i like the "cake is a lie" sign. great reference.

my ex-boyfriend's dad used to be an EMS and one time he had a call to a farm where the guy got run over by his tractor... his dad said there were pieces of the guy all over the lawn, and the rest of him was stuck in the blades of the tractor. yea. said it was the grossest thing he'd ever seen in his entire career.

yea this is BITCHIN idea! why the hell hasn't it caught on? all bottle producers should do this, plastic included. it would really cut down on waste in a huge way. you could build entire communities out of recycled bottles. and they would be washed out, of course. it doesn't take days to wash a bottle after it's been used, just rinse it once empty. simple. yea it would suck if the glass bottles broke, but you could easily filly them with a kind of cement. then they would REALLY be bricks. but seriously- if anyone owns a brewery in here, please consider taking on this fantastic idea!

whoops.. i meant "..pose as little THREAT as possible."

robot apocolypse.. 'nuff said.

but yea.. it is odd that "they" make robots to look like humans, eh? i mean, i guess it's the whole "humans want to rule the world" mentality that influences the need for human-like robots. we're so self centered. it's probably to make them seem to pose as little threatening as possible. "Hey, maybe if we make them look like us nobody will be afraid!" yea, great idea... and when someone programs a couple to feel pain and think for themselves, we'll see how cute they are then. @Deram Maras: i'm right behind you.

that's how my kitty plays, except he is full-grown, fluffy, and his eyes are bigger. so imagine the cuteness of THIS video X5. 'nuff said.

i know dogs and cats eat the placenta.. if not, i know they eat the feces of their young. and that's not because it tastes good, it's to keep them clean. i mean, we humans find everything gross. we wouldn't lick our own floors unless it was part of a bet and we're obsessed with f*cking purel hand sanitizer. to each their own, but the point is of course we think it's gross because the name holds true to the actual product. if that were true of every product, you would be more grossed out than you would think. and they're not even ingesting this stuff-- they're putting it on their skin. big whoop. good for the japs for marketing something else we people just throw away as a commonality. not advocating the use myself, just pointing out that there are worse things out there that we are blindly purchasing. we're just lucky that manufacturers don't name their products after the ingredients contained in them.

i did a 10k walk when i was about 9 or 10 with my family. funny story- i have two older brothers and they went too. before the walk, my dad thought it was a good idea to get us all brand new shoes a)because he wanted to treat us b) i think he needed a pair himself and c) because the new meijer was just opening and he wanted to check it out (this is hilarious because meijer stores are everywhere now, and 'back then' it was smack in the middle of a corn field.. and across the street from an already-standing wal-mart). so we all got brand new shoes. the next day we woke up early and went on the walk. after an hour, we all had blisters and the walk was just getting started. but it was all the free airheads and water we could stomach, and i would definitely do it again.

i produce traffic hits for WHIO in dayton, and man o man.. if there were any roundabouts here, i would probably quit my job. it's bad enough with people smacking into each other in single-lane intersections..

oh ha ha.

alex-- i like the AMAROTAEN at the top. it threw me for a second..

today is my brother's birthday! he's not a blog person, so he'll never read this, but HAPPY #26 BRO!

funny story about his birthday- he was supposed to be born on march 28, but played a trick on my mom and came three days later. he was scheming before he was even alive! have a great day everyone.

oh crossword puzzles are definitely not my forte... i don't think i've ever completed an entire one, probably because the clues are sometimes so ambiguous. and it's funny because i'm awesome at scrabble! at least i like to think i am...

i grew up in west chester, which is two exits down 75 from what i call touchdown jesus. whenever i pass it, i yell "touchdown!" and sometimes spout out an elaborate play prior to the yell, JUST because it's so ridiculous and evangelical. anyways, so i've been up here in dayton for that last 4 years going to school and i just so happen to pass this damn statue every time i visit the family or make a general trip back home. well, when my boyfriend and i started dating, he lived down in west chester while i was in dayton (only a couple exits off 75 up from jesus), and of course every trip up here, he passed the statue as well. it was perfectly placed though, because it was EXACTLY half-way between our locations: exactly 60 minutes. so every time he was coming up to see me, he would throw me a "touchdown" to let me know that he would be there in half-hour. it's just amzing how much i've heard about this dumb statue outside of my own expriences with it, and trust me, people.. it's not that great a spectacle. if you haven't seen it, it's worth an hour drive, but any further you're wasting your time. actually, no-- come far and wide! everyone needs to know how far we've sunk.

that's funny, eni, that was the opposite for me. awesome game though; exactly like risk.

Yea that Frontline special was made in 2004, so it was pre-recession US. I'm pretty sure I made a note of that when I made the suggestion. But no worries, moral of the story is that the US sucks at handling money and allows its people to fall victim to the unethical services that are provided because they get a chunk of that cash. those evil doers...

Thanks Alex for taking my Frontline suggestion! It was so appalling that I had to spread it around and let others share my feeling. Enjoy everyone!

am i the only person that seems to be disturbed by the fact that the majority of those beds had a tv attached to it? it doesn't make it unique and artistic by strapping your typical flatscreen to the foot of your bed. not exactly an advocate of watching tv in bed anyway. bed is for sleeping, living room is for living (which usually includes watching tv). otherwise, they were kinda cool. the round bed that splits in the middle would be somewhat of a nuisance because while you're sleeping, your butt will push the halves apart, unless the couch is heavy enough to stay-put on the floor. and the iBed is just ridiculous and impractical.