It seems that Google Video is now carrying the Ski Elvis short movies. Will dubious fair use of copyright shenanigans never cease? Ski Elvis 2006, “The King Kong”, is halfway done now.
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We went rafting down the (redacted) River last weekend. It was mostly calm with occasional patches of this… (Our guide Orion was having fun at least.) Also, I found a tiny nugget (about 1g) of gold—worth about $25. B-) So of course I’m not tellin’ ya which river! Update: It was only 0.21g (about $5). […]
We spent an exhausting afternoon looking at new beds today. We learned the following. All beds are more comfortable than our current one. A decent mattress costs $1000 to $14000. All mattresses are pretty much the same.
Some of you know that my wife bought me the best Christmas present any guy could ever get. A pair of first-class aircraft seats! First they sat at my parents-in-law’s house for a few weeks while we found time to borrow their truck and go and get them. Then they sat in our garage for […]
For those of you who’ve known me for a while, this may come as a shock. Yes, the bookcase is installed!
We spent the weekend with friends in the Sequoia/Kings Canyon National Forest. I brought a plastic magnifying lens and we melted a penny. The quarter, as you can see, didn’t quite melt (nickel versus zinc) so I think I need a more rigid frame. [For legal reasons, none of this was done with the intent […]
We went to the chocolate festival in Oakdale yesterday. For reasons unknown I spent most of today sleeping.
We (my new family) were at the park celebrating Mothers’ Day. This is the day when the guys sit around and wait for the women to serve up food. About the time we started eating, we saw at a group near us that there was a small propane cylinder in a ball of flame. This […]
It’s been raining so much, that my commute now looks like this. Link of the week: foshata!
I was tossing and turning in bed so, to help me wind down, I wrote letters to the companies that I haven’t got rebate checks from yet. I asked them for a written statement that my rebates were invalid, with specific dates and stores listed. It’ll be interesting to see if anything happens. (I also […]