Nate & Kristen’s Weblog

The song of the month comes from that mouthpiece of Satan from yesteryear, Led Zeppelin. Immigrant Song shot up my song ranking chart after an anonymous source on capital hill reported several complaints from other senators that Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts was repeatedly blaring the song in the hallways before debates on the recently passed immigration bill. Kennedy supposedly responded to complaints by swinging a hammer and screaming, “Valhalla, I am coming,” and then pointing at an aid and finishing, “I am your overlord!”

After Osama’s latest tape I’m feeling a Nobel Peace Prize coming his way.

Best blonde joke ever.

Don’t be surprised when you get an anonymous Christmas card in your email this year. I’m sending them out to everyone I know.

A decent part of my childhood was spent dreaming about being a legendary professional athlete. Whether it was batting tennis balls for home runs into the neighbors yard, throwing down monster dunks on the adjustable rim set to the lowest level, or just competing hard for the win against my friends and enemies, pretending and attempting to be a champion among champions was a constant in my life. Even as I grew older with the real life competition becoming stiffer and finding myself more often warming the bench than basking in the glory of my competitive prowess, my dream lived on. I turned to the counter culture sport of skateboarding which despite having only a few competitive aspects provided enough for me to conjure dreams of attaining glory by stringing together the most unbelievable line of tricks. However, I’ve always lacked some skill and lost my drive and now I am old and fat and my dreams have faded and become less frequent, but today I was given a new hope. Chessboxing! Right now I’m an average chess player at best and I’ve never really boxed, but if I train hard and leave unattended the important things in life this may be the sport that gives me a chance for championship glory.

Nathan posted some thoughts about the music business to which Jared responded and then made a post about it back on his blog which brought an announcement from Nathan that he had responded in the form of a another post on his blog on which Jared among others continued to comment. I figured I should try to inject my thoughts on the subject here, but then realized I don’t have any… sigh. Oh wait, I do think stealing music is lame, and people that do it should be caned. That way when all the professional musicians are broke at least they can say, “One million people got caned to hear my music!” And their super fans could show off their scars, “Yeah, check it out, I love Michael Jackson so much I’ve taken 307 beatings!”

In the past 3 or 4 days I have finally gotten out of the house and in the process run into people that are more of an acquaintance than friends. Conversation have been going like this:
Ac: You had your baby! Boy or Girl?
Me: Boy
Ac: How old is he?
Me: Almost 2 weeks
Ac: How big?
Me: 7lb 11oz & 18.5in
Ac: Oh! Thats OK length doesn’t mean much at this age anyway.
I get a little chuckle each time because I wasn’t aware I should be concerned. At least I have some comforting words of wisdom in case I decide to worry.

Cartoon of Robert’s confirmation hearings.

I got this joke from a guy syndicated on Planet GNOME. All the Bush haters should really like it, but I thought it was funny regardless:

President Bush was at a meeting yesterday when one of his advisors told him that a Brazilian soldier had been killed in Iraq.

“OH NO!” shouted Bush, “that’s terrible!”

A silence fell over the room while everyone looked at Bush.

He looked back up the advisor with tears in his eyes and said “Just how many is a Brazilian!?”

If you get your news from The Daily Show you might want to start getting the rest of your information from the Uncyclopedia. I found a couple articles pretty funny but the one for the free software project Gnome is hilarious.