I'd rather it go away.

Take pills.

I just bought albums for the first time on iTunes. Why is that scary?

How stupid do ya' have to be to say this on television....

Were Paris Hilton and her sweetie Stavros Niarchros under the influence when they had that recent car crash?

Daredevil “Wild Boy” Steve-O claims that he gave the partying pair “some mind-altering substances” shortly before the November fender bender.

“About a half hour before Paris Hilton had that car crash, I may have given her some mind-altering substances,” Steve-O blurted out on Jimmy Kimmel live last week. He also said that prior to the accident he had met Hilton and Niarchos at a night club and provided them with nitrous-filled balloons. “I probably shouldn’t say that,” Steve-O said and added, “Whoops!”

Also, this guy isn't helping things, except to make them more funny:

Is Tom Cruise doing the work of Satan? That’s the charge being leveled by one pastor who has blasted the “War of the Worlds” star and his religion, Scientology.

“Satan takes all praise and glory from Redeemer Christ for all honor and esteem granted [Scientology founder L. Ron] Hubbard and his wild spheres of inner ascendancy,” pastor J. Grant Swank, Jr. writes on the web site PostChronicle.com. “Cruise, like many other famous individuals, particularly actors, furthers the cult of Scientology as Satan uses this means by which to direct eternal souls away from Christ to Hubbard.”

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"wild spheres of inner ascendancy" - ooh baby!

Oh my god! The internet! I love you!

I was internetless Sunday because apparently my credit card, which my internet was autocharged to, expired , didn't go through for 2 months, and immediately escalated to 'We shut you off for non-payment" How bout a warning, earthlink?!?!

Pills would only give me a bloody nose at this point. Or put me to sleep. While I like sleep, I kinda need to figure out why all my perl scripts started bombing at midnight on friday.

I kinda need to figure out why all my perl scripts started bombing at midnight on friday.

Blame the midnight scripter what bombs at midnight.

I kinda need to figure out why all my perl scripts started bombing at midnight on friday.

You ran out of disk space.

The whole time I was reading that article about the old man and the mouse, I couldn't stop thinking, "You know, if he'd only heeded the cautionary tale of the Squirrel Cop, this never would have happened."

There seems to be a critical lack of peons at my workplace.

Signed,
Pissy Rare Peon Type Person

I stopped taking the vitamins because I take so many prescription drugs that it made me feel like I was popping too many drugs all at once. I need to get past that feeling I guess.

I've starting taking a Calcium supplement because I hate drinking milk, so I know I don't get enough calcium in my diet, and because both my grandmothers had osteoporosis. Maybe it's too late to stop the inevitibility of this but maybe it's not.

Some of nation's best libraries have books bound in human skin

By M.L. Johnson, Associated Press Writer | January 7, 2006

PROVIDENCE, R.I. --Brown University's library boasts an unusual anatomy book. Tanned and polished to a smooth golden brown, its cover looks and feels no different from any other fine leather.

But here's its secret: the book is bound in human skin.

A number of prestigious libraries -- including Harvard University's -- have such books in their collections. While the idea of making leather from human skin seems bizarre and cruel today, it was not uncommon in centuries past, said Laura Hartman, a rare book cataloger at the National Library of Medicine in Maryland and author of a paper on the subject.

An article from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch from the late 1800s "suggests that it was common, but it also indicates it wasn't talked about in polite society," Hartman said.

The best libraries then belonged to private collectors. Some were doctors who had access to skin from amputated parts and patients whose bodies were not claimed. They found human leather to be relatively cheap, durable and waterproof, Hartman said.

In other cases, wealthy bibliophiles may have acquired the skin from criminals who were executed, cadavers used in medical schools and people who died in the poor house, said Sam Streit, director of Brown's John Hay Library.

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