Ghetto Prom Pictures

I saw this over at my favorite message board. It's the kind of thing you need to see to believe. Here is a little taste of what is to come. Ghetto Prom Pictures
























And don't accuse me of going all Kramer on you, there's some white folk on there as well.

next week

no moment of zen this week. sorry, i know how much you love my pointless and often humorless videos. think of the bright side, at least you wont need to ignore this week.

Happy Thanksgiving

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Water Damage.

Tuesday morning at about 2am a water main broke on the campus of my university flooding the library. I've got two fairly large papers coming up, and over 55,000 books have been damaged and are being sent out to be 'fixed'. Not only that, but every periodical and journal the school owns was in the basement, where there was over 7 feet of water. The entire children's collection was damaged, and all the micro-film is water logged. They didn't specify, but I'd guess close to 100 have been destroyed. The is currently no time frame for getting back into the library. The upper three floors are open, but they are computer labs and classrooms, only a small number of books are held here. I'm really out of luck when it comes times to write these papers. I was going to need the journals in the basement, but that ideas all wet. Shit, this sucks. I hope tuition doesn't go up.

Charity.

I may be a Scrooge when it comes to Christmas music in November, but I can respect this man. His name is Larry Stewart, and he has been handing out money to strangers for close to 30 years. It started as a large tip, and progressed to him giving away $5, $10, $20 $50 and $100 to people he thought looked like they needed it. To date he has given away about $1.3 million. This year alone he will give out more than $165,000 dollars to complete strangers in Chicago and Kansas City. However, he is weak from chemotherapy, and will be sending out trained Secret Santas in his place.

I don't have large amounts of money to give away to charity. Although I like to tell myself otherwise I am, in fact, in debt, but I don't want that to stop me. After reading the above linked story I went through my clothes and pulled out the ones I no longer need. The Salvation Army is closed for the weekend, but Monday I will be dropping off clothes for the needy. This isn't something I've never done before. I give clothes to the Salvation Army on a semi-regular basis, a couple times a year minimum. I know I don't give much, but I give some. Some of you reading this blog will probably read this and say I do too little, but thats wrong. Justing doing something is enough. If we all can give an extra large tip to downtrodden looking waitress, or buy a homeless man lunch, or donate some extra clothes to charity we will all be better off. You don't need to give out $100, all you need to do in make an effort.

At my limit.

I can tolerate the Christmas decorations in places like Wal-Mart and Target this early in the year, but does the radio need to play Christmas music on November 17? Granted it is my favorite Christmas song (also my favorite Springsteen song), Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band doing "Santa Clause is coming to Town," but it is still too early. I hate the way stores, and now radio stations, are jumping the gun by so much with Christmas. At least wait until after Thanksgiving.

You Weekly Moment of Zen #7

I imagine this real life Frogger action had the same effect on that intersection as the brown note would've.

Blog Action

There are approxamtly 100,000 new blogs created every day.

There are only about 4,000 blogs that are considered "blogging elite." Meaning they have at least 500 other blogs linking to them.

Heart Palpitations

Holy Crap. I thought I was going to have a heart attack last night. I was getting ready for bed, and had the scare of my life. I grabbed the cat, I like to bring him upstairs to sleep in my room, he wakes me up in the morning. After I put the cat down, I took off my cardigan and clogs, and went to take my pants off when I noticed something on my shoulder. I though a lock of my hair had fallen down so I brushed it aside, but after the hair moved it was still there. I turned my head as far as it goes and looked at my shoulder, and there was A FREAKING MOUSE ON MY SHOULDER. I have no idea where in the hell it came from, but at 2am it freaked the hell out of me. I knocked it off my shoulder and started to spin in circles. This all peaked the cats interest, luckily for the mouse he landed in my shoe and the cat didn't notice that. I took the mouse outside to set free, he was small, about the size of a Peep with its headed bitten off. I could have fit about 30 of them in my shoe, he was so small. When I came back inside, the cat was still sitting next to my bed, waiting for the mouse to show himself. The cat stayed there for a few I hours. In fact he was probably there until the sun came up. Anyway, the mouse scared the shit out of my last night.

You Weekly Moment of Zen #6

Wait for the end. I don't speak Finnish, but I can only guess what they're talking about in the car. The hand gesture almost makes it look like this sort of thing is routine.

Feelin' Lucky?

How'd you feel about spending $100 to get a 1 in 5000 chance at winning a $450,000 car? Now is your chance. A Mercedes-Benz dealership down in Maryland ordered an SLR for a customer last Christmas, but the buyer backed out. I think thats code for "wife said no." Anyway, his loss is our gain. The dealer is trying to recoup his losses by selling raffle tickets for this beast. For only $100 you will be sold 1 of 5000 tickets. I'm seriously thinking of buying one. It would be amazing to own one of these cars. So few are produced, and apparently even fewer are sold. Paris Hilton drives one, which could be scaring off potential buyers. V12, 0-60 in 3.8 seconds, 617 hp, top speed 207mph. Or you could just take a $300,000 alternate prize, which does make more sense. I don't know about states other than Connecticut, but here it would cost a fortune just to win it. Sales tax alone would be $27,000, then theres a gas guzzler tax, personal property taxes, and possibly gift taxes, that doesn't even insure it. I'm guessing minimal coverage would be at least $8-10,000, but probably higher. So just to drive it that first mile would cost you close to $100,000, if not more. I'll take the prize money please.

Pelican Swallows Pigeon

My earliest memories are of a trip to Key West when I was about 2, I remember two things. 1. Seeing Pelicans 2. A wind up SCUBA toy. Since then Pelicans have been my favorite avian creature. When I read this story I was psyched. Pelicans aren't suppose to eat pigeons, nor are they supposed to live in London, but thats beside the point. The coolest thing about it is, that big pouch the pelican has, you can see the pigeon flapping about.



Pelican catching pigeon.
Pelican Tries to swallow pigeon.

You Weekly Moment of Zen #5

The audio from this is from a real political ad in Wisconsin. I'm not sure if the video is official, but it works with the audio. This is quite possibly the greatest political advertisement ever, and by greatest I mean worst.

Vote for Ron!!

Sorry

I've been really busy this week with school, work and neutering my cat. I've barely had enough time to eat or sleep, never mind updating this blog. This weekend I'm going to catch up on some stuff, and hopefully be back in blogging form come Monday.

moment of zen coming later today.