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This picture is on the wall of my mom's computer/sewing/junk-piled-up=high room and is as hilarious as it is depressing.



















You see, the Eagle Scout is the highest and last ranking you can get in boyscouts. After that you're pretty much done. Life is the rank just before Eagle Scout. I quit at life, as you can see here in the picture.

Another fun fact I remembered about boyscouts. A full physical was required to go to boyscout camp and at my first physical the doctor said "drop your pants" and I said "...but they're already down..." For those of you have have never heard the words "turn your head and cough", I can assure you, the hands are always cold.

The main reason why I really like cans(as in the cans that food and drink comes in) is that they are very recyclable and usually easily compacted to save space, when they are used.

There are however, a couple things that bother me about cans. Particularly drinking out of aluminum cans. There are the sharp edges, the annoying little tabs that touch your nose and, if there was any substance spilled on them, might stick to your nose. Long ago I started to rip the tabs off for the stickiness factor. Even with the tab gone there is still a chane of stickiness though.

More importantly, however, is the taste. I knew that drink out of an aluminum can tasted different than out of bottles. At one point I particularly liked coca cola out of glass bottles. However, not until I started drinking beer did I realise that I can really taste the can. It is this sort of bitter metallic taste. Depending on the kind of drink that's in the can it is usually a bit different. I can also taste the metal of food cans, and it doesn't usually bothere me as much, but ic can.

I really don't like it. Pouring into a cup helps a little but the taste is still there. With cola and many other products it is not a big deal because plastic bottles are available and the drinks from plastic taste better and, if it is a large container, might be less wasteful. Usually I can't taste the plastic in a drink except for bottled water sometimes. However, colored glass, particularly the brown or green glass that beer comes in, is not recyclable where I live. There are also some new brown plastic bottles which, I think, are not recyclable.

So, while I enjoy drinks out of colored glass, I always feel guilty that I'm not drinking out of something recyclable. Especially when I buy 12 packs.

I added and fixed some of the links on the right. Enjoy.

I've been too busy with school and watching tv and movies and working on my project car and stuff to post. I have a big long list of bookmarks of stuff I thought about posting, but never did.

One thing I did recently was that I had a kind of solder night. I spent hours one night fixing my two favorite pairs of headphones, a cell phone headset, and my favorite remote control car. That makes half a dozen times I've repaired my favorite remote control car. I had to repair it the day I got it for $5-10(don't remember exactly) from a yard sale. It's a 4 wheel drive jeep wrangler with a 9.2 volt battery, big tires, and spring suspension. It can drive over pretty much anything. Last time it broke corrosion and heat had torn a hole through the battery cable. I ended up just wrapping it around itself and taping it after giving myself a really nasty burn on the soldering iron and breaking the wire after I soldered it. Works anyway.

Now, the real reason for this post. Telltale games has this "make your own sam and max comic" thing so after reading a couple I had a few ideas of my own.

First one - A fart joke in 3 parts.

Go here and vote for it if you like this one.

Second one - Don't ask me. I did these all at about 5-6 am and it shows.

Go here and vote for it if you like this one.

Third One - This one is the most thought out.

Go here and vote for it if you like this one.

Sweet mother molasses, I just realised I spelled "points" wrong. I'm so ashamed. It's not my fault though, I had to retype the whole thing because I accidentally clicked the "back" button on my fancy new laser mouse and it got erased. The second time I around I didn't proof read enough, I guess. I disabled the back button after that, because that was at least the second time that happened.

Oh, I forgot to mention. I have 2 Red Eared Sliders that are named Sam and Max. I could post pictures here if requested. There are probably some pictures in the links on the right though.