Where’s the peanut butter?!

I missed this in the news last year - good thing for the href="http://cheap-cds.com/surf/disps/455626">new David Cross CD!

US soldiers in Iraq asked to pray for Bush

They may be the ones facing danger on the battlefield, but US soldiers
in Iraq are being asked to pray for President George W Bush.

Thousands of marines have been given a pamphlet called “A Christian’s
Duty,” a mini prayer book which includes a tear-out section to be
mailed to the White House pledging the soldier who sends it in has been
praying for Bush.

“I have committed to pray for you, your family, your staff and our
troops during this time of uncertainty and tumult. May God’s peace be
your guide,” says the pledge, according to a journalist embedded with
coalition forces.

The pamphlet, produced by a group called In Touch Ministries, offers a
daily prayer to be made for the US president, a born-again Christian
who likes to invoke his God in speeches.

Sunday’s is “Pray that the President and his advisers will seek God and
his wisdom daily and not rely on their own understanding”.

Monday’s reads “Pray that the President and his advisers will be strong
and courageous to do what is right regardless of critics”.

Gone from ABC’s website but the wayback machine still has href="http://web.archive.org/web/20030603201208/http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s819685.htm">http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s819685.htm

I started combing through ebay recently in search of a flowbee. It didn’t
even occur to me these might still be available href="http://www.flowbee.com/">online. At long last - no more searching
for a shirt with clean elbows when I need a trim! Thank you, flowbee!
Consider this href="http://www.flowbee.com/info_testimonials.htm">testimonial:

From: Ed I just wanted to thank you for the fantastic product. At first I
was very sceptical. I was at a point in time in my life when I was tired of
trying to get in just to get a haircut. When they put Walk-ins welcome on
thier door, its not true. I was allways having to wait at least 30 min. or
come back the next day, only to get the same treatment. If you didn’t make
an appointment, well you get the picture. anyway, I was about to shave my
head, thats right Shave not just cut it short, shave it All off. Then I saw
a program that had your product on it, not an infomershal. This was a show
on the top 10 devices of 99 by A&E. Well from there I found your site, and
very glad I did. I am 49 and have All my hair, and wasn’t looking forward to
shaving it, but tired of leting it grow down over my ears befor I got it
cut, for various reasons such as not being able to get in to get it cut. And
for some reason it was allways on a Sunday or a Monday that I needed a
haircut, and of course salons are closed on those days. I figuered that if
the Flowbee didn’t work I was going to shave my head anyway, so nothing to
lose. Am I ever glad I got one. It works so well that allready I’ve saved
myself over half of what I paid for it and I’ve only cut my hair 3
times. Not only that but my girlfriends hair as well. And I’ve sold 2 of
them to other people, I’m sure they have called. All I’m trying to say is
that it is the best investment I’ve made in a long time, and no one could
ever get it away from me. Thanks agian, Ed Wenatchee, WA

this is my first post to my blog. Yahoo!

Today is my last day in building 17 at Microsoft. I’m not actually going
anywhere but Office is moving. I’ve been on the same floor of the same building
in the same wing for over 5 years. Now it’s time to shut off my computer (and
isn’t it about time? I have 3966 hours 39 minutes racked up in System Idle
Process - really only 41 days after adjusting for dual CPU hyperthreaded, but
still a long time) pack up my chair and move on out. But it’s a brand new day
tomorrow and I’m on my way to visit my sister in DC for the first time since she
moved there a couple years ago.

Goodbye atrium.
Goodbye habitrails - you haven’t been the same since they took all your video
games away.
Goodbye shared cafeteria - I’ll miss walking outside to visit you.
Goodbye foosball tables - if ever we meet again I promise a sweaty palm.
Goodbye 17/2321 - I started with you, slept with you, and met some of my best
friends there.
Goodbye 17/2338 - I slept with you, too, and lost some good fish to your cool
breezes.
Goodbye 17/2320 - you were the base station for the Lucky Tooth.
Goodbye 17/2405 - the armpit of the building, I won’t miss you at all.
Goodbye 17/2280 - “Occupiable Space” 119.4′ sq.
Hello 36/4044 - I look forward to your luxurious view but that’s about all.

I got this link from href="http://www.hollytree-house.co.uk/dme/log/?flav=rss">uncollected
thoughts. Tanya’s going to London
at the end of June so it might be worth having the href="http://www.kottke.org/03/01/030102geographical.html">geographically
accurate Tube map.

I’m calling it idea.txt

We’re in the middle of hte Giving campaign at work. This is the time of
year when we traditionally dig deep and hopefully wind up improving our
communities or at least help the non-profits scrape by for the near term
future. Fundamentally, we’ve always been encouraged to donate to the United
Way of King County and this has always frustrated me. Not because the
United Way in general isn’t a good institution or because there’s anything
wrong with the King County arm in particular (everything I know about the
local organization says they run one of the tighest ships and have
extremely low overhead). But it just seems like capitalism’s answer to the
need for a “social consciousness” product. If you want to “give money” to
“do good”, the United Way is there to take it for you.

I’ve changed my recipient organizations a little over the years, but this
year I’m basically renewing my pledges to href="http://kuow.org/">KUOW, the >EFF, Planned Parenthood of Western
Washington, Federation of American
Scientists, FAIR, href="http://www.realchangenews.org/">Real Change and href="http://www.paws.org/">PAWS and href="http://northwestwatch.org/">NEW.

• Lighthearted movie: href="http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/BeforeSunset-1133662/">Before
  Sunset - my only regret is not having seen href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112471/">Before Sunrise when it
  came out and when I was in college.
• Documentary: href="http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/TheCorporation-10003604/">The
  Corporation - give me The Corporation over Fahrenheit 9/11 or Super
  Size Me any day. I’d rather be smashing capitalism.
• Political cartoon: href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/128735_empire29.html">Empire
  href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/129694_empire06.html">Rising
  part href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/181490_empire11.html">III
  (more coming next week!) from two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, David
  Horsey.
• Fish: Loki Fish Company we
  grilled a 5 lb. sustainably fished salmon and served about 14 for $22.

If you are especially sensitive to human suffering or have eaten a meal in
the last 30 minutes, then you should probably not look at href="http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3612110738&category=16259">this
auction.

After months of building anticipation, the
Colossal Colon
finally href="http://www.psoul.com/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=Colossal-Colon">came
to Seattle last weekend. Don’t miss it when it comes to your town!