My <strike>pants</strike> trousers ALWAYS develop large holes in the crotches far before any other part of them shows any type of wear.  While the added ventilation can oft-times be nice, this is generally undesirable for a number of reasons.  When the holes are small it’s not too bad, but the holes very rapidly increase in size until there’s simply nothing left; my trousers become nothing more than hinged legs.  This phenomenon is apparently also experienced by Gary as well. 

I can’t speak for Gary, but I know that in my case, at least, the problem is not undue stresses being put upon the inside of my trousers — if you know what I mean.  There are many aspects of my life that cause undue stress and pressure, but the contents of my trousers are sadly not among them.  No, the cause of these holes is a much more mysterious one;  I fear I may never get to the bottom of it.

Does this happen to anyone else?

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I really dig the little “Drive-by Blogging” thing RT has been doing lately (and not just because I’m one of the recipients of link-love), and have been trying to think of a way to do something similar myself.

I don’t have the time and energy to point to everything thing my blogroll, partly because it just keeps going and going, but partly for other reasons as well.

So what I’m thinking is this: you give me the url to that one post you were sure would get all sorts of attention, but were saddened to find didn’t at all. I’ll then do a “drive-by”-style post linking to any that I get at some point in the future.

I’m especially hoping for some links from some of you lurkers, so feel free to just mail ‘em to jer@nyquil.org if you’re shy of commenting. In the event that you don’t have any links you want promoted, feel free to send me some from your friends or something, as I’m always looking for new sources of entertainment.

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All morning I’ve been trying to remember this show my parents used to watch when I was a kid. I don’t really recall much about it, other than the title having something to do with the number pi, and that the main character was some sort of ladies-man / freelance-mathematician who traveled around Hawaii solving complex equations or somesuch.

Now that I think about it, I’m guessing he must’ve been pretty successful in both fields… he drove around in a Ferrari and had a bad-ass moustache.

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Two questions should anyone feel like answering:

1) When you were waiting with the unclean masses to get your (Wii, PS3, Phantom of the Opera tix, Gov’t cheese, whatever) were you waiting in line, or waiting on line?

2) What state/city do you live in?

I’m trying to figure out just where the line is if you were to look at a map.

Thank you.

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Remember learning back in history class about those smoke bomb things ninjas used to throw down on the ground in order to produce a puff of smoke in which to vanish?  

What do you think they made the smoke smell like?  

If I were a ninja, I think I’d have gone with Corn Nuts, because in my experience, there’s no smell with quite the distracting power as that of disembodied Corn Nuts.

I’m not entirely sure that Corn Nuts were even around in Ye Olde Ninja Days, but we already know that ninjas invented throw-on-the-ground-poofy things. Corn Nuts are only slightly more complicated than those, right?

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Dear Blog-o-sphere,

If you were a 14 year old boy at the Children’s Home Society of Washington who wanted “Bionicles or anything he can build,” which particular Bionicle set would you prefer? Or would you perhaps prefer some K’NEX, or some LEGO/MEGABLOKS?

I didn’t know what exactly “Bionicles” were, but I figured it’d be an easy gift to pick out. I was wrong.

Any advice on what the best gift to buy a build-minded anonymous 14-year-old might be?

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