dante cordova
A Victim Of Marketing

Thanks Kelly for sending me this story.

The 52-year-old man, whose name wasn’t released, was checking in the weapons at the front desk when he noticed one of the guns had the hammer cocked. He reached for the .45-caliber weapon and it fired.“A Chino Hills man who brought six guns to test fire at Bass Pro Shops accidentally shot a woman in the buttocks inside the store Sunday…..

Read the rest of the story here: http://www.dailybulletin.com/ci_15103119?source=rss_viewed

The Googles has me. Today I did a Google search on my name and the top 4 results are all me. Its kinda scary. I know I have somewhat of a unique name… but still.

The good news is that all the information that the Googles has on me is all information that I can change or control in some way. I guess this a good thing  that I have taken “control” of my online identity. But I really don’t know…. I’m just saying stuff.

A few Saturdays ago  (5/1/2010) was Free Comic Book Day. It’s a day when all the participating comic book shops across the nation give out free comic books to anybody thats willing to come down and get them. Free Comic Book Day is the first Saturday in May.

This is the first time the kids and I have ever been to a Free Comic Book Day. This fine event took place at my local comic book shop (four color fantasies). They had comic book characters walking around taking pictures with everybody, comic book artists and inkers signing things and giving away free on the spot drawings of pretty much anything you wanted, Free hot dogs, nachos, free face painting, and a bounce house.

Zach and Syd got to spend some time in the bounce house, then they got their faces panted. Zach went with spiderman. Syd got a butterfly (what else would she get?). The kids also got free movie posters 5 comic books each and other nick nacks.

Lastly I had one of the artists sketch out Zach and Syd (see the images above). He charged just 5 bucks each.

All in all it was a wonderful time and it only cost me 10 bucks that i didn’t need to spend. If you have kids I would encourage you to take  your kids out next May for the awesome Free Comic Book Day!

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Today a mile stone has been reached! my son Zach can passed his very first video game. he has spend a quite a few weekends on and off playing Kung Fu Panda on my xbox 360. every time getting a bit further in the game. well tonight he has completed all levels and has beaten Tai Lung (last Boss)!

i could not believe it… he is only 6 years old. I’m pretty sure i didn’t pass any games until i was like 15 years old. anyhow as a recreational gamer dad. i am happy to see zach start a game and finish on his own steam!

Well done son!

I wanted to put up more (cause i have more to put up) but my breaker box says “No!” [sadface]

(10) Nike sport case
(5) XtremeMac Onyx – iPhone/iPod Touch Case
(4) General Camera Bag
(6) Fart Pens
(1) Hip Hop Hippie
(0) Bags of Texas air

Kinda Crappy, But no matter what still worth my 8 bucks.

Well my ship has finally come in. I am now the proud owner of a 100% authentic woot.com “Bag Of Crap”. For those of you that don’t know what im taking about, a bag of crap is assortment of wonderful goodies that woot.com sells to us for only $3.00 + $5.00 (shipping).  What’s in the bags of crap?…. Nobody knows for sure…. but one thing is for certain…. it will be awesome (at least to me).

When my crap arrives on my porch ill be sure to post pictures of what is inside…. one can only imagine!

Thank you Jesus!

I have created a “Wish List”. So if you want to buy me something because God is leading you to do so. i am providing you an avenue to do just that. Thanks in advance.

Link: http://amzn.com/w/BQPAMFWLAWW

I just wanted to say “Thank You” (belated) to everybody that made my birthday very special. i don’t know why… for some reason this past birthday of mine (im currently 31) just felt extra happy and extra nice. Several people took me to lunch and or called/emailed/texted me. i felt very significant . So “Thank You”

All of your guys are the coolest in my book.

Big thanks to Kelly. You so are gifted in many many ways, one of those ways is being able to celebrate people in such a way that makes us (me) feel worth it. one of many reasons i LOVE you.

I was at lunch today @ Tacos Baja for 99 Cent Fish Tacos Wednesday. I snapped a pic of this on the way out. Give me your interpretation of this sign. BTW the sign lights up with you press the button at the bottom.

The following are from this weeks top FML that i wanted to share:

Today, I got a red light camera ticket for $100 in the mail. After checking the date and time, I realized it was from when I was rear ended into the intersection while STOPPED at a red light. FML

Today, I fainted on the sidewalk. When I woke up, I was still lying on the sidewalk, people were stepping over me and my purse was gone. FML

I “drew” this last year when zach and I were drawing stuff together. I found it the other day and thought it be a wonderful thing to subject you to. So there.  I think I got the “squaryness” of my head pretty good.

Here is a question for the dudes and maybe even the dudettes (you never know)

When you relieve you selves at a urinal… how do you aim to minimize the sprinkles?

Why this question is being asked:

I have been using urinals since I was in kindergarten and nobody ever told me of a magic way to use these urinals without getting any sprinkles on your pants, shirt, or shoes.

Now I’m taking a big risk right here. I just admitted that I can’t control my stream enough to not get any sprinkles back on me. so I want to assume that you have the very same problem and you are not saying anything about to keep yourself feeling cool…like you are in control of the sprinkles and they don’t ever hit you….ever! Don’t lie!

Just tell me the secret way that you use to minimize the sprinkles.

I’ve noticed a common thread about personal blogs…. the comments seem to be pretty slim.

Blogger: You the author of a blog and you feel that nobody is really reading/caring about what you are saying. You want that small connection to keep on typing. You want to know that somebody is there and that your words aren’t getting lost in the vast nothingness of the internet.

Reader: You are a frequent reader of personal blogs and you enjoy reading them, yet you don’t comment. You don’t feel like you have to… you don’t feel like your comment is even worth typing and you are happy just to read what’s there and you move on.

Solution? Every time a blogger asks “are you there?” the audience seems to always respond: “I’m here”

What I am going to do about it: I’m going to ask you questions and I hope that you answer them. I’ll start off my asking the men how they use a urinal.

We recently put Zach in Mixed Martial Arts class through the city of Rancho Cucamonga. Our first impressions of the class were kind of unsettling. By the end of the 1^st class he had learned to go from a full mount to an “arm bar” (a type of submission). At the end of his class I was kind of blown away with all the intensity and the teaching of advanced techniques (in my opinion for a 5 year old).

The good thing about it was that Zach seemed to like it quite a bit even though he had to fumble around to do what the other kids were doing. I have always been uneasy with “play fighting” with Zach. I don’t want him to “play fight” with the other kids at school or church and hurt somebody unintentionally.

Now that he is in MMA, I want to make sure Zach only uses his new powers for good and not evil!

Below are pix of him learning the “arm bar” (cell phone pix)