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Just throwing in a couple of cool links and then I’m off the rest of the holiday weekend. Have a good one!

Oh jeez, I missed No Pants Day again! I’m sure my fiancee would be all for that kind of day…er–scratch that. He’d like a No Pants Year, starring me. I’m not so sure I’d be all that comfortable. Of course you can wear No Pants Day boxers if you’re really modest, like me.

Digital Sushi is marvelous! If you like sushi, that is…you should at least TRY IT. Start with something simple, like California roll, if you’re squeamish about sashimi (raw fish). California roll is made out of pieces of cucumber, carrot, or avacado and tuna, crab or imitation crabmeat and sometimes cream cheese. Then it’s all wrapped up in white rice and nori (seaweed wrap). I like to take a bit of wasabi and mix it with shoyu (soy sauce) and dip the roll into it. It’s way too yummy to describe. You can get variations of California roll at many Chinese or Japanese buffet-style restaurants. In West St. Paul, Grand Buffet has some, but I prefer the stuff made and bought at the Byerly’s deli. Anyway, Digital Sushi has a complete ‘dictionary’ (with pictures!) that lists all types of sushi and sushi ingredients, to get familiar with. Even if you don’t like any of the food, there’s lots of other cool stuff like photos of trips to Japan, cool desktop stuff like icons, cursors and wallpaper. So go!

Riding In Cars…With Boys
Okay, so we have one car. He is the driver. So I spend alot of time in the passenger seat of the car. Sometimes more time is spent in the damn car, waiting for him to get smokes, gas, etc. All the while, I sit and wait. I’ve noticed that gas stations do not really play any decent music. It’s usually Backstreet Boys crap or old, rejected soft rock. Anyway, the other day I all but threw my hands up in rejoice and spewed forth shouts of ‘hallelujah!’ because as I’m sitting in the car waiting yet again, they played Steely Dan! No way, were we at a gas station? I had to look around to make sure. Yep, we are. I had to pinch myself to be sure I wasn’t dreaming. Nope. I thought that was pretty damn cool. I thought it outloud when he came back to the car. He supressed a chuckle. A ‘OMYGOD, you’re weird’ chuckle.

Okay, so you think I’m a dork, and you’re sure that Steely Dan is still crappy stuff to play at a gas station, or anywhere, for that matter. But to me it was fantastic.

Since we’re on the subject of music…
This is a cool website that lists songs that have been played on TV commercials. If you’re into that sort of thing. I just happened upon it while cruising Google (I’m always cruising Google!). I was looking for an answer to the latest debacle over at my guestbook, about a Ralph Lauren fragrance ad. Yes, folks, the highlight of my day so far is arguing with people at my own guestbook about tv commercials. How pathetic is that?

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YAY! They finally got them up! You know that little animated purple bumper-sticker-looking thing in the left hand column? Well, that’s my blogsticker! and now they’ve finally published them for all to see! Want one? Go here and check ‘em out…I’ve made white versions of each one for those who prefer.

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Well, in the last two weeks here in Minnesota, it has snowed, rained & hailed, and we’ve had record breaking high temps. Monday it got to 93 degrees! WTF?! It was unbearable. I can’t complain that much about Monday since I refuse to get my air conditioner from downstairs and install it, since I don’t think I’ll be here past June. Last night the thunderstorm woke most people in the Twin Cities metro, it was very loud and it seemed to go and then come back several times during the wee hours of the morning.

My lack of fun activities lately has gotten me down. Well, when SuperCross came to town, we planned to go and missed it. Then the last Monster Truck rally came and we really wanted to go and didn’t. Now the World of Wheels has come and gone. My fiancee is the BIGGEST procrastinator. I thought I was the worst. No. It’s him. We plan and plan and plan and discuss and….nothing.
I even get INTO the shower, get dressed, get ALL BUT READY to walk out the door, and he says I don’t feel like it….maybe next time around. This is getting to be really annoying. Especially when I tell friends and family “Oh, we can’t come, we’re going to some stupid car show that day.” I’ll admit I’m a big lazy fool too, but it’s mostly him, and aside from beating him upside the head, what I do to help alleviate this problem? Who knows. I’ll think about it later.

On the bright side, tomorrow James and I are going down south to my mom’s lake resort spot and help build her deck. It should be fun, provided the weather is nice. Today it’s nice and Springy. I don’t think it’s more than 70 out right now but it’s feelin’ pretty good. I’ve got all my windows open and I’m getting ready to do some hefty spring cleaning before my friend comes over. I’m teaching her a few software programs, just covering the basics. Does anyone know of a few good online tutorials I can refer her to for when she wants to do more stuff later? Drop me a comment!

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What’s with Christina Appelgate lately? Didn’t she used to be much better looking? I think now that she’s off TV and into being a movie star again, she’s on that popular Hollywood diet, called SMOKE & COKE. Ladies, when we can see your rib bones between your breasts, it’s NOT sexy. At least to my fiancee, who was thinking this outloud to me the other night. Haha

Jennifer and Brad pregnant? Good for them. Hope they lay off the SMOKE & COKE now. At least ’til the brat’s born.

And what happened to http://www.riotgrrl.com? Did they get shut down? I used to love reading that site and then I found out that a link I had to one of their articles was bad. On further investigation, I find it’s gone. They had my favorite morph pic game there, called “Feed The Supermodel”. There was a pic every week of some sorry-ass skinny chick who looked like she needed a sandwich, and STAT. You could feed her food to make it all better. Do you remember it?

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Fox TV Cancels ‘Ally McBeal’
I don’t know where I was when this hit the news, ’cause I missed it. Had I known, I’d have baked a cake and threw a party. You all know how much I loathe this show, this waste of an hour of someone’s precious time, so you know of course how elated I am to hear this. I was gravely saddened however, upon learning that this absurdity of a TV show had insidiously reached 100 episodes earlier this winter. This is horrific to me because everyone knows once a show has reached the 100 mark, it’s going to be syndicated. Thrown back at us over and over and over again like some sort of nasty broken record. So for me the news is bittersweet. Oh well. I suppose I could try and get over it.

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New Audio CD’s on the Market Will Not Play on CD-ROM Devices
In the near future, a large amount of new audio CD’s released by recording artists will not play properly in your computer’s CD-ROM player. Why? Because, a-la Napster, once again, it’s a battle of copyrights. Sony figures that people who will play a band’s audio CD in a CD-ROM player, are most likely to also be the ones ripping and trading the songs for free to others, and thus encouraging pirating the music without paying for it. With that in mind, they’ve gone and encoded the redbook audio to play well only in traditional home and car CD audio components, but terribly in computer CD and CD-ROM devices. I know because I saw this on the news. They took Celine Dion’s new CD (Couldn’t they have picked ANYONE ELSE?!), which was known to have used this new technology, and put it into a CD-ROM device to play. The resulting sounds were very skippy, and staticy at best, otherwise it sounded as though you had taken 2 hits of LSD, and were listening to whales singing in a bad gospel church choir.

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Napping. It’s not just for kids and lazy people anymore.
The tradition of napping in other countries is supposedly dying out. It’s been proven be a healthful and refreshing and even life-extending benefit to notable folks like Winston Churchill, Thomas Edison, Napolean Bonaparte, Johannes Brahms, and Ronald Reagan, so why didn’t Americans ever emphasize the need for one? Is our society afraid of being called lazy? Just because we need a little break? You decide.

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Powell’s Israel Visit Brings About…Nothing, Dampening ExpectationsAs the Israeli military continued its offensive, Israel was on high alert for suicide bombers and the secretary of

state said a formal truce was unlikely before he left.

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UGh. It took me over twenty minutes to post this day’s entries. Blogger publishing seems to be slow, or down. I checked status.blogger.com and there’s nothing there to tell me any different, and also status.blogspot.com, and no news there, which leaves me to use the Adminimizer toolbar from ASP Modules. If you don’t have it yet, GET IT. It’s easy to install, and although mine leaves my date header looking kinda funny (it lines up weirdly), I do find it comes in handy when you really need to post something and Blogger is for shit. Oh well, on with already:

‘Virtual’ Child Pornography Ban Overturned
The Supreme Court struck down provisions of a federal law that made it a crime to create, distribute or possess “virtual” child pornography. Apparently there are some real losers out there who do computer-generated lifelike fake kiddie porn and it’s considered NOT to be porn by the Supreme Court because it’s ‘virtual’. I’m sorry, but real or pretend, you’re ALL SICK! What do you think? Everyone knows that child pornography communities thrive and hideout in online places, like MSN communities, but I think there should be stiffer regulations on how communities are built, and those who monitor them should be more on the lookout for this kind of behavior.

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Friends, I’ve long wanted to be able to provide useful advice to the young people today, with regards to their ever-fruitful social lives, to help guide them along whatever paths in life they choose. I’ve got some solutions for most red-blooded men and women. If you posess at least half a brain, you qualify as needing this pertinent information.

Do not hesitate to start with our guides on: ‘Dating In the New Millenium’ (for both genders), and for the ladies, ‘A Good Old Fashioned Fuck’.

Please stay tuned to this station for updates and valuable tools to help you. Whether it’s love, dating, or friendship issues you’ve got, I’d like to be your solution.

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