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Sometimes I had my printer so much I really just want to calmly unplug it, carry it down the steps and gently place it on the concrete by the pool, walk back into the house and find my baseball bat, then calmly walk back outside and proceed to beat it into 1000 pieces. Case in point...I was making a large format print of the seagull you see to the left and after the printer finished the entire print, it sucked the picture back in and decided it was a good time to run a print head test all over my print. I think after I finally invest in a new printer, I just might smash my 952C into 1000 pieces and then mail the pieces to the HP headquarters along with this print and a note describing just how much I've enjoyed using the 952C.

Having said that, I really do like HP printers and scanners...just not MY HP printer.

Paramedics will turn to a victim's cell phone for clues to that person's identity. You can make their job much easier with a simple idea that they are trying to get everyone to adopt: ICE.

ICE stands for In Case of Emergency. If you add an entry in the contacts list in your cell phone under ICE, with the name and phone number. (both work and home) of the person that the emergency services should call on your behalf, you can save them a lot of time and have your loved ones contacted quickly. It only takes a few moments of your time to do. Paramedics know what ICE means and they look for it immediately. ICE your cell phone NOW!

A Confirmed TRUTH by Truth of Fiction.com

• http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/i/ice.htm

Courtesy of Stacie Owen

• Andrew Dice Clay On CNN - Guess he didn't ask the right questions.

• Arnold's Greatest Commercial - Such great acting by our Governator.

• Welcome To The Jungle - So this is what poor people do for fun.

Even though we live all the way in California we still get our hometown paper forwarded to us and every now and again I'll see a face from the past. I was thumbing thru the paper today and saw an old high school friend (Lori Gill) who's getting married soon. Not sure if she ever visits my site (or knows it exists) but I'm sure someone will tell her I said..."Congrats!"

Yeah, I had to scan this pic from the newspaper...if anyone has a real version, send it my way.

July 24th - Happy Birthday to my dear old dad!

July 25th - Happy Birthday to me!

Here's a few more shots from Lakefest weekend. These were some of the shots I got on Saturday when we were out on the boat. I wasn't really in photographer mode during Lakefest but I did manage to get a few good shots. At some point I'll make a big Lakefest gallery but don't plan on it anytime soon. I'm totally busy right now.

Every now and again Kim and I will get a craving for a Wendy's burger but since there isn't one anywhere in the South Bay we have to travel to Gardena which is considered a layover to the hood and/or ghetto. Case in point...we went there Saturday afternoon (cause you only go to Gardena during the day) and as we sat down, we couldn't help but notice this bullet hole in the window next to our table. We actually laughed while at the same time realizing that we would be finished eating and on our way out of Gardena before the sun started setting.

I won't even bother going into how the "rocket scientists" working behind the counter couldn't seem to grasp the concept of no pickles or onions. Sometimes I think fast food employees should be required to wear their green card right on their uniforms.

Ningunas salmueras, ningún moron de las cebollas!

It's been unusually hot here in the South Bay lately so we decided to go for an ocean cruise on the West Coast's fastest speedboat, the Ocean Racer. It takes off from King Harbor every hour and once out to sea, they open up the throttle and "let 'er rip" as the old saying goes. It was a lot of fun and a great way to cool off on a hot summer day. We even got to see some seals hanging out on one of those sea buoys.

• Dane Cook does Tom Cruise  - Check out comedian Dane Cook on the Jimmy Kimmel Show acting just like Tom Cruise and professing his love for Katie Holmes....VERY funny!

• Samuel Jackson Beer - The notorious Dave Chappel skit that spawned more than a few jokes at Lakefest this year.

• Great First Date Move - From the Great Moments in Hookup History video collection.

• Rear-ended - Cool video of a hunter sneaking up on a wild boar and kicking it square in the keester! That took some balls.

• Sex Education - I guess the makes of the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas thought it would be a good idea to include some sex ed for the kids. And people wonder what's wrong with the kids...

It was Friday morning, and that meant it was time for an activity that the teacher called 'add to the picture'. The teacher would call students to the chalkboard one at a time. The first student would draw an object on the chalkboard, and each following student would add something to the picture to make it a new picture.

The teacher called on little Bobby to start things off.

Bobby returned to his seat. The teacher called on Ernie next.

Ernie returned to his seat. Now it was Suzy's turn.

Suzy returned to her seat. Next, the teacher called Lamonte to the board.

Lamonte returned to his seat. Kim was called to the board.

Kim returned to her seat.

About this time, little Jimmy began waving his arm hysterically. Little Jimmy was well known for being dirty-minded, so the teacher was reluctant to call on him for anything. But as the teacher looked at the picture on the chalkboard, she thought that there was no way that little Jimmy could possibly do anything to make this picture dirty. So she called on little Jimmy, and he ran to the chalkboard.

Little Jimmy had done it again!

Courtesy of Kim

There was a time when kids were kids and innocence was something to be cherished. I feel sorry for today's youth and for future generations of young people as well. The youth of today are bombarded with adult content on TV, in movies, in music and now even video games.

There's a game called Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas which I thought was pretty horrible from the moment it came because the whole point of the game is to steal cars, deal drugs, and kill police by shooting them in the face. If that weren't bad enough there's a "secret scene" in the game which kids can unlock with a code from the internet that shows a prostitute having sex with one of the car thieves in the game, Sure, it's animation but it's still porn and sends a very unhealthy message to our kids.

I don't have any problems with porn (trust me I don't) but I don't think kids playing video games should be exposed to that kind of material. It's bad enough that kids are playing games which graphically simulate violence, civil disobedience, drug trafficking, and every other thing you wouldn't want your kid doing without giving them a thug view of sex education.

I don't currently have any kids but if I ever do, they will never have a tv, computer, or Play Station in their room and they'll only be allowed to use any of those media devices under my supervision. I'd much rather my kids be outdoors playing hide and seek or riding bikes than indoors having their minds polluted. I guess the only downside to that would be the fear of them being abducted by the growing population of sexual predators. What a sad world our kids live in today.

This link will show you the totally unrated sex scene in Grand Theft Auto...this is what your kids are seeing in their video games. If your kid has this game, you are a horrible parent!

• http://gorillamask.net/gtasex.shtml

Check out these crazy clouds in Nebraska. (see link below) There's several shots of these creepy looking clouds which are called mammatus clouds and contrary to popular belief do not mean tornados or violent weather is eminent. Mammatus clouds actually show up after the worst part of a storm has passed and the weather system is weakening.

• http://www.hprcc.unl.edu/nebraska/june2004hastings-mammatus.html

Microsoft finally announced the name of it's forthcoming operating system earlier today. Formerly known by insiders and tech geeks like me as Longhorn, it was renamed Vista and announced to the public on Friday. Of course, only the name was released. Beta (test) versions won't be available for another month and the actual operating system won't be available to the public until late 2006. I'm actually not a huge fan of the new name but hopefully the wait will be worth it...not that XP Pro hasn't been the most reliable OS I've ever used so far. Hopefully they won't screw it up.

Here's an interesting find...go to Google, do a search for ass, and guess who pops up as the # 2 result? Why it's the Democratic Party of course. I wonder if that's because they're full of....well, you can figure the rest out. :^P

Even though I'm not a fan of the whole "pimp" lifestyle this was still a little fun to do. According to this site I'm Ice Master Jimmy Fresh but my original pimp name back in the Seven Oaks days was Jimbo The Superjock. Inside joke.

So anyway, see what your pimp name is...

• http://www.playerappreciate.com/pimphandle.asp

Congratulations to Lori Myers and David Ashwell on their recent engagement. I think the news actually reached me while I was in Cali last week but it was confirmed at Lakefest. I didn't get a chance to run into Lori or meet her fiancé David but since I know she checks my site often..."Congrats Lori!"