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Wow...of all the times to be caught not being independently wealthy! :)

1938 German Enigma Machine

For those who don't know, the Enigma machine was a cipher machine used to encrypt and decrypt secret messages by Nazi Germany before and during World War II.

What would you do with something like this?

So it's been a while since I posted anything about my goal to drop 30 pounds before my wedding. Well, at this point, it doesn't look like it's going to happen. It seems I've hit a plateau at 263 pounds (I've been here for the better part of a month at this point).

But I just couldn't help myself...my contribution to the lolcats meme... :)

This is Smudge...he likes to think he owns the water dish... :)

You can view the full-size version here.

So a while back I signed up for this new web community. It's called MyMindshare (note, that link is my affiliate link, so if you click it and sign up, it helps me out). Te general premise is that people post ads for goods and services they think are cool (but there are others that are targeted based on your profile and survey answers, more on that in a minute).

These guys build some incredible guitars. This small pic doesn't do it justice, so give it a click and see it up close.

Akismet has caught 5,072 spam comments since I first installed it.

And in that entire time, I've only had to moderate 5 messages (which all turned out to be spam... :) )

So yeah, I'm pretty pleased.

Found this while reading "100 Bullshit Jobs...And How to Get Them": The trouble with the Internet is that it's replacing masturbation as a leisure activity - Patrick Murray Ain't it the truth! :)

Ahh, the things you find when idly surfing the net. For those not hip to the HTML language, those two lines are the closing tag of the head segment (where stuff like the title of the page is set) and the opening tag of the body segment (the content of the page).

Once again, I am totally blown away by Jason's camera work.

Father & Son, originally uploaded by jaseo.