An interesting meme is floating around. I stumbled across it on SEB.

Think of 3 pictures you would like to see. Leave a comment describing them. Things around my house or whatever. Something I can easily photograph. Once I have enough requests, I'll start posting them. If I can't or won't take a picture of something you've requested I'll let you know... or perhaps just post a "Georgelucasized" version of your suggestion.

Sound good? It sounded like fun to me. Have at 'er folks!

I've done a little housekeeping on the technical front. I cleaned up my template, but you won't see the effects of that. Also, I changed my feed from brief to full. Those of you who subscribe to me via an aggregator will be happy about that.

If you don't use an aggregator, you should probably try BlogLines. It does all the aggregation on-line, so you don't need to download anything. I do recommend downloading the notifier plugin for your browser. It not only lets you know when one of your subscribed sites is updated, it also lets you subscribe to new feeds very quickly.

Talking about browsers; over half the visitors to my site are using non-IE browsers now. When I started, it was hovering around 4%. You really should switch if you haven't already. I recommend FireFox. Once you try it, you'll be kicking yourself for waiting so long.

And, finally, go check out eMusic. No DRM! They have a tonne of music (mostly smaller labels—my preference), and you can download 40 a month for under $10US. If you sign up now, the trial is 50 free songs.

Oh… if you are going to sign up and let me "send you an invite" first, I'll get 10 more free songs. Your call. No pressure. If you're up for it and don't mind the delay, leave a shout-back or send me an email directly (email address is at the very bottom of this page) with your address and I'll get an invite out to you.

I felt like posting again today. Something funny. I don't feel like working at it though. Recycling some old humour should be just the ticket.

Is anyone familiar with the 3DRealms camera captioning contest? The folks that brought you Duke Nukem take random snapshots and post them every couple of weeks. Visitors to the site then send in captions. A handful of the best get posted, and one wins a gift certificate and a T-Shirt.

Well, I figure they must be pretty sick folks over there. I've won a little stack of gift certificates and have a pile of T-Shirts. No accounting for their sense of humour, but it's working for me.

It's also a perfect opportunity for me to build a blog entry without doing too much work. Here are the entries that include a bit of punishment from yours truly. I'm listed as 'Al Hunt', which is lucky, since that's my name.

I started thinking about all the stuff I'd like to own but, for some reason, never will. Most of the stuff I thought of was just plain silly. Other things that came to mind were within the realms of possibility. For those items, something is holding me back. Here are those items, and why I will never have them.

• Moped
  I live in a small town, so one of these would be perfect. However, you look stupid riding them. Every time I consider buying one I remember seeing an episode of The Guiness Book of World Records TV show where the "Fattest Twins in the World" were riding them. They looked like two elephants with roller skates jammed up their asses.
• Sensory Deprivation Tank
  I think this'd be really relaxing, and what would be cooler than an opportunity to explosively devolve? Would you actually spend a couple of thousand dollars on one? I didn't think so. Just use one at a spa, right? Right. See the next item, plus; how often do you figure spas actually clean these things? No. I shall remain forever deprivationally deprived.
• Spa Treatment
  These look like they could be really enjoyable. I don't see myself ever getting one because, you know, I might catch the gay.
• Flight Simulator
  Not one of these. One of these. Unfortunately, to own one you need one of these. You want one too.
• Butler
  Not one of these, one of these. "Jeeves! Fluff my socks, iron my cufflinks, then warm up the Yugo. I want you to drive me to the dollar store". How cool is that? Still… I can't see myself getting comfortable with the idea that some old guy is going to walk into my bedroom every morning to lay out the days underwear.
• Truck
  Ok, I could own a truck pretty easily. I want a real truck. I want a Terex. Idiot driving slow in the fast lane? Just speed up a little and turn on the wipers. I can't have one though. My garage is two cars wide, not two cars high.
• Massage Chair
  Well… I may just end up owning one of these before I die. Spending way over three grand for somewhere to plant my ass seems a bit steep. I could probably convince myself to visit a spa before I felt comfortable laying down that kind of change on a chair.

So I sit down with a beer and flip on the TV. I'm all ready for The Laura Prepon Show (aka "That 70's Show"). There's the music. There they are sitting in the car singing. Life is good. And there we go. There's Laura Prepon and her... what the fuck? She's blonde!

I mean she, the, with the, and it's... What the fuck? This is devastating. How could someone do that to red hair? It's just... I can't... What the fuck?!

Ok. Calm down. It's just a TV show. It's not like I'd ever find myself in bed with her or anyth... What the fuck?!