Ever had one of those days where a lobotomy just seems like it would feel so good?

I understand Craftsman has a do-it-yourself kit!

I laid down for a cat nap last night and didn't get up. Ugh! The lost productivity!

FOUND!

Help find this child! He is in danger. They won't issue an amber alert on a technicality. Read the details. Study the picture!

Taken from the city of Strongsville, Ohio. Last seen in Lakewood, Ohio on Clifton Blvd. 9-28-05 at 10:00 a.m. We suspect that she will be trying to make her way either towards Mexico, or Florida.
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Nancy Rolfe may be driving a White Chevy conversion van with light blue or green pin stripes. She may also be with a friend who drives a white Honda with black trim.

He'll be coming through Tennessee folks! Spread the word!

All focus on paperwork for the rest of the day!

For their 5th anniversary DivX is offering their full software package for free.

Likewise

Just because

What do you see? Earlier i saw a blimp. Now i see two circling vultures. A lot happens above us while we look down.

Our local car wash has a dog wash!

I had to call my grandmother yesterday. She is 86 and stronger and more mentally stable than most I people I know. Anyhow, I'd been working a problem and was stuck when it suddenly occurred to me that "there's more than one way to skin a cat" and I came up with a different solution rapidly.

Now, I've been skinning cats since I was about five but I have never questioned exact why we skin cats. So I went to the source. See, when we'd get a bath at my grandmother's apartment as the kids were stripped down, she'd say "there's more than one way to skin a cat." Her answer? She chuckled and said, "I don't know."

So what does Blingo say?

World Wide Words

Points out that it dates back to 1678 as a common proverbial phrase but gives no real origin other than conjecture. Relates it to the Southern US states to skinning a catfish.

bartleby.com

"Many tasks can be accomplished in several ways." but we know that already.

Phrase Finder

"a boy's gymnastic trick" with a description of the trick and a note "Mr. Funk doesn't say WHY anyone would actually skin a cat" A reply to the post claims "People used to skin cats to use the fur" but gives no citations

TakeOurWord.com

Cheapness

AOL Member

Another catfish reference

EZBoard forum

"boys (and adults too) did torture cats in the 16th-18th centuries" but refers to harvesting the fur

Messy Beast

catfish and fur references. Perhaps the best description thus far.

I hope there is peace in the end.

Does anyone in Knoxville have a spare DSL modem (preferrably westel) lying around? I know someone that needs to run a test to confirm that their modem is bad. If their modem is bad and you want to sell yours they will probably be willing to buy it. Just let me know in comment or email. Thanks.

I want to thank Julie for bringing me coffee. It was 20 times better than I ever would have expected!

I want to thank Jude for providing Tim with this Rwandan Proverb:

"You can outdistance that which is running after you but not what is running inside you."

I so needed that!

I need our camera

Good movie

Three year old works the dvd and volume controls like a pro

A computer hath been repaired! The symptoms on this one: It would boot to the user login prompt for Windows XP, wait 20 seconds, then reboot. The cure: virus cleaning, adware/malware removal, operating system updates, driver updates, software conflict removal, outdated software removal and live linux boot cds to be able to apply the fixes.

Rain today.

We as guys make mistakes. Sometimes they are big and we hear about them from our wives far longer than we feel we deserve. However sorry I feel for Hulk Hogan, I think he will take this one (WARNING! NWS! Privates shown.) to his grave! If I'm not mistaken though, despite her dark roots Mrs. Hulkster is a natural blonde!

I can hear her now. "You want it? Go look at the picture because that's the only time you'll ever see it again!"

As for the rest of us, we guys wish to thank Mr. Hogan for making our errors in judgement so insignificant in comparison.

I remember when I lived in Kenner, Lousiana (4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th grades) that we had charts and would track the hurricanes. The feeling that a hurricane was coming was not one of fear but of joy that school would be cancelled but sadness that for every inch of water I had in my street a friend of mine had an inch in their house. The rains would come and they would stack their furniture on bricks. Neighbors would chain off roads or sit on porches with shotguns to remind people not to create wakes while driving past their houses.

Well now that everyone has become hurricane watchers, The Severe Weather Information Center is a website that should be part of your weather bookmarks.

Boing Boing has been featuring strange vending machines from Japan including a vending machine that distributes eggs, one that distributes beer, and my favorite one that delivers live lobsters.

More balloons

Criminals

Hot air balloons

Katrinacane Friends continue to update on their trials and tribulations.

Of course, the best New Orleans stories have come from The Interdictor who reported the levee leaks nearly 12 hours before CNN.

This site does an excellent job of combining data on hurricane Rita with Google Maps. Boing boing pointed the site out and notes that the change from Category 4 to Category 5 and back corresponds with ocean depth.

This picture from the National Hurricane Center reveals Rita to be male not female! For those virgin minds out there that evade potty humor and just can't see it imagine the Atlantic as a female with Florida and Cuba as...well...enough said.

Of course, this could be similar to the Phallus on the cover of The Little Mermaid.

On September 9 I reported "Katrina was man made" with Russian technology from 1976. Looking at the track of Rita and how cleanly it missed Cuba it is clear that the equipment must reside on Cuba. Considering Cuba and Russia's past it would be easy to assume a collaboration. Turns out though that "Japanese Mafia Behind Hurricane Katrina" and probably Rita.

The generators emit a soundwave between three and 30 megahertz and Stevens claims the Russians invented the storm-creating technology back in 1976 and sold it to others in the late 1980s.
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At least ten nations and organizations possess the technology but Stevens suspects the Japanese Yakuza created Katrina in order to make a fortune in the futures market and to get even with the U.S. for the 1945 bombing of Hiroshima.

Stevens presents his argument in a radio show at http://www.thesciencedetective.com/.

Daily Dancer If you look, you won't be able to turn away!

I just noticed that the free minimac website is putting an emphasis that they can only accept one account per household. So my wife (and anyone that wants to help me) needs to use the referral code http://minimacs.freepay.com/?r=14217121.

I should point out that you have to sign-up for 1 service which is significantly less than the cost of a minimac. The service that I am going to use is the printer ink. Since we all need to periodically buy printer ink it only makes sense to me to use that as the promotion to qualify for the minimac.

Early on in the series Lost (good read) I noticed that in all the flash scenes other survivors on the island were noticed. It might be Hurley in a television set in the background or a direct interaction between two characters at the airport (like Hurley and the science teacher).

I began to think that they tired of continuing such a game as it became harder to link people in the flashbacks to people on the island. Last night with the appearance of Desmond as the only person in the stadium I knew my theory and fallen apart. Perhaps I was wrong!

Structrual Integrity Failure! Yesterday I had multiple failures on the Jeep top. Granted, it's 2 months shy of being 11 years old. I kept forgetting that all but 4 of the screws that held the metal strip which holds the top to the window frame had come out. When driving I have to help hold it down which kills my fingers. As I neared Interstate speeds, the top which had been held together for years with brown duct tape physically ripped last night and started peeling away like a bad Heidenburg movie. Then two of the screws popped on one side. Seemed like the dominoes had begun falling.

So, until I can budget $400-600 for a new roof, I am driving topless rain, shine, sleet or snow.

Today: Weight of the world

Ok. The picture didn't come out but someone should let the people of Eyeglass World by West Town Mall know that their G and L are burned out. Perhaps they should have been on separate ballasts. Tommy's keen eye quickly picked up on this hilarious signage.

Noah meets colby at star

Big focus problems today! Maybe Garden State will help or perhaps I should deny myself Lost tonight if I haven't hit certain milestones.

Alright! I'm sharing Pink-Kitty's crown with trembling timberdoodle! Thanks to Pink-Kitty.

I wonder if the church would be upset with a doctor's theme for Trunk or Treat. Hehe. Since this picture has a birth theme I should use it as an opportunity to wish my little brother a big Happy Birthday!

As i suspected

Molly stays near but has fun

Beyond this tape i can hear the heavy equipment eating away the serenity

If your porn collection requires a crate that could hold two coffins seek help

Oh those silly Baptist and their moonshine!

Vol fans of course

Cool bridge