Monthly Archives: May 2006

Greatness

I love it when crim­i­nals get what they deserve with­out mess­ing with the penal system.

May 31, 2006 – 10:56 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Random | Comments (0)

Pandora

No, this isn’t a post about a cer­tain fat cat I hap­pen to know. It’s about the coolest thing on the inter­net I’ve seen in a long, long time. Pan­dora is part of the Music Genome Project. You start off giv­ing it one or two (or 6 in my case) artists that you like and …

May 30, 2006 – 2:08 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Internet/Technology | Comments (0)

The Meaning of Memorial Day

Ben Stein says it far bet­ter than I could. I hope we never for­get the real mean­ing of this three day week­end in May.

May 29, 2006 – 10:51 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Random | Comments (0)

Pat Robertson, God and their magical Protein Shake

Pat Robert­son claims to have leg-pressed 2000 pounds in 2003 when he was 73. You should clean that cof­fee of your com­puter screen before it screws some­thing up. Related infor­ma­tion on the gen­eral wussi­ness of the leg-press can be found here.

May 26, 2006 – 6:34 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Sports | Comments (0)

Homeland Security Remains a Joke

Yup, this is your Home­land Security.

May 19, 2006 – 11:09 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in National Issues | Comments Off

Political Nastiness

When­ever you start to think that pol­i­tics at the national level are nasty and cruel, remem­ber, it’s always worse at the local level.

May 19, 2006 – 7:04 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Politics | Comments (1)

Song Lyrics Aren’t My Strong Point

So I’m proud of my 63. What did you score?

May 16, 2006 – 3:56 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Random | Comments (3)

News Of the Weird

Man spends 50 years in tree after fight­ing with his wife. Only in India.

May 12, 2006 – 12:25 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Random | Comments Off

Garden Update

Not sure if I put these pic­tures up when we cre­ated the gar­den but here”s what our new bed looked like in March com­pared to exactly 2 months later. Still some bare spots but we”re grow­ing some things from seed so it takes some time. I don”t think we”ll do that again as the instant …

May 11, 2006 – 7:17 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Gardening | Comments (1)

It’s All In the Name

As many of you know, it’s elec­tion time for lots of city coun­cils around the Metroplex. You should def­i­nitely get out and vote as it’s your Amer­i­can duty. Or some­thing like that. But scold­ing you for being a worth­less no-account isn’t what I’m inter­ested in today. No, I’m inter­ested in a cer­tain can­di­date for Gar­land …

May 11, 2006 – 9:42 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Dallas Affairs | Comments (2)