Got yet another new skin I whipped up last night, courtesy of Rebellious Conformity, whose site I found via Greg. This skin is called (unimaginatively) “Girl Squatting.” It’s work-safe, but I’m working on a couple of new ones that definitely aren’t. Will soon be bringing rich new meaning to “skinning” the site….

Added a lot of desktop wallpaper to my Gallery. You can check out the link on the sidebar (there are sub-albums entitled “Celebrities,” “Windows XP,” “Scenic,” and “Nudes”). Grab one, grab ‘em all!

Found at alt.marketing.online.ebay: This (ended) auction for what appears to be a harmless pestle…. Until you check out this page about hand grenades.

Whatever this means!
Entish

To which race of Middle Earth do you belong?
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Where was she on Friday the 13th? Writing the funniest blog entry about idiot drivers that I’ve yet to read. My hat’s off to Beer Mary and her sidekick Mr. Gas Pedal. Now, I’m going to take what I learned and drive my own Kick Ass Car in a manner that would do Mary honor.

As Scott wondered a few days ago, how long can the war mongers keep their collective mouths shut about Bush’s lies? Once again, my man nailed it in today’s Philadelphia Inquirer. There’s an awful lot of yapping going on, but I don’t see too many tackling the issue of the lie. Because, as I said to a friend in a recent e-mail, like it or not, HE LIED. If you take away whatever noble motives he may have had for doing so (if you even dare to dress it up like that to begin with), that one naked, inescapable, irrefutable fact remains. The lie. And it’s starting to stink just a bit.

I’ve been on a creative bender today. Which makes Robert happy. He’s in the other room watching “the races at Talladega.” Or so he tells me. My new default skin is a bit different. I’ve dispensed with the sidebar and just put all that junk on its own page. So all you see on the front page is me, me and more me. I’m going to stick with that style for awhile for myself. Of course the beauty of skinned sites is that you can do what you want. There are about 25 skins now available. Surely you can find something that appeals to you. Another skin I just created is cactus-themed. It occurs to me that I seem to do a lot of skins in shades of green. I never realized this before, but it sure looks like green must be a favorite color of mine. Finally, I resurrected one of my first designs, blue marbles. A friend of mine at work really liked it. But I was never quite happy with it as it was, so I tweaked it a bit and am somewhat more satisfied with the layout and color scheme now. Drop me a note and let me know what you think. I may be inclined to create more templates in my newfound style, links and other distractions on a separate page. Okay, now I’m off to do some laundry. In my nice, clean car.

There are a couple more skins up and running. The original “red electrical cord” red/white/gray skin is now resurrected. I also created another, very pale pastel “Bottoms Up” theme. But I’m not sure I’m pleased with the color scheme. If it burns your retinas or is uncomfortable in any way, just drop me a note.

After the National Highway Traffic Safety Association concluded its investigation, it is expected that Nissan Motor Corp. will recall 1994-95 Altimas due to airbag-related injuries. Read the Reuters article. As anyone who knows me already knows, I am a Z-Car fanatic. Several years ago, Nissan had to recall thousands upon thousands of its 1984-89 300ZXs and 1986-90 Maximas due to problems with the fuel injectors. This recall campaign didn’t surface until the early to mid 1990s. And it mattered not whether you were the original owner. I happened to have just purchased, back in 1995, a 1984 300ZX 2+2. Several months after I bought it, a mechanic friend of mine told me about the recall campaign. A quick call to Nissan’s toll-free number with my VIN verified that the vehicle did indeed need its injectors replaced. Nissan’s solution: They directed me to rent a car, gave me a code and their toll-free number, told me to give that information to the rental car company and run, not walk, to my nearest Nissan dealership to drop the car off for the recall campaign repairs. I ended up in a 1996 Toyota Camry for 34 days while my car was waiting for parts that were on back order. I guess Nissan figured they’d rather pay to have the 300ZX and Maxima owners in a safe rental than risk them burning up in an injector-related car fire. Made sense to me. And that’s one reason I love Nissan to this day.

From John Updike:

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people’s patience.