So today, for the first time, I heard the term "muffin top". I am turning into an old man, I guess. From Urban Dictionary:

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Muffin-Top is a word used to describe the strange and bizarre waist scrunching effect that results when females wear tight fitting, low-rise/hip-hugger pants along with small-sized, navel exposing, mid-riff tops.

Came across a post on RationalResponders about How To Irritate An Atheist. Here are some of my favorites, that actually work really well on me if you'd like to drive me nuts:

I transferred registrars from Register.com -- whom I've been a customer of for 10 years -- to Godaddy.com. Still waiting on it to come through, so at some unknown time, my site will go down for at least a few hours until I bring up the new records.

So after watching tonight, my list of movies made much better by Rifftrax™ has increased by one! Star Trek V has been on the list for a year -- that movie is hilarious when you watch it with RiffTrax™ -- and now I must add Eragon to the list.

Favorite line: "Wait, wait, wait for it... pull my finger!"

I... simply don't know what to say. How can he assume such vile things about the video-gaming community?

http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/04/jack-thompson-p.html

The juicy quotes from this letter from Jack to Strauss Zelnick, the producer for Grand Theft Auto IV. Jack has been prohibited by the court from contacting Take Two directly, so sent it to Zelnick's lawyer...

Dear Mrs. Zelnick:

Added a Twitter block to the right-hand side of my page. I hop on a couple of days a week, do a half-dozen mad updates, and then do something else. I think maybe if it's on my blog, I'll remember to update it more regularly.

I dig the brief-social-networking aspect of Twitter. No more than 140 characters means you must be succinct.

Ring, Ring.

"This is Matthew."

"Hi, Honey, it's Christy."

"Hey, babe, how are you doing this morning?"

"Well, the Federal Express man just came and brought two shiny new boxes from Apple."

"Our iPhones came?"

"Our iPhones came."

"Will you please take them out and plug them in so they are fully-charged by the time I get home tonight? That way we can activate them right away."

Happy Cinco de Mayo. It's practically a US holiday anyway, so go celebrate in US style: drink some Corona with lime, set off a bunch of fireworks, and eat way too much Mexican food!

Yesterday afternoon, I heard news that Senators McCain and Clinton, two of the political candidates for President of the United States, supported a "vacation" from gasoline taxes from Memorial Day through Labor Day.

This is a bad idea.

So I upgraded my venerable Raptor 30 v1 to a Raptor 46 (approximately a six-pound helicopter with a five-foot rotor span). It has some issues with the engine when I tried to fly it recently at the field, so I took it home and fixed a few things here and there. It turns out I'd lost the two screws holding in the carburetor on my OS .46FX-H; I pillaged another set from my similar aircraft motor. I bought a brand-new high-performance muffler, got it attached, and started running it up and checking things out.