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Funniest thing I've heard of late:
"I love Mustangs. They represent everything that is America...plastic and stupid." - K. Kapadia

So my Linux experiment had partial success. I chose to go with Mandrake 8.2 based on its reputation for being the easiest install to install and get started with. Well I must say the install was rather okay. Key problems:
- no clue how the OS is laid out on the drive (windows sits in \WINNT, OS X sits in \system and \library and such)
- could not execute any GUI apps (under KDE) unless i sudoed as root
- could not upgrade KDE to 3.0.2 because Qt library update could not be installed
- could not change the resolution after realizing 1024x768 was just not going to work on the old monitor
- during install could not tell how much space each little app takes up and how that effects the overall drive space

All in all pretty annoying experience. I'm gonna leave it alone for now and try again later. MacOS X is god.

You know somewhere deep deep inside everybody wants to help others. Ever wonder why? This might be an answer.

How cool is this? Goes to show how much we know about the Earth.

This story really doesn't sit well with me. Putting a blackbox in cars is not the way to teach kids how to drive properly. Children need to be assured that they can be trusted and that their decisions can be meaningful. Adults who had constant supervision as children and teenagers aren't what I'd call well balanced individuals. How does this type of thing at all help instill a sense of trust and or respect? Constant oversight doesn't work with the society/government model the same way it doesn't work with the parent/child model.

So we detect a large rock coming right at us. Too little data to be alarmed, lets hope its another close call. However if it is on a collision course, it will give the space industry a boost akin to the boost during the cold war, however this time humanity's well being will be at stake, not just democracy. It would be cool though if scientists could figure out some way to get this rock into a HEO and then study it and such and then send it on its way into the sun or something!

Also I need to reiterate that I'm sick of constantly being harrassed to buy stuff online, on the radio, on the television. I offer this very apropos quote right now from Futurama:

Captain Taronga Leela: Didn't you have ads in the 21st century?
Philip J. Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio, and in magazines, and movies, and at ball games..and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts, and bananas and written on the sky. But not in dreams, no siree.

Good night gentle people.

Who said anything about farming?!?!

Hey check out this story. It makes fun of Connie Chung in that cool smooth journalistic mockery kind of way. Heres a tasty morsel of a sample:

Mr. Schaeffer's jaw drops. He begins to explain that he is talking about corporate responsibility, and that he applauds Connie's overweight guests for taking action against Southwest. Chung is too busy readying herself for another flying leap off the deep end to listen. "Why are you filing a lawsuit and making, as some people would say, a mountain out of a molehill?" An unfortunate choice, as some people would say, of cliché, given the topic at hand. But even this gaffe pales in comparison to the incongruity of the graphic placed directly beneath Connie's guests, which reads, "Flying While Fat." It's a wonder they didn't go with something more tasteful, like "Blubber on Board" or "On a Wing and a Lard Butt."

Its just a fun read in this day of millionaire celebrity anchors and dumb people like Martha Stewart.

This just in: Nude man jumps on SUV and rides for 3 blocks. No it wasn't me! I'm in Texas right now.

Thankfully Americans atleast know they're ignorant. My favorite quotes from this piece:

"Despite the painful legacy of the US military involvement in Vietnam, half the adults and two-thirds of the students incorrectly identified Vietnam as an island. Some respondents even thought Vietnam wasn’t a country; just a war."

"More than 80 per cent of Americans did not know that India, with a population that is four times greater than that of the US, is the world’s largest democracy."

So I know that this article is supposed to be satire, but sadly its a little too true to be seriously funny. Its a good way to summarize the general ignorant American attitude.

Also is it weird if I can actually sympathize more with the computer than the human in this story?

Well thats all for the articles for now...this weekend's expedition is to get Linux installed on the old computer. Last night I got the dual boot worked out okay and got Mandrake 8.2 on there, but its running old school KDE 2.2.2 and I want a bleeding edge KDE 3.0.2. Currently I'm in the throes of the upgrade process. Impression so far: Linux is way too fragmented internally and until some kind of standards team (sort of like for the kernel) comes together and irons out the mess the average Joe is not going to want Linux on his desktop

More later for sure.

Raindrops keep falling on my head....

I am tired of studying. I just want to whine whine whine. Its always MARCIA MARCIA MARCIA! I don't know who Marcia is but its always about her and I'm tired of it damn it!

Check out this story. I want to go to one of these parties and get sick everywhere. Added bonus would be getting the host and the doctor super nasty. If I can bring along a friend that can clog the toilets it would be even cooler. If you're good at clogging up toilets email me. I know this is a highly immature way to think about it, but I'm tired and this kind of a solution makes me happy right now. Maybe when I have more clarity of thought I'll come to a better conclusion.

I wish I could make my blog as cool as this blog.

You know I had planned to write really cool and introspective stuff today about gesture based UIs and pie menus and tabbed browsing and Macworld and such, but I swear my mind has turned into peanut butter. None of the math reading is making sense and I'm sleepy. I think I'll take advantage of this rare ocassion of unwanted sleepiness and go to sleep before my body changes its mind. Good night for now.

Guess I'm not wearing pants today!

First things first. There are important lessons I learned today:
1. There are better ways of checking if pasta is done than throwing it up at the ceiling and seeing if it sticks.
2. Do not walk around the apartment with a fork in your mouth. It can hurt.
3. Do not eat ice cream while on the phone because it can get all over your shirt and its not funny.
4. Using an old toothbrush to clean your keyboard is awesome!
5. Duffman rules!!!

Okay back to ranting...

So I often link to the NY Times and they require you to register before you can look at stories which is annoying. So have have a look at this web page which will take care of your NY Times registration woes.

A couple of days ago I was ranting about how there was chaos in the nutritional world because theres evidence that just low fat wasn't good enough. However this research bellows that a balanced diet thats either very low in or one that entirely eliminates animal products is the best way to go. This diet believes in the love of complex carbos and plant life. Oh yea if you're like me then you like to chow down at restaurants. Have a gander at this here article. That bit on Mexican food scares me.

Hey today I came across this car that I want a lot!

Two articles I want to address today. Number one. Number two.

Content (news, entertainment, music, etc.) providers are just going crazy over how to increase revenue. I think there is only so many adverts, especially popup style, people will tolerate...or so I think. Because you have to keep in mind that overall the American population has a staggering capability to be complacent and just bend over and keep 'em spread. With TV though, I don't know. If this plan is actually implemented I may actually just stop watching TV. Obviously theres no easy way to block an ad thats superimposed over the regular programming but the annoying factor is pretty high. Its rather clear that the public really dislikes popups but is too complacent to do anything about it so why not just keep shoving popups and adverts down eyeballs for as long as it can be gotten away with rather than try to figure out innovative ways to advertise instead. However the bottomline is that we the people are people, we are not consumers to be used. I speak for myself. You need to decide if you're a person or a consumer.

For those of you sick of online ads and pop up I would like you to introduce my pal Mozilla. With Mozilla regular ad blocking is very simple. 95% of the ads and 99.999% of the pop-ups non Mozilla users are accustomed to, a Mozilla user never sees. Example: Bloomberb.com with IE (popup advert not shown). Bloomberb.com with Mozilla. Also the Mozilla team is working on blocking Flash ads so that percentage should go up to around 99% of ads totally blocked.

I like crusing the web as a human being.

P.S. I love New York.

I for one love whales

Well it seems the Bush administration really loves animals, what with the plans to drill in ANWR and all and now this (BBC's take). This is some really sad stuff.

Surely its a fair trade to violenty burst the eardrums of whales and other such animals in the name of "national secuirty." Of recent concern to the Bush administration's security commission was an oddly marked migratory bird seen flying from the general direction of mainland China to within 1000 nautical miles of Alaska.

I'm quite sure this harrowing situation immediately prompted Bush to okay this new sonar. Worst part of all this is that the general public will never know about this (if they did would they care?) as whales and other sonar using aquatic mammals with bleeding and ruptured ears die slowly on some anonymous postcard beach.

I just want to know where the proof of credible threat is. Even if it is found and disclosed to the general public is it really fair to toture and kill random whales and dolphins whilst searching for and "neutralizing" this threat.

There has to be a better way than this.

I for one love whales.

P.S. I have yet to find this story on any of the major US "news" websites such as ABC, NY Times, CNN, MSNBC, etc.

Vitamin V deficiency

This entry is being typed on a keyboard so clean and new and good smelling if you were here, I bet you'd cry the tears of a joy only a disinfected typing experience can bring forth.

I hope this isn't just more MS saber rattling. Office is vital to the MacOS ecology and losing that might not be a very happy situation. Of course this is on the eve of Macworld so more than anything its probably MS just trying to douse the Apple marketing fires.

So this is really funny. Check out this story first from the BBC, and then check this story from ABC. Just yesterday I was talking about American media sensationalizing everything. I would like to thank ABC for delivering the proof. The French are not shocked and the Brits are shocked that the French aren't, but the Americans want to believe that the French are shocked while this Indian looks on severely amused. Oh what a tangled web we weave!

Also a very neato story over at Wired regarding fuel cell technology in relation to the auto industry in the upcoming decades. Honestly this just sounds like a lot more PR. They do provide some interesting economic breakdowns to explain the goodness of fuel cell based cars but the problems fuel cell have to overcome like storage, refueling, range, etc. are not easy problems. GM is not doing anything phenomenal here. If some of these fundamental fuel cell problems could be solved the world would be entirely different. Trying to wean the auto-industry from gasoline is going to be hard if not impossible. Also it needs to be mentioned that internal combustion still has a few tricks left up its sleeve like infinitely variable transmission, complex valve timing, and such. Honestly right now this whole fuel cell thing seems as plausible as cold fusion. However, should either one of these technologies get fully refined the world will really start changing, the era after the Industrial Era will begin.

Today I have received a sticker which transcends the boundary of wit society places around sticker kind. This is not merely a sticker, but rather the story of my life. I'll try to describe it but this will be grave wrong. None the less, this is a sticker of a really cool guy, my friend SpongeBob Squarepants. He is without this monikered squarepants and the immortal words, "Guess I'm not wearing pants today!", emblaze this mural of our man SpongeBob. Guess I'm not wearing pants today. Such a simple phrase but with meaning thats older than time itself. I urge you dear readers to shun your pants, for they are all all that is evil with the world today. Boxers. Therein lies the answer. Sheelpi, I love you man!

Guess I'm not wearing pants today.

Say it loud. Say it proud.

Guess I'm not wearing pants today!

P.S. Pants are, have been, and always will be very very evil.

Will the real G5 please stand up.

Well this weekend has comes to its glorius ending. Hands are manicured, face is clean shaven...now to work on that haircut and I'll be more presentable than ever before! I would like to acknowledge that American Airlines has the most room in any of its classes (except for some of those non-stop across the Pacific first classes) than any other airline I know of.

Something I realized this weekend is that the American media system is a huge disservice to anyone who relies upon it. This weekend I got a lot of BBC love and when you watch BBC reporting it just hits you like a 100 ton of bricks that the US news services are like soccer announcers. Everything has to be either sensational or it is sensationalized. Very rarely will anyone come across a piece of just straight up journalism, unless you go digging in a specific journal or a indie-publication. Everything in the news is setup to "thrill and entertain". Sadly life is not enterntainment in most cases and everyone cannot be made to watch the news. However in the free market everyone has to report to the bottomline and therein lines the quandry. You don't make money unless you get people to watch and you can't get people to watch unless it interests them. I don't think state sponsored news services are the answer, because I don't want the government telling us what the government is doing. The answer lies squarely in the hands of the public. Media organizations can really truly hide behind the statement, "We give them what they want." There is real truth to that. However, there has to be a balance I'm sure that can be reached. In the mean time theres the BBC! BBC 1, BBC 2...!!!

Also there is this okay piece on vegetarianism over at TIME. All in all it lays out the facts rather clearly but fails to mention that there are world class athletes who are entirely vegan, namely Carl Lewis. He was vegan throughout his glory days and continues to be so. It was also scary to see how it glossed over so many key points in the argument like efficiency of meat production, waste management with meat production, grain distribution systems, and the many many health risks of meat eating. It was also rather intersting that this article just "threw out" anti-vegetarian arguments like the "problem" of calcium absorption in low protein diets. My paternal great-grandmother was vegetarian, both my grandmothers and my mom are vegetarian and none of them have ever had any issues with osteporosis or bone density nor have I ever heard of a vegetarian indian woman complain of osteoporosis like issues. My great-grandmother was 102 when she passed and she was still able to walk without any problems other than the common age related isses. I really hate it when articles like this throw out "facts" without nary a hint as to the research that points to that "fact."
Also as part of the vegetarian coverage a certain Mattew Cooper did this piece on veganism. I think he should be dragged out into the streets and stoned and then he should be made to watch his SUV burn while I dance around it in a raw pagan ritual. Pieces like that do nothing but spread FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt). He must have really done some huge, not to mention nasty, sexual favours to get that particular piece of garbage published.
On the informative side they also did a nice little breakdown on the various different vegetarian styles. Now thats useful.

Okay now its time for me to head to bed. Its really been quite the weekend.

Like a lava flow...

This story has just taken the rage level up another notch. I thank my parents for not raising me on drugs, choosing instead the tried and true centuries old nature based ayurvedic medicine.

Here is an excert from Lawrence Goodman's article (original) for those of you who just want the gyst of it:

Kathleen Turner was on television recently talking about her pain and suffering. "The damage that I have, the damage I'll always have could have been prevented," the actress told "Good Morning, America" host Diane Sawyer on Feb. 19. Sawyer was sympathetic. Turner, she knew from a previous interview, had been battling rheumatoid arthritis for over a year now.

All of this would have been your standard bit of early-morning show chitchat if Turner had not been paid by two drug companies to speak out about her illness. "She gets a fee," confirms Robin Shapiro, a spokeswoman for Immunex, a bio-pharmaceutical company, which along with Wyeth, funded a media campaign for which Turner was hired to do a number of TV and print interviews.

Boy do I have some choice words for Immunex's marketing department and the rest of the sick cult they belong to.

P.S. Free slurpees at 7-11 today. Its their 75th anniversary.

Rage against the answering machine

I'm sure most of you have caught this story by now. This is the story I wanted to talk about yesterday but the rage level was already rather high so I left it for today. Basically this story is about this message from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). The article tells us that we use more resources (air, wood, water, etc.) from the Earth than the Earth has the capacity to renew. Initially I wanted to ignore this article remembering the environmental claims from the late 70s and 80s of how the ice at the poles will completely melt by 2000 and how world oil reserves would be dry by 1995 and such. My tendency is to ignore fatalistic warnings like this about our environment. However the clearly stated statistics provided in this article really knocked me out.

The article whispers "America sucks!" into my ear, and I fully agree. Obviously its not reasonable to compare the resource consumption of the average American citizen to that of the average third world citizen. However when an organization like the WWF has proof that Americans are using twice as many resources as other industrialized nations it really scares me. Citizens of Asia use resources consuming about 3.46 acres of land, whereas Europeans require 12.35 and Americans require 23.71.

Hmm, could it be that the average American lifestyle is based on an utterly carefree attitude regarding the environment (don't even think of using 'recycling' in America's defense). Hmm, could it be that America is one of the very very few industrialized nations to not have any sort of legitimate mass transit architecture. Hmm, could it be that Americans are complacent to a stupefying degree when it comes to changing their SUV and big house enriched lifestyle. Hmm, could it be that the "super size it" culture is taking a toll in a way where it can't easily be seen. Hmm, could it be that most Americans are too stupid to see the fact that America is not its own magical planet but a country on the planet Earth. I am not afraid to claim that the American citizenry is a veritable repository of ignorance. The common attitude is, "I'm okay and happy now, who cares?" Or the even more ignorant and common opinion, "Land of the free man! Get off my back!" America is truly a delinquent world citizen and needs to have the smack laid down upon it. The claim that economic stability is directly dependent on a lax attitude towards the environment is not valid. I don't even want to get into the whole business of Bush and Cheney bending over for the oil industry which in turn is sleeping with the auto industry.

I think articles like this are true even in today's economic climate. Another article that comes to mind is one I remember reading at the height of the .com boom. It was a piece I read in the SF Weekly about Veblen. Veblen was the man who invented the term "conspicuous consumption." He was a wickedly thorough critic on the fat leisure class and he made the, still valid argument that many in today's world form a direct link between their self-esteem and the possession of material goods. I offer this quote I recall coming across sometime ago, "Americans would start killing themselves when they realize there is nothing left to buy." I feel that quote eerily embodies the culture we in America live in.

One of the key problems is that Americans have gotten used to having information fed into their head from profit oriented media organizations. (Notice I did not use the word news in that previous sentence.) I would really like to see stats on how many American's read news daily that comes from a non-profit and/or non-American and/or "non-conglomeratized" media organization.

I think this article (so happy I saved it locally) in the New York Times Magazine should have been hyped a lot more than it was. Here is quote from the article to whet your appetite, "What grocery-store item is more silent about its origins than a shrink-wrapped steak?" Also if you have interest at all in just figuring out what's going on with the American food industry then you have to check out Peter Singer's Animal Liberation and Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation.

I'm not at all trying to make a case for vegetarianism or veganism, but these books and the article lay bare the mechanisms that make the American food industry tick. If more people knew how their food gets to them and what impact their meal has on the world I think there might even be some change in attitude, a slight awakening if you will. Once again though I cannot ignore the complacency so prevalent in America.

America is not the only one in the world that's fucking up. I know this and I'm not blind to it. However, being quite possibly the most influential (except in France) nation in the world automatically places responsibilities upon America that it cannot ignore. Ignore it has though and to a wretchedly grandiose scale.

If changes are not made, drastically or gradually, humanity will face massive famines and mortality rates that would make the European plagues look like birthing season. If you don't believe me or think I'm crazy here is simple logic: vital resources needed for survival will become scarce. Now apply the concept of supply and demand. Anything that's in low supply will have high prices. As it is most of the citizens in third world countries, a staggeringly large group, can't afford many things (medicine, iodine, clean water, etc.) considered necessary for a reasonable survival. Mortality rates will be catastrophic and will continue to rise until the population thins out leaving behind a human population that the Earth can once again support.

I don't want to imagine a future of where the fat, rich, self-centered, corporate bastards of the world survive and carry on the torch for humanity.

Sunny day. Sweepin' the clouds away....

So a lots been going on around the world. July 4th came and went. The fireworks in Austin this year left a lot to be desired. Maybe I've just been spoiled after the two years of the phenomenal fireworks in Seattle.

Well I've got a lot I wanna get off my chest. To start things off a salute to very dumb lazy and complacent web page makers. Using FrontPage makes you a developer like using a golf club to open cans makes me Tiger Woods. No a person is not a "web developer" if they can't write W3C compliant code or if they just take money to pump out bad code like their ignorant management tells them to.

On a happy note here is a cool page that works in all browser and does cool stuff. Go play and then come back.

Here is how the world feels about America's effort to stop aids. Hey look! Its Britain refusing to own up to its colonial, dare I say, fuck ups.

For those of you who actually caught my rant on ice, it seems another news source has picked up on this $cam.

Talk about throwing a kink in the common knowledge of nutrition. I think I'll just try to stick the whole balanced diet bit. But none the less, "BAH!" to refined carbos.

So the economy continues to crumble slowly. WorldCom CEO and board starts showing their true colours...did anyone want proof of integrity in this situation? I thought that question was answered before it was asked. Those bastards...someone should tell them their local Taco Bell has an opening. This came as shock. $14 billion is a lot to forget about. I would personally like to thank the accounting firm representing Merck for single handedly destroying my mom's stock options, not to mention the FUD caused to other friends. Thankfully our excuse for a president is a frequent bed partner of major corporations so he'll give them a kiss and a hug and tell them to not do it again. Gutless bastard. Its not like he doesn't have skeletons in his own closet.

Too angry to start ranting about the story on the resource consumption story right now. That'll be tomorrow! Now off to bed with a GRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!

P.S. Happy thought before sleeping: Getting caught in a massive thunderstorm on the way home. Getting totally drenched and having lightning strike so nearby that it makes the street lights and traffic lights go out and your hair do funny things like tingle and then try to run away from you.

Pants are still hated....

Apparently piracy is on an unchecked rampage around the world. Understandably many of you are concerned about the legality of the Keyur you may have or know. Is your copy of Keyur legal?

Well you can safely rest assured that it most definitely is not. The world needs to come to terms with the crippling fact that alas there is but one Keyur. The designers who created me are no longer available to crank out the next model in my line. There will only be one version: 1.0. There have been service patches and security updates applied over time like the memorable, "KKB404: don't touch fire patch" of '83. Arguably the, "KKB34889: need to wear clothes in public patch" of '85 was also one of the best ever. However the model of Keyur that walks this Earth is currently the only model available. There is a strong possibility of future copies being made with an appropriate genetic algorithm based mutation to make the new version better than the current 1.0 model, but thats atleast another 7-8 years into the future.

All attempts to make a copy of this version will fail because of stringent anticopy mechanisms built in, there is no deCSS available to defeat the anticopy protection schemes. In the mean time if you find a what appears to be a copy of Keyur please alert the real Keyur immediately such that the appropriate batallions of shock troops can be dispatched to detain the copy and track down the copy makers. Those law breaking bastards! Thats all for now.

Remember, please enjoy your Keyur legally!

NY missage goin on here...

Wow quite the day today! It even had the happy inclusion of some sudden falling asleep on the couch in the middle of Simpsons! Thats hard to come by! The rain though, thats gotta go. In the past 24 hours we've had over 30 inches of rain. Thankfully we're not in metric otherwise it might be like 8 metres or something scary like that. So today I took this test and found out that these are the top 10 cities where this Keyur would be most happy:

1. Seattle, WA
2. Carlisle, PA
3. Rochester, NY
4. Denver, CO
5. Salt Lake City, UT
6. Long Island, NY
7. Colorado Springs, CO
8. Anchorage, AK
9. Pittsburgh, PA
10. Lewiston, MA

Thats an interesting list. I'm very unsure about any of the cities where there is no ocean, I need ocean, ocean good. Happy to see Seattle at the top of that list, but there is a serious lack of NY going on. How can NY not be in the top 10, it doesn't make any sense.

Hey you know this is something that I think is as mysterious as crop circles. I walk around Austin a lot. I see a lot of sidewalk in my day-2-day, and consistently I've seen the word, possibly acronym, MAUFRAIS, at the edge where one piece of sidewalk meets the next. I went to google and did a search, but that only took me to some french pages. I figured it would be a construction company or maybe a concrete manufacturer, but none of that showed. Its rather curious to see this word, I wonder what it means. My best guess is that this is an attempt made by intellingent life from a sparsely populated west Texas county to make contact with civilization. If you know better TELL ME!

Do you use Mozilla? I use Mozilla and I love Mozilla like I would love a pet dog. I hate it when stupid people make stupid reviews of Mozilla. They get a big ol' ARGHHH! A half-assed Mozilla review is like a PB&J sandwish without bread and jelly and creamy peanut butter. While we're talking about stupid, have a looksee at this "news article." The picture should explain exactly what I mean. Jeez!

The people who are responsible for separating chocolate and coffee are a sick sick bunch. Those two flavors should always be together! They originated on the same continent, they start with the same letter in atleast two different languages and they were originally discovered together! I refuse to point to more evidence, as none is needed! Put coffee and chocolate back together!!!!! Mmmm frozen MnMs......

I wonder if the people who appear in AOL commercials are brain dead. Can you think of any other explanation? I sure can't. Yes I hate AOL. Yes I hate AOL even more so than MS. Also its rather brain dead and morbidly sick that Miss Piggy appears in a Denny's commercial ordering 3 grand slams when each grand slam breakfast includes 3 strips of bacon. Not to mention 795 calories, 50gms fat of which 14 are saturated, 460mg of cholestrol and 2237mg of sodium. UMMMMM! Eat up!

Today's gross understatement: US bomb disrupts Afghan Wedding. A disruption is when they government stops the band from playing for a while as they pat down everybody. This was the kind of disruption where they drop bombs from planes larger than the wedding hall and killing 40 people and injuring 70 others. Stupid AP, usually they're not that bad. More proof that BBC is the way to go for news.

This here website tells me that as far as party animals are concerned I'm a gorilla! YAY GORILLAS! I'm a big fan of the great apes so I was rather happy to be a gorilla!

Hey ladies, what do you think of this license plate?!

And lastly, a big HOORRAY!!! for aluminium foil. I could play with that stuff all day and night and then the next day and probably the rest of the week!

Alright now I'm going to go find sleep. Wish me the best.

PS. If you hate spam you'll love this article. It'll give you a picture to focus your hatred upon. What a sad sad sick little man. After you read it, call him and tell him how he makes you feel!

Spill the beans...

Before it spreads too far I want to allay any rumours you've heard or are about to hear regarding my "skilllz" in doing the forbiddenly exotic Baka dance of the African rainforest. Any pictures you see are either product of some evil Photoshop genius or your mind playing tricks with what your eyes feed it. You have been warned. What you believe from this point forth with either be your finest hour or your greatest undoing!!!!

On a less ominous note.

I hate to say it, but I must, <bing>Could it rain any more?!</bing>

Thats all for now. Grab your pants by their seats and hold on for the next bone jarring update. No no, just kidding!

1 for sorrow...2 for joy....3 for girls....4 for boys.

Todays sorrow:
Waking up to a day like this:     .
Truck and SUV commercials.
"Pre-emptive" strike policy. Did you forget Israel/Iraq 1981 already America?
Warm apple juice.
Compu-USA's lies.
Uncomfortable eyeballs.

Today's joys:

Getting wet in the rain.
Listening to the rain.
Living on the 3rd floor.
Getting to keep my $80.00 thanks to Comp-USA's lies.
Mozilla.
You're my hero Matthew Thomas.
Boxers.
Canada.
Sleep. Even if its in the PMAL.