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Finally warm enough to go outside, and I’m stuck inside a windowless computer lab.

I could add more links to videos that make me laugh, but that would just further emphasize that I have no life.

This may very well be my most tasteless post ever.
Today, I discovered the You’re in Control Urinal Game, put together as a research project at MIT.
You really have to watch the videos to fully appreciate this.
I think there’s a future in this. Companies are already marketing similar urinal games

I like this manly Burger King commercial.

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First thing I saw when I opened my blinds this morning was a tractor driving down the road in front of my house. Yes, I’m back in eastern North Carolina.
Tonight, my brother was helping my mom and I in the back yard as we re-potted our cacti when he got a call on his cell-phone. It was my dad calling from the front porch. He’d walked around the house about two minutes earlier and wanted to let us know where he was. He said the weather was really nice. You know, on that side of the house, too.
Well, when we finished our potting, Scott went around the house to see what Dad was up to, and Mom except as she went she also screamed when a frog crossed her path. Then I laughed as I took the cacti back inside.
Okay, i bought a little cactus from Wal-Mart today for my office. I wanted a plant and thought I might be able to keep a cactus alive. Plus, it reminds me of warmer climes. Well, I thought this cactus was very pretty with the little yellow flowers on it. Back at home, I realized the little plastic flowers were held on with hot glue. Who does that? Canadians, that’s who. Why do Wal-Mart’s cacti come from Canada?
Meanwhile, back at the homestead, my parents and our neighbors are both out in the street, talking to friends who were passing on the road. They’d stopped their vehicles (a golf cart and a rascal scooter) to chat. About twenty minutes later, we had a minor traffic back-up when a pick-up truck approached the two vehicles already stopped on the road. Things cleared up shortly. Most of the rest of the evening was spent standing on the edge of the lawn, chatting with our neighbors. A very nice night.

I’m taking off to Williamston for the weekend, so I leave you with some entertainment.
First, here’s some stuff I like from Google Video.

We need to do more of this at my office.
Pepsi – Bavarians vs. Professionals. I love polka.
And a trailer from “The Breakup” that hits close to home. ha! no picture!

Then, I offer your weekend jam!

Today’s enormous video comes to us from deep in the dark recesses of the 1970’s.
Apache Music Video (Huge: ~45Mb)
Enjoy it for the disco. Enjoy it for the dancing natives.

The results of my nationwide survey of about 11 people shows conclusively that you distrust the government. Nobody, by the way, trusts Congress. I can understand that. I do think it’s interesting, though that Congress is the only group on the list that we have a say in appointing. I’m sure there’s am implication in there somewhere.
I got in from New York Sunday. Pictures coming soon.
I understand the video of George Bush and Steve Bridges at White House Correspondents Dinner I linked to a few days ago was removed from YouTube. So I found a link that works. Try it.

Reading news stories today made me wonder.

Who You Trust
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After receiving a cease-and-desist order, then receiving much media publicity, a high school in the bronx is staging a performance of Chicago next week. They of course are doing this in complete violation of copyright law. They’re also violating a non-compete agreement because ‘Chicago’ is currently playing just a few miles away on Broadway.
For those of you who don’t know, you have to have permission, and usually pay royalties to perform a published play. Granted, not everybody knows this, but a high school drama teacher should. Doesn’t it sound at least a little fishy that Anthony Cerini, the drama teacher, “transcribed the ‘Chicago’ script while watching the movie version.”

No one at Lehman High School made the application and the principal, Robert Leder, said he had not recalled having to apply for anything in 27 years of putting on high school musical events. -NY Times

27 years and never payed royalties or received permission to perform a play? Wow.

“The irony here is that ‘Chicago’ is about women who commit murder and go to jail, but if you are beautiful enough and you have enough money, and especially if you have the press on your side – in this case the Daily News – you will get what you want,” -(legitimate) “Chicago” producer Barry Weissler