Dare to be stupid

No, not Weird Al, who actually is quite a smart and talented man. No, this Nate Dogg (who apparently panders to the poor spelling urbanites) isn't clear whether he signed contracts or not, but is suing anyway+++. So, um ... what would you say you do here, exactly.

Well, I'm never here on time. I'd say in a week I do about 15 mintues of actual work.

Oh, you mean like sing.

I don't sing.

Oh, then you play an intrument.

I don't play instruments.

So ... what ... do, skip it!

+++ "Then there was this (sung 'total eclipse of the sun') and I saw a plant that I could swear wasn't there a minute ago, but the old man sold it to me anyway for a $1.25" Little Shop of Horrors

cartoon dieting

From now on, Bobbalou , I'll be doin' the thinin' around here!
"Kabong!"
"Hi-ya!"

I don't think I'll stick with it, but I hope to drop some weight with regular moving. Winter hasn't given me the hours of sheer joy with shoveling out the plowed in ice-drives of mine and neighbors. Four years ago --- hours upon hours upon hours. That was a workout! I used the snowblower, but the plows would encase the end of the drives in packed ice. Great!

I'll just consult the Hong Kong book of weight loss...
Thanks Scatman!

sign of dweebishness

Monkeyjack had a formula ("I've got an angle, Charlie")+ for calculating after sale costs on eBay auctions. He didn't use excel, but the google spreadsheet app showed the formula. I use excel and tested it to its limits, never having a fast enough machine to get it to do the heinous calculations of 3 years. I later saved results rather than calcluations. Anyway, I looked at the 22 character formula and said, "just like PASCAL". Wow! That's a dead language. I thought COBOL was too, until I saw job postings for it. My brother-in-law understood, from his brother that banks still use it.

Yikes! That's like using druidic code or Latin. That langauge is not developing. COBOL ++ or .COBOL, I don't think so.

+ one of the two funny skits of Heavy Metal, 1976

Hours spent

So, Monkeyjack mentioned EM and his "turn taking" lasting an hour in 'planning' before doin' jack-diddly-squat.

"I remember going to [unsavory locale] Taco Hades, getting back, eating, watching MTV and still -- he had not moved." Ah, Axis & Allies, the takes-forever game. It's more strategy than chess, with that disastrous loki known as lucky dice. You rolled thirty friggin' ones! You blankity blank blank (goes on) cheater! How the! And the game is won by the US that is mostly just a buffer who sends bombers to the UK ... much like the real WWII.

Monkeyjack also reminded me that one evening, leaving the board with all the pieces placed (marking locations, units and their numbers, cash, etc.) Walker had nicely cleaned up the game so that the boys could eat breakfast. Hours -- lost. That was a game I remember playing until 5 am, seeing Goldie in the morning, offering toast, pancakes and cereal. Top it off with some Hi-C, please! Poor John, still in HS, playing until 5, 30 minute trip home, then off to boring senior year. We weren't too kind to him on his last year.

If memory serves me well, Jeff tended not to do the marathon nights like John on school nights.

My father and I used to play the game, 3-5 hours, split over two days. There was a spare room, unused otherwise that was a nice place for the board -- a game in progress.

Haven't written 'bout her in a while

Kari Byron, not just a pretty face ... artistry is her passion. I examined her work. The pictures hint that the work is small and detailed. I found the flash animation belittled her work, but someone opted for the display tool. As a consesuer of art, I think I'm just about as picky with it as I am food and movies.

Sorry Kari, you're sweet, but I don't think I'm gifted enough to understand your work. Mixed media and sculpture -- I think are better received by art buffs. I'm too classical or untrained, as it were, to appreciate the finer works. Unlike art that I would normally trash -- meaning throw into dumpster for geological recyclilng, I can see effort and though processes behind the work. I still do not understand it.

Personally, I like growling

Kittie. "You got a woman to meow?" +

+ Billy Crystal movie, likely City Slickers or When Harry Met Sally

I just don't remember.

I close my eyes, and dream of home

Wasted Years, Die With Your Boots On

Iron Maiden. "Do not doubt the Bruce Dickenson", as said by Christopher Walken on SNL's Blue Oyster Cult skit, "More Cowbell".

iRobot

nope, not an apple product ... a movie supplement. I've already reviewed it. I watched it last night hoping that I would fall asleep, but no luck.

"I don't work for Robots!"

"What's his problem?"

"A robot killed his brother."
(crowd, "huh?")
"Dropped a piano on his head."

You Tube fun-loving Criminals

It isn't the first time the criminals who video taped their crimes will have that used against them. Some years ago, guys driving through town shooting people with pellet guns saw court too. The latest, duh is a case of three teens taping a beating of another teen girl. If you see any of the video, you will please note that they aren't the gansta wannabes or the outlet of urban violence that tends not to be taped. They are indeed, typical suburbanites who filmed the beating of an unliked girl in their school.

Crime has no face, color ... it lurks around. I guess the two things that will make the media drool on this is: young teen girls, white, on internet. Boy -- now that gives the media crap to write, eh?

panicked

"We are doing as much as we can."
Commander Gates does not share your optomistica appraisal of the situation.
I need more men.
Perhaps you can tell that to Gates when he arrives.
Gates, is coming here? We shall double our efforts.

Chimp has surprise for keepers

Yes, despite vascectomies, a female still got pregnanat. Worker Joel Horneytoad specualted that "so cute Teresa" the chimp obviously enticed and teased the male chimps and so much so that the vas deferons reunited. The curator instructed the staff to take samples. She didn't see Joel sweating bullets during her statement. He relaxed when she qualified that the sampels were to come from male chimpanzees. Joel volunteered to take the samples and to label them himself to root out the incompletely neutered male.

In an unrelated event, Joel checked himself into the hospital for a "routine mole removal" and was to be off work for the rest of the week.

Young Franken-tician

But weren't you one of those who voted yes on the war on Iraq? The same war that you are protesting now? The war were we (legislative branch) are arguing over the re-animation of our army?

Yes! Yes! Yes! We all know what I did! I'd rather be remembered for my small and dynamic bitching than my accidental relationship to a famous cuckoo idea.

"... switching from plus to minus and minus to plus . Nay, I alone could be capable of bestowing life" upon this hulk of an Iraqi democracy. "It has rotten brain I tell you." "Ixnay on the ottenray"

So, you put an abnormal brain in a 27 million tall, fundamentalist high, highly aggressive and armed gorilla?
Yeah, that's about it.

"Give him a sedagive"