The Wikipedia article for GWB’s term of endearment for his chief of staff Karl Rove needs verification. To put it another way. it doesn’t pass the sniff test.

If you are patient, try looking at this clip of Karl Rove rapping with the Whose Line is it Anyway? crew. Is Wayne Brady gonna have to…?

If you prefer to hear people talk about him check this out.

A Salon commentator chose to use this clip to make his case against these conservative journalists . I don’t watch TV. I am offended by the way they talk, it doesn’t really even matter what they are saying.

I am not easily offended. One of the very few things that does offend me is celebrities who glorify drug abuse. Denial, I can accept as a symptom of the disease, but cashing in on what they think is cool about drug abuse is just really sick and crass. Steve-O is someone who offends me in this way. He has a lot of fans. They expect him to die young and they think that is cool, it is NOT cool.

Drug Treatment is, unfortunately, not cool either. But effective drug treatment can offer drug users a new lease on life. The Watershed treatment programs are effective. Their website is the best drug treatment site I have seen so far. It has content like video and profiles of alumni. It has an option to chat live over the internet with a real counselor. The best words I saw on the site were ‘Cannot Afford Treatment? Call Anyway. We Can Help.’ I haven’t seen words like that written elsewhere, and I don’t think it was even inferred.

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I may have to go back and revise some of the critical posts that I made about Joost on my technology blog, because today I watched Mr. Magoo cartoons on Joost. No pausing, excellent quality (well as good as it gets anyway)…there was just one problem…I got bored after about 15 minutes.

There really only is one joke in this cartoon. Mr. Magoo is near sighted and gets confused. I think that the producers of the show must have been very self-censoring. The show is so innocent that it is kind of spooky. Watching it is kind of like exhuming McCarthy.

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Jean Claude is BackgammonMasters’ mascot. He is part of an educational and entertaining experience that helps beginners learn backgammon basics and strategies. He also helps experienced players improve. His primary function is to make learning the game fun. The video featuring Jeane Claude is truly great entertainment. I have not learned to play backgammon. I have witnessed people having fun playing it. Trying to learn it was not fun.

Games like backgammon have failed to capture my interest in the past. I think my cumulative knowledge of various games has largely been left to chance. I learned the games of choice in whatever environments I ended up having free time. I remember free time. It is such a sweet commodity. If you have it, relish it.

Now, if had a computer that allowed me to access a funky, furry backgammon tutor/mentor/master back when I had free time, I might be a backgammon player today. I think it is probably a great game. It seems very suitable for playing outside at sun-drenched cafes. No cards to blow away for one thing. And it looks suitably sophisticated.

If I get involved with backgammon, the online version will probably take a backseat to the tactile pleasure of playing with a real backgammon set. Of course you need a real partner for that, so I guess the online gameplay would be a good backup.

I have another blog in a very strange corner of the web. I recently started a practice of editing timestamps as a sort of allegory. I won’t do it on this blog so don’t worry, everything here was posted when it says it was posted…or was it?

Maybe I wrote this very post from some time in the distant future. Maybe I didn’t even use a computer. Maybe I jokingly posted this from an era where humans can publish things on the internet via an implant in their brains. I’ve already told you too much…

I did not have the traumatic childhood experience pictured here. If it had happened, I would have spent the time that I was stuck to the pole trying to figure out WHY I was stuck to the pole.

Sci-Edge is a social environment for people with a passion for science. I took a clock apart to see how it worked when I was a child. I took apart the sewing machine. Now my curiousity is mostly directed at code and finding flaws in conspiracy theories. I have figured out why food goes bad and I have come to terms with the law of gravity.

I do love to read about scientific discoveries. I annoyed my wife today with a question about what society would be like if humans had exoskeletons. That would make for a good discussion on Sci-Edge. My wife didn’t want to talk about it. It is free to join Sci-Edge.

I learned through an innocent social activity on the Internet that he plural form of penis is penii. It’s weird that I didn’t know that, I took a university course in reproductive physiology. I guess I only have one and it’s the only one that I have really been concerned with. Hence the absence of penii from my vocabulary.

Paparazzi is a plural word. They are a bunch of dicks. I thought I would try and help improve people’s vocabularies by teaching them the singular form of this word. It is rarely used because they tend to be identified by their mobbing behavior. If you saw a paparazzo on the street by himself, you might assume he is just a guy with a camera.

AIMpromote lead management system claims to be the fastest growing lead management and website analytics software provider.

I wish I had a business that was in a position to need sales lead management. Right now a whiteboard is my main management tool. One guy makes really cool cartoon scenarios that obliterate the titles of finished projects.

I really like one particular part of AIMpromote’s business model. Regardless of the package that a client chooses, they all get all the features of the software. Pricing is based on usage. This makes their pricing competitive and I think it should make them a more attractive option for companies that are planning to grow. I think that includes just about everybody.

They have a free trial. This is going to be yet another business tool that will have me referring back to my own blog when we have our little talk about business evenings. I like those better than the talk about our relationship evenings.

I try to be funny. The title of this blog is sarcastic. It is from a lame late 80’s Canadian rock song.

There is a bit of a personal connection to the term, but it is very tenuous. When my wife was in her late teens, she was working as a chef in a trendy Toronto restaurant that used to serve the occasional celebrity. One day a record company called up and made a reservation for a big table. One of my wife’s close friends at the restaurant was beside himself in a very gay way (not that there is anything wrong with it) because he was SURE that the Hothouse Flowers were coming for dinner. My wife was pleased with this prospect as well.

He was wrong. The table was, to their total dismay, for The Northern Pikes.

These old Canadian music videos never seem to get flagged for copyright issues.

The range of activities that I have been involved with that were referred to as camping are pretty wide ranging. I think the litmus test of whether or not something is camping for me is INDOOR PLUMBING. If you have access to that, then it isn’t really camping.

I think I’ll start from the comfortable end of the spectrum an work my way down.

The pictures of camping trips appearing to go well at Jules’ blog called CampingCoop make me want to go tenting soon. Now that I live farther south, I need to do the tenting before it gets too hot.

There are supplies and know how that can make most of these camping scenarios better. If you don’t have to carry everything on your back, cast iron cookware like the stuff being used in this Camp Stew post by Jules is a great idea. Something I would suggest to coffee lovers is a French press, and of course a pot or kettle to boil water. I did a lot of camping as a teenager and I think I tried just about every product that can be made by adding boiled water…coffee tea, hot chocolate oatmeal, cup-a-soup. I even tried using old brewed tea to make cup-a-soup, not so good.

Flashlights are probably the most important camping accessory. If you have a good flashlight and a video camera and lots of fear, you can make an indie movie. Just please don’t make a sequel.