Funny baby shirts

Found around the net...















Most shirts from CafePress.com or TShirtHell.com (warning, some stuff very offensive)

A 10 cent ring and the net '96

Make a ring out of a dime - too cool:
cleanstream.net/mirrors/coin_ring

How did major coprorate web sites look in 1996? Funny by today's standards.
www.msu.edu/~karjalae/internet96.htm

Pet the pretty shark

So, while feeding the baby I watched a show on sharks on PBS. I always figured that when sharks saw people in the water they think something like "so, you've been evolving these past 150 million years. isn't that cute. but you're still made of food." Well these guys wanted to show how much they've learned about shark behavior with quite a demonstration. While free diving, they're armed with nothing but a stick and their wits. Then they pet a 15-foot great white shark. Then "ride" it. And this isn't a mountain dew commercial.

Oh yea, from a platform on the boat where they could easily be grabbed by the shark, they grab its snout so it'll open its jaws up. Guess they know what they're doing, but as a child of the 70's where one of my first scary movies was Jaws, this is not something I recommend...

Date night of steel

We had a date night on Sunday! Very nice to go out to dinner and a movie, Superman Returns. Here's my quick review: don't bother. It was not a bad movie at all, but certainly not worth full price. Wait till it arrives in the cheap theatre or on video.

Gah-ah!

At about 20 minutes into the World Cup final, Evie let out a "gah-ah" sound. Clearly, she was doing her best to yell Gooooooooal to celebrate Italy's beautiful play, tying the match.In the second half when Italy's second goal was called off due to an offsides, she started crying. I'm positive it was her getting in touch with her Italian blood - all one eights of it. Really, it had nothing to do with her daddy, who was holding her at the time, when he yelled "gaaaaaaah-ah".

Congrats Italy. But penalty kicks are an anticlimactic way to choose a champion.

Cute pictures always being added

Just a little reminder that new pix are uploaded every now and then to the pix site. Wouldn't want anyone to miss the latest smiling faces.

For a random neat link of the day, check out what an expert can do with an etch-a-sketch.

Lastly, for some impressive carving in an alternative medium, check out these watermelon carvings.

No fashion sense

Someone used the phrase "the devil wears prada" to me. I had no idea what that meant, so I asked and was informed that it was a movie title. Having trouble parsing the last word, I asked if they meant Pravda, now curious about a potentially interesting political film. Sadly, I was informed that prada was indeed the correct pronunciation, because it referred to something in the fashion world. While a little disappointed at the time, upon reflection I am happy for two points:

1. I had no idea this fluff movie existed


2. I had no idea that prada is a well-known fashion thing

Also for reference, I would appreciate it if nobody tried to enlighten me on a more precise definition of prada. I do not want to know if it's a style, color, kind of garment, person or company. Thanks for understanding.

Thanks, Senator, for that internets primer

I almost posted this on the political blog, but it's really just straight humor, no matter the source.

First, a little background. Senator Ted Stevens is the guy who DEMANDED that a $223M bridge be built in his state of Alaska, to serve the 50 or so people that live on the island to be bridged to. This was part of a bill that included the down payment on a half BILLION dollar bridge to a nearly deserted port in Anchorage. He threw a fit on the floor of the Senate when it was suggested that some of that money would be better served rebuilding the Interstate 10 bridge across Lake Ponchartrain wiped out by hurricane Katrina. (ok, brief political commentary: with extreme big-governement-spending waste like that at the expense of people in need, there's no problem guessing which party he's with)

Here's part of his explanation on why internet services like Google should be taxed out of existence, and those taxes be given to the giant telecom corporations:

I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why?

Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the internet commercially...


They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the internet. And again, the internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck.

It's a series of tubes.


And if you don't understand those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and its going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.

Really, you can't make stuff this bizarre up. What a loon. I don't begrudge him for not knowing anything about "the internets", but if you don't know, don't make up something so bizarre.
Anyhoo, here's a link to that reference on boing boing, and the longer quote on Wired.