Fugly
fug•ly (adj.)
frightfully ugly; of or pertaining to something beyond the boundaries of normal unattractiveness. Ex: "That 'Kabbalists Do It Better' trucker hat is fugly."
fug (n.)
1. A state of extreme ugliness. Ex: "The level of fug at the Video Music Awards is always hard to stomach."
2. A proper name for someone possessed of eternal heinousness, as Chloe Sevigny: "Oh look, there's Fugly, looking all miserable and dour in her black turtleneck and white frilly farm dress."
fug•ging (v.)
The act of posting on one's blog in order to identify something excruciatingly ugly. Ex: "Hey, I am about to fug Li'l Kim again for wearing only a tiny piece of cloth."
And here's a Blog dedicated to star fugging:
Go Fug Yourself.
UGH
meetings all day...
I had a 4 hour one this morning and 2 hour ones this afternoon.
I'm so sleepy, and I have developed a headache.
Experts Predict Mount St. Helens Eruption
SEATTLE - The flurry of earthquakes at Mount St. Helens intensified further Thursday, and one scientist put the chance of a small eruption happening in the next few days at 70 percent. [
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Neverwhere role playing
Some guy posted up pics of them playing live action Neverwhere role playing game in Prauge. [
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Looks like fun!
Fruity sweet wrappers spark complaint
Students at a Catholic school complained about new Haribo sweet wrappers which they claim portray fruit having sex. [
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Ducks
So I just watched the ducks video again.
It never ceases to make me happy....
It's all just a little bit of History Repeating
Over on the side bar -> there's a wew "History" section with info about what happened in History today. I think I may have it publish weekly though in the event that there's nothing I found out about today.... we'll see.
Oh, and for those of you RSS Junkies, you can get a feed of that too.
Hope you like.
Weekend Madness
Just when I was getting comfortable having lower-key weekends...
The insanity starts again. I have to crank out a dress vest for Carl, See Sting, Annie Lennox, and Special Guest(?), Attend Ren Faire (yes, I know I swore I wouldn't do it ever again, but Steph and Nancy have a way of making it not horrible), and have CP's Birthday dinner, which should actually be the most relaxing part of the weekend.
Here's we go again. It was nice having sleep while it lasted....
"Work it, baby"
Happy to report that home bead making went well and everybody got the hang of it before too long. Carl has been banned from girl night due to his instant perfection at bead making, and I even got a "work it, baby" by the end of the night.
If anyone else wants to learn, just let m eknow and you can drop by and I'll show you!
:-)
LOL!!! Bush's Hometown Newspaper Endorses Kerry
CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) - The newspaper in President Bush's adopted hometown of Crawford threw its support behind Bush's Democratic rival, Sen. John Kerry.
The weekly Lone Star Iconoclast on Tuesday criticized Bush's handling of the war in Iraq and for turning budget surpluses into record deficits. The editorial also criticized Bush's proposals on Social Security and Medicare.
"The publishers of The Iconoclast endorsed Bush four years ago, based on the things he promised, not on this smoke-screened agenda," the newspaper said in its editorial. "Today, we are endorsing his opponent, John Kerry." [
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Private Rocket Unofficially Reaches Space
MOJAVE, Calif. - The first private manned rocket recovered from a wild corkscrew roll on its ascent to soar to space and back Wednesday in a bid to earn a $10 million prize.
SpaceShipOne, with astronaut Michael Melvill at the controls, climbed to an unofficial altitude of more than 330,000 feet, about 2,000 feet above its target altitude of 62 miles. [
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This blog got a lot more political than I thought it would
But I guess a politics major shoud expect such things.
Or
A politics major in a year that may or may not return Satan's evil Texan Twin to power should expect such things.
Sorry if I'm on my soapbox too much - just skip those....
US scientists, 10 Nobel laureates, campaign against Bush
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US scientists, including 10 Nobel laureates, have launched a campaign in key US states to denounce the policies of President George W. Bush.
The group, Scientists and Engineers for Change, was created at the beginning of the week, said its spokeswoman, Joy Howell.
The 25 members of the organization has scheduled a series of conferences, during which they will try to convince their audiences that the Bush administration has abused science, Howell said. [
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Scientists and Engineers for Change
DO IT! NOW!!!!!
In California, the deadline to register to vote for an election is 15 days before each local and statewide election day, so please register early!
Just FYI.
Practice what you preach
What happened to "turn the other cheek?"
Punch-up at tomb of Jesus
Fistfights broke out yesterday between Christians gathered on the site of the crucifixion and burial of Jesus Christ.
...
A Greek Orthodox cleric said Franciscans had left open their chapel door in what was taken as disrespect. Priests and worshippers hit one another at the doorway dividing Orthodox and Franciscans, said a police spokesman.
And this part made me giggle: Two years ago, Ethiopian and Copt monks threw stones at each other over rights to the church roof. [
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Scientist Vies for Human Cloning License
LONDON - One of the creators of Dolly the sheep, the world's first mammal cloned from an adult, said Tuesday he was seeking permission to create cloned human embryos for medical research. [
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ICE CREAM!!!!!!!!
YAY!!!! Stanford decided we needed an ice cream party.
Stanford rocks!
The Schwartz With Brooks Again
Mel Brooks revealed in a recent interview with Playbill magazine that he is working on a sequel to his 1987 Star Wars spoof, Spaceballs, the Ain't-It-Cool-News Web site reported. "I'm writing myself back into the Spaceballs sequel that I'm now writing, so you haven't seen the last of my face," Brooks said. "Why another Spaceballs? It wouldn't feel right have anyone else play Yoghurt and the first one was the best experience I've had making a movie since Blazing Saddles." [
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New writer digs into PET SEMATARY
Writerf Dave Kajganich has been hired by Paramount to adapt Stephen King's novel PET SEMATARY into a screenplay. This is the second writing assignment for the horror remake; earlier this year Mike Werb and Michael Colleary (FACE/OFF) were hired to work on the project. It appears that their draft is now dead. [
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**Warning: Rant ahead***
Alright. This is getting rediculous. Get an original concept! Stop re-making movies that have already been made! At least be civil and re-make a japanese movie or something, but Pet Cemetary? Come on. That was huge back in the day. Don't re-make that. Make the Dark Tower, so I don't have to read through all this boring crap just to get to the good stuff...
Interview with Neil
About movies he's making/involved in. [
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Rockin' and Rollin'
Not sure if you guys just felt that, but here at Stanford, we just had a pretty big earthquake. It was big enough for everyone to feel and make the blinds swing...
Maybe they'll be another one and we can go home early! :-)
Just looked it up: It was a 5.9 down near Paso Robles, CA. [
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Fire'n up the torch tonight
Well, hopefully, if I can get everything today, we'll have a demo of glass bead making ta my house this evening. If you are interested in learning, let me know...
Well *this* isn't going to go well...
No Smoking in Prison!
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who set up a tent outside his smoke-free state office to accommodate his taste for a good cigar, signed a bill barring tobacco from state prisons. [
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I know it will save money in health care, etc.. but really, now we are going to have a bunch of criminals, who are already pissed off about being locked up, with nic fits. Does this sound like a bad idea to anyone else?
Flood of New Voters Signing Up
New voters are flooding local election offices with paperwork, registering in significantly higher numbers than four years ago as attention to the presidential election runs high and an array of activist groups recruit would-be voters who could prove critical come Nov. 2.
Cleveland has seen nearly twice as many new voters register so far as compared with 2000; Philadelphia is having its biggest boom in new voters in 20 years; and counties are bringing in temporary workers and employees from other agencies to help process all the new registration forms. [
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Anti-Spam Effort Killed Amid Patent Row
NEW YORK - A row over intellectual property claims from Microsoft Corp. has dealt a fatal blow to an ambitious effort by Internet engineers to create a technical standard for curbing junk e-mail.
The failure to reach consensus on the Microsoft-championed proposal known as Sender ID throws back to the free market a process many consider urgent in view of the unabating onslaught of spam. [
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Kia’s New Sportage Fuel Cell SUV
It gets 180 miles to the tank, and a top speed of 93mph. [
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Firefox
So far, Firefox is very cool. I dig tabbed browsing, it makes me feel like I have a Mac, and yet I can still have two mouse buttons and everything is in the right place. Nice.
Phonician alphabet was the basis of the European and the Semitic Alphabets
The phoenician alphabet was introduced about 1000 BC. Later Greeks copied the letters and some how modified them, and then the Romans created their alphabet based on the Greek alphabet. Semitic languags such as Hebrew, Arabic and Aramaic (Syriac) also based their alphabet on the Phoenician alphabet
Study: Living in the Suburbs Can Make You Sick
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Living in the suburbs may have once been part of the American dream but it can lead to nightmares such as high blood pressure, arthritis and headaches, researchers reported on Monday. [
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Conan to Take Over 'Tonight' in Five Years
NEW YORK - NBC announced Monday that Conan O'Brien will take over from Jay Leno as host of the "Tonight" show. But he'll have time to write his jokes — the planned succession won't happen until 2009. [
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Termites Could Hold The Key To Self-sufficient Buildings
"[Termite] mounds provide a self-regulating living environment that responds to changing internal and external conditions. A multidisciplinary team of engineers and entomologists is looking at whether similar principles could be used to design buildings that need few or no mechanical services (e.g. heating and ventilation) and so use less energy and other resources than conventional structures." [
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Extended King DVD Announced
The extended-edition DVD of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King debuts on Dec. 14, with 50 minutes of footage added, Variety reported. The 4-hour, 10-minute extended-edition DVD will cost $39.99; a collector's gift set, which includes a fifth DVD with a 52-minute program about the music in the franchise, will cost $79.92, the trade paper reported. [
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Prostitutes excluded from work permit waiver
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Foreign prostitutes in the Netherlands are to be excluded from new rules that allow foreigners who are specialists in their fields to work in the country without a permit, the government says. [
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And so it begins....
Virgin to Launch Commercial Space Flights
LONDON - British entrepreneur Richard Branson said Monday that his company plans to launch commercial space flights over the next few years.
Branson's Virgin transport, entertainment and communications group has signed an agreement with pioneering aviation designer Burt Rutan to build an aircraft based on Rutan's SpaceShipOne vessel, Branson said. [
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Would Schwarzenegger be back for TERMINATOR 4?
A fourth TERMINATOR movie could be rolling in front of cameras as early as next year, reports today's Variety. T3 writers John Brancato and Michael Ferris have a screenplay draft that's ready to go and the film's producers, Mario Kassar and Andy Vajna, want to re-up RISE OF THE MACHINES helmer Jonathan Mostow to come back and do the fourth film. Intermedia, the film production and financing firm that assembled the mega-budgeted T3 project, is starting to draw the strings and work out how much they'll have to make the sequel.
Perhaps the most startling and biggest idea is a plan to seek Arnold Schwarzenegger to come back for a fourth time. Schwarzenegger currently has his hands full as the Governor of California but the early word is that the T4 production would have need of him in a reduced capacity and not as a major player, lending weight to the rumors that a new Terminator model will become the main villain and perhaps even the hero. Whether any of the surviving characters from T3 or their acting counterparts (Nick Stahl, Claire Danes) would be back in the new TERMINATOR hasn't been revealed.
Votergasm
Do your part.
Warning: may not be work friendly. Obviously.
"You'll take it in the ass this November one way or another, so you might as well have fun doing it!"
I swear these things just appear at my virtual doorstep...
Shoot to Vote
Love In War
Are you a democrat or a republican? Kill people and find out! It turns out I'm just a lousy democrat. I shouldn't have killed "KKK Guy" and let "No Good Immigrant" live. Does this mean that I am now legally obligated to vote for Kerry?
I'm a typical democrat...
Banning the Bible?
Wow. This is a sad and desperate attempt to get people to vote republican. They must really be scared. Apparently the republican national committee (RNC) has circulated ads in Arkansas and West Virgina promoting the idea that if liberals are elected (read between the lines: Kerry and Edwards are elected), the bible will be banned. [
I'm not kidding]
Lampworking 101
Today, I took Lampworking 101 at
The Bead Shop in Palo Alto.
It was so much fun! And you can totally make glass beads at home, so simply! I made a ton of beads and had a really great time and learned a lot!
I'll probably get the setup for all of it sometime very soon so I can teach anyone who wants to learn how to make glass beads! YAY!
Thought of the day
From
Stephen Fry:
Bertrand Russell, the great philosopher and mathematician, got into terrible trouble by writing quite fearsome articles against the first World War when it began. He got all these letters from people who said, “My child is prepared to lay down their life for their country. Don’t you think that sacrifice demands some respect?” He wrote this extraordinary essay in which he said, “Don’t you understand? The sacrifice we’re asking of our young is not that they die for their country, but that they kill for their country.” That’s the sacrifice. To ask a child to kill someone else, whom you’ve never met. That’s a moral choice, pulling a trigger. Having a bullet hit you is not a moral choice. You don’t decide to be killed. It’s a terrible thing that happens to you. But killing something is something you do and that’s a desperate sacrifice. And we’re seeing that in the Iraq war. That’s what this poor Lynndie England did, this tragic soldier who was shot smugly smiling next to naked Arab prisoners. That’s the chickens coming home to roost. It’s not Americans being asked to die by President Bush. It’s Americans being asked to kill and to torture. Not necessarily by name. He doesn’t say, “I want you to kill this or that one.” Of course, politics isn’t that simple. Essentially that is what society does. It asks its young to kill, and that’s what we all have to live with.
Google Conforms to Chinese Censorship
SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc.'s recently launched news service in China doesn't display results from Web sites blocked by that country's authorities, raising prickly questions for an online search engine that has famously promised to "do no evil." [
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Re: What happens when you use Nuclear Waste in Ammunition
What happens when you use Nuclear Waste in Ammunition
like we do.... 75 tons of it. [
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I do have to warn you that it almost made me throw up. But the information is good and you really should know this stuff since you are paying for it with every paycheck you get.
I really love when you can see the moon, bright in the sky, when it is still very light out
Even better than in the evenings, is when this happens in the mornings....
Naked yoga OK in San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO, California (Reuters) -- Nudists, grab your yoga mats and head for San Francisco.
City prosecutors Wednesday said it was not illegal to perform naked yoga in the city -- even at the crowded tourist destination of Fisherman's Wharf. [
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re: LOTR Personality Test
You are most like
Gimli, Son of Gloin
Gimli engages in a friendly slaying competition with Legolas, showing his mastery of his instrument of choice, the axe. You are good with tools and instruments. You are not shy at telling others what to do. Time alone is important and solitary activities refresh you. You have good observational skills. In your desire for clarity in life, you may have the tendency of being remote or even "heartless". You like keeping your options open. Closure is probably not one of your strong suits.
Like Boromir, you are not content to sit on the sidelines while the action takes place around you.
Traits: Open minded, easy going, persuassive, optimistic about the future. On the dark side you could be exploitative and an opportunist.
Almost looks real...
Very realistic computer animation of a woman. One step closer to digital porn.
divx
or
indeo
deviantart.com
Found this on the same website as Wendy's Borgpony. Awesome self portrait and other cool photoshop stuff.
Check it out.
LOTR Personality Test
Frodo Baggins, Son of Drogo
With many acquaitenances, Frodo is deeply attached to a few people, like Bilbo, Aragorn, Gandalf, and Sam. His high ethics come out in his treatment of Gollum and Saruman. Frodo has pity on Gollum and believes that change can occur.
You have a strong personal morality. You are committed to relationships and their growth. You tend to be an idealist, believing the best of the world around you. Time alone is important and solitary activities refresh you. You have a tendency to introspection. While providing compassion and being considerate, you may have the tendency of being soft-hearted or even "too emotional" You like keeping your options open. Closure is probably not one of your strong suits.
The Orcs display the evil side of this personality with their lengthy torture methods.
Traits: Empathic, benevolent, looking to the future. On the dark side you could be sadistic.
Take it
here
re: LOTR Personality Test
Aragorn (Stryder) Son of Arathorn
Aragorn's decisions often seem against conventional wisdom, but he knows what to do and why it must be done, regardless of the cost.
You are good at making contingency plans and come up wiith efficient means to acheive clear-cut ends. You are highly independent, and continue on with your plans even in the face of data that might suggest to others that it's no longer feasible. Time alone is important and solitary activities refresh you. You have a tendency to introspection. In your desire for clarity in life, you may have the tendency of being remote or even "heartless". You try to schedule your life as much as possible. You tend to finish your work before resting.
As the foil to Aragorn, Sauron clearly embodies the evil side of this personality.
Traits: Pragmatic, autonomous, ingenious, resolute. On the dark side you could desire power and domination.
re: LOTR Personality Test
Faramir, Captain of Gondor
Thoroughly dependable, Faramir is loyal to his father. He keeps a watchful eye on the east border of Gondor.
You are earnest and attentive to details. You tend to trust authority and seek security. Time alone is important and solitary activities refresh you. You have good observational skills. In your desire for clarity in life, you may have the tendency of being remote or even "heartless". You try to schedule your life as much as possible. You tend to finish your work before resting.
As Sam says:"I have something to do before the end. I must see it through, sir, if you understand."
Traits: Dependable, beneficient, usually living in the past. On the dark side you could be a hoarder.
Marijuana Smoker Beheads Two Women
BLANTYRE, Malawi (Reuters) - A Malawian man believed to be high on marijuana beheaded two women with an axe Friday, police in the southern African country said. [
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Calif. Regulators Weigh Smog Restrictions
LOS ANGELES - California air regulators on Thursday took up the world's most ambitious rules to reduce car emissions that contribute to global warming — an effort that could have a sweeping effect on how the country fights vehicle pollution. [
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Good.
Jonathan Strange
Looks like
the Kepler's event was cancelled and moved to another shop on Sunday. Not sure if I will go to that one or not - we'll see.
A Perfect Circle Covers "Imagine"
Sorry - only works in RealPalyer [
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Interesting News item from Steph
Listen, I gotta score... you got a PDA or a smartphone or anything? Hell, I'll even take AOL.
Cut off their connection to the Internet and some folks feel unsettled, disconnected, lost. This according to Yahoo's "Internet Deprivation Study," an
extraordinarily depressing piece of research that suggests our lives are really far more emotionally vacant than we might think. Conducted by Conifer Research, the study asked 28 participants to live without the Internet for two weeks and found that about half just couldn't manage it. "Every day of life without the Internet is frustrating," wrote one participant. "I couldn't bear living without it," said
another, whose withdrawal was presumably a hideous amalgam of insomnia, hallucinations, and cold sweats.
"This study is entirely indicative of the myriad ways the Internet, in just 10 short years of mainstream consumer consumption, has irrevocably changed the daily lives of consumers," said Wenda Harris Millard, chief sales officer for Yahoo. "This is true to the extent that it was incredibly difficult to recruit participants for this study, as people weren't willing to be without the Internet for two weeks." And the kicker: "Deep ethnographic research like this enables us to do much more than look at consumer trends, it allows a rare glimpse into the reasons consumers make the choices they do and how they are emotionally impacted. We can then help marketers apply these insights to reach their target audiences."
Branch Davidian Leader's Car to Be Auctioned
SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) - A souped up Chevy Camaro owned by David Koresh, the slain leader of the Branch Davidian religious sect, will be sold at a Texas auction this weekend, the auctioneer said on Wednesday. [
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Vinton Readies Coraline
Animation house Vinton Studios has purchased film rights to Neil Gaiman's Hugo Award-winning children's book Coraline as a directing vehicle for Henry Selick (Nightmare Before Christmas), Variety reported. Bill Mechanic's Pandemonium Films will produce with Vinton, the trade paper reported.
Adapted by Selick, Coraline is the story of a young girl who discovers an alternate version of her life after walking through a secret door in her new home. When her counterfeit parents try to keep her forever, Coraline reveals her heroic qualities, the trade paper reported. HarperCollins published the novel in 2002.
"Pi" for Scrabble Players
When you have 8 minutes to kill on a flash animation...
Craziest
Life getting "more manageable"
So today went fairly smoothly. The grandparents showed up for their annual visit. I was fed a good meal and I showed them my new casa, which they liked. However, the phrase "this place is a lot more manageable" still translates in my head into "very small."
Oh well. Also got my Cyberfest tickets so my posse and I can shake our groove thang at the annual event, and also My Martha Stewart Living Halloween edition magazine, which always makes my pumkin day! And lastly, the Netflix gods sent me more DS9 and X-files so I am no longer in need of something to fall asleep to tonight.
Sorry if I ignored a lot of emails today, I will get back to everyone tomorrow - had a lot of work to do, both at home and in my cave at the office. Hope your Autum is going well so far!
New Scientist Headlines of interest
Black Guests On Stargate
Claudia Black told SCI FI Wire that she recently wrapped production on "Prometheus Unbound," an upcoming episode of the SCI FI Channel original series Stargate SG-1. The former Farscape star plays a character named Vala, who steals Earth's only deep-space starship, Prometheus, and does so with Daniel Jackson (Michael Shanks) on board. [
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Rad. I get Farscape *and* Stargate...
Falling Crucifix Kills Woman
ROME (Reuters) - A 67-year-old woman was killed when a three-meter tall metal crucifix fell on her head in a small southern Italian town on Wednesday, police said. [
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Man Shoots Wife, Mistakes Her for Monkey
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - A Malaysian man shot and killed his wife after he mistook her for a monkey picking fruit in a tree behind their house, the New Straits Times said on Wednesday. [
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Boss, Maybe You Should Use My Phone for a Minute...
BERLIN (Reuters) - A German telecommunications company said on Tuesday it is developing the first mobile phone that will alert users when their breath is bad or if they are giving off offensive smells.
The phone will use a tiny chip measuring less than one millimeter to detect unpleasant odors, a spokeswoman for Siemens Mobile said. A research team in the southern city of Munich is developing the device using new sensor technology.
"It examines the air in the immediate vicinity for anything from bad breath and alcohol to atmospheric gas levels," the spokeswoman said. "Some people take smelling good rather seriously."
Ex-Pop Star Cat Stevens to Be Deported from U.S.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ex-pop singer Cat Stevens, a Muslim, will be deported to Britain after being denied entry to the United States because his activities could be "linked to terrorism," a U.S. official said on Wednesday. [
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Looks like he's not riding the peace train anymore...
Kerry Not Bush is in the lead!!!
Roland`s journey concludes today with THE DARK TOWER VII
The final volume in Stephen King's dark fantasy is finally here! [
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Stewart to Surrender for Prison by Oct. 8
NEW YORK - A federal judge ordered Martha Stewart on Tuesday to surrender for prison by Oct. 8, granting the celebrity homemaker's request to begin serving her sentence for lying about a stock sale.
The judge also recommended that U.S. prison officials assign Stewart to a prison camp in Danbury, Conn., or Coleman, Fla. — the two she requested last week. [
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VoteorNot
Kevin's blog (after 2 weeks of NO news at all) reported to me that these folks want people to vote in November.
They are willing to put their money where their mouth is - giving 100K away as a prize. You can register there even if you are already registered to vote.
If you follow this link to do so, and you win your 100k, I will win 100k too:
http://nh11b16.VOTEorNOT.org
Or, you could use
Kevin's link, but seeing as how I registered on his link, I think that you should register on mine so now we *both* have double the chnace. Or just because if I won, I could be debt free. Or, because I could get a new Doom Buggy. Or because I could quit and move to Canada or New Zealand. Or, because you simply love that I bring these things to your attention.
You can also register to vote right after you register with them, so if you haven't done so already, please register to vote. The president is one of a bunch of things on these ballots, and local issues matter too. Vote for more money for schools please.
YAY!!!!!!!!!
See Kerry Vs. Bush over there --->
We're comin' back!
(I don't know why I am cheering, Kerry isn't much better...)
Happy Last day of Summer!
Lightbulb Burns for 96 Years
DALLAS (Reuters) - They sure do not make things anymore like the Texas lightbulb that sold for a few cents and has burned for 96 straight years.
The North Fort Worth Historical Society will have a birthday party on Tuesday for its famous household fixture -- a lightbulb that has burned continuously since Sept. 21, 1908. The bulb was first illuminated when a stagehand at a local opera house flicked a switch and posted a sign that the light over a stage entrance was not be turned off. [
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What Are the Odds of a Ghost Closing Your School?
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Fear of a ghost who knocks on doors and wafts the scent of aftershave lotion along corridors has forced a prestigious college for statisticians in the Indian capital to close. [
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Purple????
You're a "Purple Angel". You're a fighter
and you know it. If you were an angel, you'd be
part of the celestial army because your the
strongest of all the angel types. You're tough
as nails and definately a go big or go home
person. You do everything to the best of your
ability. You're not like the gaudian angel
where you just protect your friends but you
protect everybody. You can't stand to see
people suffering and you'd do anything to
change that. You're a very fun person as long
as people are on your good side and you're very
laid back. (If you cannot see the picture, go
to my homepage and scroll down near the bottom.
I have the results from all my quizess that
have pics)
What Color Angel Are You? (PICS) brought to you by Quizilla
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The Forbes Fictional Fifteen
Rank Name Net Worth
1. Santa Claus $ ?
2. Richie Rich 24.7 billion
3. Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks 10 billion
4. Scrooge McDuck 8.2 billion
5. Thurston Howell III 8 billion
6. Willie Wonka 8 billion
7. Bruce Wayne 6.3 billion
8. Lex Luthor 4.7 billion
9. J.R. Ewing 2.8 billion
10. Auric Goldfinger 1.2 billion
11. C. Montgomery Burns 1 billion
12. Charles Foster Kane 1 billion
13. Cruella De Vil 875 million
14. Gordon Gekko 650 million
15. Jay Gatsby 600 million
LOL...[
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What Color Angel Are You?
You're a "Green Angel". You're one person
who is extremely protective of people around
you (especially your friends) and you'd end up
as a gaurdian angel. You're stronger than most
and aren't ashamed to show it. People know how
tough you are and don't dare to mess with you
when you get mad. You're real close with your
friends and couldn't live wihout them so even
in heaven, you want to help them. You know
they'd want you as a gaudian angel and you'd
love to be able to ensure safety of your
friends for yourself because you're on of those
"If you want something done right, do it
yourself" kind of person.
What Color Angel Are You? (PICS) brought to you by Quizilla
Costa Rica Dropped From 'Willing' List
WASHINGTON - The White House has removed Costa Rica from an Internet list of nations in the so-called "coalition of the willing" in Iraq. [
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AHHAHAHAHA!!!! That's just funny. Costa Rica won't even back us in this bullshit.
BTW - I went to
this page, to look up the coalition of the willing on the white house website and the link to the list of members is *Austin Powers voice* con-veeeeeniently miss-ing.
AOL Moves Beyond Passwords for Log-Ons
NEW YORK - Passwords alone won't be enough to get onto America Online under a new, optional log-on service that makes AOL the first major U.S. online business to offer customers a second layer of security.
The so-called two-factor authentication scheme, being unveiled Tuesday, will cost $1.95 a month in addition to a one-time $9.95 fee. It is initially targeted at small businesses, victims of identity theft and individuals who pay a lot of bills and conduct other financial transactions through their AOL accounts.
Subscribers get a matchbook-size device from RSA Security Inc. displaying a six-digit code that changes every minute. The code is necessary to log on, so a scammer who guesses or steals a password cannot access the account without the device in hand. [
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Banned Book Week
BBW is upon us!
It's Sept 25 - Oct 2. Please, go buy a
banned book and read it next week. I think I may got for #7 again, Harry Potter.... *grumbles about how frickin' LAME that is*
Teacher Arrested After Bookmark Called Concealed Weapon
TAMPA, Fla. -- A weight may soon be lifted off a Maryland woman charged with carrying a concealed weapon in an airport.
It wasn't a gun or a knife. It was a weighted bookmark.
Kathryn Harrington was flying home from vacation last month when screeners at the Tampa, Fla., airport found her bookmark. It's an 8.5-inch leather strip with small lead weights at each end.
Airport police said it resembled a weighted weapon that could be used to knock people unconscious. So the 52-year-old special education teacher was handcuffed, put into a police car, and charged with carrying a concealed weapon.
She faced a possible criminal trial and a $10,000 fine. But the state declined to prosecute, and the Transportation Security Administration said it probably won't impose a fine.
Harrington said she'll never again carry her bookmark into an airport.
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Bush sings Bono! ...Well, not really, but it's pretty amazing what you can do with computers and time to waste.
please don't 'Pimp MY Ride'
Couple Fined $94,000 for One-Child Rule Lapse
BEIJING (Reuters) - A court in China's southern boomtown of Shenzhen has fined a couple 780,000 yuan ($94,250) and sealed off their house for having more than one child, the Beijing Morning Post said Monday. [
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Studios Eye Strange
Several studios are vying for the film rights to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, a fantasy novel by Susanna Clarke about two feuding magicians set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, Variety reported. The 800-page book was published Sept. 8 in the United States and debuted at number nine on the New York Times best-seller list before rising to number three this week, the trade paper reported. [
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Britney Spears Marries in California
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Oops! Pop star Britney Spears did it again and got married for the second time this year -- this time to dancer Kevin Federline in a low-key ceremony Saturday at a private home in Studio City, California, a record-label executive confirmed on Sunday. [
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eBay
I am absolutley baffled by the crap that people want to buy form me on eBay. I am selling worthless give away junk that I got at SDCC and making well over $100 on it. Things I think are junk, people are all nuts over. Things I think are cool, people don't want. Oh well, I guess that is good news for me then, eh? (sorry, turned Canadian for a second...)
Labels: SDCC
re: Sky Captain
Despite Morgan's negative critique (whis is to be expected any time he is asked an oppinion), I thought Sky Captain was pretty good. The Cinematography is beautiful, the gadgets are neat, and it reads liek a 40's comic book, which is to say that sometimes things go left unexplained or miraculously easy to discover, but all in all, I think it achieved it's goals.
For a completley blue screened movie, it was well worth the $10 to go see it on a big screen.
YAY!!!!
It's raining!!!!
I woke up, heard it and ran outside in my pajamas to spin around in it for a few minutes! Then I sat by my window and read for a while as it cam down in the trees around me.
Oh, how I love fall!
Sky Captain and the World of Tomoroow
Tonight at 9:45 at Century 22... Be there or be square.
B5`s CRUSADE comes next to DVD
Now that the entire BABYLON 5 series and all five TV movies have come out on DVD, Warner Home Video has announced a release date for CRUSADE, the short-lived spinoff series that only lasted 13 episodes. Set in the year 2267, CRUSADE followed the mission of Captain Matthew Gideon and his ship the Excalibur as it searched for a cure to a deadly alien plaque unleashed on Earth by allies of the Shadows. The series starred Gary Cole as Captain Gideon and Daniel Dae Kim, Peter Woodward, Marjean Holden, David Allen Brooks, Carrie Dobro and Tracy Scoggins. [
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Blade Trinity: New Trailer
Man Tries to Sue Wife for 5-Day Sex Denial
MADRID (Reuters) - A Spanish man tried to have his wife charged with domestic abuse because she refused to have sex with him on five consecutive days, Spanish newspaper El Sur reported on Friday.
The middle-aged man from Seville -- the city of Don Juan and Carmen -- said her refusals amounted to "degrading treatment" and domestic abuse, a term used more often to describe wife-battering.
The judge shelved the case, Andalusia-based El Sur reported.
Ghost 2 Mined Old Sources
Mamoru Oshii, writer and director of the upcoming anime sequel film Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, told SCI FI Wire that the follow-up to 1995's hit animated movie was inspired by old crime stories and a museum exhibition half a century ago. [
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Karl Emailed Finally
So for those of you who are following the saga of me trying to find Karl Moline, he finally emailed back. Apparently the CrossGen stuff has been really hairy... Anyway, we are in communicado now, and I heard from Andy Owens a couple times too so the saga ends with happy tiding from both!
New A Perfect Circle Video
I guess Maynard doesn't like Bush either. They are putting out "Counting bodies like sheep to the rhythm of the war drums" on a new album with some other people's songs on it to protest Bush and to try and get people to vote. [
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If that hurt your head, you can head over to MTV.com and listen to the whole new Green Day album "American Idiot" before it is released. [
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Hm... there's a trend here somewhere....
Lego Comic Book Characters
Only Great White Shark at Calif. Aquarium
MONTEREY, Calif. - The Monterey Bay Aquarium has an unusual visitor that experts are hoping will be a permanent houseguest: a great white shark.
Notorious for their inability to thrive in captivity, no great whites are currently on display anywhere in the world and none has ever been keep on exhibit for more than 16 days. [
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Jury Duty? I'll Drink to That!
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New Yorkers dreading jury duty take note: it's OK to be drunk on booze or high on pot or cocaine while doing your civic duty. [
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Thieves Rob Bus Full of Policemen
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) - Forty-six Brazilian policemen traveling to a sports competition were caught with their guard down this week when four Brazilian thieves robbed the bus carrying them to the event. [
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Ramone Guitarist Dies of Cancer
Johnny Ramone knew better than anyone that we're all "Here Today and Gone Tomorrow."
Ramone, guitarist of the legendary punk rock band The Ramones, died in his sleep Wednesday in Los Angeles. He was all of 55. [
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The Complete Buffy
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment will release all seven seasons of Buffy The Vampire Slayer on DVD in the United Kingdom, packaged in a limited-edition leather-boxed set priced at £199.99 ($358), BBCi reported. The Complete DVD Collector's Edition will feature 39 discs, including commentaries, featurettes, outtakes, easter eggs, trailers and cast biographies, as well as a booklet and letter from series creator Joss Whedon.
I wonder when the big one will come out here...
Elfman news
Musician and composer Danny Elfman will provide the singing voices of the Oompa Loompas in Tim Burton's upcoming remake Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, according to a report on the Ain't-It-Cool-News Web site.
Pumpkin Party
BTW, If I didn't mention it before, the pumpkin party is a go.
Oct 24 in Morgan's front yard - ghetto style. B.Y.O.P.
If you are super special, you will receive an invite from me in the mail sometime soon. Be on the lookout.
More fun with terror alerts
Periodic Table of Blogs
Some of
these are very amusing!
New terms and phrases
Five words I saw today on the web
1. metric assload (n.) - a lot
2. asshat (n.) - willfully ignorant person
3. assy (adj.) - unacceptably low-quality
4. big-ass (adj.) - large
5. asstacular (adj.) - really bad
I stand agog at “metric assload.” I believe it may replace my usual very-large-amount phrase, “cubic shitload.”
LETS GIVE IT UP FOR THE GYNECOLOGISTS!!!
YYYEAH!!!
I bet his speach writers take bets on what they can get him to say...
An Urban, Rock-filled DOOM
After starring in two of Universal Pictures summertime films, Karl Urban (who also starred in the latter two LORD OF THE RINGS pictures) will receive another paycheck from the same studio for starring in DOOM along with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. Urban, who appeared in THE CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK and THE BOURNE SUPREMACY this past summer, will play a futuristic special ops soldier named John Grimm in film adaptation of the popular id Software first-person shooter video game. [
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Down with the sickness
Still feeling pretty bad so I'll probably leave work in a little while to return home to my bed and the comfort of Alias...
Women Groped After Giving Birth in Hospital
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Seven women who had just given birth at a Southern California hospital were molested by a lab technician over the course of two days, police said on Tuesday. [
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Martha Stewart to Judge: Jail Me Now
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lifestyle guru Martha Stewart said on Wednesday she wants to serve her prison sentence for lying over a suspicious stock sale as soon as possible, so she can put her "nightmare" behind her.
In a surprise announcement, Stewart -- convicted in March and later sentenced to five months in jail and five months of house arrest -- said through tears she hoped to be a free woman by March, so she can plant her spring garden. [
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New Sidebar Features
In case you are curios, on a day to day basis about the fate of the next 4 years - there's a ::vote:: section over on the right ---> now. It should update as the numbers change. It will link you to the breakdown.
There's also a new XML link, compliments of feed burner. Those of you with readers that have been killed by the atom feed, try that one, and let me know please. I have it displaying the titles and the content, but I can change that actually.
Baby endless and drawn by Jill Thompson
Canada PM Scolded by Aunt, Apologizes for Blasphemy
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin apologized on Tuesday for blasphemy during a nationally televised meeting on health care reform -- but only after his aunt told him that his mouth should be washed out with soap. [
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Stayed home today
Stayed home today - not feeling well. I will be on email and of course, cell phone if anyone needs me.
Update on the Underground Cinema
Paris's new slant on underground movies
Clandestine group reveals how it built its cinema beneath the city
There are, at most, 15 of them. Their ages range from 19 to 42, their professions from nurse to window dresser, mason to film director. And in a cave beneath the streets of Paris, they built a subterranean cinema whose discovery this week sent the city's police into a frenzy. [
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Repair costs rise as bumpers do
Microsoft Sings a New Tune With Windows Media Player 10
It's amazing to see what an entrenched monopolist will do when it finally meets real competition. [
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Definition of: Entropy
en·tro·py
n. pl. en·tro·pies
1. Symbol S For a closed thermodynamic system, a quantitative measure of the amount of thermal energy not available to do work.
2. A measure of the disorder or randomness in a closed system.
3. A measure of the loss of information in a transmitted message.
4. The tendency for all matter and energy in the universe to evolve toward a state of inert uniformity.
5. Inevitable and steady deterioration of a system or society.
more on Entropy
Truck maker will sell giant pickup
Oprah Winfrey Opens 19th Season with Car Giveaway
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Television host Oprah Winfrey had a surprise for the 276 members of her studio audience when she opened the latest season of her daytime talk show on Monday -- she gave them all new cars. [
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Man Exhumes and Eats Grandson's Corpse
LUSAKA (Reuters) - Zambian police have arrested a man who exhumed, cooked and ate part of his grandson's corpse, police said Monday. [
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I wonder if that is legal in California...
Something You Can't Do in California...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Having sex with corpses is now officially illegal in California after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill barring necrophilia, a spokeswoman said on Friday.
The new legislation marks the culmination of a two-year drive to outlaw necrophilia in the state and will help prosecutors who have been stymied by the lack of an official ban on the practice, according to experts. [
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Weekend Report
Man this weekend was short...
Staurday night I went out with Steph. We went to Crazy Buffet for dinner. Crazy Buffet is one of those places that you go when you want an experience. They have really good food and for $14 bucks on the weekends and like $90 on weekdays, you can go eat every kind of Asian food you can think of (tons of shellfish taht Steph said were all really good) and even Mongolian BBQ and Sushi) and be bombarded by hundred of Asians all yelling to hear one another. It's incredible.
Then we went to see Olivia Newton-John in concert. Damn I can only dream to look that good when I am in my late 50's - she looked good for 30, let alone her real age. She sang all of her hits which basically met my ON-J needs, so that was happy.
Yesterday Kevin, Wendy, and Carl came over, I made some dinner for everyone and then we went and saw Hamlet in the park in Saratoga. It was kinda nuts, they had a full stage set up in the middle of this park up off the 9 in the middle of nowhere in Saratoga. Very cool.
The performance was pretty good, and especially good for being free, but very long, as is the case with Shakespeare.
I wish I had like 2 more dys in the weekend - my special projects division is behind on amost everything it is doing... ah well, maybe next weekend!
Hope that you all had a good one too!
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Re: I have a book dilemma
What do I do? Do I read this or finish Sandman so I can give them back to Kevin?
Kevin doesn't really have shelf space for all the TPB's/GN's he loaned you, so start in on the new book.
Just my twenty
quatloos. :-)
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell is invading my life
So I saw a pre-print copy of this book on Zak's nightstand a couple months ago and cover-only-seen, I demanded it of him. He told me I had to wait until he was done and then he vanished from existence until recently, but he did give me several other books to add to my pile to soothe my need.
I mentioned going to the reading that this author was going to do a couple days ago.
Yesterday, I picked up the book.
Today there was a mention on Neil's blog, which referred you to
this link, which is about the best review of a book I have ever read.
OK, so the gunslinger has been my great push all year and is still somewhere in the 60-70 page range, so that's no competition, but *shit* what do I do? Do I read this or finish Sandman so I can give them back to Kevin?
Crap.
I have a book dilemma.
Hm, I am going to go watch Alias and think about it....
And, in case that one made you sad, this one should make you happy
And some more beautiful pictures by this guy can be found
here.
YAY!!!!!!!
So I have been doing this web clean up of our epic website *ALL SUMMER*.
I am done!
YAY!!!!
Now I can do normal things thet don't involve my hand hurting constantly and me dreaming in HTML!
Happy Weekend!!!
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norell Author at Kepler's
MENLO PARK, CA
Date: 24 September 2004
Kepler's
7:30PM
This book is really well liked by many people I know - may be cool to go see a reading! I'll probably be going if anyone wants to join me.
Scientists Salvage Some Genesis Materials
SALT LAKE CITY - NASA (news - web sites) scientists said Friday they had recovered some intact materials from the wreckage of the Genesis space capsule, which crashed this week in the Utah desert.
The recovery offered some hope that the mission to gather solar atoms and reveal clues to the origin of our solar system could be salvaged. [
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LOL! Racing Pigeons Face Dope Testing
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's pigeon racers are being subjected to random dope tests as the sport's ruling body clamps down on suspected foul play. [
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Rings Computer For Hire
Weta Digital, the company which created the visual effects for the Lord of the Rings trilogy, is joining with telecommunications company Gen-i to establish a supercomputing center where commercial customers can harness the power of the supercomputer used in the production of the films, the Associated Press reported. [
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Re: Global suicide toll exceeds war and murder
I just read in a Scientific American that:
Twice as many women as men attempt suicide, but 4 times as many men then women, succeed.
Global suicide toll exceeds war and murder
Suicide kills more people each year than road traffic accidents in most European countries, the World Health Organization is warning. And globally, suicide takes more lives than murder and war put together, says the agency in a call for action. [
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And, in related news:
Right-wing governments 'increase suicide rates'
Right-wing governments may sap some people's will to live and result in more suicides, conclude studies in Britain and Australia. [
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Dear diary, you make me sick
Keeping a diary is bad for your health, say UK psychologists. They found that regular diarists were more likely than non-diarists to suffer from headaches, sleeplessness, digestive problems and social awkwardness. [
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Lyrics: Tool - Third Eye
Dreaming of that face again.
It's bright and blue and shimmering.
Grinning wide
And comforting me with it's three warm and wild eyes.
On my back and tumbling
Down that hole and back again
Rising up
And wiping the webs and the dew from my withered eye.
In... Out... In... Out... In... Out...
A child's rhyme stuck in my head.
It said that life is but a dream.
I've spent so many years in question
to find I've known this all along.
"So good to see you.
I've missed you so much.
So glad it's over.
I've missed you so much
Came out to watch you play.
Why are you running?"
Shroud-ing all the ground around me
Is this holy crow above me.
Black as holes within a memory
And blue as our new second sun.
I stick my hand into his shadow
To pull the pieces from the sand.
Which I attempt to reassemble
To see just who I might have been.
I do not recognize the vessel,
But the eyes seem so familiar.
Like phosphorescent desert buttons
Singing one familiar song...
"So good to see you.
I've missed you so much.
So glad it's over.
I've missed you so much.
Came out to watch you play.
Why are you running away?"
Prying open my third eye.
So good to see you once again.
I thought that you were hiding.
And you thought that I had run away.
Chasing the tail of dogma.
I opened my eye and there we were.
So good to see you once again
I thought that you were hiding from me.
And you thought that I had run away.
Chasing a trail of smoke and reason.
Prying open my third eye.
Tool Eyes
Which Noelle and I were discussing while listening to Korn.
Firefighters Rescue Heavyweight Corpse
BERLIN (Reuters) - German undertakers struggling to carry a 661-pound corpse from a third floor Hamburg apartment called in the fire brigade for help -- but they couldn't handle the job either and ordered an industrial crane.
"It took six men and several hours to complete the task," said Gerhard Bramfeld, spokesman for the Hamburg fire services. "Its not your everyday 'put out the fire' case."
NASA: Station's Oxygen Generator Fails
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The main oxygen generator for the international space station has failed, and the two astronauts on board may have to tap into an attached cargo ship's air supply next week, NASA said Thursday.
The space agency said the astronauts had several backup sources of oxygen and were in no immediate danger.
The generator — a balky Russian unit that keeps breaking down — stopped working earlier in the week. Normally, air bubbles are to blame, but this time it appeared there was a blockage in a line. [
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Um, this seems like a problem to me... and, did they say that "air bubbles" stop the generator from pumping out air? Hm, this seems like a bad design.
YAY!!! House Votes to Block New Overtime Rules
WASHINGTON - In a sharp rebuke of a new administration policy, the House moved Thursday to block the Labor Department from carrying out overtime rules that critics argued could deprive millions of workers of their overtime pay.
The 223-193 vote in favor of blocking the rules defied the White House. A threatened veto applied to veto a massive spending bill, now on the House floor, if it contains any language tampering with the rules that took effect Aug. 23. [
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Not that it matters for me right now, but at least the government has done something right recently...
Neat
So I found this cool toy for those of you who use the "my Yahoo" feature. They have an RSS reader now and you can add this blog's Atom feed to your yahoo homepage!
Click the link over there ---> under "Meta" to hook it up!
Hamlet anyone?
Omega leader, myself and assorted other peeps are going to the
Shakespeare in the park thing in saratoga on Sunday evening if anyone is interested, lemme know!
OH NO!
Fredo, who made that Sad Song video posted like a month ago, got into trouble and got a $8,900 bill from his ISP because so many people downloaded it!
That sucks.
http://fredo.em411.com/show/blog/2371/1
Speaking of yesterday's word of the day: Skullduggery...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A Southern California man who sold the skull of a Hawaiian woman from the 18th century to undercover agents on eBay was charged on Wednesday with a federal crime.
Jerry David Hasson advertised the skull on the Internet auction service eBay as that of a "200-year-old warrior" who died on Maui in the 1790s, prosecutors said, and sold it in February to an undercover agent with the Bureau of Indian Affairs. [
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NASA's Collection of 'Stardust' Falls Flat
... The capsule hit the ground at 193 mph and wedged itself halfway in the mud 31 miles west of the hangar where scientists and engineers watched the return, project officials said.
The outer shell cracked open like an oyster, exposing the science canister, which held five pizza-sized collector plates and a concentrator instrument. The canister's lid was pried open.
"The samples themselves are exposed to the air," said Don Sweetnam, the project manager based at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. [
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Lucasfilm Defends DVD Changes
Lucasfilm spokesman Jim Ward told SCI FI Wire that the company strongly defends Star Wars creator George Lucas' right to make controversial alterations to his beloved original trilogy of films in the upcoming DVD release. "It comes down to what [Lucas] has said constantly, which is that he very strongly believes in an artist's right to have his work presented in the way he wants it presented," Ward said in an interview at the press preview of the DVD set in Los Angeles. "In terms of your own personal art, and how you want it to be presented, the artist has that right." [
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Star Wars DVD Has Christensen
Hayden Christensen—who played Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars: Episode II—Attack of the Clones and reprises the role in the upcoming Star Wars: Episode III—Revenge of the Sith—will make a brief appearance in the original Star Wars trilogy when it is released on DVD for the first time, according to USA Today.
Christensen now appears at the end of Return of the Jedi in a scene where Luke sees the spirits of Yoda, Obi-Wan Kenobi and his father, Anakin Skywalker. The role was originally played by Sebastian Shaw, who still appears as the human face behind the Darth Vader mask in another scene in the film. [
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What a trip: In a secret Paris cavern, the real underground cinema
Police in Paris have discovered a fully equipped cinema-cum-restaurant in a large and previously uncharted cavern underneath the capital's chic 16th arrondissement.
Officers admit they are at a loss to know who built or used one of Paris's most intriguing recent discoveries.
"We have no idea whatsoever," a police spokesman said. [
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This one's worth a read...
The gods are smiling on me
The Netflix gods brought me Alias season 3 and Shaolin Soccer. That makes me happy! If you don't hear from me in a couple days, bring food.
Re: Genesis Space Capsule Crashes in Utah
I like today's word of the day
Youth Caught Selling Drugs at Police Party
BERLIN (Reuters) - A German teen-ager set himself up for an easy arrest when he offered to sell marijuana to guests at a party full of off-duty policeman, police from the northern town of Eschwege said Tuesday. [
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Monkeys that stupid deserve to be put in a cage.
Ah here's one!
*picks it out of the ether and dusts it off*
Genesis Space Capsule Crashes in Utah
GWAY PROVING GROUND, Utah - A daring plan to have helicopters snag a space capsule as it plunged toward Earth went awry Wednesday when its parachutes failed to open and it slammed into the desert floor. [
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Blogger ate my posts!
Agh. Blogger was down all morning so, while i posted all morning, I do so usually while doing like 40 other things so I didn't notice them all float off into the vortex. Oh well, I will go dig them all out of the left sock dimention and re-post as I find them.
The Curse of Dick Cheney
Should George W. Bush win this election, it will give him the distinction of being the first occupant of the White House to have survived naming Dick Cheney to a post in his administration. [
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Silent Running: 'Black Triangle' Sightings on the Rise
They have become legendary in UFO circles. Huge, silent-running Flying Triangles have been seen by ground observers creeping through the sky low and slow near cities and quietly cruising over highways.
The National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDS), has catalogued the Triangle sightings, sifting through and combining databases to take a hard look at the mystery craft. Based in Las Vegas, Nevada, NIDS is a privately funded science institute with a strong research focusing on aerial phenomena.The results of their study have just been released and lead to some unnerving, still puzzling conclusions. [
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Tivo, Netflix Close to Internet Movie Deal - Report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Online DVD renter Netflix Inc. and television recorder maker TiVo Inc. are close to a deal to allow Netflix subscribers to download movies over the Internet to their TiVo devices, according to the latest issue of Newsweek magazine. [
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Moore to Pursue Best Picture Oscar
LOS ANGELES - Michael Moore says he won't submit "Fahrenheit 9/11" for consideration as best documentary at this year's Academy Awards. Instead, he's going for the bigger prize of best picture. [
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Hm, and here I didn't think it was that great of a movie... it seemed lacking some key responsiblities for how Bush got into office in the first place. MM was far to forgiving of the ninnies that he put in his movie who whined about their kids being in Iraq. 1) They were the same people who voted for Bush in the first place and 2) they were (admittedly) the ones who told their kids to join the military.
Oh well, I guess you can only target one idiot at a time...
There's beauty in the breakdown...
I finally found something worse than Asian women SUV drivers with cell phones
Itdiot, white, male bicycle riders on campus.
They now take the cake.
The previous holder were just not paying attention, these guys think it's their god-given right to neglect any sort of road signs, particularly stop signs, and don't really care at all about human decency and courtesy towards others.
Screw "share the road", if you guys are here, and they run a sign in front of you, mow them down. Maybe it'll teach them a lesson.
Nickel 'nanodots' could mean tiny hard drives
Nanoscopic dots of nickel that could be used to store terabytes of data in a computer chip just a few centimetres wide have been created by US researchers.
Each "nanodot" consists of a discrete ball of several hundred nickel atoms and can have one of two magnetic states. This allows them hold a single bit of information, as a "1" or a "0".
In a conventional computer hard drive, information is stored on a disk coated with a magnetic material, and bits must be far enough apart not to interfere with each other. Nanodots should allow bits to be packed closer together as the dots are discrete units that are not structurally linked.[
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Re: Hollywood heavyweighs help remake ANDROMEDA STRAIN and THE THING
You can't improve on perfection, but I'll watch 'The Thing' mini-series anyway. :P
Sounds Like an Idea for a TV Series...
BERLIN (Reuters) - Two German nuns took the law into their own hands and recovered a picture of the Virgin Mary stolen from their Franciscan hospital, police said Tuesday.
The engraving vanished Saturday and Sisters Georgia and Isabella decided not to leave the case just to the police.
"The two nuns took a car and scoured the local area on Sunday morning," said a police spokesman. "They got lucky and found the picture at a flea market."
"When the seller asked for 500 euros they said they would have to ring to get someone to bring the money. Instead they called the police," he said.
The seller is being investigated for handling stolen goods.
Bush: OB-GYNs Kept from 'Practicing Their Love'
POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. (Reuters) - President Bush offered an unexpected reason on Monday for cracking down on frivolous medical lawsuits: "Too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country."
The Republican president, long known for verbal and grammatical lapses, included the anecdote about obstetrician gynecologists in his stump speech attacking Democratic presidential rival Sen. John Kerry and his running mate, Sen. John Edwards, a former trial lawyer. [
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Hollywood heavyweighs help remake ANDROMEDA STRAIN and THE THING
... Meanwhile Frank Darabont, the director of THE GREEN MILE, THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION and THE MAJESTIC is producing a new version of THE THING, the third time that the story has been adapted for film. Writer David Johnson has been hired to adapt the original John W. Campbell Jr. short story that THE THING was based on (titled "Who Goes There?"). According to Darabont the project could be filming in the first part of the new year and be on the channel by late 2005 or spring of 2006. As with the new ANDROMEDA STRAIN, the new THING will be made as a four-hour mini-series. [
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Weekend in review
Radiator is in.
Concert was great - Linkin Park was solid as always, Snoop was nostalgic, and Korn rocks!
Saw Hero today. It was much better than I thought it would be, but then again, I did ask Morgan about it and he said "You'll hate it", which I didn't. It was beautifully done, and the story was crafted well. Much better than the pretentious crouching idiot, whining girl movie from a while back...
Now I am working on secret projects. Some of which, you, or people very close to you, may know about in coming months.
Hope you all had a great weekend, and I will continue the regularly scheduled web entertainment either later or tomorrow.
**scampers off to work on projects**
na-na-na-na
na-na-na-na
hey-hey-hey
snoop-dogg...
Pollution triggers bizarre behaviour in animals
Hyperactive fish, stupid frogs, fearless mice and seagulls that fall over. It sounds like a weird animal circus, but this is no freak show. Animals around the world are increasingly behaving in bizarre ways, and the cause is environmental pollution. [
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Getting a Grip on Antimatter
Research into what separates matter from antimatter is accelerating in particle physics experiments around the world. Scientists are hoping the difference will help explain why you, me and all the things around us are made of matter instead of its opposite. [
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Polls Suggest a Double-Digit Bush Lead
I hope this is just because TH RNC just ended... [
the bad news]
re: Zen and the art of Doom Buggy Maintenance...
Carl rocks.
Car appears to be fixed!
Going to watch Stargate and read some Sandman and then sleep.
Hope you are all having a swell long weekend.
Zen and the art of Doom Buggy Maintenance...
I'll be changing the radiator this afternoon... Fun, fun!
And by "I", I mean of course, Carl, while I sit in moral support.
LOL! Yeah, I'd say this one was right on...
Disorder Rating
Paranoid: Low
Schizoid: Low
Schizotypal: Low
Antisocial: Low
Borderline: Low
Histrionic: Low
Narcissistic: Moderate
Avoidant: Low
Dependent: Low
Obsessive-Compulsive: Low
Personality Disorder Test
Your Scent is Glow
Fresh, sexy, and clean.
You're real, intimate, and exciting.
Your lush sensuality appeals to men...
And you're as sexy as Jennifer Lopez.
Power scents: Orange flower, grapefruit, and citrus.
What Scent Are You? Take This Quiz :-)
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Russia School Standoff Ends With 250 Dead
BESLAN, Russia - The three-day hostage siege at a school in southern Russia ended in chaos and bloodshed Friday, after witnesses said Chechen militants set off bombs and Russian commandos stormed the building. Hostages fled in terror, many of them children who were half-naked and covered in blood. Officials said the toll was at least 250. [
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Going Home
Cell phone will be attained shortly if anyone needs me!
Early escape
Release time has been moved up and confirmed at 2:00!
BTW, Pumpkin Party Update
Speaking of the PP... I have to check with the Ape-Man, but I may have the PP after all. If I do, it will BYOP at Morgan's house. We'll have the Super Ghetto all out crazy Pumpkin goop fiesta!
I'll keep you up to date.
Friday 5
Since Kev is out of comission with the move, I'll take over this week. Feel free to post your answers as well!
1. What is your favorite summer activity?
Concerts. Oh wait, that's just my favorite activity. I like swimming and th ebeach, but I feel like I can do that any time of the year. OH! Firworks on the 4th - most certainly a highlight! Oh yeah, and Comic Con!
2. What was one great thing you did this summer?
Well, there was the afore-mentioned fireworks and SDCC. I'd also have to throw in that I feel like I got my life more-or-less back under control thi ssummer, so that was a great thing.
3. When you were a child, what was your favorite summer activity?Horseback riding, swimming, and tree climbing. And they still are.
4. What has been your favorite summer vacation?
It's always England. Every time I go, I love it more. Even with my mom there.
5. Summer goes well into September, but when do you feel like it is over?
mmmmmmm, maybe around Halloween, when it atarts to get colder and the pumpkin party happens...
Labels: SDCC
Princess Diaries 2
 | So Steph and I went to see PD2 last night. It was actually really cute. I liked it as much as the first one. It met all of my feel-good, disney movie, princess diaries needs so I was pleased.
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No cell contact
And, apparently, I mean the cells in my brain. I left my phone at home, so those of you who call me on that during the day will need to a) wait b) email me or c) call me at work.
Happy Friday!
Could space signal be alien contact?
LONDON (Reuters) - An unexplained radio signal from deep space could -- just might be -- contact from an alien civilisation, New Scientist magazine has reported.
The signal, coming from a point between the Pisces and Aries constellations, has been picked up three times by a telescope in Puerto Rico. [
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Jailed Assassin 'Weds' Using Loophole
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Defying a life prison term in isolation, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's assassin has secretly married by proxy, his bride said Friday. [
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Early escape
There's talk of being released at 3 today.
:-D
Kevin, you are the Shiznit!
Re: Blog Wayback Machine
Yep, that's gotten it working.
Back to packing now.
For real this time.
Seriously.
Re: Blog Wayback Machine
Finally heard back from Blogger support this morning.
Followed their advice and so I think it's fixed, but I can't tell 'cause
it won't republish the damn blog.
Well, when this post
finally can be published, check the Archives list and see if August and, now, September are there.
Back to packing.
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Adventures in today
Today's accomplishments, in order:
Doc Man Class
Sent an email to 16 K people
Went to lunch in Paradise at Apple - 1 grilled cheese, 1 order onion rings, 1 chai Comfort Food!
Picked up my beads from the office at my complex - damned postman
Updated a couple web pages
Played some bejeweled
Ordered some flowers for Barb
Arranged tonight's screening of the Princess Diaries 2 with Steph (Please, I tell you this because you are my friends - and yes, I know I am 26)
Posted to some Macromedia Forums
And yeah, that's pretty much it.
I'll leave in a few and go to the comic shop and to see said teeny-bopper movie and then that will be my day.
I love it when Barb is gone.
Atkins Diet Weight Loss Doesn't Last - Study
LONDON (Reuters) - More than 45 million copies of the books have been sold and everyone seems to be on it, but researchers said Friday that Atkins and other low-carbohydrate diets do not help people stay slim.
Clinical trials of low-carbohydrate diets show a greater weight loss at six months than low-fat and reduced calorie approaches in obese patients. But by 12 months there was no difference in the two groups. [
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So Cut that low carb crap out. Just eat less and/or, I don't know, GO OUTSIDE every once in a while and do something besides sit.
Foamy's Fat-Kins Diet Rant
Mmmmmrrr?
CHOCOLATE video games on their way
Warner Bros. Interactive Software has awarded Global Star Software the rights to make and release video games based upon Tim Burton's upcoming remake of CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY. The console games will be developed by High Voltage Software while the handheld and PC games will be developed by Backbone Entertainment.
The videogames are planned to coincide with the release of the Warner Bros. movie. The film is currently scheduled for release on July 15, 2005. There was no mention that any of the film's stars, among then Johnny Depp and 12-year-old British child actor Freddie Highmore, would lend their likenesses or voices to any of the games.
The Truth
Holy crap... ok I've heard my share of conspiracy theories but even I have to admit this one's pretty on the convincing side.
Look, stay objective and make up your own mind.
Froggy
-Removed-
After getting a chance to check it out... uh, no.
You are not a unique and individual snowflake
Watched Fight Club with Jon and his Homies last night.
For those of you who didn;t catch the whole warning at the beginning, here it is!
Hopefully cool day today
Just got in from Doc Man Class, will go to Apple for lunch with Wendy the wonderful, and then will get to leave early because I got in early for class. Tomorrow, they will release us early also (maybe like 2 or 3) because it's the start of a 3 day weekend.
This place rocks.
Just a reminder....
If you have not registered to vote...
It doens't make a difference, you live in California.
Here's what you can do:
Quit your job.
Move to another State for the next six months.
Sorry, it has to be one of the ones in the middle.
Bring your family, your friends, and even people who don't like you with you.
Take all the money you have and pay poor people to register and vote democrat.
Fight desperatly, like a cat about to be thrown in a pool, to get everyone you come in contact with to vote for Kerry.
Sorry, but it has to be him. Nader won't win. It has to be the one person who has a chance. I know, I know... but it really does have to be him.
If only I did not have debt....
U.S. Terror Status. Simson's style.
Neil makes me laugh
You know, when I read something like this...
A 6-foot-tall, 275-pound bearded man crashed a children's birthday party in Oak Forest, identified himself as "vengeance," then helped himself to a piece of cake, police said.
The incident occurred earlier this month at a home in the 14800 block of South Landings Lane in the south suburb, Deputy Police Chief Nick Sparacino said.
When the owner of the home asked the man who he was, the intruder replied, "I am vengeance. I am the knight. I am Batman." Then the man went into the kitchen, cut a piece of birthday cake, took it into the living room and ate it.
After continued questioning by the homeowner, the man left the house and drove off in a red 1988 Cadillac.
...I don't find myself wondering the obvious things (how do they know he's 275 lbs, wouldn't Batman be more likely to hunt down cake-stealers than to help himself to cake, etc etc etc). I don't even wonder about the "continued questioning by the homeowner" (probably questions like "how much do you weigh?" and "so what happened to the Batmobile then?"). No, I just keep wondering whether the mysterious stranger said, as reported, "I am the knight" or whether he actually said "I am the night". Bet it was the latter.
Why does it never cease?
Ugh.
So I'm driving along today in the Doom Buggy and I smell that Oh-to-familiar smell of coolant. *sigh* Then I look over at the carpet in the passenger's side for no apparent reason and I see that it is all black where the mat is not covering it. I think to myself that that is odd because my friends can't possibly be *that dirty*. So I pick up the mat to see how bad it is and the whole thing is flooded.
Like wet and bubbly blue fluid flooded.
I want something, really anything would be fine, that doesn't break, leak, disinegrate, or show me a blue screen of death when I try and use it.
Damn it.
Well, now we all know how I get to spend my long weekend. Diagnosing crappy car problems and replacing a leaky radiator.
Sorry Carl. :-(
HIGHLANDER gets animated
Davis-Panzer Productions and Imagi International are developing an animated feature length HIGHLANDER project reports today's Variety. The new HIGHLANDER will be written by TV series head writer David Abramowitz. No details about the film's storyline or whether series star Adrian Paul would play the lead role (make that voice) were revealed but it may be ready for release by the spring of 2006. [
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I'm Moving
Here
"Mom, newspapers contain facts."
"This paper contains facts.... look pregnant man gives birth... that's a fact."
Three Killed in Rush for IKEA Vouchers in Saudi
JEDDAH (Reuters) - Three men were trampled to death in a rush to claim vouchers at the first IKEA furniture showroom in Saudi Arabia Wednesday, hospital officials said.
Sixteen shoppers were injured at the Sweden-based furniture store opening in Jeddah. Medics revived some 20 customers who had fainted in the crush. IKEA said two were killed.
The rush was triggered by an offer for the first 50 shoppers to receive $150 in vouchers. An IKEA statement said more than 20,000 people showed up.
Hospital officials said two of the dead were a Pakistani and a Saudi national.
The IKEA statement said the company had worked closely with Saudi security officials to plan the opening.
IKEA is known for simple, reasonably priced products.
And to start the day off...
BERLIN (Reuters) - A man caught having sex with a blow-up doll in a busy public shopping arcade had to be physically parted from his rubber lover and escorted away, said police in Stuttgart Wednesday.
The 38-year-old man was caught with his trousers down early Monday evening after alarmed witnesses alerted the police.
"It was real, he was caught in mid-action with the doll," said a press spokeswoman. Police said that they had considerable difficulty separating the drunken man from his partner.
