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Van Morrison's Contractual Obligation Album.

Ok folks, time for you to dish out advice. The plea for help:

How do you lose a stage five clinger without having to be like "stop phoning me"?

So: help an anonymous friend. Let's hear your tips on how to ditch a "Klingon".

Theatresports tonight. Apparently I'm playing.

A kickass SomethingAwful Photoshop Phriday.

Hee hee. Gold pressed latinum.

Kids say the darndest things... to God.

I'm playing darts with a coworker, and he presses on a damaged spot on the dart board that sticks out. He looks back and says, "I'm just checking out the bulge."

Me: <macho voice> "Don't worry: you're not the only one."

Down with literacy! (Image gallery of bad protest posters). The moran guy is still the best.

Hilarious book title gleaned from TheSpaceAdmiral's home page.

An essay on DRM. This is a presentation that some guy did for HP. There are some good points made.

This guy's got skills. "Numchuk skills".

Tee hee! Parrots repeat things.

Donald Rumsfeld is giving the President his daily briefing.
He concludes by saying, "Yesterday, 3 Brazilian soldiers died in Iraq"
"Oh no" exclaimed the President. "That's terrible."
His staff are stunned by his display of emotion, nervously watching as
the President sits with his head in his hands.
Finally, Bush looks up and asks, "How many is a brazillion?"

(Thanks, Shannon)

Jesse's back from Seattle, and he has gloriously fixed the permissions issue with IDS. The huge image gallery from my trip to France is now open.

Music video: You Gonna Want Me by Tiga. Keep watching. It gets cooler.

Evolution Schmevolution week on the Daily Show.

The "Schmevolution Panel" clip was funny, but frustrating in that they could have actually had some interesting discussion but didn't.

Interesting words from around the world.

Some sweet t-shirts featuring GWB.

So my coworkers decided to decorate my office while I was away...

First, there was Zombo.com. Now, there's www.iiiiiiii.com.

Plain old Rock, Paper, Scissors is for wussies. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you RPS-15.

For once, Something Awful had something really funny in a "weekend web" feature.

Bass guitar made out of balloons... It actually sounds pretty wicked.

Forget sharks... There are killer dolphins on the loose!

Ever spontaneously check out the picture gallery on my site? If you have, you may have discovered that I took a shitload of pictures in France. I'm still uploading them. The ones I'm putting up are web-sized (1024x768), but the originals being roughly 1.2 MB each, I took around 1GB of pictures... To be fair: that includes a few videos (not posted).

I realize that there are far too many for them to actually be of interest...

Roughly, here are the starts of different sections:

• Aerial pictures
• My Grandmother's place
• Paris
• Trip to my dad's house in France
• Huge spider at my grandma's house, Vaux, and Chateau-Thierry
• A medieval fair at Chateau-Thierry
• My mom's uncle's Vineyard

Awesome. No: not that kind of awesome.

When a Nerd Attacks.

Brit self defense. "I don't wanna see any of that Jackie Chan bollocks. I want to see some windmilling in..."

Ruh roh! Scooby-Doo is a gargoyle.

The new version...

Before I go, here's a picture I took the last time I was in France (2001). This is at my Grandmother's house. I hope I get a sunny day to take this picture again with my non-sucky camera.

Also... I was royally pissed. I thought I'd lost my wallet. I even got new cards and stuff (I'm down $20 for a new driver's license). I found the license. Oddly enough, it was in the first place I looked. A pair of shorts... I'd set them aside on the "I have searched these items" chair. The days-long search that took place afterward, obviously, proved fruitless.

I must say that losing my wallet was the source of an amazing amount of anxiety. I'm really glad I found it because it had 100 Euros that an aunt had sent me. Now I've got it for my trip.

Everything's coming up Sznak!

Trusted Computing. An educational video for www.againsttcpa.com.

So, I think only a handful of people know this, but I'm going to France for 8 days. My flight takes off at 3PM September 12th. I'll be missing a few things, such as my fantastic girlfriend's gruelling 3-day exam and my High School reunion. Of course, the reunion I'll actually be able to live down... If I get a chance to check the site, I will. Regardless, I'll put up pictures. I'll try to take some that are more interesting than big groups of my relatives. :)

Help, nerd friends!

grep -r "some stuff" *.php

If I use unix grep this way and there aren't any php files in the directory I started in, it just quits. In order to search subdirectories, I have to say * instead of *.<files I'm interested in>. This is "teh ub3r-ghey". How do I fix it?

www.candykiller.com: Cool, somewhat demented art.

What happens when America's best President and America's worst President team up to fight crime? President Cops. Also, President Cops 2.

I have a new anti-comment-spam thing going. If you try to post a comment and are denied (white screen, some curt text), please let me know.

Sexy! The iPod Nano.

There was a video link from Hedonistica that took me to filecabi.net, where they have "salty" looking personal ad banners. They've tried to do IP address-targetted advertising, but as you can see from the image, they have failed...

Can you watch this without saying, "awwwwwww"?

All right. I'll share my secret with you.

Because you all deserve awesomeness.

I can't believe how long the video is! This is the worst kind of synth abuse I've ever seen.

This girl sort of has a "Shannon Elizabeth as an utter failure" thing going.

So I played an awful lot of Jade Empire (Bioware) this weekend, and it's a fantastic game. Not only does it feature John Cleese providing the voice for a character that appears in the game, but it also features a bunch of names I recognize of local Edmonton theatre artists.

The basement home theatre needs a few finishing touches of paint and baseboard, then it will be done. Then movie nights will return with a vengeance. And by vengeance I mean a couch space seating capacity of 9 to 10. And next summer I will be able to watch movies, as I will have the ability to adequately block out sunlight. Woo!

Here it is! Intelligent Design in the comics section.

Haha! I will quote Screenhead (blatantly plagiarize?)

Camel spiders can grow to be as large as dinner plates. Camel spiders can traverse desert sand at speeds up to 30 MPH, making screaming noises as they run. Camel spiders? venom contains a powerful anesthetic that numbs their victims so they can bite out chunks unnoticed. Camel spiders can figure out your PIN number. Camel spiders want Intelligent Design taught in schools. Camel spiders live on the souls of children and the salt of their victims? tears.