Stuart McHenry - My Internet World

Ok… everybody and there mother knows the movie “A Christmas Story” but did you know you can tour the house. Yep some crazy fan (aka Brian Jones) bought the house and restored it.

Jones has restored the three-story, wood-frame house to its appearance in the movie and will open it for tours beginning Saturday. His hope is that it will become a tourist stop alongside the city’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and other destinations.

He’s unsure whether he’ll make enough money to cover his $500,000 investment, but as sure as a kid’s tongue will stick to a frozen flag pole, he’s committed to the project.

BTW… I love the Christmas Story and this year I bought a Leg Lamp Replica which is life-size and stands 40 inches tall.

Black Friday

I spent most of my working life… working retail so I’m no stranger to Black Friday. I never go out shopping on that day.. once you have worked retail why would you want to. This year was an exception… after cooking (Thanksgiving) for 18 people my wife, sister, brother-in-law and mother talked me into it. (Shopping)

At 11:30 PM we decided to head over to the Outlet stores in Cabazon…. BIG MISTAKE! We thought *cool the outlet center is opening at midnight I bet they won’t be that busy* I couldn’t of been more wrong. About 4 miles before the outlet center we hit traffic and thought crazy must be an accident up ahead. Wrong again… the traffic (dead stop) was ALL for the outlet center. We waited in the traffic for about 20 minutes only going a few feet and then said *fuck it.*

We cruised from there over to Walmart to check out some of there deals. We didn’t have too much of a choice as Walmart is about the only store open in the middle of the night. I wanted to snag a TV they had on special about half off but when we got to the store they had a line. I asked one of the employees how many TV’s (specific sale model) they had and he laughed and said five. So I bailed….

Next stop was Circuit City where there were people with tents camped out in front of the store. At this point I was thinking *shit my wife is crazy for doing this every year.* My brother-in-law really wanted a TV and they had an advertised a 32 LCD” for $474.00 I figured since I was up I better try and get one. I own a lot of TV’s but figured one more in my office on the wall might be nice.

So after waiting in line for one hour (my brother-in-law saved our spot in line for almost 5 hours) I got a new TV for my wall. I also had to take everyone to two different Targets and a Toy’s ‘R Us. It was kind of fun being out with all the shoppers but I’m grateful I don’t work retail anymore. more info here

note: when I was at Circuit City they had a great deal on HDMI cables with a surge protector for $49.95… two days before I bought just an HDMI cable for $120.95 for I was happy to see this special.

Pubcon 2006

I attended Pubcon again this year… I enjoy going to Vegas and any excuse works for me. Like last year *most* of the sessions I attended where *yawn* boring as hell and some of the advice given by the so called experts was… how should I saw… so 2 years ago. Don’t get me wrong not every presenter was bad… just most. Here is a tip for anyone speaking at Pubcon in the future:

Don’t spend 75% talking about what you did before you got into your current webmaster job. I’m sure myself and the other webmasters don’t care that you taught school or worked at Burger King unless you worked in a department that had to do with the Internet.

On a brighter side I enjoyed the keynote speech from Guy Kawasaki. Guy has been involved in the computer world for a long time and is currently a managing director of a venture capital firm. He also has a blog (who doesn’t even my 7 year old has one) and has some interesting things to say and some decent Interviews.

Anyway… I was happy to see some familiar faces and met some new ones. Maybe going this year taught me to rank better for no fax payday loans.

I haven’t blogged in a while now… about two weeks I got the keys to my new (brand new construction) 3,000 sq. foot house. Moving always sucks… so much crap to do. I’ve been busy doing crap just about everyday. If I’m not meeting with some contractors then I’m out buying more stuff for the new pad.

Anyway… I will posts some PICS of the new place once I find which box my carmera is in.