Lazy Baby filled with Beans

I found this little cardboard heart in my car the other day. Seeing as I have three little girls, it likely fell off some doll that we purchased a while back.

Still, the title of the doll amused me, and I find myself using this sentance in regular everyday discussion:

"So, did you watch the debate on TV?"

"Nah, I'm just a lazy baby filled with beans."

Ngyaad!

Talk Like A Pirate Day

Arrr! Avast me hearties, and shiver me timbers! Talk like a pirate day is rapidly approaching, and I've still got ships to loot! Still, time for a quick break on the sofa with me girls and me trusty blade.



If music be yer thing, ye might avoid Davy Jones Locker by downloading the "Talk Like a Pirate Day Song"

Yo ho!

Six Comments

It seems I have six comments on all of my posts (except this one for now!). I figured I'd better add a sixth post to make it even out.

Maybe then, my head will explode.

Brfgh.

Love that Rubberband Man

I don't know what it is - the music, the hair, or just his sense of office style. The Rubberband Man is always there to make sure you are properly supplied, and ready for the day. Office Max has a winner with this ad campaign. For some reason, these ads make me feel good, and I'm often up on my feet to join the Rubberband Man on his quest to bring rulers, pencils, and erasers to all the schoolchildren and cubicle workers everywhere.

Hey 'yall, prepare yourself for the Rubberband Man!

Spam Tricks

God I hate spam. The latest trick I've been seeing, is messages arriving in my e-mail box with artificially old dates. Since I have my e-mail normally sorted by date (like many people), these spams arrive "off-screen" and waste a bit more of my time as I scroll down to find them. I always know they are there, because my Inbox shows unread messages that clearly aren't visible.

The best defense is to take care with who (or what) can get your e-mail. My ISP allows me to create/remove e-mails at my whim, so I generally always create a special account when signing up for something online. This payed off recently, when I joined a contest for Mt. Dew online. As soon as I joined, my spam to the special account I created jumped to 100 or so junk messages a day!! Jeese, Pepsi sold me out fast enough! I deactivated the account so that spammers would get bounced e-mail. After 2 or so months, I thought I would fire up the account again to see what happens. Not an hour after the account was reactivated, I got several spam messages. By the end of the day, I had about 20 messages! Damn these guys are persistent. Needless to say, I've deep-sixed that account for good.

Fortunately, Netscape's Junk mail filter does a pretty darn good job of catching 98% of the spam I get, but its still annoying. My ISP has something called "SpamAssassin" that I've never turned on, but I've not felt that I've needed it just yet. I'm only getting about 5-10 messages a day that are junk, and that I can tolerate (knocking on wood here).

Now if I could just find a similar tool for filtering out the credit card and mortgage loan ads from my snail mail box, I'd be in pretty good shape!

The Build is Code Red!

Cool link:

Bubble Bubble Build's in Trouble

The only thing I'd change, is that a good build would result in a chilled Mt. Dew, and a bad build would result in a chilled Code Red.

Mmmmmm Dew.

Color Scheme

Despite the fact that I didn't think I wanted to start a blog, I spent way too much time playing with the settings. Now I've got a rather decidedly ugly looking blog that needs a lot of work. Sigh.

What the...?

Not sure I wanted to actually start a blog..... just wanted a username.....

Hmmm.

The Dewkid