Good on ya, Howard.

A buddy of mine moved out to Colorado a few months back and as it turns out.. has been doing some good.

Let this be a lesson to you.. don't drive through flooded streets, unless Howard is around to save you.

He's being flown out to New York so he can appear on the Today show tomorrow morning, so that's pretty exciting.

I wish they had a picture of him standing on top of the Jeep though. Can I make fun of someone for that sort of thing? I mean, he did need rescued, just because you saved someone before you needed rescued, doesn't mean you didn't need it.

I think I need an officially ruling on that. Regardless... good show, Howard.

Senator puts "Secret Hold" on bill

Oh come on, how can I make something like this up?

As it turns out.. and I'll completely admit to my ignorance on this subject.. Senators can put "Secret Holds" on bills in Congress.

The absolutely best part of the story though, has yet to be revealed.

The bill that was put on Double Secret Probation was of course... a bill that would have opened up more Federal Records.

So brilliantly, a bill that seeks to open certain kinds of federal records, was cancelled by a person that can hide behind some magic shield.

Pure genius.

PS3 Hopes to cure Alzheimer's

The Playstation 3 is set to be released in November (of course, it was set to be released last year, but thats a whole different deal), but they are in the news for a different reason this time.

The PS3 has teamed up with folding@home to attempt to cure diseases such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow, ALS, Parkinson's and countless others by using a Distributed computing network.

Distrubuted networks were popularized with the SETI@home project that is still running that searches for ET life throughout the universe. The catch with the PS3 is that the "cell" in the PS3 will run the program 10 times faster then an average home computer. Should be interesting to see how the program develops.

An article about it can be found here.

#20? Screw that!

How can we be #20? That's f'ing ridiculous. We should be so much higher!

F YOU POLL! WE DESERVE BETTER.

Man, I am angry.

Maine Hellbeast Killed by Car

My special correspondent, Fletcher, pointed me to this article about a Hell beast killed in Maine over the weekend.

Animal control officers say its a rare wolf-dog hybrid, but obviously it's a creature from the world beyond. I mean, look at it. Be scared. Be very scared.

82! 82! 82!

Wanna know where your last name ranks?

For my family members that read my blog.. you're #82, I promise.

Wanna go golfing?

Well, okay, it's not regular golf.. as a matter of fact, it's just a driving range.

But I still want to go golfing at this place.

My friends that I golf with take the game very seriously and get frustrated when they mess up. I don't take the game so seriously.. so I think I'd have more fun trying to hit random targets.

At $0.30 a ball during "peak hours" it'd be pricey, but it'd be fun to play around with. All in all though, golf balls with sensors? Freaking cool.

Chad gets Photoshopped onto Beinn Eighe

My brother, Chad, has been off wandering the world again (as he does). This picture was taken in the Scottish Highlands on the Mountain of Beinn Eighe. It practically looks fake it's so beautiful. Is everyone jealous? I am.

Scientists creating new Universe

Japanese scientists are attempting to create a new universe within a lab.

If successful the space-time continuum around that point will break from ours, but since it is a whole seperate universe it will not collapse our own space time continuum.

Let's hope that they are calculating things correctly.

Jerisco

Wanna know your Brazilian Soccer Name is?

Mine.. of course.. is Jerisco!

Bored of Myspace?

Are you bored with your Myspace account?

The adult version is here! Utherverse expects to have more over a million registered users by the end of 2006.

Now instead of filling your profile up with text and boring pictures, you can do it with porn. Complete your fantasy profile today!

Want a new job? Here's how.

All you have to do is figure out how to get millions of people into a theater on opening weekend, without spending $10 a head on advertising cost.

Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks as well as HDNet, has offered a 'contest' of sorts. Answer the question above, and you get a job working for him. And since he's Mark Cuban, he's serious.

He put this proposal on his blog, which is probably one of the most interesting blogs on the net.

So far 411 comments have been posted... so you're idea better be new and original. Chad.. get to work.

Man enters fishing contest.

In Bermuda over the weekend a man entered a deep sea fishing tournament. He didn't win. You'd think he'd have a good shot at winning being that he and his father both charter fishing boats and have done a lot of Marlin fishing.

But as it turns out.. the fish won.

Oh my God! Where'd that week go?

So yeah, I suck at this whole blog thing. I have about 3 or 4 topics I wanted to blog about, but can't seem to make the time or find the time or something about time to do it.

Perhaps I'm not as good at this as I thought I'd be. Perhaps this evening... perhaps not. I know you're dying with the anticipation, aren't you?

Amazon.com: The Walmart of the Internet

So what would go good with your new Amazon.com DVD? Well, popcorn, of course!

Yes, it's true. Amazon.com has rolled out its own grocery store now, completely online. I just couldn't imagine it being that much cheaper, if its even cheaper at all. Of course, those who live in the middle of nowhere don't have to drive all the way to Walmart now.

You know what? I miss IGA.

Arcade Game!

The beginnings of my 80s arcade have begun.

I bought Guerrilla War today.

How freaking awesome. I'll post pictures when I get it here and get it set up.

Ed knocks off Robin

I like lists. They are always fun to look over and disagree with and argue about.

Entertainment Weekly does such things. This week? The best Sidekicks of all time.

Notables include Ed McMahon knocking off Robin for 1st, followed by George Costanza, Chewbacca and Ethel Mertz.

Always fun to see the modern people come in with Pedro from Napolean Dynamite coming in at #22, Silent Bob in at #39, and, not quite modern, but Arthur Dents best bud Ford Prefect.

I'm not sure who they missed, but I'm sure they missed someone.

Happy Baistille Day!

It's French Indepedence Day today.

In honor of it, I'll remind of you of the story of the Rainbow Warrior.

Save the Beach at the End of the Street!

Oh man does Homeland Security have it together or what?

The more I read into this report, the more of comic genius it is. That's a link to the actual report, instead of just a story about it (warning, its a pdf). CNN just doesn't do it justice when making fun of it.

Let's just hit some highlights:

-Indiana lists 65% of the Public Health Sector, including all 417 of its nursing homes.

-25 Golf Courses, 24 Swimming Pools, 34 Coca Cola botllers/distributors, and 3,773.... wait for it.. wait for it.. malls.

-The state of Washington has 65 national monuments, whereas Washington, DC only has 37.

-New Mexico Controls the Internet. In the "Information Technology" sector, New Mexico has 553 (73%), the next highest state (Virginia) has 68.

-4,164 schools are listed of various sizes from Head Start programs to University, 2,126 of these are in Virginia. There are 96,000 schools that would fall in the range of Head Start programs to University in reality. We don't know why the other 92,000 do not need protection, but the ones in Virginia do.

-Various things that are listed that are funny: Trees of Mystery, Inn, Rolls Royce Plant, Donut Shop, Jay's Sporting Goods, Auto Shop, Nix's Check Cashing, Assyrian American Association, Association for the Jewish Blind, Sweetwater Flea Market, 4 Cs Fuel and Lube, and I quote, "Beach at End of [a] Street."


Honestly, the report doesn't surprise me all that much. It's just a bit pathetic that our tax dollars are going to be distributed based on something this moronic. Perhaps by the time the 10th Anniversary of 9/11 rolls around, we'll actually figure out what we're supposed to be protecting.

Indiana is screwed.

If you were a terrorist, where would you strike?

New York? Been there, done that.
Los Angeles? So Hollywood.
Chicago? Nahhhh.

Indiana? Damn right!.

Statue of Liberty? No.
Insect Zoo? Yes.
Empire State Building? No.
Bourbon Festival? Yes.

Thank Goodness we have the National Infrastructure Protection Plan out there to protect us from harms way, ya know, the plan that ranks a Kangaroo Conservation Area the same as it rates, say, the Sears Tower, because a weighting system for each site doesn't exist.

Five years after 9/11, and now they are cutting budgets to New York and Washington, D.C. and giving the money to... Indiana.