Oh man, when I saw this story this afternoon, I laughed. Twice.

Link!

So, these two old birds have been mailing this old hot dog back and fourth for 54 years. While that story is strange, the pictures are where the magic is happening.

I can hardly tell when the fingers end and the hotdog starts.

Now, I've eaten some rather foul hot dogs in my life (the top winners are Cleveland Circle cinemas in Brookline MA, 7-11 in Lewiston ME and a mystery dog from a neighbors grill) but this thing is just nasty. I'm sure these two old bats consider this training for finding a man in their age range. Strange food story quota met. (This story got me thinking that I haven't heard a good "Old Guy's Balls" joke in a while.)

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On to some cool tech / Microsoft is taking over the world news. Well... maybe?
From 6.10.04
Microsoft VP Peter Moore (formerly of Sega), in a Game Industry.biz article:

Moore said that Microsoft has no intentions of following Sony and Nokia into the handheld gaming business, commenting that "we're not in that business and there are no plans to be in that business right now."

But recently there has been a flurry of new articles (are blogs news? Mine ain't even close... its more like Cracked (the poor mans MAD)) about the "Xboy". This new digital music player is suspected of being designed to compete with Apple's iPod. I guess Brier Dudley of the Seattle Times started this whole rumor and all Microsoft has done is deny it. As the old Yiddish proverb goes "He who denied it, supplied it." Well, I'm all for the Xboy (minus the aweful name.) Anyone who knows me, I'm all about convergenance, and just 5 months ago, I finally got my phone and PDA unified and as my previous post mentioned I love it. If I could only cram my iPod in there as well, I'd be happier than a pig in shit. Throw a PSP or Nintendo DS into that package, and I'm a mobile warrior, only needing to stop to power up (or juice up as I was going to type.)

Anyway, I believe I have meet the quota on all requested blog topics and I got work to do (12oz curls and a Cuban cigar.)

ciao babe.

I suck

Hi loyal readers of my blog. As most of you know by now, I suck big time. I talk a good game, but I just cannot produce. Anyway, I woefully missed my goal of 1 post per day, and I'm pretty sure that I am going to continue to miss that goal. I'm teaching a class 3 days a week and doing a little bar tending here and there. That's not really the reason I'm not posting as much as I know you all would like me to, but its the reason I'm giving.

Well, and that I'm lazy, and don't have much to say.


Anyhoo... I got nothing.

Reading Words on Pages...

Well, more posts is going to mean less riveting content, and I'm sorry for that. Anyway, here's what I'm reading...

Exchange Server 2003 - Administrator's Companion
Yea, studying for the Microsoft exchange Server MSCE test 70-285. Sometimes I want to shoot myself...

The Art of Intrusion
So, I'm a fan of Kevin Mitnick's first book, The Art of Deception and this book followed the format of the first. Stories of hackers and their exploits (haha!) then he deconstructing their actions from a Information Security point of view. The main point of the book is still "People are the weakest link." which is sooooo true.

DMZ
Brian Wood's latest (well, along with Supermarket) comic book / graphic novel. It's got amazing art and the heavy political overtones that we all love and expect from Brian Wood. It's really a great series that I look forward to each month.

Marvel's Civil War
It's not often that I feel like I'm getting screwed (well, not since I stopped working!) but Marvel's really doing me dirty. They're doing this whole Super Hero Registration Act where Iron Man is facing off against Capitan America. The lush bag Iron Man is being a government tool and Capitan America is fighting for privacy and the things America stands for. This is right after the whole Scarlet Witch Marvel event, and I sadly bought into that one too. I just wish Marvel would stop pumping 100's of books down my throat each month, and let me save my pennies. I had to stop reading DC's events and most of their titles cause my wallet hurt. Badly.