This is what Becky and I did for Valentine's Day this year.... you know - trying to keep it on the down-low.

Tracking your kids at school?

Reactions are mixed to a California school's decision to require students to wear RFID-enabled radio tags that will allow their location and activies to be tracked throughout the campus. Some parents see the tags as a serious invasion of their children's privacy, likening it to retail inventory tracking.... read more here.

Wanted it, needed it. Got it.

So, I got a GMail account today!! YAHOO! Or should I say GAHOO!

Google has revolutionized search technology, in my humble opinion. Now, they are trying to revolutionize email. With their GMail account, you recieve 1 gigabite (1000 megabites) of storage space for 100% free.

For those of you who aren't really sure what that means, a gigbite of space is enough space for the average person to NEVER EVER delete a single email they have sent OR received in their entire life.

Of course, your GMail account has google's search technology attached, so you will never wonder where that email is. Just google it! (no one else can search your emails but you)

Want your own GMail account?

They are by invitation only, and I have 49 invitations left. I got mine from a great guy on a message board who doesn't even know me! So, I will be giving back from this blog. Just email me at "spkaine at gmail dot com". First come, first serve.

ALL HAIL GOOGLE.

This is unreal! Click to see the video.

The most AMAZING basketball shot ever! Click the picture to see the clip!

How blondes print word documents

Ahhh hem.

Worst joke in the world ever!!!1!!1!!!1 challange

Beck can't stand that I love these jokes! These are the "Airplane" type jokes. Here is my favorite ('cause this blog featured ET a few posts ago):

What does E.T. stand for?






Because he aint got a chair.


hahahahahahahahah


Worst joke in the world ever!!!1!!1!!!1 challange

Googling yourself

First, before you think it, I'll say it. I'm not obsessed with Google. I just love the damn site. What's better then Google?

Anyway, have you ever Googled yourself just to see what comes up? Don't lie... I know you have.

Tip: Put quotation marks around your name like this "patrick kaine" this is a little trick to tell search engines that you want only results that contain patrick and kaine in that order right next to each other.

So, here is an article about Patrick Kaine, but it aint me, Jack.

I wonder if he is as funny, handsom, and has low self esteem like moi? hahahahah

NIE Online

Whose in there?

What's next, crop circles?

This is a window in the barn across the way... from time to time the sun hits the window just right and we wonder if it's E.T. coming for us.

Getting To Know You...

Hello and welcome to the next edition of getting to
know your friends. Okay, here's what you're supposed
to do...
Change all of the answers so that they apply to you.
Then, send this to all your friends and include the
person who sent it to you. The theory is that you will
learn a lot of little known facts that may or may not
have come up in every day conversation. It is fun and
easy.



1. WHAT IS YOUR FULL NAME? Shayne Patrick Kaine

2. WHAT IS YOUR NICKNAME? Patrick, SPK

3. HOW MANY TIMES HAVE YOU MOVED? A minimum of 13 times (really)

4. IF YOU COULD GO ANYWHERE ON VACATION, WHERE WOULD YOU GO? Newark NJ, then Australia

5. IF YOU WERE AN ANIMAL, WHAT WOULD YOU BE? A bear. Fat, cuddly, yet smart and respected.

6. WHAT IS THE FIRST CONCERT YOU EVER WENT TO? I can't remember, maybe Chicago?

7. HOW OLD WERE YOU WHEN YOU WENT? Maybe 17

8. WOULD YOU RATHER WATER SKI OR SNOW SKI? Drink beer. I guess water

9. DOG OR CAT? Dog, cat's are too much like women... hard to please. You could be home for 3 weeks straight and go out to the mail box and your dog would act like he hasn’t' seen you for a month when you come back in.

10. WOULD YOU RATHER RIDE A MOTORCYCLE OR A HORSE? Motorcycle

11. WHAT MAGAZINE(S) DO YOU SUBSCRIBE TO? Reader's Digest, Consumer Reports, Entrepreneur

12. WHAT DID YOU HAVE FOR BREAKFAST TODAY? 2 eggs over easy and 4 turkey sausage patties and a strong cup of java.

13. WHAT'S THE LAST THING YOU BOUGHT YOURSELF JUSTFOR FUN? GPS for my car that works with my Treo 600!

14. FAVORITE SEASON? Spring

15. COFFEE OR TEA? Coffee

16. DO YOU LIKE YOUR JOB? So far....

7. IF YOU COULD HAVE ANY JOB YOU WANTED, WHAT WOULD ITBE? NASCAR driver.

18. DO YOU HAVE ANY KIDS? 1.5 (Beck has another one in the oven)

19. WHAT KIND OF CAR DO YOU DRIVE? 2000 Honda Accord

20. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE FOOTBALL TEAM? Eagles

21. FAVORITE DRINK? Bombay Sapphire and tonic

22. ONE THING THAT YOU HAVE NEVER DONE, BUT WOULD LIKE TO DO? Go to every race car track in the season.

23. HOTDOG OR HAMBURGER? (cheese) Hamburger

24. ARE YOU A GOOD COOK? On the grill

25. DO YOU MAKE YOUR BED EVERY DAY? No shot.

26.HAVE YOU EVER THROWN A PARTY THAT GOT SO LOUD THE COPS CAME? No

27. WHAT TIME DO YOU GENERALLY GO TO BED ON A WEEKNIGHT? 11:00 (after an hour asleep on the couch)

28. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE HOLIDAY? Christmas

29. DO YOU PREFER BLONDES OR BRUNETTES? Blondes

30. WHO MAKES YOU LAUGH THE MOST? I laugh at myself all day long, then Becky

31. WHO WAS YOUR FIRST KISS? ??? Becky Walters on my front porch.

32. DO YOU READ THE NEWSPAPER ON A DAILY BASIS? MSNBC.com if that counts

33. HOW OFTEN DO YOU TALK TO YOUR MOTHER ? When ever she calls me! Just kidding, average once a week.

34. WHO HAVE YOU BEEN FRIENDS WITH THE LONGEST? Jim & Deb Mitchell

35. FAVORITE TV SHOW? CSI (Vegas), Apprentice

36. DO YOU COLOR YOUR HAIR? No, a lot of gray hair is coming in... so that may change!

37. WHAT BOOK ARE YOU CURRENTLY READING? I'm writing this email, so I am currently not... ok Trump's new book from Mom, Fatherhood by Tim Russert, and the IRS Circular E 2005 (for work)

Report: Big boost for blogs in 2004 | CNET News.com

If you are reading this Blog, you are not alone. Congratulations.

Report: Big boost for blogs in 2004 | CNET News.com

Googlewhacking?

I have been introduced to a new term this evening, ladies and gentlemen: Googlewhacking.

Hmmm, you ask, "Isn't this a family blog?" Easy, killer... this is a term used to define an instance when two words are entered into Google's search engine, and one single solitare result returns.

It's MUCH HARDER then you would think to actually achieve this. Give it a try when you have a month to spare. Thanks to googlewhacking.com (yes, this is a real site) I found this term: Google Search: gigabit infatuations

The best part about gigabit infatuations is that someone paid to be in their sponsored links section!

This is a Google world we live in, isn't it? 60 minuntes did an article on the recently gone public Google. Their next venture has something to do with a cell phone with a UPC reader so you can bar-scan your favorite items at the Giant Supermarket and Google will tell you if Wegman's has it for cheaper.

What's next?

Ladybug, ladybug!

We had a suprise visit from Mrs. Ladybug a few nights ago. Paige was completely taken with her! There was just one thing she didn't like - when the ladybug crawled between her fingers! It was so much fun to watch her! All pictures here.

Order in the court!

These are from a book called Disorder in the American Courts, and are things people actually said in court, word for word, taken down and now published by court reporters that had the torment of staying calm while these exchanges were actually taking place.

Q: Are you sexually active?
A: No, I just lie there.
________________________________
Q: What is your date of birth?
A: July 15.
Q: What year?
A: Every year.
______________________________________
Q: What gear were you in at the moment of the impact?
A: Gucci sweats and Reeboks.
______________________________________
Q: This myasthenia gravis, does it affect your memory at all?
A: Yes.
Q: And in what ways does it affect your memory?
A: I forget.
Q: You forget? Can you give us an example of something that you've forgotten?
_____________________________________
Q: How old is your son, the one living with you?
A: Thirty-eight or thirty-five, I can't remember which.
Q: How long has he lived with you?
A: Forty-five years.
_____________________________________
Q: What was the first thing your husband said to you when he woke up that
morning?
A: He said, "Where am I, Cathy?"
Q: And why did that upset you?
A: My name is Susan.
______________________________________
Q: Do you know if your daughter has ever been involved in voodoo or the occult?
A: We both do.
Q: Voodoo?
A: We do.
Q: You do?
A: Yes, voodoo.
______________________________________
Q: Now doctor, isn't it true that when a person dies in his sleep, he
doesn't know about it until the next morning?
A: Did you actually pass the bar exam?
___________________________________
Q: The youngest son, the twenty-year-old, how old is he?
_____________________________________
Q: Were you present when your picture was taken?
______________________________________
Q: So the date of conception (of the baby) was August 8th?
A: Yes.
Q: And what were you doing at that time?
______________________________________
Q: She had three children, right?
A: Yes.
Q: How many were boys?
A: None.
Q: Were there any girls?
______________________________________
Q: How was your first marriage terminated?
A: By death.
Q: And by whose death was it terminated?
______________________________________
Q: Can you describe the individual?
A: He was about medium height and had a beard.
Q: Was this a male, or a female?
______________________________________
Q: Is your appearance here this morning pursuant to a deposition notice
which I sent to your attorney?
A: No, this is how I dress when I go to work.
______________________________________
Q: Doctor, how many autopsies have you performed on dead people?
A: All my autopsies are performed on dead people.
______________________________________
Q: ALL your responses MUST be oral, OK? What school did you go to?
A: Oral.
______________________________________
Q: Do you recall the time that you examined the body?
A: The autopsy started around 8:30 p.m.
Q: And Mr. Dennington was dead at the time?
A: No, he was sitting on the table wondering why I was doing an autopsy.
______________________________________
Q: Are you qualified to give a urine sample?
______________________________________
Q: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?
A: No.
Q: Did you check for blood pressure?
A: No.
Q: Did you check for breathing?
A: No.
Q: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?
A: No.
Q: How can you be so sure, Doctor?
A: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.
Q: But could the patient have still been alive, nevertheless?
A: Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law somewhere

One Billion Pixel Image

This is a stitched-together image of Bryce Point in Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah. It consists of 196 separate photographs taken with a 6 megapixel digital camera, and then stitched together into one seamless composite.

The final image is 40,784 x 26,800 pixels in size, and contains about 1.09 billion pixels...a little more than one gigapixel.

This image is roughly 100 times sharper then human eyes with 20/20 vision see naturally. If it were printed out, it would be 11 feet wide, or 12 pieces of paper printed landscape with no margins.

Here is a strip of the image. It is only an inch tall, but look at how wide it is!

Here is the site I saw it on...

A Central Park Birthday Celebration in Winter

A wonderful birthday surprise for Mom's (hand over mouth & mumbling) birthday! We were blessed with snow falling the moment she arrived! All pictures are here. We love you Mamma San.

All pictures here.

Christmas In Pennsylvania

Santa stopped by alright! Everyone was so generous and thoughtful with their gifts.

Pictures Here.

PENNDOT Victory Junction/NASCAR Specialty Plates

PA is jumping on the NASCAR bandwagon with newly released license plates.

Here is an example of one.

The philoranthopic part of all this is that "A portion of the Victory Junction/NASCAR specialty plate fees will go to Victory Junction."

THIS IS THE BEST EVER:

I swear to god this is question and answer posted on the PA DOT website:

"If my driver is no longer racing, is my plate still valid?"

Yes.

You gotta love rednecks!

NASCAR Specialty Plates

Some new pictures...

All Pictures Here.

Will Santa and his 8 reindeer visit your house this Christmas?

Not likely. And for the five specific reasons I have listed below.

1. No known species of reindeer can fly. BUT there are 300,000 species of living organisms yet to be classified, and while most of these are insects and germs, this does not COMPLETELY rule out flying reindeer which only Santa has ever seen.

2. There are 2 billion children (persons under 1 in the world. BUT since Santa doesn't (appear) to handle the Muslim, Hindu, Jewish and Buddhist children, that reduces the workload to to 15% of the total - 378 million according to Population Reference Bureau. At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that's 91.8 million homes. One presumes there's at least one good child in each.

3. Santa has 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west (which seems logical). This works out to 822.6 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with good children, Santa has 1/1000th of a second to park, hop out of the sleigh, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left, get back up the chimney, get back into the sleigh and move on to the next house. Assuming that each of these 91.8 million stops are evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false but for the purposes of our calculations we will accept), we are now talking about .78 miles per household, a total trip of 75-1/2 million miles, not counting stops to do what most of us must do at least once every 31 hours, plus feeding and etc. This means that Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second, 3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man- made vehicle on earth, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a pokey 27.4 miles per second - a conventional reindeer can run, tops, 15 miles per hour.

4.The payload on the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium-sized Lego set (2 pounds), the sleigh is carrying 321,300 tons, not counting Santa, who is invariably described as overweight. On land, conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that "flying reindeer" (see point #1) could pull TEN TIMES the normal amount, we cannot do the job with eight, or even nine. We need 214,200 reindeer. This increases the payload - not even counting the weight of the sleigh - to 353,430 tons. Again, for comparison - this is four times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth.

5. 353,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance - this will heat the reindeer up in the same fashion as space crafts reentering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer will absorb 14.3 QUINTILLION joules of energy. Per second. Each. In short, they will burst into flame almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them, and create deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team will be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second. Santa, meanwhile, will be subjected to centrifugal forces 17,500.06 times greater than gravity. A 250-pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of his sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force.