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"Let the president answer on higher anarchy/Strap him with an AK-47, let him go fight his own war/Let him impress daddy that way … No more blood for oil," Eminem says in the single "Mosh."

Guess what? We could immediately pull out of our war against Al Quaeda, Saddam Hussein, and blood would still be spilled over oil. It's international big business and it's controlled by unsavory types. Derrr. How about alternative energy sources? Neither candidate has spoken much on that. Bush, OilBoy himself, will never seriously do anything about it, and Kerry's too busy lying and saying "I'm not Bush, vote for me" to consider the option.

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Question: Where do you get your weather information (besides "look outside, note weather")?

My Answer: weather.com, though I find it horrendously slow at times and I'm hoping that someone mentions an alternative.

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Question: What kind of milk do you drink?

My Answer: 1%. Occasionally I drink chocolate milk. Any comments referring to breast milk will be deleted, you sickos! 🙂

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This is freakin' hilarious:

Things in my townhouse are going great. I live in the second apartment out of four: the left apartments get four parking spaces (unlined) and the right get four also. This works out well as most townhouses have, at most, two occupants with cars.

There's one problem so far, and one I've yet to solve very well: the next door neighbors on my side of the four, the left endcap. The woman, who Carey and I have nicknamed "pooty belly," can't drive and plays her music very loudly. Perhaps the walls are thin, but I can't hear my neighbors on the other side at all. Carey and I have considered complaining multiple times - but pooty belly is a scary-looking foe. She just looks like an unreasonable type, and the conversations we've heard ("conversations" is being polite) through the walls with her husband seem to back that up.

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Amazon.com has West Wing season 3 DVDs available for pre-order. No Amazon link simply because I don't wish to make you think I'm posting simply to get affiliate fees. Support your favorite affiliate or just go and buy it affiliate-free. The choice is yours.

Question: How long should you wait before farting in front of a new boyfriend or girlfriend.

My Answer: Forever. Carey seems to think that it's two weeks, however. 😀 (Edit forced by the one previously named: "We've been talking for six months, you butt!")

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Question: If you had to create a unique halloween costume, what would you design?

My Answer: I'd design a woman's halloween costume with a policeman's cap, a stethoscope, a blue blazer, a pleated skirt, fishnet stockings, and sneakers. The title of the costume would be "Every Man's Fantasy" - a woman cop, a nurse, a stewardess, a cheerleader and/or Catholic school girl, a stripper, and the athlete/cheerleader. Add your own accessories to add an additional fantasy or two.

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Today I snuck away for about three hours (including driving time) to play Harbor Ridge Golf Club in Harborcreek, PA. It was about 50° and overcast, but there was no rain. The course was soggy but quite playable, and the greens, despite the moisture, were still putting at about 10 on the ol' stimp. Only nine holes are currently open, and so I played them twice.

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We've never gotten an email like this:

Hello, today I discoverd your crappy software on my machine. I just wanted you to know that you have a f----d up piece of s--t for a product. I plan to forward your company information to the proper authorities since you think it is OK to install it on peoples machines without permission. I consider this kind of thing disgusting and will make sure you are not allowed to continue this practice. Promise.

Uhhhhh…

Question: If you were to be executed tomorrow, by what method would you opt to go?

My Answer: Well, electrocution and hanging are out. So is burning at the stake. Lethal injections and firing squads are pretty quick and painless, but hey, how about I just have Carey screw me to death? I'm not sure if that's an "execution" but it's good enough in my book!

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So it's now been six months that I've been with Carey. Really, it's been six months that we've been talking again. I've moved back to PA, I've fallen in love (5.99 months ago), and I've shaken up my life to be with her, and she with me. We spent last evening together, and details aside, it was wonderful. I can't imagine spending another day without her.

I'm working on my Blacklist today. Lowering the URL limit to 3 has seemed to have some good effects, and so I am leaving that alone. Right now I'm replacing some blacklist strings: replacing four or five "health-insurance-from-us" type domains with the URLPattern "\binsurance\b," and adding some patterns like "\bsex\b" and "\blipitor\b".

I have a list of about 1000 entries - what's a good way to find more of these patterns so that I can condense several strings into one entry? I replaced 28 entries with "\bpoker\b" but have basically just been scrolling up and down the list to try to find common words.

Surely there's some software that can analyize a list and present some choices, no?

Update: I'm down to about 100 items, having simply deleted any URL that had been hit less than ten times. I'm sure this will result in a slight spike in comment spam in the coming month, but my three-URL limit may help as well.

The top spammy domain: us.com with over 1500 comment spam attempts.

Eric has a good point:

Except that this isn't the top -- it just feels like it. The Sox have to win the World Series to eradicate the Curse. And wouldn't it be fascinating if they did so against the Houston Astros? That would be a Texas-Massachusetts Series, just a few days before we're deciding another important Texas-Massachusetts contest. And wouldn't it be sweet if Massachusetts won both of those?

Go Astros! 🙂

Question: If you could have any view from your home, what would it be?

My Answer: I'd overlook the ocean from the front of my house, and a good golf course from the rear.

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