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3 more days!
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/VideoPlayer/videoPlayer.php?vidId=90498&catId=342

I’m so excited, I can hardly concentrate. The Fair starts in 4 days. They have tons of new food, new exhibits, and new shows. Just got to make it through 4 days of work.

http://www.newsnet5.com/education/9891863/detail.html

As far as I’m concerned this is Class IV Retarded. It was an orange watergun. Now this six year old will be suspended for 10 days and have on his permanent record that he brought something resembling a weapon to school.

From the Slackware current changelog:

I took several stabs with me sword at ripping out kdebase’s surprise HAL requirement as well, but the best I could achieve was “Internal Error”. Aarrr!!

Also, here’s more pirate talk from Mr. Linux himself.

I am such a nerd.

Well, there was supposed to be a big world premiere event for this video on AOL today, but apparantly it was leaked on the internet early, so the premiere was canceled.

Talk Like a Pirate Day is tomorrow, and to help get you in the mood, ABC’s season premiere of Wife Swap features a pirate family.  Actually, not just any pirate family, but the family who started Talk Like a Pirate Day a few years back.

OmniNerd has a very interesting article on our obsession with finding the cheapest gas available.  He mathematically determines possible savings over a month, and then applies the formulas to other commodities that we generally aren’t as obsessive at finding better prices.

I have been known to go out of my way for that extra $0.05/gallon savings, but how much am I actually saving?

Waiting for me in my inbox this morning was an email from Amazon.com.

As someone who has purchased books about pirates, you might like to know about our featured booklist celebrating Talk Like a Pirate Day.

Well, they’ve got me pegged. Here’s the list.