Turkey, Lurkey

Happy Thanksgiving, all!

May your givings be thankful and your thanks be giving!

Too few goats or MySpace politics

A traffic officer in eastern Ontario, who ticketed a speeding motorist from Switzerland in September, said the driver blamed it on the lack of goats. He told the officer that he felt liberated to drive fast because, unlike in his country, there were no goats wandering onto the highway.
[BBC News-AFP, 9-7-06] [South Florida Sun-Sentinel-AP, 9-17-06]

Korinne Barnes, 29, a single mother of three running for the North Kingstown (R.I.) School Committee, was finally persuaded in September to remove her MySpace.com personal listing in which she described herself as "smart, sexy, fun" and a "voluptuous chocolate sister with a big booty."
[Providence Journal, 9-21-06]

News of the Weird.com

HOW-TO: Convert a DVD for your iPod (with video) in Windows - Engadget - www.engadget.com

For all you people with iPod Videos, here's a little vid that teaches
you to put dvd on your iPod. Have fun! Happy viewing.

http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000027063418/

Wake up! Your Mental Health is Calling

I woke up this morning at 5:40am.
This is decidedly odd for me as anyone who knows me can attest.

I was having a dream about being in a movie theater-like aquarium with a man whom I don't know, and a couple of Asian kids, who I also don't know. I'll save you the horrible details of the rest of the dream and segue into this...

Why do dreams turn bad? I was having a happy almost gleeful dream about a most wonderful aquarium experience then I started to get the feeling that we were in a maze and were going to become the brain-powered generators of vastly unfathomable computer power.
I know, I know. It's sorta' Matrix-like, but I couldn't help it. I was dreaming. Then I was beginning to nightmare (is that a phrase). But why?
I woke up before the dream got really crazy and felt like I was a kind of Stephen King or something. I had unleashed a mental power of deviousness previously unknown to me. And I began to welcome the darkness of my room, the silence of the early morning hour and the morose thought of a room of headstones in the lowest floor of a movie theater-like aquarium; all the way down to the blind ushers.

Why do things happen this way? Couldn't I have had a happy dream and woken up in a different state of mind? Why? Why? Why?

But perhaps I woke up to save myself the anguish, horror and mental distaste of unnecessary trauma. Yeah. I'm sticking with that. I woke up to save myself, that man I don't know and the two Asian kids that I also don't know. Go me! A bloody hero of the mind...

Games, games, games

Well, I have officially beaten GUN for PS2.
I no longer want to play Phantasy Star Universe and
I really want to play Final Fantasy XII.

What's this?? A complete flip-flop?
That's right! I flipped and flopped.
Why the change of interest? Why shift course?

Well, FFXII was made by the same artists responsible for Final Fantasy Tactics and
Vagrant Story. Also, a number of co-workers are going to play it, boosting the game's community aspect.

Who knows what I will do? Hopefully I can scrape together some trade-ins, as $50+tax isn't my idea of a good time.

Why do noses run?

Hi, everyone.

I have a few dumb questions...

Why do noses run? And where are they going?
What is the reason for a runny nose anyway?
Are we flushing out brain fluid? How do cold air and runny noses
get together to make life that much more unbearable?

The world may never know.

Conjuring and pondering-

Halloween, has come and gone.
I wonder how many of you had an opportunity to dress-up and have a good time.

I conjured up an image of my 'ween costume for 2006.
I had a super seamstress help me with the robe. I have to say, magic can be real.

Hope you had a fun time, too.