“If each American who voted for John Kerry spends $100 in 2005 on a Blue company instead of a Red company, we can move $5 Billion away from Republican companies and add $5 Billion to the income of companies who donate to Democrats.”

Interesting idea anyway.

I’ve been meaning to get a pic of this for months to post on Fark (the pic here is NOT mine), but it seems the AP beat me to outing our local eyesore.

I live under a 5 minute car drive from this 62 foot monstrosity. Nice eh? You should have seen it in the early stages, we don’t call it “Cyborg Jesus” for no reason. Even my born again friend from out of town was horrified by it. To be fair this is at the same exit that TWO mucking huge flea markets, a Hustler store, and a trashy strip club are at so it could be explained a excercise in equal time, but it’s so damn ugly. We also call it “Retard Jesus” as his eyes are rather down syndome-esque, and should foreheads HAVE clefts?

Fark found it also of course, I’m just ticked I didn’t do it first.

The ONLY show I watch on PBS is Antiques Roadshow if I happen to catch it. So it’s Monday and nothing else is one and it is in fact the only thing on, so we decided to watch it.

It’s begging, er, fundraising season so they have the default phone bank behind the extremely homely begging hosts. Normally telethon season is enough to turn it over, but there is in fact nothing on tv, so we stiff it out.

It looks like a nursing home dropped off the Ladies needlework group to volunteer with the promise of free bingo tickets.

The old lady dead center is just scowling at the camera rather grumpily while everyone else is doing everything but taking calls. One old lady has called her husband it looks like and was waving at him on camera, a couple of the others are talking. To each other.

Mr Man and I have been playing MST3K this whole hour. “that colored camera man is trying to steal my medicine!” … “Where am I?” … “I hope that pizza doens’t have sardines, I forgot my teef.”

The mousy 40+ year old host in her 80’s era turtle neck and cardigan just said, and I am not making this up, “your donations will make us more better”. Blink blink.

MAKE. US. MORE. BETTER.

So much for the illusion of PBS being perceived as intellectually superior.

This one made me laugh out loud.

“I need a SNES system or Sega Genesis or both for a computer class“

Earlier in the day a woman asked for christmas presents for her kids, and posted the desired present list.

Happy Chrismahanukwanzakah! from the folks at Virgin Mobile. I’ve been seeing these commericals, and now they have this funny flash commerical up.

100 Most underappreciated TV characters

Butters on South Park was JIPPED AGAIN!

In case you hadn’t heard, Muppet stamps are coming to a USPS office near you. The USPS site says March of 2005.

There are 11 stamps, the 10 shown in the link, and one of Jim Henson. How cool is that?

New ICANN rules could transfer domain registration without your permission… So, make sure your domain info has your current info and email address correct.

The New ICANN Policy

Godaddy.com had domain locking, you bet I set mine.

For those that like looking at other peoples photo galleries:

I moved Coral castle in the new One Man Mini-Mystery Palaces, and added the pics from Hartman’s Rock Garden from my hometown of Springfield Ohio, I took a second visit there this weekend and added some more shots to the ones I already had, and put them all online. I need to go and spend a bunch of time when the light is better and the grass is greener. You can learn more about this weird place here, here, and here.

Also, moved all the Florida shots into “Travels with Mr Man” and added London and Nevada, Utah vacation pics. Added more pics to “This Medieval Life” of a larger outdoor local event here in the area. Got some nice shots at it. Bascially, new stuff all over, look at the dates on albums and categories to see what has new stuff.

Decrypting designer email

Wearing black a Funerals.

I see it on tv all the time - a cemetery scene and the mourners are all dressed solely in black. It seems to fictional as I never see anyone here in Ohio do it. Never.

So I asked a guy in NYC about it last week when he had the misfortune to want to AIM me and he said there it’s pretty typical. But is it typical just in the NYC area? (That’s where a lot of tv writers live)

In turn, he seemed astounded to learn that here in Ohio funerals are a less dressy, bordering on “business casual”. It’s perhaps a more practical affair here.

I’ve seen people in jeans. Most people wear “church clothes”, and it’s not even subtle or dark hued. Women can even bee found to wear bright colors. Most men do not even wear jackets, though ties seems to be standard. I have never seen a single person wear all black even once. Might wear black pants… thats about it.

Since I’m always fascinated with regional differneces: Tell me where you live and what typical funeral wear consists of where you live.

I customized the new photogallery in my first day in a couple without manual labor as a windown… I kept it a pallette of monotone grey, I think that its a good color for photo galleries as it makes the colors pop more.

I might change it in time, it only takes a few graphics to change the whole look.

The last two days have been hell. I thought I’d wait to post about this until it was all over.

For those here that might not know, I am in a medieval reenactment group called the Society for Creative Anachronism, the largest such organization in the world with about 300,000 paid members and uncounted hundred of thousands more unpaid. We have groups everywhere in most countries and even in air force bases since we have a large number of current and ex-military.

Some of my readers are folks I know from that group or seen me write about it, most here I bet haven’t heard of it at all.

I am posting this note I sent out to our SCA lists today… it has a decent short enouhg version of the story. As I know many who read this are NOT in the group, I wanted to post this as a example of why I love the SCA and thankful for the friends I have in it. They impressed the hell out of the peopel next door as well.
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Google sued by nude photo website for it says Google’s web search gives users free usernames and passwords and shows stolen Perfect 10 photos on other websites, enabling people to view without paying.

Gee, if they perhaps had a brain and a webminister wort thier salt they could put a few lines in thier .htaccess file to prevent Google spiders or even domain block Google.

Morons. I hope this gets shot down. All Google needs to do it say that hopefully to a judge with a net clue.

Wake up for the sale with Cheech or Darth Varder

Vintage Vegas Matchbooks

When the marine shot the Iraqi who was “faking he’s dead” there was a emedded witness. A camera.

The photographer who shot the video has a blog and has detialed what happened and why he released the video. His blog in general from inside Iraq is an uncomfortable but good read.

This has bugged me a while, I’ll use the characters from the Vegas show since I do watch that and do not watch the Miami or NYC show to know their characters names, but I’ve seen enough of them to know this still more than fits…

From the producers of “Law & Order: AEIOU, and sometimes Y”

Scene: it’s night, a small town in the middle in the Nevada desert. It’s raining. The crime scene, a bar, is filled with subdued activity from police and is awash in portable lights, but yet it’s still dark.

Grissom: (on the ground looking at a dead bug 50 feet from the vicitim’s body with a maglight. He doesn’t look up) How was traffic?

Sarah drops her toolkit to the ground and pulls back the hood of her rain coat that says CSI on the back.

Sidle: Sorry. Accident on Tropicana rain to the rain. Speaking of, riddle me this, Mr Science.

Grissom: Yes?

Sidle: How comes it always rains in Vegas? Aren’t we like, in a desert? Every other week I’m getting soaked at crime scenes.

Grissom: (shines a flash light into Sarah’s face) It’s… (beat) dramatic?

Sarah opens kit and pulls on her rubber gloves and grabs a few vials of scientific stuff

Sidle: (to nearby officer) Hey, think you guys can give us some light here and turn on those big portable lamps?

Officer: They’re on ma’am.

Sidle They’re on? Why is it still dark?

Officer: It’s, uh, night.

Sidle: NO Not again. It’s 2004. We are not in the stone age, we use higher tech than the CIA, we can put a man on the moon for chrissake. We can’t light a crime scene?

Warrick Brown arrives, he sits his case down on the floor.

Brown: Hey, what we got guys?

Grissom: I have a fly larvae, three days old and dead.

Brown: What’s that mean?

Grissom: I have no idea, yet.

Sarah: Hey Warrick, could you for the love of god flip the room lights on, the switch is on the wall behind you.

Grissom: (Rolls eyes and places his bug in a vial and put it in a evidence envelope.) Sarah, too much light is distracting from the Film Noir look we’re going for in this scene.

Sarah gets on the floor to look for evidence with her mag light

Sidle: This scene? It’s not just this scene Gil, It’s all of them. In our offices, and even the labs, it’s dark as tombs. I always see lights but they never seem to work. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve tripped over furniture. And look, here I am looking for microscopic evidence with a flashlight crawling on the floor in a tank top, again, when it would be so much easier to turn the lights one and see it with a naked eye.

Grissom: If you want light, go back to ER and sorry, I just produce this thing, I don’t do the costumes.

And they have our number pegged. In a graphically beautiful way.

Eurpoeans have a much better idea what facism is than we do (being they had to live under it for years, and we just got to breeze in and shoot the bad guys). We should be listening to what they are saying, but we’re not. “Over there” is going to be over here if we keep this up.

Done!
Again!