January 2004

Cellucosis?

Is there a wood-based equivalent to silicosis? I wouldn’t want to develop Carpenter’s Lung from sanding the floor…

Musings

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Ofra Haza

So I’m listening to the wonderful Ofra Haza’s greatest hits at work yesterday, and notice the name “Flash Gordon” leaping out of the midst of her mideastern song. WTF?

Then, I slipped in the third CD and heard her singing in English, “You’ve Got a Friend.” That’s just wrong. Imninalu and Galbi to James Taylor?

Entertainment

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Weird Searches

People find my site with some odd searches:
pics of knives on stomachs
Star wars Tattoos

Huh? I don’t have any pictures of knives on any stomachs. Why are people looking for some of these things anyway? Odd folks.

Personal

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Another Axis of Evil?

Wesley Clark now says that Bush has created a new ‘axis of evil’. Even in this season of overinflated rhetoric, isn’t it a bit much to equate the perfidy, greed and cronyism of the Bush administration to actual evil? To make the implication that Bush is morally equivalent to Iraq and Syria is a bit too hard to swallow.

I wonder if the candidates are even trying to convince the fence-sitters and moderates any more. They seem to be preaching exclusively to the choir of late.

Political

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Food

# Bake herb-crusted pork roast, covered with cinnamon and cloves and other wonderful spices.
# Fry up some potatoes and onions.
# Steam some broccoli.
# Present this meal to a four-year old boy.
# Watch him put barbecue sauce on the roast and sour cream (!) on the broccoli.
# Be thankful he’s eating.

Personal

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Visited States Meme



create your own visited states map
or check out these Google Hacks.

Memes

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Sir Bill of Redmond

In case you thought she wasn’t senile, the Queen will bestow knighthood to Bill Gates. Yeah, she’s off her nut.

News

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Brown Bread

Boston Brown Bread - love it, hate it, never heard of it? Discuss.

I’ve now got one food product that nobody else in the house will eat. Well, I didn’t ask the cat, but she doesn’t get a vote anyhow.

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Zip Codes are Fun!

The cool Zipdecode Java applet sure can keep me amused for extended periods of time. Kind of neato, you type in a zip code and watch the white dots that show its area. For example, 9 is West Coast, 90 is Los Angeles area, etc. Got to see it to understand its evil addictive ability.

Geek

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Geek Wedding

Ladies, if you got the Matrimony Mod as your proposal, would you be amused or horrified? Seriously, a computer used as a prop for a ring-giving. Interesting…

Funny Stuff

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RHIP

Janklow sentenced to 100 days in jail

The 64-year-old Republican was found guilty December 8 of second-degree manslaughter, speeding and running a stop sign for a collision that killed 55-year-old motorcyclist Randy Scott at a rural intersection on August 16.

100 days. For manslaughter. Think you’d get that kind of sentence for running a stop sign and running over a motorcyclist? Me neither.

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Great Day

Anyone have a car to spare?

Personal

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Senators Snoop! Shades of CREEP!

Infiltration of files seen as extensive

Republican staff members of the US Senate Judiciary Commitee infiltrated opposition computer files for a year, monitoring secret strategy memos and periodically passing on copies to the media, Senate officials told The Globe.

From the spring of 2002 until at least April 2003, members of the GOP committee staff exploited a computer glitch that allowed them to access restricted Democratic communications without a password. Trolling through hundreds of memos, they were able to read talking points and accounts of private meetings discussing which judicial nominees Democrats would fight — and with what tactics.

Political

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Memetastic Mapping!



create your own visited country map
or write about it on the open travel guide

Memes

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State of Something

Kellinator’s State of the Union synopsis falls in line with a lot of my thoughts. I didn’t watch all of the speech. As soon as Bush started praising the USA PATRIOT Act as a piece of essential legislation, I had to leave the room.

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