even with the entire week off, I’ve gotten very little done. I had games to beat, books to finish, and things to learn, along with all the other stuff I was putting off for this week. but I never seemed to have the time for any of them.

so, in honor of things left unfinished, I’ve compiled a list of items to accomplish for 2006.

1. develop a razor with fifty-four blades, to end the competition once and for all. it will simultaneously shave your beard, moustache, eyebrows, and forehead.
2. mathematically prove that birds suddenly appear every time you’re near.
3. jump on the next big 80’s re-trend by wearing jams and white keds to all social events.
4. buy a pair of driving goggles, and respond only to the name “herr professor”.
5. start a boy band called “pyroclastic flow”, with lyrics composed of strictly geological terms. for example: “Baby, don’t you know it, oh, we make the perfect team; You and I, our love [so hot!] could fill a diatreme.”
6. hold a tournament for fighters around the world on my island-based ninja training camp.
7. buy a motorcycle sidecar, park it on the street, and sit in it while sighing and gazing longingly.
8. revive the “spite spit”, by mock-spitting whenever someone says the words “terrorist”, “osama”, “saddam”, or “kaiser”.
9. find a new volunteer for a beehive haircut.
10. prepare for the rapture by building a plane out of bibles. that way, even if I’m passed over, I can still fly my way into heaven with my holy flying machine.
11. words to bring into mass usage:

    indubitably

    spifflicated

    ruckus

where’s your two seconds now, lloyd carr?

tonight, michigan learned exactly what karma is. even if you’ve got the officials completely in your pocket one game, you’re bound to get screwed at some point. there were so many terrible calls and just overall shoddy officiating that those refs shouldn’t even be allowed to play fantasy football, let alone officiate a game.

I was actually hoping that michigan would pull off the win, but hey, if anyone deserves to get screwed over by the refs, it’s the wolverines.

was hoping to get the site redesign launched this week, but with wordpress 2.0 being released just a few days ago, it looks like those plans are on hold until the bugs get worked out.

that’s goddamn right.

joepa with a couple of his friends

as the holidays draw near, the time has come once again for the king of christmas to make his appearance:

(looks like the embedded video was killing the server, so you’ll have to click on the link instead)

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