Ustinov was a talented man. He will be missed.

He was once asked what would be his ideal epitaph.

With a familiar twinkle in his eye, he swiftly decided on the perfect inscription for his tombstone: "Keep off the grass."

Dude, my Dell is sick and am I ever sad. Poor Lappy the Laptop. I had noticed that the power input from the AC adapter had been separating from the coverter for about a month. Today it gave up the ghost. I saw that even though the computer was plugged in it was still on battery power. I checked all the plugs and everything was plugged in properly. Still nothing. The next step, naturally, check along the power cord for breaks and there it was the line out was separating from the box. I wiggled it and zap (15kb Wav) I gave myself quite the shock. Yeow! (7kb Wav)

I took a picture of the evil part and where it is broken for you all to see.

I called Dell and explained how my year old Dell Inspiron 5100 notebook computer had a busted AC adapter cord and they said, as my machine is still under warranty I'll get a brand spanking new adapter in the mail in only 2 business days. As it's already Thursday I won't get it until sometime next week, but at least I don't have to spend any cash. I had to give my address twice to the obviously new to English gentleman in the service center and have him read it back. It was wrong of course and I had to correct him. LOL. Anyway, a new part is on the way and Lappy will be back in action soon. I'll have to use him sparingly for the next little while. I don't want to kill the battery entirely because have no way of charging it now. ARGH!

Can you spare a power cord for a laptop? ;)

Bill sent me the link to eBay item which just happens to be the coffin that Courtney Love actually laid in during the video 'Mono' from her new CD America's Sweetheart.

With the way she's been behaving lately you would think it prudent for her to buy it herself. It's almost the tenth anniversary of her husband's death, and if you listen to his music he was crying out for help all along prior to his death. maybe she's doing the same. Who knows?

Still miss you Kurt.

...can kill you.

I can imagine eating myself to death on chicken wings. I love them so. Something tells me that the prize at the end of that chicken wing eating contest wasn't worth the pain and suffering this dude had to endure. Yikes! Thanks to Bill G for the link. I'm busy as hell today.

And in news from Florida (of course) a self professed 'vampire slayer' shot his Dominoes Pizza co-worker in the face as he thought the man was a vampire. The suspect is reportedly fascinated With zombies and vampires. The victim is in critical condition at a Jacksonville hospital.

Zombies I can understand, but vampires are so latently homosexual. *sigh*

Motive sought for slayings of 9
The spooky gentleman in the story above definielty has a screw or two loose. So much so he murdered 9 of his family members, most of whom were children, and stacked them neatly in the lving room. Apparently it was no secret what a nut he had been as is suspected that two of the children murdered were offspring of incestuous relations Marcus Wesson, 57, had with two of his daughters.

First came September 11th 2001, a day we'll all remember for the rest of our lives. Yesterday Al Qaeda claims it has attacked again, this time in Madrid, the date was March 11, 2004 (I know it's in Spanish but there's a link to translate it to English on the site).