's business but she can't sing in the local vocal range to save her life and Simon seems to be the only one who sees that. We'll be doing our part...we'll be voting for Bo, Carrie & Anthony next week cause we got lots of phone lines in our house! Vonzell must go!

Ok boys and girls...here are this week's fun clips and interesting links to check out when you should be working!

Cool Video Clips

• Video Game Choir - Super Mario, Tetris & Legend of Zelda...a cappella.

• 7 Inches Longer - Hilarious Dodge Commercial

• Cry Baby - Dude cries after pillow fight....weakling!

• Operation Crotch Rocket - Guys will be guys!

• Horny Donkey - NEVER take a whiz near a horny donkey!

• 5 Year Old Arrested - The kids grow up so fast these days.

Cool Websites

• 46 Free PC Utilities - I use some of these...you can too!

• Crazy Illusion - I couldn't believe this when I saw it but I replicated it in Photoshop and sure enough, it's true.

Sometimes, when I go to a fast food restaurant I literally wanna ask the person behind the counter if I can fix the food myself because if you ask them to do something simple like "hold the lettuce" you know they're gonna screw it up. Case in point...Saturday afternoon me and Kim went to KFC and I ordered 2 of their Snackers sandwiches and asked them to hold the lettuce and of course, that was asking way too much of the geniuses reading the orders from the screen in the back...when I go our table it looked like I got two Snackers with extra lettuce.

So being the person that I am, I threw half the lettuce in the floor (so someone would have to sweep it up later...yeah, I'm mean) and then took them back the counter and made them fix me two more and specifically said, hold the lettuce but put the spicy mayo on there. After I got them, I opened them up and saw that indeed that they had managed to hold the lettuce, but also the spicy mayo. Of course I marched back up to the counter and told the young dude he forgot the mayo this time and ordered him to bring me the mayo and I'd do it myself...and I did.

I know these sad hip-hop kids are only making minimum wage but if you can't read a monitor and hold one item from a sandwich that only has 4 parts to begin with (bread, chicken, lettuce and mayo) then your future is pretty bleak.

Note: Kim couldn't stand that I threw lettuce in the floor so using her napkin, she picked it up and threw it away. 

Saturday was Earth Day in Redondo with all kinds of little expos and events going on and we went down to the SEA Lab to check out all the...well, sea stuff. It's kind of like a mini aquarium with all kinds of local sea life and the best part is being able to pet the sand sharks which are about 2-3 feet in length. I even got Kim to touch a few of them but ironically, after touching sharks, she refused to touch a slimy sea cucumber! All in all it was a great sunny day and it was good to be out of the house and believe it or not, I didn't do one bit of work on Saturday...first time I've taken the whole day in months. Guess even I deserve a break from time to time.

We spent most of Sunday laying in the sun and just lounging around the house reading or watching the tube. After all, you're supposed to rest on the Sabbath.

Happy Birthday wishes going out to my sis-outlaw Shannon Powell today! Sorry we couldn't be there to have a few cold ones with you and help you celebrate but neither Kim nor I wanted to be the DD...ha-ha! Hope you had a GREAT birthday and that we get to see you soon...maybe I'll give your Bill O'Reily Factor Gear as a gift? Bet you'd love that wouldn't you? :^P

A new billboard is starting to spring up in and around LA and it's truly sad and insulting at the same time. It's an ad for Spanish TV station here in LA and the billboard has the words Los Angeles, CA with CA marked out and replaced with Mexico. With an estimated 1000 illegal immigrants coming across the border each day, this is truly becoming Mexifornia.

DAMN! Our personal fav Constantine got eliminated this week on American Idol and he really has no one to blame but himself. He chose a song that he couldn't pull off vocally and he paid the price. Granted, Scotty should have been gone weeks ago and still needs to go but Constantine gave the worst vocal we'd heard from him all season this week.

Too bad...I think he's way more of a rocker than Bo but hopefully we'll see him doing something soon. Rock on Constantine!

As you may have noticed there are a few empty blocks in our Photo Gallery. Well, I've gotta say...I've done my part in preparing all the pix for those as well as the pix for 9 more galleries. The hold up is w/the Supreme Webmaster - NOT me. So, if you'd like to see new galleries posted, post a guestbook entry or send him an email. Maybe it'll light a fire under him.

Sorry hon...you brought this on yourself! Remember our deal: I'd do the pix if you'd do the gallery & post them? <lol>

Just wanted to say "Thx" to my "boss", Mr. Powell for the flowers for Admin Professionals Day. He hand delivered a beautiful bouquet of flowers to me at my "other" job. You see, I've two Admin Asst jobs - one with International Rectifier & one with Stellar Media Group. My SMG boss can be such a sweetie...but then there's always the non-stop sexual harassment I have to deal with!  <LOL>

I also was surprised by two of my co-workers/friends at IR w/a lovely flower arrangement and a big bag of Jalapeño chips. (They know I'm a junk-food junky cause I'm always eating those hot chips out of the snack machine.) Thx Marissa & Myanh!

And on top of all of that, another coworker & friend, Susan, gave me a gift card to Macy's. Thx sooo much Susan!

Kim sent me this last night and it's a pretty funny little spoof of the Captain's Message...post 9/11. You'll need to have your speakers on and NO, this isn't one of those things that's gonna scare the crap out of you two minutes in. I promise Mike!

http://www.barry.fireflyinternet.co.uk/fun/files/pilot.htm

This has got to be one of the funniest vids I have ever seen. I was seriously laughing out loud while I watched this. It's a clip from Jamie Kennedy's old show The Jamie Kennedy Experiment and he's the life guard in this skit. I swear I've watched it like 10 times already and if you can't laugh at this...there is something wrong with you. :^P

• http://www.kontraband.com/show/show.asp?ID=1448

More great video clips...

• Bill Hicks on burning the flag and the war in Iraq

• The Ultimate Star Was spoof (in case you missed it before)

• Talk about being unlucky!

• Shawshank Redemption...the remix!