The things you find out.

I was bored today so did a google. (I guess that googling is a verb now). I'm more of a googler, in the past I was a Yahooer. (Not to be confused with being a yahoo which some people would certainly say I still am)

Anyhows, the search did turn up my site, a lot of information on some boxer and it turned up this link.

CGHIA

Go there and check it out. I actually sent Eric Kirkland an e-mail. (No, not me, that would just be plain silly now wouldn't it)

I did tell him that I'm a stand up comic and as any of you that have seen my show know all I wear are Hockey Jerseys on stage so I'm trying to get him to hook me up with one. I could be the only touring comedian with a Colorado Climax Jersey. (Ha, love that name). Just think of it, my opening bit alone on how I got the Jersey has a new ten minutes of material alone.

So if anyone reads this go to that link and ask Eric Kirkland, (no not me, the other one, remember, I'm "The Artist Formerly Known as Eric Kirkland" because so many people kept coming to my shows expecting to see a hockey game)

Question?

Where do those people on the side of the road with the "Will Work for Food" signs get such good magic markers?

Idiot of the Day?

For my "Idiot of the Day" award I could just point to the guy in the middle but then I would have the same post 365 days a year.

The Idiot of the Day award is not going to the young women in the picture either. They are members of the Northwestern Universty Women's (duh) LaCrosse Team.

The Idiot of the Day award is going to AOL who decided this was a story newsworthy of their front page. A second nod goes to the Chicago Tribune who decided to make this a front page story.

(I must admit though, where I work I do think it is kind of tacky when the women wear flip flops to work. I haven't seen any of the guys wearing sandals yet)

The issue is their is now a big controversy because the women in the photo decided to wear flip flops to the white house. (Hmm, LaCrosse players in 'comfortable' shoes. Good for the stereotype ladies)

The story did of some good quotes like this one:

''Don't even ask me about the flip-flops,'' said the mother of player Aly Josephs. ''It mortified me.''
Lady, if the thought of your daughter wearing Flip Flops "mortifies" you I hope you can handle it when she tells you she's gay! I'm willing to go out on a limb and bet about %99.9 of parents with their daughters in college WISH the only thing that they had to worry about was their daughters wore a pair of flip flops to the Whitehouse.

Another good quote:
''Nobody was wearing old beach flip-flops,'' said Josephs, who wore a $16 brown pair with rhinestones.
You think she is having one of those moments where she wish she could take that quote back. We've all been there where we have said something and didn't realize til later how stupid we sounded at the time. If you never have experienced that feeling then you are basically saying stupid things all the time and just don't realize it.

I guess being male I've learned something here. $5 flip flops=bad-$16 flip flops=fashionable.

Another quote:
''I tried to think of something that would go well with my outfit and at the same time not be that uncomfortable. But at the same time not disrespect the White House.''

There's a fashion dilemma for you ladies. Next time you co-ordinate your outfit make sure you wear shoes that are 'respectful.' Leave your Rodney Dangerfield shoes at home in the closet.

I'm not crazy but this actually bothers me.

So I'm at work today doing my 'nerd' thing taking care of computer related issues. It just so happens we have web filtering software at work since it seems to be normal human behavior to think. "Hey I'm at work, guess I'll download some porn!"

So anyway, the filter sometimes blocks the good sites also and we have to manually give access to those sites.

As I'm doing this today I noticed that for people to have access I have to put them in the "whitelist." Where do the bad ones go? You guessed it the "blacklist." I won't even get started on the computer terminology where the main drive is called the "master" and the backup drive is called the "slave." At least some manufacturers have started calling them 'primary' and 'secondary'.

As I started to think about this black and white thing it has bugged me for a while because children are basically brought up thinking white is good and black is evil. Examples you say:?

White Witch= Good Black Witch=Bad
White Magic=Good Black Magic=Bad
Cowboys in White Hats=Good Cowboys in Black Hats=Bad (O.K. that one is kind of old school)
and the topper:
Angel Food cake is white and Devils Food cake is black. What's up with that?