World traveler, my ass. According to this site, I’ve only visited 5% of the world countries. (That’s 13, to be exact.) Most of ’em were in Europe, and quite a few were mere airport stopovers. See, I told you I’m not really that interesting.

I discovered a useful site today called geekgirls.com. It’s got a lot of “plain-English” computor tutorials. I particularly liked: Passwords Made Easy and Database Design from Scratch. I’m still going through the rest of the site…

Wow, a pickled dragon! That reminds me of the dragon “fossils” I saw for sale in Birmingham a few years back.

The smugness of the County Spelling Bee Champion.
Ha! The next time I get into an argument with someone who calls me a “Spelling Nazi”, I’m going to point them to this NYT article. Summary: Dumb eBay sellers list items with misspelled titles. Smart buyers find the items, buy them cheap, relist them with correct spellings, and sell for a tidy profit. I repeat, HA!

Holy crap! Our cherry tomatoes are finally coming ripe and we’ve got too many of them. I just picked about fifty and there are plenty more still green. I’m thinking of making some homemade salsa. Anybody got a good recipe? Actually, do you have any other ideas for what to do with them? Suggestions welcome, as otherwise we’ll be eating nothing but salad for the rest of the summer!

It’s that time again! The Oscar nominees have been announced and the web-goddess Oscar Contest 2004 starts today. First prize is, of course, a sock monkey. (If you already have one of my sock monkeys, a doggie will instead be offered.) Current predictions can be seen here. Only one entry per person and you can’t make changes, so only enter once you’re really sure! But then again, entry date is the ultimate tiebreaker so you don’t want to put it off too long. Good luck!

Special thanks to my friend Mardi of soulcreative who designed the awesome logo for me. She’s a designer. You should hire her.

How to make soap from bacon fat. (PDF) Seriously. Just flip to page 18. I am strangely intrigued by this idea.

There’s a nasty new Windows virus making the rounds and one of you may have it. I’ve been getting flooded with bounced e-mails that have spoofed my address as the sender. So if you get anything suspicious from me, don’t click on it! (I don’t have the virus; I have a Mac.) If you’re on Windows, you should probably check out that link and make sure you haven’t been infected. I’m guessing one of you has, as it would’ve picked up my domain from your address book or cache.

Everybody’s linking to the Charlie Brown “Hey Ya” video but by the time I went to download it the original file was gone. Fortunately I found a mirror. It’s a big download but it’s sooo worth it.

Oh my God… Jem and the Holograms is being released on DVD! Sadly, I would purchase this in a heartbeat. I watched way too many episodes of that as a kid. (Thanks to Bill for the heads-up.)