While I am not a slob I am glad I don't work for this guy: Donald Burleson. He is an Oracle consultant with a very low opinion of nose hair and ear hair - so be careful if you ever meet him and you haven't trimmed your uni-brow.

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Lawyers should never ask a Southern grandma a question if they aren't prepared for the answer. In a trial, a Southern small-town prosecuting attorney called his first witness, a grandmotherly, elderly woman to the stand.

He approached her and asked, "Mrs. Jones, do you know me?"

She responded, "Why, yes, I do know you, Mr. Williams. I've known you since you were a young boy, and frankly, you've been a big disappointment to me. You lie, you cheat on your wife, you manipulate people and talk about them behind their backs. You think you're a big shot when you haven't the brains to realize you never will amount to anything more than a two-bit paper pusher. Yes, I know you."

The lawyer was stunned! Not knowing what else to do, he pointed across the room and asked, "Mrs. Jones, do you know the defense attorney?"

She again replied, "Why, yes, I do. I've known Mr. Bradley since he was a youngster! , too. He's lazy, bigoted, and he has a drinking problem. He can't build a normal relationship with anyone and his law practice is one of the worst in the entire state. Not to mention he cheated on his wife with three different women. One of them was your wife. Yes, I know him."

The defense attorney almost died. The judge asked both counselors to approach the bench, and in a very quiet voice, said, "If either of you ask her if she knows me, I'll throw you both in jail

#FunStuff #Jokes

I wrote a plugin for my blog that I share with the community at large. It's a pretty standard practice. Anyway my plugin lets you aggregate information from many sources and display that aggregation on your website. Tons of people use it which I think is really cool. My site logs show users from Asia, Africa, Europe, South America, Australia, and North America. All six continents that I could have hoped for. Pretty amazing really. A cool side effect of this is that some people have been super cool and sent me Amazon Gift Certificates (or cash) as a way of saying "thanks for the plugin". The purpose of this post is to help me keep track of what I buy with these gifts.

Griffin iTrip LCD FM Transmitter for iPod

It's the one with the LCD screen and a knob for tuning. Much better than the old one.

RCA RC930 Caller-ID-Compatible Wireless Modem Jack

This is really cool. It lets us add a new phone outlet wherever we have an electrical plug. It basically sends our phone signal over our powerlines.

Pulp Fiction (Collector's Edition)

One of my favorite movies. Heck, it might even be my favorite.

Reservoir Dogs

People have told me I will like this since I like Pulp fiction so much. Now I'll find out.

Smallville - The Complete First Season

I really like this show and have had this item on my wishlist for years. I was given this becuase I added the custom randomFeedList functionality to the plugin recently (10 Mar 2006).

$12 US

from a user in China. 20 March 2007; I don't know what I'm going to do with it yet.

To all the people who have given me a gift certificate or cash thank you very much!

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I came across a neat tutorial today titled Invisibilia so in an effort to see if I could do it I took this photo and made myself invisible. What do you think of the end result? I think it is kind of neat. You can see some more Invisiblia in the Invisiblia Gallery.

I did make a small error though. While doing the tracing I changed the opacity of the actual photo to about 42%. But when I was done I forgot to set it back to 100. That is why Lisa and the sky seem kind of washed out.

#FunStuff #Photos

My friend, Ryan Parker, is a pretty good singer/songwriter who is also a huge Bengals fan. He has been a fan of the Bengals for pretty much his entire life and has followed them through all the crappy years upto this point where he has a moment of glory. However, he is distrubed that he is forced to share the moment with so many fair-weather fans who suddenly love his team. In honor of the wannabe's he recorded a new song - Bengal Bandwagon. It's a great track and well worth a listen even if you aren't a Bengals fan because you can laugh at the bad years the Bengals had as well as appreciate what they have accomplished recently.

The link to the song is a mirror of the file that I am hosting becuase his website RyanParkerSongs.com is hosted on a very small machine and may not be able to handle all the traffic he will/is getting due to the songs popularity with football fans. If the link above stops working then please try this alternate location.

#Music #Sports #FunStuff

Carson Williams of Mason Ohio put together a fabulous Christmas Light display but had to turn it off after two spectators crashed their cars into each other. He used over 20,000 lights and synchronized their movement to three songs; Jingle Bells, God Bless America, and Wizards of Winter (by the TransSiberian Orchestra).

Here are some links of interest regarding the light show:

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• Google Earth Placemark of the House - 8047 Winding Creek Ct
  
• Snopes.com details of the House and its Light Show
  
• Instructions for doing this yourself
  
• Video of Wizards of Winter light show
  
• Video of Jingle Bells light show
  

If you have trouble viewing any of the video footage in firefox try it in IE as well; its worth the extra load!

Minor Update: I just saw the house footage used in a Miller Lite beer commerical. I hope Mr. Williams was paid well!

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Lately I have been using a neat little application called the "Last.fm player" which is available from the website last.fm. You enter in a band or artists name and then it creates a streaming radio station for you with bands similar to that which you selected. Pretty neat overall.

Today I was turned on to an even cooler site that does the same thing, but so far, it does it better. It's pandora. So far I like it better because it runs in my browser (no new app to install) AND it seems to give me music that better fits style of the group I entered. For instance when I entered "Pink Floyd" it gave me some really cool music by The Smiths and Scott Walker which both have a similar feel to different periods in Pink Floyd's musical history. The Scott Walker song is kind of like real early Pink Floyd and thus a little wierder. The Smiths are more refined sounding and are closer to the "Division Bell" Floyd that appealed to a wider range of music fans than the real early stuff did.

The one thing both do well is they let you skip over any song you don't like. Most streaming radio you listen to forces you to listen to the entire stream so you're stuck listening to the crap along with the gems. That isn't the case with last.fm and pandora. Hear crap? just hit skip and bam you are on a new song. Very cool

#Music #FunStuff

I don't know if I will keep both of these features but they seem fun at the moment so we shall see. First is a "upcoming event" list. The list is generated from a website called "Planzo" which lets you manage your calendar, todo's, etc all online for free. It seems like an OK site though I wish I could add my own event categories. The second item is a little more peculiar and may not last. We shall see. It is a "Frappr" which means "friend mapper". Basically it lets anyone who visits this page to put a mark on the map where they live (well I think the map is geographically restricted to the US and Europe). You can, if you wish, add a photo to your marker on the map and make a comment. In the bottom right corner of this page I have a "frappr" section which shows a small slideshow of the images that have been put on my map.

The upcoming events thing is kind of neat and I will probably use it to show things I don't mind the world knowing what is going on. The frappr thing seems like it maybe a new way for spammers to abuse my blog so we will have to see how that goes. But in the meantime feel free to add yourself to the rawlinson friends map.

#FunStuff #Geekiness #ThisSite

Ok, I am still pretty proud of the pumpkins we carved this year however I also man enough to admit that my carving skills suck compared to others. First off, we used templates that you trace onto the pumpkin and then simply follow the lines cutting at a single depth the entire time (all the way through baby!). Now, some pumpkin carvers are more dedicated to the craft than others and they use a variety of techniques to acheive gordish nirvana. I am not one of those carvers.

One cool technique that can generate neat effects is leaving different depths of rind in place because the candle light can travel through some thicknesses so you get a "shading" effect when the pumpkin is illuminated. However, some people don't even settle for this simple effect. These pumpkin artists use the soft mushy shell of the pumpkin as their sculptor clay and create works of art that are better to look at in the light of day than at night. One such sculptor of all things pumpkin is "Pumpkinggutter" - check out his work, it is pretty darn impressive.

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I doubt the movie at this link will be up as long as my blog is - but it is FUNNY! I set it up so my brother Ed and I crashed the trailer for the movie "Wedding Crashers". Update: Sadly, newline cinemas removed this feature from their website. You can check out our trailer here: http://www.weddingcrashersmovie.com/crashthistrailer/index.htm?id=208718.

For a special bonus check out Chazz Reingold's Homepage for a list of the 50 "Wedding Crasher" rules. Just scroll down on the homepage to see them. Perfect!

#Family #Movies #FunStuff