I thought I did dumb stuff when I was a teen, but nothing compares to this adventure. Imagine, 16 and traveling to Iraq on Christmas money. I guess my parents were smarter then I thought, they never gave me enough money to buy a plane ticket. 
10,000 Dollar Offer
The Truth
“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.” – Winston Churchill
Wow!
I just received the most incredible pictures in a powerpoint presentation attached to an e-mail entitle “So you can’t make it into work today?”. I wish I could give proper credit, but the only credit I could find was in the document properties of a name of “Dom” and company of “Bart.”
This is one of the pictures and the rest are on the full page.
I did a quick search on Google and found this page with more info regarding the storm as well as more pictures.
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Disheveled
adjective
(of a person’s hair, clothes, or appearance) untidy; disordered : a man with long, disheveled hair. DERIVATIVES dishevel |-? sh ev?l| verb dishevelment noun
ORIGIN late Middle English : from obsolete dishevely, from Old French deschevele, past participle of descheveler (based on chevel hair, from Latin capillus). The original sense was [having the hair uncovered] ; later, referring to the hair itself, [hanging loose,] hence [disordered, untidy.] Compare with unkempt .
Illustrating Absurdity
Just read a really cool article over at the Carolina Journal. Wow!
Nudnik
nudnik NOOD-nik (“OO” as in “good”) (noun)
: a person who is a bore or nuisance
Example sentence:
“Sometimes he can be such a nudnik, always pestering me to go outside.” Did you know –
Nud originates in Yiddish from the word “nuda” meaning “boredom.” The suffix -nik ultimately came to English through Yiddish and Russian c. 1945 being popularized with the word sputnik. -nik is a common personal suffix meaning “person or thing associated with or involved in” (e.g. blognik “member of the blogisphere”).
Tanger Game
If you have an abundance of time and do not know what to do with yourself, try out this game. High for me is 1081 on the second game because I didn’t realize until half way through the first that the blocks can overlap and still get credit. Anyone get higher?
Fun while shopping
Today while making returns, somehow I ended up in the Apple section of our local CompUSA . Needless to say, while there I checked out some new Apple products I hadn’t seen yet. The two that impressed me the most are the new Mighty Mouse and iMac G5.
The Might Mouse is really nice. From looking at it on the web, it really didn’t appeal to me, but after trying it out in person, it is the best mouse I’ve ever used. The scroll ball is beyond description. Using it was much more natural then any of the scroll wheels.
While playing with M.M., I stumbled across a really cool program called PhotoBooth on the new iMac G5. What you see below is the results of my playing and to say the least, I didn’t have to pay for these, but it sure was fun.
Sometimes we forget . . .
We had a presentation this past Sunday at church about a brief visit by my pastors to Louisiana. They went to visit and see ways our Church could help. Our assistant Pastor spoke of how experiencing the aftermath of the hurricanes first-hand really brought everything into perspective taking it out of the realm of news.
This all brings me to a recent post by “Michael Yon” reminding us why we are in Iraq.