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The brave men of the fire department saved 10 children yesterday.  All 11 of them gave their lives for the sake of the children, an honorable, and, at the time, a worthwhile gesture.

This morning, three orphanages burned to the ground….

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Yeah, I have a sick sense of humor.  Get over it.  You laughed, too.

Also, have you been to the bookkeeper committee of Mississippi lately?  They discussed triple-doubles at their last meeting.

I recently got a new widget for the sidebar.  It’s the best ever.  You know what to do.  Here are a few examples.

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You will be invited to an exciting event.

He who knows he has enough is rich.

A friend is a present you give yourself.

Your flair for the creative takes an important place in your life.

All the effort you are making will ultimately pay off.

You are open-minded and quick to make new friends.

Pray for what you want, but work for the things you need.

Now is the time to try something new

Competence like yours is underrated.

There is not greater pleasure than seeing your loved ones prosper.

Everyday in your life is a special occasion.

Stop searching forever, happiness is just next to you.

Your character can be described as natural and unrestrained.

You are never selfish with your advice or your help.

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I see you madly hitting “f5″ on your keyboard….

Well, Robby made a video that was shot backwards. Meaning he would walk, run, and jump backwards, film it, and then reverse it, trying to make it look as natural as possible. I decided to do it with words. It’s hard.

Anyway, here’s the sentence:

Josh lost a shirt and flip flop, and we both lost a great amount of dignity.

And here’s the audio:

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Fun with a tablet.  Serious fun.  Robby got himself a new drawing tablet for his computer, and today we had some fun with it.  Robby drew a few things, then got bored and drew a couple of random dots (or something like that).

Then, he asked me what I saw in it.  I said I saw a polar bear.  He then said it looked more like an upside-down head.  So he drew that.

I still thought it looked more like a polar bear, so in 5 seconds I demonstrated where the ears, eyes, and body would be on the bear.

Well, that’s what a 5-second bear looks like.  Then we started taking turns.  Here is what Robby came up with:

This is a peeping Tom.  And a police officer received a call from the peeped.

In case you can’t tell, that’s a nuclear rocket on a skateboard heading for a screaming person.

And that was a footstep of a rather large man as seen through Holmes’ magnifying glass.  In between each of those, these are what I drew:

This is a rather interesting picture of a man about to fall off a cliff in his tractor.  Serves him right for having such a gas-guzzler, though, eh?  (the tree-huggers are applauding at this point)

This is a rather bad man.  Stay away from this man.  He also has a rather large gun.

(took me about 12.2 seconds, so it’s not fantastic, but it was hilarious enough to include here)  I realize that most of my pictures are morbid or otherwise horrible… but don’t read too much into that.  The random dots just have morbid characteristics.

(this is to what I degraded when I ran out of ideas; I don’t know what this is)

So, there you have it.  An hour of fun with two random dots.

That’s right! It’s Comcast! I got lucky and saw that there were three guests. So, out of curiosity, I checked the IP addresses…. Don’t worry, all you can ever find out is general areas of the country. And I don’t share anybody’s information with anybody else (except Comcast’s).

Comcast found me....

I’ve been listening to the radio (I can’t help it–I work at a radio station) and there was a lot of discussion about the recent environmental talks at the G8 summit.  Apparently, they’ve decided not to let the earth warm up any more than two degrees Celcius over the next half-century.  I’m serious.  They plan to do this by cutting global CO2 emissions by 20-50%.  They say this will only cost the global GDP (gross domestic product) about 2.8%.  So, with half the industrialization gone (or half of it completely converting from 100% to 0% emissions), we’ll only lose a few grand a piece over 50 years.  That makes sense.  What also makes perfect sense is that “scientists” believe that humans are the main cause of global warming.

Don’t get me wrong, I believe in global warming.  There is a thermometer somewhere in the world that has read higher this century than last.  I can see that global warming has caused things from premature frost in Florida to causing the tides to continue RISING (and falling, but we don’t talk about that).

Forget the fact that when the earth gets warm the water evaporates into the air; when the ice caps melt, the sea levels will rise and cover the Alps!  We’re doomed!  Oh, also forget the fact that warming oceans release CO2 (in fact, more than 90% of the total global CO2, which may [but according to "scientists" it doesn't] suggest that CO2 is the effect, not the cause).  I almost forget to mention that.

Also, hop into the closest hybrid!  The battery acid in them is much safer for the environment than CO2.  Why do you think we exhale CO2 and not battery acid?

The idea I came up with might do more permanent good, though:  blowing up the sun.  Yes, it’s redundant to have an idea in the title and a paragraph later, but in my sophomore year of high school English class I learned that it is imperative to restate a thesis several times.  Thus, I continue:  blowing up the sun will accomplish everything the scientists want.  In fact, blowing up the sun is an entirely grand idea.  Don’t give me all the credit, though.  My kindergarten (actually, it was primary, because that’s what it’s called in Canada) teacher taught me that the sun keeps us warm.  Actually, my mother may have taught me that even earlier.  They should get all the credit for the discovery.

If some of my figures are wrong, don’t worry about it.  Even the “right” numbers will be incorrect by tomorrow.  I’m guessing the numbers will be higher, likely to follow the warming trend as we get closer to the middle of the summer here in the northern hemisphere.

I love science.

I will make a bunch of posts here tomorrow.  It’s been a while, I know.

Anyway, here’s something funny.  Well, the funny something is about halfway down the article.  It’s one word.  It’s a proper noun.  You’ll see.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,525248,00.html?mrp

Robby told me to write this.  He normally writes down the random things I say, like “these socks are worthless”, etc.  So.  Here we go:  ”Okay, there are people who are double-agents.  Then there are people who are triple agents, pretending to be double agents to get information.  What about quadruple agents?  Or quintuple agents?  What if someone were an icosa-agent (icosa=20, in case you were wondering)?  Would that really work?  Or would he even be trusted by anyone at that point?”

Anyway, Robby laughed for a while.  I didn’t think it was that funny.  Or was it and I’m just ruining it with all this chatter?  Whatever.

Apple Crisp

Some apple crisp, just for Deadpikle.

Minesweeper Hates Me

I played a game of Minesweeper on Windows.  Windows hates me.  Therefore, Minesweeper hates me.

In case you’ve never played, I had to guess where the mine was on the last one.  I couldn’t just use logic.  I sat there debating for a while.  The clock kept going, so I guessed, and lost.  Grr.