Florida isn’t the “show me” state

A Florida teenager who flew to Iraq without his parents knowledge is headed back to the U.S. He apparently wanted to see the Iraqi elections firsthand.

According to the AP, the teenager recently studied immersion journalism and wanted to see what the Iraqi’s are living through. If you haven’t heard of “immersion journalism”, that is where you learn about journalism by having all of your common sense removed. Apparently he was an excellent student.

Then again, he is a teenager. Common sense is removed from kids at about age 12 before being returned randomly sometime after 20.

Now here’s a corny idea*

The high cost of natural gas is encouraging people to look for other ways to heat their homes. One Colorado company is cashing in by selling stoves that burn shelled corn. The corn is about half the cost of natural gas and it burns so clean there are no restrictions on burning it.Now that is cool.

You know they say that the U.S. is the Saudi Arabia of corn.

*(I know that is a horrible pun. Please don’t report me to the blog police.)

Most ridiculous iPod accessory

Anyone who has an iPod knows you need a case for it. The problem with the new iPod is that none of the cases from the previous generation iPods fit it because they moved the headphone jack from the center to the right side.

So Apple’s solution? A sock. Yep a sock which they call “stylish” and “fun”. Really, it is half a sock. They do come in packs of six though. You have your choice of various colors too!

So what do you pay for this innovation in iPod protection?

29 fricken bucks! Yep, that’s $29 for six half-socks. What a bargain. I think that breaks down to $2 for the six half-socks and $27 for the Apple logo sewed on to each one.

Happy Birthday…to me

I’ll not dwell on how bad I’ve been feeling the last couple of days. (Wait, was that dwelling right there?)

The good news is that I was able to enjoy a quiet birthday celebration this evening with Honeybun and my mom and brother. This was number 36 for those of you keeping score.

Honeybun gave me the 60 GB video iPod. The black one. Together, we have about 500 CDs that I had already copied to our computer. Tonight I transferred them to the iPod – all 5022 songs and I only reached about 18 GB. Cool. I’m going to have to download one of the Pixar shorts next. Just because I can ya know?

Oh, and this is the only time I can ever having a “white birthday”. Isn’t living in Colorado great?