they finally found the white van wanted in the sniper case

on saturday we were on the way to my mom’s around 4:30PM when a 7 point buck ran out in front of us. i had actually just told carol to watch off in the fields for deer. i was looking off to the side and when i looked back in front, there it was. luckily it was a good 15-20 feet in front of us and i had enough time to react. good thing, too. i’d hate my durango to end up like this one | deer gets frazzled, runs through a Kroger

thief thumps paraplegic on head for a few bucks in cash

in this prison, you get complimentary slippers, a private phone, feather pillows, and more. at a price of only $53.00 a night its a deal, and especially when you don’t have to pay the bill, the taxpayers do.

the military considers some new hi-tech weapons

ok so there’s this guy. he’s a full-time businessman for a local computer logistics company. married 13 happy years, he’s also a part-time pastor at a local church. a successful, all around decent guy. today he’s doing a business presentation in front of his entire staff. as he finishes one presentation, he clicks on another file on his laptop to open up another presentation. problem is, instead he opened up a picture of a naked boy. needless to say he was fired immediately. he resigned from his position at the church. he’s probably stewing in a jail somewhere, and hopefully they keep him there for a long time…

maybe they should change the names of laptops to tabletops…

someone drops bowling balls from interstate overpass. no one killed, thank God…

using AIDS as punishment in South Africa | barbie is banned in Russia

yearbook is a bit ‘racy’ - some of the photo headlines include: shake those pom poms (cheerleading) and get to third base (baseball). not suitable for all ages that’s for sure. I’d demand my money back. | a cross-dressing dad in st. louis chaperones on a field trip, parents are (rightfully so) upset

Mom sells baby for $2,000, buys VCR and PlayStations

cool game for a friday

‘Uncle Saddam‘ premiers Nov 26^th on Cinemax East at 7:00 PM. The guy fishes with grenades, and my personal favorite, likes to be kissed in the armpit.

run for your lives! and don’t forget to take the tv!

remember, don’t smoke at the pump, you moron

is that a target on your shirt?

it’s nice to know even Madonna has to borrow money at times…

landlord spies on tenants, and pays

two sisters kill each other in head-on crash

hey, could you please pass me the gall bladder?

two teens get sentenced for whacking a pastor off his bike

would Jesus drive my Durango? who cares?!

mercredi, mais pas vendredi
student was a nice young man. he was interested in web design and graphics arts. hope i helped him out a little. either that or he was so bored that he’s changed careers to something more challenging

cop struck by stray gunshot gets hit in the neck, drives himself to the hospital

child, 7, calls 911 to report drunken babysitter

what do midgets have to do with pest control? maybe they can climb in the small holes that the mice have created in your walls…

the old Ft. Leavenworth is no more ‘home’ to prisoners

have an overdue library book? won’t pay the fine? won’t return the book? expect a bench warrant

farmer dies in manure pit - now that stinks! | man kisses rattlesnake, nearly dies | man squooshed by elephant dies

me and my shadow
today i’m hosting a student from Rockwood High School as a shadow. that means just what it sounds like. he follows me around all day and sees what i do, etc. he’s gonna be pretty bored haha… he’s apparently interested in HTML, web design, graphics creation, etc. so i’ll show him the ropes. i have a newsletter to transfer to HTML, some new software to install on one of our webservers, and a few minor other things to do. a brief tour of the ‘puter room, lunch over at Union Station and who knows what else. it’ll be a fun-packed day. woo hoo. it’s my little contribution to the younger generation. omg i’m getting old

i watched the game last night. of course the good guys won, that’s always a plus. they are now 5 and 5 and still can make it to the superbowl. if they do, it’ll be the first time a team has ever lost the first 5 games and still made it to the big game.

student should be here shortly, will post more later on this afternoon if i have time.

you are an idiot (requires sound)

monday, monday
just got handed an invitation to our Christmas luncheon for this year. it’s at a little restaurant on the hill in saint louis. menu includes italian roast beef, roasted chicken, cheesecake, cavatelli, salad, and more. and the cost? twenty bucks each person. forty bucks for lunch? i don’t think so. definitely don’t think so.

new poll

hilarious site with obscure (but real) molecules

That’s where the bad guys live, and if you are bad, you will live there too.

House votes life sentences for hackers

sculptor carves designs in pencil leads

Leonids are tonight. best viewed in saint louis before 4AM. chances are minimally slim that one will ever reach the ground, but it has been known to happen
Note: this link will only be valid on 11-18-02 because it is a daily changed website - enjoy!

it was a slow news day in Salina, Kansas

haven’t posted much at all this week. got to work at 0530 this morning. put an FTP server on my PC at home. Now I can download stuff and then FTP it from there. too cool. but need to watch security issues, etc.

funny prank on a former landlord in Michigan

amazing story on a serial arsonist/killer. a must read, something you hear about in tv plots, but never ‘for real’

mom told me to never throw rocks and now i know why

if i ever get a tattoo, i won’t commit a crime

innocent picture posting to a personal ad turns into porn ad

radial pong is the greatest things since, well, pong.

is this real?

did you know that in 2000 another (fifth) ocean was ‘created’? the southern ocean is, well, in the south. now you are informed, albeit 2 years+ late

what a cool idea - attach a camera to a kite - and thanks to nasa, your own how-to instructions

some really wild images

just wrong - mother returns to school, finds her autistic son in handcuffs

oh man, these two teens had a bad day

i’ve provided a squeege guy (right) to wash your monitor. no thanks required.

little girl climbs into wash machine and it turns on. man rescues her with tire-iron

ok, i understand their point, but is this really going to solve anything?

guy who buried a wealthy girl alive now practices medicine

took yesterday off. back today. yee haa. kid’s report cards come home today. we have parent-teacher conferences. first ever, can’t wait. austin left for MS this morning. he’ll be back on sunday. hope he has a good time. mom went to see kevin, who had surgery yesterday on his banged up foot.

working on my stores today, going to see an apt tonight. hope to get it.

PHOENIX - An Ohio man has picked up $1 million for screwing around.

did you know there’s no such thing as zero gravity? | also, the Leonids are coming up

great articles on CNN Money about secrets of the millionaires. they just go to support my theory of opening a business, making real money. i’m stuck here with my little raise every year. nothing ventured, nothing gained. ugh. from what i hear and read, most money to be made is not in computers, but real estate. "We want to accumulate over $2 million in real estate, and retire by 40 or so,"… - now if I could just get a loan…

according to this link, i will be a millionaire in 73 years and 8 months. woo hoo!

Friday Photos:

cars for sale: slight water damage, or this one has chipped paint and slight dings and dents

steve martin will host the next Academy Awards show. he’s too cool. and, he’s one of the Three Amigos. how could you go wrong with that?

world’s best target

owner financing
what do you know about owner financing? is it a good idea? should i read up on it? should i avoid the topic altogether? answer my poll

i broke the 20 visitors-a-day barrier yesterday, with a record 23. woo hoo. one person was from france. bonjour, comment ca va? ou es-tu en France? j’etait en Paris et Angers pendant juilliet 1990.

some people go to strange and extensive lengths to get money

horrible, horrible story about a boy getting shot in front of other schoolkids, including his sister.

good news - Trent Lott takes over as Senate Majority Leader, and he’s already changing things for the better | oh, and whatever you do, don’t get all bummed out about the elections, please

anonymous pictures of prisoners in a C-130 on their way to Cuba - sucks to be them

it’s his perrogative can’t ya see baby doll? ha!

drinks, chicken dinner, and mom’s corpse

post all your baby boomer food memories here. uhh, what?

yet another uninvited guest
last night at bedtime, the 2 youngest boys went up to get ready for bed. Rian was going up the last two steps when he started crying. Then he went into hysterics. by that time i’m running up to see what the heck is wrong. there’s a snake sitting on the floor in the doorway, upstairs. rian is in total freak out mode by now. i literally have to scream at him to get him to stop freaking out and go downstairs. carol did damage control. he was pretty shaken up. i got a broom from carol and held the critter down. i sent the boys downstairs (who, by the way, are just curiously looking at rian like he’s some sort of freak show). the snake starts to slither out from the bristles so i step on him, and after a few tries, i get the serpent by the neck. i don’t like snakes, never have. but, i’m dad. dad has to do these things. so here i am, touching a snake. ok, not touching, squeezing. ok, i’m choking the snake. i dont want this guy to move. it’s that sudden slithery stuff that freaks me out. so here i am holding this little snake at full arms-length from my body as i come down the stairs. i hear carol say to rian to open the back door. i’m going out the front door, i reply. i get to the landing at the bottom step and the house is like a ghost town. i’m still not sure where everyone was, i guess they were all in the bathroom huddling. anyway, i get the animal out the front door and down the deck steps. at the edge of the street i throw him. (attention: all snake lovers: stop reading at this point) then, yes, i slam my foot down on little mr. snake’s head as hard as i can. he had a headache, for sure. after being choked, thrown, and stomped, that pretty much ended his day. i actually considered driving the Durango over him a few times just to make sure his day was complete. but he didn’t move.

needless to say, bedtime didn’t occur for a little while after that. as you may know, we’re in the process of moving, so our house is pretty empty. all that’s on the floors in the bedrooms are mattresses. so convincing the kids that no other snakes would crawl into bed with them was not easy. oh well, we’ll be out of that hellhole soon enough. oh - and one question i will be sure to ask the new landlord: when’s the last time Orkin was here?

carol likes snakes. well, no, she like’s a particular snake

i added a poll to the left over there. it’s kinda lame but someday soon i’ll think of a good poll. anyway, could be fun, could be boring, we’ll see.

love in any language
when i take carol out to fancy restaurants, i always order in the language of that restaurant. for example, when we go to white castles for a special night, i always order in english. it really impresses her.

application to date my daughter

Patient: Doctor! Doctor!
Doctor: What’s the matter?
Patient: I think I’m a pair of curtains.
Doctor: Pull yourself together, man!

gary hart considers run for the white house in 2004 - i’m just old enough to remember his last bid | also, Cooter from the Duke’s of Hazard was running in yesterday’s elections, but he lost

the Big Cartoon Database is where you go when you wonder if the Snorks had neighbors. now you know.

i’m teaching myself Flash MX. someday i’ll be able to do fancy things with it, you know, like this or this

family gets $35k after teacher won’t let student read bible story in class. good for them.

many people are reluctant to admit that they met online - there’s always the fear that the guy you met online is really a psychopath and he’ll chop you up in little pieces. better not to tell your friends anyway…

issues
issues: current residence is being condemned. landlord wants us out by oct. 31. we are still there. having house built. need residence immediately. have possible house, $1k/month. wants 12 month lease. new house will be built by then. stress. confusion. builder has no houses available for temp lease. need to move. now.

speaking of issues, this lady has some serious ones…

i’m not an anti-gun person. i hunt. and i love to shoot those pesky little squirrels. i don’t however, allow my kids to have play guns. i never have. why? because playing guns and pointing them at each other is not a good idea. why? the ten commandments of gun safety tell us to respect the gun, not play with it. it’s the kids playing with guns that get shot by others, it’s kids playing with guns that shoot themselves, or a friend, or a relative. and it’s the kids, playing with guns, even toy guns, that end up dying.

of course, we can’t leave the blame on kids that play with guns. kids are kids, they do what kids do. if you’ve read my blog for some time now, you’d know that most all articles i link to are results of just plain stupid people. parents that don’t deserve children, people that think they are superheroes (see above), just plain morons of today’s society. guns are not loaded from the factory. they don’t come loaded in the box. a human (adult) has to load them. so when we see kids getting hurt by them, we cannot blame the kids, we cannot blame the gun. we can, however, blame stupidity. the stupidity of an adult to leave a loaded gun unattended. or to hide a gun in your oven. follow the rules, people, and no one will get hurt. dang.

carol asked me how i find this stuff. here’s how. you see that section there on the left that says daily fix? those are the sites i read every day. and every day i pull out some of the more interesting stuff and post it here. so, no, i don’t surf the net all day looking for weird news. it’s all right there, on those few sites. enjoy my articles but need more? there ya go, start clicking. soon i’ll be out of your favorites and into your recycle bin. if i were a magician, i’d now be out of a job…

dubya was here yesterday.

man and pig kill each other, with the same gun

still moving
mom and jim pulled a surprise on me saturday and gave me back that little car. i was really caught off-guard by that one. we can certainly use the car. i feel bad because they took it, put money in it, then gave it back. i’m sure we are somewhat of a burden to them at times. oh well. carol can now use the truck once we get the car legal. too cool.

the blues are in first place, after winning 8 straight. good job, guys. the rams also won their third in a row vs. the arizona cardinals.

Michael Rennie wants to be the fastest screwer in the West - make your own jokes

guy sues ex-wife for $10k in child support payments after he finds out the kid was never his

oh man! paratrooper survives fall after both parachutes fail

watch out for air conditioners falling from windows and more - dumbwarnings.com

for sale on ebay this week - a mig-21 jet

i’ve often thought about the time i waste each and every weekday on my blog. so now i wonder, what should i do with my time?

if your friend uses Yahoo as his/her home page, change it to http://tw.yahoo.com they’ll think their system is all screwy

our president once again shows his high IQ

cool Rubik’s Cube to play with, and it comes with a team of astronauts to help you solve it

Rolling Stone magazine (which i may have accidentally looked at one time in a dentists office) took out a full page ad against the RIAA. (.pdf file) | Don Henley to fans at a concert about downloading his songs: "Download all you want. The record companies have been ripping artists off for years. Go ahead. I’d rather lose money to you than them. I don’t have a contract with you."

Yale students get paper extensions for dressing up

i’m not much of a candy person. i ceratinly don’t go out of my way to purchase it, or even eat it around the house. there are a few exceptions, like cookies-n-cream ice cream and reeces peanut butter cups. but certainly, i will not be fighting with my wife over the kids’ halloween booty