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So there is a cool little web aplet that will take any text you input and create a "word cloud." This is a classic, "why? Because it's freaking cool!" situations. So I cut and pasted every blog entry from The Cannon, and below is the result. You can make your own at Wordle

Eight long years of waiting and wondering if they were gonna do it one more time, will end on October 18th. The new single crackles the airwaves (sorry Rush) this week. I can't tell you how excited I am. Rock on Bishes!!!!!

Yet another of those images that is offensive, politically incorrect and most of all funny as hell. I apologize in advance. Wonder if the bitch stole his fish ?

It takes a quality site to get added to my Google Reader subscription list. And The Big Picture takes quality to a new level. The Big Picture , is a blog compiled semi-regularly by Alan Taylor. It focuses on current events and provides OUTSTANDING high quality images for each story. With as much information that is available on the internet, it's surprising that something like this hasn't already been done. But now it has, and it's done WELL. Think of it as a news story with pictures provided by National Geographic or Life Magazine. Simple and stunning. I check the feed reader constantly hoping to see the new Big Picture update. Go. Now. Enjoy it! The Big Picture

If you haven't jumped on the RSS bandwagon, you really need to investigate it. RSS is basically a way to subscribe to websites or your favorite blog. Instead of navigating the web using your traditional bookmarks, you read everything now through your RSS reader. There are regular clients that you install on your machine, but the most popular are the web based feed readers. I can't recommend Google Reader enough. This one tool has changed the way I interact with the 'Net. In a distant second place is bloglines . The key to the web feed reader, is the fact that you can use it on any machine with a internet connection. Work, home, kiosk, all your settings and "currently read" items will propagate accordingly. So, you take your favorite websites, blogs, etc and add them to your reader. Anytime content is added to any of the sites you subscribe to, the "Items unread" amount will increase accordingly. Now you have all the places that you hit on the inte...

When I started Time Cannon I had lofty goals of telling interesting stories, hopefully on a daily basis. I didn't want boring entries of an uneventful workdays or lists of minutia that goes on in my daily life. I think I posted some interesting stories, but the daily thing just didn't happen. Another thing I didn't want this to be, is a link-dump. You know, one of those blogs that has a link to that new Neiman Marcus cookie recipe. It seems those type blogs had the same content, no individuality at all. Well Ive had a revelation, my brother the other day, after sending him a cool link, asked me where I come up with this cool stuff. After thinking about it for awhile, I've come to the conclusion that I spend waaay too much time online. It could almost be classified as addiction I assume. Being online all the time, I usually have seen it before. If I haven't, and it's cool, people like my brother, that don't live on the internet, probably haven't and mig...

Time to get this goin again. How's that for a threat....

Having always been a technology fan, especially into computers, you learn something early on. The Early Adopter Tax. If it’s new, hot, and you want it now, you will pay double for it compared to the price that it will surely sink to within six months. It’s always fun (and somewhat painful) to go back and see what you paid for early gadgets. I have blogged about this before, having obtained my first computer from my dad who “traded” a complete central air and heat system for our Atari Setup. At the time, we came out REAL good on that deal. The early Atari’s were EXPENSIVE. Looking back, it was insane. In the late 80’s early 90’s, before the proliferation of Teh Interwebs, BBS’ were all the rage. I ran a fairly successful single line BBS called Castle Rock for almost 3 years. The early days of online computing, speeds were not gauged on your CPU , but your modem was the bottle neck. For a long time, we were stuck at 300 baud, which was insanely slow. Then the jump to 1200 baud. ...

I find it funny, as I scroll back at some of the older entries in this blog, the things that I wrote. I actually thought that talking about my kidney stones and rectal exams would be interesting? Wow. Well, I’ve reached another crossroad in life. I had a physical recently and the accompanying blood test indicated that I had abnormally low testosterone. They would need another blood test in a week to verify those findings. A week passes and this blood test says that I DON’T have low testosterone. Huh? According to the Dr., it’s cyclical, and we tested when the hormones were at their lowest. So, let’s grab some more blood in two weeks. The two weeks were up yesterday and I had blood taken again. While talking with the Dr., as I had the last 5 or 6 previous visits, I told him about my feelings of malaise. I have no motivation to do anything. Bills are late and I don’t care. Not eating right, and can’t sleep a full night to save my life. He told me, that regardless of the results of this l...

"Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind." John Tillotson Everyone has their stories of people’s complete lack of consideration these days. The fact the our Mass begins with the request that you please “ take the time to silence all pagers and cell phones ”,  says all you need to know about the state of our society. The fact that there is one nimrod that doesn’t heed this request EVERY Sunday makes it worse. And yes, I do grasp the irony of cussing to myself in church when the  inevitable, lame ringtone breaks the silence. I’m not perfect. Sue me. Anyway, I was coming home yesterday from work minding my own business listening to the new Dean Koontz audio book The Good Guy, when out of the blue the guy in the lane next to me turns into my lane so quickly (and thoughtfully applying his turn signal during this maneuver) that I had to slam on the brakes, as the boat he was pulling narrowly avoid the bumper of my car. I of course, honked and w...

I have been very lax in blogging as of late and REALLY lax in the Audiobook reviews. One of the main reasons that I had started this blog was for a place to post reviews of Audio Books that I have completed. I’m going to try to remedy that as i finish them now. I listen to my Audiobooks exclusively in the car. Previously I would load a book on the IPod and use it. For my birthday last year, I got the CDA-9856 CD Receiver . This unit has a really nice interface with the IPod. Not just an auxiliary jack, but a cable that allows control and view of the Ipod interface through the acual head unit. The CD also will play MP3’s. So, now when I listen to a book, I will burn it (in mp3 format ) to a CD. Pop the CD in the car. This may seem to be the hard wa to do it, but it works really well. When the Audiobook resides on the IPod, there is no way to “bookmark” the track. Sure you power off the Ipod, it picks back where you left off. Before, I would lose my last little bit of charge at the worst...

"..for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself." Jessamyn West I have raised a retard. I swear to God, the things he says and thought processes that flow through his brain never cease to amaze me. Early on in this Blog, I promoted the idea of trying to give your kids more than you had. Don't force them to work during their early high school years and instead let them enjoy their summers unencumbered. As that dickhead Dr. Phil says, " how'd that work out for ya?" I have ended up with an unappreciative individual that is not even remotely ready for the real world. What a slap in the face that will be, standing on his own two feet. I know, I know, I reap what I sow, but that what blog is for isn't it, anonymous venting?? His outrageously expensive school, has a relatively relaxed cel phone policy. You can have you phone, and actually use it in between classes. Just don't use it during class. Kinna obvious don't you think? He come...

Random Pet Peeve. I'm not sure why I let little things bother me when there is so much out in the world that I really should be worrying about. But alas, here is a first in a series of Random Pet Peeves (TM): There is a girl here at work that has the whole trailer park image down. She litterally lives in a trailer and reinforces any and all associated stereotypes therein. She nice enough, but dumb as a rock. I overheard her talking about her evening with the following statement, "I sat in front of the computer all nite and played Solitary" Its SOLITAIRE, not solitary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Told you it was petty, but I hate when people say that. Sue me.

It would take a monumental event to interrupt my latest hiatus in this great tome. But some " fffooofd'mier!!!!" was all it took....

5 Months between posts. This is a great example of an almost abandoned blog. Maybe Ill make one of my new years resolutions to post to the blog more often. Then again... Merry Christmas everyone.....

Things are going to start happening for me now!! Navin R. Johnson The fine folks over at boing boing had and article about black light posters. The image for the article was a picture of the infamous "hippie Mickey Mouse". The same hippie Mickey Mouse proudly displayed by me in my second grade elementary group picture . I emailed Mark the picture thinking he would get a kick out it. He did and he blogged it here . Im featured in a boingboing article. Lookout Star Wars Kid, Im the "Hippie Mickey Mouse" Guy!

"There is more stupidity that hydrogen in the Universe" Frank Zappa You know when you hear those stories, the ones that you can't believe that people are THAT stupid. You think, wow, that cant be topped? But it always does. Stupidity seems to know no bounds. I saw a snippet of the local news last night (something that I consciously try to avoid.). One of the suburbs is following suite with a few other cities and installing cameras at redlights to try and stem the tide of moron red light runners. Then the story shifted to the "does this invade your privacy" slant. They then interviewed a parade of slack jawed yokels (apologies to Matt Groening) who went on about "the violation of constitutional rights. Then came the topper. An overweight lady in her mid thirties actually made this statement: "Sometimes I run late for work and need to run a red lite or two so I'm not late" Really. That was said. I'm not exaggerating. Please by all mea...