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The prudes didn’t catch this, did they?

Sunday, October 29th, 2006

Saturday Night Live was a must see for me last night cuz Hugh Laurie was on. While I love House M.D, it’s his comedy that made this a must-see broadcast. An appearance by Borat on the show was an added perk (along with Beck as the musical guest).
Of course, Borat did what [...]

Screw Firefox’s new close-tab buttons!

Thursday, October 26th, 2006

BAH! I lost a great blog entry I was working on because I clicked the X on Firefox 2’s browser tabs instead of the tab itself!
Let this be a lesson, kids, that Ctrl+Tab to shift through Firefox/IE browser tabs is a wise thing to do… Oh yeah, and save-save-save work in [...]

The most powerful ad of the campaign season

Saturday, October 21st, 2006

You know, there are ads out there right now that can be looked at as low blows. There are ads out there that can be looked at from either side of the fray as “the truth”.
Lemme submit another one to you — Michael J. Fox:

If you’re like me — you grew up with Michael [...]

Just an example of how to liven up “How are you?” generalities in internet conversation

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

Get in an instant message conversation with me and you never quite know what to expect. See below:

Jenna: good job on the newsletter as always
Me: thanks
Me: how u be?
Jenna: good
Jenna: you?
Me: horrible. I got a flabberjabber in my doyathunkis and the wangdoodle ate my hornswogger. It’s been a vexing day of diddlydum and [...]

birthday observations

Saturday, October 7th, 2006

OK so today is my birthday (October 7th)…
It’s also the birthday of Shawn Ashmore who plays Bobby Drake/Iceman in the X-Men movies.
Coincidentally — the character Bobby Drake and his birthday is also supposed to be October 7th.

Who was that masked man?

Wednesday, October 4th, 2006

I got a memory sticking out in my mind in the Tampa Bay area. One that doesn’t have an answer every time I look around Google or something…
I can remember in the early 1990’s here in North Pinellas, there was a candidate running for office that was of some noteriety… He would end [...]