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Mo Jo Jo

2008-08-20T21:26:00.001-04:00

Another installment of Josie pics are up...

Click Here to go there....

http://www.troppoli.com/josie/3/index.html

Enjoy.

new Josie Pics

2008-07-10T10:16:00.000-04:00

You can find them here.

Naked Bike Rider

2008-06-16T18:18:00.002-04:00

In the same spirit of Photos of TV I give you this:

Josie Pics

2008-04-21T18:26:00.001-04:00

Demand has been hot for some pictures of little Josephine

You can find some here.

Welcome Josephine

2008-04-13T18:07:00.003-04:00

Team Troppoli added newest recruit, Josephine Elizabeth Troppoli, at 6:14 PM on Saturday. Two weeks ahead of schedule she weighs in at 8lbs, .5 ounce. She's 20 inches long, and sports a thick lush head of blond hair.

Everyone is doing well.

Baby is in progress...

2008-04-12T07:39:00.000-04:00

After a 2AM wakeup call we're at Emerson, awaiting active labor....

This has been cracking me up

2008-03-13T22:46:00.003-04:00

I don't know why, but I get killed every time by the worm....

Give you food the power to email you...

2007-11-02T18:01:00.000-04:00

So I read an article that referred to bestwhenusedby.com

So the point is that you can use this site anywhere in the world to track the expiration date of food in your house. It will email remind you that food is about to die and give you recipes to use them.

It amuses me that folks are out there, typing in their expiration dates and getting email pleas of help from their food.

gambling, sexual, or other intense urges

2007-10-05T18:46:00.000-04:00

I was watching TV and caught this excerpt...

"Also tell your doctor if you experience new or increased gambling, sexual, or other intense urges while taking Requip."

This all for a drug that helps with restless leg syndrome.

What is this

2007-04-12T16:43:00.000-04:00

I ran across an add on the web and had to click it to see how stupid it could get, and here we are, right to stupid town. Oh yeah, see it here.

Where there's smoke

2007-04-12T12:51:00.000-04:00

Yes, the scene at the gon was fiery. Ice and fire combine in a spectacle that was both ridiculous and completely satisfying. This snow structure was built and a fire lit inside it. Why, because it was there... well once we made it, it was there, and when you're a kid, no one will let you light a big fire inside your snow fort.... or at least my mom never did.

Sudanese Justice

2006-08-18T12:10:00.000-04:00

An interesting article forwarded by our UK office. What I like about this, is that it seems like the elders of the town have been watching Judge Judy and like to dispence her kind of justice....

Sudan man forced to 'marry' goat

A Sudanese man has been forced to take a goat as his "wife", after he was caught having sex with the animal.

The goat's owner, Mr Alifi, said he surprised the man with his goat and took him to a council of elders.

They ordered the man, Mr Tombe, to pay a dowry of 15,000 Sudanese dinars ($50) to Mr Alifi.

"We have given him the goat, and as far as we know they are still together," Mr Alifi said.

Mr Alifi, Hai Malakal in Upper Nile State, told the Juba Post newspaper that he heard a loud noise around midnight on 13 February and immediately rushed outside to find Mr Tombe with his goat.

"When I asked him: 'What are you doing there?', he fell off the back of the goat, so I captured and tied him up".

Mr Alifi then called elders to decide how to deal with the case.

"They said I should not take him to the police, but rather let him pay a dowry for my goat because he used it as his wife," Mr Alifi told the newspaper.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/africa/4748292.stm

Published: 2006/02/24 16:40:00 GMT

© BBC MMVI

Africa Pics

2006-05-24T12:00:00.000-04:00

Yes, folks there is a batch of Africa pics coming, until I get them up, I guess I'll post some little previews... This cub was just about the cutest thing....that could kill you.

reply to all

2006-05-24T10:03:00.000-04:00

A poem inspired by someone who cannot reply to all....

The button is there.
Will you read the text on it?
Better to just smile.

That Guy

2006-05-05T15:01:00.000-04:00

There's this guy that I indrectly work with... when I read his emails, I have to read them in Comic Book Guy's voice... I was explaining this to someone else, and I had to hunt down a couple of his lines and they're killing me:

At the car wash
CBG: I insist you take special care with my collection of valuable
and humorous bumper stickers, particularly this one (he
indicates a sticker which reads "My Other Car Is A Millennium
Falcon") which was given to me by a Harrison Ford lookalike.

Other bumper stickers...
The Truth Is In Here
I Brake For Tribbles
Kang Is My Co-Pilot
My Child Is An Honor Student At Starfleet Academy
Keep Honking, I'm Charging My Phaser

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2006-04-17T18:19:00.000-04:00

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Signage

2006-04-16T15:36:00.000-04:00

This was the second best sign that we saw on the trip. You may need to click to get the full size to read it....seems like something that should just stay clean.

This was the best one.

You do have to look close, but if you do, you can see the icon for a penguin that you ran over...

How loud do you have to pray so that god hears you?

2006-04-09T15:30:00.000-04:00

So I was in the middle of this 18 hour flight, with my earplugs in, dozing. There were only two things I could hear. An unhappy baby, who can blame him.... and this guy....

Well not this guy specifically, but I guy dressed just like this. He was praying. He would mutter to himself for several minutes and then call loudly some phrase, then mutter. It took me over a half an hour to isolate the practitioner. He didn't do it for the whole 18 hours, just periodically, when he was awake.

I had a lot of time to ponder this. When in an enclosed place for 18 hours where people are sleeping, you don't make noise. It's rude, and I think there's something in every religion that says something like, "thou shall not be rude". On a side note, if god can hear you muttering, then there's no need to call out, stifle yourself because you're basically yelling at him... and you wouldn't want to make him angry, you wouldn't like him when he's angry.

Santa takes own life

2006-03-19T21:55:00.000-05:00

On Thursday, the Senate voted 52-48 to raise the debt limit to nearly $9 trillion, a staggering amount that equals approximately $30,000 per person in the United States.... that's the borrow amount, imagine the truth in lending statement on that baby.

That's a dozen zeros $9,000,000,000,000 !!!!

The federal government has borrowed more money from foreign governments and banks during the past two presidential terms than during all other American administrations put together.

Sadly this news was just too much for Santa.

Hey Mulder, open an X File...

2006-03-16T19:59:00.000-05:00

I was performing a supper of zero effort... the baked potato with a sleeve of Smart Chili hot from the reactor on top, because that's how I roll when the wife is in South Africa. So what could be interesting about that... well nothing except there was some sort of explosion.

I've cooked my share of potatoes, not a whole lot happens.

There was potato guts everywhere, like an oven dusted with crushed up baked lays. Think about this, the potato forcibly exited the skin. (the skin turned out like a big chip itself and was quite breath taking) This was not some breach, but an explosion of the potato moving magnitude.

Scouring the web for more information I find:

1. From the urban dictionary: "potato bomb" - a form of mashed starch appearing cool on the outside yet blistering hot in the center which is often not discovered until right before swallowing where at this point it is lodged in the esophugus and burns the tissue causing swelling and loss of taste.
OH MY GOD! a potato bomb exploded in my mouth and now i have to call into work and drink beer all day to relieve the excrutiating and disabilitating pain,
by Megan Carrell Louisville KY Sep 9, 2005

2. Hot Potato Online is a fast paced arena sport game where players try to explode the opposition using a short-fused potato bomb. Think dodgeball with a grenade!

Feeling like I wasn't getting anywhere I hit an old standby, Global Potato News, your source of online potato information. I kind of felt like they are just another potato information re-hash site.... still no real information surrounding a motive or supernatural explanation.

For now, foul play had _not_ been ruled out.

That Rousseau guy...

2006-03-02T10:59:00.000-05:00

That Rousseau guy is famous, he's like listed on Amazon

Revenge

2005-12-10T13:11:00.000-05:00

Revenge, a crime of passion, sometimes... but other times it is cold and calculated. The sort of premeditation that can go into a plotted revenge can make the criminal seem more callus. When an animal combines their emotionless killing instinct with revenge, the result can be a devastating attack.

It can be hard to find the flash-point that is the catalyst for an event like this, but I did lock Kikko in the basement after he snuck down the stairs.

This isn't the case of an innocent bystander, there isn't a drop of gack outside of the shoe, every precious drop focused like a laser. With the splash pattern, it is clear that the assailant crouched to the left of the shoe, and with downward force directed the gack into the most visible location. A clear act of retribution.

No, I expect you to die, Mrs. Bond

2005-12-08T09:23:00.000-05:00

So I assume that you know what one of these is, and don't say a cheesy science fair project involving an oversized clay breast and a laser pointer.

I like anything to do with breasts and lasers, combining the two, just makes both better. Many people are at a laser light show, and say, "How can I make this better"... I know the answer.

So I bet you're wondering where I took that picture...

Pat Robertson is an Asshole

2005-11-10T21:03:00.000-05:00

Conservative Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson told citizens of a Pennsylvania town that they had rejected God by voting their school board out of office for supporting "intelligent design" and warned them Thursday not to be surprised if disaster struck.

Some of Pat Robertson's other greatest moments collected on the web:

"The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians." -- Pat Robertson, fundraising letter, 1992

"There is no such thing as separation of church and state in the Constitution. It is a lie of the Left and we are not going to take it anymore." --Pat Robertson, November 1993 during an address to the American Center for Law and Justice

"I think we ought to close Halloween down. Do you want your children to dress up as witches? The Druids used to dress up like this when they were doing human sacrifice... [Your children] are acting out Satanic rituals and participating in it, and don't even realize it."--Pat Robertson, "The 700 Club," 10/29/82

This guy was almost the republican candidate for president... just think of the great things he could have done.

What's that in your eye?

2005-11-09T21:37:00.000-05:00

If there's something that I don't like seeing it's something in an eye. Just the thought of it kind of makes my eyes water and red. Seriously.

Diane had something in her eye this morning and she was rubbing at it. WebMD says you shouldn't rub your eye if there is an object in it.... Especially if that object is a pencil... let's cover first aid for that:

OBJECT STUCK OR EMBEDDED IN EYE

Leave the object in place. DO NOT try to remove the object. DO NOT touch it or apply any pressure to it. Do not grab the item and slowly rotate while kicking the person in the balls.
Calm and reassure the person. Reassure them that you aren't going to kick them in the balls.
Wash your hands.
Bandage both eyes. If the object is large, place a paper cup or cone over the injured eye and tape it in place. Visualize this for a moment... let me paint you the picture from my mind: So you've got a pencil stuck into your eye... I'm not sure how it happened, but let's assume that you were doing something stupid that you wouldn't want someone else to find out about. Since I don't know what that is for you assume you're working in a cubicle with a foam tile ceiling and you're tossing up pencils to stick into the tiles through a picture of Karl Rove. There's a sonic boom and the pencils drop into your eye. Now you're supposed to not look around because your eye is like a pencil kebob. First aid involves supporting the skewer by skewering the cup and taping the paper cup to your face.
Cover the uninjured eye with gauze or a clean cloth. Really you don't want to scare children with a pencil sticking out of your face.
If the object is small, cover both eyes with a clean cloth or sterile dressing. Even if only one eye is affected, covering both eyes will help prevent eye movement.
Get medical help immediately. Or wait till it's convenient.

As it turns out Diane didn't have a pencil in her eye, but it seemed wrong. Then there it was! blaDDDOUGH Like she had a mosquito bite on the whites of her eye...

The longer I looked at it, the bigger it got. By the time I finished looking through the options; eye puncture, cornea scratch or burn of the eye.... I could barley see. I'm rubbing my eyes in fact I'm pretty sure that it's me that had something in their eye, well both eyes really.

At this point we're both thinking about it and talking about it... I look over and I can see the yellow gelatinous area has gotten bigger. It now is beginning to look like her cornea is recessed and the sclera (whites) is bulging around it. I can't stand it anymore we're going to the hospital!

Sure it might be nothing, but my eyes itch like hell and that must mean hers really itch. So we get there and Diane goes in....

....she comes out and of course its conjunctivitis, contagious only if you've been opening the infected eye with your hand and rubbing your watery eye.

So I go back into the doctor's office and suggest that they go ahead and write me up a prescription because I already have it, can't they see it, its worst than the pencil. I looked down at my hands and it was like looking at them with a black light, I could see the seathing bacteria yelling about eating the eyes out of my sockets. I explained that I had literally been touching her cornea to mine while examining the oozing mess. They didn't see it my way, they thought that I should show some "symptoms" before they prescribe something. I expect I'll be blind tomorrow.