Archive for July, 2005
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
This started as a comment on a BlackChampagne post. If some thoughts seem more incomplete than usual that is probably why.
I saw the film this morning, luckily for me the children in attendance kept mostly quiet throughout.
I have a completely different take on the movie though, as I watched and loved the original version of [...]
False advertising!
So do you remember all of those commercials from the 1990’s that said, “A diamond is forever.”? They lied.
It turns out that the actual lifespan of said diamond is about four years, seven months and three days. That all being based on the date that I gave my wife her engagement ring (Xmas Eve of [...]
Pass me the duct tape!
Kudos to NASA, who released this statement, “NASA: No Flights Until Foam Issue Fixed “. That should be a comforting thought, right? Well, when the article that it leads to is This one, I am not so sure. The last time an American shuttle left the ground heading for space some foam tore away from [...]
Stupid teen ruins it for everyone
I must admit that when I was in my teens I would often fantasize about having sex with one of my friend’s Mother. Of course nothing came of it, not that I didn’t try, I even busted out the “I don’t bite either but I swing a pretty mean tongue” line. Still she wouldn’t succumb [...]
Monsoon at last
After a week of temperatures 110+ degrees, while the humidity has been steadily rising, the monsoon is here at last.
I am not sure exactly how they calculate when the monsoon finally arrives so I am calling it myself. It arrived at precisely 3:42p.m. today. That is when the black clouds blocked out the sun and [...]
Let’s play some cards
With the popularity of the World Series of Poker on television, not to mention my insatiable desire to know everything, and be better at it than everyone else, right now, dammit. I was forced to learn how to play Texas Hold ‘Em Poker. The game is pretty simple, actually it is much easier than any [...]
Something in the shot?
My happy, playful, non-aggressive dogs don’t do much other than lay around and eat on occasion, yet there must be something in the shots that they get at the vet that changes all of that. Zelda, the younger of the two dogs, the female one as well, was needing to renew her shot status to [...]
A day for reflection
It comes along one day every year, without fail, seemingly oblivious to how it will affect me. The recurrence of my genital warts Today is my birthday, well technically speaking this date thirty-one years ago was my birthday, so it is the anniversary of my birthday. The 31st one of them (in case you are [...]
My dogs are getting screwed again!
I am getting so damn sick of people punishing dogs for the ignorance of their owners. It’s not like we punish children just because they go around killing other people as a result of poor supervision, well, actually, that might be a really bad parallel to draw. When children go bad and start killing people [...]
I have never had so much Pi(e)
I had long thought that my knowledge of pi to the twelfth number was pretty impressive, those numbers being 3.14159265359 (rounded of course). It turns out that I am really just a slack-jawed country boy.
The headline reads:
Man recites pi from memory to 83,431 places;
Japanese counselor breaks his own personal best
I don’t really know whether to [...]