There is a (10) Ten M&M award for finding my sunglasses  - Suspected Culprit Four

(10) Ten M&M and Stickers for finding my second set of car keys - Suspected Culprit Husband

Stop Laughing Evil Bastard.  You too will be doing this soon.

I happened to be watching some useless channel that was showing ‘Billy Madison‘ on TV tonight.

It was at the point where Billy’s in the contest for ownership of his father’s company and he’s been asked to explain ‘The Impact of the Industrial Revolution on Literature, citing specific examples”. The great part is where it all goes into slow motion and the camera pans to people cheering and Adam Sandler has the mike in his hand and is wrapping up some ‘lost little puppy’ explanation .. when the contest moderator says:

“Mr. Madison, what you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I’ve ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response was there anything that could even be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.”

Which reminded me of this paragraph being quoted in court.

And that’s about the best use of a movie quote ever. If I ever have the opportunity to use this at my job.. it’ll be a fulfilling experience.

Abstract:
The incidence of rape in the United States has declined 85% in the past 25 years while access to pornography has become freely available to teenagers and adults. The Nixon and Reagan Commissions tried to show that exposure to pornographic materials produced social violence. The reverse may be true: that pornography has reduced social violence.
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=913013

I just added a new topic - conspiracy theories. Here’s the first one.
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Postulate:
All the popular MMORPGs are actually a mechanism to roll out covert grid computing applications for secret government applications.

Supporting arguments:
According to the most recent stats I could find, Seti (often considered the most popular distributed processing program) has declined to under 155k active users.

In comparision - these games:
Ultima Online is nine years old and still has 130k users.
City of Heros is two years old and has 170k users.
EverQuest is seven years old and claims 450k users.
World of WarCraft is two years old and is listed at 6M users.
(more…)

Ha! Today we received a dress code at work. Business casual - no shorts, no tennis shoes, jeans allowed on friday.

On the positive side, doesn’t appear to be any restrictions on telecommuting.

I just posted our pictures from walking through Luray Caverns on Flickr.

I hadn’t really been paying attention to these guys but I’d heard a couple tracks that on Radio Paradise that I liked.

The first one I heard was ‘Hello, My Treacherous Friends’, which I thought was some new Eels song the first time I heard it.

Then I saw their music video on YouTube

So, seems like a cool band. I’ll be paying attention to them more in the future.

” The federal government filed a lawsuit against state officials and Verizon Communications Monday to prevent the release of information about the company’s alleged role in the National Security Agency’s domestic surveillance program.

The lawsuit comes after 22 residents asked the state’s Public Utilities Commission to investigate whether Verizon provided federal agents with information that could have resulted in the warrantless surveillance of telephone calls.”

http://kennebecjournal.mainetoday.com/news/local/3050929.shtml

” I’ve seen my mom start internet explorer type in yahoo into the msn search bar, get to yahoo and type in google, get to google then she
types in pogo games.”

While Biking home last Friday I saw some rather Big Fashion Don’ts.  Now, I’m not a fashion diva in any sense, but these were so WRONG.

1.  Do not wear underware underneath bike shorts.  Trust me.  You will not be happy with the results.

2.  The Bike Jersey goes over the straps to your bib shorts. 

3.  It’s time to get new bike shorts if I can see your crack through them.  Please please throw them out.  I don’t need to see hairy butts on the bike trail.

By obeying these simple rules, the Friends of the WO&D Trail say Thank You!