You have been warned.

Some Of My Favourite Childhood Movies:

1. My Fair Lady
2. Labyrinth
3. The Parent Trap (Original)
4. SpaceBalls
5. The Court Jester
6. The Ghostbusters
7. The Princess Bride
8. Bedknobs and Broomsticks
9. The Sword In The Stone
10. FernGully (for the Batty Rap of course)
11. UHF (Nearing the end of my childhood)
12. Adventures in Babysitting
13. Wizard
14. The Neverending Story
15. TR0N
16. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
17. Big
18. Crocodile Dundee
19. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang!

The Other Movies That Helped Make Me All Special And Stuff

Comedy List
SpaceBalls
The Princess Bride
Monty Python And The Holy Grail
Life of Brain
The Flying Circus
The Party
A Fish Called Wanda
A Mouse That Roared
Blazing Saddles
Airplane
The Meaning of Life
This is Spinal Tap
CaddyShack
Clerks
Mallrats
South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut
SuperTroopers
Short Circut
The Gods Must Be Crazy
Black Adder
Young Ones and Bottoms
The Russians are Coming, The Russians are coming!
The Odd Couple
Chasing Amy
Wet Hot American Summer (not pr0n...I swear. great movie)
Clue
Three Amigos
Robin Hood Men In Tights
Too Wong Foo, Thanks for everything!
Waynes World
Jabberywocky
Daria, is it fall yet?
Arsenic and Old Lace
Best In Show
Waiting for Guffman
Austin Powers
Rushmore
Office Space
Billy Madison
Happy Gilmore
Tommy Boy
Drama/Action/Adventure/whatever
Pulp Fiction
True Romance
Reservoir Dogs
The Usual Suspects
Se7en
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Snatch
Casino
Cool Hand Luke
12 Monkeys
Better Than Chocolate
Fight Club
Pi
The Princess and The Warrior
Run Lola Run
Hardcore Logo
Hackers (gah..so good..so hilarious now to watch)
Swing Kids
Quadrophenia
Taxi Driver

Sci-Fi/ Fantasy/CyberPunk
All Star Wars Movies
All Star Trek movies/shows
Lord Of The Rings
A Clockwork Orange
BladeRunner (duh)
Matrix
The Fly
Back to The Future (all)
Logan's Run
Space Invad0rs
Webmaster
batteries not included
Wyrd Sisters
The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy
GalaxyQuest (shut up.)
The Fifth Element
1984
Tank Girl
Cube
Superman movies (all)
Batman
Electric Dreams

Anime
Vampire Hunter D
Akira
Ghost in The Shell
Nightmare Before Christmas
Rhea Gall Force
Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
Gundam (all)

Misc.
Riki Oh: The Story of Ricky
Brazil
Reefer Madness
Amelie
Jawbreaker
Mad Max
Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter
The Toxic Avenger
Frankenhooker
Tampopo
Trekkies

Musicals/Music themed

Singing In The Rain
My Fair Lady
Little Shop of Horrors
Hairspray
The Music Man
Best Little Whore House In Texas *so good*
White Christmas

I do like a romantic comedy every now and then
High Fidelity
When Harry Met Sally
Shakespeare In Love (well..the first part anyway)
So I married an Axe Murderer
Happy Gilmore
Peggy Sue Got Married
Groundhog Day
Movies I rarely admit to enjoying....
Clueless
Bring it On
Moulin Rouge
Legally Blonde
First Wives Club
10 Things I hate about you
The Princess Diaries
Two Weeks Notice
Movies That Made Me Lose My Childhood Innocence

Follow That Bird (....worst.movie.ever. No child should see this movie... Haven't seen it? Let me sum it up for ya: Big Bird leaves Sesame Street to find his real family....gets kidnapped by carnies...painted blue...and thrown in a cage...on display for all these circus visitors to gawk at...HORRIBLE.)
Fox and The Hound
Arachnophobia
Chucky (Thanks to this movie, I was terrified of my dolls...barbies excluded)
It (as if clowns weren't scary enough...along comes this blockbuster)

Movies That Turn Me On....

GIA
Original Sin
Hackers
Foxfire
Girl Interrupted (seriously....don't go there)
Tombraider 1 and 2 (with the sound off.....horrible movie)
Gone in 60 seconds (one scene only)
Life or Something Like It. (nope...nope..no pattern here...none what-so-ever)
*deep breath*
Labryinth (shut up...seriously..David Bowie...Spandex...dance scene...kinda hawt)
Dracula
Fight Club
True Romance (Christian Slater and bathroom Elvis..'nuff said)
Recent Movies I Found To Be Pretty Farkin' Awesome... (last two years)
Pirates of the Carribean
Kill Bill 1 and 2
Lost In Translation
Big Fish
Finding Nemo
Love Actually
Monsters Inc.
Adaptation
Xmen-2
Eternal Sunshine On A Spotless Mind
Jersey Girl

Classics

This list will be worked on at a later date...since it will take me much (MUCH) longer to compile...

sorry Jer.

There are really only three types of Grimsby-folk.

1) The "born and raised in Grimsby" folks who believe there is no other world outside of Grimsby, that will NEVER...ever...leave....
2) The "born and raised I can't wait to get the hell out of here" folks.
3) Those who are outsiders who never really wanted to live in Grimsby in the first place...

I have no real beef with Grimsby. I think its a clean area but not the greatest place to bring up your children because unless they are reasonably gifted they will probably wind up being small-minded, ignorant assholes. There are a lot of things I loved about my teenage life there. I had a fun group of girlfriends for the early portion of my high school life and then as I got older my geekier tendencies started to seep out more.... and more and It quickly became less appropriate in my ultra-girly world...so I found newer...much geekier...much *leeter* friends. There was nothing wrong with my old ones but it was what I needed at that time. Chances are I have more in common with those girls NOW than I ever did then.

Skipping past the bad years - grade 11-OAC....concluding that I turned out okay and survived my "rebellious stage". I then made the bad decision of making York University my school of choice. Yah...still regretting that one today. Even though my program is amazing, its just the school in general, and the people who attend class with me that drive me absolutely nuts...and perhaps just a little bit too close to Woodbridge for my own comfort.

(did you know that people in Woodbridge go to the movie theatre to pick people up? Yah....its not your typical movie theatre. Usually you bring dates/friends there but in Woodbridge, you go to find your date to the movies.)

First year University was interesting...I don't think I did much other than play Counter-strike almost 9 hours a day on average and there were at least 4 days during the week, I would play anywhere from 10-15 hours a day. *No...I am not exaggerating*

Thankfully, after a few years I figured out the perfect balance between all the things I love. I still manage to get my 'geek on' in large amounts without it interfering in any way with my other activities. For example, when people come knock on my door, asking me to come out and play, I don't turn off the monitor, jump in bed, play sick and then go back to playing Everquest. Ohhh No. I will get my party on if need be. My excuse for doing the massive geek out for two years of University was that I got my "party on" a little bit too much in high school and needed a break ( I suppose that's usually the other way around?)

Oh..in between those years I wasted my summers away working for Aon Reed Stenhouse, downtown Toronto on Bay and QueensQuay. It is there that I learned the evils of Insurance and how everyone who seems to work in Insurance is either divorced, cheating, getting a divorce, thinking about getting a divorce. The last summer I worked there, I spent most of my time blogging about how much I hate Aon and some of my fellow co-workers (typing Aon or Nelia into the search box will probably bring up some amusing tidbits about Insurance life). There is only one truly cool person working for them and that is Andrew Coole. Yes, he's last name REALLY is Coole. Hopefully he too, will find a way out of Aon.

So thats about it. This is where I am right now. Not very exciting. Perhaps when something actually interesting happens (like killing a homeless man) I will include it here, on my life story page. I doubt it though...because if I kill a homeless dude I will probably need to keep in on the down-low...for at least...a few months.

OOh yah. I will soon be the very proud owner of a 2004 Yamaha Vino 125. Oh bebe yah. Which means coming soon to this site a 'tales of Christie and her Vino' section with tons of leet pictures and interesting Toronto stories.

Cheers,

Christie

Moving on... I also don't know much about my time spent in Georgia. I have only a few memories of my time there. One of those memories is of me colouring on the walls of a friend's room because she told me it was washable and that she was allowed to do it all the time. I also remember being yelled at for quite some time afterwords. The other four memories are the following:

1) My kindergarden teacher never gave me a sticker and made me sit in the corner without the other kids. Then I remember my mother coming to pick me up, not believing me that my teacher made me the only student in the class to sit in the corner and go without having a gold star all day.

2) I remember a neighbourhood kid came over to 'play' with me in my backyard, then hit a beehive with a baseball bat, ran into my house and shut the door on me. I remember being in a lot of pain....and terrified of bees ever since.

3) I remember losing two of my teeth, 1 in a milkdude at a movie the other in an apple in my backyard. I remember feeling jipped by the toothfairy because I lost them both in the same week and for some reason in 'tooth land' that means my teeth were less valuable...

4) The night before the big move to Springdale, Arkansas, all I wanted to do was stay in my friend Meridith's treehouse over night since her father had JUST finished building it....being denied that option...and leaving without a proper goodbye to my best friend.

Arkansas...I remember pretty much everything, so a condensed list would be practically impossible, however I will try to highlight some of my favourite parts of living in Arkansas...here:

1) Having the coolest neighbour/best friend ever, who continues to rock, even when she and I aren't exactly what you would call neighbours anymore (although technically the U.S. is a neighbour to Canada and the fantabulous 'interweb' fixes most of the other locational problems).

2)Having walkie-talkies that allowed me to hear the phone conversations of our neighbours.

3) Having a fall that lasted longer than a week. Us Canadians don't really experience a real fall season.

4) Mmmm. southern cooking. Tex-Mex/Mexican food.

5) Racing caterpillars in my backyard with Ms. Jenni Johnson. We had caterpillar Olympics....no joke.

6) Fourth of July fireworks.... such a great time. One thing you have to give Americans credit for is finding great excuses for holidays: great food, great people, always a great time.

7) Most people there will agree that Bill Clinton was always a cheating, lying, dirty bastard (not arguing against his politics, just his personality)

When the weatherman even mentioned the idea of snow, school was always cancelled...and we always had snow in the winter. *smile*

9) At least during the time I lived there and in the neighbourhood I lived in, people were always friendly and the door was always open for company.

Thank you for being so patient and loyal. I promise to be back in the swing of things by Monday.

Would you like to advertise on my site? You should. You really, really should. Help keep me posting at my 20 posts a day average again without having to worry about bandwidth troubles. If you are interested, email me at

Christie(at)elitemail(dot)org:

Example of stats for the month of Feb (and the half a week I was up in March before i got shut down):

Monthly Statistics for February 2005
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March 2005 from the 1st to 5th of the month

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In extended, you fill find an email from my server provider explaining my bandwidth woes.

He is here from the Philippines and we are looking to have him stay longer.

can anyone with any info help me with my dilemma. my girl and i work and he is here looking after our daughter. In time we will also bring his wife over to stay with us.

We live in Toronto Ontario Canada.....

Anyone with experience with this would be greatly appreciated.

Minimum requirements from the gvt is $100,000 coverage for one year

Thanks in advance

# 2005-03-07: 4.0.0 is now available.
Changes since the last stable release:

* All new queue-based user interface
* Many options are now modifiable from the interface, including upload rate
* Lots of other interface improvements
* Extra stats are visible, for those who like it
* Remembers what it was doing across restarts
* New .torrent maker "btmaketorrentgui" replaces "btcompletedir"
* Better performance, as always
* License has changed to the BitTorrent Open Source License
* Torrent fields are correctly created and interpreted as utf8
* Too many little things to list

A few technical notes, for those interested:

* Single port: launchmany can seed and client can download many files from a single port and thread
* Interface now uses GTK instead of wxWidgets
* BitTorrent packets are marked as bulk data to make traffic shaping easier

Anyone know of any useful HDD recovery software? My HDD bailed on me, and I hadn't run an archive in forever. The main things I wanted to get off it were all my pics from Digital Camera, and our MP3 library. The rest I don't give a shit about.hdd data recovery.

I checked one of the local Data Recovery places and this was the end result after answering their 20+ question survey:

Price Range: from 1065 to 1660

LMAO!

I've found a few other places that claim to be able to do it for "under $500".

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