::: Saturday, February 28, 2004 :::

::: posted by Spook at Saturday, February 28, 2004 | |  

A kindergarten pupil told his teacher he'd found a cat, but it was dead. "How do you know that the cat was dead?" she asked her pupil. Because I pissed in its ear and it didn't move," answered the child innocently. You did WHAT ? ! ?" the teacher exclaimed in surprise. "You know,"explained the boy, "I leaned over and went 'Pssst!' and it didn't move."

My Usual Self-Questionnaire.
What's playing? Godhead's "2000 Years of Human Error"
How am I feeling? Why? Doin' Fine. I wish a had emoticons on here to display my mood.
Website Reco? A day in the life: The leap Day [Link] About the project: February 29 only comes around every leap year, so it's time to do something out of the ordinary! Do something you wouldn't normally do and document your day through an hourly photograph. How to play: take a photo an hour to illustrate your day and come back to this website after March 1, 2004 and share your link.

::: Friday, February 27, 2004 :::

::: posted by Spook at Friday, February 27, 2004 | |  

At work, I have a whiteboard where I let people book vans for company use. And sometimes, I get bored at my desk so I draw on the board. Or I draw when I have something to express, as some of these pictures convey. I may not always have the deepest things to express, or I'm not the best artist out there but I always get my point across.

Tuesday. This was an annoying day to be at work. I wanted to stay in bed, but having my work ethic MADE ME get up and get to my desk. I think I had ten coffees that morning. I was still recovering from the weekend. I want all stories about me regarding that weekend to be STAMPED OUT. Okay? Okay. Thanks.


Wednesday. This was a better day. I finally had a good night's sleep and even had a smile across my face that morning. For no reason too.


Thursday. I shouldn't have gone out to the bar Wednesday night. Enough said.


Friday. I didn't know. I still don't.


Have a good weekend!

My Usual Self-Questionnaire.
What's playing? Lee Aaron's "Hands on" An old song from hair-metal days. Fun.
How am I feeling? Why? TGIF!!!
Website Reco? Nah.

::: Thursday, February 26, 2004 :::

::: posted by Spook at Thursday, February 26, 2004 | |  


My Usual Self-Questionnaire.
What's playing? Linkin Park's "Crawling"
How am I feeling? Why? Okay... I suppose. I have a headache and I'm tired, but otherwise I guess I'm pretty good and in a reasonably good mood.
Website Reco? The Aboriginal Youth Network [Link] They got news and all sorts of good stuff. Although I must admit that when I first found this website way back in Nineteen Ninety-something it was a good idea and hoped it would have grown, but it's seems like it's stuck in neutral. Worth a look... once.

::: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 :::

::: posted by Spook at Tuesday, February 24, 2004 | |  

Well.... I don't want to talk about it. But I do have some complaints. I haven't had a proper night's sleep in ten nights, my cold still isn't completely gone and work has been sucking lately. This past weekend, I've been up to stuff that I don't want some people to find out about (BAH-HAHAHAHA) and still want to brag but.... Not here. I can say that I've had quite an adventure, speaking to all sorts of cute women and some cute women cops.

Yeah, that bad. But still, that good.

I got to watch a good movie while there (50 First Dates) and take some cool pictures (No, I'm not going to post them, but maybe in the future) but still lost out on a lot of sleep and ended up with "stoner eyes" for two days straight. The bus ride back (Kenora to Dryden) should have only taken an hour and a half, but there was a chemical spill between the Fort Frances turn-off and Vermillion Bay. (Apparantly a tanker and a truck collided) So the bus had to take a FOUR HOUR FREAKING DETOUR past Fort Frances and Emo. Not to mention the bus's brakes nearly seized and a tire's air pressure was really low. Too bad there was no one within talking distance of me to flirt with, that could have been a good story for her to tell. Meeting me, heheheheh.

My Usual Self-Questionnaire.
What's playing? TBS has U.S. Marshalls playing.
How am I feeling? Why? I gotta pee and my first beer is empty.
Website Reco? Um... Lowbrow! [Link] AGAIN!! YEEEEEHAAAAAAWWWWW!!!!!!

::: Thursday, February 19, 2004 :::

::: posted by Spook at Thursday, February 19, 2004 | |  

I've been sick for quite a while and it's putting up quite a fight. At night I cough and cannot get to sleep on time so I'm exhausted and everything. It sucks. At work I have to have enormous amounts of coffee to remain coherent otherwise I turn into a zombie and that's not very good. Not very good at all.

And the Nobel Prize goes to...
Human cardiac catheterization was introduced by Werner Forssman in 1929. Ignoring his department chief, and tying his assistant to an operating table to prevent his interference, he placed a uretheral catheter into a vein in his arm, advanced it to the right atrium [of his heart], and walked upstairs to the x-ray department where he took the confirmatory x-ray film. In 1956, Dr. Forssman was awarded the Nobel Prize.

My Usual Self-Questionnaire.
What's playing? Cinderella's "Through The Rain"
How am I feeling? Why? Annoyed with this cough and stuffed nose. Oh, YUCK orange juice tastes rancid after a couple tablespoons of Buckley's Mixture. Some please kill my tastebuds.
Website Reco? Share Reactor [Link] Download movies, dvd's and games. But they don't condone it and neither do I. *gag* *gag* *wink* *wink*

::: Sunday, February 15, 2004 :::

::: posted by Spook at Sunday, February 15, 2004 | |  

Bad Moon Rising

Lovely, just lovely.

The comeback...
An old guy is sitting on a bus when a punk-rocker gets on. The punkrocker's hair is red, green, yellow and orange. He has feather earrings. When he sees the old man staring at him, the punk rocker says "What's the matter old man? Didn't you ever do anything wild when you were a young guy?" The old guy says in reply "Yeah. One time I had sex with a parrot. I thought maybe you were my kid. . . "

Military Shortie...

The first woman recruit in the Army reported for duty and was told that although her quarters would be in a separate building, she was to mess with the men.

It wasn't until four weeks later someone finally told her that meant to eat her meals with them.

My Usual Self-Questionnaire.
What's playing? Johnny Gawd's "Triple"
How am I feeling? Why? Alright, I have a few complaints, but I'm trying to think positively, even in the midst of my cold. But who am I kidding? I'm a cynic and everyone knows it. This cold positively sucks.
Website Reco? None today.

::: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 :::

::: posted by Spook at Wednesday, February 11, 2004 | |  

• There's an old proverb to say just about whatever you want it to.


• Tussman's Law: Nothing is as inevitable as a mistake whose time has come.


• Excerpt from National Lampoon's "Deteriorada" Remember that whatever misfortune may be your lot,it could only be worse in Cleveland.


• There are three types of lies: Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics.


• Old soldiers never die, young ones do.


• Some people in this department wouldn't recognize subtlety if it hit them on the head.
• "It's bad luck to be superstitious." - Andrew W. Mathis


• Murphy's Law of Research: Enough research will tend to support your theory.


• Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well. - Aristotle


• Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday

Obviously, I found some of my old stuff. I had it backed up on the web somewhere and ran into the file. It had all stuff I had already used, but there was still some stuff I can still use. Horrah!

My Usual Self-Questionnaire.
What's playing? Powerman 5000's "Automatic"
How am I feeling? Why? I'm SIIIICK! *whine*
Website Reco? None today... too lazy from everything.

::: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 :::

::: posted by Spook at Tuesday, February 10, 2004 | |  

SO, WHAT DO CANADIANS HAVE TO BE PROUD OF?

1. Smarties

2. Crispy Crunch, Coffee Crisp

3. The size of our footballs fields and one less down

4. Baseball is Canadian

5. Lacrosse is Canadian

6. Hockey is Canadian

7. Basketball is Canadian

8. Apple pie is Canadian

9. Mr. Dress-up kicks Mr. Rogers ass

10. Tim Hortons kicks Dunkin' Donuts ass

11. In the war of 1812, started by America, Canadians pushed the Americans back...past their 'White House'. Then we burned it...and most of Washington, under the command of William Lyon MaKenzie King who
was insane and hammered all the time. We got bored because they ran away, so we came home and partied...Go figure..

12.Canada has the largest French population that never surrendered to Germany.

13. We have the largest English population that never ever surrendered or withdrew during any war to anyone. anywhere. EVER.

14. Our civil war was fought in a bar and it lasted a little over an hour.

15. The only person who was arrested in our civil war was an American mercenary, who slept in & missed the whole thing... but showed up just in time to get caught.

16. We knew plaid was cool far before Seattle caught on.

17. The Hudsons Bay Company once owned over 10% of the earth's surface and is still around as the worlds oldest company.

18. The average dog sled team can kill and devour a full grown human in under 3 minutes.

19. We still know what to do with all the parts of a buffalo.

20. We don't marry our kin-folk.

21. We invented ski-doos, jet-skis, velcro, zippers, insulin, penicillin, zambonis, the telephone and short wave radios that save countless lives each year.

22. We ALL have frozen our tongues to something metal and lived to tell about it.

23. A Canadian invented Superman.

24. We have colured money.

25. Our beer advertisments kick ass

BUT MOST IMPORTANT!

The handles on our beer cases are big enough to fit your hands with mitts on. OOOoohhhhh Canada!!

And we don't bomb our allies. Oh yeah... and our elections only take one day.

My Usual Self-Questionnaire.
What's playing? The sound of my LED-lighted computer cooling fans
How am I feeling? Why? Ankle's sore.. back is sore... I feel alive, somehow.
Website Reco? Madonna wannabe [Link] Wouldn't you do the same thing if a coworker were annoying the hell out of you? I would. I have a few binders laying around my desk too.

::: Monday, February 09, 2004 :::

::: posted by Spook at Monday, February 09, 2004 | |  

To make things easier for all of us, please notice this
Important Notice About Notices...

You may have noticed the increased number of notices for you to
notice. We notice that some of our notices have been noticed.
On the other hand, some of our notices have not been noticed.
This is very noticeable. It is noticed that the responses to
the notices have been noticeably unnoticeable. This notice is
to remind you to notice the notices and respond to the Notices
because we do not want the noticed to go unnoticed.

My Usual Self-Questionnaire.
What's playing? Moist's "Resurrection"
How am I feeling? Why? Alright, it's Monday morning and I haven't gone to work yet, just waiting for breakfast to heat up.
Website Reco? Murder [Link] A twisted game of tag. Murder is similar to the game of "tag" except that when you get tagged you're not "it"; you're dead. The game is played in a dark, abandoned house and only the use of flashlights gets you from room to room. Before each game, one of the players is picked at random to be the "murderer". Only the murderer and the game master know who the murderer is. During the game the murderer tries to "murder" all of the other players by tapping them on the shoulder and whispering "you're dead." The game is won when the murderer successfully murders all of the other players, or when one of the players correctly identifies the murderer. Sounds fun, huh?

::: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 :::

::: posted by Spook at Wednesday, February 04, 2004 | |  

Certain old men prefer to rise at dawn, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach and otherwise mortifying the flesh. They then point with pride to these practices as the cause of their sturdy health and ripe years; the truth being that they are hearty and old, not because of their habits, but in spite of them. The reason we find only robust persons doing this thing is that it has killed all the others who have tried it. - Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

My Usual Self-Questionnaire.
What's playing? Drain's "Black"
How am I feeling? Why? Tired. Too much thinking being done recently.
Website Reco? Stupid Madonna wannabe! [Link] She got what she deserved at the end. HAHAH!

::: Monday, February 02, 2004 :::

::: posted by Spook at Monday, February 02, 2004 | |  

I made a stupid error and lost all the hard work I did reviewing and saving stuff to post here. I lost it all ... well.. it gets technical. I just lost it in a save error. So, there isn't going to be a "Wisdom [2/2" unless I find similar stuff.

My Usual Self-Questionnaire.
What's playing? Amorphis' "Smithereens"
How am I feeling? Why? Stiff, sore and tired. Just came from drop-in volleyball at the Rec Centre.
Website Reco? America's Army [Link] The official U.S. army game.
In 1999, a colonel presented his idea to some big shot in personnel and the wheels on the project began to turn and now it's alive!

Basically, you go through training then graduate onto multiplayer operations in small units and eventually become green berets. It provides players with the most authentic military experience available, from exploring the development of Soldiers in individual and collective training to their deployment in simulated missions in the War on Terror. Players complete individual and collective training missions drawn from the Special Forces Assignment and Selection (SFAS) process. Players who complete the SFAS process have the opportunity to take on elite Special Forces roles and are qualified to play in multiplayer missions with units ranging from the elite 82d Airborne Division to the 75th Ranger Regiment.

HOLY $#!* dudes and dudettes! This stuff is REAL training. Hmm... Sounds like a good edge to have in paintball.