Archive for October, 2005

 

Pat Rock on Oct 31st, 2005Halloween Links Day!

Happy Halloween, hipsters.
Today we are posting all things spooky, horrific, and appropriately halloween-y.
I’ll start with this link from How Stuff Works: How Zombies Work. Whooaaoooo. Spooky.
–Snopes.com: Haunted House of Refunds
–Pastor Electrocuted while baptizing. More sad than halloween, but still creepy and scary.
–Woxy.com Vintage will be running their halloween set from 6-midnight.
Please post [...]

Pat Rock on Oct 28th, 2005Do You See What You See

Pink Dots

Pat Rock on Oct 27th, 2005Where Do Babies From

Now you know
I should have sent this to Sarah for her Tuesday funny, but then again, who says that I’m not allowed to post something funny once in a while?
I should warn you this is in German. Its a childrens thing, but you know those naughty Germans.

Pat Rock on Oct 25th, 2005Tuesday Depression

I’m depressed because Julia and Ella have had a little cough which they have been able to sleep through, while I have been kept awake by coughing in stereo. I’m depressed because I’m tired.
I’m depressed because I have been stuck on a pretty difficult SQL problem for two days. I’m [...]

Pat Rock on Oct 25th, 2005Carving Pumpkins

We carved pumpkins the other night, and this is what we came up with:
Julia carved out the family name:

I carved out an ugly face:

And here is Ella as a little punkin’ head:

And all three together:

I have a set of small detail wood carving tools, and that is what we used to carve out our pumpkings. [...]

Pat Rock on Oct 23rd, 2005You might go blind

but you won’t die from prostate cancer

Pat Rock on Oct 18th, 2005Tuesday Depression

Last night the Colts improved to 6-0 for the first time in 50 years. So, why is this starting out under Tuesday Depression? Well, I am depressed that apparently the Colts can only win football games by taking out the quarterback. This is the third quarterback in 6 games that they have [...]

Pat Rock on Oct 18th, 2005The Nexus of Politics and Terror

This commentary from MSNBC is pretty interesting. It lists 10 events that have occured that could be perceived as damaging to the current administration, and shows that withing a few hours to a couple of days later the administration either raised the terror alert, or released terror related news.
The suggestion is that the White [...]

Pat Rock on Oct 14th, 2005you know when your mouth a-getting dry you’re plenty high

High in this context of course is open to interpretation. The song is referring to sitting down and drinking rounds of bourbon, scotch, and beer. Drinking like that does cause a kind of incipient dehydration that leaves you with a strange sort of dry mouth.
Doing other drugs can cause drymouth too. I have [...]

Pat Rock on Oct 14th, 2005AKMA Goes Off

AKMA rants about cultural romanticism infecting the church.

it involves the premise that faith and worship should make you feel good, the notion that everyone’s ideas about religion are equally sound, the arationality of religion, the premise that anything rebellious or heterodox is likely to be truer than anything settled or orthodox
Its a good short piece. [...]