i’m that guy
i recently started helping out with the network team leader here at work. i’ve been stringing copper and fiber-optic cables for a month or so now when there’s a lull in the web stuff. well, opening and closing wiring cabinets all day got old quick. the keys were constantly coming out of my jean pockets. so, i broke down and bought one of those hangy-things for my keys. now i’m that guy. you know, the one that hangs his keys on his belt loop. yeah, him. i’m him now. my only hope is, that in knowing i’m now one of those, you’ll still read my blog. maybe just pretend im a normal geek. maybe a pocket protector would even it out. no, on second thought, i don’t want to be that guy neither…

lotsa buttons for your blog - link via inluminent

are you a daily reader? do you blog? if so, send me your URL in the comments field. i’ll check it out

great Photoshop tutorial on fake blood - via the Fark Comments Thingee

man charged with photo rage

apparently Baghdad Bob is trying to surrender, troops refuse since he’s not on wanted list | Baghdad Bob offered TV job providing he’s still alive

i wondered how the guy on American Idol got so much leave. apparently the Marines are using him as a recruitment tool.

man goes to tattoo parlor to get obscene ‘too removed, gets flesh-eating virus instead

moron of the day: football coach pays for hooker with school credit card

Madonna tries to trick file sharers, hacking ensues

i joined a new club. they want me as marketing president

FreakWatchers = funny

hanke is surname number 9689 in the USA. where does your surname rank?

1 pixel per meter - pretty cool but kinda geeky in a non-computer kinda way

don’t drink the church’s coffee - one dies, twelve others in hospital

By age 4 or 5, preschoolers should know their full name, address and phone number with area code; how to dial 911; and which low-risk adults to approach when lost, such as a police officer, a store cashier, a pregnant woman, or a woman with children. why?

mullet toss in florida. joe dirt claims victory

beer + lions = a mistake you’ll only make once

man arrested after saving 4 babies from fire

railroad oddities - including the Fort on Wheels and the oldest railroad in the world

now wal-mart is in a lawsuit - they shoulda checked with Dial Soap

saddam is the real Slim Shady - i knew it!

hey mom - remember playing this?

EEs rock. they are mammals, ya know…

35 things you were perfectly happy not knowing

the class of 2003 mindset list… im old

spamgourmet - interesting idea

hey web geeks - you should be more responsible with those unlinked files. take images, for instance. you don’t need images of barf, losers, or old telex machines and more. it’s time to recycle them and take care of the cyber-environment. some day your kids will thank you. really

go sooners!

the Forbes Fictional Fifteen is pretty cool. included are Thurston Howell III and Willie Wonka, along with others…

all PETA people are idiots. just thought i’d let you know that.

Dunkin Donuts is apparently not the place to be these days

got extra money? (don’t we all?) buy a Batmobile

don’t get into a road rage incident with kids in the car

free ice cream - Ben & Jerry’s today, Baskin-Robbins tomorrow

umm…

the world lost another good man
we got home from turkey hunting around 3PM on Sunday. About an hour later my cousin called, saying that he wanted us to meet him out at my grandpa’s place. when my dad died, he had several large power tools. kevin and i neither had a place to put them, so we asked grandpa to keep them. the deal was, when grandpa was getting ‘near the end’, we’d get our tools back. well, grandpa has been in the hospital for about 2 weeks now, and my cousin wanted to get those to us before they disappeared. so we got them.

grandpa died monday morning around 1AM from a second heart attack. he missed grandma and my dad.
grandpa was a good man. he served in the Army in WWII. he received a Silver Star and supposedly also a Purple Heart. after the war he got a job at KSD in saint louis as a cameraman. he was cameraman for shows such as the Charlotte Peters show and Romper Room. he worked there for around 25 years or so and retired. in the late 80’s my mom and dad bought 40+ acres in Barnhart, MO. dad sold 5 acres to grandpa and grandma. they had a double-wide put in there on a full basement. my dad died in 1996 and my grandma in 1998. grandpa missed them. i miss them too. and now i miss grandpa already.

grandpa’s funeral is thursday and friday, so i will not be at work. probably no blog, either. sorry folks, short week. i’ll cram what i can into the next 2 days…

gobble gobble
well things worked out that i can go hunting. i’m pretty excited. my brother called and he’s on his way as of around 10:30 this morning. he lives in Mississippi so it will be about 10 hour drive for him. im off work at 12 and i’m gonna finish packing. Rian (my son) is off at 3:30 or so and I’m gonna pick him up and go. need to get up there (about 2 hour drive for me) and get the tent up before dark. i’m gonna make him the woor/kindlin gopher.

speaking of taking kids out of school, check this out - a one-student school in London, England is suffering from… of all things… an attendance problem

landmark sexual harrassment case is set - Dial Soap is the defendant. maybe they should require their employees to wash their mouths out before starting work…

this kid is on the straight road to hell | this kid ain’t so smart himself…

do not bring your dope to traffic court

8-foot, 100 pound chicken is back home after being thrown off bridge - fowl play suspected

ok which puns should i use… let’s see.. there’s bad takeoff, or pilots clothes take flight or defining the word cockpit

ex-NFL player, now substitute teacher, thinks he’s in a Reebok commercial, pummels student

the new hype - freestyle walking - be sure to check out the video - those guys are dope, yo!

things going squish on my scanner

amazing animation of space, and each time zoomed in 10x… pretty wild

hmm.. i wonder… what would Uncle Jesse do…? (not the Dukes of Hazzard Uncle Jesse, though)

i’ll never understand how someone could kill their own child - very sad - i think he should be whooped by a large black woman and then some

that’s it, kids. have a nice weekend. probably no update monday.

since the card deck of Iraq’s Most Wanted was so popular, may Will’s Thrills now introduce to you: Iraq’s Most Lost historical trasures | and apparently there is yet another set of cards about regimes

chaps in gowns? crabs in town? mexican preachers? a hand washed turkey? what were you thinking? it’s the new weebl and bob!

you gotta get this new do to show your support to the troops and all | speaking of new do’s, look at my buzz job - it’s very Air Force-ish Hooah!

bring your brats kids to work day
it’s that time of year again, and they are here in force. i think there are around 15 kids here this year. i think i’m the only one that brought my kids, the rest of the kids are ‘grandmas’ kids… these people here are so old…

so, let me guess - eBay?

man barks at dog, arrested | man bites dog | dog gets hit by car, shot, and stuck in freezer, and lives to bark about it

couple, 59 and 70, banned from Hardees after making out in booth - they were probably out of date money after buying the six-dollar burger…

we have a radio show here on one of the stations that is syndicated from Seattle. funny thing is, the show sounds like it’s coming from downtown. most people probably think this stupid DJ is in a comfy booth downtown at the station. but actually, she probably works 9-5, does her show on tape, and goes home. she’s not even listed on the radio station’s personality page. she takes calls, too, which is interesting. but, she won’t accept some calls, as we now find out…

umm… i’ll bet this guy was playing tire toss down thare in arkansas - more weird stuff at mullets galore.com

errr… i think carol can attest to this

a bunch of really cool things to screw with your mind

gee, no kidding?

i’ve cancelled the paypal donation scheme. like i thought an actual idea of mine would work… i’m also in a giving mood today. if you are listed in Blogshares, tell me and I’ll gift you some shares of this here high-dollar blog. your portfolio should increase by the hundreds dollars ok cents

too much on my mind today… be back tomorrow or this afternoon if i get time

so here’s the deal: you die and show up in heaven. god asks you about your life,
were you nice - yes
did you help others - yes
did you feed the poor - yes
did you accept Jesus - yes
did you eat a chocolate cross with Jesus on it? - yes
well it’s hell for you then!

ugh. i took the kids to an easter egg hunt this weekend, but forgot the camera. these people took their kids to an easter egg hunt, then the hospital. this easter egg hunt ended with a cow on fire

police chase a guy for several miles before realizing he was passed out from diabetic seizure

Catharine Zeta Jones had a baby. she already has a kid named Dylan Michael. the new one is named Austin Thomas…

do not rob a store in which police are inside.. investigating an earlier robbery

thinking overload
i’m just plain interested in too many things. database driven websites. internet security. hacking. weird news. small business. profit. journalism. marketing. computer hardware. Linux. who knows what else. it’s almost all related, but still hard to learn it all. i dont really care for knowing “a little about a lot” but i guess that’s a good thing in a way. sure, if i start talking about MySQL and the guy next to me is an SQL expert, i’m gonna sound like a moron. but at least i know something about what i’m talking about. the only thing i think i’m confident in is HTML. and that’s kinda ‘out the door’ now with XML, DHTML, PHP, and whatever the new programming language is today…
so here i sit complaining. last night i found a new section at the local library and got me an Access for Dummies book and a book on SQL. great fun. oh yeah. my wife gets books by authors like Dean Koontz, James Clavell, Nelson Demille, and i get books by authors like Bill Gates and Jim Smith. what a loser.

this puts a new meaning to the name beany-head

ugh…

hilarious 911 call - umm, sir, where are you?

Mall of America builds a Bikini Bottom - sorry, Sandy

married? ever have one of those days when the spouse just wouldn’t shut up? so did this guy

Burger King and Pizza Hut already setting up in Iraq

red means stop

very sad

in Iraq, stealing means you can get your hands chopped off. in America, stealing means they wrap you up in duct tape - in a church, nonetheless. very sad indeed

Am I Double Parked by the Curbstone of Your Heart? and other great country tune titles

in Easter fashion, a girl comes back from the dead

lots of weirdness on this page

guy falls off cruise ship, no one notices

after years of abuse, cats are fed up with the firecracker-up-the-butt and bb-gun routines. now they’re fighting back.

He’Brew - The Chosen Beer

billboards we’d like to see

serial killer action figures - geez

major whoops for this reporter… and although the article does not mention the culprits name, i’ll let you in on a little hint. his first name was Heywood

it must be a trend. i was somewhere the other day and i noticed a girl wearing pajamas… i was shocked. wtf? now i know…

another little boy on life support. MTV’s newest show: Jackass: No morning after

they have finally found the fountain of youth. problem is, it’s on Uranus ha!

when i get my woreless internet hookup at home, i’ll definitely need this

have an extra rubik’s cube or ten? so does this guy

i am Hunterrage The Berserk - fear me

black tape and hot glue
good lord i’m getting old. i went to bed at 11PM and here i am at work before 6AM. and my coffee maker didn’t have my hot coffee ready this morning like it is trained to do. ugh.

our clothes dryer stopped turning. not only are the clothes piling up, but carol is asking what we are going to do. so, as the man of the house, i get the tasker of figuring out how that thing works, and better yet, how to fix it. wonderful. well, i took the back off of the dryer only to see stuff. no motor. so, being the Internet guru that I am (or like to think I am), I log on. a quick google search and there i was, face to face with the solution. two minutes i found the culprit, a broken belt.
the belt is not only broken, but it’s frayed. first i black tape the crap out of it. then i install the belt back on the dryer. that lasts less than one revolution. next it’s hot glue. other then burning and numbing the end of my thumb, the glue looks like it might work. at least, until i can get a new belt tomorrow… well, the hot glue experiment lasted, and seemed to work. so i did a load of wash. upon time to dry, the belt lasted a good 8 revolutions then pop.
i went to bed.

Barney raps - coming soon to a theater trash can near you

ok this guys biscuits really were burning

this guy shoulda been speeding in Medford - he’d probably have got away with it since they couldn’t catch his fast butt…

Comical Ali dolls now on sale at a Squishy-Mart near you

do not rob banks in FBI buildings

ruff!
scenario 1: girlfriend found cheating. try to kill self on busy freeway
scenario 2: girlfriend found cheating. kill dog?
scenario 3: dog breaks your laptop. buy extended warranty next time