8-Track Mind

There was a Chlorine gas leak at the gym this morning.

I'm okay: I was fifteen minutes late, which was good, because in addition to, you know, not dying, there was no need to be evacuated into the cold snowy streets in nothing but my bathing suit.

(I don't think anyone was hurt. I saw a paramedic in the back of an ambulance handing a colouring book to one of the day care kids.)

But I don't shower until after I'm done swimming. So I'm at work, with no shower and feel ucky. I washed my face and put on deodorant and everything, but I haven't showered and my hair is stuck under a baseball cap so I don't frighten the children or anything.

And I haven't swum, so I feel all flabby.

I hope it's open Monday.

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From Metro.co.uk: Student punished for spaghetti beliefs

Okay, once you stop giggling, think about it. His teachers are completely right. Seriously, a kid sits in class in full pirate costume, and when his teacher tells him to change he says, "It's my religion!"

Boot his ass. His Noodly Goodness knows I'm all for a joke, and personally, I would let him wear it for one day. But the article says, "repeated refusal" to stop. Which indicates several days to me and his teacher was no longer laughing.

And you know, it would be different if his school was one of those who were trying to teach Intelligent Design alongside evolution, because then it would be an act of protest. The article doesn't mention if it was, but I suspect not.

That makes him a smart ass.

RAmen.

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ME: Hey, where's the Black Cherry Vanilla Coke?!?
CASHIER: Sorry?
ME: The Black Cherry Vanilla Coke! You're out of it!
CASHIER:Oh, yes. Sorry. We have it no more.
ME: WHAT?
CASHIER:Yes. No more.
ME: But...but I WANT it!
CASHIER:(Makes face) Is it not...very sweet?
ME: Hell yeah!

I'm doomed.

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So the new computer lasted one year and three months before the hard drive crapped out.

Maybe. Could be a bad sector, and two out of three Dell techs in India think it's just a corrupted hal.dll file. Tremaine is being going enough to try to get all my data off on Saturday and if a reinstall doesn't work, then Dell will fire me a new hard drive.

Argh! How will I play my City of Villains now?!? I'm an ADDICT!

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Listen up. If you SERIOUSLY think that only one voice in the choir has been singing the song, then you just haven't been listening to the music.

It's been ringing from the rafters for years.

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So I didn't know this, but PetGirl told me to today about this raw food diet for dogs composed BARF which stand for, variously, "Biologically Appropriate Raw Food", "Bones And Raw Food" or "Bones and Raw Flesh", depending on who you speak to. BARF contains meat, bones, offal (tripe, liver, etc.), vegetables, herbs, fruit, etc., like wild dogs would eat. BARF is hotly debated among breeders and veterinarians -- you either are in favour of BARF or against BARF. No one seems to be ambivalent about BARF.

Some people make their own BARF and feed it to their pets, and others buy pre-packaged BARF, pre-mixed with all the primary BARF ingredients. When BARFing your pet, you have to be very careful to be sure it is properly balanced BARF, but there is lots of information available on the web to make sure your BARF contains everything it should.

The real joke here is that this is how BARF enthusiasts actually talk about BARF.

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What exactly is the purpose of having two kinds of yoghourt? You can pick from fruit-on-the-bottom and stirred. Seriously, does anyone open a fruit-on-the-bottom cup and NOT stir it up?

Also, what's with the spelling? The Free Dictionary lists it as yogurt, yoghurt and yoghourt. And the particular brand of fruit-on-the-bottom low fat raspberry I'm consuming at the moment spells it as yogourt. The hell?

What? No, I've got plenty of work to do. What are you talking about?

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While I sympathize with the folks who suffered unimagineable losses from Hurricane Katrina and wish I could do more than the regular cycle of donations I do right now, one question keep occuring to me -- why the hell is New Orleans below sea level in the first place? Whose freaking bright idea was that?

Lots of you probably have the same question, and here's your answer.

In short, New Orleans is in such an ideal area for commerce, they put up with all the problems of the area. As the city grew, they needed more land and drained areas to fill that need. It just evolved into the mess they have today.

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Posting this mostly for Lisa, as she wanted to know what exactly Tom Cruise said when he lost his shit on The Today Show, basically claiming he knows more about psychology and medication than psychiatrists and doctors.

I'm sure he's read all the Scientology documentation on the matter, but that does not constitute any sort of reality we're familiar with. It's like (and I'm asking for trouble here) all those wacky 'real vampires' who back up their absurb claims with comments of, 'you just don't understand like we do' and fail to provide anything remotely constituting proof.

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Seriously, what the fuck is with famous people giving their kids whacked out names? Okay, I think Gwyneth Paltrow naming her daughter Apple is stretching things, but somewhat cute. Julia Roberts saddling her son with the moniker Phinnaeus Walter is pretty cruel on the young tyke. But Lisa just pointed out that Penn Jillette (of the Vegas duo Penn & Teller) named his new baby Moxie CrimeFighter.

Seriously. The fuck?

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I know this labels me as an old fogey, but I remember when Jolt Cola first debuted, a locally-produced high-test cola that we all drank just because we could. Now with all the high-caffiene, high-power drinks on the market it's been re-branded for the Xbox generation. Bah. Who the hell needs a resealable top on a can of pop? Like the stuff keeps afetr it's been opened...

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Edited (10:27am 4/6/05): Okay, so why didn't anyone TELL me you couldn't see the whole image? Well, here it is in a pop-up.

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