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Sounds like something out of Star Trek, no? Since I was in elementary school I would always find it irritating when someone told me that they could not study without some sort of "noise" (music or whatever). That never sat right with me. I was reading Parade Magazine this morning and looked upon "Ask Marilyn". Someone wrote in: I have fairly bad eyesight. But why is it that when I remove my glasses, I can't hear people as well? You're straining to see clearly, [...]

This is pretty funny. A Fear Factor viewer is suing NBC for watching contestants eat rats. Aitken's handwritten lawsuit contends the rat-eating made his blood pressure rise, resulting in being dizzy and lightheaded -- and vomiting. Because he was disoriented he ran into a doorway, "causing suffering, injury and great pain." Asked why he didn't shut off his television before the rat-eating segment, Aitken said he couldn't do it quick enough. Hmmm ... 2.5 million? Maybe I can sue for some money when the [...]

When I walk into work this morning there is a note outside of my section of cubicles. It reads something like this: "The heat was cancelled for this section, please feel free to relocate to other parts of the building." I thought it was a joke but sure enough my desk, computer and everything else seems like it was left out to cool. So I sit and try to work with my hat, scarf and gloves on. Don't you just love working for a [...]

I very much enjoyed watching Matchstick Men, with Nicolas Cage as a brilliant con artist. One of the more truthful aspects of the movie was how con men always appeal to greed in their victims. Everyone's a fool, but when put forth the offer of "something for nothing", the weekminded (read: "greedy") become a fool's fool. So on the rare occasions I listen to the radio on thursday mornings, I sometimes catch War of The Roses on 95.5 (honestly, only when nothing else is [...]

I was looking at my brother's LCD display. He had a remote VNC session open, flipping through some PDF file. It looked like some sort of language reference. "What sort of language is that?" "ASL" "for?" "DSDT table" "huh?" "ACPI" "ohhh, I see" Yeah, that's us. [...]

Even though it will be debated as to whether or not Mel Gibson's The Passion of The Christ will win over any converts, no one can argue that it didn't make people want to repent: A controversial movie led a man to confess to killing his girlfriend, Fort Bend County deputies told News2Houston Thursday. ... Authorities said that Leach confessed to the crime after seeing Mel Gibson's controversial movie, "The Passion of The Christ" and he decided to seek redemption. He told investigators he [...]

This woman in Atlanta apparently aready was a millionaire. Three times over! Too bad the local friendly Wal-Mart brought her back to reality. On Friday, Pike tried to use a couple of Wal-Mart cards to pay for $1,671.55 worth of items. But she only had a total of $2.32 on the cards, police said, so she handed the cashier a $1 million bill. Pike then asked for change for her $1 million bill, police said. That would be $998,328.45. When police arrived, Pike pulled [...]

At the beginning of the summer I visited my cousin's family outside of Chicago. When we were having dinner, the subject of drinks came up. I was so bold as to say that I would try (as in "eat") the worm that you might find in a bottom of a Tequila bottle. Everyone laughed and thought I wasn't serious (I was not drunk at the time). Anyways they told me it was called Mezcal and just as well I soon forgot about what I [...]