Yeah, it’s Halloween. School kids are at school hoping their teacher won’t assign too much homework so they can still can go Trick-or-Treating tonight. I had a few teachers in my past that tended to purposely assign lots of homework on Halloween night. I remember having to read a huge part of Romeo and Juliet in 8th grade. In elementary school we were allowed to have 3 class parties….each held on/for Halloween, Christmas, and Valentines Day. My 5th grade teacher cancelled our Halloween party by saying “You’re too old for Halloween.” I still remember that.
Do tissue makers take into account the slight increase in toilet paper purchases around October each year? Do they supply stores with slightly more tissue just for that surge? A friend of mine told me the best way to get toilet paper out of trees was to burn it (seriously). Light a flame to the part of the tissue hanging down. The tissue will burn; the tree will not. I might try it sometime if I ever get rolled.
My friend Dustin sent me a postcard of the Praying Hands of Oral Roberts University. The postcard reads “the hands are a 60 foot tall, thirty-ton bronze structure.” Crafted from molds of Oral’s hands. That’s probably the tackiest thing I’ve heard of: a monument to the world’s biggest ego. Oral once called on his followers to raise 8 million dollars or else God would “call him home.”
“The God I believe in isn’t short of cash, Mister.”
–Bono of U2
Some nice software I’ve found lately:
Privoxy. Blocks banner ads and other annoyances.
DeadAIM. It’s an add-on for AIM. Makes the program transparent to the desktop; blocks those silly AOL ads; logs conversations. By the way, I found that AIM users and ICQ users will soon be able to talk to each other.