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Monthly Archives: February 2007

Let’s replace the MPAA’s ratings board!

28-Feb-07

I watched a movie last night called “This film is not yet rated”. If you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend you do. It is a documentary about the MPAA’s ratings system, the ratings board, and the ratings appeal board. It is all incredibly interesting, and you will be surprised what you don’t know about [...]

Full of bells and whistles

24-Feb-07

I’m watching a show on the Discovery channel about cars in the future. It’s a fairly good show. Then I hear it, this engineer type says something about the car filling with all the “bells and whistles”.
So, this gets me thinking. Most little sayings like that come from the past. Exactly how long ago was [...]

Is that fur really fake?

23-Feb-07

An article at The Conservative Voice highlights a problem where fur on coats that is labeled as faux may actually be dog fur. I think this is a bad deal, since you should be getting what is indicated on the label. But that is only one issue that the article raises.
Some may consider the bigger [...]

Two Clowns Shot

22-Feb-07

Seems that I am not the only person in the world who thinks that clowns are terrifying and evil. Now if someone could just do something about mimes, of course you would have to use a silencer.
CNN has the story.

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English as a Second Language

22-Feb-07

Location – St. Paul, MN USA; drive through (I refuse to use -thru) at a Taco Bell “resteraunt”.
Order (exactly as I said it) – Number six with a softshell, Mountain Dew, empinada, and Fire sauce.
What I received – Number six with a hardshell, Mountain Dew, empinada, and mild sauce.
An important note is that I could [...]

The Return of Futurama

20-Feb-07

There is a great article at TVSquad discussing the comeback of Futurama.
I don’t know what happened to the show when it was originally on Fox, but I thought the show was excellent right from the first episode.
From the article:
Groening “loves” the fact that Futurama has landed on Comedy Central, because “we have a lot of [...]

Naval Disaster Avoided

19-Feb-07

While stumbling across the interweb, I ran across the story that is supposed to be the actual conversation between 2 Naval vessels. It goes something like this (in this instance, it was supposedly the Canadians and Americans, but that is not consistent):

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Al Franken – no way!

14-Feb-07

So according to the article at the Star Tribune, Al Franken is going to run for Senator in Minnesota.
Wow… I can’t even begin to count the reasons that I would not vote for this guy. Many of the reasons are the same reasons that I would not vote for Rush Limbaugh. Mr. Franken is a [...]

Floating Dog

12-Feb-07

Behold – the miracle of the floating dog. I don’t even think the dog knew what happened.

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Finding new music

12-Feb-07

It is really hard to find new music these days.
When I was younger, there was something called a “record store” that you could go to to buy albums, 45’s, cassettes, and eventually CD’s. I’m not talking about anything like Best Buy, Walmart, etc. I’m talking about a little hole in the wall store where all [...]