Since my brother arrived with his 75 lb. dog, brings the total amount of animals in our house to 5 cats and 4 dogs. Four cats belong to us, one to my brother, two dogs to us, one to my brother and the pomeranian puppy to my daughter who is getting married next year ( Read more... )

Try to imagine the above title said with sneering sarcasm. I happen to own three stores (actually four if you count the one I have with Jigsaw Pig). These are not ordinary stores, these are virtual stores with virtual merchandise in an online virtual reality experience platform called "Second Life". About a year and a half ago, I was shocked to ( Read more... )

There is a very funny comedian making the circuit and his shtick is that he starts out every routine saying, "I Was Just Trying To....." and then he adds whatever that routine is going to be about. Such as "I was just trying to eat my cereal one morning, that's all I was trying to do. I had my head down, not looking around and all I wanted to do ( Read more... )

We watched The Prestige last night and thought it was quite entertaining although slow. For those of you who don't know, The Prestige is a new movie just released on DVD which stars Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johanson and Michael Caine (oh, and David Bowie). The plot goes as follows, two friends, circa late 1800's, work with Michael ( Read more... )

I suspect that the way I've been feeling lately about Second Life has more to do with my own past insecurities and that's even more disturbing to me then ever having the insecurities to begin with ( Read more... )

I didn't buy the Naked Book on purpose. When we got home from our Thanksgiving weekend trip, my daughter told me I had received a hardcover book in the mail. I was very excited as I had purchased this book from Half.com for a low price and was going to be using it to further my education in the world of human animation. I had been figuring out ( Read more... )

A few years ago, I went back to my small home town to spend a week with my extended family. The town had one major attraction during the sleepy summer months and that was to become the very quiet and very private playground for the rich and famous from the Chicago area. Surrounded by as many as twelve pristine lakes along with the opportunities ( Read more... )

Whenever I am put on a new medication, I usually scan the little piece of paper that comes with it for common side effects. Since drug companies now have to cover their butts in case of someone filing a malpractice lawsuit against them, they have to include almost every side effect known to man and the little piece of paper has in most cases, ( Read more... )

In recent years, I have seen a direct rise in church "message signs" as opposed to signs just displaying the name of the church, the pastor's name and the time it meets. I guess this is useful if you want to announce special programs or more personal messages such as "Welcome home, Pastor" or "Congratulations Graduates" but more often times than ( Read more... )

Monday - Notice Mirror Really Needs to be Cleaned ( Read more... )