Our Neon Corona Sign

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Ever feel really, really small?

I ran across this intriguing story on another blogger's site and apparently, there is a lot of porn being "stored" or discarded in wooded areas throughout the country. What's even more interesting is that a surprising amount of guys can recall finding porn in the woods during their adolescent years. There's a whole message board of guys who can relate to having this experience during their youth. As I read this bizarre story I realized that I could relate too because me and several guys from my old neighborhood did in fact find porn in the woods not far from where we all lived. I think boys/men have some special chromosome that subconsciously attracts us to porn like a bloodhound.

• http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/22130

No one really knows why so much porn is being "left" in the woods (one can only imagine) but it seems to be huge phenomenon when you read about how many guys have found porn in the woods....at least in the age before the internet. Kids have a lot easier today but that's actually pretty sad. Any 7 year old can see more on the internet in a few hours than I saw in my whole life...until I got the internet...ha-ha!

I wonder if any of the other guys from Seven Oaks remember when we found porn in the woods? Twice actually....Chris? Stacy? Joe? Barry? Greg?

Microsoft has finally released some screenshots of it's next generation operating system, Windows Vista. Previously codenamed Longhorn (us tech geeks called it Long Wait) the new OS is scheduled for delivery in late 2006 and is supposed to be as big an improvement as XP was to all other releases...in other words...it's supposed to rock...but we'll see.

You can check out the screenshots here.

Now why didn't I think of this. I could have been rich by now. Backless panties. Now you girls can wear your low rise jeans without showing your panties even though you're wearing them. Guys will be into these panties too...but for entirely different reasons. *WEG* You can check them out at http://www.backlesslingerie.com.

And it comes in many different colors...and there's also a lace version.

You never know what you're gonna find at jimmypowell.com now do you?

Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago and our nation was the most prosperous in the world, had absolutely no national debt, had the largest middle class in the world and Mom stayed home to raise the kids.

What the hell happened ??

Courtesy of Mike Dixon with a few mods by me.

This girl does not believe in war...she believes in peace. :^P

It's just a funny (slightly perverted) picture...lighten up a little!

I didn't write any of these but they're still right on...had me laughing out loud.

1. People who point at their wrist while asking for the time...I know where my watch is pal, where the hell is yours? Do I point at my crotch when I ask where the toilet is?

2. People who are willing to get off their butt to search the entire room for the TV remote because they refuse to walk to the TV and change the channel manually.

3. When people say, Oh you just want to have your cake and eat it too. Damn right! What good is a cake if you can't eat it?

4. When people say it's always the last place you look. Of course it is. Why the hell would you keep looking after you've found it? Do people do this? Who and where are they?

5. When people say while watching a film, did you see that? No Loser, I paid $12 to come to the cinema and stare at the damn floor.

6. People who ask, Can I ask you a question?..... Didn't really give me a choice there, did ya sunshine?

7. When something is 'new and improved!'. Which is it? If it's new, then there has never been anything before it. If it's an improvement, then there must have been something before it therefore it is not new.

8. When people say life is short, What the hey?? Life is the longest damn thing anyone ever does!! What can you do that's longer?

9. When you are waiting for the bus and someone asks, Has the bus come yet? If the bus came would I be standing here?

My thoughts go out to my little sis today who learned the hard way this weekend that a lot of guys can just be, well........assholes. Seems like my little sis can never get a break when it comes to love but it's not like she has a lot of options in the small town of South Boston, VA. All the good guys are either taken or move away after high school/college and most of what's left is less than inspiring. I told her to keep her spirits up and that she'd meet a good guy one day when the time is right.

Time heals all wounds and once the crying stops, tomorrow will come.

We've been wanting to get a neon Corona sign for our kitchen/bar area for sometime now (cause we both drink Corona Light) and as luck would have it, we finally got one on Saturday. We were riding around in Torrance and saw a liquor store that was going out of business and stopped to see if they'd sell their Corona light. The guy said sure and I asked how much...he said $20. I didn't blink or react but instead acted like I was thinking about it for a moment and then casually said, "Alright." He took it down, I gave him $20 and out the door I went.

I don't know if the guy knew or not but these Corona lights usually go for anywhere between $100-$250 on eBay. All it needed was a little dusting and it was like brand new. It's now hanging in our kitchen. What a steal!

We celebrated our 5 year anniversary this weekend the same way we have every year...by recreating our first fateful date back on July 30th, 2000. We always go to Outback Steakhouse and then watch X-Men on DVD which was in theatres back then (she picked the movie believe it or not) but luckily, I got to spend the night and not settle for a little peck on the cheek, ha!

We did all kinds of little special things for each other throughout the day but we can't reveal our romance secrets here without charging you...ha-ha!

Obviously these pics were taken with a cell phone which explains the lack of quality you've normally expect from us...but we didn't want to lug a big camera to our anniversary dinner.

Here's this week's fun links as chosen by me...enjoy!

• Boulevard of Broken Songs - A new craze picking up steam on the net of blending two similar songs into one. Check out this blend of Green Day's Boulevard of Broken Dreams mixed with Oasis' Wonderwall.

• Furniture Porn - This is hysterical, funny clips of furniture having sex.

• AIM Fight - See how popular your AIM screen name is vs someone else.

• Droogle - The mixed drinks search engine

• Google Moon - Google can now even help you find your way around the moon. Zoom all the way in to find out a nice little surprise.

• SLAP - This is the most brazen bitch-slap I've ever seen.

• Gang Initiation - Everyone knows how I feel about gangs and this video only proves my point about how incredibly STUPID you have to be to join a gang. A few well placed grenades in this back yard would make the world a better place.

• Start Me Up - Watch this guy crank up his laptop in a library with the longest start-up sound ever.

• And Justice For All - A funny blog about a hit and run incident.

Sometimes I had my printer so much I really just want to calmly unplug it, carry it down the steps and gently place it on the concrete by the pool, walk back into the house and find my baseball bat, then calmly walk back outside and proceed to beat it into 1000 pieces. Case in point...I was making a large format print of the seagull you see to the left and after the printer finished the entire print, it sucked the picture back in and decided it was a good time to run a print head test all over my print. I think after I finally invest in a new printer, I just might smash my 952C into 1000 pieces and then mail the pieces to the HP headquarters along with this print and a note describing just how much I've enjoyed using the 952C.

Having said that, I really do like HP printers and scanners...just not MY HP printer.

Paramedics will turn to a victim's cell phone for clues to that person's identity. You can make their job much easier with a simple idea that they are trying to get everyone to adopt: ICE.

ICE stands for In Case of Emergency. If you add an entry in the contacts list in your cell phone under ICE, with the name and phone number. (both work and home) of the person that the emergency services should call on your behalf, you can save them a lot of time and have your loved ones contacted quickly. It only takes a few moments of your time to do. Paramedics know what ICE means and they look for it immediately. ICE your cell phone NOW!

A Confirmed TRUTH by Truth or Fiction.com

• http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/i/ice.htm

Courtesy of Stacie Owen

• Andrew Dice Clay On CNN - Guess he didn't ask the right questions.

• Arnold's Greatest Commercial - Such great acting by our Governator.

• Welcome To The Jungle - So this is what poor people do for fun.

Even though we live all the way in California we still get our hometown paper forwarded to us and every now and again I'll see a face from the past. I was thumbing thru the paper today and saw an old high school friend (Lori Gill) who's getting married soon. Not sure if she ever visits my site (or knows it exists) but I'm sure someone will tell her I said..."Congrats!"

Yeah, I had to scan this pic from the newspaper...if anyone has a real version, send it my way.

July 24th - Happy Birthday to my dear old dad!

July 25th - Happy Birthday to me!

Here's a few more shots from Lakefest weekend. These were some of the shots I got on Saturday when we were out on the boat. I wasn't really in photographer mode during Lakefest but I did manage to get a few good shots. At some point I'll make a big Lakefest gallery but don't plan on it anytime soon. I'm totally busy right now.

Every now and again Kim and I will get a craving for a Wendy's burger but since there isn't one anywhere in the South Bay we have to travel to Gardena which is considered a layover to the hood and/or ghetto. Case in point...we went there Saturday afternoon (cause you only go to Gardena during the day) and as we sat down, we couldn't help but notice this bullet hole in the window next to our table. We actually laughed while at the same time realizing that we would be finished eating and on our way out of Gardena before the sun started setting.

I won't even bother going into how the "rocket scientists" working behind the counter couldn't seem to grasp the concept of no pickles or onions. Sometimes I think fast food employees should be required to wear their green card right on their uniforms.

Ningunas salmueras, ningún moron de las cebollas!

It's been unusually hot here in the South Bay lately so we decided to go for an ocean cruise on the West Coast's fastest speedboat, the Ocean Racer. It takes off from King Harbor every hour and once out to sea, they open up the throttle and "let 'er rip" as the old saying goes. It was a lot of fun and a great way to cool off on a hot summer day. We even got to see some seals hanging out on one of those sea buoys.

• Dane Cook does Tom Cruise  - Check out comedian Dane Cook on the Jimmy Kimmel Show acting just like Tom Cruise and professing his love for Katie Holmes....VERY funny!

• Samuel Jackson Beer - The notorious Dave Chappel skit that spawned more than a few jokes at Lakefest this year.

• Great First Date Move - From the Great Moments in Hookup History video collection.

• Rear-ended - Cool video of a hunter sneaking up on a wild boar and kicking it square in the keester! That took some balls.

• Sex Education - I guess the makes of the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas thought it would be a good idea to include some sex ed for the kids. And people wonder what's wrong with the kids...

It was Friday morning, and that meant it was time for an activity that the teacher called 'add to the picture'. The teacher would call students to the chalkboard one at a time. The first student would draw an object on the chalkboard, and each following student would add something to the picture to make it a new picture.

The teacher called on little Bobby to start things off.

Bobby returned to his seat. The teacher called on Ernie next.

Ernie returned to his seat. Now it was Suzy's turn.

Suzy returned to her seat. Next, the teacher called Lamonte to the board.

Lamonte returned to his seat. Kim was called to the board.

Kim returned to her seat.

About this time, little Jimmy began waving his arm hysterically. Little Jimmy was well known for being dirty-minded, so the teacher was reluctant to call on him for anything. But as the teacher looked at the picture on the chalkboard, she thought that there was no way that little Jimmy could possibly do anything to make this picture dirty. So she called on little Jimmy, and he ran to the chalkboard.

Little Jimmy had done it again!

Courtesy of Kim