n00b! [Link] (JK Deaf! Peace!) But this guy has an awesome blog radio happening.

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There's this thing happening next week at the BlueBerry Festival. [Link] It's kind of a draw, in fact it IS a draw. It's called "Blueberry Tumble and Race." You see, people buy one or more of a thousand numbered "blueberries" (which are golf balls painted blue) for ten bucks each and come draw time, the golf balls are all tossed into cement mixer truck and then they're dumped down a ramp and a series of troughs. The first 15 numbered balls to reach the troughs win the various donated prizes.

I don't know about you, but I think it reeks of "small town" stench.

In other news... there's a list of events on that page. There's 90 events happening, so it should be quite fun here in Sioux Lookout [Link] for the next week or so.

Linkfest

• Beer.Com [Link] I got an e-mail here, see if it works: visiting at beer dot com. They also got beer girls and.... articles and beer girls and... beer and beer girls and... I dunno. *hic* AND BEER!
• Project Euh? [Link] Digital weirdness in Flash. And you thought my site was weird. HOHO! NO! This takes the cake!
• Preparing For Emergencies [Link] An As Twisted By Dave Public Service Announcement
• ImagiNail [Link] Stick your hand into a printer, get your nails printed on. This puts some manicurist-artists out of work.
• Southern Wurds [Link] Hyuk hyuk hyuk!
• GREAT BOXING KNOCKOUT SHOT [Link] WHAMMO!
• 'CAT' DOORMAT [Link] me-OW!
• If Dogs Wrote Letters to God... [Link] I would have imagined it being more like "woof woof bark bow wow wook ruff woof woof WOOF WOOF"
• MOTORCYCLE MOUTH [Link] HIGH SPEED HIJINX
• Cereal Mascots EXPOSED! [Link] Sonny The Cuckoo [for coco puffs] Bird is proof that chocolate is just legal crack. And in other news Mr. Sugar Bear... (just read it)
• The Complete Guide to Isometric Pixel Art [Link] This is a lowbrow artform. But an artform nonetheless. I think I may take it up.
• Typo Generator [Link] Makes excellent images of some text you enter.

My Usual Self-Questionnaire.
What's playing? Enter The Matrix on my PS2 [Link]
What was the last TV show or movie you watched? The Warriors [Link] An old 70's gang movie about a gang (that warriors) being framed for a murder and having to fight their way home.
What was the last thing you complained about? Nothing much today... I turned a corner, bumped my shoulder, lost my balance for a second, regained it and I guess my complaint would be me elbowing the wall as punishment for it causing me to lose my balance.
What was the last thing you threw away? Dinner scraps. Bones from baked chicken. Shake and bake! [Link]
How am I feeling? Why? Good, good.... no reason. Just been an okay day. HEY! I've been posting a lot this week! Cool!
Complete this: "The Weather Is..." Outside. [Link] [Link] (#1 smartass!)

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"Welcome to: Sioux lookout, Ont.." [Link]

As done by Icon Village. [Link] (This also works [Link] Heheh, they have a dot com address pointing to a subdirectory on execulink) A pretty good page, too bad it's not current. (Lynn's Cafe is still listed, and she sold that to Neil, who shut it down earlier this year) They also have a page that gives job offers, so if you're bored and wish for "unlimited growth opportunities" (HAHAH) How many employees (or associates, whatever) do they have? Two. They did a good job for 4250 Canadian cities online. They definitely do not update often... why do I konw? The Stanley Cup results are still posted as current. Damn, I don't need the reminder... GO FLAMES IN 04-05!!!

Another excerpt from Dave Barry's "What is Electricity?"

Here is a simple experiment that will teach you an important electrical lesson: On a cool, dry day, scuff your feet along a carpet, then reach your hand into a friend's mouth and touch one of his dental fillings. Did you notice how your friend twitched violently and cried out in pain? This teaches us that electricity can be a very powerful force, but we must never use it to hurt others unless we need to learn an important electrical lesson.

It also teaches us how an electrical circuit works. When you scuffed your feet, you picked up batches of "electrons", which are very small objects that carpet manufacturers weave into carpets so they will attract dirt. The electrons travel through your bloodstream and collect in your finger, where they form a spark that leaps to your friend's filling, then travels down to his feet and back into the carpet, thus completing the circuit.

Amazing Electronic Fact: If you scuffed your feet long enough without touching anything, you would build up so many electrons that your finger would explode! But this is nothing to worry about unless you have carpeting.

My Usual Self-Questionnaire.
What's playing? Garbage - Cup of Coffee Lyrics: [Link] Band: [Link]
What was the last TV show or movie you watched? Oblivious, on Spike TV (I really should add spike tv to my sidebar, huh? I watch enough of it.)
What was the last thing you complained about? I just sat through four consecutive episodes of Oblivious... It was getting ridiculous, they need more variety... Mind you.. before that I had sat through a couple episodes of Real TV Oblivious [Link] SpikeTV [Link] Real TV [Link]
Who was the last person you complimented and what did you say? Thanks for pointing this out - to my buddy for waiting for me to read a lowbrow moment at the DotOrg counterpart.
What was the last thing you threw away? Wrapper for butter tarts. Yum.
How am I feeling? Why? Hot and sweaty.
Website Reco? HomeRun [Link] It's nowhere NEAR related to baseball. You gotta keep the drunk guy steady while he walks home. See how far you can get. My best score is 246 meters before he hit the walkway and started snoring. It's kinda fun, but the sounds are kinda annoying.
Complete this: "The Weather Is..." Still muggy, but cooling down a little bit. It would have helped if I hadn't biked home fast. [Link] [Link]

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Excerpt from Dave Barry's "What is Electricity?"

After [Benjamin] Franklin came a herd of Electrical Pioneers whose names have become part of our electrical terminology: Myron Volt, Mary Louise Amp, James Watt, Bob Transformer, etc. These pioneers conducted many important electrical experiments. For example, in 1780 Luigi Galvani discovered (this is the truth) that when he attached two different kinds of metal to the leg of a frog, an electrical current developed and the frog's leg kicked, even though it was no longer attached to the frog, which was dead anyway. Galvani's discovery led to enormous advances in the field of amphibian medicine. Today, skilled veterinary surgeons can take a frog that has been seriously injured or killed, implant pieces of metal in its muscles, and watch it hop back into the pond just like a normal frog, except for the fact that it sinks like a stone.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science,
the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!)
but "That's funny ..." - Isaac Asimov

My Usual Self-Questionnaire.
What's playing? Eric Clapton's Tears in Heaven Lyrics: [Link] The Man: [Link]
What was the last TV show or movie you watched? Uh... the beginning of a boring movie about a preggo woman who accidentally took someone else's identity... I forget what it's called.. And before that: The Whole Ten Yards. It was hilarious
What was the last thing you complained about? That boring movie.
What was the last thing you threw away? Brekky scraps.
How am I feeling? Why? Hmm... still tired. *yawn*
Website Reco? From Heaven to Hell [Link] That is one BIG drawing!
Complete this: "The Weather Is..." Muggy. [Link] [Link]

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padawan.info / an apprentice weblog [Link] A weblog primer.
I got an e-mail asking what "blog" means... What were you doing? Living under a rock?

Here's some more in case you're still confused. [Link] The final version of weblog definition.

Linkfest

• The Cyborg Name Generator [Link] I got a couple of these...
• 7-year-old guns down egg-stealing snake [Link] With father's help, Kayla aimed to do something about it
• LIGHTNING STRIKE IN BEIJING CHINA [Link] From Strange Cosmos.
• AWESOME MESOCYCLONE IN KANSAS - 9 TORNADOS [Link]
• Storm Pic [Link] From Yahoo!

My Usual Self-Questionnaire.
What's playing? Amorphis - Morning Star
What was the last TV show or movie you watched? Mythbusters. A good show disproving myths and incredible acts.
What was the last thing you complained about? Hmm... Yesterday's heat. It's gonna be another hot day again today.
Who was the last person you complimented and what did you say? Don't remember... I think I melted a bit yesterday.
What was the last thing you threw away? Tossed some used icecubes in the fridge... I ran out of water and wasn't thirsty anymore last night.
How am I feeling? Why? I'm dreading something... can't put my finger on it, but I don't want to leave the sanctity of my room.
Website Reco? So You Want To Learn Japanese. [Link] You've eaten at a few Japanese restaurants, seen some anime, hosted an exchange student, and had a Japanese girlfriend. And now, somewhere in the back of your tiny brain, you think that Japanese would be a good language to learn. Hey, you could translate video games! Or Manga! Or even Anime! Pick up Japanese girls, impress your friends! Maybe you'll even go to Japan and become an anime artist! Yeah! Sounds like a great idea! WRONG!
Complete this: "The Weather Is..." Hot-Sunny. [Link] [Link]

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