Wow, talk about a mind-blower. What an unfortunate case.

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From Salon:

The WhackoJacko Watch continues:

If you're wondering what it is between Michael Jackson and Macaulay Culkin, the answer, it seems, is ... teddy bears. The buddies apparently spent a recent evening together watching "Toy Story 2" at a posh London hotel surrounded by stuffed animals. "It was quite surreal -- one of the world's biggest megastars and a fading actor sitting on a bed watching a cartoon surrounded by cuddly toys," a hotel worker told the U.K. Sun. "There didn't seem to be anything sinister in it, but you'd have thought they had something better to do." At least they weren't home alone. [from Salon's Nothing Personal column]


Geek TV: I can't say whether or not I agree with her assessment of LGM since I have yet to see it, but I do think the article as a whole has its merits.

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beansie cam



<it's snowing AGAIN>

This is pretty funny - What would happen if Dr. Seuss wrote a Star Trek: TNG episode?

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We actually managed to avoid getting infected by the "Naked Wife" this week. Here's a pretty funny article about what we could expect for future virus names. My favorites: FW: JamesGandolfiniInaThong and FW: TedKoppelGigglingUncontrollably.

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Geek humor.

This picture was taken in the town adjacent to where I live. That's pretty much what it looked like out my window as well. It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood today, though. And it's supposed to get up to above 50 degrees on Sunday! Perfect for a St. Patrick's Day parade. :-)

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Friends of mine (you know who you are) were telling about dreams they had last night, so I thought I would post my dream from last night here for you. I'll post other (suitable) dreams as I have them and if I can remember them.

I had some really weird dreams about work first, short ones. Then the next thing I knew I was in Vancouver, but it wasn't really Vancouver, if ya know what I mean... and I didn't have a place to stay. Thankfully, my good friend Janet Reno (!) lived there and she said that I could stay in her apartment that night. She lived on the 6th floor of this beautiful old brick apartment building. I let myself into her place while she wasn't there and started walking around, checking things out. Everything looked like it belonged to someone's grandmother - old, worn wall-to-wall carpeting, doilies everywhere, crocheted spreads on the beds. I peeked in the bathroom and noted that she was just as bad a housekeeper as I was. I walked from room to room, checking them out and then I stopped - I went back and counted. *Six* bedrooms! That's when I started to look at the place differently, thinking "Hey, this place has possibilities," and started to set my sights on it for myself.

Then I woke up.

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I'll be watching this on March 20th. Those Aussies better keep their eyes on the skies!

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Listen up, Sopranos fans -- HBO has redesigned its Sopranos site and they seem to be having a little fun with JeffreyWernick.com . Check it out.

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When we last saw her, my mother was attending Catholic High. Today we finish up the MommyTribute with her wedding photo from 1964.



<I wonder sometimes what it would have been like to have known her then>

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<Please be sure there are no small children nearby before you click on this link>

YIKES.

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I don't know if it's a morbid fascination of mine, or simply the desire to learn more about the scientific aspect of crime-solving (or likely a combination of both), but I love watching all those forensic investigation shows on the Discovery Channel. Check out Discovery's New Detectives and FBI Files web site. Features include microscopic images of blood, sperm and saliva; links to the FBI's Most Wanted List, Interpol and the Secret Service; and a behind-the-scenes FAQ.

Under the heading of Just Plain Freaky, I give you this, from today's Nothing Personal colum at Salon.com:

Hey, guess what? Psychic Uri Geller can not only bend spoons with his mind, he can bend Michael Jackson as well.

"He is very humble and shy," Geller says of Jacko in an interview with the U.K. Telegraph. "When he walks into the room, he almost bows to me."

Bowing aside, Jackson will stand up for Geller as his best man when the psychic and his wife renew their vows on Wednesday on the grounds of his estate outside London.

And while Geller calls Jackson's wedding role a "spur of the moment" decision, the two men have been buddies for three and a half years. They met through Mohamed Fayed (owner of Harrods and father of the late Dodi) and bonded over spoon-bending.

"He wants to learn about the mysteries of the universe, and so do I," Geller says.

They also have the universe's ridicule in common. "People have said that my psychic powers are nonsense, that I use laser beams," Geller tells the paper. "There is no doubt that all the allegations made against Michael are equally false."

But even Geller admits that friendship has its limits. "As far as his face goes ... I wish he wouldn't do it," he says of his buddy's penchant for plastic surgery. "I have told him not to wear that mask, but there are some things you cannot say."

Well, can't he tell him telepathically?

Tomorrow I will be returning to work after 2 glorious snow days. Guilt-free time away from work - thank you, Mother Nature. Of course, I'll be cursing her when I'm playing catch-up, but that's the price one pays, I suppose.

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I spent my first snow day in years today doing absolutely nothing but napping, reading and watching the TV. Well, my sister and I played Trivial Pursuit, but she won so that doesn't count. We're getting hit pretty hard with snow right now, but it appears as though we won't be getting hit quite as hard by this storm as they said we would. Instead of 1 to 2 feet of snow we will probably end up with about 10 inches (The heavier accumulations will from MA on up north - get going on that igloo, Krys!). The kid in me is disappointed, but I can't really complain now, can I? Chances are pretty good right now that our office will open an hour or two late, time I will most likely need to clean off the truck.

I spent a couple of hours tonight trying to clean up this site (behind-the-scenes stuff). Because of server space issues, I pared down the Vancouver and Family photo galleries, and got rid of some stuff that I didn't even know I still had on here. It was a daunting task that I am glad to finally have over with - now I can work on building up certain portions of the site without the worry of all the clutter.

Not much to link to today since I was offline most of the day in fear of power outages (we only had a short one - so far!), but I thought I'd recommend the site for the new Planet of the Apes movie that will be released in July of this year. It's a flash heavy site, but it's worth the download wait, I think. I love the original movie, and Tim Burton is the director of this one so I am psyched. Mark Wahlberg is no Charlton Heston, but then again this is not your father's Planet of the Apes.

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