The Fury of the Cow!

Oh no, another year at OU without graduates.
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Haven't written about Ronald lately. He's been pretty good pet lately. Until last night. He piled up all the woodchips into the corner of his cage and attempted to climb over the top. Not now anymore buddy! Ha! There's a lid on it now.

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Damn it Bob. That thing's a' coming off! Now hold still!!

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Do you have thoughts that you are contaminated with germs or dirt? Do you worry that you hit someone while driving? Must you always count or put things in order? Call Dorthy 405-271-6425.
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I see in my home town newspaper, The Stanton Call-Gazette-Herald-Tribune, that the city fathers are thinking of putting a mirror up at the end of Main Street to make the town look twice as big. In other news, they have decided where to put the stoplight, but are still arguing over the colors.
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Few things are as pathetic as a sick penguin.


But, you already knew that.
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An open letter to the person who took my parking spot while I was at lunch:

I was parked there first. I was only gone for a while to get something to eat. I had to park clear out at the last few spaces of the lot and walk all the way up to the building. It was a bit chilly and windy out. I feel that, it should have been you, Mister/Misses "Come in to work whenever you feel", that should have had to walk. I was here at 7am. If I knew who you were I'd engage in some sort of passive-aggressive behavior in the work place. Move your stapler, turn off your computer monitor, take all the caps off your pens so the ink dries out. Alas I don't know who you are. I will therefore resort to giving the stink-eye to everyone that passes my desk, secure in the knowledge that "this" must be the perpatrator. I parked across 2 spaces in personal protest.

Sincerly,

jhawk

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According to reports released by the Jhawk Center for Research Into Things, has concluded with no substantial evidence, or more to the point, NO evidence, that drinking a beer might actually make you smarter. Associate researcher Cliff Clavin has provided an anology for the supposed theory. It is reprinted below.

Well ya see, Norm, it's like this. A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo. And when the herd is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed first. This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole group keeps improving by the regular killing of the weakest members. In much the same way, the human brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells. Excessive intake of alcohol, as we know, kills brain cells. But naturally, it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first. In this way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a faster and more efficient machine. That's why you always feel smarter after a few beers.

We will continue to bring any new developments as they warrant. Or whenever we feel like it.

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As I get older it becomes ever so more apparent that I'll never become a professional bowler. I mean, I don't even own my own bowling ball or anything. Or go bowling.

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Went to McDonalds over lunch. They didn't give me a straw! There is nothing that can be more annoying than driving off, getting down the street and you reach in the bag and there is no straw. I know, I should check the bag before I drive off. I hate being one of those people who pull up a few feet and then sit there counting the number of pickles on their burger to make sure it's correct. Then after I have my food I can't pull forward until this whack job moves. All I'm saying, is give me my straw!

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The US Army can ship anything anywhere. Even pigeons.

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At work today I had to go guard the doors to the loading dock. We always do that anytime the doors are open to see that there is no unauthorized entry. Two buildings with an alley between. You can't get into either building without passing the magnatometer and Security. Both ends of the alley are guarded with gates and guards, so where is the person going to come in from. Oh well, like I had anything better to do.
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I think I'll make a potato clock for my desk here at work. We were discussing old science fair exhibits. It's either that or an electromagnet. Using a battery some wire and a nail. Probably not good around all these computers :-P



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We're going to follow up the wildly successful "Clean the Kitchen 2003" with "Dust the Living Room Bonanza."

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The most amazing thing is, that I still have that gum.

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I want this British guy to buy me a lottery ticket. Lucky bugger.

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Rex would like it if you wouldn't point and stare.

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Via This guy

Your Kung Fu is no match!

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Took a picture of a Red Tailed Hawk that was sitting on the fence in my back yard. No, I don't know what it was looking for. We have nothing it would be interested in. Sent photo to Photoshop Master to see if he could put it in the photoblog. I tried with My Photocenter that comes with XP, but I gave up.
One interesting thing happened at work. A lady had to take her belt off to pass thru the magnatometer to get in the building, and her skirt fell off. Well, not really off, it just started unwrapping. No, I wasn't there, but heard about it. Hey, we are serious about security. Other than that I just collected my pay. I guess I'll go back tomorrow for more.
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Went outside while at work today while taking a break in the afternoon. Our office building is out on the edge of the city. There are areas around that are still just large fields, not developed real estate yet. Since we're in the midwest we get all the fun things that around here that you would get further out into the country.

When I arrived to my car out in the parking lot, there was a HUGE tumbleweed jammed between my car and the Ford Explorer next to me. This tumbleweed was enourmous! It's extremely windy outside right now. I managed to dislodge this tumbleweed from the two cars. Trying not to scratch either car. Successful! I stood this thing up next to me. Now, I'm 6'4" tall, and this was as tall as me or a little bit more. And really wide. Ok, now I've got it out. What do I do with it? I tried to jam it into this bush nearby my car to see if it would hold it in place. The second I let go of the tumbleweed, it was off like a shot. The wind caught it like a sail and that thing went racing through the parking lot like a bullet. It raced past several other people outside and we all just stood there laughing. Seeing a tumbleweed that's 7ft in diameter flying past you is quite a sight.

*update*
Here's a place that would allow you to purchase your own tumbleweeds if in fact you were so inclined.

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Radio sucks. It just does. Clear Channel has killed variety. Of course, they don't care about it either.

Ever wonder why you can drive from city to city and hear the exact same songs in each place? It's not because they're all on the top of the charts. The same company is making the playlists for each. Therefore, causing the ones they want played the most to make it onto the music charts.

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"Experience informs us that the first defense of weak minds is to recriminate" -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

" The weak are too weak to acknowledge their weakness and admit they are wrong, much less change their minds" -- Somerset Maugham

Somehow I'm reminded of the naysayers on the war.
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I'm now addicted to Jones Soda. Berry White flavor!



I've been tempted to park my car across 2 parking spaces. My car is SO much more important and nicer than everyone elses. You're willing to walk a little bit further right? You understand my need to park this way right?

Yes that was sarcasm. :-P

Which reminds me of something that I saw a few days ago. I was at that supermarket. There was one space open near the front. This car came by it, and was heading down the wrong way in the aisle. It wanted that spot though. So, the driver, she decides to back into the spot. You know these types. Always backing into their parking spots. Like this makes them look cooler, or shaves valuable seconds off their getaway time after purchasing cracked wheat bread. Anyway, this girl is pulling in, looking around at all of us walking through the parking lot. She fails to look in the correct direction when backing a car though. Yep, backwards. Backs right into a light pole. :-P I found it amusing anyway.


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Making a claim on British television in March that should alarm all readers, the co-discoverer of the structure DNA, James Watson, said he saw no reason why "stupidity" could not someday be corrected by gene therapy just as other "disorders" are now being addressed. "If you're really stupid, I would call that a disease," he said on the Channel 4 documentary "DNA," I'd like to get rid of (stupidity)."--Oklahoma Gazette
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Virtual Stapler

I have the Swingline model ;-)

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Was standing around chatting with some coworkers. They were were huddled around this one person's desk. They were having trouble with a hyperterminal session into a the switch interface. They got connected fine and were getting the prompt for the login and password. No matter what they tried to type nothing would show up. They'd been here for about 10 minutes trying to figure out what was wrong. They'd opened up a Word document and verified that, yes, the keyboard typed. Still nothing in the hyperterminal session. I just leaned through the group and hit the scroll lock key, and...voila! It types. :-P

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What Houston's Astro's Lance Berkman had to say about the Dixie Chicks.

"It's an outrage," Berkman said. "I am disappointed that a group that claims Texas is their home state would make such a derogatory statement about a fine man in the White House in a time that our country needs to be together and not divided.

"I don't want to shoot them or anything. I just want them to move to Oklahoma."

Anyone know if Oklahoma wants them?
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It's starting to be light out in the morning when I go to work. It's also light out much later into the evening. The feeling that summer weather is coming is getting stronger. I don't know about you, but I can't wait for the evenings when dusk has just come, and you can sit outside and enjoy a drink with friends and not freeze to death. We used to set up the TV outside on the deck and watch a Royal's game into the evening. It was great. We'll be able to do that soon.

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Ya ever notice that schools that think they get no respect always have some minion run around with the schools HUGE flag as their team goes on the court, whereas the ones that actually get respect don't?




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Today I feel better than I have in an entire week. Which is good. We've done stuff around here.

It's Saturday but doesn't quite feel like that to me. My sense of days is all out of whack. It feels like a Tuesday or something. Like I should be at work. I'm glad I'm not at work though. Many NCAA games on today.
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This is exactly how I feel.
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I guess I'm just being a curmudgeon, but when I see things that I feel are odd, I just have to mention them. At work, in keeping with the alert status being raised to orange,(a side note; I thought there was just orange, nooooo, there are degrees of orange. There is high orange, which is not quite as orange as the General Lee, but more orange than Mary Kay's Orange Marmelade Semi-gloss Aloe Bearing Long-Lastine lipstick, and low orange, which I think is just orange.) we have put a 3 foot high fence around the entire block. 12 foot farther from the curb than normal. This means that patrons of the Federal Court now can't just drop off people because we have usurped that lane, they have to go to the next block and walk back. Of course, making some lawyer unhappy is sometimes good.
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Some items can be easily fixed with some good ol' fashioned "buy a new one."

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Red sweatshirt wearing, bald headed, mustache wearing guy didn't even apologize when he cut me off and almost made me spill my drink. Repeated scene 30 seconds later by different guy with the exact same description. I had to remember where this game I was at was being played.

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Ronald has been pouting around the house lately. So I put him out back in the yard. Now he's digging a hole in the corner of the yard. I have no idea what that crazy animal is up to.
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Wisdom comes with age, but sometimes age comes alone. Seems to fit the characteristics of someone we all know well. Is it sad when I say the coverage of the war by CNN has been boring the last few days. Am I getting to cynical. Maybe I'm just tired. I havent been able to keep up with much the last couple of days except "Cold Fury", "The Colonel Sanders Conspiracy" and local news. What else is there? Oh, yeah going to work. Did find a new site okMini.com for you Mini owners.
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Went to the NCAA Tourney last night in Oklahoma City at the Ford Center. The KU game was close and the crowd was mostly Oklahoma fans so a lot of them were impartial or rooted for Utah State. There was a good pocket of KU fans though and it still was an exciting time. Probably one of the few chances I'll ever have to go to a NCAA Tournament game.

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1-Trip to the doctor's office
1-digital thermometer
20-bottles of Gatorade and various juices
60-hours of sleep in 4 days
102-degree temperature
12-Movies and DVDs
2-late night infomercials for miracle knives
24-Ibuprofen tablets (do not exceed 6 in 24 hour period)
1-$50 bottle of antibiotics

Finally. I'm getting better. After all that. I'm back at work, and feeling I'm slowly getting back into the swing of things. I know I'm getting better because I heard the funniest thing today at work, and I actually laughed. I overheard one sentence from a conversation at the next desk from mine. I wasn't involved in this conversation. For some reason this struck me as funnier than anything I've heard in a while.

Eat chicken and be warm.

I don't know what would bring up such a comment. That's why it's so funny. ;->

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Did a Google Smackdown.
My search criteria?

University of Kansas vs Kansas State University

Results:

Univestity of Kansas 515,000 results
Kansas State University 359,000 results

Winner: University of Kansas!
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Yes I have been ill for the last 4 days. Not having pleasant times. Thanks to those who expressed well wishes ;-)

I'm back to work finally, still not feeling creative enough to come up with anything to write about. So there still may be no updates again until tomorrow. Check back though.

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Reasons for no updates:
1) jhawk is sick.
2) The war started.
3) The JayHawks are in town.
4) Increased security at work.
5)I feel like I'm diagonally parked in a parallel world.
6) It's been raining for 3 days.

Take your pick!

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The good die first, but most people are morally ambiguous, which explains our random dying pattern.
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Lou Gehrig died of Lou Gehrig's disease. Jeez, what are the odds.
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The BBC is the haven of all news that we all need. Talking fish and everything.

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Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.
---Ogden Nash
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There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those that understand binary numbers, and those that don't.
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You just know some idiot will bring along an octopus.
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Either Ronald got out or there is another one just like him that answers to that name. I saw him running down the street just now.
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I think this is neat. You may have seen it before. It is still neat, so there.
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It was a good concert. And this lady did a better job than I would explaining it.
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Our exchange server is still down, so no email. We had our weekly Friday meeting coming up soon. Nobody knew what time they were to take place. The time is never the same week to week. So one of the management guys is walking around with a hand drawn sign that says Meeting 3:30pm. Walks by your desk and shows it to you. Then moves on to the next person. Is this what it was like pre-email?

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Thinking of running out into our parking lot and screaming "My shoes fit! My shoes fit!"

Somedays you gotta make your own fun. Our company's exchange server is down and work has ground to a halt.

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(AP Photo/Richard Drew)

That's the guy! Him! Check him for my Pez dispenser!

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Ronald

Woke up today to find that Ronald got into the trash can last night again. He's becoming a little scamp. Found him hiding behind the couch. He knew he did something wrong.

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It's Albert Einstein's birthday today. Born on March 14,1879. Found out from Google. Look at their logo.

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I can't tell if I'm cool or not. I say Pepsi.
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Take this test and see how you do. I did not do well.
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(AP Photo/Lou Krasky)

Does my breath smell like fish?

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Here I was, walking around Wally World and I needed an ink cart for my printer. I must have F,D&H stamped on my forehead, cause I paid $29.95 for 1 black cartridge. I shoulda gone online to someone. Oh, well, I now can print.


Fat, Dumb & Happy
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This article I stole from Fark is kinda sad. My only questions is, do people actually still go into McDonalds.
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Now, all you have to do is catch the ball, dribble, and we win. Got it, ok. Oh, never mind.
If you didn't watch the K-State, Colorado game, you won't understand.
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Chess just isn't that hard for us experts. Once you figure out how those horsies move, and learn the intracacies of the castle thingies, you can't be stopped.

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I was wondering...

My roommate can run faster backwards than he can forwards. And if race walking is an Olympic sport. Then maybe we need a sport for my roommate. I mean, race walking? That's just as bad as, backwwards running.

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Went and tested a H-2 (That's a Hummer to you novices)today. Suitably impressed. Handles well, not as wide as you think, has all the expensive gadgets, well appointed. Not impressed with MPG 10-12 city, 12-14 highway. Good pickup, can see well. Not impressed with price. 55 on the one we drove. Mostly GMC parts, on a Tahoe chasis. Then looked at BMW Z-4, and M-3 But then everybody has a BMW, not many H-2's
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Is there a metric equivelant to the hogshead?

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I was just asked how my day was today. My answer was, "Not to exciting and not too dull. It was good." Is that sad?

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Thought about becoming a professional tic-tac-toe player. I never stuck with the training regimin.

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I'm going to pimp my friends band again. Sound Transmission is their name, and they've got some mp3's you can download. They're working on a new album so check back there later and check for new ones.

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I just found out that Armygirl is an IRON SOLDIER!

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If you've ever wanted to crawl through a 40ft model of a colon...

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Ali nails Frazier with a wild left hand!

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For the two of us that care, I just now noticed the Arcata Webcam is no more. Now we will have to just wait for the police log.
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Aw, man! This thing's in Spanish! I'll never get this computer desk put together!

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What's your favorite TV show of all time? We probably all know mine, but for those who don't it's The Simpsons. (Seinfeld a close second)

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Woke up to tv station complaining about Nick Collision being named Big XII player of the year by the coaches. They thought Hollis Price should have gotten it because the writers picked him. Now lets look at this logically. K.U. finished #1 and O.U. finished, oh, never mind. On a sadder note, Ebbe Ere broke his wrist at practice yesterday.
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It's about that time of year again, and I'm sure you'll want to find out what to do.
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If I've told you once, I've told you a hundred not to carry those syringes around in your pocket.

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Armygirl wants me to post pictures of her smallpox vaccinations over on the photoblog. I will be doing that. If you're interested in seeing that, check over there around 7pm EST. I have one pic missing from here which I'll load when I get home. The link can be found on the left.

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Mike, from "Cold Fury" sent me this. Wonder who Sam was talking about. "If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams

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I don't know if I can explain this right. But, remember those Christmas decorations that were like this tissue paper woven together in a hex form, and when you folded them open they formed a bell or something. Ah, nevermind just look at this. Anyway, I saw this dress and I imediately thought of those old Christmas decorations.

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The latest pop music sensation from Uraguay, the Alpacas, shown in a recent photo, are planning a U.S. tour.



The members shown are Scooter (upper left), Dan Justice (upper right), and the youngest member Little Johnny Alpaca (lower right). Their manager Rick Luger (lower left and brown) says that the group has set no official dates.

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It's nice to see the French organized crime families can mount a successful military raid.

I thought Paris was the city of love or something. Oh, wait.... I see. It happened near Disneyland Paris. I told you that place would spread discontent throughout the land.

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Just a news item I saw this morning. "Authorities in Lincolnshire, England, are trying to identify the 60-ish-year-old woman who was admitted to Lincoln County Hospital in December, suffering from amnesia but insisting she is Barry Manilow. The only things she was carrying were several Manilow albums". [BBC News,]
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Ronald is chewing the heck out of anything and everything. Table legs, shoes, paper, the trash can. It's getting a bit too much.

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Kind of an interesting site if you need a job. Catchy title anyway.
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Want something to laugh at? Try this.

Talk about naive and pointless. Talking about USA has no borders. Thank God it does. On a practical sense they are our first line of defense against people getting into our country who wish to do us harm and the first checkpoint to help curb the continous flow of drugs flowing into our country. Yes, what an idealistic view to thing that making friends on the internet and conversing with them helps create her perfect utopia of friendly cooperation and human understanding. We don't live in the internet. The real world is a hard place. There are rulers of countries whose bending their every action to keep themselves in power at the expense of the people they rule. In costs of their futures and even their lives and freedom.


She talks about mothers making dinner for their kids, and how they don't deserve to be anihalated. Great point. I'm sure some of those mothers weren't too worried about dinner when they saw thier children gasping and dying after having chemical weapons used on them.

A USA without borders. I hope not. I'm glad it's just a inane idea in the head of some blogger like me. Making friends around the world via the internet is a great thing. You can learn about someone elses culture and their country. No doubt she hasn't met or befriended any Al Qaeda members through here online community. Ones who would love nothing more than to be able to slit her throat just because she lives in the USA. Probably hasn't met anyone of the goons Saddam got to exterminate his politcal enemies. Those people don't blog.

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Via the Arcata Police Logs.

5:48 p.m. The handicapped parking space behind an historic Plaza storehouse is reserved for the near-exclusive use of: 1. People who wish to use the nearby ATM and leave their car idling there for "just a second," 2. SUV owners with atrophied but not exactly handicapped legs who can't peril the endless trek from the parking lot across the street, and 3. Cell phone conversationalists who need a place to jaber in an idling car, since leaving the motor running morally justifies displacing a genuinely mobility-impaired person from parking close to the building. And that's the way of the world.

Perfect.
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I just called a guy in another department. He wanted to type up something in email while we talked. He told me he was going to put me on speakerphone (which I hate). He then paused for like 30 seconds and said, "I use the speakerphone so my hands are free." Really? That's how he uses his speakerphone? I just pictured him in his office holding the speakerphone up to his face so he could talk.


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Been trying to get a certain cell phone to install it's USB cable for a wireless data kit. Things go great on 98/ME/2000/XP. It says that, yes, the CD contains drivers for Mac too. Great! It doesn't tell me though what OS it supports. Fine, I'll try OSX and 9.1. No joy in either OS. The CD has no drivers for Mac! The PDF file instructions say I should be able to open the USB folder and choose USBinstaller. No such file. I go to their site, and they have an updated zip file full of new drivers since 2/3/2003. Great! Download. Same instructions. This time there isn't even a USB folder?????? Ok, instructions are WAY off. Explore folders and there are no installer programs in it. Just a bunch of .inf files. I gave up. I was only curious to see if I could get it to work. It wasn't important. Just frustrating.

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North Dakota may be the place to get a job since everyone is leaving. Of course you would have to want to live there.
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Ever drive around the parking lot looking for a space? We all have. Ever catch yourself circling the lot more than once saying the entire time, "There will be a closer spot in the next row." Then you have that mini-debate going on in your head. Is this close enough? Is that guy leaving? How much closer really is that spot over there, and can I beat that car to it?

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Now that summer is almost here and you might get stung by a bee. I thought you might want to see what a bee sees. Or Not.
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I'm not sure this will work in the local area.
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I was shocked to learn that Michu Meszaros had died. I guess I'll have to keep better track of munchkins that play in the movies. This guy played ALF. The voice guy is still alive and living with Toby Keith, I think.

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There is nothing like the corporate world to allow you to view inept people and the stupid things they do.

In my part of the building we have a Culligan water cooler. When it's empty people often take it upon themselves to place another bottle on the cooler. More often than not it's the people who have no concept of how to do this.

Common mistakes:

The bottle does have to end up upside on top of the cooler, but you don't start the bottle that way. It'll put water on the floor.

After tilting the water bottle to a certain degree it will start to pour water onto the floor. It's best to keep from tilting it until it's over the opening of the cooler.

The bottles are a little heavy. If you don't think you can lift it. Don't.

It's at least once a week that we have a fan back there, blowing on the carpet to dry it out after a failed attempt at changing water.

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We inch ever closer to Spring. It's at least light out when I go to work at 6:40am each day. It's starting to get the feeling that warmer days are coming. Even though it was freezing cold when I went outside :-)

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It's about time to start growing my bonsai tree seeds I got for Christmas. They come with their own little pots to start them in, and then you move them to a larger pot.

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I will use my bipedal locomotion to go from my desk to my car. Exhausting.

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I might just drive in reverse all the way home tonight. For research.

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