Throwing Little Thought Pebbles at Your Windshield Since 1996
Didja ever see something that made you think “Wow, I have wasted my whole life up to this point because I never bothered to learn how to do XYZ properly”?
My step-son will not be able to say that when it comes to the Etch-a-Sketch. He is the master. We bow down before him. (You! Over there! Bow down, I say!)
He just sent the following to me. Please note that these were done on a pocket Etch-a-Sketch. I don’t know if that makes it harder or easier, but it does make it pocket-ier.
Now that Britney Spears has had her baby (you have seen the first photo over at TopFive, right?), which celeb mom-to-be will grace every cover of People Magazine? I mean, they have to have somebody, right?
Oh, by the way, if any of you experience a pop-up ad on my site (i.e. you load my site and get a pop-up or pop-under) and you’re pretty sure it’s not something from the site you just left, could you drop me an email and tell me who the ad is for, and then make a note of what the ads are over in the right nav bar? I fear that these are somehow related to the stuff coming here from Google and I’m trying to track when it happens. Unfortunately, it’s happened to me at least 4 times this week at work, and 3 of those times it’s triggered that “YOU ARE A BAD PERSON!” warning when you try to go to a site the company has blocked. I’ll be darned if I’m going to get in trouble for something that I didn’t ask for or want. And when I click, I’m leaving the company intranet to go to my site, so it’s not coming from the site I’m leaving.
I have an email in to their support group, but I want to know if it’s happening to anyone else out there. Just use the Jody at this domain name one, and put “pop-up” in the subject line. Thanks for your help.
Oy, I can’t believe there’s another cat 5 hurricane whooshing through the Gulf. Good luck to everyone in the path. I have a feeling people are taking this one pretty seriously and are getting the hell out of town. I do feel bad for the people who are evacuating from the places they evacuated to. If it were me, I’d say I was being followed.
On one of my regular mailing lists (for Topfive.com contributors, if you must know) someone (Blair Bostick) posted something that made me laugh out loud, and he gave me permission to post it here because he doesn’t have a website like this one.
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Hey, isn’t Trent Lott’s porch floating somewhere in the Gulf of Mexico?
I figure Lott’s already collected his FEMA handout and has rebuilt his porch. What do you think FEMA was doing the first two days?
Brownie- “On today’s “While You Were Washed Out” Ty and Hildi re-do Trent Lott’s porch. Let’s watch as their neighbors, the Notsomuch’s, follow Hildi’s ridiculous ideas for re-designing the Lott’s front porch.”
Hildi-“Bill, Doris, how are you?”
The Notsomuch’s- “Um, fine now that we have these shirts.”
Hildi- “Great, great. Now I found this huge pile of mobile home siding, right in the front yard, and we’re going to turn it into a fun fun fun doghouse under the new porch for the Lott’s dog, Dixie. So, while you guys get pulling that soggy insulation off the siding I’m going to go choose some ludicrous color combinations for the walls.”
Meanwhile:
Brownie- “So, Lotts, what are we doing to the Notsomuch’s house?”
T Lott- “House?”
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Don’t forget to visit TopFive if you want to see the exclusive first photos of Britney’s Baby! (safe for work)
Junior was thriled to see his own breath this morning while we waited
for the school bus. I have to tell you, I was significantly less
thrilled. Call me Debbie Downer, but I am bummed that summer is done and
over with. My sister closed up her pool for the season…I didn’t even
get that “one last swim” that you know is the last so you enjoy every
second of it. Dang. Remind me to yell at her.
Speaking of Junior, he’s digging 2nd grade. Tonight he showed me all
these patriotic ASL signs (I knew what he was doing when I saw the signs
for “I” and “Love”. I did like the sign for flag. I don’t know how often
it comes up in conversation, though. Also, apparently he read a history
book, so he was telling me all about it. ALL about it. I may have missed
this in history class, but it turns out that in the 1870s Daniel Boone
fought on the British side when Brazil declared war on the US via the
Native Americans. When the fighting was over, only 5 people survived in
the fort, and old Daniel was one of them.
You know, as he goes into excruciating detail, and the detail is just a
little off kilter, you don’t know where to start. It becomes so
overwhelming a task to correct everything that I found myself simply
asking if he could bring the book home some time.
I’m a big fan of the Brazil-Indian-British-American war of the 1870s…
