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Mills Boy Makes Sleazy.


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Some Guelph guys just forwarded me this. Al was my first ever internet project related collaborator. Art, I remember you he and I were working on some website back in 1996. Do you recall the premise? I don’t. I do, however, remember helping to newspaper-ball Al’s entire dorm room when he went home one weekend because he’d pissed someone off. He was a bit greasy. A comment from the email:

“He was the greasiest ladies man ever, so i’m not surprised. One time i heard him say “I love you’ on the phone to his girlfriend back home when he was in bed with some tart he picked up the night before.” No doubt at a Mills pub at the Rock Cellar. Glad to see Al has’s remained true to his roots. “Mills Once, Mills Twice – Holy Jumping Jesus Christ!”

We really need to get the chant online somewhere for posterity. You can be damn sure it isn’t taught during frosh week anymore. I believe it’s been substituted by something from the Koran at this point. I started a little Mills tribute site a few years ago which I think I still have on my computer at home. I’ll dig it up. Stay tuned, boys.

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Introducing MySpaceIsBetter.com.


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Most MySpace layouts are absolutely terrible, and most free MS sites are just advertisement farms waiting to impregnante your daughters with viruses and SpyWare. Again, this is a bad thing. My roomate, one of his co-workers and I have been working on a MySpace layout website, and we’ve just posted some of the free introductory designs for you to check out.

Tom and Ben did a wonderful job on this set of Borat themes, just in time for the movie’s release this weekend. They are cleanly designed with dynamic quotes, great original graphics and other fun components. Just paste any of the 9 codes into your MS profile’s “About Me” section and you’re done. Check back in a few weeks for more of their amazing free designs.

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Desperately Seeking My Annoying Inner Health Nut.


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I’ve been very, very ill since Sunday, and it’s due in no small part to all the travel, sleep deprivation and revelry of last weekend. But about 1.5 days into my 3-day coma, I realized there was something larger at work than a simple bender. And that is – I am an extremely unhealthy individual. To give this some perspective, more for myself rather than my readers, here is a select and impromptu tally from the last month that led to my physical breakdown.

– On average, 2 pints of Ben and Jerry’s a week.
– 14 hours on the computer per day.
– Although I hadn’t had a drink prior in nearly 3 weeks, JV’s wedding saw 3 days of heavy imbibement including port, beer, scotch, homemade Welland basement wine, champagne and Tequila Rose.
– A Nicaraguan cigar.
– Coca-Cola. Lots of it. Whenever I go out and do not drink alcohol, which is quite frequent.
– Several times this last month I have purchased little bricks of Velveeta which have ended up melted on pizza pockets and mixed into Chef Boyardee ravioli. Give me a Fun Dip for dessert and yes, it’s 1978 again.
– Ambien – I can’t sleep on weeknights without at least a wee nibble. Regular sleep has been a challenge for me for many years. Spare me the story about the person who drove their car while asleep – it’s all I ever hear about when I mention the ‘A’ word. Besides, I woke up in a cornfield and no one was hurt.
– Cheetos. 2 bags in the last 4 weeks. In addition to the wonderful salty flavor, it’s also fun to run around the house looking like you just wanked with Eazy Cheez.
– Pizza, preferably pepperoni. Every thursday night and at least 4 slices. Currently, this constitues health food in my life.

It’s not so much what’s on the above list perhaps as what is glaringly absent. It’s a simple trinity:

– Fruit.
– Vegetables.
– Exercise.

We did the Pork Ass Challenge earlier this year to some good results. But that was just about dropping weight, and I opted for some really foolish methods of accomplishing that. This Saturday I’m hitting a real supermarket, starting to use my crisper for something other than rotten Haymarket apples and joining one of the nearby gyms. When I write it on the blog, it usually happens. I will scan the membership ID – see if I don’t.

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Friday’s Quizzlet: Frigging In The Rigging.


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Appetizer: Create a new candle scent.
Since I’m officially bringing ‘frigging’ back this week – frigging. You light the candle, wait five minutes and then someone walks into the room and goes “It smells like sex in here.” It’s kind of like Kramer’s beach cologne idea – only it smells more like latex or your armpit in the morning.

Soup: Name one way you show affection to others.
This so cries out for a dirty joke, which is why I won’t make one. It’s easy – reliability. Do what you say you’re going to do, and don’t make the goddamn “I was so busy” excuse. When I drop the ball on a friend, I always feel terrible – which is why it doesn’t happen often.

Salad: What is your favorite writing instrument?
A keyboard. My hands haven’t written with pens regularly in so long that they start to cramp immediately whenever I try to take notes, sign something, etc. I guess it could also be arthritis or maybe even rigormorits. Strange things happen on Halloween afterall. Jesus Christ – you think the rough patch is over and then you find out you’re undead.

Main Course: You’re given $25 to spend online, from which site would you buy?
Amazon, baby. I can get at least 3 cheap, forgotten, fairly cool DVDs for $25. My DVD shelf has grown to massive proportions, almost to the ceiling. I think there are 6 rows now. Everytime I want to watch something, it’s like a giant game of Jenga. They teeter, you see.

Dessert: Are you dressing up for Halloween? If so, what are you going to be?
Halloween parties are traditionally on Saturday the 28th of October or thereabouts. This Saturday, I will be at a wedding in Welland, Ontario – and I’ll be dressed as a wedding guest. So yes. I’ll be dressed up, and it will be Halloween. And I’ll be guesting while dressy. And dressed.

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What’s The Best Way To Put This? I’m Out Of Debt.


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4 years and many, many thousands of dollars later – I am officially out of debt. Evil incarnate was Discover Card issuing checkbooks to out of work 20-somethings after the dot com bubble burst. Rent? No problem. $1,000 to go to Phoenix for a wedding? No problem. 80% interest rate? Wait, excuse me. I didn’t realize “Discover” was actually a Russian last name, and since when are your offices located in a Southie dockyard? Wicked.

It’s a happy day. Time for pizza and cokes at the Pushcart, then tomorrow I am off to Toronto for Venditti’s wedding. I will attempt to squeeze a quizzlet in tomorrow, but new projects (seo blog) and a crazy workplace are eating up a lot of my bloggy time. But I shall return. I always do.

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