My friend Wilfie sent me the following email:

I don't remember if I sent you this before, but this is for you Ry Ry:

http://ryan.youaremyfriend.com/

This had to be the most moving, heart warming link I've ever been sent. The dramatic music, the synonyms for "friend", the pretty colors; it all meant so much to me. I don't think I'll ever be the same again...


I wish I had some wine to go with all that cheese.

Reach out and touch someone...powerful.

Mu-nich rub

I thought it was pretty clear that in today's society, it is inappropriate to randomly touch coworkers. Even if the man or woman's intentions are completely innocent, they should realize that any sort of contact with another coworker could be misconstrued. I thought this was obvious. I thought most Americans understood this.

But then there's ol' Dubya.

Honestly, his intentions seem pretty innocent. He enters a room, picks out the one woman he sees, speed walks over to her and quickly massages her shoulders. Maybe this was sexist, but it wasn't harassment. However, it was pretty stupid.

Now, if this was his wife or daughters in his own home, that would be one thing. But this was the current Chancellor of Germany. He groped the leader of a major country in front of other world leaders. Sure, it's funny to me, but it's sorta sad too.

His hair could use a good tussle

What would have been better is if he started getting extra friendly with the other powerful people in the room. Maybe massaged Tony Blair instead. Or perhaps patted Vladimir Putin on the bottom, like football players sometimes do. Or perhaps tussled the hair of Japan's prime minister Junichiro Koizumi, (have you seen his hair?! It could use a good tussle).

Point is, he should know better than to do that, especially given who he is, to whom he did it, and where it went down, (at a G-8 summit, surrounded by world leaders and the press). What next?! Start cursing at these events?!

Oh. Nevermind.

Good Cents

A penny for your thoughts...

I have been saving up my spare change in a big plastic cup for a while now, with the intention to give it away to charity once the cup filled up. Well, the cup is full, but I've been having difficulty trying to decide to whom the money should go. Therefore, I propose the following: if you can guess how much money is in there, (or are the closest guesser), you can pick the charity. Give it a guess, and maybe you'll get to change where my change will go to make a change. Make cents?

..and yet a penny saved is a penny earned.

Adnonsense

So I recently decided to whore myself out by allowing ads on this blog, (so that I could make an extra $7.40 a year for things like new socks and after dinner mints). To do this, I signed up with Google's "Adsense" program. As some of you may know, the premise of Adsense is to figure out what the content of you webpage is, and then tailor ads to be as relevant as possible.

Well, a while back, I posted an article about pigeons, and it seems that this is the content Google has currently decided to focus on. Currently, three of the four text ads are pigeon related, but two of them are for buying pigeons:

Pigeons For Sale Pictures.
White Homers, Kings, Runts, Modenas Color Racing Homers, Various Breeds
www.ThePigeonLofts.com

and

Racing pigeons
Browse a huge selection now. Find exactly what you want today.
www.eBay.com

I'm not sure if these ads are appropriate, given that my blog shat on those birds who shat on me. But then again, what do I know. I'm not currently worth billions of dollars. But if I increase my readership to seven trillion, maybe in a few years I will be...

Balls to the Wall

If you haven't seen the sony Bravia ads, you should watch the movie below; it's pretty awesome. Basically, Sony wanted a different campaign for it's new high end LCD TVs and whatnot, so they decided to throw 250,000 superballs, (those brightly colored balls we all played with when we were younger), down the streets of San Francisco.

Watch the original

And it looks like these guys remade the video, but with fruit. It's pretty awesome too!

Watch the remake!