Thursday, June 29, 2006

Transformers Trailer!

Looks like a crappy copy of the Transformers trailer has been leaked.

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Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Chuck Norris facts - by Chuck Norris

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Monty Python vs Star Wars

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Spiderman 3 Trailer

Glee!

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Buzz Aldrin punches guy in the face

Buzz punches a guy who accuses him of never going to the moon

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Britney Spears: Attention Whore

So let me get this straight. Last week she was on the Dateline crying because the papparazzi won't leave here alone and this week she is on the cover of Bazaar naked. Please fuck off and die.

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Tuesday, June 27, 2006

25% of Women's Purses found to Carry E. COLI...some even carry Hepatitis!

Another reason I'm glad to me male.

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Hubble Finds Possible Planets Around Nearby Star

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has revealed not one but two dust disks circling the nearby star Beta Pictoris. The images confirm a decade of scientific speculation that a warp in the young star's dust disk may actually be a second inclined disk, which is evidence for the possibility of at least one Jupiter-size planet orbiting the star.

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"Sunday Bloody Sunday"

One of the more impressive pieces of video editing I've seen recently.

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Monday, June 26, 2006

Senility has set in.

Now Val is just babbling incoherently. Here is her latest post, I swear it has not been altered in any way and is reproduced here in it's entirety:
June 24: I read a phrase recently regarding the odious Shock magazine that immediately made me think of Howard Stern. To paraphrase somewhat, they can dress him up in haute couture, but all he'll ever be is a pig in a party dress. Stern's Columbine comments illustrate that perfectly.

Gah? So she is now so low on things to say but feels the need to comment anyway that she is taking a quote from a random source that she doesn't give, paraphrasing it, and then applying it to another topic? Why even bother?
June 26th: I took a crap today. It reminded of Val's debate skills. To paraphrase somewhat, it stinks, and sometimes no matter how many times you flush it just won't go away.

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News Anchor Screws Up Big Time

One of my favourite newscaster screw ups ever.

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40 Things you don't know about Superman

1. He started as a bald villain...

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New Digg v3 Launched

Digg get's a little less geeky. Now has sections for news, entertainment, videos, etc.

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Sunday, June 25, 2006

Deputy mistakes pistol for taser, shoots wacko in tree

Oops.

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Cool thing to stare at

Like Spirograph, but for the 21st century.

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World's 2nd Richest Man To Give Away Fortune: To Bill Gate's Foundation

Warren Buffett: The world's second richest man - who's now worth $44 billion - will start giving away 85% of his wealth in July - most of it to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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Friday, June 23, 2006

AP Article On Digg 'Expansion'

"Jay Adelson, chairman and chief executive of Digg Inc., said the site started with technology news because its initial users were interested and savvy in technology. But as the site grew to 300,000 registered users, 10 times as many as a year ago, many tried to post news in other categories anyhow, he said."

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Harriet the tortoise dies

The world's oldest animal in captivity has died on the Sunshine Coast at the ripe old age of 176.


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Thursday, June 22, 2006

Futurama Renewed for 13 New Episodes

Comedy Central has ordered 13 new episodes of the animated series that Fox canceled two years ago. Billy West, Katey Segal and other stars signed deals this week to return the show to TV. Joy!

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Time for some humour

The Washington Post's Style Invitational asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition. Here are this year's winners:

1. Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.

2. Foreploy (v): Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.

3. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.

4. Giraffiti (n): Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.

5. Sarchasm (n): The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.

6. Inoculatte (v): To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.

7. Hipatitis (n): Terminal coolness.

8. Osteopornosis (n): A degenerate disease.

9. Karmageddon (n): It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer.

10. Decafalon (n.): The gruelling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.

11. Glibido (v): All talk and no action.

12. Dopeler effect (n): The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.

13. Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.

14. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.

15. Caterpallor (n.): The colour you turn after finding half a grub in the fruit you're eating.

And the pick of the literature:
16. Ignoranus (n): A person who's both stupid and an asshole

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It's only rock and roll...

The rumour has been spreading around town for a couple of weeks now and has even been written about in the paper. Could "The Greatest Rock and Roll Band in the World" actually be coming to this city of only 200,000 people to do a concert Thanksgiving weekend? The local music reporters seem to think a deal is close. If the city is in fact working on making this a reality I hope that nothing happens to scuttle the deal at the last minute. The Rolling Stones, live in Regina, on a nice autumn evening would be amazing.

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Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Hope for the hopeless

Yes, even the most brutally disfigured of faces can be helped with a few dozen clicks of the mouse.

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More practice

For my second attempt I decided to pick a picture that needed more work and attention to detail. This lady is clearly older than the previous subject and it looks like she has spent many summers worshipping the sun. Once again, I think that the photoshopping made a huge difference, even more so than the last picture. I also think the before picture demonstrates that I'm probably correct in my policy of avoiding the sun whenever possible, it seems to do bad things to the skin.

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Photoshop practice

This is my first attempt at airbrushing using the tutorial below. I used a picture from a swimsuit mail order site as I needed a picture taken in bright light and I didn't seem to have anything suitable on my hard drive. This particular picture is an amateur photograph sent in by a customer as part of a contest. I think it turned out pretty well (you can click the pictures to see larger versions). Now I'll say right now that my photoshop skills could be described as intermediate at best (and even that's being generous), and this took me about 45 minutes, and I think makes quite an improvement, not that there was any great flaw with this girl to begin with. So imagine what a photoshop master can do in an hour starting with a professionally lit and photographed model. I'll never believe my eyes when flipping through a magazine again.


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How to Airbrush your photos in Photoshop!

An excellent tutorial showing you step by step how to get that professional airbrushed look.

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Tuesday, June 20, 2006

How to make a Yoda Origami

I'm not going to try this because I suck at origami, but the end result looks pretty freakin' sweet.

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Monday, June 19, 2006

How Marlon Brando reprised his role in Superman Returns

This is a video showing how they made Marlon Brando talk in Superman Returns! Very Cool!

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Huge bright explosion baffling astronomers

It looks a bit like a supernova, a bit like a quasar and a lot like nothing ever seen before. Perhaps the best explanation so far is that it is a colossal supernova at the extreme edge of the universe.

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Saturday, June 17, 2006

Henry Rollins: A Love Letter To Ann Coulter

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Friday, June 16, 2006

Thank goodness for Google.

Without Google the people who typed in the following search strings probably would never have found this incredibly informative site :P
  • boil empty cavity pus
  • "women are insane"
  • dentist appointment photoblog
  • prosecuting cyber bullies
  • canine leg lump
  • jason's fury
  • dressup jesus
  • lump on leg
  • lump inside thigh
I wonder how long my ingrown hair story is going to keep me at the top of the search results whenever people google for information about lumps on their leg.

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Sin City Style Photoshop Tutorial

Photoshop tutorial for how to get the Sin City art style in your images.

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Movie theaters getting 5000 x 2000 pixel movies

Three German companies yesterday demonstrated what could be considered the ultimate movie experience of the future: If you thought it just doesn't get better than a 1080p high-definition home theater, think again: Cinevision 2006 runs at a stunning 10 megapixel resolution and promises to improve to 16 megapixels down the road.

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Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Tekken

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Canadian Idol

This about sums up my feelings about Canadian Idol.

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Monday, June 12, 2006

Seriously, she's coo coo for cocoa puffs...

From Val's kooky website:

June 11: News release CHUM previously purchased Stern's TV show for CITY TV but cancelled it before even airing an episode because they knew it would violate Canadian broadcast standards. Click here for MediaWatch intervention on Stern.


That Link to the MediaWatch intervention letter to the CRTC is from March, 2000. It contains the following paragraph:

When CHUM cancelled Stern's show in Montreal, and decided not to air the TV version of the program, it did so on grounds that: "CHUM is committed to adhering to the industry codes administered by the Broadcast Standards Council. It is clear that the television show will not meet those standards." Having had direct, daily experience of the program, CHUM is in a unique position to be able to comment on the show's ability to live up to the standards. If its conclusion is correct, how is it possible for the program to be airing in Toronto without contravening the standards?


What exactly is the point of bringing this up Val? This isn't even the same Howard Stern TV show. You are just continuing to show your ignorance toward the topic. Also note that even this quote doesn't specifically say that the Stern show DOES violate the Broadcast Standards Act, only that it was CHUM's feeling that it would. That decision was made before the December 1999 decision to renew CILQ-FM's licence. Where the CRTC noted:

4. In response, the licensee stated that it now edits the Howard Stern Show to ensure that it complies with the Broadcasting Act (the Act) and the Canadian Association of Broadcaster's codes. The licensee noted that, in a letter dated 25 February 1999 to MediaWatch, the CBSC stated that the program is "edited to conform to Canadian standards."


But please Val, let's try and stay on point. It's now 2006 not 2000. The radio show is on subscription based satellite radio not over the open airwaves. The TV show is only available via a specialty subscription service, not on a major network. Why not try and frame your arguments as to why that set up isn't acceptable to you?

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Like a phoenix rising from the ashes...

Hey, Google knows I exist again. Searching for "Jason Doan" brings you right here. I have no idea what happened the couple of weeks Google didn't have me listed at all.

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Sunday, June 11, 2006

It's not even my birthday...

Yet my dear friend kooky Val gave me a present in the form of one of her nutty "News releases". The title of this one is "Rogers Cable Will Censor Howard Stern TV for Abusive Comment: Why isn't Sirius Canada doing the same thing?". We'll just ignore the fact that it appears in the Radio section of her site even though it's about a TV channel on a cable service. We'll also ignore the fact that she probably meant to use the word "Content" not "Comment".

Let's take a look see at what she has to say:

In their June 6 news release, Rogers used the words uncut and uncensored to describe the material available. However, in their web site FAQ section under the question "is Howard Stern really uncensored?", Rogers states:

...Please note that if a program fails to meet Canadian Broadcast Standards due to abusive comments or undue discrimination or for another legal reason which fails a Canadian Broadcast Standard - Rogers will be forced to remove the affected episode.


Note the use of "...", I use that all the time because I'm a hack who is too lazy to write correctly regardless of how many boring ass composition classes I've taken over the years, but correctly used and in this context it means that she intentionally omitted something. Let's see what that line is from Rogers web site:

The Howard Stern episodes are all available in the original format provided to Rogers. This means nudity, swearing and other mature dialogue and situations will be shown with no overt censorship.


well that would seem to be a pretty important line, I wonder why she left that out. Maybe her next paragraph will shed a little light on her reasoning:

This intention to censor Stern does not appear in the Rogers news release although it is both important to potential subscribers and newsworthy. It is a current acknowledgement from one of Canada's largest communications and broadcast conglomerates that Stern's show features some material that contravenes Canadian broadcast standards.



Oh I see now, she was trying to twist Rogers statement into saying the exact opposite of what it really said. Val is a clever one. Remember kids, if people don't say what you want them to you can always use quotes out of context to make it look like they did. See Val when you use their entire quote it's plainly obvious that their intent is to NOT censor any of the Howard TV episodes. It also is not a "current acknowledgement from one of Canada's largest communications and broadcast conglomerates that Stern's show features some material that contravenes Canadian broadcast standards". It is a statement that they are aware that something COULD happen on the show that COULD contravene the Canadian Broadcast Standards Act, and that IF that happened they WOULD remove that ONE episode. It is also not "newsworthy" to report that a media conglomerate WILL comply with federal law, if newspapers started doing that the business section of the Globe and Mail would be 2000 pages long every day.

On forward we trudge through Val's nonsensical gobbledygook.

"The situation with Rogers and Sirius is exactly the same, Howard Stern programming being offered on a subscription basis," says Toronto anti-violence activist Valerie Smith, "but the companies are taking two very different approaches. Rogers is attempting to conform to Canadian law, while Sirius Canada is ignoring it."


That's right kids, Val Smith went out of her way to get a quote from noted anti-violence expert...uhh...Val Smith. Geez, how did you manage to get a quote from her when she never seems willing to talk to any other media outlet on this issue. You must have some clout lady. Seriously who the fuck quotes themselves? I should start writing blog entries in the 3rd person. It would seem so much more official and noteworthy. I don't even know where to start ripping apart this quote though, she bases an argument on an out of context quote and then tries to compare a cable company to a radio company using her twisted quote. My logic professors would have torn their hair out trying to talk to this woman. Geez Val, if you are so concerned with the content on Sirius maybe you should make a formal complaint. Oh you did? And they're ignoring you? Sucks to be you.

Thanks, Rogers, for highlighting the situation. Let's hope that whatever regulatory and/or political pressure inspired them will also force Sirius to adopt similar measures to Eliminate Stern's trademark misogyny and abusive comments directed at other vulnerable groups.


Thanks? She's thanking Rogers for providing Howard Stern to 10 times as many homes as it is currently available in? And what is this "trademark" misogyny and abusive content you refer to? Why do you never provide an example? Why do I have a feeling that the total amount of time you've listened to Howard Stern in your lifetime is roughly the same as the amount of time I've spent reading Cosmo? What "vulnerable groups" has he attacked? Please provide out of context quotes with dates so that I can slap you around with the complete quotes.

She finishes off her release with quotes from the various Broadcast Acts. She includes the relevant paragraphs from the Pay Television, Specialty Services, Television and Radio acts, showing yet again she doesn't know what category her argument is about. I'll deal with the Pay Television Regulations as clearly that is what Rogers is offering.

3.(2) No licensee shall distribute programming:


(b) that contains any abusive comment or abusive pictorial representation that, when taken in context, tends to or is likely to expose an individual or a group or class of individuals to hatred or contempt on the basis of race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age or mental or physical disability;

There's some pretty important words in there that people like Val and her ilk like to gloss over. I find it humourous that someone who habitually uses quotes out of context seems to skip over that passage of the Act every time she reads it. Also please note Val, the bit about "hatred or contempt". That's the governments silly little way of making sure the Act doesn't quash satire. If it wasn't in there the Broadcast Standards Council would be inundated with calls from Newfoundland, every time Air Farce did a newfie joke, well only if those inbred newfies could figure out how to get their phones out of the cod they're stuck in. See that, I made a joke where I ridiculed someone based on where they live, and that's protected, as much as you wish it wasn't Val.

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Trailer: Who Killed The Electric Car?

Really want to see this, too bad I live in a city where "documentary" is a 4 letter word.

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Another Clerks 2 Trailer

More Joy!

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Trailer: Clerks II

Joy!

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Xbox 360, iPod and Plasma TVs Will Transform In The New Transformers Movie

And there goes all the hope I had that the Transformers movie wouldn't suck.

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Phys Ed Class For Nerds

Dance Dance Revolution as part of the school curiculum?

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Best Firefox Extensions: Volume 1-3

If you are a fan of firefox like I am, you should find some useful extensions here.

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Saturday, June 10, 2006

Robot Chicken: Napoleon Bonamite

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Robot Chicken: Star Wars

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A Futuristic Eco- Friendly Speedboat Runs on Fat from Man's Behind

uhhhhhhhhhh....

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World's Funniest Joke

Professor Richard Wiseman carried out an internet experiment five years ago to find the world's best gag.
A joke about two US hunters who go into the woods topped the poll after more than 100,000 people around the world cast their vote on 40,000 jokes.

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Friday, June 09, 2006

Eating pizza 'May cut cancer risk'

Who knew all the pizza was good for me :)

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China Lifts online blockade of Google.com

China has lifted its online blockade of Google.com after a two-week crackdown that had prevented direct access to the site and temporarily thwarted popular workarounds, a media watchdog group reported Friday.

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New Pixar Trailer -- Ratatouille (2007)

This movie is being directed by Brad Bird, the guy who brought you The Incredibles and The Iron Giant.

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Ann Coulter on Today Show

Hopefully the video doesn't get removed again.

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Thursday, June 08, 2006

Microsoft Hires 'Daily Show' Comic for Windows Vista Ad Campaign

"The rivalry between Microsoft and Apple apparently extends to the cast of 'The Daily Show.' Microsoft has reached a deal with Demetri Martin, the comic behind the fake news program's periodic 'Trendspotting' feature, to star in a marketing campaign for the upcoming Windows Vista.

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Wednesday, June 07, 2006

Post #100

And guess what, kooky Val updated her kooky website just in time for me to write my 100th post on this here blog.

This time she proves that despite claiming to be an adult that she doesn't have the reading comprehension level of the average 12 year old. In response to Roger's Cable announcing today that they will be carrying HowardTV (Howard Stern's On Demand channel), Val writes:
"June 7: Rogers Cable has announced it will carry Howard TV. They're also going to censor it to conform to Canadian broadcasting standards."

Here's the actual quote from Rogers website (I've highlighted the key words to help the reading impaired uber right wing conservative nut jobs):

Q. Is Howard Stern really uncensored?
A.The Howard Stern episodes are all available in the original format provided to Rogers. This means nudity, swearing and other mature dialogue and situations will be shown with no overt censorship. Please note that if a program fails to meet Canadian Broadcast Standards due to abusive comments or undue discrimination or for another legal reason which fails a Canadian Broadcast Standard - Rogers will be forced to remove the affected episode.
So as long as nothing in the episode hits the level of hate speech, they will be completely uncensored. And given that nothing on the show ever hits the level necessary to be legally deemed hate speech, even with Canada's incredibly conservative definition of what is and isn't, I can't see any episode ever getting pulled. But hey, nice try at raining on people's parades Val.

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Coulter v. Lauer

Video was removed from You Tube, unfortunately.


Holy Shit, Ann Coulter is one scary crazy lady.

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Google.com blocked in China!

Google.com has been blocked in most parts of China, as Beijing steps up its efforts to restrict the public's access to information, a Paris-based media watchdog said.

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Drugs are bad...

Kids' WB! On The CW Announces 2006-2007 Saturday Morning Programming Schedule

Someone please take the crack pipe away from whatever writer came up with this concept and whatever executive gave it the go ahead:

Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get A Clue!, 10:00-10:30 am: Ruh-roh! Everybody's favorite quivering sleuths -- Shaggy and his lovable Great Dane, Scooby-Doo -- are back in a new adventure that will anchor the "Too Big For Your TV" programming block. In this comedy from Warner Bros. Animation, Shaggy and Scooby live in the bling'd-out mansion of Shaggy's Uncle Albert, solving mysteries with the help of a transforming Mystery Machine which, at the click of a remote, can morph into one of a number of modes of transportation. New Scooby Snacks infused with a top-secret nano-technology allows our canine hero to fly, become a towering robot or even turn himself into a giant magnet, which comes in handy as Shaggy and Scooby-Doo carry out their new mission: protecting the Scooby Snacks and keeping them safe from those who want them for evil.

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Really cool colour illusion

Make your brain think a black & white picture has colours.

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If My Child Was Born on 06-06-06...

A number of panicked Christian ladies across America are scheduled to give birth on June 6th, 2006. This date raises concern among church members since the numbers of that day also identify the son of Satan, the "Beast" from the book of Revelation. No decent, Christian family wants the little red bottom of the devil's spawn perched on a limb of their family tree, taking a dump on the branches below, much less sitting in a high-chair at the dinner table listening in on family prayers while quietly finalizing plans to sodomize mommy with the family vacuum. As such, Landover Baptist Creation Scientists have put together a checklist of recommended actions one should take if their baby is being born or was born on 06-06-06.


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Tuesday, June 06, 2006

$125,000 record player runs on Mars Rover motor

You know you have too much money when...

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Bidders, Beam Me Up: Star Trek Memorabilia Going to Auction Block

After 40 years as one of the biggest franchises in television and movie history, CBS Paramount Television is opening its archives to the public and letting Star Trek fans own a piece of the cult favorite.

In case anyone is looking for gift ideas for my birthday, here are some options.

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Women are NOT insane.

All of the women I know are sensible rational human beings, especially the one I married.

My wife and I have an ideal, fairy tale romance. We never argue about anything.

The following topics will no longer be discussed on my blog:

  1. My wife.

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Monday, June 05, 2006

Jesus dressup doll

hehehehe

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RIAA Targeting Youtube and Google Video

According to the RIAA, Youtube and Google Video are the newest way to share music illegally. The RIAA's served Youtube several cease-and-desist letters to remove content that users have uploaded because of background music.

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Hey RIAA morons, music videos are supposed to be used to promote an artist. Tech savvy consumers with disposable income are the customers you should be cultivating, not trying to piss off whenever possible, so just let the kids watch music videos on the internet, what really is the harm?

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Sirius Pulls Even With XM

A new technology poll from Jacobs Media says XM and Sirius are now equally popular, but the momentum, largely driven by Howard Stern, is shifting toward Sirius.

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More boredness

What cartoon are you?

Family guy

Personality Test Results

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Brought to you by YouThink.com quizzes and personality tests.

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Sunday, June 04, 2006

On the mend

For anyone who cares, the thing on my leg has mostly healed. I pulled out an inch of packing on Saturday and the last inch and a half or so just fell out by itself. The incision seems to be closing up on its own fairly nicely and should be completely closed off in a couple more days. I'm just using a single pad of gauze folded into a square and held in place with a large bandage now, as opposed to the several layers of gauze held in place with tape I had to use for the first few days after the surgery due to the amount of fluid I was leaking.

My first of two dentist appointments is at 8am. Joy. Next one is at 8am next Wednesday.

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Uhhhhh.....

Sometimes you have to wonder what toy companies are thinking.

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Saturday, June 03, 2006

FUCK!

FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK!

Fuck!

I'm just going to go crawl under a rock for a while. Someone let me know when all the retards have managed to kill themselves and it's safe to come out. Some moron just proved yet again that driving is far to complicated of a task for the average mouthbreather. I was stopped, something I generally do whenever all the cars in front of me are stopped. He decided that he didn't want to be like everyone else and just kept right on driving. Sigh. At least he was kind enough to slow down enough that he only destroyed my bumper so I won't be having yet another car written off due to a rear ender. Yay, I love dealing with our friendly neighbourhood insurance monopoly.

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Mentos and Diet Coke

This is pretty crazy.

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Friday, June 02, 2006

Yay for me!

Yep, this week just keeps getting better and better.

Just got home from my dentist's office after finding out I have 6 cavities. Six fucking cavities. I brush twice a day, floss after every meal and mouthwash damn near every time I wander into the bathroom and I still have 6 fucking cavities I need to have filled. I might as well just give up buying toothpaste, floss and mouthwash. The money saved would probably pay for the work I'd just end up needing done anyway.

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Thursday, June 01, 2006

Updates

Still continuing to work at arranging things in a way that I like. I've taken 3 cracks now at designing a header graphic and I think I'm finally happy with this one. I believe all the links are working, if someone spots one that isn't please let me know.

The leg continues to heal. I've pulled a few inches of the packing material out of it so far and it's bleeding far less today than it has been all week. I believe I have now managed to yank all the hairs from that portion of my leg.

Val Smith is still a kook, but at least she doesn't seem to be updating her kooky web page very often anymore.

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Renovations

I'm trying out a slightly different format for the blog. The previous template I was using just seemed like it was wasting so much screen space with nothingness. Don't get me wrong, I prefer a streamlined design over some of the cluttered monstrosities that people call webpages these days, but I believe it's possible to use all the screen space available and remain uncluttered. I'll be tweaking things over the next few days, maybe adding a few bells and whistles. Let me know what you think.

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