carol, can you please buy me a Land Speeder?

This is some funny stuff. Poke him in the guts to make hime fart.

Supercalifragilistic - click the read review link.

Please, let it be true!

What a dolt.

Thanks to Moselle for the link.

It serves them right. The RIAA has been threatening the average music downloader with prosecution for the past few years now. People are really getting frustrated at big brother's attempt to force us into a situation where the consumer has no option but to buy a product before we've even heard it or seen it.

That's why I download music. If the album is crap - I don't buy it. If it's good - I buy it. Simple.

They got hacked this past week. Here's a screenshot of one of the pages that the hacker threw up on the RIAA site (which is still down as of this writing). Ha ha!

CBC News: B.C. man found guilty of Heather Thomas murder.

Buh bye dirtbag! It only took the jury 5 and 1/2 hours to convict him. Not eligible for parole for 25 years means see you in hell Mr Dangerous Offender.

Here's what the jury didn't hear.

Finally Rob Zombie's 'Corpses' will be let out in the first quarter of 2003. I've been waiting for this one for a long time. It looks like North Vancouver (that's right a Canadian company) based Lion's Gate Films is running with the project.

Thanks to SneakyPete for the zombie info.

The Mohawk look isn't as hair-raising as it used to be. But I don't know if I'd do it again.



Isn't that pretty? Hehe! I went to a Hallowe'en party dressed as Travis Bickle (played by Robert DeNiro in Taxi Driver). Carol went as Charles Manson that year. The happy couple.

"You talkin' to me?" (56 kb wav)

This is kind of cool.

San Diego vice principal who checked girls' underwear reassigned. I wonder what the motives really were.

I ordered Season 3 of the Sopranos on DVD from Amazon.ca and just got an email that it's been shipped. Yahoo! I found this autographed picture on the NYPost site:



I you want your own copy it'll cost ya!

Carol and I drove in to work today. We saw this guy taking his toilets for a drive.



I guess when you have to go you want to be near the can.

I heard about this story this story on the news last week. First of all where did some dude from North Vancouver (allegedly) get 2,300 unregistered warheads? And what the heck is he doing running an anti-terrorism firm in Roswell, New Mexico?

Where do you go? What do you know? What are you doing in the toilet ghost?



Quit mixing drinks in my living room at 3 a.m. I'm tired of finding threads everywhere. Get off my phone!!!

Wedgies do hurt but this is ridiculous. Thanks Lance.

Pauly sent me this picture. The subject of the email was "No One is Above Suspicion". I like that. Maybe another caption would be, "Osama?" Add your own caption section in the comments below.

No this article isn't about peeing. It's about the bus I take from Waterfront Station in Vancouver every morning.



They have decided to cancel service from Waterfront Station to Burrard Station and force people to take the Skytrain (they just speant a ton updating it) and save them money. It is however going to add about 10 minutes to my commute waiting for a train and then another bus. Dumb idea Translink (as per usual)!

Lots of people are really put out by the changes in transit recently. Frankly, since the bus strike last year I haven't felt too good about giving them any of my money. They have a monopoly though and we have to do what we have to do. Bastards!

On a side note, I got my camera back. It's easier to make the ol' blog more personal with my own pictures. I missed my camera. =(

On CTV (be sure to watch the preview) this weekend is a documentary on first person shooters. This is not a positive look at the gaming community as far as I can tell. I understand, to a point, but come on. It's not crack for God's sake.

I have spent tons of money buying and oodles of time playing 1st person shooters. My favourite of which has been Half-life. At one point I played so much my wife thought I was going to be assimilated into the computer. I was unemployed and needed relief from reality so I escaped into that world. Here are my stats for that time. I was even number one in OZ Deathmatch one week. I still play shooters, but a wider variety now, and not as much. I've even branched into RPG's like Dungeon Siege which I finished last night. Personally, I don't think 1st person shooters have affected me too much. What do you think?



On the upside I have made a ton of friends through online gaming. I still keep in touch with many that I met in cyberspace years ago now and, although I've never met them face to face, they are still friends.

Thanks for the link Chuff! Frag away!

According to FOXNews.com they paid him $200 Million not to attack the kingdom.

Steve Martin narrates his spoof(?) on the struggle of he and Gwyneth Paltrow to conceive a child.

Scan me. Let's get out of this stupid Customs line here in Vancouver and Toronto.

To hell with ethical investments. Try VICE FUND.

On CBC Television tonight you can see "The Godfather part 2". Strangley enough they're palying it in two parts sticking the National smack dab in the middle. They won't edit the movie. Yippee for Canadian TV censors. But, seeing the movie in two parts? What the? Another CBC debacle like the time they cut away to the news during an important football game. Duh!

The New York Times posted a story called Return of a Violence Auteur in which it gives the details of Quentin Tarentino's directorial with a new film called "Kill Bill". I don't think he ever left. Wasn't he the blind, ranting street-reverend in Adam Sandler's Little Nicky just last year?

Anyway, I can't wait to see this flick!

The FBI is searching the former home of Wade Weaver in Oregon City. Weaver has been in the public eye for some time during the investigation and even told the press that he was probably the prime suspect.

The coverage of these horrible events has been intensive, especially in Oregon.



Investigators have discovered two sets of remains at the home. One of which, at this writing, has been identified as that of Miranda Gaddis (see picture below):



Strangely enough a newspaper reported that the father of suspect Ward Weaver is on Death Row in California for two murders, including that of a 23-year-old woman whom he kidnapped, raped and killed before burying her body in the yard of his home.

Thankfully, Ward Weaver is already being held on an unrelated rape charge.

I think it would be cool to work for the Geek Squad. Especially because they drive those cool Geek Mobiles. They are hiring after all and I do want to move to LA.

Finally a Geek who's willing to run for office and stop the insanity. Good for you! You go! She wants P2P for the people.

This hilarious British comedy is finally coming out on DVD. I'm pretty sure my buddy Paul will buy it. He loves these guys. Frankly, I do too. Much funny! Oi!

I've been listening to Pavarotti sing Elephants! Yeah! over and over. LOL!

Get burned up and ground down and made into a LifeGem.

Just kill as many pedestrians as you can. Weeeee! Thanks to Rob Gillespie for the link. "Carmageddon without the wasted driving time!" Hehe! Kill! Kill! Kill! I got 100 my first time out.

I sent Larry and Willy the links to Ellen Feiss's AD and fansites and they posted it on their Geeks Page. Ahhh, that's 4. They need to give me a job there.

Doesn't look that bad. I don't know what all the fuss is about.

Looks like I'm in good company.

Get thee behind me Satan. That's a little extreme don't you think?

CNN.com - Canadian prostitutes campaign against Hollywood. I have one thing to say to these morons:

Thanks for for ruining the film biz in Vancouver for the rest of us! Argh!

Do it! Pull My Finger!

I've been listening to Loveline today. It's a great show that's on in the evenings on our local station MOJO Radio. Loveline is Dr. Drew Pinsky and the Man Show's Adam Carolla in two hours of no-holds-barred conversation on life, love and sex. It's pretty funny stuff. If you can't listen to it where you are or just want to listen when you want to you can download their shows daily on the alt.binaries.great newsgroup in either Real Audio or MP3.

If I can ever afford a new car for my self I might buy one of these:



It is a BMW after all.

Actually, I truly want one of these. MMMM! X5! Tasty! Perhaps when I win the lottery, hit it lucky on the stock market and get signed to a big movie deal I'll get one. They're only $93,000.

French people are bizarre. Whta the hell was this boob thinking?

I stole this from NYTimes.com (you have to register for free to read the articles there).

City Compiles List of Dead and Missing From Sept. 11

By THOMAS J. LUECK

The New York City medical examiner released a list yesterday of 2,819 people it said were killed or missing in the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center.

The list, the most complete official accounting to date of the victims of the attack, was prepared in advance of the Sept. 11 anniversary observance at ground zero, which is being planned by City Hall. At that event, the names of victims are to be read by former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, other dignitaries and victims' family members.

The release of the list before the observance had been requested by several news organizations, including The New York Times. Ellen Borakove, a spokeswoman for the medical examiner, said the list was not intended to be a final accounting of victims, but was not likely to revised before the anniversary. The names released yesterday could not be verified independently after they were provided to news organizations beginning about 3 p.m.

The medical examiner's list was shorter by four names than one being used by the Police Department. Ms. Borakove said the four names were deleted because they included a woman listed twice, by both her married and maiden names, and three others who were reported missing shortly after Sept. 11 by people who have not been in further contact with the city.

The medical examiner's accounting included a breakdown by age, finding that the largest number of victims ranged from 30 to 42.

It said the largest number of people of the same age were those who were 37 years old, of which there were 121 victims. There were six victims 4 years old or younger, and four victims 80 years old or older, the report said. The children were believed to have been passengers aboard the planes that crashed into the trade center.

Carol and I used to work here. It was a very interesting and often rewarding experience. I learned a lot.

Television Without Pity is an awesome site with hilarious episode per episode reviews of the latest TV faves.

My friend and co-worker, Kevin Chan, has been working on a project with a company in China that makes Moon Cakes. I've never had a moon cake but Kevin Assures me that they are good. Moon Cakes are made especially for a Chinese Mid-autumn Festival. Kevin is designing the whole ad campaign for Maxim's Cake Shop (they actually have 10 stores in the small City of Macau).

Here's what he did (in his own words):

In case you're wondering, I did 2 metal boxes design for the moon cake. Also design the plastic wrapping for the plastic knife inside the box. The wrapping for the moon cake inside the box. I also did 2 big posters for the bus stop. similar design for small flags for hanging the the stores, and similar 2 for instore use. A long vertical banner to hang in the store...
Also, design the 4 draw coupons, gift certificate, envelope for gift certificate, new product intro card, plastic bags for carrying the moon cake, 2 sided Boucher 5-6 newspaper ads. And there will be a 6 x7 meter big poster!

Below is a picture of Kevin's work, a poster on a sign, in Macau.



You can click here to see an even larger version of the sign. The box that the poster is on is lit up at night. Very cool. Nice work Kevin Chan!

There are two new airlines in Canada. The rates look cheap cheap! Check out Zip and JetsGo. I hope they stick around. Competition for the government subsidized Air Canada is much needed.

UPDATE: Thanks to Bill Gorman, intrepid reporter, for the following info. ZIP is owned by Air Canada. If you go to the Air Canada home page and mouse over the "Air Canada Family" link on the top menu, ZIP is right there after Tango. Bastards! Trying to sneak one over on us again! Tell your friends.

Look at the review for The Master of Disguise (2002): Dana Carvey. I get the feeling this movie stank.



Thanks to Glenn Taylor for the link.

I know I emailed this to some of you but here it is again: Batman! (604 kb mp3)

It looks as though the Nemisis was looking ion the wrong place for Batman. He lives in Canada, and has a residence on St Joeseph's Island (featured on W5 last night regarding a murder investigation) and in Bridgewater, NS where I grew up. Batman!

HAHAHA ... der zerotv.com | guess my name

I just read this load of bunk (not Canadian at all) on the Baltimore Chronicle site. I'm Canadian and I would like to say to all my American friends that this man, by no means, has any right to speak for me or any other Canadian for that matter. What an idiot. I felt disgusted to have any association with this moron.

Frankly I think a public spanking, stripping of this guy's Canadian citizenship and a deportation to Afghanistan is in order. Maybe we need to start a petition to do just that.

Shame on you Mr. McDougall. Go back under that pile of crap you slithered out from under.

Yes, we care too.

If you want the Smurfs to remain a pure fun little kiddie cartoon in your mind, DO NOT watch this. It takes a while to download, but it's sort of funny. Smack dat ass!

Play a game of Space Rock. Don't get the little dude hit by a big ol'asteroid. ** No I don't know what it says **

It's almost time for Survivor 5. The Next season starts on Thursday, September 19. Woohoo! Who will be th first to be voted off the island at tribal council?

Want a funky search engine? Look at Kartoo.

Now that's a lot of money. I understand why they're doing what they are, but is there even that much money on the planet? There are 600 families taking part in the suit. If they do recieve that award that would be $193,333,333,333.33 (or $193.3 Billion) per family; a ton of cash. Just to get your head around how much that is Bill Gates is "only" worth $53 Billion.

Cool Beans ... Seanbaby's Super Friends Page

If you travel over to the Kermitage you can learn a bit about every muppet character imaginable.

Carol bought some Kleenex boxes that have the muppets on them. I can whip out a snot rag and blow the ol' honker whilst looking at Fozzie and the Swedish Chef.

This is just wrong.

I was watching, listening and laughin at Let the Bodies Hit the Flo. It's a flash movie set to Drowning Pool's hit Bodies. The lead singer of Drowning Pool was found dead in the bunk of their tour bus on the Ozzfest tour on August 14, 2002.

Right away I hear that a young rockstar has died and my mind goes directly to drugs. Strangely enough, Williams' autopsy was inconclusive. It's going to be interesting to find out what actually happened. He was only 30 years old.

My designs are not the most skilled or, are they the prettiest. I sure hope that my stuff looks better than this guy's. Yuck.

The posts from yesterday are as my boss would say, "Titso!"


I tried to upgrade to the latest verison of Nucleus and somewhere along the line my database got completely farked. Argh! I was up really late trying to recover from error after error with no luck. So I downloaded and installed b2 which turned out to be another great blogging program. I did a little (I mean little) debugging and had that up and running. I didn't sleep very well though thinking all of my content was gonzo.

However, I got to work this morning and found backups of my database and the older version of nucleus. So, we're back to the same old thing. But hey, it's the devil you know and I do like nucleus.

OMG! MANties - Panties made just for men

UPDATE: I sent the link to Larry and Willy and they put it on the FOX Geek page again. That's 3! They didn't mention me by name, but who cares. The FOX stll rocks and so do Larry and Willy.

You may want to buy this book.

Interesting reading at MSNBC: The human cloning dilemma

I was reading the online edition to the Bridgewater Bulletin, the newspaper from NS that I'm subscribed to, and found an interesting article. An old friend of mine, Richard Corkum, suffers from a rare disease (only 4000 cases worldwide) called Fabry's Disease. He has become quite active in clinical studies and drug trials through a company in the US. He also built a website, fabrysociety.org. As the disease is genetic, other members of his family also suffer the disease to varying degrees.

From his site:

"What are the symptoms of Fabry's disease?

Boys with Fabry disease usually have discomfort of the hands and feet with abnormal sensation (paresthesia) or burning pain by adolescence. Red raised lesions known as angiokeratomas occur on the skin and within the mouth. The ability to sweat is decreased. The cornea and lens of the eye become clouded.There may be painful abdominal crises. Renal impairment may require dialysis or kidney transplant. The kidney failure may cause hypertension. Heart function can be impaired.

Females with partial enzyme activity may not show any symptoms or only late in life. Impaired heart function may be their primary problem."

Richard and his nephew, Jamie Hirtle, also suffering from Fabry's, have been traveling to the US to participate in research. The drug companies and the American government have been footing the bill for them to take part. However, the Nova Scotian and Canadian governments do not cover treatment of this sort as it is rare and still experimental. Of late the two have been receiving bi-weekly transufusions of enzymes that have helped to reduce the symptoms of the disease.

Hopefully, once the trials are over, either the Canadian and Nova Scotian governments, or the drug companies themselves, will pony up the dough to keep Richard and Jamie going with treatment.

Good luck Richard. Activism for such a positive cause gives you nothing but good karma.

According to The Register the people who own the rights to Godzilla have had their lawyers bully blogger Davezilla about his use of a little dragon for his logo and the name ending in -zilla. Everyone's guess is that Mozilla is next.

Wow! It's pretty neat to be involved in such a new medium. We get to see laws developed to handle something that was so small 10 years ago that it didn't require laws. Hopefully the good guys (the little guys like us) will win. I don't think Davezilla is going to hurt Godzilla's rep. There's a string of terrible films that have already taken care of that.

Go get 'em Davezilla. Call me Lunchzilla!

HAHA! SuperGuy is just a guy!

Remember Ellen Feiss the obviously stoned Mac switcher?

Wired says Apple 'Switch' Star Flies High.



Personally I think Ellen is cooked out of her noodle. I've watched her Apple Switch Ad a few times for comic relief. She even has her own fan club now. Way to go Ellen.

Who knew taking a few hits off a bong could get you so far in life? All it did for me was make me want to listen to Marley and Zepplin and eat donuts.

Give that poor girl a box of Oreos for God's sake!

I would love to get a Backstage Pass to find out what really happens after the show. I'm sure it's not pretty.

Food. Oh yeah! Pant! Pant! Gimme Food Porn.

Hiccup! Don't be a boozgart and drag your de-boned arse over to The Lush Lexicon for a bad case of the bedspins.

Carol's family went to Zimbabwe a number of times when she was young. So the recent troubles are of specific interest around our house. Bob Swift (the man on the left in the picture) was the Tour Operator with whom they stayed.

Mr Swift has also been active throughout the years as the VP of the Commercial Famrmers Union and as a patron of the Sebakwe Black Rhino Trust. Not too mention being involved in the civil war in Zimbabwe.

The Caddicks (Carol's family) befriended he and his family and are concerned about what's happening over there. I guess we'll update as we find things out.

HAHAHAHAHHA! Does your car have balls? If not get some at Truck Nuts. Look at the Nut Shots link on the page.

According to Yahoo! News Vancouver born actor turned race car driver, Jason Priestly was nearly killed and broke his back in a racing accident in Kentucky yesterday.



Priestly was one of the stars of the former hit series Beverly Hills 90210 created by Aaron Spelling.

Hopefully Jason will make it through this none the worse for wear. We're pulling for you here in Vancouver. You're a good Canadian kid, as Hockey Night in Canada guru Don Cherry would say.

Our next door neighbour, as some of you know, is an idiot, a screamer and a classic abuser. She berates someone and then becomes sickeningly sweet once she realizes that there may be consequences. She never quite takes responsibility. Carol and I have started calling her Ike. She reminds us of Ike Turner in his relationship with his wife Tina (see below):



We saw the Turner's life together depicted in "What's Love Got to Do with It", where Ike was played by Laurence Fishburne (who was also Cowboy Curtis on Peewee's Playhouse), and hilariously (yet sadly) played by Tim Meadows on Saturday Night Live.

It goes like this: Smack! "Oh Baby, Ike's sorry. He won't do it again" Smack! "Oh Baby, you shouldn't upset Ike like that. Accidents happen. It won't happen again." Smack! etc etc...

In Yahoo News today they are reporting that US Attorney General Ashcroft go after Internet users who swap songs. They're talking jail time and everything. LOL. Sort of sounds a little Nazi-esque if you ask me.

I remember trading CD's and taping them in the 80's. In the 70's my friends and I traded LP's and taped them. We did this a lot. I guess retroactively we should all be thrown in the slammer.

Come take me a away because in 1976 I taped my buddy's Boston album. Oh no!

Here's a note to the RIAA: First of all, you suck. Now that I have that out of the way I can really rant. Perhaps record sales are down because CD prices are too high. It's a bad investment for consumers to buy a CD without hearing the whole thing first. Bands like Metallica are losing money because their stuff sucks lately. The market is saturated with so much crappy music that people are just not spending. Also, I'm in Canada. Why the hell do you have jurisdiction over me?

I bought (yes, bought) The Eminem Show. Why? Because I downloaded the whole thing and liked it. I do that with every CD I buy now. Some suck so I don't buy them, others, like Eminem's I buy ... because they're good. Do you still want to throw me in jail even though I by (some) CD's afterward. There would be a lot less people free to buy CD's at all. Bring back Napster! End of rant... Myahhhhh!

I sent Larry & Willy at CFOX the link to Itchy Richie (remember him?) last week. They must have liked it because they posted it on their Geek of the Week page. You'll see my moniker right under the Itchy Richie link. I've been on the FOX geeks page twice (the first time was with lunch) now! Uh, thank you! Thank you very much! HEHE! I'm a stah! I'm a stah!

Maybe they'll give me my own lame-assed radio geek-type humour show one day. Ahh, the dream of stardom. In Vancouver at least. Film school has got to pay off somehow. It was frigging expensive.

It looks like Amazon.ca is not going to have an easy run at the web bookselling business in Canada. The already established Chapters/Indigo.ca is whining. Go Amazon. I have used the Chapters web service a number of times and have had horrible experiences. The service is trés bad and the prices are, in some cases, 30% higher than Amazon. Hopefully the competition will remain. This country needs a lot more of it to get the economy going again.

No not the ABBA song. That's Super Trouper. This is the movie. These Super Troopers are on a new DVD that Carol bought for us today.



You can watch the (very funny) 8 minutes of the film or the trailer right here.

These guys are from Vermont, and actors. I'm not a big fan of real State Troopers especially those in Washington. One gungho radar happy weiner gave me a ticket on our way back from LA. It costs $160 Canadian to go 13 miles over the speed limit there. The guy got me dead to rights, and I wasn't willing to argue. I think he wanted me to. What a weirdo.

I'm listening to Weezer right now. The blue Album; their debut (see below):



One of the coolest songs on this great CD is Buddy Holly. The video featured scenes from Happy Days!

Carol and I saw them a few years ago. They were great but I think the lead singer was drunk. We could have seen them at the Whiskey-A-GoGo in LA when we were there, but were too late to get tickets. The line was huge.

and growing!

This show: Banzai!!! Is sooooo funny. Carol and I saw it last year on my Dad's satellite TV package. Now that we get CityTV here in Vancouver we can watch Banzai!!! on Wednesday nights at 10 and 10:30pm (2 episodes). Shake Hands Man is a favourite of mine!

Prace your bets NOW! Banzai!!!

If you're sick of my lunch you may want to see what people flying on various airlines are having for meals. A great use of this site would be to check out what tragic culinary disaster you're going to be subjected to if you take XYZ Air.

Thanks to my old work pal, Duncan O, for the link.

I stayed home from work today. I feel like I've been driven over by a hummer with studded snow tires on.



I have a headache, sore throat and I'm congested. I don't think I ate something bad. Those symptoms are more cold or flu like. Maybe I caught the Norwalk Virus from one of the folks who were on the Holland America cruise ship that got sick last week. It's been all over the news here.

Looks like Spirit Air has a great idea: Spirit Air to Offer Free Seats Sept. 11
They're going to be busy that day.

They're high and not just because they're in a plane. Perhaps this article:
Navy Publication on Giving Speed to Military Pilots
might help to explain what happened to the Canadian Soldiers killed on the ground in Afghanistan in that "Friendly Fire" incident.

I saw this article on memepool this morning and began to ponder.

It seems that every culture on Earth has it's own idea of where we come from. Darwin says evolution is the answer (time for me to read my copy of The Origin of the Species). People who take the Bible literally believe in creationism. Me I believe what I've heard about evolution, but in no way do I believe that excludes God. Pretty heavy topic, but worth the brain power.

Carol, her mom and I went to see S I G N S on the weekend. I loved this movie. It was well worth paying the full Friday night price at the Silver City Coquitlam - Famous Players theatre.



The movie stars Rory Culkin, Joaquin Phoenix and Abigail Breslin all pictured above and Mel Gibson (below) as a farming family that discovers crop circles in their Pennsylvania cornfields and the strange events that follow:



M. Night Shyamalan has done it again. I'm a huge movie fan and this guy never falis to impress me. I can see how some people may not appreciate his work, as you have to LOVE movies to get some of it. Someone who goes to see a film to zone out rather than to have an experience may not enjoy it at all. Since The Sixth Sense I have looked forward to and been impressed by each of this man's offerings. I can't wait to see what's next.

I'm 33 today. I feel like this guy:



I never though I would care about getting older, but it's starting to bug me. Who knew? It's not like I'm eighty.

Sharing my birthday with me are astronaut Neil Armstrong, Carol's cousin Matt and actor Chuck Campbell who strangely enough was born on exactly the same day as me in the same town and most likely in the same hospital, Grace Maternity in Halifax, NS. I'm adopted so who knows if our paths crossed in the nursery.

Also, on this day in history (August 5 1962), Marilyn Monroe was found dead in in her Hollywood home. That was exactly seven years before I was born. Maybe I am her reincarnated. Seven Year Itch?

Lots of other things happened on August 5th throughout history. Probably the coolest of which is that the Beatles released their Revolver album in 1966. It was voted best album ever in 2000.

NOTE: To see some of the content for August 5th on some of the above links you may have to enter the date in the form on each website. Durnit all!

Every year our friend Bill works at the Molson Indy. Now we know why:



Hehe!

It took place last week. I'm watching the re-run of it now on TV. Dario Franchiti, the husband of actress Ashley Judd, won the race this year. She was there cheering as her hubby got the checkered flag.

I worked there in 1999, but haven't been there since. I think it would be fun to go as a spectator sometime. It's pretty expensive, but a good time. I must admit I like watching the crashes. But not as much as some people (yuck).

I love the Rock 'em Sock 'em Rabbis. Oi! Vat a beating!

This crater could be the reason theere are no more dinosaurs.

Archaeologists are mapping the Valley of the Kings. One day Carol and I will travel there. I have wanted to see Egypt since I was a youngster.

I took Driver's Education when I was in High School. I learned to drive in a crappy little blue Chevy Chevette. In Robert Pelton Young's book, Come Back Alive, he talks about how it's always the other guy in the Chevette with no breaks hurtling down the hill toward you that's going to kill you, not weather conditions or anything natural.

My friend, Ken Richardson, who I used to drive around (quite insanely fast) with in High School sent me the funniest Driver's Ed SWF I've ever seen. I almost peed my pants! Strangely enough Ken works on a pit crew for a racing team. Zoom!

Hmmmm... I wonder what ever posessed this guy to do what he allegedly did?

If anyone has seen the Austin Powers movies you know about Mr Bigglesworth, Dr Evil's cat. Hairless kitties are apparently quite trendy. My dad is a vet and he says that these poor felines are prone to acne. Ew! Cat pimples. Wasn't that a movie in the 80's? No wait, that was Cat People.

Here's Harley:



She's not a hairless cat by any means, but she's is old. She lives with our friends Kate and Tommy (aka Schlemiel). Harley is 16 (I think), blind and deaf. She still gets around though. She's a dignified old lady for sure.

It looks like MSNBC let the shot go too early and it went wide of the net.

According to MSNBC News the Great One may be planning to come back to the NHL as a player.



Pilar says he's "pulling a Michael Jordan". I hope Gretzky's comeback (if it's true) is more successful than Jordan's. Mike has been plagued by injuries and looking look an old fart on the court (he's still better than everyone on the court).

I just took this 5 Minute IQ Test and scored pretty well, 141. I tested at 147 in high school so it looks like all those years of abusing my brain haven't done me too badly. Is 6 points a lot to lose? I guess if you're a carrot or a wrestler.

My score qualified me to be a member of the High IQ Society. I think my IQ would drop 40 or 50 more if I were to actually pay the cash to join.

I guess some people have no shame. What folks will do to get a date is often quite revolting. Albeit, funny.

We don't live in Boston and have to take this train. I smell a law suit.

Hold down the left button on your mouse to pee in the snow. Then you can send your creation to a friend. Hehe!

There's lots of jabber around the net and in the news about a possible US attack on Iraq.



This is kind of weird if you ask me. All this talk prior to an attack doesn't make good tactical sense. Hello, the element of surprise is kind of a good thing if you want to win (see D-DAY). At least there's been a spin put on things in the way of disinformation. Perhaps it's the CIA, or maybe even the Masons.

Ain't global security grand?

The Internet has added a whole new aspect to warfare. You can look at the Al-Qaeda's Traning Manual on the American Department of Justice site. Hmmm... Are you helping or hindering terrorists?