I love harry potter - and everyone knows that. But I love the books more when I find a trail that Rowling when on when naming her characters.

Today in history emperor Caracalla was assassinated. His fathers names was "Septimius Severus (as in Severus Snape). And Caracalla was originally known as Lucius Septimius Bassianu (as in Lucius Malfoy). The ( Read more... )

Never heard of Elagabalus? I havent either until I read this bit: Read more here

Update:
Huh.. this is flattering. I mouse over my "Read more here" and I get not only Methadone but Ana Nicole (love her!) AND Victoria Secret. Awe.. someone besides me knows I need new underwear.

So every once in a while I find or am involved with something worthy of a post. Since its Friday and I've been able to "research" flash tutorials to animate a water heater, I found this: (keep in mind some of these are really lame like the one claiming Tibor Kalman’, ‘Stefan Sagmeister’, ‘Paul Rand’, and ‘Paula Scher are super hereos - sorry I dont ( Read more... )

"Another bombshell is Hockenberry's claims that General Electric, NBC's parent company, discouraged him from talking to the Bin Laden family about their estranged family member. Hockenberry asked GE, which does business with the Bin Laden family company, to help him get in contact with them. Instead, a PR executive called Hockenberry's hotel room ( Read more... )

Well.. I am happy to say that it was smoother than last year. No fights, no crying, no lost wigs... it was great. I won nodda. Apparently a slutty Hogwarts student isnt "in" this year ( Read more... )

So ive been out of work for 3 weeks now. home alone with gwyn.... for 3 weeks. utter insanity for 3 weeks. dont get me wrong, shes loads of fun but only in very small doses. im very boring to her. today we looked at other daycares in south bend (starz and la petite). Oh so fun. when she goes to bed at night all i want to do is watch E or some other ( Read more... )

Courageous is NOT seeking treatment at an alcohol/drug abuse center ( Read more... )

Take this test and tell me what you are :) Its from Shelley Jackson

You are a
Social Liberal
(61% permissive)

and an...
Economic Conservative
(61% permissive)

You are best described as a:

Centrist
   
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Every morning Im greeted by Walter, Peter, Stephen, Geoffrey and a few others offering me the latest in Canadian pharmaceuticals. But today I received an email from "text" at thermo-king.com with a great stock tip:

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