tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-215087792011-09-11T12:22:44.724-05:00Confessions of a stoogeDazed and Bemusedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09209573930978084833noreply@blogger.comBlogger2351100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21508779.post-68764107524745154152010-10-05T14:42:00.000-05:002010-10-05T14:42:56.246-05:00

It was a warm, though not altogether hot, June day back in 1971, a time when my family still lived in New York. This particular day was special, as I was graduating from kindergarten from Cedar Street School in Uniondale. The school no longer stands, being razed a year later and eventually turned into a park. It should also be noted that the original building of the high school I graduated

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The weather improved somewhat the day after our excursion into Manhattan, enough to allow me to take my daughter to Jones Beach to swim in the ocean. As I watched her play in the water as I did more than thirty-five years earlier, numerous memories came back to me: of splashing about the water and usually winding up with a mouth full of salt water at some point. Memories of trips to the beach

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Our first full day on Long Island was very much a Día de los Muertos. I wanted to go pay my respects to my paternal grandparents, but as things turned out, it was a bit more than that. With my aunt in tow as my GPS system, we headed off for our first destination, St. Charles Cemetery in Farmingdale. I knew my grandmother was interred there, but I had no idea of how many other family members

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You can’t go home again, so the adage goes, but you can sure as hell try. I’ve observed and experienced a sort of disconnect when someone or someplace ceases to be part of your life for a while, only to re-enter it at a later date. There’s the familiarity, but it’s not the same. Your life has moved on, their life has moved on, new friends have entered your inner-sanctum, replacing those who

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The hardest part, for me at least, of keeping a blog is coming up with topics to write about. I like my privacy and would prefer to keep vast portions of myself to myself and not out there on the intertubes--though sometimes I've given thought to creating a second blog, random and anonymous, to write about my dark side. To those who have already thought it, no, this isn't my dark side. Perhaps

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It’s that time again. U-Haul trucks are much more prevalent on the streets of town. They’re back—roughly 32,000 students are descending on town after three months of relative quiet in town. Certainly the local merchants are glad to see the students, and their wallets, return. For us locals, we kind of get used to the lack of traffic on the roads and not having long waits at local restaurants.

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February 2009 - that's the last time I posted an entry to my blog. At the time I had nothing more to write about, or so I thought. There's only so much mileage you can get writing about politics or the crappy drivers at my daughter's school. Add to that other distractions, in particular focusing more on digital photography and trying to become better at that hobby, and, well, the blog took a

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After some careful consideration, I've decided that three years of keeping this blog is enough. I thought I could make it to a fourth year, but that won't happen. There are other venues for writing that have been keeping me occupied of late, and that's where I'll be. So it's time to take out the proverbial bowling pin and beat this blog over the head. Thanks for reading.

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This should be enough to psychologically scar the average toddler.

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2009 has gotten off to a whiz-bang start. Just a few days into the new year my car began giving my trouble. Might I add at this point that a mini van makes an excellent traffic control device when it stalls in the middle of morning rush hour traffic in a school zone. Fortunately someone came along and helped me push my van into a nearby driveway and out of the traffic. Off to the shop with

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If you've seen the film Blazing Saddles, then Madeline Kahn's faux-Dietrich accent in the title will make sense. Once again I've neglected my blog. I was giving thought of shutting it down come January, 2009. It seems that the shelf life of your typical blog is three years, so it seemed natural to pull the plug on this distraction at that point. But something wonderful happened to me this

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The frequency at which I've been blogging has decreased quite a bit over the past year. This is due in large part because I've been focusing more time on my Flickr account and trying (trying is the key word here) to become a better photographer. I have a shotgun philosophy when it comes to taking pictures: point and shoot everything you see, then decide later on what's worth keeping. There are

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Hypocrisy...it tastes just like chickenhawk.

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With the Election Day less than a week away now, the frequency and negativity of political advertisements have picked up dramatically. That's really been the case in the senatorial race between incumbent Saxby Chambliss and Democratic challenger Jim Martin. Things have taken a turn for the ugly between the two campaigns, with allegations flying back and forth every 60 seconds. I'm assuming the

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You mean to say that it's been over a month since I last posted a blog entry? Geez. Not sure what I should write about. I could write about the U.S. presidential campaign, but I'm getting kind of tired of it. I've cast my vote already, so be done with it. I could write about the 10% budget cuts we're expecting at work for next year, and how unsuspecting students are about to get waylaid by a

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Can you smell the hypocracy? Can you taste the double standard? This election is about issues, folks. Don't fall for manufactured circus sideshows.

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I recently took my family out to dinner at a local restaurant. From a neighboring table I overheard one of the more ridiculous comments I've heard of late. A young man with his girlfriend and his mother dining with him said, "One of the things I really want to do before I die is go to Vegas and lose $1,000."Such aspirations! Still, it doesn't top the comment made by a girl I worked with 15

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Have you ever wanted to know what a garbage truck full of kittens sounds like when you drop the truck off the Empire State Building? Here ya go. Enjoy...or not.

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With the remnants of Tropical Storm Fay loitering around the Southeast, dropping lots of rain on the region, they've issued a flash flood watch for a goodly portion of northeast Georgia. In response I say, it's about goddamn time we got some rain. Bring it on...six inches, eight, twelve...it's doesn't matter, we need it. The main river through town which is our primary source for drinking

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Recently I took a longer and more scenic route to work, as I needed to put gas in my car and the bank having just approved my small business loan, everything was a go to put half a tank in. Unfortunately on this particular day, I was frequently delayed in going from gas station to the deck where I park my car. On this morning the sororities on campus were starting their Panhellenic festivities

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I'll admit to being a bit surprised and disappointed to read that my friend Todd Mitchell decided to close up shop at his Article of Faith blog. I really can't say I blame him, though. For three years he frequently posted his running commentary on the political issue of the day, and did so in a much more eloquent manner than I could. So that's one less blog I'll have to look forward to. Still

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I've blogged before about how, to drown out the background, I listen to the local police scanner while at work. It can be very interesting, especially listening to transmissions during foot chases. Right now is not one of those interesting times.About an hour before I wrote this the police received a call from someone who claimed that he had hurt his wife and was threatening to hurt himself.

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...if you take your wife and kids to Chuck E. Cheese while wearing a shirt bearing a happy face and the caption, "Smile if you swallow." Yeah, I did see that this evening.

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I don't know which is more disturbing: the Japanese penchant for violent, anime porn, or this video.

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Sometimes I'm dumbfounded at the toys that make it to market, though I'm not sure this one's legit. This one's just wrong, and dad looks a little too eager to get peed on.

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I've ordered a number of things online over the past several years, and generally have had good experiences with both vendors and shipping services. As a rule, I usually will have things delivered to me at my work address so that an unattended box is not sitting on my front porch during the day, just waiting for some little shit to come steal it. That's not very likely in the neighborhood where

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Sometimes things are just not as they appear. Sometimes our intuition says that something must be so, but it just doesn't turn out as we expect. I was reminded about that recently in a story that a friend of mine told me. He and his wife are on a mission to get back in shape this year, and so have purchased all the accoutrement's necessary for exercising. One evening his wife was online and

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Or so my boss apparently thinks I am. This morning I had to distribute info sheets to my fellow staffers with our raises for next year. To describe our raises as a pittance would be an understated insult to the word, "pittance." What we'll do with the extra $50 a month (after taxes) we'll never know...perhaps purchase half a tank of gas?But what irked me was the cover memo my boss included

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Thank goodness the Cold War geo-political chessboard wasn't decided by breakdancing. Otherwise, we'd have received a serious smackdown by the Soviets.

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They're all over the internet--digital images of bad album covers. The imagery runs from outright laughable to what-the-hell-were-they-thinking. I thought I had seen all of the bad covers out there, but I found a few recently that deserve commentary.Buy my record or I will eat you. Little David Wilkins, king of all the taverns. At first glance I thought perhaps he was British, but the lack of

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One of the downsides of getting older is that some of your bad habits from your younger days begin to manifest themselves. In my case it has been my diet, or lack there of, which was made even worse during my college days when I had to eat what I could when I could, convenience over quality.At my last doctor's appointment this past November he noted that my bad cholesterol was kind of high. Of

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Listen my children and you shall hear, a nightmarish tale (or video in this case) from the 1980s: actor Alfonso Ribiero hawking his "Breakin' & Poppin'" video. Welcome to Hell, kids, and it's only $19.99 plus shipping and handling.

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Five weeks. Thirty-five days. Eight hundred and forty hours. Fifty thousand and four hundred minutes. That’s how long before the family and I head off to New York for my first visit there in thirty years (I’ll spare you the weeks/days/hours/minutes break down of thirty years). But who’s counting? I am! It was roughly this time back in 1978 when my dad received a phone call from my uncle

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The funniest thing I've seen in a while on You Tube. It's a clip from Detroit's Fox affiliate of one of their on-air talents reading text messages sent by Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to his chief of staff, Christine Beatty (despite the fact that he's married). Kilpatrick is facing multiple felony charges of perjury, misconduct in office, and obstruction of justice. The only thing missing from the

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Hello, blog. I've been neglecting you again and I'm sorry. Life's been busy lately and, well, it's been hard for me to see the humor in things. Not to mention there hasn't been much time to take a simple idea and try to develop it into a full blog entry. No promises, but I'll try to do better.Life's been kind of a drag of late, but it hasn't been without its surprises. Work has been really

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Mr. Sulu, set phasers to kill it with fire and eliminate it from our collective memory!!!

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Introducing the Thudguard, the "Infant Protective Safety Hat." When I was a kid we called these things "helmets." From their website: "Learning to walk in a world of hard surfaces can turn a special moment into a heart rendering incident in a flash. It's normal for young children to sustain bumps and bruises occasionally as part of exploring; the problem is this kind of fall is very common in

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I try to maintain a laid back lifestyle and personality. I don't wear my heart or my politics or my personal beliefs on my sleeve, and I certainly don't try to ram them down someone else's throat. Live and let live; what may be okay to me may not be so for someone else. But not everyone lives by that viewpoint.Yesterday after work I had to walk downtown to take care of some minor business,

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Wow! For whatever reason it appears that the number of visits to this blog has spiked of late. I've no clue as to why that may be, so I guess that less attention should be paid to my Flickr account and more time spent writing.Despite all the bullshit I've had to deal with lately, I'm in a good mood. My braces have been a mixed blessing, as I've lost around 10-15 pounds (it fluctuates) since

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Happy St. Patrick's Day.

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Yesterday I had the most unpleasant task for a pet owner, that being making the decision to put down a suffering animal. My dog Zachary had been in my family since December of 1992, an addition to the household after losing two dogs the year prior. A few minutes before midnight on New Years Eve 1991, the dog I had had for almost 16 years died. I gave myself a few months to get over that loss

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A friend of mine just sent me a link to an article that included this video. Texas Republicans set up the voting districts so that the one for Prairie View A&M University was several miles away from the campus. A number of students from that school, wanting to participate in the state's early voting, did what anyone else would do: they marched several miles down the highway, blocking traffic,

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The human race never ceases to amaze me. Its capacity for good and evil, giving and taking, and every other point in between, it is just goes to show the range our species is capable of. For an untold number of months now I've been listening to a streaming online scanner for the local police department. It serves a two-fold purpose: letting me know if there have been any serious car accidents

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Have you ever seen a more motley crew than Mike Huckabee and his family? They should be tried for war crimes against humanity for the striped shirts alone. And here they sit, filled with God's love...and the all-you-can-eat Ryan's megabar. I'll bet they ate that dog, too, once this photo session was over. Wonder which one of those fat bastards in the back abused the animals at camp. Is it me

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My NY Giants won the game they weren't supposed to by beating the Patriots last night in the Super Bowl. So suck on that, Bill Belichick and Tom Brady.

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President Dipshit pays a visit to the kingdom of Saudi Arabia during his Middle East tour to bring peace and democracy to that region. Oh, and to beg for some oil too, because folks in the U.S. haven't been fleeced enough and the oil companies haven't made enough money yet. Personally I think his real reason for the trip is that he has a year left in office and really wanted to visit the Holy

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Ever feel like telling your boss to take your job and shove it up his ass so far that it becomes his new brain stem? Yeah, me too.And while I'm wondering, do Christian elementary schools teach science, and if so, why?

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I know I've been neglecting my blog of late. I've no excuse other than I've been distracting myself with my Flickr account and practicing photography. I think I'm a better photographer than a writer, anyway.For my first post of 2008, some comments on the Iowa caucus, the results of which I am watching as I write this. For the past couple of weeks my wife has been asking me who I would be

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This one just makes my brain hurt.

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As happens every year about this time, my car insurance come due at the first of December. Paying it is not a problem, but I hate the timing as it takes that money away from my holiday gift shopping. To make up the difference I usually have to put some things on my credit card, which I hate as much as paying my insurance. With my pay day falling on the last day of November, I used my lunch

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I admit to cutting a few corners in jobs I've had in the past. By and large I used that tactic to help get a job done more quickly when possible and without compromising the task being done. The building I currently work in is over one hundred years old. It was renovated in 2003 and aesthetically they did a good job. But as with any renovation job where the absolute low bidder gets the

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It rained last night, which is good. Apparently we have governor Sonny Perdue, who looks like the love child of Curly Howard and Boss Hogg (Dukes of Hazzard), to credit for the rain. On Wednesday he led a group of a few hundred people on the steps of the Georgia state capitol in a prayer session in an attempt to ask God for rain. As he only included a Christian God, it's possible he may have

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Don't watch Robot Chicken while eating lunch, unless you can do the Heimlich on yourself after aspirating food while laughing.

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With the drought in the south already pretty bad and apparently to get worse, trying to conserve water has become a priority at my home. We've done little things, like not running the dishwasher, short showers where the water is turned off when shampooing or soaping up, setting only two laundry days per month. Over the weekend we got our water bill. I knew what we have been doing was working

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Rudy Ghouliani scored what some people are saying is a significant endorsement from Pat Robertson. Riding that 9/11 horse apparently plays well with the evangelicals these days. I guess they're willing to overlook his multiple divorces, his stand on abortion, and occasionally taking to crossdressing. It certainly looks like they're okay with these sins for the sake of partisan politics and

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Hello, blog. It's been a couple of weeks since I've posted but things have been busy. At home my daughter's been sick, at work I've been occupied trying to get final teaching assignments done for spring. Class planning is challenging and at the same time a combination of being fun and a pain in the ass. But for the moment, I'm working on a newsletter from our department to be sent to our

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I've become hooked on a few diversions of late. Fortunately they're nothing along the Robert Downey, Jr. lines of addictions. Mine are legal yet still more than likely killing off massive amounts of brain cells. One in particular has become a fairly prevalent time killer. Some months ago I found a web site that allows you to listen to various police and fire scanners. For the longest time I

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Today at lunch time I had to run over to my orthodontist's office to pick up a mouthguard for myself. It'll help whenever I play any sports and when I sleep at night to keep me from damaging my new (and expensive) braces. On my way back to my office I happened across one of the saddest scenes I've encountered in a long, long time. At a stop sign I noticed a sheriff's car in front of a house to

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It's over and official. When I got my reminder calls from my orthodontist last week, they told me it takes roughly ninety minutes to put braces on, and they were absolutely right. Makes sense that they would know what they're talking about considering they do that sort of thing every day. I entered their office around 10:20 this morning and left just before noon looking like the character of

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I've got so many appointments and dates on my calendar at the moment I don't know whether I'm coming or going. So it's nice whenever I get reminder calls from my doctor's or dentist's office of upcoming appointments. Today I got not one but two reminder calls from the orthodontist for my appointment on Monday. After my last appointment a couple of weeks ago I was not exactly sure what we were

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Happened across another interesting web site today, this one called In the Booth. It features 15 pages of pictures taken from photo booths that used to be commonplace, now just novelties in malls. Some of the pictures on the site are interesting, some are funny, some are just plain strange--like the one here where the girl is apparently posing with her recently deceased boyfriend. If you'd

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Kids get excited about the most simplest of things, don't they?

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...the national debt ceiling was quietly raised to $9.8 trillion. I'd say invest in gold, but at this point I think weapons and ammunition are better investments.

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In what to me seems like an awful sense of priorities, our president is set to veto a bill funding the State Children's Health Insurance Program. He as well as other members of the GOP are objecting that the bill increases spending on the program by $30 billion and raises the income eligibility level to $80,000 per year. Clearly the GOP thinking here is that the lower strata of the middle class

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It's that time of year again--my birthday's here whether I want it to come around or not. And I'm getting a pretty good present today: rain! Sounds kind of corny but consider I can almost walk from shore to shore in the river that's the main water supply for the town and we have less than a two months supply of water left, rain is greatly appreciated. I also got spacers put in around my upper

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Having grown up with the Super Friends/Wonder Twins cartoons like this, I find this one very funny. Hope you do too.

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It's September 19, which means it's International Talk Like a Pirate Day! ARRRGGGH!!And leave Blackbeard alone!

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What do the following things have in common: OJ Simpson, a canker sore, a big ol' zit, Jehovahs Witnesses at your front door, Paris Hilton, and George W. Bush? They're all things/people you wish would go away but for whatever reason they simply don't. The only thing worse than a narcissistic sociopath who thinks he's a one-man police force kicking in doors and terrorizing memorabilia dealers

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Another Saturday of watching college football. A hint of fall weather moved in today, which is nice when one is watching college football. A few surprises and upsets: Kentucky beat Louisville, a weak Auburn got beat by Mississippi State. A few not-so-surprises: Florida beat up on Tennessee, USC stomped Nebraska. One treat today was watching the battle of the winless Michigan and Notre Dame.

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Another reason why I fucking HATE EMO!!! Yeah, it's a guy, or he was born a male. Somewhere along the way he lost whatever "testicular fortitude" he ever had. Time to go run a crimson bathtub, kid. Oh, and fuck you, you whiny little shit.

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Meet Carlton Davis. Carlton, say HI to everyone, would you? Carlton has an appetite for sole food. No, that's not a typo, I said sole food. He was arrested in St. Paul, Minnesota for mugging a 24 year old female. After taking her purse and cell phone, Carlton announces to his victim, "Now I'm going to suck your feet," which he proceeds to do. And if his story wasn't strange enough, dig his

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Boy, for whatever reason the big news today wasn't General Petraeus' report on Iraq, but Britney Spear's "comeback" performance on the MTV video music awards last night. I saw a brief clip of it this morning on the news. She's gone from sexy Catholic schoolgirl outfits to slovenly staggering around stage like a sorority girl at last call on Ladies Night at the Viper Room. The video, if you're

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A number of our faculty members went out of town last week to a professional meeting in the midwest. Everyone who went spent plenty of time in airports waiting on their flights and luggage. One of them reported to me today that he had to make use of the restroom at one of the airports during his trip. As he went about the business of doing his business, someone in the bathroom yelled, "There

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It's that time of year again...it's time for college football!! Granted, I love fall and college football. It's a genetic thing that runs in my family; I may or may not explain in a future post about sports in my family and our genetic predisposition to be competitive. But while I love the college football season, I hate what it does to this campus and our town. Starting on Thursdays every

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C'mon, Senator Craig. It's okay to be gay. Being a hypocrite is another story altogether.

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After a week off spent recovering from oral surgery, I'm back at my desk today. Crap! More often than not after sitting around the house for a few days I get stir crazy and work seems like a nice alternative. Not this time. I'd love to be at home sitting back and watching movies. Jimmy Cagney films and plenty of Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes were on my "to watch" list this week, and

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To most people eating solid food is no big deal. But when you're dealing with a few missing teeth and sutures in your mouth, eating solid food is a big deal. Made myself my first meal this evening consisting almost entirely of solid food. It's been seventy-two hours since I've eaten a real meal; this evening was a nice change from the standard fare I've been downing the past couple of days.

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It's been almost forty-eight hours since my happy fun time at the oral surgeon's office, and boy is my jaw sore today. The problem isn't with the areas where my upper third molars or upper first pre-molars were; the soreness seems to be mostly muscular around the jaw joints. So far no bruising around my face, but I do have some swelling on the left side of my face. Despite frequent ice packs,

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There comes a time in everyone's life when the Pucker Factor comes into play. What's the Pucker Factor, you ask? It's a term used by fighter pilots when they're in an intense, close in dogfight. The fear factor of such an encounter makes your rear sphincter tighten up, or pucker. So when the Pucker Factor hits, it's not a good thing.The Pucker Factor hit me today, for today was the day I saw

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Michael Vick has agreed to take a plea deal on his dogfighting case. When your three co-defendants roll on you, I guess you have few options beyond copping a plea. Have fun, Mike. You're going from dogfighting to taking it doggie style in the prison shower. And when you're done taking the snap from center there, enjoy the competition in either the CFL or NFL Europe.

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It's the Camp Tumbleweed dryer by Whirlpool!

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Nothing brings about a resignation like a congressional investigation, eh Karl? Don't let the door hit you on the ass on the way out.

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In the local paper today there was an announcement of revised watering restrictions. There has been an issue with dirty water throughout the city and county over the past six weeks. The county's public works office has been stating and restating the mantra that the dirty water has been caused by many people watering at the same time (when they're allowed to) which is loosening minerals and such

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So far, a good evening for me. My wife is up in Michigan for a high school reunion. My daughter is fast asleep. For the first time in a long time I'll be able to do something I haven't done since I was single and childless: fall asleep while watching an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000. I'm also enjoying using our laptop in the living room courtesy of the wireless network I finally got

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I don't get this. On You Tube today I discovered this "phenomenon" called Fire in the Hole (FitH). Basically, what it consists of is someone pulling up to a drive-thru, ordering a meal, and driving around to the window. Most places will hand you your drink(s) first as they're the easiest and fastest to get ready. The objective of FitH is when the minimum wage fast food employee comes to the

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Today comes news that apparently on at least two occasions NASA sent a shuttle into orbit with a drunken astronaut onboard. I just find that to be unbelievable. There were a few occasions during my younger days when, after an evening of bar hopping, I drove home when I shouldn't have. I was lucky in that I never caused an accident or was nabbed by the police. But seeing how challenging it was

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One of those things you find online and just have to share. For what it's worth, a bathroom (public or private) is definitely not a place where I want to touch nature, nor look back and reconsider my life. Ewwwww!

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For me there are few things better than a good ghost story. I love ‘em, which is one of the reasons I like Halloween and the abundance of television shows with tales of hauntings. I can remember being in the Boy Scouts thirty years ago and hearing tales from a few of my fellow members about their experiences in a nineteenth century house that was being used as a rectory for a church. It was

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Most of my friends know that I play a bass guitar and I've played in bands in the past. Only a few of my friends have actually seen me play live. Almost none have heard any of the music recorded by the last band I played with ten years ago. Not only did I like playing the music we wrote, to this day I still enjoy listening to most of those songs (there are a few that make me cringe, more for

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Announcing the Michael Vick Edition Dodge Nitro. Not for the easily offended, trust me on this one.

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Hello there, blog. Sorry I’ve been neglecting you of late. Didn’t really mean to, but things have just been busy of late. So let me catch you up on things.My boss is back. He’s been off on a six month sabbatical and returned last week. Oddly enough, for most of the time he’s been away, I could see a healthy portion of the top of my desk. In the past few days he’s dropped so much of his work

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I know I haven't been posting much in the way of substance of late, but I'll try to fix that soon. In the meantime, enjoy these! Click to embiggen.

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Leave to the New York Post!

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Most of my friends know that I really love digital photography. I've always enjoyed taking pictures; in fact I received my first camera back in 1971 when I graduated from kindergarten. The first picture I took with that camera was of my great-grandmother standing in front of the school building. But my interest has really taken off over the past several years with the digital photography

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My favorite time of the year has begun. From now until the end of summer there will be orientation sessions for new and transfer students three times a week. It can be amusing watching parents and kids roam around aimlessly as they try to walk and peruse a campus map at the same time. Once last summer I took a campus bus down to the middle of campus to grab some lunch. Some of my fellow

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After the storms moved out last night, my wife and I watched the 10 o'clock news on the Atlanta Fox affiliate channel. As they always do, late during the program there's a bumper from the Fox "News" channel with business news. They seemed it newsworthy and point of pride to announce that Countrywide Home Loans had processed 15% more mortgage applications in May 2007 compared to a year ago, and

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Found this one online today and I just had to share it. Kudos to whomever created this one--it's pretty funny, I think.

Dazed and Bemusedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09209573930978084833noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21508779.post-18994531246690151102007-06-08T14:37:00.000-05:002007-06-08T14:46:34.573-05:00

This just in: Paris Hilton has been sent kicking and screaming back to jail! What a great start to the weekend! Some of the comments supporting her on Paris' MySpace site are pretty damned amusing, and I'm proud to be in the group of "haterz." On the down side, another 40 fucking days of "Paris Watch" in the media. You know folks, people like Paris Hilton are just like teeth: ignore them and

Dazed and Bemusedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09209573930978084833noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21508779.post-89418346585026741522007-06-07T14:27:00.001-05:002008-12-13T03:06:34.185-05:00

For unspecified "medical reasons," Paris Hilton was released from jail today. I guess trying to quit deep throating penises cold turkey had some unfortunate side effects for that poor, poor woman. I mean, why should anyone have to suffer such indignities for such minor offenses like driving under the influence and with a suspended license. She's rich and white--I don't see a problem with

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