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Ron Mueck

this guy makes statues that are INCREDIBLY (why don’t i use the formatting tools available to me? i don’t know) life-like. it is insane!

Banished Words List :: 2006

i didn’t read the list, but the left nav bar on the site also talks about “unicorn hunters,” about unicorn hunters, regulations for unicorn hunters, and unicorn hunter licenses. lake superior state university… umm, yeah…

Merrick Pet Foods - Pet Foods

this isn’t the most expensive dog food, but it isn’t cheap and it seems very high class for dog food. Maybe on Thanksgiving I’ll give Monty a little bit of turkey or something. I do not give him table scraps of any kind at all, but maybe, just maybe for the holiday. Actually, this Thanksgiving (truth be told I forget the actual day) will be one year with my dog. Well not actually, I was dogless for about 2 months right after moving from Texas.

How much do you care about your personal information?

this is crazy.

to say i’ve been too busy to blog would be a lie. for a long while i was. then i wasn’t. but i also wasn’t on the internet all that much. so no links to give my witty insight about. and now i’m out of tx, moving on to bigger better things (hopefully). so i will revive the blog soon enough. for al 3 people who read it. (=

StreetWars: Killer - NYC

umm, i think i’d be better off with their mini-intro:

A picture of your intended target(s)
The home address of your intended target(s)
The work address of your intended target(s)
The name of your intended target(s)
Contact information of your intended target(s)
Upon receipt of these items, your (or your team’s) mission is to find and kill (by way of water gun, water balloon or super soaker) your target(s).

You can hunt your target down any way you see fit; you can pose as a delivery person and jack them when they open the door, disguise yourself and take them out on the street, etc.

If you are successful in your assassination attempt, the person you killed will give you their envelope and the person they were supposed to kill becomes your new target. This continues until you work yourself through all the players and retrieve the envelope with your (or your team’s) picture(s) and name(s). Then you win. Cash…but first live in fear.

how crazy is that?!?! in nyc to boot. yeah, umm, i think the cops will be getting a lot of calls. how many people will use waterguns that at least are just black vs a crazy water gun color? can you imagine this in DC? totally nuts, though admittedly i’d want to do this.

CNN.com - Cracking the code - Jun 19, 2005

what was it? mercury rising or something? where the retarded kid breaks the code planted by the cia or whatever in the wordfind or whatever. don’t remember as i’ve seen maybe 15 minutes of it on usa at like 3am or something. but wouldn’t it be neat if the cia gave a job or some kind of cool prize to the person that cracked the code?

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech
audio (and according to the site, only full audio available) of the speech. which is nice because as nice as it is to read good speeches, it’s better to hear because speeches are written to be spoken and oratory has a certain amount of skill required to pull it off. and based on past performance, i’d say steve is a decent public speaker. i’ve not listened to it, but as soon as i get home i’m downloading it. maybe i’ll make it part of my “wake up” playlist or my “running” playlist. something to motivate me.

FeralChildren.com - Feral Children - isolated, confined wild and wolf children

feral kids. it’s crazy. the snippets are about what feral characteristics they had, what level of socialization they gained, etc. these cases make for evidence in debates on socialization, language acquisition, etc.

The Original Dog Powered Scooter

oh yeah, to make my title make sense, i have a mini schnauzer named monty. he’s 11.7 lbs. i don’t think he could pull me, hell i don’t think he could pull the scooter if it were empty. but i don’t know, i have 10 lbs ankle weights, maybe i’ll strap them to him to see if he can even pull 20lbs extra.

Timothy McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Lists

hmm, of course that would be assuming my lists are funny, which i don’t really think they are. regardless, i read two of the MANY lists on this page and found some of them to be kind of funny, thought i’d share. damnit, now i need to add some sort of humor/comedy/funny category.. ah well, for now it will be “random”

With Popcorn, DVD’s and TiVo, Moviegoers Are Staying Home - New York Times

She plays a video game for 30 minutes each night before bed. Two weeks ago, five friends joined her at her San Francisco condo to drink wine and play “Karaoke Revolutions” on her Sony PlayStation, where the would-be American Idols had a competition, belting out everything from Top 40 hits to show tunes.

“Party games are great for dates,” she said. “A few years ago I would have been at a bar or at a movie.”

okay, above quote is from that nytimes article again about movies and staying home, etc. but i HAVE to ask, who is taking dates home for party games (video/electronic or otherwise)? does this happen early in relationships? i wouldn’t know as i’m socially inept (thank god for my ipod to create a blanket of social isolation, i find maintaining small talk a bore and completely mind-numbing)

Long-term Treasury yields are low. Will they keep falling? - May. 26, 2005

i don’t care about the substance of the article. i’m sure once i make money of any kind i’ll care more about the economy, etc. but the thing is, on cnn, this is an ACTUAL image taken from this article:

ha, greenspan is yoda like palpatine is siddious. and of course we all know that vader (james earl jones) is the voice of cnn. do they even use that tagline promo anymore?

palahniuk on writing

palaniuk’s intersting, if not disgusting, take on the, or at least his, writing process.

The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)

i am a PB blogger. though technically that’s not true because these days i do most of my blogging at work (because what do i blog on except news and posts from other blogs which only really come during the business day), so i am a PC blogger. but i do on occasion blog from my PB. way back when i was in school, i blogged, offline, from my PB with ecto. nowadays i blog when i find something interesting. and by the time i get home with some freetime, everything to be seen and commented on in that day has been done. i used to blog from my PB at work, back when i had to use my own machine at work (i miss those days) or when i brought it just to tool around (and thus had two machines up and running at once).