INFINITY Welcomes Careful Drivers

There are nearly 1 million Miatas floating around this big old world of ours. With that many in existence there is a huge market for making them more our own. Going back to the days of the Hot Rods and souped up racers, the culture of car modification has progressed to this day to a point where there is something for everyone.  read more »

Once we found out what was wrong with our little boy, we made the decision to euthanize him on Saturday. I sent this to bc-l on Thursday Sept 27, after finally making arrangements with Dr. Adriano Betton, the best Vet Jack ever had:

The date is set for Saturday afternoon. That gives us one last full
day with Jack. I am hoping to make it a day of sun and grass, steak
and fries. I don't know that he'll really notice, but he may. He
still wags his tail at the sound of my voice, even though he can't see
me.

I did finally cry a little, but just a little. I can't let it go.  read more »

This was the fist post on what became the final thread about my little Black Jack. I posted this on Sept 25:

Jack looks worse, and even more pathetic today...

He had his biopsy on Friday and they removed samples from several
places to send off to the labs at NC State. No word yet, but we are
hoping to hear from them by the end of the week.

He's currently on Cipro and that doesn't seem to be doing much, though
he is becomming very mucosy now... maybe that's a sign that he is
finally fighting whatever it is that is infecting him.

His face is very puffy now, and that is most likely a side effect of
the pain meds that they put him on for a few days after the surgery.

He was done Friday afternoon, but we left him there overnight because
the Vet said he was sleeping soundly due to the anasthetic (he hasn't
slept soundly in weeks) so we left him for the night to get some much
deserved rest. Then we brought him home.

We even put one of those plastic cones on his head. He looks so
pathetic staring out from his little alien helmet, but at least it's
keeping him from scratching his sores open with his paw. He was
catching the growth with his dewclaw and that was ripping it open
causing him to bleed all over the place.

He still wags at me, though I can tell he's feeling miserable just by
his ack of enthusiasm. Last night though, as I sat on the couch
watching the season premier of Heroes, he put his head on my lab for
some ear scratches, then crawled half way up, laying across my lap
with his front legs, head resting on my thigh while standing with his
back legs so I could rub his back and scratch his head at the same
time. That is my Jack. The one who just loves to sit in your lap and
be doted on. The one who shivers and sighs just a little bit when you
scratch behind his ears, and near his tail. That's the Jack I want to
see again.  read more »

This weekend we did a first, which is becoming harder to do these days. I have already seen and done a lot of different things, so new experiences are certainly hard to come by without a lot of travel and expense. So we both made our way to the North Carolina Renaissance Faire this weekend.  read more »

I had a great weekend. It seems that not everyone had such a great weekend however.

Google News has a list of articles covering the death of The Crocodile Hunter, Mr. Steve Irwin.

This weekend, Steve was diving and took a stingray barb in the chest. He apparently went into cardiac arrest and died before paramedics could arrive, they having had to fly in from a neighboring island.  read more »

DO NOT EAT PRINGLES FAT FREE POTATO CHIPS. THEY WILL GREASE YOUR ASS.
Date: 2006-07-17, 2:10AM PDT

Don't even fucking say a word. I like potato chips, and can't eat them very much or I'll get fat.

I tried out these Pringles Fat-Free chips because they were super low-cal. BBQ flavor. the fuck.

The can said they had 70 calories per serving, which meant the whole can had 490 calories inside total. I could munch through a can in a day with my lunch, dinner, etc. So I got several cans, and began enjoying one a day for the past four days. But what they dont fucking tell you...

Except in tiny print you cant read without a fucking electron microscope  read more »

It is with sadness that I must relay the passing of Syd Barrett, who died a few days ago at the age of 60. Syd was a troubled man, who founded what has to be the most popular rock group ever, Pink Floyd.

Their album "Dark Side of the Moon" stayed on the Billboard charts for a combined total of over 1500 weeks. DSOTM has sold well over 40 million albums, and sales continue to this day.

Of course, the band recorded DSOTM after Syd left the band, but without his work in the early days, they would not have been the band that they became. They were a big influence in my own life as well. I fell in love with The Wall the first time I saw it on the original MTV.  read more »

Father Has No Right To Adopt Despite Mother's Deception

POSTED: 10:23 am EDT June 21, 2006
UPDATED: 10:23 am EDT June 21, 2006

RALEIGH, N.C. -- A biological father should lose his parental rights because he did not establish himself as a caregiver, even though the mother deceived the man by claiming she had a miscarriage, the state Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday.

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Why is this even a consideration? And the fact that a court found that he has no rights to a child he didnt even know existed?? What the FUCK is that about? Have we all gone mad?  read more »

This is definitely the Pet Of The FUTURE...

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It amazes me how people can say that the bible must be followed for it the word of God, yet they then turn around and claim that only CERTAIN PARTS of it are actually the parts of the word of God that should be followed... That is why I detest religion. I have no problem at all with spirituality, worshiping your higher power, or whatever; but organized religion is the bane of civilization and progress, and the crutch of the weak and gullible.

Fancy this story from the book of Judges in the bible. A man with his concubine travel from Jerusalem back to his home.
There is one of those "oh the bible is the word of God, but just ignore that part because we dont belive in that any more" things. If this is the Word of God, then why can I not have a concubine??? Apparently it is blessed, and in those days that actually meant a second wife, so it also espouses polygamy or at least polyamory  read more »