Happy Holiday

For those of us of the Pastafarian Faith, tomorrow begins Holiday, which will last all of December and January. Being a devout Pastafarian (complete with flimsy moral standards), I would like to wish you all a happy holiday. While I'm at it, Happy Hanukkah, happy Kwanzaa, and may your Godless, Pagan Winter Holiday be without suffering.



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It's a Mad World.

So depressing it's good.





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Greg quits....

Greg Page (the man in the yellow shirt) is quitting The Wiggles. Last year, The Wiggles made more money than Nicole Kidman and AC\DC put together. Maybe Brian Johnson should audition to replace him. And you couldn't go too wrong with Angus Young in the group, either. My roommate many years (who was also my younger brother) baby-sat our two nephews and niece, and usually had The Wiggles on in the living room. One particular day, I was in my room, and I had my TV on in the background. Out in the living room, they started singing a song involving Captain Feathersword, and in my room I had On The Record on. Greta Van Susteren is really Captain Feathersword.


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Peanuts and Outkast go together

The Peanuts do Hey Ya! I can just hear Charles M. Schulz spinning in his grave.





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Sorry Cheeseheads.....

It looks like Blitz had some cheesehead for a Monday Night snack. It was the 'Hawks first snow game. But that is irrelevant. They won the game.



Side note to my boss: The Raiders still suck.





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Now this is a Cristmas Pageant I want to see

The Flying Spaghetti Monster Holiday Pageant. Anything that teaches Flimsy Moral Standards, every Friday is a holiday, and Heaven has both a Stripper Factory and a Beer Volcano has to be good. Ramen.



BTW, fsm Holiday cards are now available, as well.





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For those of us waiting till the last minute

Or for those of use facing yet another Thanksgiving crisis:



Last-Minute Turkey Day Salvation

Happy Turkey Day

Happy Thanksgiving everyone. I'm off to Grandmas, where I will be having dinner with my parents and my Grandmother.

It's time for the Apple Cup

The U Dub is visiting Moo U for the Apple Cup. I am a fair and balanced person. I mock both schools equally:

• There was a terrible fire at the UW library. They lost all their books. Even the ones that hadn't been colored yet.
• There has been talking of putting artificial turf in Martin Stadium. If not for one key issue: Where would they let the WSU cheerleaders graze.
• The most commonly heard phrase among UW alumni: "You want fries with that?"
• The most effective way of keeping a Cougar out of your yard: simply erect a goal post.

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Something to make note of when shopping this holiday season.

Here's something to take note of when you're shopping for The Godless, Pagan Winter Holiday. Christmas never was a Christian Holy day It was celebrated long before Christianity came along, and it has become so commercialized that it is now more a secular holiday than a religious one. But that issue is for another blog posting, another day, and possibly another blog.



Anyway, Wally World in discontinuing layaway. I never used layaway when I did Christmas shopping. I have never been one of much means, and I will not go into debt for someone's Christmas present. If I had to use layaway to get someone's Christmas present, then I didn't get them that. This may sound a wee bit harsh, but materialism isn't where it's at.



My strategy for quick and painless Christmas shopping is:

1. Identify who you're shopping for. My family has practice Secret Santa (wherein you put all the family members' names into a hat, and draw one name, and that's the person you shop for) for almost twenty years. Shopping for that one person (although I do also get something special for my parents and my grandmother as well) does keep costs and stress down.
2. Set a budget. And stick to it. I have my own bills to pay, too. Just because the holiday come around doesn't mean that my/your creditors are going to give a month reprieve.
3. Scout ahead. Before you actually go shopping, go around, look inside, and take a mental note of who has what. This can be accomplished in the off-peak hours, and you can avoid the crowds and find the lowest price.
4. Have a Christmas Mule handy. I don't have a car, so all my holiday shopping is done on foot. My roommate doesn't have a car either so when one does his shopping, the other one comes along with an empty backpack to help carry stuff home.
5. Set a time limit. If you can't find what they want, then get them a gift card (interesting article on that here). I always say that if they can't find it at Target, then they don't deserve it anyway.
   
   

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The best, high quality CD player around is...

Your PS One? Apparently so. And It can play Syphon Filter (only the best video game ever), to boot. Too bad I got rid of mine when my roommate got a PS2.

Wally World pulls a godwin

Wal-Mart has been caught selling T-Shirts when the SS Death's Head Logo on it. They have already apologized and pulled the shirts, but perhaps one should drop them a note that when you say by the book, it doesn't necessarily mean Mein Kampf. Better yet, just shop at Target.

An Emergency guide we all can use.

The Bill Parcells guide to handling T. O. emergencies. Personally I think just shit-canning TO would do a lot to imrove the Cowboys performance. He's not a team player (and football is a team sport), he skipped out of most of training camp (with IMHO a fake injury), sleeps through meetings (by his own admission), cops attitudes with coaches (by his own admission), and when he takes to the field, drops The Key Pass that can win the game. On the other hand, the Cowboys upcoming game with the Cardinals will be a doozy. Especially if the Cardinals wear their mitres instead of their helmets.

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Bill Gates Embraces the Penguin (well a green lizzard more exactly)

The Anti-Christ and Novell, publisher of SuSE Linux (yes, I know that's the old spelling, but I like it better), have announced a partnership. Due to hardware issues, I usually am an exclusive windows user, but on occasions when I can dabble in Linux, I use SuSE. I hope this means good things for all. A lot of of the freeware and oss I use now is basically windows ports from Linux. Who needs Photoshop when you've got the GIMP?

Oh, and btw, I just discovered that Firefox 2.0 has a speelchequer.

Cardinals win it.

The Cardinals win the World Series. They are now the tops of The New World Order (Mind-Control Division). Although I think they were still screwed. Being cardinals, they should've at least been allowed to take to the field wearing their mitres.

At first, there was....

The Face on Mars. Now, there is the Native American listening to his IPod.

It's here!

Firefox 2.0 has officially been released. Download it here. I got mine yesterday, when someone slashdotted that it had been released (actually, it was during the five minutes that they had the ftp server address up before mozilla asked to pull the link). I already got mine.

A lot of the extensions I was using in Firefox 1.5 were old (some of them were written for pre 1.0), and it was only because I was using the Mr. Tech Local Install extension that I could use them (via the disable version check). So, I finally decided to install new ones. A lot of the old ones I was using were abandoned, and instead the authors had written new ones instead. There are still a few old ones that I have to use to maintain sanity, but functionality has not been adversly affected. The main difference between this version, and the previous version of firefox has been how tabs are handled. This never really made a difference to me, as I always used the Tabbrowser Entension, but this was the one extension that I can't get to work yet in 2.0. Maybe a new version will come out, soon.

The World Series is now set.

St. Louis Cardinals vs. the Detroit Tigers. As any reader of this blog should know by now, I really don't care for The New World Order (Mind-Control Division). Minor league baseball is ok. If I really have to go.

More Fun With Windoze

The Anti-Christ has now released Internet Exploder 7. You can get it here. I've already installed it, but I'll stick with Firefox. With all the extensions available for it (for free, even), it is by far a much better browser.

I've found my Halloween Costume

You, too can make your own Flying Spaghetti Monster crown, dress up as the Noodly Master this Halloween.