Following a link from Zannah, I gave myself an on-line palm reading. Those of you who know me may be interested in the results.

I love it when things just work out. Yesterday morning I was wishing that I didn’t have rehearsal so I could go to the public library and watch a screening of North by Northwest. By late afternoon, one of my two cast members let me know he couldn’t be at rehearsal (he’s a trial lawyer, and a trial was going late into the evening) – but in the meantime I decided that it would e better to get home and do gardening work before todays thunderstorms hit. I dug a new flowerbed (1 ft by 150 ft of hummingbird and butterfly flowers along a white wooden fence), weeded, mixed compost into a few more vegetable beds, and other odds and ends. After dark, I went inside, started some rice cooking and flicked through the channels. On TCM the funny “host” was just saying “and now, North by Northwest.” Ahh… I really enjoy that movie. As the IMDB entry points out, I particularly enjoy the dialogue that is banal today but shocking for the day.

Eve Kendall: It’s going to be a long night.
Roger Thornhill: True.
Eve: And I don’t particularly like the book I’ve started.
Roger: Ah.
Eve: You know what I mean?
Roger: Ah, let me think. Yes, I know exactly what you mean.

Unfortunately for me, I’m much more like Ruben Bolling’s Louis than Roger Thornhill in conversations like that.

If for whatever reason you need to get a hold of Satan, here’s a list of ways to do so.

I got an email from a James Berry claiming that he created the parody song Bimbo #5 that I linked to back in December. He would like me to either remove the link or add him as a link with credit. I won’t remove the link, so here he is -- though I wouldn’t go there unless you want background music, a gazillion animated gifs, comet cursors, etc.

The Pat Robertson quotes linked below is just one section of the Christ’s Love Christian Parody site. Sometimes funny, often vulgar – you don’t have to be Ned Flanders to find something offensive in here.

After one hears the inspiring words of Pat Robertson, you just might agree with this guy when he says, “I don’t know about you, but I’ve started carrying stones in my briefcase. Not only does it build my trapezius and deltoid muscles; I’m always prepared when I meet UFO enthusiasts. "

Back when I was just small, I often had to mow the lawn using one of those old reel push mowers. The grass was thick, the blades were dull, and I wished we had a riding mower. I’m glad my parents didn’t know about this: a kit that attaches a reel mower to your bicycle.

I saw on The Weather Channel that the northern states saw temperatures fall about 70 degrees overnight. You folks up there might scratch up your car, floors, walls, what-have-you, in your haste to bring the skis back out. To prevent such a disaster, you may want to consider using the Ski Condom.

I’m not registered Republican, but I cast my vote for McCain yesterday. As usual, I was the youngest person at the polling place by about 40 years. Now that the primaries are effectively over, all the candidates have the next 8 months to woo over the ever-important Eric vote.

To help liven their paper on Multiple Regression, a team of New Mexico State psychology graduate students enlisted the aid of Ren & Stimpy. From A Curmudgeon Teaches Statistics.