My day, thus far, has been a lot like the drive from Nashville to Bloomington (IL). Long and boring. Have to go to work in a little bit, the new City Council is having an orientation tonight at 5:00 so I’ve gotta go to that, and then I have some dinner plans, so I may not [...]
Excerpt from today’s email conversation with ETS, because it amused me: ETS: I would much prefer a near-nekkid Vin Diesel and a vat of baby oil [to doing work]. Pete: Ewww… baby oil? You know what that’s made of, right? ETS: Are you going to say babies, or are you REALLY going to disgust me by telling me [...]
So there’s a nifty fark thread about Mt. St. Helen’s impending eruption and I decided to give it a look because, well, I figured some people would be making funny jokes. I was right: 2004-09-29 06:41:08 PM eddyatwork Yeah, go ahead and blow up you farking lazy ass volcano! You’ve been sitting there for 24 years now [...]
A currently indiscernibly number of days ago I was chatting on the phone about my site, my writing, etc, and the question was posed: Why do I write about the things I write about, why so publicly, why, why why? I had to think about it, and the answer I came up with doesn’t [...]
Gene Simmons apparently doesn’t think marriage is a very good idea. In fact, he says that we just shouldn’t get married. Kiss front man Gene Simmons urges all men to resist the temptation to marry, and save themselves stacks of money at the same time. The womanizing music legend, who once dated rocker Cher, insists there [...]
This is genius in action. So a court just granted class status to a law suit by some police department in Florida which is claiming that Ford’s Crown Victoria Police Interceptors are faulty and dangerous because they explode in high-speed rear-end collisions. The department alleges that this engineering problem has resulted in the death of [...]
There’s been a lot of fuss made about the rules of the presidential debate, but there are some little known rules that you might want to read up on. Paragraph Seventeen A: Bodily fluids-Perspiration. Debate sponsors shall make every effort to maintain comfortable temperature onstage. Candidates shall make reasonable use of underarm deodorant and other antiperspirant measures, [...]
I was listening to Adam Hood’s song “Million Miles Away” and mis-heard a line in the song where he actually says “There’s a sharp pain in my soul” as “There’s a shar-pei in my soul.” The mental image of this, as you might imagine, made me snicker. I listened to the song more carefully, but found [...]
*** BREAKING NEWS *** *** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE *** In a move that is sure to shock and amaze absolutely nobody, Pete missed class today, September 28th, marking the end of the longest class attendance streak since… I don’t even remember when. It’s been a while though, since this was over a month of not missing [...]
It’s official… this was possibly the worst football weekend of the season. MAN was it bad. Alabama lost to Arkansas. I’m not going to say that we’re a MUCH better team than they are, but when you consider that pretty much all of their offense came on two drives and we sacked Matt Jones four times [...]