Ever play a word association game?

I say: "cold one"

You say: "beer"

I say: "April 15th"

You say: "taxes" (and Becky's birthday)

I say: "My Blog"

You say: click here to say something



Wonder what people said? Click here to see.

Kaitlyn eating a feather from Paige's boa.

See Paige in her feather boa 

Now, that's how dinner with Gramma Kaine should be!

 

NASCAR 2006 on PS2. I kicked Joel's butt!

 

Every little kid needs to have an "embarrassing me in the bath" shot

 

Someone is JUST LIKE her mother!

 

Spy on searchers at DogPile.com

Ever wondered what other people were searching for?

Well, this little link lets you to proverbially stand over the world's shoulder and watch what they are searching for - in real time.

There are filtered and unfiltered results, so you can eliminate the smut if you must.

My new mailbox

Thank god the weather man was wrong about all the snow and ice we DIDN'T get today. It allowed me to spend some time digging a hole for our new mailbox.




















In other unrelated news, the Dollar Store in town has really helped improve quality shoppers.

Lithuanian Jackie Chan

This dude is INSANE! He is truly an amazing athlete... you gotta check this video out!!

I wonder how many bones have snapped while he is trying to be cool? He should have a movie contract!

You think you're so smart, mister?

I came across a little Mensa Test that Becky and I both did (part 1). She kicked my butt - but at least I'm cuter then her. Oh, no wait - I'm not.

The test is here http://www.intelligence-test.net/part1

There is also a follow up to it, supposedly a bit harder:

http://www.intelligence-test.net/part2

There is a brand new Movie Quiz. I took a quick look at this and it looks hard! (Scottie B will rock this!)

http://www.funwithmovies.com

I love this guy! Numa Numa

Don't ask my why, but I can't get enough of this guy. He is from NJ, and posted this video on his blog about the song the internet named Numa Numa. In reality, the song is entitled "Dragostea Din Tea" by the Romanian pop band "O-Zone".

In just a few weeks, the video has received more than 1 million hits on one of gman's web sites and has even been featured on CNN, VH-1 and Today on NBC. Brolsma is more surprised than anyone about his world wide fame. "You people are crazy!" he wrote.

We're crazy? Riiight.

Fancy meeting you here!

Long time no blog. Lots to catch up on...

Look around, what do you think of my new digs? (hint hint - new template) It was time to get some new paint and a few sexy couches for you guys to sit on. I'm good like that. It's not an official blogger template, so please let me know if things look weird or links aren't working.

The world is so small! I am getting hair cut and my cell rings. Caller ID reads: Scottie B. I'll take this - a few more minutes until she takes me. "What's up Scottie?" we chat about work and why I haven't blogged. "Where are you?" Scott asks. "At the barber on Sullivan Trail." "Where you at?" I bark. (I know it's improper English - me no care)

"I'm on Sullivan Trail!" and at that moment I look out the window and there he is! Big as life on the phone talking to moi. Small freekin' world. Scott lives 28 miles away from me!!! I get such a kick out of things like that!!!! Reminds me of this day when Boom and I saw each other.

Holy Shiit!

Can you say that? real link here

I take pictures, therefore I am

Did I ever tell you that a picture I took was published in a coffee table book? That's a story for another day.

On the right, you will see two new links under Photo Albums:

Ray and I spend 30 hours last weekend at the daycare. It needed it. We rock. I need a nap.






















Here are the offspring from Valentine's Day. Beck made each one of them a shirt... so damn cute! So damn different from each other! I love it!



















In one short week, Kaitlyn is pulling herself up to everything. The stairs, the tables, the bar. No wait, not yet - that was me.

I hate TIVO

TIVO makes me feel like I am a bad TV watcher.

Don't get me wrong: TIVO is the best damn gift I have ever received. It's an awesome gadget, and now I record every NASCAR event, and can pause live TV when the offspring are yelling about something.

I have about 15 shows with season passes. For those of you TIVOless - a season pass simply records every episode of that show. On my season pass list are:

24
Jay Leno
House
American Idol (shut up)
Medium
Ghost Whisperer (I get welled up)
CSI
Evening News
Fear Factor
NASCAR races
Mad TV
Dirty Jobs (love this)
Myth Busters
Sex in the City (Becky's. OK mine)

So, having a full time job, owning the daycare, being a Dad to 2 little angels, and a husband to an angel maker, I don't always have time to watch any shows.

Our TIVO is an 80 hour unit - so after a while, it has to delete shows to make room for others. This is where me hating TIVO comes in. I HAVE TO WATCH EVERY SINGLE SHOW. It's like it's my job... like I would waste money if I didn't get to see every damned show recorded!

And another small issue. Beck got behind a week on 24. That means that she hasn't seen 3 episodes including tonight's. I am being a good husband and waiting for her... but I can't wait much longer!! I haven't seen 24 in 2 weeks! I MUST WATCH CTU save planet Earth.

What's wrong with this sign?

 

Street Chalk Artist

This is so cool! There are a few of these drawings (like the Coke bottle) that I really have a hard time telling they are drawings. Truly amazing!

Julian Beever is an English artist who is famous for his art on the pavements of England, France, Germany, USA, Australia and Belgium. via rense.com

















This is the same drawing as above, except it's being viewed from the top...

Important Message. Stop

From www.westernunion.com: "Effective January 27, 2006, Western Union will discontinue all Telegram and Commercial Messaging services. We regret any inconvenience this may cause you, and we thank you for your loyal patronage. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact a customer service representative."

Jesus, it tool this long? Has anyone ever received a telegram??? Honestly?

My closest encounter with a telegram was in Saving Private Ryan.

Post Update: nworbxela

Back in December, I posted this about a Google experiment. The experiment relates to how search engines rank websites on keywords. In this case, our keyword is a made up word - and when the experiment was started, google produced no results.

I am currently ranked 37 on google for this search term. Click here to see. Click through to me and we will watch my link rank increase. Aren't you just so happy you get to contribute to this?

AREN'T YOU?

New Sidebar Addition

If you take a peek over there ------------------------->
you will see a new addition called "My evil del.icio.us links".

It you haven't checked out del.icio.us, then you really need to. It's a "social" bookmarking website. Patrick, what is social bookmarking, you ask? Well, reader - lets take a "for example": I am reading a cool article on how to skin a cat. Normally, if I liked said article - I would just bookmark it for future reference.

4 reasons del.icio.us is better then that:

Reason 1: Bookmarking a link only allows me to access the bookmark on that specific computer - and I use 3 computers.
With del.icio.us, I can access my bookmarks from any web connected computer.

Reason 2: When I bookmark that site, the title will probably be something like "About.com, Achives September 2005, Feline Stuff". Will I remember to look under this title when searching in my 1000 bookmarks? No.... and then those links become useless. When you bookmark with del.icio.us, you can assign key words - or tags - to every bookmark. So, when I bookmark this article about skinning a cat - I would assign tags of "Cat" "Skin" "How.To" "To.Do" "To.Blog". Then I could search my tags for any of those words and find the link again.

Reason 3: There are millions of other people using del.icio.us. They have already read about, and tagged other articles about skinning cats. I can search their tags for subjects and see what the community came up with.

Reason 4: del.icio.us/popular. My favorite stomping grounds. This is where del.icio.us places the most popular links of the day, ranked by popularity. It's sort of "World News Tonight" meets the internet.

So, in summary - when I post something to my del.icio.us account, it will automatically appear on the sidebar. Come back every once in a while and stalk me.