Improv Everywhere has been around since 2001, causing "scenes of chaos and joy in public places." I check out their Web site every once in a while, but I did not see this one until a friend sent it to me. It's fantastic...

My Unitarian Jihad Name is
Sister Gatling Gun of Looking at All Sides of the Question.

Get yours.

Inspired, I think, by the book I recently worked on dealing with the sociological implications of Henry David Thoreau's works, I've been doing a lot of reading online...again...about voluntary simplicity. I already try to live that sort of life, to a large degree, but I figure I can always find inspiration & new ideas from looking at what other people are doing. read more...

Reading through my friend Matt's blog, I found a link to this site, which evidently assigns blogs a rating based on the words it finds. Here's the rating for my blog:

Mingle² - Online Dating

This was "based on the presence of the following words: punch (1x)."

I LOL'd.

Apparently the rating system doesn't mind the words dammit, kick-ass, shit, and...I can't believe I've been blogging - albeit very sporadically - for nearly two years and haven't used the F-word even once yet. I must be losing my edge in my old age.

When Bush took office, gas was $1.46

I have no idea how accurate this is, but damn...

I love YouTube. I love that I figured out how to embed YouTube videos in my blog.

Also? I love this commercial...


G says: "Latte is English? Since when...?" I told him I think it's one of them thar' furrin' words that have made their way into the lexicon.

I am not a gadget person. I have never been a gadget person.

That said, I cannot wait until June, when I can buy this...

Feh.

You're comparing apples and crayons.

I guess this means that not only am I not in the same ballpark, I'm not even in the same sport.

quoted in today's UUCB bulletin:

Man always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely the same reason.

- Douglas Adams