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Your tax dollars at work:I think the part I like the best is "championed by second and third graders." It must have been a lot of work for those kids. Late nights pawing through reports followed by up-all-night binge drinking when the bill was finally signed. I did the same thing this weekend, except the only bill I was mulling over was whether or not to pay $15 for 2 hours of "all you can drink."

By the way, it passed unanimously. But was rejected a few hours later in The Metro.

There's an absolutely wonderful story in Wired today. Camera Van Brakes for Close-Ups is about a guy, Shaun Irving, who transformed a 1987 mail truck and assorted lenses and turned them into the world's largest traveling camera.An absolute great story - especially after you visit his site and read about what his future plans are:

When is it a good time to stop hiking naked along the length of Britain? Apparently not after you've been arrested 8 times, had an examination at a psychiatric hospital and having spent several nights in jail. Not even getting beaten up will deter Steve Gough from accomplishing his goal. The Suntimes reports that the hiker in the buff won't let arrests stop him.

Ok, so while surfing around a bit tonight I came across the Orisinal web site. Absolutely AMAZING! Put aside the fact that this guys has some CrAzY Flash skills and just look at his drawing style. Every one of his games are unique and beautiful, and above all FUN! Please, some day when you have 27 hours to spare check out his site and let me know what you think...

Soon, the United States Postal Service (USPS) could be tracking your letters to grandma by using barcodes or special stamps, identifying, at a minimum, the sender, the destination and the class of mail. And of course privacy watchdogs worry that requiring sender identification for all mail presents serious risks to civil liberties.

Sign the petition to stop God from making bad things happen.

George W. Bush is now not only a president, but also an action figure.I swear to God... if you buy this doll you should seek some serious counseling. Although, I'll just hold out and wait to see all of the wonderful homemade videos that will be made starring this action figure. And yes, I do believe he and Ken will be servicing each other - some how.

TOTALLY shmomosexual... totally.

You Are Beautiful (via TMN) - No really, you are. But this isn't about YOU now is it? Why does it always have to be about you.

Of course the big news yesterday and today is the massive power-outage that affected most of northeast. Although New York City seemed to be getting all of the coverage my hometown of Syracuse was even hit. If you try to visit the site now all you get is a blog discussing the power outage because the web servers are still down. I did find myself watching at least a little bit of it on TV last night. I wasn't so captivated by it - I have my priorities - besides, Pyramid was on and for some reason I like that show.

Eddie called me at work yesterday to tell me about the power-outage and the first thing he said was "We're at war again!" I didn't believe him but felt the need to shout out the message to everyone else at work. Of course, we were not at war. The blackout was not caused by terrorists but by idiots who failed to protect the power grid. It's reassuring to know that in one fell swoop someone could take out the power grid leaving many states helpless. It was predicted 2 years ago by David Cook, general counsel for the nation's electric reliability organization, that the system was going to crash.

In lighter news, Amy returns this afternoon/evening from a week-long visit with her grandmother. It has been a long and interesting week without her here. Needless to say I am welcoming her return with open arms. I can't wait to see her again.

If you check out Apple's web site today you'll notice that the G5's started shipping. Single processors only. The Dual-ies are later this year. I don't know of anyone personally who has ordered one, though. I'm thinking that the Apple stores should have them in them soon, if they aren't there already.

Have you seen The Life of David Gale? Another great movie with Kevin Spacey. And aside from the film alone, the music was very good. I think this a soundtrack that Amy would like to own - keep that in mind.

You know what's fun to do from time to time - searching the internet for information about yourself. It seems selfish, I know, but there is something neat about finding old posts that I made in 1999 to rec.music.tori-amos. Just look for poohbear@writeme.com. The address of which no longer exists so spam it all you like.

mmmm Tori - I wonder if she's touring soon?

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?! She was here August 10th! CURSES!

The California govenor recall election is a little cooky, don't you think? I mean, Arnold Schwarzenegger is evening running - and he looks good to win right now. CrAzY times we live in. So, luckily Taco Bell has come along to make the election seem even less important. It's the Taco Bell Recall Election Taco Poll. Californian Taco Bells are tallying votes for particular candidates based on the type of taco (or burrito) you purchase. For instance, purchase a beef crunchy taco and TB will count that as a vote for Arnold. Makes sense to me. (via TMN)

And speaking of recalling politicians - there's a site campaigning for Bush's recall. I'm tempted to sign the petition myself.

Cubs are sucking it up - they had the chance to pull ahead by half a game but instead, they are now a game and a half out of first. Bah to the Cubs. Tonight is Elvis Night at US Cellular field as the White Sox take on the Texas Rangers. At least the Sox are in first, right?

Congratulations!! I got BIG BIG news today - which makes me rather eXcited. My sister, Jennifer Miner (she's technically my step-sister but in reality she is my sister through and through) got ENGAGED! Her long-time boyfriend, Nate, proposed to her on one of the mountains in the Catskill Mountains on Sunday 24 August 2002. It's rather amusing because they have been together longer than Amy and I have and although Amy and I announced our engagement 2 years ago they have decided to wait. We would ask them, "So, when are you guys going to do this??" And they both would chuckle and smile and say, "someday." Jen was finishing grad school and this year she completed her thesis, defended it and will receive her degree this fall. So, I guess they were waiting til that moment arrived. So, this begs the question (as it always has I suppose) - which method of proposing marriage is less (or more) conventional these days? Some backgroud: Jen and Nate have been living together and they are even looking for a house together. Everyone knew they were going to get married. It was just a matter of time with them. On the other hand, I proposed to Amy just a few months after we met. I guess I think that people still announce their engagement 1 year before they get married - irregardless of the fact that they may already be living together.

I know next year when we make the "formal" announcement it won't carry half the weight. It will simply be following the rest of the wedding rules.

So it's Thursday 28 August, right before a holiday weekend. So, that can only mean one thing - I'm not working tomorrow or Monday. Quite a long weekend if you ask me. Unfortunately, tomorrow is a "forced" vacation day becuase the hospitals still aren't doing well. Bah... I have enough to do at work. These days off aren't helping me at all.

Do you think Schwarzenegger will be govenor of California? Take a look at the interview he did for Oui magazine back in 1977 a now-defunct adult magazine published by Playboy. He talks about orgies, drugs and homosexuality. Oh, what a bad bad man he was!

Dancing would be nice... maybe I'll do that at work.

Being at home is fun when the Cubs are on TV...

I missed the MTV Music Video awards and if you did too then you apparently missed the open-mouthed kiss between Madonna and Britney Spears... in case you missed it here's the pic...

And then, without missing a beat, Madonna turns around and makes out with the queen of sluts, Christina Aguilera.

What we can't see in the pictures is what is blatantly obvious on the video clips - there was a lot of tongue. Why did I miss the VMA's?