Toilet Cleaning 101

1. Put both lids of the toilet up and add 1/8 cup of pet shampoo to the water in the bowl.

2. Pick up the cat and soothe him while you carry him towards the bathroom.

3. In one smooth movement, put the cat in the toilet and close both lids. You may need to stand on the lid.

4. The cat will self agitate and make ample suds. Never mind the noises that come from the toilet, the cat is actually enjoying this.

5. Flush the toilet three or four times. This provides a "power-wash and rinse".

6. Have someone open the front door of your home. Be sure that there are no people between the bathroom and the front door.

7. Stand behind the toilet as far as you can, and quickly lift both lids.

8. The cat will rocket out of the toilet, streak through the bathroom, and run outside where he will dry himself off.

9. Both the commode and the cat will be sparkling clean.

Sincerely,

The Dog

Steal This Hook! -- Found in an Old Book - Pretty cool adventure hooks.

Sorry had to geek out for a second.

List of annoying commercials

That's it! I've had enough! I'm putting the television networks on notice. I'm tired of a range of annoying commercials, some of which I am going to list here, and I invite anyone reading this to add to the list by posting a comment in relation to this post.

Here's the start of the list:


• PLEASE! No more genital herpes commercials! The target audience can't possibly be everyone watching Law and Order at 8:30 PM on a Sunday night.
  
• I appreciate that women have several feminine issues, but is it really necessary to refer to them so specifically as to say "feminine itching and odor"? ODOR? What's next? Why not this: "hey bob, I have a hairy ass, and sometimes I can't get it clean with just toilet paper..." - bob: "That's okay frank, try this new 'dingleberry de-odorizer'!"
  
• Slightly off topic: Fear Factor. In general, I like the idea of this show, because it test's people's limits. I really can't watch it though, because the 2nd event on every episode I've ever watched comes on right around dinner time, and usually involves something like eating the intestines of a dead person or some such grossness. I like sophomoric humor as much as the next person, but I don't want to see someone eating live leeches when I'm trying to eat my dinner.
  
• I'm working on the others, but c'mon people, let's reel in the offensive level of these commercials!
  

Feel free to add to the list if you like.

HobbyGamerTools.com - I've been working on this puppy for a while, and I've finally taken the plunge and put it into production.

If you like Magic the Gathering or Dungeons and Dragons Miniatures, check it out. I'm still working on some of the tools, and I need to bring the magic card list up to date, but it's coming along nicely.

Gmail - Well, google mail just about 100% rocks. I like it. I like the spam filtering, I like the "labels" and the customizable mail filters. I like the way it strings conversations together. It's great!

ResumeRabbit.com

Save time looking for a job...

Post your resume to a bunch of job boards in one shot!

NPR : D&D Turns 30 - some interesting stuff about D&D

kLoOge.Werks - Virtual Gaming Table for D&D

The Meaning of ‘Hack’ - Some of the stories here are just funny as hell. 5 stars, two thumbs up!

Spam Filter Tools

If you read my earlier rant on the current state of email and spam, you'll probably understand that I've evaluated a few tools regarding spam filtering.

I have a basic outlook on spam filtering: I shouldn't have to pay for it, the spammers should.

Bearing that in mind, I've aimed for free spam filtering when I could, but I still have yet to find a decent solution. Here's who I've tried and what I think of them...

Ella

This one seemed to work fairly well, and it had the added feature of not only filtering out spam, but shuffling newsletters off into a separate folder as well. It wasn't as bulletproof as some of the others in regards to catching all of the spam, but it worked pretty well.

Selling Point: Free with a little added signature to the bottom of your emails after so many trial days.

Here's the downside. I updated Office 2003 via the Microsoft update website, and afterwards, Ella went bye-bye. The toolbar in outlook for Ella disappeared, and no matter what I tried (repair utility, new download and install, etc) it didn't come back. I didn't really do a lot of research online to try and solve the problem, so ding me for that. My solution was to download and try out Spam Alarm.


Spam Alarm

Short Trial period, email tagline that I wasn't really warned about.

Works okay, not 100%, and it kills spam instead of sending it to another folder. You can change these settings (send to spam folder instead of deleting), but you can't make an "Across the board" change, you have to make the change one filter at a time (this sucks).

Spamcatcher

I actually bought this one for a few bucks, but it seemed to expire after only a relatively short time (for something I had purchased). I bought it in conjunction with a special offer, and I probably didn't read all of the fine print.

It worked fairly well, but here's what I didn't like: It created a "go-between" mail server on my machine and required that I change all of my mail account settings in outlook for it to work.

It created a couple of folders (Spamcatcher block and Spamcatcher accept) that I could simply drag messages to to indicate if they were spam or not, and thus, spamcatcher would train itself in response.

In general this program worked pretty good. The drawback was the use of the "go-between" mail server, which I don't like.

Photo Stamps - Very cool.

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