this one features the always satisfying "many good things happened through no direct planning on my part" phenomenon that only seems to occur in games, when many rockets get launched. spin the "plumbing" to connect your matches on the left with the rockets on the right. this game is again from PopCap games. dedicated blogMixy readers will recall that these are the same folks that brought you insanaquarium. (and very likely a nice rsi.)

Boy, 5, Brings Bag of Marijuana To Elementary School


MIAMI -- Police say a 5-year-old boy brought a bag of marijuana to school and was sprinkling it over a friend's lasagna at the school cafeteria before a monitor intervened.

Police say it is unclear whether the kindergartner at Gratigny Elementary School even knew he was carrying the drugs on Monday.

The lasagna was confiscated before the other boy had a chance to eat it.

Initially, the boy, who had tried to hide the bag with his feet when the monitor approached him, "may have said it was oregano," said Mayco Villafana, spokesman for Miami-Dade County Public Schools.

"The boy is not going to be charged," Villafana said. "The focus is on the child's environment and what issues could have led to a child having a bag of marijuana in school."

The family of the kindergartner who had the marijuana is under the scrutiny of school police and state child-welfare authorities.

School police took the matter to the state attorney's office and in addition to speaking with the boy's family, police are looking into whether an older friend asked the boy to hold the plastic bag. The case was also referred to Florida's Department of Children and Families, Villafana said.

After speaking with police, the boys were allowed to return to their kindergarten class. Both sets of parents were contacted about the police inquiry. No names were released.



it seems that the real issue here is the culinary precociousness of the unnamed 5 year old. under further questioning. mayco villafana did reveal later that the 5-year-old boy may have in fact said, "yaaayrr yeee heeeei poopie!" when the monitor approached, which was understandably misinterpreted as an oregeno disavowal.

this one might be more difficult than the last one. it also has a higher potential for cries of "foul" after the solution is revealed. c'est la vie...

Which of the words below is least like the others?
HINT: The difference has nothing to do with vowels, consonants or syllables.
(think referent, not symbol)

WALNUT APPLE PECAN BANANA

oh, and please do include why in your answer...

so many of these are being amassed that this blog is starting to feel like a very special after school special...


Nirvana's Cobain Considered Quitting Before Suicide
In the months before he shot himself, American rock legend Kurt Cobain was considering quitting his band Nirvana to work with his wife, singer Courtney Love, according to a previously unpublished interview.
Nirvana's tragic frontman said he had a stronger musical affinity with Love's own band, Hole, than he had found with any other musicians, according to Britain's "Uncut" magazine, which will publish the interview next Monday ahead of the 10th anniversary of his death.
"I'd like to (collaborate with Love)," he said in the interview eight months before his suicide. "But to tell you the truth, I would rather just quit my band and join Hole.
"When I have played music with them, there's a level of connection that's a little bit higher than with anyone else I ever played with," he added.
Nirvana's surviving founders, Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic, have had a turbulent relationship with Cobain's widow, clashing with her in court over the band's musical legacy.
Cobain, 27, killed himself with a shotgun in April 1994 in his Seattle home, where he was recovering from a drug and alcohol overdose.
With punk-influenced music and angst-ridden lyrics, Nirvana led the grunge movement that emerged from Seattle to become one of the most powerful forces in 1990s rock.
Cobain said in the interview, originally intended for French television, that he was thinking of moving away from his grunge roots toward acoustic music.
"It might be nice to start playing acoustic guitar and be thought of as a singer and a songwriter, rather than a grunge rocker," he said. "I could sit down on a chair and play acoustic guitar like Johnny Cash (news) or something, and it won't be a big joke."

ok, random snottiness...(referenced portions handy-dandily bolded above)


... , where he was recovering from a drug and alcohol overdose by overdosing on drugs and buckshot.

I would rather just quit my band and join Hole. (presumably this desire is born of the sad fact that The Eagles were between reuinion tours and not an option at the time. although, if you are going to write all the songs for a band, you might as well get some credit...)

reached for comment regarding the contents of the recently released interview, mr. cobain's widow said, "Shit! He said that? Had I known that was the way he felt, I wouldn't have had him murdered. Shit! Did I just say that out loud?"

no snarky commentary required since in this case, as the law talking types say, res ipsa loquitur...

courtesy the smoking gun, now comes:



Got Change for a Million?
MARCH 9--Meet Alice Regina Pike. The 35-year-old Georgia woman must think Wal-Mart cashiers are rather dumb, because she actually just tried to pass a $1 million bill at one of the retail chain's megastores. According to this amusing Covington Police Department report, Pike was attempting to pay for $1671.55 in merchandise, but a Wal-Mart clerk called over her manager when she was handed the bogus bill (instead of handing over $998,328.45 in change).

from PeterCriss.NET, the following:
To the fans...
March 2nd
I have been receiving thousands of fan mail as to what is going on with KISS. Today, my contract ran out. No one, again no one has called me, or my attorney about an extension for future touring. As a founding member I find this to be disrespectful to me, and to the fans that have made us one of the biggest bands in the world. You will always get the truth from me, I have no reason to lie to the people that gave me such a wonderful life. And that’s the god’s honest truth.

God bless,

Peter Criss

P.S. This is the stuff that breaks my heart.

the page also features the worst midi rendition of beth you (hopefully) will ever hear. it loops (i think) so don't get fooled into thinking it is going to end. wait, it just ended. so disregard.

Main Entry: 2 bristle
Function: verb
intransitive senses
1 a : to rise and stand stiffly erect <quills bristling >
   b : to raise the bristles (as in anger)
2 : to take on an aggressive attitude or appearance (as in response to a slight)

Replace the first letters of the words in each row to make two new words, both starting with the same letter. Place that letter in the blank between the two words. When you’re finished, you’ll have a new word reading down.

Rarely ______ Vanish
Rim ______ Bid
Text ______ Fear
Sight ______ Hither

aware that this quiz probably represents a slight drop in difficulty ...