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2nd ANNUAL NATIONAL UNDERWEAR DAY

Taken directly from the source.

Online retailer Freshpair.com puts intimate apparel back into the spotlight

NEW YORK, NY (July 23, 2004) - Get ready to uncover the covered and mention the unmentionables: It's Freshpair.com's National Underwear Day again. Following last year's wildly successful launch of this signature event, August 11, 2004, has been designated the Second Annual National Underwear Day by Freshpair, a leading online retailer of men's and women's intimate apparel.

This year, among other events planned for the day, 20 Freshpair models will be all over midtown New York proudly clad in their underwear. They'll solicit signatures for a petition to win official recognition for National Underwear Day, survey passers-by on their choice of underwear, and invite people to show a little of their own skivvies. They will also be available to talk to reporters and tape segments for TV and radio shows. People around the country are encouraged to celebrate the big day in their own way, as well as go to www.freshpair.com to sign the petition.

The reaction to similar festivities last year exceeded all expectations. From the women who revealed their bra straps in Times Square to the sanitation workers who held up traffic on Broadway by flashing their boxers, it was obvious that people are ready to celebrate what lies beneath.

"We were delighted, but not surprised, by the reaction to our launch of National Underwear Day last year. Everyone loved the idea, and a lot of people asked how they could celebrate it themselves", said Michael Kleinmann, Chief Operating Officer of Freshpair.com. "Underwear is definitely in, and more and more people are having fun with the whole concept."
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Freshpair believes that underwear-the first thing everyone puts on and the last thing they take off-deserves a lot more recognition than it gets. Since 1327 BC, when King Tutankhamen was buried with 145 of his loincloths, to the visibility of intimate apparel in today's pop culture, underwear has always been as close to our hearts as to our bodies. Even when it isn't thought about consciously, it reflects a mood, personality, fashion sense, special occasion and so much more. We devote enough resources to it: Americans alone spend nearly $13 billion on intimate apparel each year. (In France, lingerie takes up 20% of the average woman's annual clothing budget.) And yet few ever talk about, while even fewer show it.

That changes on August 11, 2004, with National Underwear Day. Here are some tidbits about underwear (go to www.freshpair.com for these and many other intriguing nuggets of information):

* Married men change their underwear twice as often as single men;
* 8 out of 10 women wear the wrong size bra;
* 82% of women have tried on men's underwear
* 31% of men have tried on women's underwear.


About Freshpair.com
Freshpair.com is a leading Internet retailer of men's and women's intimate apparel. Freshpair.com offers hundreds of styles of brand name bras, panties, t-shirts, underwear, socks, sleepwear, and more. Freshpair.com's online shopping experience is easy to use and very secure. Freshpair.com carries hard-to-find sizes and also offers free shipping on orders over $95.

Public Relations Contact
Freshpair.com
Phone: (212) 505-6900
Fax: (212) 202-4754
email: press@freshpair.com

My Land

This is that really great cartoon that the JibJab brothers did. They have been on FOX News with Brian Wilson, and in sure countless computer screens across the world. I have sent links to many of my friends and families and some said they had trouble getting to see it. So for a moment I am going to put it on a link here.

Here is the link to My Land done by JibJab.com.

New Playlist

So as you have probably read, I like to make compilations of music that I like to listen to. Well, back in May I put up my 5th instalment of the Various Artists cds - Here is a link to it. So after a few months that one has become old and has become a permanent copy with a nice little label listing the songs.

Here is the newest cd. Labeled Various Artists Volume 6.

1. Unsung - Helmet
2. Vindicated - Dashboard Confessionals
3. Line Up - Elastica
4. When I Grow Up - Garbage
5. Spitting Games - Snow Patrol
6. Heel Over Head - Puddle Of Mud
7. Ride the Lightning - Metallica
8. Cold Hard B**** - Jet
9. Talk Show on Mute - Incubus
10. He Wasn't - Avril Lavigne
11. Roses - Outkast (Andre 3000)
12. Novocaine for the Soul - Eels
13. Keep Fishin' - Weezer
14. (Can't Get My) Head Around You - The Offspring
15. I Dare You to Move - Switchfoot
16. Brimful of Asha - Cornershop
17. Bombtrack - Rage Against the Machine

Let me know what you think of this list! Enjoy!

I'm Busted

I was found out. My free ride is now over, the dam has broken and the joy of getting something for free is gone. Here I was, getting a connection to the internet using my cellular phone for free. This has been going on now for about 3 months. At first I was skeptical, then I had faith. Cingular had no ideal what was going on. I was connecting for free and they were doing nothing about it. I was getting on the net and was not being billed for it. When I say I was getting on it, I mean I was on for a long time. There were times I would be connected for hours. I know they were not aware of this because I check my bill almost religiously. Never did I see a usage under the GPRS tab. This was a dream that I would wake up from with a sudden jolt.

Yesterday I checked my usage. Thinking I was going to see the good'ol No GPRS usage this month. I couldn't be farther from the truth. When I logged on, I saw "GPRS Data Services used this month:1378.7136". What is this! They found me out! have they started to bill me for the past? what is this big number? What happened to my free ride? Well, as you can probably figure this number it the total amount of Mb I have used. This total is from one day. Yes one day. So my next question is, how much does this huge number with the hugely out of place decimal point equate to? Well lets do the math. I checked with Cingular. No I didn't ask why they were billing me now when they didn't before. I only called with questions that would lead up to such information: whats the cost was for the wireless internet? is there any packages? what is the per cost usage if you don't subscribe? The last question is the one I wanted to know mostly. The answer, .01 cents per Mb. If you take the huge number with the crazy dot and multiply that by 1 cent then you will find I am going to be billed for approximately $13.79. This is outrageous! for just one day of checking my mail! Damn!

So now I have options. First: give up. This is not an option. As your can probably tell or already know, I am a internet junky with a touch of gadget geekness. Second: go ahead and use it. This could work but I would have to watch my usage. Being only one day and I was being billed $13.79 I don't think this is cost effective. Or, third: buy a package, the cheapest one is $7.99 and goes up only one step up to 19.99. The $7.99 only offers 1MB of internet usage and that is both ways. The 19.99 is unlimited usage. Both also add other features like SMS and MMS plus other crap that I would never use. Seeing that I used almost that on one day i'm sure you can see where this is going to head.

i'm going to choose the most expensive package and be done with it. Let me know if you have any comments on this or how I can again get the connection for free. Is it wrong of me to want this for free?

Re-Birth of the future

Yesterday something happened that most of you don't know about. Before I tell you what happened let me first tell you about what started it. It was 2 months ago, the world was thrown into a world of silence. The only radio station that was not touched by corporate hands had gone off the air. The owners of the station had become old and tired and wished to move on with their lives. They sold the tower to a radio company based somewhere in the corporate greed that we call America. They had planed on taking The X as some call it to the net, but after finding out how much it cost a station to do this they reconsidered and wished for hindsight. Broadcasting on the net is extremely expensive, you have to pay a cost per listener per song. Even at a rate of .02 cents this could grow out of control. So on a cold - it wasn't that cold - day in may the station went silent. Then in a cold, stagnant way the new owners started to broadcast the regurgitated sound of corporate filth. Force feeding the sound to you in a way of saying you must obey!

Skip 2 months in to the present. 97x the future of rock-n-roll has returned from the ashes like a phenox being reborn. The station that has brought the world new and exciting sounds has returned. Returning not on the airways, not in your car. They know they cannot compete with the Cd collection you have acquired, parts of which i'm sure includes Celine Dion. - she is one reason I don't like Canada - So instead they are going the web way. They found some kind folks that were interested in keeping the world rid of cookie cutter bands. These kind people I figured donated a very large sum of money to the station.

If you are wishing you had something better to listen to other than the same crap repeated over and over and over, until your head explodes into a violent rage, only beating small furry animals can cure this pain as many of you im sure know. you may want to tune your internet connected radio to www.woxy.com

tune in, turn up, tune out!

A Modern Day Sin

So my car - you know the one that was bought at the BHPH lot in Hamilton. The A/C was not working along with the vent controls. After picking my car up from the mechanics on Friday of last week i decided that i wanted my A/C to work. My father being a old Heat and Air guy i called apon him for his guidance. I took my car to him and we both looked at it. Come to find out my compressor wasn't working, the clutch wouldn't engage. Seeing this he told me that there could be many problems as to why it isn't working. First, he said, it could be that your low on the juice that makes the A/C work. Second, he told me, could be that the compressor is not receiving the "start" signal from the sensor that read the temperature to make it kick on and off. After hearing this stuff, him and I went to the local "Car Parts and Bad Attitude" shop around the corner to buy some refrigerant for the A/C. Well of course they were just to slammed with eating and joking about there wives big asses to come and answer question and possibly make a sale. So we left there with no parts or refrigerant and went to the competition. I purchased a retrofit kit the contained 3 cans of r134A some retrofit connections to convert the old system to the new and a read gauge to read the amount already in and going in (-\+$35.00). When we got back home we followed the directions and went at it. After a few non successful tries we gave up. The compressor was not engaging. So we tested all the fuses and the relay, all of them were good. That ended that.

On sunday I pulled out my handy dandy Hanyes Auto Manual and found out there is a way to test the compressor to see if it is bad. So I went out in the 90+ degree weather and started to play with my cars compressor. I unplugged the electrical connection and inspected the contacts. Plugged it back in and tried the A/C one more time. It worked! Hoo Freaking Yea! So I hooked up the recharge kit and started to pump in the refrigerant. I am happy to say I am driving now with A/C! But my vents still don't work so it will only come out of the window defrost vent located on the top of the dash board. I'll get to that later. I may end up taking that to a pro to fix.

OK well just thought everyone would like an update on the cars. Oh and kellys needed a muffler. I love that car. If it weren't for that one. I think I would be rich. lol