My niece, Lauren Brooke Hurley, was born today at 1:58pm, weighing a mere 5 lbs. 15.6 oz.

When I read this in the newspaper today, it had me rolling on the floor.

Johnny Depp: "My dream role would be to play musical legend Carol Channing in a biopic of her life. I love her, I really do. She's amazing. With all the digital technology available these days I could probably pull it off."

And here's the other shoe: Carol Channing says ( Read more... )

I just read some of the coolest news in years. Telltale Games, the company that brought back Sam & Max, just announced Tales of Monkey Island. Looks like Guybrush wasn't lying about that unbreakable five game contract after all.

OK, so we've all heard that if you pee in the Amazon, a fish can swim up your urethra. In case you were skeptical of that, it's true. However, what happened to this kid is a bit different.

A truly worthwhile game/quiz:

http://www.minijuegosgratis.com/juegos/hwdykyworld/hwdykyworld.html?a23a=1449

I made it to level 10 with 380,242 points. My travel IQ is 113.

Just found this post on Peter David's blog. I love how the metaphor was extended to work against the original poster. Clarification of separate posters added by me.

Retard's original post:
"The problem is this, Israel and their collective enemies only have one mindset: to prove that they are the strongest one their is."

Another poster's ( Read more... )

Looks like I will not be able to host a New Year's party this year, since I will not be able to move my furniture into my new house until January. Sorry to disappoint anyone.

I bought a house on Monday, but I won't be moving in for a few months. I have big plans for upgrading it, starting with painting the interior. Conveniently, picard42 works for Benjamin Moore.

I'm rarely interested enough in these quizzes to actually take them, but this is the first time I've ever seen someone take a scientific approach to defining types of senses of humor. It seemed to diagnose Pic pretty accurately, and I have to say it definitely has me pegged as well:

the Provacateur

(52% dark, 34% spontaneous, 55% vulgar)

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