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I was on my way to work the other day. As it was after 9:00am, and none of the NPR stations carry "Morning Edition" past that, I switched over to Bob and Tom.

They had Kevin Pollock on -- apparently, he is a gifted impersonator. Not a "wow, that sort of sounds like so-and-so" impersonator like Rich Little, but a "wow, that IS so-and-so."

I had just taken a sip of coffee when they had him do Christopher Walken being interviewed:

Frankenstein never scared me. Marsupials do. 'Cause they're fast.

Every surface between my shirt and the windshield was sprayed. I had done this once before, but it wasn't on 270N going 65+ (it was on Teri just prior to both of us going to work -- we had to change).

I don't know why I found this particular bit to be so amusing, but there it is.

I've had one cigarette in 57.3 hours. Yay, me.

Huh. A couple of Canadians patented the incandescent light bulb and Edison bought them out to further his research, but a German watchmaker named Henricg Globel (passing strange irony there) invented the first one.

Mysteries of Canada's page describes some of it.

I googled Globel, and didn't really find much. I'll have to dig into it later.

The Sclafani~FamilyConnection is a Yahoo! group that deals with the "lineages and surnames" of folks with an even vowel to consonant ratio. Heh.

My keyboard tray died last night. It was one of those underdesk sliding, articulating thingies that was built entirely out of steel.

Entirely out of steel, excepting, of course, where the tray mechanism attaches to the rail mechanism. This was made out of fine, Corinthian plastic. One would think that this would be an ideal failure point and reinforce it accordingly, but one would be wrong. I think the term is "planned obsolence". Bastards.

Kensington has one that looks pretty sweet: Underdesk Adjustable Keyboard Platform

When I first put the site up, I asked my daughter if she wanted her own site.

She was enthusiastic... "Yeah, I want a site with games... That don't expire, and ummm..."

I blocked her out just after "don't", as I am wont to do.

Teri, my technophobe spousal unit, should have her own blog.

She says that her days as a stay-at-home mom aren't full of interesting/amusing stuff enough to warrant such a thing.

I disagree.

She generally has something funny to relate -- usually something that one of my idiot spawn has done.

Ok, still looking for the bloody keyboard glyphs, and came across this site.

8 Ways to Sunday » Page 23 (Finally, a Meme that Doesn’t Suck)

So, I reached for the closest book at hand, and came up with:

This screen stores a running list of your actions and accomplishments as well as other events happening in the world, including which nations are currently at war.

Sid Meyer's Pirates!^tm manual

Badger, badger, badger

I think you'll admit it's kind of catchy after awhile.

In preparation for getting rid of the hated, scumbag, banner-bedecked, used-to-be free, now charging $19.95/year email provider I've used to forward my emails for the past 10(!!) years, I've been going through my emails.

I found this little nugget floating around my inbox from my wife:

Just now! After three of four trips to the lavatory in the last half
hour, he finally pushed them out! And as soon as that first nugget
hit the water he said, "Now I can get the horse toy!" I tried to get
him to call to give you the news, but you know how he is about phones.