If you’ve been playing a lot of Destroy All Humans and it’s making you paranoid, this should help put your mind at ease.

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OK, this is strange. And I’m not sure why we need to know this. Yet, I feel compelled to share it:
Orgasms: a real “turn-off” for women

Basically, some scientists did brain scans of women being stimulated in various ways and determined that all emotions turn off in a woman while she is having an orgasm.

Who the heck paid for this study!!?

Report: Five worst jobs for young workers – Jun. 9, 2005

My god, can we swaddle the world in any more layers of padding? Now they’re saying that lawn mowing is one of the 5 most dangerous jobs for teenagers.

“Working to help save for college, contribute to your family’s budget, or just to enjoy some spending cash is a great idea,” said Darlene Adkins, vice president for fair labor standards policy at the consumer organization. “But teenagers and their parents need to ask: is this safe work?”

The article goes on to say that more than 175 teens died on the job in 2001. I’d love to know what percentage of the teen workforce that represents. And in that same year, how many teens died while riding their bikes to a sporting event?

Cut the damned apron strings, will you America!?

So I’ve become a little bit addicted to Bawls Mints lately. And of course I went through all the obvious jokes, but eventually they wear off.

Anyway, they come in a metal tin, and I had a tin in my front pocket the other day. I was walking somewhere with a female co-worker and with every stride the tin shook, and the mints knocked against the sides.

“What’s that noise?” she asks me.
“Oh, that’s just my Bawls rattling.” I said.
“You’re disgusting!” she says, and hits me.

It took me a few seconds to realize what had upset her… 🙂

Now this kind of thing always frightens me:
Kansas looks at redefining science

Now I don’t want to get too deeply into theology here, since my own beliefs are ambivalent at best. But like the old separation of Church & State (itself eroding as of late) I think there needs to be a separation of Church & Science.

Why not offer theology classes where children can learn about “Intelligent Design”, and let the science classes keep teaching “Evolution”?

Kids get old fast these days; let them explore topics that they’re drawn to.

In the meantime, I’m going to thank Articulus (y’know, the being from Tau Ceti that created Earth) that I don’t live in Kansas.

Ok, so sometimes I obsess on the strangest things. But I’m telling you, the Mr. Clean Magic Reach bathroom cleaning gizmo is a miracle product! You simply have to get one, especially if you’re a guy. Because, as I was told my a female co-worker, “Guys don’t clean their bathrooms.”

It was hard to debate her because I do tend to let mine go too long between scrubbings, but no more! The Magic Reach is to your bathroom what Swiffer products are to the rest of your house. You have this base gizmo that looks vaguely like an iron with two pointy ends. You rip open a cleaning pad packet, and pull out this wet pad that wraps around the gizmo. And then you mop your floor (or walls, to sink or toilet) with it. It sneaks in behind the toilet bowl and the points get into corners. When you’re done (ie, in like 4 minutes) you pull the pad off, drop it in the trash and open a second pad. This one is more sudsy, and its for cleaning the tub and stuff. Scrub out the tub with it, and drop that pad in the trash too.

And you’re done.

Seriously, I’m a huge fan of convenience, and this thing really works and is super convenient. Guys, get one of these things and lets put an end to girls saying “Guys don’t clean their bathrooms” once and for all!!!

So I never got around to reading the Sunday New York Times last week. So today I was catching up, and I found it rather bizarre that in two consecutive Sundays, the times provided me with links to XXX sites.
[Note: Dragonchasers is normally a reasonable family-friendly site, but this post is intended for adult readers only. If you’re under 18, please refrain from clicking the following link.]
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CNN.com – Georgia bride-to-be fabricated abduction story – Apr 30, 2005

We’ve got a couple of montiors tuned to various news channels at work. This story has been on them, of course.

I make note of it only because of how frequently I overheard people say “The fiance definitely killed her.” The guy was convicted in the court of public opinion before he was even charged with anything!

(And I don’t mean to come off sounding holier-than-though…the thought crossed my mind, too. And I had something even meaner to say about the whole situation based on her pop-eyes…)

Every so often something happens to restore your faith in mankind…

Yesterday my S.O. managed to lose her laptop. She’d had it at her mom’s house, where she and the kids were visiting, and somehow it never got home. Much frantic searching ensued. Her mom searched her house, my S.O. searched hers. Nothing.

Where could it have gone? No one had a clue.

And then she got an email. Turns out a letter-carrier had found it in the street. SO had dropped the kids off at their dad’s on the way home and I guess in the chaos of transition, 2 kids AND 1 laptop tumbled out of the car. And no one noticed.

Said letter carrier took the laptop home with her, turned it on, find SO’s email address and emailed her with a phone number. And this morning the laptop was returned safe and sound.

Now how cool is that? It would’ve been such an easy thing to sell on eBay. Or the letter carrier could’ve just taken it back to the post office and left it in lost and found. But instead she went the extra step and found the rightful owner and returned it. Very cool indeed.

I make a decent wage, but back in my youth I was just really, really stupid. At one point I was carrying around close to $40K in credit card debt. I should’ve just declared bankruptcy back when that was so easy to do, but my mom’s dirt-farmer/fisherfolk work ethic was too deeply ingrained in me (ironic since like 123 of my 289 cousins have declared bankruptcy at some point).
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