"... now let me just post it on the Internet where it will be safe from all those prying eyes."

Let's review this story: 

Step 1:  Take family picture.

Step 2:  Put family picture on Christmas cards, a "few" social networking sites, and your mommy blog.

Step 3:  Be surprised when it appears somewhere else.

Step 4:  Profit?

If you don't want something getting out into public knowledge and use, don't post it on the Internet.  In case you haven't guessed, my name isn't Lester.

At least a big, something gross wasn't Photoshopped in it... yet.

Well, not wrong so much as public.  Very, very public.

My soon-to-be wife was never into gaming as I was.  In fact, she never plays any games on the computer at all, including solitaire.  I consider myself fortunate because I know the types of guys that are out there, at least as long as they are on the other end of a Ventrilo connection, not that I would worry so much about her cheating on me.  But the unknown and mysterious has a great allure and wandering minds will wander.  The key is bringing yourself back down to earth in a hurry, or as I like to call it "watching the skirts walk around at lunch and then head back up to the office".  Aside - I love the summer.

I found this nice little advice column with an article concerning the very topic of cyber-cheating.  Seems the wife thinks the husband is spending a little too much time alone with a little hussy but the little hussy won't spend any time in a group with her and the husband is giving her the "quality time" she used to get, or something to that effect.  Of course she never really mentions anything she has done to help the relationship become, and stay, strong and healthy.  Maybe if she went out and bought a swing, some handcuffs, a little leather and latex, she wouldn't be in this situation to begin with.

Epeen points to anyone who can tell me how to say "game over" in Klingon.  Super epeen points if you can tell me how to say any of the famous lines from Duke Nukem including "Vapourware".

I don't know about you but I spent a lot of time reading comics growing up.  Waiting for planes, being locked in the barn, left in aisle five in K-Mart...  you know, usual childhood stuff.

I always idolized Archie in a way.  He had a car and he always seemed to have his pick of two girls.  I was to young to really realize he failed to ever get some action from either, or at least sit in the corner and watch as they got together.  Maybe that explains why he finally caved and proposed.  I just can't tell who has the more devastated look, Betty or Jughead.

The very first video game turned 50 this week.  To celebrate, some physics professors rebuilt the original game as closely as they could and opened their doors today for the adoring public to play.

So what does this mean?  Well, nothing really but where would you be in life today if not for useless tidbits of knowledge.  Oh yeah, and this leads to YouTube videos of scantily clad women playing hula-hoop on the Wii.

MSNBC article here.

Link to the Brookhaven National Library page on the game here.

A 43-year-old player in a virtual game world became so angry about her sudden divorce from her online husband that she logged on with his password and killed his digital persona, Japanese police said Thursday.

The woman, who has been jailed on suspicion of illegally accessing a computer and manipulating electronic data, used his ID and password to log onto the popular interactive game Maple Story to carry out the virtual murder in May, a police official in the northern city of Sapporo said. He spoke on condition of anonymity because of department policy.

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Link here.

Getting married in real life:  $22,000 (average cost in 2002)

Getting divorced in real life:  50% of your asset value

Getting married in MapleStory:  FREE!

Getting divorced in MapleStory:  the death of your avatar