Monthly Archives: June 2007

If not for the Internet…

…what would hap­pen to old voca­tional films?

Poor kitteh

Man indicted on kitten-killing charge
This news story hor­ri­fied me and any­one I know with even a scrap of a heart.
TROY — A 44-year-old city man was indicted this morn­ing on felony charges he kicked his 6-week-old kit­ten to death for defe­cat­ing on the floor.
The grand jury handed up a sin­gle count of aggra­vated cru­elty to ani­mals against

Blogger 4 Hire

Okay. I’m into this Payper­post thing and all, but the new ser­vice they have where they let blog­gers hire them­selves out so they can make money off what­ever any­one wants to hire them for is intrigu­ing. PayPer­Post Direct, it’s called. I had to stop and think it through before I got used

Up in your grill

Mmmm.…robin steaks.
I love it! The clos­est to this I’ve ever come was wasp nests in our grill.
Jack is not hold­ing up well in the heat. He drinks a lot of water and tends to flop over in his wheel in order to have some air cir­cu­lat­ing. He does not appre­ci­ate being wiped down with a

Stephen Colbert would be proud.

A town in South Car­olina (ha!) ended its sum­mer read­ing pro­gram after con­cern from a local church about occult con­tent.
It’s like polit­i­cal cor­rect­ness run amok, but in the other direction.

Fantastic animation

My friend Andrea from Top­Five put together a a stick figure-filled video that makes an already extremely funny song (one of my favorite Coul­ton songs, actu­ally) and adds jokes to it. Includ­ing a cat macro. I’m very proud of her. I’ve tried com­puter ani­ma­tion in the past, and I just haven’t the

PC load letter?

Final score:
Fax machine 3, Laurie 0

Round 1

Lau­rie vs. Fax Machine
Lau­rie: 0
Fax Machine: 1

A word from our bloggers

I’ve never been keen on the idea of ads on blogs. Back in the day when I used Blog­ger (last week), I had Adsense ads on my blog. Pop­u­lar blogs can make a lot of money off those, and for me it’s enter­tain­ing to see what comes up, but I think I gleaned

compyrama

*squeal­ing* And I actu­ally have a com­puter pow­er­ful enough to run it!
Oh, and there’s Safari for Win­dows now, but the inevitable ques­tion there is “why?”