The guy who sprinkles fertilizer and weed killer on my lawn every 3 months came by today, cast his magic dust about our .09 acres, then left a little note on the invoice:

Weed control very good. Maintenance is excellent.
Good Job!

I swelled with pride. No, really. I did.

After 10 years of trying, this is the first year our lawn has looked like one of those lush, verdant carpets of grass like you'd see on the cover of Lawn Care Weekly. And it's all because there was finally enough rain that it didn't die in mid-July. All I do is mow it. Regardless, I will take the credit.

I am The Suburbanite !

Neighbors! Gaze upon my glorious turf, ye envious tenders of weed-specked sand-scapes, and despair!

With Home You Get Beans

Dec 1, 2009: The day Obama unsheathed his inner war-president ?

Dems sigh, Heckufa job, Barack.

Skippy's Complaint

Inexplicably, the latest version of iTunes uses, for the title of its window, the drive letter of the drive where the current iTunes library lives. So, iTunes now shows up in my taskbar and alt-tab list as "Y:".

Not "iTunes Y:", not "Y:iTunes" (which would at least be the name of the folder where the library lives). Nope: just "Y:".

Why ?

Presumably most users have a single library that never moves. So why is the drive on which the library resides of any interest at all to a normal iTunes user ? And why make that the entire window title ? Why not show the name of the current song ? Or the name of the current library ? Or just 'iTunes' ?

The drive letter ? WTF ?

I know no other software as consistently stupid as iTunes.

It's Shaved!

Corduroy Skirts Are A Sin

The Stone Forest

Swiss ban new minarets

A North Carolina couple has been sentenced on misdemeanor charges in a case involving abusing other adults during Satan worship.

Joseph Scott Craig, 25, and his 30-year-old wife Joy Johnson were each sentenced Friday to two 60-day suspended sentences and a year of probation.

Search warrants said the victims were a man and a woman who moved in with Craig and Johnson after they became friends through their satanic interests.

The victims say Craig beat them, shackled them to beds, kept them in dog cages and starved them.

Seems to me, if you're gonna be a Satanist, you should expect (and welcome) a little pain and suffering now and then. Satan's not exactly supposed to be the Lord of Happy Fun Time.