Have you heard about ZipZaps yet? If not, I'm guessing that you'll hear a lot about them as the Christmas shopping season nears. ZipZaps are micro sized (1:64 scale) radio controlled cars that can be raced against one another on a table top or just about anywhere else. What makes them so wicked cool is that you can actually "tune" the cars yourself by choosing from a variety of interchangeable replacement parts including: engines, tires, wheels, suspension, bodywork, gearing, and more. How cool is that? They are rechargeable, and come with a charger and remote control unit for only US$19.99. The only problem (for me) is that at this time they are only available at RadioShack USA, and their online shopping system doesn't deliver to addresses in Canada. Dang! Hopefully RadioShack Canada will pickup the ZipZaps line soon. Read more about ZipZaps on this news release. So, uh... need any Christmas gift ideas for me? Hint hint!

Now I know what it feels like to be famous. Well, at least the part where you have to sign autographs for a lot of people... except that in my case it was me signing a lot of autographs for my lawyer. Yup, I officially signed my life away today as I had to autograph all of the legal documents in order to finalize the purchase of my house. (By the way, this means that I am no longer in charge of my life... the bank owns me now.) Anyway, there were so many papers to sign, I pretty much got a cramp in my hand. And all these autographs weren't for anything cool, such as scoring points with a bunch of cute adoring groupies who were huge fans of mine or something like that... nope, my autographs were just to signify that I read and understood the 47 million pages of legal jargon on the pile of documents in front of me. What a laugh! I wouldn't have understood any of that stuff even if I did read them! I simply nodded like I understood what the lawyer was saying and I signed anywhere he pointed to on the papers. Then I celebrated my trip to the lawyer, by an equally exciting trip to an insurance agency where I purchased home insurance (a mandatory condition of my bank lending money to me.) So come on now all you nasty elements out there... bring it on! Oh wait... no earthquakes though. Those are about the only things that my insurance doesn't cover. Luckily for me, in my part of the world it would be more likely to get struck by lightning a dozen times that it would be to ever sustain any earthquake damage, so I think I'll be alright. Only a few days to go until my October 1st possession date. Woo hoo!

I am Pepe Le Pew! I took the "What Looney Tunes Character are You" quiz, and it analyzed me as being good ol' Pepe. Well, that's fine with me (except that maybe I'd prefer to be "Pablo Le Pew!") And I'm down with the part about being a skunk. Skunks are way cool!

Anyway, the following analysis was provided along with my character name: You are a suave skunk who lives for l'amour. You may not always get the girl, but there are always many more fish in the sea, no?

Wow, it's only one more week to go until I get possession of my new house. I suppose I should start getting my stuff packed, but I'm watching Looney Tunes instead. Old cartoons totally rock! (And it sure beats packing boxes.) As my buddy from the Group W Bench recently mentioned, cartoons teach us so much. For example, today I learned that (1.) You can pretty much order anything from ACME. (2.) A bull can swallow a rifle and then shoot bullets out of his horns simply by whacking his tail onto the ground. (3.) If you happen to swallow a large number of explosives, don't let an old granny hit you on the head with her umbrella or else you'll wind up shooting out into space. Yes, cartoons do indeed teach us so many wonderful things.

Just when I thought I'd heard of everything, my friend showed me this website for the exciting sport of cup stacking. Cup stacking? Well, to quote the website, "cup stacking is an exciting individual and team sport where participants stack and unstack twelve specially designed plastic cups in pre-determined sequences." Just wait... it gets even stupider than it sounds. They have cup stacking competitions, tournaments, state championships, and there's even a sanctioning organization (the WCSA). As dumb as this is, I have to admit that watching the video clip of Emily Fox doing her thing, is an amazing sight. Ms. Fox is the cup stacking world record holder, and you've got to see her in action to even comprehend how fast she can stack her cups!

Dental update: Yay! My new front tooth was installed today. Now I can do all kinds of exciting new things... such as eat an apple or corn-on-the-cob, chew on my finger nails, whistle, bite people, talk without a lisp, and many other cool things. For now, the new tooth is glued in with a temporary glue, so that they will be able to remove it a few months from now in order to tighten the screw that holds my implant in place. Then they will apply a permanent glue and this long, long, long process will finally come to an end. (On a somewhat related note, my next hockey season starts in a couple of weeks from now.)

More funny logs: I'm 9th on Hotbot for: ask the dog if he liked the dog food. Maybe I think that is funny because I actually know the answer to that question. Well, at least if you'd ask my dog. Baylee totally hates dog food. Our dog food goes towards feeding my neighbor's dog, who usually eats most of it anyway. (It's sort of an even trade though because Baylee often drags stuff from off of their yard, or out of their garage, and then drops it all on the front lawn so we get to keep it.) Anyway, whatever's left of the dog food after the neighbor's dog is finished eating, usually goes towards feeding the birds. For some reason, Blue Jays (the birds, not the baseball players) love dog food. They carry it away, piece by piece, all day long, until the dish is completely empty. There's even been chipmunks, squirrels, mice, foxes, coyotes, skunks, and racoons eating Baylee's dog food. In fact, around here, pretty much EVERYTHING eats dog food... EXCEPT the dog. Hmm... I kinda got off topic there since I was originally talking about log files. Uh, okay... I'm also 9th on Google for: embarrassed about my skinny arms. Finally, a search result that reflects my true feelings! Of course I am very embarrassed about my skinny arms. I mean, come on... I've been weightlifting for a number of years now. But I look at old pictures of Arnold Schwarzenegger or Dorian Yates, and their arms still look a bit bigger than mine. Oh, I am so embarrassed!

Hello. My name is Pablo and I am Canadian. On behalf of my fellow Canadians, I'd like to apologize to the rest of the world for having elected Prime Minister Jean Chrétien as the leader of our country. I mean, we really thought the guy was harmless. Sure, he's a complete dork, but invite him to a party and he's always good for a couple of laughs even if it's almost impossible to figure out what he's saying. He does some great party tricks too! You should see the one where he puts both of his feet in his mouth at the same time. That's a killer! Yes world, I know that you must certainly laugh at our Prime Minister, but please remember... we Canadians laugh at him too!

Other notable things that happened on September 11th:
1913 Legendary football coach, Paul "Bear" Bryant, was born.
1924 Famous Dallas Cowboys coach, Tom Landry, was born.
1954 The network TV debut of the Miss America pageant. (Miss California won.)
1962 The Beatles recorded their first single: "Love Me Do."
1967 The premiere of "The Carol Burnett Show" on CBS.
1985 Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds recorded his 4,192nd hit, breaking Ty Cobb's career record.

I am proud to announce that I have just received the dumbest piece of junk email (a.k.a. "spam") that I have ever received. The header of this email was "I'm fed up with all the junk mail." Inside, it read "Would you like to get SPAM out of your life for Good? Would you like to take back CONTROL of your inbox and experience TOTAL PRIVACY! Click - to learn more - there is no cost!" Can you believe that? I actually received spam that promises to tell me how to get rid of spam! I am simply astounded that anyone would actually use spam to advertise a spam control product. The other thing that amazes me is when the spammers try to use a misleading subject line such as "hello friend" (or something similar to that) and then when you open the email, you get some stupid spam trying to sell prescription drugs, dvd players, home insurance, an investment "opportunity", or maybe even a "proven formula" guaranteed to increase, lift and firm your breasts. (Apparently it only takes as little as 30 days to increase your bust by 1 to 3 sizes and it's all natural!) So what do they think? Because they wrote "hello friend" in the subject line, you'll open the email and suddenly decide to buy their product which you wouldn't have bought if they had told you what it was in the first place? And while I'm on the topic, lately I've received spam that has a disclaimer at the bottom, telling you why their message it isn't actually "spam" (even though it really is.) Ladies and gentleman... spammers are officially the stupidest people on earth. No wait... they are the second stupidest. The people who actually get sucked in by a spam message (if there are any)... those are the world's stupidest people.

In today's local newspaper, it was reported that Winnipeg Mayor, Glen Murray, will not put up any of his election signs until later this week out of respect for September 11. Excuse me? Respect for Septemer 11? Give me a break! How there can be any relevant connection between Mr. Murray's stupid election signs and the events of September 11 is beyond me. And this is just one little incident. There are so many things that people have been blaming on September 11. Traffic is backed up today? Hmmm. Must be because of September 11. Can't find a cab? Your Big Mac is cold? No parking spot at the local Walmart? Oh yeah it's all because of September 11.

When people arrive at this blog site through a search engine, my log files can tell me what keywords were used. Perhaps I'm easily amused, but I always get a kick out of seeing the crazy things that people are searching for on the internet. It gives me an even bigger laugh to see that they've arrived at my blog while actually searching for something that is totally unrelated to this site! (I told you that I was easily amused.) Anyway, here are some recent highlights from my blog log: I'm ranked 11th on Netscape for flowbee mullet photo. If you go to search AOL, you'll find me ranked 112 for novelty dog sweaters. (Doesn't everyone need a novelty dog sweater?) If you're searching for trish stratus eating food you'll find me at number 10 on Yahoo, and on Google I'm 64th if you want to see trish stratus strip or 7th if you're looking for the trish stratus ice cream add. (Wow, that Trish sure seems like a popular girl!) But my number one favourite search that someone used to reach this site is... brazil women with big asses photos, currently ranked 4th on MSN. Yup, apparently this is pretty much the place to get pictures of all those amazing big ass brazillian women. Woo hoo!

And in other news... the Canadian Senate released a report that recommends legalizing marijuana! Who knew that a bunch of old senators could be so cool as to recommend decriminalizing marijuana, making it legal to buy and use? Included in the report was the recommendation that Canadians, as young as 16 years old, should be allowed to buy marijuana in government run stores. Of course the catch is that the government would get a healthy dose of tax money from the sale of the wacky weed. Should have known they'd have an ulterior motive!

Woo hoo! Rumour has it that Russian bombshell Anna Kournikova might be coming to play an exhibition tennis match in the Winnipeg Arena on December 15th. I'll have to go check that out since I'm such a huge fan of... uh... tennis. Apparently the match will be against Monica Seles. (Did somebody say win - win?)