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Life, Minutiae, Toys, Irrational Phobias, Peeves, Fiber

Drawn by the Sirens of Titan

I just don’t understand why the Europeans spent all that time and money landing a probe on Saturn’s moon Titan that only relayed data for a couple of hours, when they should be dealing with all the problems facing their countries. Problems like smoking. Doesn’t everybody smoke over there?
And where’s Saturn Girl? (Man, [...]

Lunchtime Conversation with Cow-Orker

Me: “What did you bring for lunch?”
Him: “Steak with corn and beans.”
Me: “Steak?” (He’s on a diet.)
Him: “It’s lean steak.”
Me: “Red meat makes me constipated.”
Him: “God, you have delicate systems.”
Latre.

SpyWare Does Not Include Jennifer Garner

Just spent several hours trying to rid my dad’s computer of AdWare and SpyWare. Installed three different detection/removal packages and I seem to have gotten most of it, though there is one bit of something (from “CDT Inc”) that keeps eluding everything and keeps popping up trying to install something. If anyone knows [...]

One More…

Forgot one of my New Year’s Resolutions:
* Complete some frickin’ songs!!
Latre.

Everyone’s Doing It

New Year’s Resolutions? We don’t need no stinkin’ New Year’s Resolutions! But here they are anyway.
* Eat less, exercise more, so I can lose more weight, starting with the bucketful I gained over the holidays. I’d like to get down to 140, but I should probably go for a more realistic 145. [...]

Does this look real?

I’ve seen Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, and now The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, and yet I still don’t know what to think of director Wes Anderson as a filmmaker. I’m pretty sure I either enjoy his movies more than I admire them, or admire them more than I enjoy them, but [...]

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