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  • Walkin on water – this I gotta try!

    I think the scouts would have a blast with this but it is probably more appropriate for a frat party.

    Thanks goes to Make for pointing out this great video on non-newtonian fluid.

  • I40 west at a stand still from west hills to 17th street. Take alternate router today.

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  • I40 west a parking lot due to construction

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  • Look out!

    I’m getting back on top!

  • I Didn’t Get The Gay Marriage Ban Until Now

    I voted against the constitutional amendment to declare marriage between a man and a woman. Now that I have read the Top 10 Reasons Gay Marriage Should Be Illegal I understand so much better.

    09) Children can never succeed without a male and a female role model at home. That’s why we as a society expressly forbid single parents to raise children. [Source]

    Update: Critz and my wife both agree that I was a might unclear in this post. I realize that posting only one of the 10 reasons doesn’t convey the author’s sarcasm as well. Here are a couple more (number two is my favorite):

    01) Being gay is not natural. Real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning.

    02) Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.
    …
    05) Straight marriage will be less meaningful if gay marriage were allowed; the sanctity of marriages like Britney Spears’ 55-hour just-for-fun marriage would be destroyed.
    …
    07) Obviously gay parents will raise gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children.
    …

    StopGeek has updated their post to point to the original source which was 12 reasons:

    I was emailed the source by a reader which you can find here. Its similar, but not the same version i got in my email. [Source, StopGeek]

  • Strange Place to Park a Ship

    Landlocked aircraft carrier in China

    I suspect this is a memorial put in place before the lock and bridge was built.

  • Light Linkage

    Cat pictorials for Jasper.

  • Plug me in – Enhancing WordPress

    For anyone interested, these are the plugins I currently use. I’m experimenting with one not listed but it has to prove itself before it gets any credits.

    • Spam Karma 2 (absolutely incredible, occasionally some trackback spam gets through but this just makes it all manageable)
    • Audio Player (slick way to include audio on the site)
    • Live (for the stat addicted, it shows the ip of someone on your blog while they are there, whether or not they are on the site or rss, if they are leaveing a comment etc) (Note: stat addiction can be cured. Don’t judge the success of your blog on "stats")
    • Flickr Photo Gallery (adds a tab on the upload box that allows you to easily paste several size pictures from your Flickr account)
    • Subscribe to comments (gives your readers the ability to request an email when someone replies to a particular comment thread)
    • Time Zone (automates daylight savings time adjustments so that the times on your posts are always correct) (wonder if it will break in 2007)

  • MLADS Now Maszman Speaks

    Hurray! Blogger loses another one! Tom Maszerowski has moved My Likes and Dislikes from Blogger to Maszman Speaks using WordPress. Way to go!

    On a similar note, we moved Aspergerteen from Blogger to Aspergerteen.com using WordPress but we haven’t started posting again yet.

  • So, you think YOU voted these people into office

    The US government is so inbred that the same people have been running out country since the 70s…sort of. The Times Online UK edition explains.

    Last week George W Bush was forced back — once again — to the protective arms of his father. They call the first President Bush “Poppy” in the family, and it captures both the authority and the slight daffiness of the 41st president. His first son always lived in his shadow — both deeply admiring him and deeply resenting him, the way dauphins often do their monarchs.
    …
    BY nominating Robert Gates to the Pentagon, Bush Jr was reduced to asking one of his father’s closest friends to clean up the mess. What was Gates’s last job? As president of Texas A&M University, Gates hosted Poppy’s own presidential library. What was his previous claim to fame? Poppy had appointed him CIA director. Poppy himself had been CIA director — manoeuvred into the shell-shocked institution after Vietnam by a wily young Donald Rumsfeld in the Ford administration. Gates was a CIA director’s CIA director. He was Poppy’s Poppy.
    [Source]

    "Jeb, his younger brother, was always going to be president" so…think we will see Jeb in 2008? A Democrat controlled Congress cannot clean up W’s mess 6 years in the making in only 2 years but can the Repulicans spin those two years as "ineffective" and get the public to vote for another Republican president and Republican controlled Congress?

  • And my body crushed under the weight of the world

    I am so stressed that every muscle in my body aches. I want to go back to bed but today is Monday and Monday’s are hard.

    We had chinese Friday night. Yum! My fortune cookie read, "You will find your solution where you least expect it." That gave me such a ray of hope!

  • Of Grasshoppers

    Student: What does it mean when you awaken and the clock reads 3:33?
    Master: It is too early. Go back to sleep.

  • I like hats!

    Multimedia message
    Cathy said, "No!" to this hat.

  • Of Grasshoppers

    Student: Self-doubt.
    Master: No time for that.

  • Interpretting ColdFusion Error Messages

    Everyone knows what Apple’s "Type 1" error message means. Well, you should. It means "something went wrong and we have no clue why!" Everything computer related has something like this. Even AdoMacrollaire’s ColdFusion has some strange ones.

    Invalid token ‘\n’ found on line 40 at column 0.

    This error message means you forgot to close a comment somewhere. ColdFusion comments are delineated the same as HTML comments (<!– html comment here –>) but with an extra dash (<!— cfml comment here —>). So if you open a comment and forget to close it perhaps even following it with another comment you will get the reference to a linefeed (\n) being an invalid token.

    <!--- this is the messed up comment
    <!--- and this is a valid comment --->