Apparently, the UPT became popular enough to spin off into its own site, because it is now Boxoh.com.  

Those with a healthy sense of paranoia won’t balk too much at handing out their package tracking numbers.  Those with an unhealthy sense of paranoia should probably just stick to using the courier hosted tracking sites.

But also in the package were three sample packets of Excedrin Back & Body.  The included insert shows two women riding a tandem bike with the words “Keep pain off your horizon” floating just over the front tire.

While I’m all for free pharmaceuticals, I have to admit that I laughed over the fact that back pain is so prevalent in Nashbar’s clientele that they (and Excedrin) feel that their customer base has a high likelihood of purchasing back pain medicine.

I can’t think of a time that I’ve had back pain after riding my recumbents.  I must be doing this cycling thing wrong.

I have no animosity toward upright bikes, but I do think it’s funny that they sent a recumbent guy back pain pills.

As I observed all of this, I thought about the complexity of everything I had just witnessed and realized that, in some ways, my atheism is just as “faith” based as most people’s belief in a higher power.

Some believe that God must exist because our world is so incredibly complex.  They can’t conceive of any of this happening on its own without guidance from one infinitely powerful.  I, however, can’t believe that any being could be so infinitely powerful as to conceive of the rules required to govern the behavior of heated water.  That is, I can’t conceive of any being capable of building systems of such complexity.

Speaking of religion, I was reading an article today about a local man who recently sold a rather extensive collection of Nazi correspondence relating to the Holocaust.  One of the reasons he started his collection was that he wanted tangible evidence in order to refute those who claim the Holocaust never happened.  This is “speaking of religion” because I thought it bizarre that people would rather believe in the divinity of Christ, who has no direct descendents that we’re aware of and whose existence is no more corporeal than, say, Harry Potter’s, yet they would sooner believe that than believe a Holocaust survivor standing in their presence.

Damn, this better be some good mac ‘n cheese.

“Hey baby, from back there, I thought these were just small moons, but damn girl!  These are space stations!”

I dump crap like that on Brandy all the time, just to make her cringe.  But of course, this being the internet, there are lots of other folks who have mined this territory.  Some of my favs…

• I may look like an Ewok, but I’m all Wookie where it counts, baby.
• Date, or date not — there is no ‘let’s just friends be’.
• Honey, you’ve been looking for love in Alderaan places!

Oh look how clever I am! I made a lolcat reference in order to introduce my son to the world!

Okay, truth be told, I fucking LOVE lolcats, but even I am unwilling to put a caption on my child’s photo using a large outlined Impact font.

Anyway, yeah, kid #2. Collin Alexander.

Just sayin’.

And yes, I am aware that this makes for back-to-back Leia slavish pervy fanboyism.  I’m stuck in a rut.  A hot, Alderaanian princess rut.  Just be glad I didn’t work “Organa” into a lame joke about my penis.

Have to hand it to ThinkGeek.  They know their audience.  What would make this perfect is if it were framed and double sided so you could just flip it over to a picture of Mt. Fuji or something.

I was reminded of this song when I today read this:

“my cat is bleeding from the anus and penis what do i do or what else can i look for until i can get her to the vet??!”

Either that’s the world’s first hermaphroditic cat or somebody is a bit confused.

As a result, I’ve been able to watch every episode of TrueBlood (which isn’t all that bad) and get caught up on this season of South Park. 

The real fun comes when they fast forward through the commercials for me.  It’s like TiVo but with even less effort.  Of course, I don’t get to choose what I watch on these channels, but I do get a unique insight into the tastes of my neighbors.

This is apparently not a new phenomenon, but it’s a fun way to inject some randomness into my day.