Being a Red Green fan, I feel obligated to add a little duct tape culture to my pages, even if this is a first time. Here goes:

Rule Number One: This is a rule that can get you through life. If it ain't stuck and it's supposed to be, duct tape it.

Fastener Fastener: When repairing anything, place the temporarily removed screws, bolts, nuts and washers on a strip ofduct tape so you don't lose them.

Cruise Control I: Wad up a bunch of duct tape and place it under the gas pedal. A little pressure and you're stylin' low-tech!

Cruise Control II: On the long straight-aways tape the steering wheel to the dash, sit back and relax.

Clean Velcro: Do you know that fuzz that gets stuck on velcro strips? You guessed it: duct tape.

But... if you have duct tape, why would you need velcro?

Recipes:
1. 1 Wheel barrow stocked with a 6-pack + 2 bicycles and riders + 1 umbrella + lots of duct tape = human-powered golf cart
2. Magic marker + duct tape = label maker

Cookout Combo: Duct tape the handles of a spatula and a flyswatter together and you'll have the ultimate in cookout insect control.

Treepod: For those camera group shots while you're all out in the woods, duct tape a camera to a tree.

If you're an amateur film-maker and you're making a blair witch-esque file, duct tape a camcorder to your leg... legpod.

Understated Bumper Sticker: Add a strip of tape to the tail-end of your vehicle and it will speak for itself. No slogans needed.

Prank: Duct tape some large bubble wrap to a friend's car tire (preferably front and/or rear passenger side) and when they drive away, they'll wonder what that noise is... or that someone is shooting at them.

My Usual Self-Questionnaire.
What's playing? Ocean's Eleven. Good movie.
What was the last TV show you watched? Watching it.
What was the last thing you complained about? Cold hands from biking out in this windy weather.
How am I feeling? Why? Doin' fine.
Website Reco? The Mischke Poem [Link] Michael Crouser wrote and recited a great poem for AM 1500 "KSTP" which plays on the air occasionally. Here it is.

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This guy deserves our eyes. [Link] Go read.

My Usual Self-Questionnaire.
What's playing? Marilyn Manson - The Beautiful People
What was the last TV show you watched? I dunno...
What was the last thing you complained about? My meds wore off and I was starting to feel the full effects of my cold again.
Who was the last person you complimented and what did you say? Thanks for asking. To a coworker.
What was the last thing you threw away? Snotrag
How am I feeling? Why? Slowly getting better, my advil cold and sinus is taking effect.
Website Reco? Advil [Link] Thank you advil!

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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron. Dwight Eisenhower, April 16, 1953

This guy was prez while the world fought the nazis. I wonder what he would have to say while we're fighting the al-Queda? I wonder if he knew what "collateral damage" means to us today? I wonder how pissed off he'd be if nazis flew a couple exploding blimps into the Empire State building back then? We'd see a whole different side of him, that's for sure.

You can make it illegal,
but you can't make it unpopular.

... Any resemblance between the above views and those of my employer, my terminal, or the view out my window are purely coincidental. Any resemblance between the above and my own views is non-deterministic. The question of the existence of views in the absence of anyone to hold them is left as an exercise for the reader. The question of the existence of the reader is left as an exercise for the second god coefficient. (A discussion of non-orthogonal, non-integral polytheism is beyond the scope of this article.)

Lowbrow Moment:
My own personal great mystery of life:

Why is it you go weeks without biting your tongue, and then do it 7 times over the course of 2 hours?

Three words: Temporary Tard Syndrome.

My Usual Self-Questionnaire.
What's playing? Amorphis - Morning Star
What was the last TV show you watched? Dead Like Me. Episode 5(?), Reapercussions
What was the last thing you complained about? Being tired.
Who was the last person you complimented and what did you say? I dunno, I was grumpy today.
What was the last thing you threw away? Bike lock wrapper
How am I feeling? Why? Sleepy... hungry...
Website Reco? Lindsay's Technical Books [Link] Weird books for tinkerers and mad scientists! Hmm... some of this looks interesting...

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* Daved joins the room
ApriL> lol
skeas> lol
skeas> so
skeas> I need loving?
skeas> ApriL, what do you look like?
Daved> nice pick up line.
skeas> thanks :)
skeas> I try my damn near hardest
Dahvied> i gotta try and remember that one when i'm piss drunk and can't see straight.
ApriL> short fat and ugly :P
Daved> dude, your foot's in the door.
* Dahvied narrates
ApriL> and getting married in 18 days ;)
Daved> she's still not completely spoken for
skeas> my woman is coming in here
Daved> the plot thickens
ApriL> lol

I think you people need some more links from me:

• NEW MESSAGE PADS [Link] Come to think of it, this is all that really happens.


• MESSAGE PAD - WHILE YOU WERE OUT GETTING STONED [Link] "Er Ah I forgot..." heheheh


• IMPORTANT OSHA BULLETIN [Link] Useful.


• MEETINGS - THE PRACTICAL ALTERNATIVE TO REAL WORK [Link] A nice poster for uplifting the spirits of a listless office worker.


• A Bizarre Twist of Fate [Link] Was it... murder?


• The Singhsons! [Link] This is a good Simpsons parody, worth the wait time for it to start playing.

My Usual Self-Questionnaire.
What's playing? Static-X - Otsegolation
What was the last TV show you watched? American Hot Rod, last night, they were building a car completely out of aluminum.
What was the last thing you complained about? I have little time to play my rented game
Who was the last person you complimented and what did you say? I forget, I had had too many beers by that point to remember.
What was the last thing you threw away? Tea bag for my morning tea.
How am I feeling? Why? I'm feeling a lot of self-inflicted pain (soreness from working out and hangover) but otherwise doing fine. I'm paying my dues.
Website Reco? Justin Schlecter's portfolio of intricate geometric paperclip sculptures [Link] It's paperclip art! I did something like this one boring day back in the 90's while I had a summer job... he's done paperclip art much better than my 1-piece, 2-D masterpieces.

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