Finally, in my del.icio.usweb travels, I’ve found a “Bible” of sorts. Use this FAQ to answer most of your grammar questions!

Dr. Grammar FAQ

Affect or effect? Then or than? Its or it’s? (You should know ALL of these, but if you don’t…)

Thanks to Victor, at work, for sending me this link.

Looks like there is a “hacker-speak” tile set you can buy for your Scrabble game. This new set of tiles gives bonuses for using l33t tiles for substitutions of normal letters. For example, you can use the letter “4” as an “A”, or a “3” for an “E”.

Here is more information: Leet Tiles

Although I’m against any “hidden message” this photo contains, reading between the lines, I felt it was worthy of being posted.

Thanks to Demo for sending the photo.

So, last night, about 11pm, I take my medication for acne, Dynacin. Right on the bottle, it has a sticker that says to be sure to take it with plenty of water. I normally do. That’s where my problem started. I did my usual of sticking my head under the sink with the capsule in my mouth. It kind of went down, but I didn’t drink more water. Thought it’d be no biggie. Well, as I’m about to brush my teeth, a few minutes later, I have a quick burp. Immediately following this burp, I feel a burning sensation in my nose and my eyes start watering like I’ve just seen my whole family get slaughtered by a gang of looters and rapists. I tell Michelle I just burped up my medicine and she starts laughing. I was like, “What are you laughing at?” When she came into the bathroom, she realized I was in distress (nasal). For the next 9 hours, my nose and eyes are in utter grief. I was blowing my nose and spitting up the yellow powder that lives inside one of these Dynacin capsules ALL NIGHT LONG! My head felt like a pumpkin grew inside of it. OUCH. OUCH. OUCH. I managed to fall asleep at around 1:30AM and woke up at around 4:00AM. Benjamin woke up at about 4:30AM. He normally wakes up at 6:00-7:30AM, so this was not a good night. At 4:00AM, I took Sudafed. Didn’t do shit for the congestion. Took my Allegra-D at about 6:00AM so that my allergies wouldn’t get me ON TOP of the medicine “snort” that I accidentelly did at 11PM.

Well, nothing worked for my congestion until I bought some nasal spray that contains 1% Phenylephrine HCl. Worked in about 2 minutes. Supposed to take it every 4 hours. After 2 hours, I’m starting to feel it wear off. My poor mucous membranes must hate me.

Anyway, NEVER snort Dynacin if you ever thought it’d be fun. I didn’t even MEAN to snort it. For now on, when I take it, I’m going to drink 32 oz. of water!

This is hilarious. I ran into this while looking at deals on the new iPod Nano at Ben’s Bargain’s.

iPod Flea

The other night, we were in Meijer, and this hilljack in her faded black rock and roll concert t-shirt said to her man, “It’s four for $6, how much are two?”

I almost died. I wanted to SCREAM at the TOP OF MY LUNGS, “It’s $3, you f***ing idiot!!!”

http://www.googleguide.com

I was looking at a guy’s blog entry that had a bunch of cheat sheets on it and this one jumped out at me, as he had a Google search cheat sheet.

[Listening to: Runnin’ - The Game - The Documentary (4:26)]

We went over to Dino and Danielle’s the other day, the entire family, and had an excellent visit. During our visit, Benjamin decided he wanted a go on Dani’s computer!

He also was VERY interested in what his Uncle Dino was doing!

From Everything USB:

I never thought it’d be possible, but Mazda of all companies has embraced the inner geek inside me to make me want to run out and test drive one of their cars. Thankfully this is only a concept car for now, and my Honda is still running strong.

Designed for “net-savvy youngsters”, the new concept hatchback, Mazda Sassou, ditches the traditional cylinder lock key system in favor of USB flash drives. In addition to starting the engine, the flash drives can be used to transfer driving directions for long trips along with the latest songs for the day to the Sassou’s internal hard drive.

Read more at everythingusb.com

Thanks to Mike for this one.

…we found out that we were having Benjamin Peter Filias! I was four-wheeling with my fraternity brother, Gerry Lee, up near Exit 202 (the opposite direction of the “Sippy Hole”). Michelle had been home, mulling over whether or not she should take a pregnancy test. Well, she did, and when I came home, she was surprisingly quiet. While I was in the shower, washing up from the dirt and dust that 6+ hours of ATVing will do to a guy, she approached the shower with a note “Hi Daddy!” I wasn’t sure if she was coming on to me, so I asked, and was blown away when my suspicions were wrong. She was calling me a “D A D D Y ! ! ! !”

Here we are now, Benjamin is getting a bath and I’m writing this, reminiscing, and thrilled to death that we have little Ben!

This is an awesome story. Apparently, Steve Ballmer was pretty upset when an engineer who has worked for Microsoft for ten years told him he was going to work for Google.

Going to kill Google!

Ballmer not only made those verbal threats, but he also picked up a chair and threw it across the room!

“I’m going to f—ing bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again,” the declaration quotes Ballmer. “I’m going to f—ing kill Google.”

I picked this story up from ArsTechnica, for starters.

I saw this at a guy’s blog that lives down in Biloxi, MS.

65 Girls at Area School Pregnant

Ben and Louie had a damn good time at their photo shoot. I couldn’t resist. I had to post these.

JT$ sent this along.

Flash Earth

Also check out this guy’s other Flash stuff, including Audio/Visual (if you have a microphone or camera hooked up), Kutopia Flower, and Pinwheel…those were my favorites!

I can’t get over how much I love this outfit. He didn’t wear this outfit again, but I found this OTHER photo I wanted to share with y’all.