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Things intended to amuse

The last day of school in Loudoun County was Friday, June 17th. At 5:00, Riverside Presbyterian Church fired up Slopfest 2005. But wait, you say. Just what IS Slopfest?

Over the last eight years, Slopfest has become a tradition in the Sterling/Cascades/Potomac Falls area. Slopfest is a gathering of Middle and High School students intent on making the biggest mess possible, and doing it with their parent's permission! OK, but how big a mess could they make?

Silly, silly question...

Twister? Sure...

Left hand Blue!
Right foot Yellow!

Words really don't do Slopfest justice, though... We'll let the pictures speak for us.


Nancy is an EMT with Arcola-Pleasant Valley Volunteer Fire Department. (Why is this in the "Amusement" section??) Saturday, 22 May 2004 was the Department's annual open house. Hot dogs, hamburgers, tours of the station, rides on a Fire Engine.... and a clown.

One of the funniest (usually) aspects of my life is the never-ending saga of the dog and the cat, Curly and Motaba.

This is one of the funniest pictures I've seen in a long while. If you have little kids, brace yourself.

On our way to Yellowstone National Park one spring, we passed through Buford, WY. Quite the hotspot of life on the Great Plains....

Hawaii has a really novel approach to traffic speed enforcement.

Not that I'm a cat person, but this has got to be the biggest water dish I've ever seen.

No, I don't really think that this is how Budget normally does business, but you've got to wonder how many upgrades to premium cars they get like this.

Check out the Baby Pages.


Things not amusing, but hopefully interesting

Living in Colorado wasn't bad - this was the view from our deck, facing west. The peak in the forground is Mt. Meeker, while the taller peak in the background is Long's Peak. Locally these two mountains are know as the Twin Sisters. To the right is Mt. Lady Washington, and to the left is Dragon's Egg Rock.

This is an amazing satellite photo of the World Trade Center site taken on September 15, 2001. The level of detail is amazing - you can see individual vehicles on the streets.

I've put up a page listing all of the DVDs that I own, for no particular reason. The HTML for the page is generated by a Perl script that I wrote. It reads the info from a flat text file and generates the page. I did this because it is easier to keep things in alphabetical order in the text file than it it to munge the HTML table definitions manually when I add a single movie. Eventually I'll put the stuff into a database and generate the page dynamically. I'd rather practice my Perl right now...

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