jr conlin's ink stained banana

It's been one of those days. You know the kind. One where you seriously consider taking up sheep herding in Vermont.

Today was one thing blowing up right after another, where i spent the day trying to just get on top, nevermind get ahead. We missed a deadline by hours, mostly because of me. Worse thing is that a fair part of it is due to the fact that i was a fathead about a few things and didn't spot simple cut and paste errors fast enough.

Plus i managed to screw up the slick-o autorun cd i sent out to my parents, brother and sister in law.

Combine that with the fact that stuff has been blowing up pretty frequently, and i swear that folks are just angling to get me out of the group (damn paranoia) and, well, you understand my current fey mood.

Maybe i'll go cheer myself up and read some Poe.

i've never really understood
the whole "relevant site" metric that google has. Still, it doesn't stop others
from finding ways to abuse it.

Matt
has a list of 'neighborhood'
sites. What it does is get the list of relevant sites from google, then scrapes
the blogrolls looking for other sites that also might relate to you.

Just in case your curious,
here is the list that mine came back with:

If you're looking for more proof that site relevance produces more weirdness, try looking at the related sites for unitedHeroes.net.

i have seen the very definition of evil. It's something designed solely to appeal to pre-teen girls. i speak of the evil that is Hamtaro.

Why is this evil?

Well, all i can say is ask my brother in three years.

mwah-ha-ha….

"We had to plan for catastrophic success."

– Gen. Richard Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, talking on CNN about various outcomes of the war.

Spring is Sprunging in full force. i know this not because i spent another two hours weeding a roughly four square foot patch of gravel near the end of my driveway, but because the migrations have started again.

Last night i caught sight of a pair of ducks winging their way along Lawrence Expressway, along the carpool lane, i might add, with the not only qualified for, but was moving faster anyway. The fact that they were going south along it will be ignored for the time being.

One thing that impressed me was that for creatures that make a rather awe inspiring trek of thousands of miles on the wing, they sure don't look like they're built for it. Seriously. They plug along, flapping like lunatics nearly the entire time then drop like rocks into some body of water. They don't have the sort of grace that pelicans, sea-gulls and other distance fliers have.

Heck, i'm surprised they haven't evolved the ability to buy bus tickets yet.

Still, i like ducks. There's something about them that i feel i can identify with. Fortunately, it's not the habit of eating bugs and small frogs. Mostly because they get stuck in my teeth too often.