What is the September birthstone?

If you are unaware, every month of the year has a birthstone related to it. Many people like to wear their various birthstones on jewelry such as a necklace, earrings, or just a plain old ring. Someone asked the other day "what is the birthstone for September?" and I did not know so I looked it up. You can see it in the link there along with the birthstones for all the other months.

To keep you from guessing of course I will let you in on what it is right here. The September birthstone is none other than the lovely sapphire, which represents wisdom, love, faith, and purity.. To find out the birthstones for the rest of the months check out the link above.

80 year olds on facebook?

Thanks to Wm Rowe

My eight-three year old Aunt recently got DIRECT TV And Internet at her home. She was delighted and wanted me to come over and show her how to work the television and also how to get on Facebook. I was surprised that she knew about Facebook. She said that a lot of her friends had recently created accounts so that they could keep up with their family. I showed her how to use the site and helped her create a profile. Much to my surprise, by the end of her first week, she already had seventy friends! Most of her friends on Facebook were her age. I never thought about her demographic being tech-savvy. She figured out how to upload and share pictures, write on walls, and post articles via-Facebook. She also has a habit of commenting on everything. My Aunt comments on any status update I make or photo I post. She always wants to chat when we are both on Facebook. I usually get on and sign right off, but she has been keeping me busy with activity. I don’t know what I got myself into!

Weekend Box Office Blames Hurricane Irene

This weekend the box office reportedly took a $25 million hit from the east coast storm Irene. While the movies available to see weren't exactly top notch anyways who's to know how much it really took off. Other than "The Help" there wasn't much that was hyped going into the weekend anyways.

The weekend finished about 25% lower than the same weekend last year so it was rough. It was actually only the 2nd lowest weekend of the year, however. I wonder what weekend that was? Probably whatever weekend didn't have a horrible movie about robots blowing things up I'd guess.

Using their free trial conference calls I'm sure The Help cast was excited to see themselves overcome being #2 last week and jumping to #1 this week.

Model, Hailey Clauson Suing Urban Outfitters For Using Racey Photo of Her On Shirt

The image above has been put onto some t-shirts that Urban Outfitters is selling. 16 year-old model Hailey Clauson claims that this photo is being used without her permission, and is suing for a measly $28 Million. She will enjoy a few backwoods cigars free shipping if she wins.

She claims that the photo is hurting her reputation and even claims that it may be a violation of child decency laws.

The photographer sounds like a real class act:

[Jason Lee] Parry is described in the lawsuit as a professional photographer whose "unconventional body of work" features "nudity, semi-nudity, sexually suggestive situations involving only women and what appear to be underage girls, many with bloody noses as if incurred as a result of repeated drug use and/or physical violence."

Did Lady Gaga Steal the Song 'Judas'?

While I admit that I have never heard of, nor heard the song, I am going to put in a guess as to no, no it wasn't before I even read an article about it. I have a 50/50 chance. Now let's see if I am correct.

Of course, a song called "Judas" is labeled in every article as "controversial". Thank you thief accuser. Now I must go hear this song to decide if it is indeed controversial, or just something whack jobs need to find issue with. Thankfully, the great TMZ has both song to hear right there.

The problem with terrible pop music is that it all sounds the same to me. Like crap. Of course I can deduce a little bit in it and decide if they are the exact same thing. If you listen to these two things they sound almost nothing alike. As I said before, pop music all has the same sound for the most part. One crappy pop song with similar beats sounding like another one is just the way it is. There are probably 1,000 songs on the bottom half of pop CDs that sound exactly the same as either one of these. It's not a hit, so who cares. Even I can tell that much. Rebecca whoever, pick up some Milestone Birthday Invitations and enjoy your 15 minutes. You can throw a theme party on copyright infringement and maybe your "friends" will agree with you to your face and you will overhear them mocking you by the bathroom a few hours and several drinks later for your silly claims. ;)

Looks Like a Much Needed Video Appearance Upgrade on Youtube this week

After years of using their standard Youtube player, that many have copied since inception Youtube hasn't really changed the look of it over the years. The colors at least anyways with the light gray and red everything else.

Logging on earlier this week I noticed that all the video players are now a black color on the borders and much more sleek than they once were. A refreshing change I must say. An actual "improvement" that makes some sense compared to all the other random improvements they toss out every few months. Like the overly confusing new search system they use, or just the fact that they haven't improved the comments on videos in years. They still are more of a hassle to read on videos with tons of comments than they are worth.

While the new video look is on the Youtube site you can see, I have noticed that it hasn't transferred to embedded videos just yet, although they have changed those too. They now allow you to set the pixel width on embedded videos manually so they don't stretch off the page on places like a golf pda gps...blog posts. :)

Harry Potter World Cup Final Four; No Harry Potter!

Maybe not shocking to most HP fans, but I was a little bit surprised tthat Harry himself did not make the cut of the Final Four in MTV.com's Harry Potter World Cup. Who knocked him off? His most hated professor of course. The sneaky, and not really that bad a guy, Severus Snape.

The Final Four of the tournament has a couple of characters everyone should expect in Ron and Hermione. The other of the foursome is Harry's godfather, Sirius Black. Ron and Hermione will probably make their way to the Finals and face off against each other I predict since they don't face off this round being #1 seeds. Not sure if you get anything like reward cards for getting the bracket right, but maybe you do I haven't looked at the rules.

My personal favorite characters are Harry as #1. I just like how he put up with so much crap from the Dursley's and still came out without being such a bad guy. Fred and George are my favorite comic relief. The book version of Dembeldore is also one of my favorites since he is quite funny himself in the books. In the movies the headmaster is much too serious, and not at all like his character in the book.

Transformers 3 On Pace for $1 Billion at the Box Office Worldwide

To think that a movie where cliches of dialogue and everything being animated could pull in $1 Billion at the box office I guess I just have to remember what sells. Action flicks in the U.S. are the bread and butter of the summer movie going season I suppose so I shouldn't be surprised that every summer something as low brow as one of these movies is taking the top spot at the box office 2 weeks in a row. It may not be the best movie out right now, but it certainly has the box office draw to make more money than any of the other ones.

"Transformers: Dark of the Moon" easily held on to first place, making another $47 million this week. That number represents a 52% decline from last weekend and gives "Dark of the Moon" a 12-day total of $261 million. The original "Transformers" had earned $212.3 million at the same point, while "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" had pulled in a stronger $293.4 million. What a disappointment I'm sure.

While not blowing anything up and being done with a computer for most of the characters, R Rated comedies are still doing well this summer like they always do. "Horrible Bosses" finished the weekend in second place with a robust $28.1 million debut, continuing this summer's streak of successful R-rated comedies.

The Warner Brothers film had a healthy $9,247 per-theater average, and it opened within the range of "Bridesmaids" and "Bad Teacher," (which looks horrible to me even though Heather Graham is still hot and in no need of diet pills yet) which started with $26.3 million and $31.6 million, respectively.

Casey Anthony Trial Withdrawal Waning

If you are one of the many that watched the Casey Anthony trial everyday as it was broadcast live you probably got so used to watching it everyday that you wonder what you can do now. While the verdict was outright wrong...no, I'm not even going to hide my disagreement...all we have now are a bunch of moron jurors to tell us how poorly they paid attention, and broadcast their lack of intelligence.

By the time I had heard an alternate juror, and a couple of actual jurors talk my withdrawal was about gone. Listening to their excuses was so ridiculous that I wasn't even angry anymore. I just had to laugh.

We now know that they all thought she was guilty, didn't ask to see any evidence while in the jury room, told us that they didn't want to give her the death penalty which they thought was part of the verdict, and considered a fairy tale to be actual evidence. Then had the lack of common sense to claim that there wasn't enough evidence to convince them that it was at least manslaughter. See, if you watched the trial you know there was. Nothing you can do about it now. At least now you know YOU aren't crazy. You know the jurors were just wanted to get out of there and didn't bother even piecing it together.

So enough of it. Make a law that jurors can't get paid for interviews after these cases. Don't subject us to this mind numbing BS. Now we can all go back to watching baseball, or whatever it is we do. I know I haven't watched a game in about 2 weeks, which is insane since I watch almost every Detroit Tigers game there is. After the All-star game this next week I will get myself some baseball gifts and get back into it for good.

Speeds Up To 140 MPH and Alcohol Cause of Ryan Dunn's Death According to Police

According to the toxicology results released Wednesday, Ryan Dunn had a blood alcohol level of 0.196. This is over twice the legal limit. Police also said that the 34-year old Jackass star was speeding along at up to 140 M.P.H. at the time of his Porsche accident that killed not just himself, but Zachary Hartwell, 30.

Dunn wasn't exactly the safest driver as many reports talk about past driving issues. He was probably texting, or Tweeting on his samsung htc at the time as well. As any fan of Jackass can say it probably isn't a surprise to see that any one of those guys was in a situation such as this. Living fast and dying fast.

Dunn was born in Ohio and moved at age 15 to Pennsylvania, where he met fellow “Jackass” cast member Bam Margera on his first day of high school, according to a biography posted on his website.

Margera visited the crash site Tuesday, telling WTXF-TV that he was devastated by Dunn’s death.

“I’ve never lost anybody that I cared about. It’s my best friend,” he told WTXF, weeping. “He was the happiest person ever, the smartest guy. He had so much talent, and he had so many things going for him. This is not right, not right.”