Facebook has laser percision marketing that aims to bring you advertising that's personal and relavant to your interests. One of the disclaimers you can agree to when you sign up is to allow pictures of yourself in contextual ads. Advertisements that attempt to make the product they're selling more real and personal. I've seen several of them in the form of "Your friend [friend here] took this IQ quiz and beat you."  You'll see the photo of said friend in the ad in an attempt to make it more personal.

Amusing, but what happens when the product they're trying to peddle to you isn't appropriate with a friend's photo? Say when you see your daughter's photo in a singles advertisement. Really weird. If they would have taken just a moment think about their marketing they would have at least  have the common sense to not market your photo to people in your own family as an available single. Duh! See the add below.

Son: "Dad, what's an echo?"

Dad: "An echo, my son,  is the only thing that can deprive a woman of the last word." 

Apologies to all the people the two people who actually read this. I've been spending my spare time doing other things than finding dumb stuff on the Internet to post here. What is this site really, but a place for me to log things that I find amusing or interesting?

So at any rate, interesting at the moment is the creation of a Facebook Application. I know you all use these things. Half of them are nonsense such as "Which Jonas Brother Are You?" but some are actually useful/entertaining or maybe even helpful. My proposition is to create a new application that would pull some of the online features our church has into an applicaiton that seamlessly fits into Facebook. My current ideas include a live stream of the services, the pastor's twitter feed, and maybe current news.

Last night I (with the help and insight from many other people) finally snapped together the final piece to get the live stream available in a flash version instead of the un-Facebook friendly Windows Media format that we currently push out. If you're on my friend list I'll probably send you an invitation to use this new application soon.

Need to know the difference between a small moon and the Death Star? There's an app for that.

It would be wrong to not metion Steve Porter's remix of the Slap Chop infomercial. This is truely one of the greatest moments in Youtube history. Of course you can watch the original, but why when the remix is so much better.

Nothing has ever been this awesome. What could compare? The razor sharp teeth, the claws, the laser blasts. It's just awesome.

Don't you hate it when people read over your shoulder?

Breakfast Ninja Cereal is very dangerous, but hey! It's packed with marshmallows so I'm not complaining. I bet my kids would love this stuff. 

A Missouri Sheriff stops at a ranch in rural MO and talks with an old farmer.He tells the farmer, ‘I need to inspect your ranch for illegal grown drugs.’

The old farmer says, ‘Okay, but don’t go in that field over there.’

The  Sheriff verbally explodes saying, ‘Mister, I have the authority of the Sheriffs Department with me.’  Reaching into his rear pant  pocket and removing his badge. The officer proudly displays it  to the farmer.

‘See this badge?  This badge means I am allowed to go wherever I wish..on  any land. No questions asked or answers  given.Have I made myself clear? Do you understand?’

The old farmer nods politely and goes about his chores.

Later, the old farmer hears loud screams and spies the Sheriff running for his life and close behind is the farmer’s  bull. With every step  the bull is gaining ground on the officer. The Sheriff is clearly terrified.

The old farmer immediately throws down his tools, runs to the fence and yells at the top of his lungs…..

‘Your badge! Show him your badge!’

Instead of the usual 15 - 20 min. trip to take Evan to school today, it took about 1 and a half hours. Apparently there was a large wreck on the road near our house and it shut down all the traffic on the road in front of our house. We watched two Care Flight helicopters land and take off again and a few cop cars and wreckers go by. Other than that we just had to amuse ourselves with the cars we were parked beside. Yes, parked. Engine off and just sitting there mostly.

One truck caught our attention. It was one of those trucks that hauls large oversized construction equipment around between jobs. Someone, the driver or a friend, obviously had a sense of humor. Evan thought it was really funny too.