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Note: I am Juneyour. Ian is Hixie_. Tidy is an HTML cleaner. After being Tidy'd, HTML comes out all nice and squeaky clean (read: well formed). And the following consists of geeks at work talking about their toys.

* Juneyour runs Hixie through Tidy
* Hixie_ comes out well formed
<Juneyour> HAH
<Hixie_> wonder if girls prefer well formed guys over whatever i was before you ran me through tidy

My idea of a good web site is a green box that says PASS. -- Ian Hickson, web standards testing guru extraordinare

That last bit warrants a bit of explaining (more precisely, how I ended up partaking in the dinner conversation with Ian that resulted in that comment warrants explaining). But, alas, I have an e-mail to write to my girlfriend (which also warrants some explaining) and it's getting a bit late here. So, I'll fill y'all in on it all soon, assuming I find my muse.

Me: Here are some black and white pictures I took of the Blue Angels while they were practicing in Annapolis.

Helen: They're not blue....

When a young man complains that a young woman has no heart, it is a pretty sure sign that she has his. -- from an obscure e-mail forward back in 1998

Hey Tim, what do I do with two brass camels?-- Helen

Helen went to see The Fellowship of the Ring again and clued me into a preview of The Two Towers now playing with the movie. Or, you can download it (apparently bootlegged).

In other LotR news, what happens when Bilbo Bagins meets John Cleese? Monty Python: The Fellowship of the Ring:

• Frodo: Old woman!
• Lotho: Man!
• Frodo: Man, sorry. Have you seen Bilbo Baggins anywhere about?
• Lotho: I'm thirty one.
• Frodo: What?
• Lotho: I'm thirty one in shire-reckoning -- I'm not old!

And there's plenty more where that came from.

My Girlfriend by Relient K:

Walk through the streets of PA and you may see her.
Go up to her and say you're a believer.
Disgusting trash on MTV it makes her smile.
That guy from Satan's embassy put him on trial.

Chorus:
Because... Marilyn Manson ate my girlfriend.
Satan consumed her mind,
And he may do it again.
Marilyn Manson ate my girlfriend.
She once believed in the truth,
Now she believes in sin. 

She denies God when she has the chance to live for Him.
The thought of it makes me cringe. Her future looks dim.
She'd rather gaze in Satan's eyes than on a steeple.
I'm really starting to despise beautiful people.

(Chorus)

Marilyn Manson ate my girlfriend.
Marilyn Manson, he's a dork.
He ate my girlfriend with a knife and fork
Marilyn Manson, he's uncool.
Marilyn Manson went to a Canton school.
Marilyn Manson ate my girlfriend.

Que Sera, Sera as sung by Doris Day

When I was just a little girl,
I asked my mother, What will I be?
Will I be pretty?
Will I be rich?
Here's what she said to me:

Que sera, sera,
Whatever will be, will be;
The future's not ours to see.
Que sera, sera,
What will be, will be.

When I was just a child in school,
I asked my teacher, What will I try?
Should I paint pictures?
Should I sing songs?
This was her wise reply:

Que sera, sera,
Whatever will be, will be;
The future's not ours to see.
Que sera, sera,
What will be, will be.

When I grew up and fell in love,
I asked my sweetheart, What lies ahead?
Will we have rainbows
Day after day?
Here's what my sweetheart said:

Que sera, sera,
Whatever will be, will be;
The future's not ours to see.
Que sera, sera,
What will be, will be.

Now I have children of my own.
They ask their mother, What will I be?
Will I be handsome?
Will I be rich?
I tell them tenderly:

Que sera, sera,
Whatever will be, will be;
The future's not ours to see.
Que sera, sera,
What will be, will be.
Que sera, sera!

My special gift is impossible relationships. -- Richard Gere

If I forget later, thank you for tonight. -- Julia Roberts, as Richard Gere takes her out for a night on the town

Another quote from HGTTG:

One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious, as in It's a nice day, or You're very tall, or Oh dear you seem to have fallen down a thirty-foot well, are you all right?