How to apply one's compulsions to good effect

Good effect? Its possible. Or maybe it is testiment to a hording, materialistic society. Either way, it is a fascinating display. Scoll down to the "Cartoon Figures Collection."

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Can you really do this?

The judges decision reads:

[Defendent] asserts that when plaintiff 'delivered' his sperm, it was a gift. There was no agreement that the original deposit would be returned upon request.

It is one crazy story. Read on...Link

Jesus Inspirational Sport Statues

One of these would go great next to my porcelin buddha or hawaiin hula girl...Link

One question. How long will it takes for Steph to notice that Jesus H. Christ is not wearing protective head gear? Bad Jesus.

Costco bling bling

If you are like me and enjoy scoring sweet deals on the internets, this is for you. Link

One question. What is the point of pricing it to end in .99? At this price point, does the psychology apply?

Be on the Lookout for Known Terrorist M'Balz Es-Hari

If you had three miller high lifes and your wife is out to dinner with the ladies, you'll enjoy this. Otherwise, nevermind.

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Excerpt...

Tom Ridge: Good afternoon. In the past few weeks, through our national hotline, we have collected hundreds of names of suspected terrorists, and I'm proud to say that most of the calls have come from high school and college students nationwide. In fact, we received over 475 calls alone regarding this man: M'Balz Es-Hari. We also received information on such nefarious terrorists such as Graabir Boubi and Haid D'Salaami...We are also currently searching for a man we believe to be a al-Queda lieutenant: Hous Bin Pharteen, his cousin I-Bin Pharteen, and their close companion, I-Zheet M'Drurz.

And so it goes. Another beverage for me.

Workin' on a building

I installed Picasa2 and it has this tool that creates collages. Pretty cool...

Valentine's Day wrap

This was our first valentines day that we (er, Steph) prepared cards for Sam's and Oliver's classmates. Oliver's cards said something like "Someone loves you," which is complete horseshit. ODB's only love at school is snack time. I've asked him repeatedly "what'd you do at school today?" and the only thing he's ever divulged is the snack menu.

The occasion did give me an excuse to get Steph this sweet, cuddly teddy-bear doll. She liked it. Steph got me a DVD of the Ali G show, which I've already watched...twice. Boyakasha! I think Marty B (my mom) would definitely like this guy. His show is sort of the MTV-equivalent of Candid Camera (which Marty and I used to watch together back on Pomona St. in Ann Arbor).

The Baby Name Wizard

Now this is one cool Java app. Link

How to find God?

Use Google Maps, of course. It seems god is currently residing somewhere in Kansas (link: Google Maps - god). And is Elvis' neighbor, apparently (link: Google Maps - elvis).

Crazy shit.. no make that diarrhea

More humor for Dad's graduate students. Read the entire post, including the pics at the end. Link

The emperor of vulgarity

Mike Carlton, of the Sidney Morning Herald, opines on dubya's inaugural:

George Bush's second inaugural extravaganza was every bit as repugnant as I had expected, a vulgar orgy of triumphalism probably unmatched since Napoleon crowned himself emperor of the French in Notre Dame in 1804.

The little Corsican corporal had a few decent victories to his escutcheon. Lodi, Marengo, that sort of thing. Not so this strutting Texan mountebank, with his chimpanzee smirk and his born-again banalities delivered in that constipated syntax that sounds the way cold cheeseburgers look, and his grinning plastic wife, and his scheming junta of neo-con spivs, shamans, flatterers and armchair warmongers, and his sinuous evasions and his brazen lies, and his sleight of hand theft from the American poor, and his rape of the environment, and his lethal conviction that the world must submit to his Pax Americana or be bombed into charcoal.

Difficult to know what was more repellent: the estimated $US40 million cost of this jamboree (most of it stumped up by Republican fat-cats buying future presidential favours), or the sheer crassness of its excess when American boys are dying in the quagmire of Bush's very own Iraq war.

And so on and so forth. Read the whole thing. Link