What would you do for $10,000? A 30 year old woman from Salt Lake City auctioned off her forehead to be tattooed for advertising. After a bunch of bids reaching $999.99, a gambling site finally met her asking price of $10,000.

$10,000???? That's it??? It would take a lot more money to do something so blantantly permanent (and stupid) to myself.

I have no idea how much private school costs these days, but I'd imagine $10K won't get you that far. So what will she do when her son wants to go to college... auction off each facial cheek for $20,000 a piece???

I can understand the mother's willingness to sacrifice everything to give her son a better life, but this is ridiculous!

For all the help this money may immediately give her son, it's not going to help pay for his shrink bills from years of torture for being the kid with a freak mother with a tattoo on her forehead!

What an idiot!

CNN.com - Woman tattoos Web address on forehead - Jun 30, 2005  ¶ 5:25 PM 0 Comments Links to this post

  GmailThis! I found this handy little tool on Digg.com

It easily allows you to compose a gmail email with a link to the page you are on (email links). Google should incorporate this into their browser's toolbar!

Get the GmailThis! bookmarklet HERE  ¶ 10:25 AM 0 Comments Links to this post

  collaborative Art Project

This site is pretty cool! After selecting a format, drag your mouse up or down to zoom in or out.

www.zoomquilt.org  ¶ 5:14 PM 0 Comments Links to this post

  Download music videos from iTunes This is very cool!

This page show you how you can download videos from itunes for free!

Step 1: Open the iTunes Music Store and navigate to Music Videos in the left side column. Choose the video of your choice and right-click on either the ‘Small’ or ‘Large’ format clip. Choose ‘Copy iTunes Music Store URL’.

Step 2: Go here and paste the URL into the video field and click ‘Submit’. The resulting page will present you with a link to download the complete video from iTunes. Right-click and choose ‘Save Link As’. Make sure to rename your video appropriately.

Download music videos from iTunes  ¶ 10:54 PM 0 Comments Links to this post

  Version 6! After settling on my last design for a while, I decided to give my site a little design change.

The whole design was starting to get crowded with different links and the design was starting to get dark and crowded. I haven't finished everything yet, but I decided to go live with it anyway.

Additionally, this is my first real attempt to use CSS.

So far - so good... I think.

Let me know what you think.  ¶ 3:50 PM 2 Comments Links to this post

  What they said - what they meant Katrina quotes, with interpretations

Who: President George Bush, 2 days before Hurricane Katrina made landfall.
What He Said: 'A State of Emergency exists in Louisiana beginning yesterday.'
What He Meant: 'But since I'm still on vacation, I need to stage a few photo-ops strumming a guitar and playing golf first.'

Who: Dennis Hastert.
What He Said: 'I don't know about that (rebuilding New Orleans.) That doesn't make sense to me.'
What He Meant: 'Its just poor people, right?'

Who: President Bush.
What He Said: 'We want to make sure that we can respond properly if there's a WMD attack or another major storm.'
What He Meant: 'It was Al Qaeda again.'

Who: Barbara Bush at the Houston Astrodome.
What She Said: 'So many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.'
What She Meant: 'Its just poor people, right?'

Who: President Bush in Alabama 4 days after the Hurricane.
What He Said: 'Out of the rubbles of Trent Lott's house -- he's lost his entire house -- there's going to be a fantastic house. And I'm looking forward to sitting on the porch.'
What He Meant: 'If you expect help, you better move to a state run by Republicans. Even better, a state run by my brother.'

Who: Homeland Secretary Michael Chertoff.
What He Said: 'The conditions at the New Orleans SuperDome were nowhere near as bad as the TV images suggested.'
What He Meant: 'Lying next to dead people in toxic waste without food and water while terrorized by thugs ain't such a bad thing.'

Who: President Bush, Sept. 1, 2005.
What He Said: 'I don't think anyone anticipated the breach of the levees.'
What He Meant: 'I don't think anyone imagined people would fly airplanes into buildings.'

Who: Senator Rick Santorum
What He Said: 'You have people who don't heed those warnings and then put people at risk… There may be a need to look at tougher penalties on those who decide to ride it out.'
What He Meant: 'And when I say tough penalties, I mean worse than drowning in your attic.'

Who: President Bush speaking about FEMA chairman Michael Brown.
What He Said: 'Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job.'
What He Meant: 'For a former head of the Arabian Horse Association.'

Who: Barbara Bush at the Houston Astrodome
What She Said: 'What I am hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay here in Texas.'
What She Meant: 'For crum's sake, I live in Texas.'

Who: President Bush.
What He Said: 'What I intend to do is to lead an investigation to find out what went right and what went wrong.'
What He Meant: 'We will track down these evildoing Hurricanes. They can run but they can't hide. We will liberate the brave freedom loving Hurricanians.'

Who: President Bush.
What He Said: 'I remember New Orleans as a great town where I used to enjoy myself — occasionally too much.'
What He Meant: 'I could use a drink.'

Who: President Bush.
What He Said: 'If things went wrong, we'll correct them, and when things went right, we'll duplicate them.'
What He Meant: 'One list is going to be longer than the other.'

Original posting here


Ah yes, another post concerning Dubya!  ¶ 1:39 AM 0 Comments Links to this post

  ...To the Moon! I was tempted to post about Duyba, but I figured twice was enough for now...

I was reading the news online, and I found that NASA unveiled a new plan to take us back to the moon by 2018. With an estimated cost of $100 Billion, it's hard to swallow such a hefty pricetag especially with tonight's announcement of Dubya's Hurricane Katrina aid package (which is supposed to rival the cost of even the "war on terror"). By the way, how can you have a war on a feeling?

Gulf Coast recovery and aid for those ravaged by one of the worst natural disasters in our country's history... of course it's a top priority.

An unnecessary long-term occupation in a country that posed no immediate threat... doesn't seem so important now, does it?


NASA to unveil plan for moon mission in 2018 - Space.com - MSNBC.com

Ok, so maybe I didn't get away from posting about Dubya again!  ¶ 11:01 PM 0 Comments Links to this post

  Short Weekend in Cali Yes, I know it's already the middle of the week, but I've been rather busy for the past few days (playing realtor). This past weekend my wife and I drove out to California to meet up with my parents for their 15th anniversary. It's unbelievable that it's been that long already. The day we got back (Sunday) was our 6-month-aversary... Ok, it's not really a special occasion, but I guess it's a milestone of sorts.

The drive out to CA and back home was pretty easy and seemed to go by very quickly. Everytime we do that drive it always surprises me how easy it truly is.

We had a great time visiting my parents. The hotel was beautiful and the amenities were excellent. We spent much of our weekend soaking up the free refreshments and snacks on the club level of the hotel!

Overall it was a very nice weekend, but much too short!

There are a few other things that I'd like to blog about, but I really don't feel like it this second. Maybe I'll post again later.

Oh yeah, I've got photos from CA to upload!  ¶ 7:02 PM 0 Comments Links to this post

  Good Ol Dubya... President Bush was recently asked his position on Roe v. Wade.

He replied...

"I really don't care how the folks get out of New Orleans."

(ok, so maybe he didn't really say this, but it's still funny!)  ¶ 2:13 AM 0 Comments Links to this post

  What were you doing on August 30th? President Bush plays a guitar presented
to him by Country Singer
Mark Wills, right, backstage following
his visit to Naval Base
Coronado, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005.
(AP Photo/ABC News, Martha Raddatz)








In the same few hours, volunteers
rescue a family from the roof of
their Suburban, which became
trapped in floodwaters
on US 90 in Bay St. Louis, Miss.
(Ben Sklar / AP)

What news were you watching Dubya?  ¶ 8:07 AM 0 Comments Links to this post

  Eye Of The Storm This is an amazing blog started last week about 12 hours before the Katrina's eye hit land. Two reporters for the Sun Herald stayed behind and reported during and after the hurricane (when their generator and internet connection permitted.) They have some great first-hand thoughts and accounts of what happened to them and around southern Mississippi.

Check it out: Eye Of The Storm  ¶ 12:31 AM 0 Comments Links to this post

  A Sad Week Revisited The past week has been crazy.

It began with a huge storm and has resulted in many people in Louisiana and Alabama dead or homeless. A million and one blogs have posted their thoughts about the whole situation and honestly, at this point, I'm somewhat drained by all the emotional news coverage. Each day is filled with another montage set to heavy music and the game of "lets make you cry" proceeds. Don't get me wrong, I feel so badly for these people... No matter who's to blame for the lousy recovery efforts, the first thought needs to be to assist the displaced citizens of Louisiana and Mississippi.

Similar to the days of 9/11, the news has been nonstop Hurricane Katrina (it is the top story these days.) And similar to 9/11, I engrossed myself in the 24/7 news cycle of today's cable networks. At some period, it gets to the point where you need to just change the channel. I sympathize for these people (and we donated money) but I need to stop watching the (bad) news... Isn't all the news bad?

Additionally, Barbara started a new job on last Monday. She's loving it so far, and learning a lot. Unfortunately, any excitement over the new job opportunities were overshadowed by the tragedy down south (she used to live in New Orleans) and the stresses of a new job.

Exactly a week ago we went to see the Dave Matthews Band. We had decent seats, and had a good time. We got there late, and managed to get to our seats about 15 minutes before Dave came on. It was a good show consisting of new songs and very old songs (not much from in between.) It was still very nice to hear some of their "oldies."

I'm not sure if it's because their newer stuff isn't that good or if the whole experience has changed or the depression of the week's current events, but the show just didn't seem as enjoyable as in years past. We'll see what happens next year.

In June we went back to Jersey for the "Relay for Life" cancer walk. Barbara decided to walk in honor of one of her co-workers. Unfortunately, we also found out last week that she passed away. She had been a great Democrat friend of ours during last year's elections, and set us up with some great tickets for a performance of "Miss Saigon." She was such a vibrant lady. Last Friday we went to her memorial service... Another moment of sadness and depression.

And then on Saturday, Chief Justice Rehquist died. I'm not really going to go into my thoughts on this, but this wasn't too much of a surprise. Unfortunately now that means Dubya gets two appointments... But like I said, this wasn't too much of a surprise. Lets see how much of a fight the Dems put up.

On top of all this, I just found out that Gilligan (Bob Denver) died last Friday! He died from complications from treatment he was receiving for cancer. Geez... Cancer is getting everyone!

Geez... What a week!  ¶ 11:20 PM 1 Comments Links to this post

  Satellite Images These are some amazing satellite images of the hurricane ravaged sites in New Orleans and Mississippi. They give you a great perspective to the extent of damage.

DigitalGlobe | Hurricane Katrina Media Gallery  ¶ 1:58 AM 0 Comments Links to this post