My daughter's 24-day summer trip:

Europe 2007

New Look - New Feel!
After 4 years, I thought it was time for a change. Of course, like most things web, the change is mostly cosmetic. Let me know what you think.

The Return of FRAMPS

They said it couldn't happen!
They said it wasn't true!
They broke all the rules!


Who the heck are *they*?????


Framps has returned.

You know who you are and if you belong.

Go there now.

BBspot - How White and Nerdy Are You?




How White and Nerdy Are You?

Where am I today?

Microsoft(R) Firefox | We've Made it Better

YouTube - "Office Space" Recut

...as a slasher film!

Where's my money ?!?!?!?!?!

I received a dollar bill the other day as change for a purchase. I noticed an odd stamping on it. It read, "http://www.wheresgeorge.com". Intrigued, I surfed to that website and learned that it is an informal site to track the physical location and progress of currency as it moves around the US and globe. "My" dollar bill started it's journey in Ohio and it is currently here. Now if I could only find my keys and Waldo ....

Check out Saturn, the Earth, and the eclipsed Sun...

APOD: 2006 October 16 - In the Shadow of Saturn

There's a cloaked enemy vessel somewhere nearby .....

Cloaking Devices - now at your local drug store.....

Well - almost... :-)

The 2006 Winners!!!!

Improbable Research

My two favorite:

LITERATURE: Daniel Oppenheimer of Princeton University for his report "Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly."
REFERENCE: "Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly," Daniel M. Oppenheimer, Applied Cognitive Psychology, vol. 20, no. 2, March 2006, pp. 139-56.
WHO ATTENDED THE IG NOBEL PRIZE CEREMONY: Daniel Oppenheimer

MEDICINE: Francis M. Fesmire of the University of Tennessee College of Medicine, for his medical case report "Termination of Intractable Hiccups with Digital Rectal Massage"; and Majed Odeh, Harry Bassan, and Arie Oliven of Bnai Zion Medical Center, Haifa, Israel, for their subsequent medical case report also titled "Termination of Intractable Hiccups with Digital Rectal Massage."
REFERENCE: "Termination of Intractable Hiccups with Digital Rectal Massage," Francis M. Fesmire, Annals of Emergency Medicine, vol. 17, no. 8, August 1988 p. 872.
REFERENCE: "Termination of Intractable Hiccups with Digital Rectal Massage,"
Majed Odeh, Harry Bassan, and Arie Oliven, Journal of Internal Medicine, vol. 227, no. 2, February 1990, pp. 145-6. They are at the Department of Internal Medicine, Bnai Zion Medical Center, Haifa, Israel.
REFERENCE: "Hiccups and Digital Rectal Massage," M. Odeh and A. Oliven, Archives of Otolaryngology -- Head and Neck Surgery, vol. 119, 1993, p. 1383.
WHO ATTENDED THE IG NOBEL PRIZE CEREMONY: Francis Fesmire

CBGB's is history....

My Way News - CBGB Hosts Last Concert Before Eviction

and now here's what will replace it...

Got your bot yet?
Your news will be here

Where are you going to spend the weekend?

Sun and Toyota obviously believe it...

... and my name is Jawaka Whorfin...

CBGB's is history....

My Way News - CBGB Hosts Last Concert Before Eviction

and now here's what will replace it...

Got your bot yet?
Where are you going to spend the weekend?

Sun and Toyota obviously believe it...

... and my name is Jawaka Whorfin...

A must-have for every System Admin and Network Manager....

ThinkGeek :: USB Missile Launcher

The DVD rewinder - DV Guru

A serious bug...
Germany - Google Maps

Cowabduction.com

Keepers of Lists - Top 176 Star Wars Lines Improved By Replacing A Word With "Pants"

Some thoughts (for bumper stickers?):

"1. My husband and I divorced over religious differences. He thought
he was God and I didn't.
2. I don't suffer from insanity; I enjoy every minute of it.
3. I Work Hard Because Millions On Welfare Depend on Me!
4. Some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them.
5. I used to have a handle on life, but it broke.
6. Don't take life too seriously; no one gets out alive.
7. You're just jealous because the voices only talk to me.
8. Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.
9. Earth is the insane asylum for the universe.
10. I'm not a complete idiot -- Some parts are missing.
11. Out of my mind. Back in five minutes.
12. NyQuil, the stuffy, sneezy, why-the-heck-is-the-room-spinning
medicine.
13. God must love stupid people; He made so many.
14. The gene pool could use a little chlorine.
15. Consciousness: That annoying time between naps.
16. Ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
17. Being 'over the hill' is much better than being under it!
18. Wrinkled Was Not One of the Things I Wanted to Be When I Grew
up.
19. Procrastinate Now!
20. I Have a Degree in Liberal Arts; Do You Want Fries With That?
21. A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
22. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.
23. Stupidity is not a handicap. Park elsewhere!
24. They call it PMS because MadCow Disease was already taken.
25. He who dies with the most toys is nonetheless dead.
26. A picture is worth a thousand words, but it uses up three
thousand times the memory.
27. Ham and eggs. A day's work for a chicken, a lifetime commitment
for a pig.
28. The trouble with life is there's no background music.
29. The original point and click interface was a Smith and Wesson.
30. I smile because I don't know what the hell is going on."

A Human Clock.

Be careful!!

Static Electricity Gas = Bad

A Prairie Home Companion from American Public Media: "Having been called names, one looks back at one's own angry outbursts over the years, and I recall having once referred to Republicans as 'hairy-backed swamp developers, fundamentalist bullies, freelance racists, hobby cops, sweatshop tycoons, line jumpers, marsupial moms and aluminum-siding salesmen, misanthropic frat boys, ninja dittoheads, shrieking midgets, tax cheats, cheese merchants, cat stranglers, pill pushers, nihilists in golf pants, backed-up Baptists, the grand pooh-bahs of Percodan, mouth breathers, testosterone junkies and brownshirts in pinstripes.' I look at those words now, and 'cat stranglers' seems excessive to me. The number of cat stranglers in the ranks of the Republican Party is surely low, and that reference was hurtful to Republicans and to cat owners. I feel sheepish about it.
"

McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Three New Mac Ad Ideas.

This is totally astonishing... from several angles.

Waxy.org: Daily Log: Sex Baiting Prank on Craigslist Affects Hundreds

This is The Most Incredible Knife but it's NOT a pocket knife, I think....

» You Might Be A Redneck If: | The New York Nerd

YouTube - Vader Sessions

Used FAQs

Icon War

Use the AOL Stalker

Coolest internet bandwidth test site .... EVER!!!!

Visit SpeedTest.Net
Here are my results:


What are yours?

Hostess Twinkies Sushi!

This is amazingly stupid - I cannot believe that AOL would release this data...

The Paradigm Shift ? Blog Archive ? AOL Search Data Shows Users Planning to commit Murder.

Error Message Gallery

Upside-Down-Ternet

Good Morning Silicon Valley: We thought you said spend the $200 billion on "dark fiber"

Assemble that Ikea computer desk...

DevilDucky - Star Trek Sings Knights of the Round Table

How big is this web page?

The Deep Sky Frontier

YouTube - A Comcast Technician Sleeping on my Couch

YouTube - look around you maths

DARN, I missed this one!
eBay: Titan 1 ICBM Missile Base - Located in Washington State (item 4455060285 end time May-11-06 09:44:19 PDT)

Great Minds Think Alike Dept.


Link: Weird Al Yankovic Releases Free MP3

Weird Al just released a parody of James Blunt's "You're Beautiful" on his web site, as an mp3... it's being "slashdotted" I think, hard to hit.

What's scary to me is that I have a file on my laptop timestamped June 1st - I was "inspired" after hearing the song for the 200,000th time that morning. I have to admit I looked at the real lyrics and now that I know what he's really singing it's not as bad as I originally thought, but no matter...

My lyrics:


"I'm Pitiful"

I am a moron.

I'm such a moron.

Brain cells are few.
I saw a Devil.
Her face was turning blue.
She screamed at me on the subway.
Her shopping cart was large.
I think she was a bit confused,
She said her name was Marge.

I'm pitiful. I'm pitiful.
I'm pitiful, it's true.
I saw your face in the Subway,
And I wanted to throw up on my shoe,
Hope I'll never be like you.

Yeah, she caught my eye,
As we walked on by.
She could see from my face that I was,
Freaked OUT.
And I don't think that I'll meet her again,
Especially if I happen to see her first!

I'm pitiful. I'm pitiful.
I'm pitiful, it's true.
I saw your face in the Subway,
And I wanted to throw up on my shoe,
Hope I'll never be like you.

I'm pitiful. I'm pitiful.
I'm pitiful, it's true.
I saw your face in the Subway,
And I wanted to throw up on my shoe,
Hope I'll never be like you.

If you see a devil with a face so blue,
Don't dare let her know that she was noticed by you,
And if you think she figured it out, you probably oughta run.
Get out of there, go home, and if you have one find your gun!
But if you don't and she traps you there...
You might set fire to your hair...

I like Weird Al's lyrics better, but then of course - he's Weird Al. I bow to the master.

YouTube - SmackBook

Live from San Francisco, Scott McNealy | CNET News.com

Turn Your Mac Into A Jedi Weapon

MercuryNews.com | 05/01/2006 | Divorce battle offers peek inside Fry family finances

It's the end of an era ....

A cloudy day today in Mountain View as famed Sun Microsystems' CEO Scott McNealy steps down after 22 years at the helm ....

IT Conversations: Jonathan Schwartz - Syndicate

Quite a day at Sun...

Here are some quotes from Jonathan Schwartz and Scott McNealy from one of the Blogs at Sun

Asteroid ? Easter turducken!

Uêba - Incredible Little Mech Sculpture

The Pledge of Allegiance Gets Product Placement (Chris Pirillo)

I WANT THIS LAPTOP!!!
The Lenovo Tapes - Kent

The "I'm really surprised" Award.

Today Microsoft announced a delay to the initial release of Windows Vista. I am so shocked!!! A company with the clout, the financials, the brain-trust. I can't imagine something like this ever happening in the past ........

Great Idea for your next party!!
Pikachu Hors d'oevres

This is parked across from my office right now...
Airliners.net Photos: Qantas (John Travolta) Boeing 707-138B

Hey hey, Barbarino!!! (showing my age here...)

Bert Rockets in Space?

Are iJeans next ????/

Just when you thought it was safe to purchase that next pair of Jeans....

Hell Freezes Over - pt 2 ....

There was another dramatic shift in the Force today as Apple unleashses new machines with Intel Inside .......

NOW!!! You too can...

Create Your Own Dan Brown Novel

Mooning Deemed 'Disgusting' but No Crime in Md.

The Ultimate Showdown

You're safer if you get closer to God!

A recent study performed by Insurance companies learned this amazing fact!

And you thought cleanliness was the only thing you got by getting close to God...

Would'ja believe .....


Goodbye!

Don Adams of 'Get Smart' Dies at 82

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Don Adams, the wry-voiced comedian who starred as the fumbling secret agent Maxwell Smart in the 1960s television spoof of James Bond movies, "Get Smart," has died. He was 82.

"Say goodnight, Little Buddy ..."

A friend from the 60s, Bob Denver, warmly known as "Gilligan" to the world has gone on to meet the Skipper in the big shipwreck in the sky ....

Nanotech-laser kills cancer, preserves healthy cells ...

Now this is something to get excited about....

This could save lives!

Noises off in memoriam for Bob Moog, a true pioneer ....

CNN.com - Panic ensues in rush for?cheap laptops - Aug 16, 2005

HAPPY System Administrator Appreciation Day Friday July 29th 2005

Watch the series starting tomorrow night!!!! Incredibly GOOD.

Whedon flock ready for 'Firefly' resurrection - Yahoo! News

Bad album covers - Boston.com - Music - A&E

"To the moon, Alice ....."

Today marks the 36th anniversary of our first landing on the moon. In proper Internet etiquette, Google recognizes and salutes the date with a wonderful tribute!

Don't forget to check the FAQ!!!!

The Etherkiller

Wait! I just felt a disturbance in the FARM .....

Heh, heh

Keep hitting "next cartoon"...

The Munitz Collection

Wait!! I just felt a disturbance in the force!!!!

Apple announces transition to Intel chips ....

It's a new bright SUNny day .....

Sun's acquistion of StorageTek fits in nicely with their new swooooooooosh ...


Can we think of any other S's that might fit in well with Sun????

Symantec?, Sony??????

:-)

Security Awareness for Ma, Pa and the Corporate Clueless: "Security Awareness for Ma, Pa and the Corporate Clueless

The Security Awareness Blog gives computer security tips and tricks to government, corporations and home users. Our brand of Security Awareness training and materials is sponsored by Winn Schwartau's Security Awareness Company (Interpact, Inc.) We focus on the people - not the technology."

Great article on why Windows ain't all it's cracked up to be!

Dimes Must Die

From Fark: lightsabers played a role in history...

Microsoft-Free Home Part 4: LinTV - or MeTV

The Linux HTPC--ExtremeTech Build It Yourself!

Time Travelers to Meet in Not Too Distant Future - New York Times

Sanity has prevailed!!!!!

A very recent and timely decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals has ruled the FCC Broadcast Flag to be illegal!!

Read about it!

http://What an Idiot...

Finally!!!

The solution to DATA BACKUP and RESTORE that we've all been waiting for and needed!!!!

Phidget Gallery - DartMail

Save or EAT Toby?

Rainbow - Twangers Clip - TV Episode - innuendo Script with Zippy Bungle George Geoffrey

A virtual Philadelphia comes to life ...

But where do I get my virtual Philly Cheesesteak?

Zombie Infection Simulation

T-Shirt Folding Lesson

"Lego OCD" - this is astounding....

Abston Church of Christ

Steve Jobs Secret Weapon has infiltrated the enemy compound .....

What's the secret?

Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-haaaaaaaaa!

Now I have no excuse for not going to the dentist.....


See the dentist???

Rambling Remblog

It's a whole new wide wide world of search!!!


Don't leave home without it!

Red Yak - How Much Is Inside Cookie Dough Ice Cream?

The Ten Axioms of Modern Computing

Thought Of The Day

Well - all I gots' ta say...

On Tuesday, Vote your conscience.