Here’s some Friday goofiness I got from the Thinklings. Like most blog memes, it started somewhere else entirely and has made it through a bunch of blogs on the way here.
The deal is you go to Google and do a search for “[your name] needs”. Make sure you use the quotes, and then post the first 10 items on the list on your blog (trackback or leave a comment if you do), or here in the comments. There are like ley to be more funny stuff after the first 10, so add those in too if you want.
Here’s what “Doug needs”:

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Yesterday after work I filled Maria’s bird feeder. OK, she filled it, I just hung it up. This evening it was empty. All the seed, gone. (Like Elvis and his Mom.) The hook was away from the porch so the squirrels shouldn’t be able to reach over and pick stuff out of it. Hmmm.
So we filled it again, halfway, to see if it would be gone in the morning, indicating a night feeding frenzy (or theft.)
Just a minute ago, one of the cats is sitting at the patio door looking attentively outside, ears and head twitching. And then there’s a good, solid thump on the wood porch – and the bird feeder is swinging back and forth.
Maria gets up and turns on the back porch light and there, under the now empty, oscillating bird feeder, is a young raccoon having a late night snack. The little bugger had climbed up on the railing, hung off to the feeder and pushed the edge down until all the seeds poured out!
I guess it’s time to move the raccoon bird feeder.

Virusdoc’s blog is one of the reasons I’m blogging. I ‘met’ Virusdoc at Odyclub. Through Virusdoc I met Soup. Soup is a friend of Virusdoc’s. They’re both linked at left.
Kelcy is an ICOC member. Kelcy runs ICOCinfo, a site with regular news tidbits from ICOC churches. I don’t remember how I came accross ICOCinfo, but Kelcy introduced me to Pinakidion. Pinakidion is a member of the ICOC (or former ICOC, which is it?) church in Omaha, NE.
Scott is a friend of Pinakidion’s. He has no connection to the ICOC.
So, I’m browsing Soup’s blog and find a comment from Scott. And Scott says he found Soup through Virusdoc. I’m assuming that he found Virusdoc through me whom he found through Pinakidion. I found Pinakidion through Kelcy who I found because I got into blogging. I got into blogging because of Virusdoc and a minivan. Hmmmm.
OK, so it’s probably not that interesting, but at the time I thought it was cool.

With a hit tip to Dave Barry, I introduce a new category, Good Band Names. EDIT 05-23-2006: Never thought of any more good band names, so no need for a category. My appologies to you folks who find your way here looking for inspiration (It’s one of the top search terms for folks arriving here). Feel free to use the name below, just leave a comment if you do.
Todays entry is:
Fermented Skittle Juice

Two years ago, I wasn’t blogging. I didn’t even know what a blog was. But the Thinklings were and two years ago yesterday, Bird posted the question above in relation to the image at right.
Two years (and some 1,900 posts, judging by their trackback count) later, there are 743 comments answering that question. Go add yours.

I’m a big fan of late night TV. I loved the Tonight Show back when Johny Carson was hosting (Leno is lame, IMO) and I’ve been watching Letterman for about 20 years. The new Late Late Show with Craig Fergusen is pretty good too. much much better than the old show with Craig Kilborne.
But nothing, absolutely nothing, is funnier than jungle Jack Hannah on David Letterman. Nothing. Tonight there was a baby otter wading in a plastic pool, an Angora Rabbit that looked like a giant cotton ball, a snake pounding bird and ‘frisky’ armodillos on Dave’s desk. And of course Dave making fun of a seemingly clueless Jack. Columbus couldn’t be more proud.

I have a subscription to Dilbert through Comics.com. It’s free and I get each day’s Dilbert emailed to me. If you want to spend a little money you can get up to 70 different comics emailed for something like $12 a year.
Anyway, part of the deal is you also get added to Dogbert’s New Ruling Class and a subscription to the DNRC monthly Newsletter. It’s an absolute riot most months. Be careful about reading at work unless you want to have to explain why you just spit your coffe all over your monitor. Through your nose.
The best part of the newsletter by far is the Induhvidual Quotes. Whether they’re true quotes or not doesn’t really mattter. Here they are from this month’s issue:

“There’s more than one way to cut the cheese.”
“I know these streets like the back of my head.”
“When push comes to shove, that’s when the dollar meets the road.”
“Tomorrow at this time…it will be Wednesday.”
“I would like a pie-in-the-eye estimate.”
“The smell of indifference was deafening.”
“Oh, that will be a cake in the woods.”
“She’ll chew you up and down, and spit you out like a bad habit.”
“He’s living off the fat of my sweat!”
“I heard that out of the corner of my eye.”
“Even a blind beaver falls off a log once in awhile.”
“I threw down the carrot and he picked it up and ran with it.”
“It’s like a monkey on the back of the elephant in the room.”
“I don’t mean to throw a wrench, I mean a monkey, into the tools.”
“I got under your goat.”
“You heat it until it doubles to about three times its size.”
“When it comes to nut-cutting time, the cream will rise to the top.”
“Is it hot in me or what?”
“Don’t you hate it when you lock your keys out of your car?”
“It’s like watching paint grow.”
“The winds of change aren’t what they used to be.”
“The system is humming like a clam.”
“You need to take the bull by the balls and run with him.”
“Two cats out of the bag are worth more in the nest.”
“Anything worth doing is a lot more difficult than it’s worth.”
“Not to toot my own horse, but……”

Wednesday it was 75 balmy degrees in Columbus Ohio. As I type this now there’s an inch of wet snow on the ground and it’s coming down like mad.
Stupid groundhog.

Just to let you know, if your browsing the net and find this page, that’s not me.

Salguod carries a large, plain-looking bastard sword, which he commonly refers to as “Brand”, in a nondescript leather sheath. He also keeps with him a very beat up canvas pack in which he carries several books, a bottle of Elven Red (which never seems to run out), and several odds and ends.
Salguod is [an] elf from the plane of Amarhly’nn …
He carries himself as straight as his 5′ 9″ will allow. However, his ears extend a good foot above his head. He is well-built … and slim.

Definately not me, I’m over 6′ tall.
Just felt I needed to be clear about that.