We were up in Maine for the 4th of July, as I noted in a recent phone post. My folks have a lot of magazines up there, particularly The New Yorker . I bought around 25 books from the used book store,... extremely funny piece in The New Yorker. I'd read it the year before, and laughed a lot; I don't want to forget it again. If you haven't read it, you should. My Nature Documentary by Jack Handey

A gift from a friend, which I'm taping to the inside of back window, since I already have a "CZ" sticker and a peace symbol sticker to remove, before I sell (or give away) my car, en route to grad school... nitrogen oxides, sulphur dioxide, hydrocarbons, benzene, methane, aldehydes and VOCs.  Causes respiratory disease, cancer, death and ecocide. ESPECIALLY HARMFUL TO OTHER SPECIES AND CHILDREN.

1.  Secular Humanism (100%) 2.  Unitarian Universalism (93%) 3.  Nontheist (79%) 4.  Liberal Quakers (73%) 5.  ... (9%) 27.  Jehovah's Witness (0%) http://www.beliefnet.com/story/76/story_7665_1.html   What do YOU BELIEVE

Lie awake in bed at night And think about your life Do you want to be different? (Different) Try to let go of the truth The battles of your youth 'Cause this is just a game It's a beautiful lie...(lie) So beautiful, beautiful (lie) It's a beautiful lie It's a perfect denial Such a beautiful lie to believe in So beautiful, beautiful It makes me Tem dia que apenas as músicas bastam.

limpingpigeon: I'M NOT A GEEK! *goes back to listening to peppy Japanese synthesizer music by a musician I only know about because I read his girlfriend's webcomic*

...see why. Maxwell was Lucius’s opposite in being jovial and bearing thick traces of gray in his pale brown hair that he never bothered to disguise, but those were superficialities. Draco knew that humor could be pointed and cruel. No, the real difference was in the feeling he exuded. Maxwell made people comfortable around him, and that was not something Lucius could be accused of doing, even by...

M3, while on a grocery shopping trip, looks at the full cart and says, "what is all of this for?" A1, in response says, "M3, this is what it takes to feed a family ." M3, while talking to me on the phone...has to be done every day as part of the daily chores to keep on top of stuff." in both cases, M3's response was, "ahh." as in the type of "ahh" that indicates the lightbulb going off over one's head

WASHINGTON (AFP) — OMG! What is that on my car's license plate? That's the question asked by 10,000 drivers who registered their vehicles in North Carolina last year and got registrations starting with...of Motor Vehicles has carefully scrutinized the plates and deemed that none are offensive, according to the News and Observer. They must have overlooked YBF, which means "You've been fucked.