whilst checking out thelocust[dot]org’s stats, I noticed a suprising number of referrers from a url by the name of NASIOC. Further searching my logs, it turns out that my pic of Gary that I made in honor of his west-ward trek had apparently made it onto a thread in their forums called “Really Terrible Pictures of Random People“. Funny stuff. Most of them aren’t “terrible pictures”, mind you, and I still think that that photo holds some very funny water.
Oh, you might noticed that I have disabled my image-stealing technology as it was wreaking havoc on random installations of Internet Explorer.
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well, it’s been a year since kelly and i got married. This time a year ago, Kelly and I were getting ready to go on our big honeymoon trip. Care to reminisce? Check out the big fat honeymoon gallery.
Kelly and I celebrated this day by Kelly running in her first miniMarathon, which she finished triumphantly even after her knee gave her troubled. We then retired home for a bit, and then went out to see our beloved Louisville Bats get trounced by the Toledo Mud Hens. Shanghai Knights was also seen at the Village 8 theatre for a whopping $2. Yay!
Well, so far, it’s been a very good year. Looking forward to another and another and another…. yay!
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Read this article summarizing her speech on the coverage (mainly cable new coverage) of “Gulf War 2″.
Quote: “We didn’t see what happened after mortars landed, only the puff of smoke. There were horrors that were completely left out of this war. So was this journalism? Or was this coverage?”
Also, in other news — SHE IS HOT. Rowr! Glasses, intellect, cute crooked smile! Yeesh. Devastating.
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“For Janet, her help came from her faith, but it also came from a squirrel…”
Kelly and I have installed a bird-feeder out front of our yard. We have a pair of water-maples out there with some branches are fairly odd angles (parallel to the ground for a good distance). These branches are good for hanging things on, you see. Things such as bird feeders. Now, we filled up the bird feeder on Saturday, and our bird feeder has a capacity of up to 4 pounds of food (no word on actual *volume*). Today, as of this morning, the food was approximately two-thirds gone. I don’t care how many birds you have eating, that’s a lot of food for finches. Perhaps this is the work of a SQUIRREL? My hypothesis is no. Others say yes. In any case, I need proof. VISUAL PROOF. More later.
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I released instantRSS to Freshmeat. What is instantRSS, you say? Well, it’s a simple way to add an RSS feed to your blog/site/whatever. Just tag your page accordingly (see the docs for more info on the tags) and then point instantRSS at that page, and it will spit back RSS at you.
If you don’t know what RSS is, well check this out. And then peep thelocust[dot]org’s RSS
update: Freshmeat put it up on the frontpage, and the listing is here
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Dot – a comedy about the dot-com-blowout. saw a mini-review about reviewing the movie here. I watched Startup.com and it left me feeling extremely depressed, no doubt. However after watching the trailers for “Dot” it seems a) much more funny and b) much more worth my time.
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Man oh man, I felt sick yesterday. After we walked home from the The Flying Saucer, I just felt very tired. Not necessarily drunk, as I had only had two beers whilst throwing darts. Ugh. Went to sleep queasy and didn’t sleep well. My legs and back hurt, and just ugh… Anyway, we did manage to make it out to the Houston Museum of Natural Science, which was great! Plenty of big ol’ dinosaur skeletons, lots and lots (and lots) of gems and precious stones, a great couple of exhibits on indigenous American cultures, etc. Fun!
We finally did make it out to World Market, the Pier One-like store without all the crap. (And it’s cheaper, too). So, that was excruciatingly nice. (I was still illin’). We retired to home for a bit, and then headed out to grab something to eat at Fuddruckers. Still not feeling 100%, I ordered a grilled-chicken big bowl salad, and Kelly had the veggie burger. It took them 10 minutes to cook up the damned veggie burger! Oh well, we *are* in Texas. My salad was good, but they put bacon on it. Well, I shouldn’t say *on* it, because the bacon was infused into this salad. Well, the chicken was good.
Oh, that’s really all of action-packed day 4 of our journey. We retired home and watched some stuff on Matt’s Tivo. (Note to self: get Tivo).
I suggest the Houston – Day Four Gallery and nice pinot grigio.
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