9/30/2003 04:28:00 PM|||Skillzy|||Be careful about opening the next birthday card you get from your friendly neighborhood perv. And if you catch someone using this program, drag their ass to court. In a related story, the Italians have some cell phone rules to live by if you're a cheatin you-know-what. Go practice your "who is this?" routine in the mirror ASAP.|||106495729012240732|||9/30/2003 04:19:00 PM|||Skillzy|||Alabama News Headlines:
Storage unit woman is awarded $100,000. This story said she weighed 150 when she went in, so I guess she wasn't fat like I previously thought. All in all, it's a tough way to make a buck and lose some weight.
Dumbass Alabama fan tries to shoot his son after the Crimson Tide loses a close one. I sure hope his driver did OK at Talladega the next day.|||106495675363608953|||9/29/2003 08:21:00 PM|||Skillzy|||Mookie had a link to this biorhythm compatibility chart thing for Nicole Kidman (yuk) and Lenny Kravitz (eye roll). Anyhoo, I went there and put in my info and found my perfect match...90 out of 100! Now I just have to convince her what a great idea this is....|||106488487597028790|||9/28/2003 08:54:00 PM|||Skillzy|||Well travelin all last week sucked, but it was all worth it Friday when I visited The Scotch Corner, an authentic little Scottish pub and karaoke bar down near Disney. What made it great wasn't the Belhaven Scottish Ale, or the singing, it was the fact that after 3 long years, I finally met the hardheaded little cannoli face to face. We had a blast and I'll put up some pics soon.|||106480044448176026|||9/26/2003 02:01:00 PM|||Skillzy|||Friday headlines:

Dogging is the latest craze in Britain. Wonder if it'll catch on here? Any volunteers? Any female ones?
Woman spends 63 days locked in a storage unit. Luckily she was fat when she went in. Bizarre story. (thanks War Liberal)
NYC cop finds true love at an Oregon high school. I now pronounce you perv and teenybopper.
And finally, another tough chick. This one's 13! Junior high bullies beware...|||106460288778744976|||9/26/2003 09:02:00 AM|||Skillzy|||I just found out that Robert Palmer has died. It's certainly been a bad month for music.|||106458497489158857|||9/25/2003 11:36:00 PM|||Skillzy||| Under the Tuscan Sun has Diane Lane and Tuscany (go rent Stealing Beauty...when I win the lottery I'm moving there immediately) - it's a chick flick I may have to see.|||106455101462736192|||9/25/2003 08:03:00 PM|||Skillzy|||Messenger shot for stating the obvious. It appears that AtStake thinks the truth is "not in line with AtStake's views".|||106453820427223705|||9/25/2003 07:01:00 PM|||Skillzy|||


deer Sandy Claws..... oh by the way - NASCAR action returns to Talladega this weekend! YEEE HAW!|||106453446788123400|||9/25/2003 05:31:00 PM|||Skillzy|||I think this guy is right...and I want to set up his pay per view web site!|||106452906302015267|||9/25/2003 05:26:00 PM|||Skillzy|||"It's only a bear"! Dang, tough women are shexy as hell.|||106452880309987091|||9/25/2003 03:52:00 PM|||Skillzy|||I made the blogroll at Kids Korner, a veritable cornucopia of links and stuff....check it out!|||106452314473455155|||9/25/2003 03:50:00 PM|||Skillzy|||Levi Strauss closes American plants - if you want some American made jeans, you'd better get busy sewing...well, assuming you're American.|||106452301772198405|||9/24/2003 05:05:00 AM|||Skillzy|||Study finds 260 million porn pages on Internet. I shudder to think how much these people had to charge on their VISA while they were counting.|||106439792243312404|||9/24/2003 04:53:00 AM|||Skillzy|||MSN to shut chat rooms - well technically they're not shutting the U.S. ones, they're just changing to a plan that will allow them to better control (and charge) who chats in their rooms. Will Yahoo and AOL follow? That probably depends on whether MSN makes any money off the deal. It's not about the spam and predators - if it was, they would have closed them up years ago.|||106439721014909196|||9/23/2003 02:52:00 PM|||Skillzy|||You can't go to Pensacola without visiting McGuire's Irish Pub, a tourist trap extraordinaire with surprisingly good food, and beer that's made right there. I'm bummed cause I didn't have my camera to get a pic of the stuffed gnu head mounted on the wall.|||106434674281961754|||9/23/2003 02:45:00 PM|||Skillzy|||Thanks to Airpath Wireless (and a few bucks), I'm sending this from inside the Pensacola airport. Geek Nirvana!|||106434635557106232|||9/23/2003 08:22:00 AM|||Skillzy|||

Elvis Costello's new album North comes out today in the US. Run out and get it!|||106349216796458146|||9/22/2003 10:17:00 PM|||Skillzy|||Indian era ends again - guess they're not moving to Birmingham after all. On the bright side, the Barber Motorcycle Museum reopened at the new place last weekend and it's supposed to be great. Hopefully I'll get out there and get some pics soon.|||106428702255937250|||9/22/2003 07:07:00 AM|||Skillzy|||In Florida this week working, I'll update when I can. Plenty to see to the right!|||106423247398769847|||9/19/2003 12:05:00 AM|||Skillzy|||


Arrrr - it's Talk Like A Pirate Day! Grab a saucy wench and squint one eye today. This is pretty cool, I actually entered this on Saturday the 13th but you won't be able to see it till the 19th. Shiver me timbers!|||106345987691632669|||9/17/2003 09:32:00 PM|||Skillzy|||Yahoo's planning an update to Messenger that will shut out third party apps like Gaim and Trillian. If history is any indication, Yahoo Messenger clients will be shut out too, creating perfect security for their customers.|||106385232362592030|||9/17/2003 09:27:00 PM|||Skillzy|||Dead guys dominate the ratings in music and TV. Maybe someone should forward these articles to Celine Dion's publicist.|||106385202467964600|||9/17/2003 09:22:00 PM|||Skillzy|||


NYSE Chairman steps down due to the furor over his enormous package. He's obviously an evil genius...check out the size of that cranium. I'll bet he's already built a bunker in a dormant volcano, and is just waiting for delivery of his submarine to get his nefarious plans underway.|||106385174348665783|||9/17/2003 08:33:00 AM|||Skillzy|||It's a bird, it's a plane, it's Angle-Grinder Man!! Yahoo story here.|||106380562696514316|||9/16/2003 03:46:00 PM|||Skillzy|||Stealth Disco - a video testimony to just how badly white people dance, complete with a crappy soundtrack.|||106374519675496881|||9/15/2003 09:07:00 PM|||Skillzy|||The beginning of a new school year (and thousands of new fraternity pledges) should keep the submissions rolling in to penischeek.com. As someone who had his toenails painted while passed out, I feel a bit of sympathy for these poor folks. Be on the lookout for ratemypenischeek.com, coming soon I'm sure. (link stolen from the ever shexy Boostay)|||106367803099173814|||9/15/2003 08:15:00 PM|||Skillzy|||

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Click the thumbnail above for the Johnny Cash pic I promised. The way I'll remember him.|||106367490407841261|||9/15/2003 05:54:00 PM|||Skillzy|||Forty years ago today, home-grown terrorists put Alabama on the map for all the wrong reasons. We've come a long way since then.|||106366648568706104|||9/15/2003 05:51:00 PM|||Skillzy|||Perverts! That's not sporting at all...real men convince the women to focus cameras on their "breasts and buttocks" themselves, and without the help of a major credit card I might add.|||106366629753703244|||9/14/2003 09:41:00 PM|||Skillzy|||I'm back home for a week or so, but lots going on. I'll blog when I can, in the meantime I'll leave you with this nugget from the second chapter of Zen and The Art of Mototcycle Maintenance - "When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to other things".|||106359370531191072|||9/13/2003 01:13:00 PM|||Skillzy|||Story of my life - I drove around for about 45 mins at lunchtime looking for a place to eat, I was craving some Indian food but couldn't find anything I wanted, much less Indian. Navigating up here is a mess....lots of construction and weird dead ends, etc. I finally gave up and ducked into a Wendy's and scarfed down a burger. As I was leaving, I looked to the right and, naturally, there was a little Indian restaurant in the strip mall. I'll probably try to hit it for supper if I can find my way back.|||106347678602412864|||9/13/2003 12:54:00 PM|||Skillzy|||Blew off the Spam Museum today (it was too far away), went shopping instead. Got the latest issues of Linux Journal (GIMP tricks!) and 2600 (1337!) for the plane ride home, for music I got Johnny Cash's American IV, and Panjabi MC's Beware. Last but not least, I picked up a new copy of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, cause I lost my copy in the move and I want to read it again. Turns out that the author, Robert Pirsig, is from right here in Minneapolis.|||106347568779018050|||9/13/2003 08:27:00 AM|||Skillzy|||BLOGGER and their parent company Google are bucking the "charge for everything" trend by giving away the old Blogger Pro stuff you used to have to pay for. Based on most of the random blogs I hit, I'm not sure that the spel cheker is going to help much.|||106345964387191086|||9/12/2003 07:31:00 AM|||Skillzy|||I have to run, you probably already know about Johnny Cash and John Ritter. When I get back to Alabama, I'll post my favorite Johnny Cash pic (I don't have it here). I grew up singing Ring of Fire and Girl Named Sue, and I'm glad a new generation got to appreciate him thanks to his latest work.|||106336987322364163|||9/12/2003 07:26:00 AM|||Skillzy|||9/11 jitters - around 9 PM Wednesday night, fireworks started going off not far from my hotel. Next thing I know, there's a news crawl on the TV because people are freaking out. Turns out it was the American Pyrotechnic Convention showing off their stuff. Supposedly there's more fireworks to come tonight.|||106336958602384327|||9/10/2003 05:36:00 PM|||Skillzy|||WHEE! Time to patch again. If you're one of the unfortunate people who manage big Windows networks, just think of the time you'll spend this weekend patching (or 2 weeks from now cleaning up the damage) as a way of giving back to Microsoft for all they've done for you.|||106323340846028907|||9/10/2003 05:12:00 PM|||Skillzy|||Hybrid vs. Hummer --The Movie - it doesn't get much better than a bad Ahnold impersonation wrapped up in political claptrap. "YOU STOOPID HUMMAH!"|||106323194587470197|||9/09/2003 09:03:00 PM|||Skillzy|||Would You Hit This? Not even with Mookie's tallywhacker!
Dang, I screwed that link up, it was supposed to be linked to this scary guy in makeup and drag. Oh well, the moment is gone now...|||106315938490764645|||9/09/2003 07:32:00 PM|||Skillzy|||While I was at the "MOA" I finally picked up Warren Zevon's final album. It wasn't as depressing as I expected...I still think his best tearjerker was Reconsider Me on Sentimental Hygeine. I actually have that album on vinyl (ask your parents).|||106315394693321240|||9/09/2003 05:06:00 PM|||Skillzy|||


I'm officially a tourist - I went to the Mall of America today. It's really big, but when it's all said and done, it's still a mall...not that special. My new digital camera should come in handy if I make my planned trip to the Spam Museum on Saturday. It was either that or drive up to Brainerd to see the big Paul Bunyan that was in Fargo, but it was just a prop! I was taken in by Hollywood trickery. There's a real Paul Bunyan and Babe out there somewhere, but I'm not going hunting for them.|||106314518957915848|||9/09/2003 06:31:00 AM|||Skillzy|||Remember Tucker Max? He's the guy with an application to date him on his web site - he got sued a while back by a former Miss Vermont and had to take a story about her off the site. Well, she lost and the story is back up, drunken debauchery and all. Just to give you an idea of what a prick this guy is, Maddox links to him. Quite an honor.|||106310710928711833|||9/08/2003 06:55:00 AM|||Skillzy|||Warren Zevon has lost his fight with cancer.|||106302213093072615|||9/07/2003 07:50:00 PM|||Skillzy|||Tomorrow I'm making my first trip to Minnesota (the twin cities to be exact) and I'll be gone all week. I should be able to update from there, but in the unlikely event that I can't, go check out those links over there --> (or down there \/ if your screen resolution sucks). I'm looking forward to my week amongst the friendly blonde Yankee people, we'll see how it goes. At least it's cooler there.|||106298224196708195|||9/07/2003 07:31:00 PM|||Skillzy|||Google is only 5 years old. Happy Birthday (and fix Blogger dammit)!|||106298109828735266|||9/07/2003 07:29:00 PM|||Skillzy|||An oldie but a goodie - for flash videos of kittens playing music and some other hilarious stuff, your one stop shop is rathergood.com. My favorite kitten video, Immigrant Song, isn't there anymore, but you can still find it here. Be sure to check out American Girls while you're there and play with their boobies, play with their boobies.|||106298096553566457|||9/07/2003 08:12:00 AM|||Skillzy|||David Blaine has climbed into a box and says he won't come down (or eat anything) until Auburn scores a touchdown. Nice knowin ya, David.|||106294033259564821|||9/05/2003 08:04:00 PM|||Skillzy|||


NEWS CLIP - lots of cool gadget pics, but I have no clue what anything there says.|||106281027916508054|||9/05/2003 04:00:00 PM|||Skillzy|||This blog has something to do with "Internet Best Practices". Apparently using a font that is big enough to read without kissing the screen isn't a "Best Practice".|||106279562147478611|||9/04/2003 10:15:00 PM|||Skillzy|||Today's Headlines:
Expat rich boy slams the U.S. from the comfort of France, then has hired mouthpiece recant everything for the U.S. fans. Nation can't get over what a cute pirate he makes.
Slut blames slutty behavior on older, worldlier slut rather than a need to stay in the headlines. Nation wishes she'd just take off her clothes and get it over with.|||106273172208862348|||9/04/2003 08:54:00 AM|||Skillzy|||How rich are you? Probably richer than you think.|||106268364960007447|||9/04/2003 08:13:00 AM|||Skillzy|||Wow...Everquest characters with their own blog. Nysa's real life alter ego has a blog too - where do people find the time?|||106268119648095042|||9/04/2003 07:33:00 AM|||Skillzy|||What do you want to patch today? Microsoft Security Bulletins. Check this page oh, every 15 minutes or so to make sure you're up to date, and you should be fine.|||106267882413518002|||9/02/2003 06:23:00 PM|||Skillzy|||what the....now the Random Link works, but it only goes to crappy blogs that have tons of anime or pictures of Justin Timberlake or a pink tagboard, or they're in Arabic or something.|||106254501736182178|||9/02/2003 03:23:00 PM|||Skillzy|||what the....Blogger works in Firebird now, but my Random Link over there is broken. Go figure.|||106253423924935759|||9/02/2003 03:20:00 PM|||Skillzy|||Fellow Alabamian Rick Bragg has found a way to squeak by now that he's not working for the New York Times. I wanted to go see him last week but I couldn't afford the 100 bucks (even though it went to a good cause).|||106253405054747088|||9/01/2003 11:06:00 PM|||Skillzy|||Today I happened across the Best Page In The Universe, so I figured I'd better link to it. There's a must-have cam whore tutorial and a pretty good argument for masturbation. I would've lifted one of his graphics and put it here, but I hate asking permission for anything. Go check it out for yourself!|||106247561723560118|||