Ok, organizing the pictures was easier than I thought it would be. I did a lot of moving of pictures, so the link in the last update is now invalid, but will at least put you in the proper album. Also, for family members, I have a hidden album. Get ahold of me for a username/password to log into it as. Cheers.

Aquavit is also considered useful for medicinal purposes, an essential
ingredient in what I was once told is the Norwegian cure for the common
cold.  You get a bottle, a poster bed, and the brightest colored stocking
cap you can find.  You put the cap on the post at the foot of the bed,
then get into bed and drink aquavit until you can't see the cap.  I've
never tried this, but it sounds as though it should work.
-- Peter Nelson

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12/25/2002 08:00:00 124 weeks, 5 days, 1 hours, 0 minutes, and 0 seconds

Have a Merry Christmas!

Notice: This rant has been edited from previous. All I have edited has been the link presented and added this part on the top

I had a link that looked like this: http://www.pennswoods.net/~dbrantner/rants.html which has since changed from the original to a page which redirected you to a gay porn popup loop. To actually get to the site, you'll have to navigate through from the home page: http://www.pennswoods.net/~dbrantner/

Over the last year, this site has grown and changed and generally mutated as I have thought of new ideas to test out here. I can only imagine where I'll take it in the years to come. Recently, this site has actually gained the added recognition of having another site out there which very suspisciously looks like it is mocking my site. It could be that I have grown vain and it's mocking another site, or not mocking any site at all, but I will allow myself a bit of leeway on this matter. However, I'd like you to judge for yourself, by visiting this cool site: LINK DELETE

Some people would get offended, or feel the need to respond, but I just wanted to take a moment to acknowledge this "anti-sqbnet", chuckle to myself, and carry on as I have been.

The page did however, bring one thing to mind that I'd like to talk about. Some people may think that I'm doing this site to cater to some generalistic public, looking to boost my perceived popularity. Alas, this is an untruth. I care nothing about the generalistic public, the teeming masses, the crazed web goons, the horde (ok, got a bit carried away there). So why the site you ask? Simple. Thing happen in life that amuse me. Most of the social interactions and perceptions the people develop in the course of their daily lives is quite amusing to me. Twists upon these perceptions and interactions also amuse me, because they strike close to the truth. I record these here so that I may look back on them and remember and be amused. If you, the outside reader, enjoys that which I have posted, then you have benefited from my efforts. If you do not, then I am still benefiting. This site is a pureley selfish endeavor, to satisfy my own desires, and not yours.

Some people just can't tell their arse from their elbow.

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Nothing much, just a few links for people that love links.
A basic philosophical paper on linking laws.
http://www.internet-tips.net/Legal/Linking.htm
A story about a case between TicketMaster and Tickets.com over a "deep linking" dispute.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,35306,00.html

Oh and a waste management site in the UK.
http://www.brantner.com/en/abfallw/index.jsp

If the Jim, The Aussie (www.jimtheaussie.com happens to be coming to a club near you, and you happen to be the kind of person that likes humorous people, then I would recommend you go and watch his show. If however, you are the kind of person that despises humour, or perhaps Australians are not your cup of joe (or tea for that matter), then I would recommend not going to see his show. In fact, if an Australian comedian is the type that would severely tick you off, I would recommend boycotting his shows, sending hate mail, and perhaps egging his car. Granted, I don't know if he owns a car, but perhaps you could buy him a car, and then egg it.

If you really, really hated stand up comedians, I would look into finding other people of like mind, and having groups of people stopping in at various comedy acts and heckling the comedians till they were no longer able to perform their act. Eventually, they might get the hint.

That being said, I happen to enjoy jimtheaussie's act. He does it quite well and moves smoothly from topic to topic.

I'm afraid it's Turkey Day again. For those of you who don't know, Turkey Day (also known as Thanksgiving) is a day set aside (mostly by US citizens) to give thanks for all the blessings that they have received. All in all, not a bad day, not a bad concept. Since I actually have what I consider to be a good life, good friends, and what is generally considered to be a promising future, I have many things to be thankful for. The only bad thing about Turkey Day is that it marks the fact that Christmas is drawing near, and it seems that my activity level is required to increase tenfold when Christmas draws nigh. Hopefully, this year, I will be able to avoid all of the issues that Christmas presents and it will pass me by. Cheers!

02/11/28 17:42:43 red13n> average blue whale produces over 400 gallons of sperm when it ejaculates, but only 10% of that actually makes it into his mate. So 360 gallons are spilled into the ocean everytime one unloads, and you wonder why the ocean is so salty.