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Want to know where I’ve been the last few weeks? I’ve only been killing my back and roasting in the sun. The backyard was the main work area, but work stretched to the front of the house as well as the side. I was pretty handy with a chainsaw too!

The grass (sod) is only a week old in the picture. It took 130 rolls to cover the yard. When moist, these rolls can weigh 20 or more pounds. Try loading, unloading, then carrying 130 20-pound rolls around in a day! Trust me, you don’t want to. I had help, but it still was a b@tch. I was never so dirty.

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The icons pictured above are for the Mac mail app.

I found this great site that offers icons, themes and backgrounds for Windows, Linux and Mac. The icons are super-high quality. I’ve tested the Mac versions, and they are truly amazing.

Be sure to stop by InterfaceLIFT and download some icons!

Republican Rep. Tom DeLay of Texas, the House of Representatives’ fallen majority leader, withdrew on Tuesday from a re-election race he was in danger of losing due to scandals and said he would quit Congress by mid-June.

It’s nice to see such misfortune happen to the worst of people. To say I’m not giddy with delight would be a lie one the caliber of the bombs DeLay dropped regularly during his term in Congress. Good riddance to such rubbish. It’s guys like this that make Washington the cesspool it has become.

Tom, don’t let the door hit you on the way out, and be sure to take some of your “friends” with you.

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Update! 03.23.06 - I guess I’m not so crazy after all thinking Fox News Channel is so right-leaning. It appears Dick Cheney knows the same thing. Here’s the proof!

Just sitting and thinking to myself how one-sided Fox News Channel is, I kind of giggled this thought to myself. I decided to put my thought down on paper, well a virtual piece of paper, and create this comic using Photoshop, and my new favorite tool, the pen tool.

Having been a viewer of Fox News Channel for almost a decade now, I can honestly say that this comic pretty much sums up the network. If you are a loyal viewer of Fox News, I hope you are offended.

For no apparent reason, the Scripted Lizard web site was down for some time last night. When the site finally came back up today, some WordPress files were so screwed up, I had to do a clean install of WordPress v2.0.2.

It wasn’t really a problem installing 2.0.2, but I had to edit some of the files I customized, which took about an hour. The site seems a bit slow, but all appears to be back to normal now.

We all know that Dick Cheney shot a guy. We all know that Dick Cheney is an idiot. Need I say anything further? No!

TOKYO - Gohan and Aochan make strange bedfellows: one’s a 3.5-inch dwarf hamster; the other is a four-foot rat snake. Zookeepers at Tokyo’s Mutsugoro Okoku zoo presented the hamster, whose name means “meal” in Japanese, to Aochan as a tasty morsel in October, after the snake refused to eat frozen mice.

But instead of indulging, Aochan decided to make friends with the furry rodent, according to keeper Kazuya Yamamoto. The pair have shared a cage since.

“I’ve never seen anything like it. Gohan sometimes even climbs onto Aochan to take a nap on his back,” Yamamoto said.

Aochan, a 2-year-old male Japanese rat snake, eventually developed an appetite for frozen rodents but has so far shown no signs of gobbling up Gohan, despite her name.

“We named her Gohan as a joke,” Yamamoto chuckled. “But I don’t think there’s any danger. Aochan seems to enjoy Gohan’s company very much.”

The Tokyo zoo also keeps a range of mostly livestock animals, and promotes “cross-breed interaction,” according to Yamamoto.

But Gohan and Aochan’s case was “was a complete accident,” Yamamoto said.