Rightfully So

Winona Daily News - 6.0:

For the first time since high school, I used a communal shower, without the security of a curtain. Not as in “Girls Gone Wild” as I alluded, but it was still a big deal for me, as it is for a great number of women.

It’s so weird that she is just now overcoming her fear. If I learned anything in college, all it took was some alcohol for most women to loose their fear of just about everything.

Blogosphere maven “Gozar” of the famed RightfullySo.com website has managed to keep his New Year’s resolution going for five straight days now.

Initially proposed as a gag during a New Year’s Eve bender, Gozar found himself on the hot seat on January 1, 2007, when, with a splitting headache and vomit-encrusted cheeks and lips, his wife reminded him of his drunken proposal.

“Gozar, honey… do you remember your resolution?” she asked.

“Uhmmmm. Wh…”

“You promised to lose weight, sire another child with me, and post interesting bookmarklets to your web site.”

“Ohhhhhhhhh. That. Look, dear, all I meant was HOLY CRAP DOES MY HEAD HURT.”

“Yes, honey?” she replied, with saccharine condescension, to which Gozar responded by falling asleep on the couch.

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Gozar’s previous New-Years-resolution-breaking record was set in 1985, when he resolved to drink only sugar-free pop. That resolution lasted until January 13, when, after four scoops of Rocky Road ice cream and six pieces of cake, he said “the hell with that shit” and his birthday celebration turned into a Pepsi-fueled festival.

Stay tuned to this web site for details on Gozar’s 2007 progress.

StandardNET/Standard-Examiner:

Kolton Mahoney was shocked when he put the Madden NFL 07 game in his new Xbox 360 console Christmas day and an explicit image popped up on his television screen.

This story is hard to believe. What 14 year old boy would immediately turn off porn and get his parents. It also doesn’t state what kind of porn was contianed on the disc, although I shudder at the thought of John Madden popping up on the screen naked.

The Post-It Note Jaguar - a photoset on Flickr:

What we did to Walt’s Jaguar on Friday (not that I was there or anything…)

And productivity at the office drops to zero now that they are out of post-it notes.

PC World - The 25 Worst Web Sites:

The ease with which anyone of any age can create a page, upload photos, share deeply personal details of their lives, and make new “friends” quickly turned MySpace into a one-stop shopping mall for online predators.

And here I thought pink text on a purple background, flashing, was the zenith in web page design.

Can Snoring Kill You?:

People with sleep apnea have short periods during sleep where they stop breathing. These periods last anywhere from 10 seconds to 40 seconds and can occur as many as 400 times per night. If you do the math, this means that the average person with sleep apnea spends more than three hours a night not breathing normally or not breathing at all.

Some of the symptons in the article include:

• Falling asleep during the day
• Trouble with memory and attention
• Irritability
• Decreased libido

Unfortunately, this describes a majority of the people that I know… At least I can feel safe that death might be knocking at their door.

How to help adult kids stand on their own two financial feet - Dec. 29, 2006:

More than 65% of graduates are moving back home, compared with 53% just five years ago. And while the difficult stages of childhood may have had lasting emotional impact, this one has financial ramifications galore for you - about $5,000 a year, on average, in assistance - and your kid.

And the coddling of America’s youth continues.

Spaniard, 67, becomes world oldest mum with twins | International News | Reuters.com:

A 67-year-old Spanish woman became the world’s oldest new mother on Saturday when she gave birth to twins, a Barcelona hospital said.

This is just messed up. I couldn’t imagine what would be going through her mind to think that she needed to be impregnated at the age of 67.

SFGate: Daily Dish : Spears Fansite Closes:

Ruben Garay, who has hosted WorldOfBritney.com since October 2000, yesterday announced the site will no longer exist after January 31 because the singer is “losing her identity and credibility with fans and industry people.”

And it’s only taken him 6 years to realize this.

As a favor to the rest of humanity, I’ve decided to list the New Years resolution that you should be taking to make life more bearable for others. I’ve got a lot of problems with you people.

• Learn to say no.
• Along with saying no, say no to the super-sized fast food meals! Ordering a diet soda does not negate a triple Whopper with cheese.
• Use a turn signal.
• Learn to walk. Vulturing for a parking space at the local Sprawl Mart just to save you 20 feet of walking is not doing anyone any good.
• Stop worrying about what others are doing, and take responsibility for your own life. The petty back talking and gossiping only makes you look and feel bad.
• If you are going to post on the Internet, please learn some basic grammar. At the very least, a sentence should be spelled correctly, the first word should be capitalized, and the sentence should end with some sort of punctuation.
• Stop being lazy.
• You children will mimic what you do. If you act like an idiot, your children will also act like idiots.
• Trust your child’s teacher. If your kid was acting up, discipline the child not the teacher.
• Go to bed and remember 3 great things that happened that day. If three great things didn’t happen, make sure three great things happen the next day.