If only the "anti-napster" crowd would read the statements made at the Baen Books Free Library they'd understand just how damned stupid they are acting.

Just what we all really need - download and print your own ASCII porn calendar! Ahh, the wonderful old days of ASCII graphics, back when printers printed ONLY text characters and we were THANKFUL for even that, are but a fading memory now. Check 'em out, and if they don't look like anything try stepping back away from your monitor a bit or squinting your eyes, some of them are VERY well done...

If you didn't already know, our friend Chraig is to blame for EVERYTHING that goes wrong in the world. There is even an internet address dedicated to him at http://chraig.zuber.really.fuckingsucks.net/ if you don't believe me...

Yesterday was definately a good day. Although it started out thoroughly disorganized, a few hours later we had managed to construct a small firepit to cook on despite frequent rain and some less than helpful persons who if they had spent more time helping and less time drinking and being obnoxious would have not been tired, wet and drunk to the point of being miserable by 9pm! The raising of the tarp for shelter was somewhat less than successful, despite the use of a large peice of earthmoving equipment though - more forethought needs to be put into that for next time...

...and check out that door on the trailer...try walking down an entire hallway painted like that to go the bathroom after a couple or four drinks!

Did you think Windows ME wasn't worth the cost/trouble to upgrade? Did you say, "I'll wait until the next version?" Well, the wait is nearly over and Linux looks better than ever.

This amusing blog/story is a perfect complement to the Onion article I read a while back titled "Gay-Pride Parade Sets Mainstream Acceptance Of Gays Back 50 Years." Creepy! (link courtesy of Fresh Hell)

We have finally taken another step in space exploration that rivals the Apollo moon landings - the only nagging question is, how much do you tip the guy?

Here's a nifty litte tool I found on the net tonight to display graphics and web pages to simulate color blindness. The picture above is what the 3bruces site looks like to someone who has deuteranopia (a form of red/green color deficit.)

Of the many alternatives to Napster that I've seen, Nudester, supposedly for searching out adult content, is the strangest yet. After looking around the Nudester site, I came to the conclusion that it is nothing more than a marketing tool and has nothing to do with file searches - the software is PC only and I don't have Virtual PC installed on the new Mac yet - anyone game to try it?

What work has been done on this blog so far is pretty cool! It's Bloggus Caesari - the weblog of Julius Caesar...

And, in other news, here's a picture I took of our Taco Bell around 2:30am this morning...



...and I refuse to make ANY cracks about "fire sauce"!!

Sure, I've heard of "geologic time" but geologists have to be the only people that can use the word "current" and the phrase "near real time" in reference to items that haven't been updated in over 10 hours!



I did find some info on past quakes here in the northeast and found that out of the 11 quakes over 4.0 magnitude that have occurred in the past 25 years, I've actually felt three of them (1979APR18 at 02:34: magnitude=4.0: Bath, ME / 1983OCT07 at 10:18: magnitude=5.1: Goodnow, NY / 1983OCT07 at 10:39: magnitude=4.1: Goodnow, NY (Aftershock)) Make that four now...maybe. I still can't find any confirmation over four hours after the event...

Hmm, looking through our last 50 hits this morning was interesting. Our search engine hits ranged from the rather mundane search for problems with ie 6.0 beta (we ranked 8th) to the rather more racy illegal alcoholic porn pics (we ranked 6th.) It just underscores the importance of submitting your site and setting up good META tags.

Accck! It's the third sign of the apocalypse! William Shatner hosting an american version of Iron Chef?! How damn stoned were the execs at UPN to make them think that this was a good idea?

It seems that Julie over at Accidental had a problem with men being pigs when she went out last night. I apologize for those ignorant savages dear Julie and praise you for having a wee bit more restraint than this woman!

Well, I'll toss my daily visits into the ring:

Accidental
Firblog
Swallowing Tacks
The Ultimate Insult
Metafilter
Memepool
Three Nasty Assholes
Blog By Night
what's in rebecca's pocket?
not.so.soft [meg pickard]
Fresh Hell
filch | chronotope
leiascofield.com
gammatron

There are more on my favorites at work but this is the meat of my visits...

I figured I'd blog this especially for our friend Tom K. who wants to open his own restaurant at some indeterminate point in the future. It a blog created by two individuals who want to open a restaurant in five years or so who are tossing around ideas and getting input for others. Actually, it's pretty interesting even if you aren't so inclined...

Still haven't found anything truly weird to buy on the net? Try looking around over at Disturbing Auctions where my currrent favorite has to be the Great Big Sack O’ Crap™ which is no more than a bag filled with mostly unnamed items valued at over $100 (it's at $41 with 3 days to go!) They even promise that if the bid amount goes over $100, they'll throw in MORE crap!! All proceeds from the sale go to Project Angel Food which prepares meals for homebound AIDS patients - how can you go wrong?

Looking for pornography?

I can't even begin to describe the sight of a naked Elvis impersonator (not the stamp Elvis, the FAT Elvis) running amok in the audience screaming incoherently. Before viewing any of the videos (especially this one), you may want to wait for the mailman to bring your vagina washing anti-bacterial rod - they'll leave you feeling soiled and used...not that other Elvis impersonators leave me any less queasy - Extreme Elvis is just over the top!

Ever thought about getting yourself a mail order Asian bride? Well pick another source. ANY other source...

Hallelujah!! Blogger seems to be working - if only temporarily! We apologize for the lack of posts of the weekend but Blogger was giving us a lot of problems...we love Blogger but maybe I'll give Greymatter another look...

So long and thanks for all the fish!

Author Douglas Adams, creator the Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Dirk Gently, Holistic Detective series', died yesterday of a heart attack at age 49.

All Your Smurf are Belong to Us!! (hey, blame The Ultimate Insult for bringing it to my attention!)

In another blazing victory for tolerance, anti-hate groups (who hate hate itself, which should keep them pretty busy) have managed to get all Nazi and KKK memorabilia banned from eBay and Yahoo! Auctions (odd that on 6/16/00 Yahoo! said they would never remove those items.) The result of this stunning victory? Now instead of those lame URL's you get to type BidNazi.com for auctions or visit Stormfront.org and discover tons of hate propoganda in conjuction with your auction browsing. Nice going guys, keep up the good work...

Elise over at Swallowing Tacks referred to men as being "freaks" when she blogged the homepage of the U.S. Lawn Mower Racing Association's Official Web Site. I hate to have to break it to her but there are female lawn mower racers also. My brother only spent 4 hours at the hospital and three days off of work last week after being thrown from a speeding lawn mower - don't laugh, he was doing about 45 miles an hour at the time. Here are more examples that if you put an engine on something, some idiot somewhere will want to race it...

This is only one of the many fine examples of Japanese "Engrish" to be found at the Japanese Engrish Page. It is to reading much fun there! If you search Google you'll find that there are over 5,400 pages on the net with the word "engrish" on them. One might think that the Japanese don't understand Americans too well - but you'd be wrong...

Monsteruation got you down gals? Never fear! The Mighty Midols are here to save the day! I could have gone the rest of my life without seeing this - but it is VERY well done... (Lifted from A Fire Inside)

Need to know just what is inside a frog? Well, there is the slow, educational method and the reliable fast, fun method!

While you're there, check out some of the other games and cartoons at Joe Cartoon like "Catch and Release" and The Original Joe Foreman Micro-Gerbil 2000 - or maybe even my personal favorites, Cat Fight and Look at My Monkey!

Why just punish mimes for their crimes against humanity? The World Anti-Mimimic League is rallying like minded persons to oppose mimes, clowns, Cymbal Monkeys and other threats to civilization...