Alright, I’ve got a couple quick things before I head up north for EBoard retreat.

1) Check this out: Who is that guy on the right???

2) Deb and I saw Along Came Poly last night. Pretty funny movie. Best line of the flick came from Philip Seymour Hoffman when he enlightened me with a new phrase: “shart”. What the hell is shart you may be asking right now. Unfortunately HyperDictionary doesn’t have a definition quite yet so I will have to give you the low down. I would say that it is a verb, probably from the greek (they usually keep it real) meaning the action of an attempted fart which surprisingly includes some shit… A SHART!

3) Everybody better hold it down while I’m gone!

I was trying to figure out what my next big project/addition/tweak should be to this website when I found myself surfing around on the TechTV website and I came across what I saw as an opportunity. To me it was an obvious opportunity to confirm and get on record, quantify if you will, what I have known for at least a few years now. It was an Are You A Nerd Quiz! I jumped right in and skipped over the weakly presented link to a sponsoring website (Nerd Nation - which I am just now checking out.) to get right to the quiz.

Unfortunately I was quickly surprised at my inability to answer the questions correctly on the first try. Now I always figured I could be nerdier, but I was feeling quite UN-nerdy. Next thing I know the quiz is over and here is what I got! Let me know if you were able to better stand up to that sucker of a quiz.

Oh and holler at Payne for convincing me to throw up my rss feed so you can now enjoy the antics of mahix2.com from the comfort of your favorite News Aggregator (Payne recommends SharpReader). My rss syndication actually happens to be rdf, but hit it up!
http://www.mahix2.com/index.rdf

Today is the big 50 for my dad so if you get a chance, tell him he’s really old! or just tell him HAPPY BIRTHDAY.

Meanwhile check this out I promise you will laugh harder than the last time you looked at yourself in the mirror. It’s amazing how accurate it is in its account of how the world will end.

Alright, the Dorsey house has recovered from insanity that was New Year’s Eve and we’re ready to do it again! Well, maybe not just like that, but we are having Lan Wars tonight! I know all of you are sitting there going “oh i HATE you guys… LanWars are for NERDS” yeah, well I AM A NERD and I know you are too. So suck it up, swallow some pride, grab your pc, monitor, and some junk food and get ready to get scoped down Call Of Duty Style. No experience needed… you’ll just be target practice.

Today I was a Hero…

At least according to United Blood Services I was. I donated blood Double RPC style. Pretty interesting procedure actually. Instead of taking a pint of blood from you, 2 pints are removed, but then they are treated and a portion of your blood (the plasma) as well as about a pint of saline is put back into your blood stream. The best part of all is that the needle they use for the Double RPC donation is about half the diameter of the Whole Blood donation needle.

Then again…

So I finally get done answering the interview on whether I have ever paid for sex from a African man with aids who has used needles for drugs and the lady begins making small talk with me. She comments that my whole family had come in today and donated and I responded that while I was glad to do it, it was a no brainer as they were offering two free tickets to the Phoenix Open. She then looks at me surprised and says “Were you planning to donate Double RPC?” I say yes and she tells me how she thought I was only doing one but that it was not a problem she would just have to test the blood from my finger prick one more time. I give her my hand and she starts squeezing my finger hoping that she won’t have to prick me again. At first nothing comes out so she gives one more squeeze and SQUIRT a fine stream of blood shoots through the tiny closet office we were in. First you should have seen the look on her face, and second you should have seen how quickly she looked out the window to see if anyone else had seen what happened. Comical to say the least.

Moral of the story…

Give Blood… Save A Life… Be A Hero.