http://www.vny.com/cf/news/upidetail.cfm?QID=162585

Lyudmila, wife of Russian President Vladmir Putin, thinks he is a vampire, and mourns the fact that the former KGB agent went back into espionage as head of Russia’s Federal Security Service in 1998 — and even then he would regularly go to Finland to get away from the omnipresent microphones.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42991-2001Feb22.html

The Food and Drug Administration is weighing whether to approve a Pennsylvania biotechnology company’s proposal to conduct an experiment that would leave hundreds of sick, premature infants in Latin America without proven lifesaving medications.

for 2001

Allison
Barry
Chantal
Dean
Erin
Felix
Gabrielle
Humberto
Iris
Jerry
Karen
Lorenzo
Michelle
Noel
Olga
Pablo
Rebekah
Sebastien
Tanya
Van
Wendy

I like the sound of Hurricane Wendy… downright friendly. Lorenzo sounds dangerous, though.

In the Skin of the Lion is my current read. Having a little trouble limping through it… some great writing, just not getting into it. I liked The English Patient a good deal more… the characters cross from both books… An interesting thing.

A quote from a description of a girl rolling over: – “Clara turned slowly like something on the floor of the ocean.” I like that. 🙂

Much preferring old classics…I’m sidebar rereading my collected Mark Twain, and it rocks. That may be what’s pulling me away from In the Skin of the Lion.

Talked with the girl I love about buying domains recently… then I found this.

I thought buymystinkygymsocks.com was bad… there’s a bunch of wackies… thelintfrommybellybutton.com

and you can get stickers!

Definition of “truncate” from dictonary.com:
Appearing to terminate abruptly, as a leaf of a tulip tree or a coiled gastropod shell that lacks a spire.

or better,

How cool is that?

AP Photo by Chuck Kimmerle, Grand Forks Herald

I don’t know, I’m hitting all the coolest web today.

Hope nobody feels Scotto-spammed.

Callipygean–Having a well-shaped buttocks.

Thank you, oh thank you, dictionary.com

*snerk

*snort

Ok, I can’t help it. I know what would happen if a kid was named this in an American School.

Bozo Matic – No, it’s not a toy, or appliance, or a poorly thought out website, it’s a real given name – and yes, he’s a real person. It just so happens he’s Croatian, and is now the new chairman of Bosnia’s government.

Courtesy of metafilter.

it’s official.

Please, I beg the gods of the ‘Net to stop sending me ‘All Your Base Are Belong to Us.

I have officially hit the 50 e-mail mark. (many of which attached the whole movie file, not just a link to it. a faux pas x 2)

Gadzooks. Fill up my free e-mailbox, why don’t ya?

The second definition of “ineffable” is lovely: “Not to be spoken because of its sacredness, unutterable.”

Favorite Twists…

“…it’s a cookbook! it’s a cookbook!”

“It’s made of people! peeeeeople!”

Chiming organ – “Dun Dun DUNNNNNNN”

“Hitler’s brain in a jar, *STILL ALIVE*”

flashing back on more old TV. Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, Monsters, Tales from the Darkside, Night Gallery.

Why do I like such drivel? I dunno. I can’t say as I was ever scared from an episode… but there was certainly some weirdness. Rod Serling is especially cool… I could see him and Jack Webb fighting oddities, transdimensional space nazis, whathaveyou, Men in Black Style.

no gore needed, just a case of the “WHA??!?” works fine.

Current shows, (and I bet I get smacked around for this) like Buffy, just doesn’t cut it, in my opinion. The New TZ was ok, and the New outer Limits was not too bad, either.

public boolean whore(String x) { if (x = “Your Mom”) { return true; } else { return false; }

Nerd programmer insults.

Oddity – Giant German Swastika to Be Removed From Forest

Now I want to plant a big smiley face somewhere.

http://user.tninet.se/~prv247p/hatt/hatten.swf

suddenly wants to call folks ‘Hat-baby’

Is this an ad? a Joke?

Lalalalalaala… aAaaAAaa.. hatt-baby!

partial translation…

La la la lalala….
Win kinky fun
Win kinky fun
The hat is yours, the hat is yours, the hat is yours, hat baby
The hat lives so happily
The hat lives so happily
The hat is yours, hat baby.

This here is damned
We think we are gay
That’s always fun
The hat is yours, hat baby

Cool guy with a drink in his hand, yeah, we’d like something sweet
Cool guy with a drink in his hand, yeah, we’d like something sweet
Dunk the hat in Bert’s cola & milk
And then later we’ll see you, hat baby

Hello Kitty waffle maker.