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1 Well, let me be the first idiot to say it. You certainly had me fooled. I was, as an English lawyer friend of mine likes to say, shcoked, astonished and dismayed. Good one. Best of luck with the new venture!

Posted by: RP at July 26, 2004 04:02 PM (LlPKh)

2 Of course, I mean shocked, not shcoked. Not self respecting Englishman would say shcoked.

Posted by: RP at July 26, 2004 04:06 PM (LlPKh)

3 Thank goodness! I'd be mortalized if I knew I'd shcoked you. And just imagine what my wife would say!

Posted by: Jim at July 26, 2004 07:36 PM (behRF)

4 snicker. snort. "mortalized". heh, heh.

Posted by: Random Penseur at July 26, 2004 08:03 PM (X3Lfs)

5 The bill for the heart attack will be over to you shortly. Are we to be promoting Protomonkey or just reading in the quiet knowledge of being amongst the priveleged few? Seeing your time zone sucks I'm just gonna promote and hope.

Posted by: Simon at July 27, 2004 02:06 AM (GWTmv)

6 I was prepared to get my banshee out. It was going to be ugly. Snooze guts were going to be flying. I rely on you and Simon to be my daily dose of normal. If either one of you ever let me down, I know a shaman who will curse you so that you both grow weird monkey hair from your unmentionables. Hey-I was an anthropology major, of course I know all the nutcases.

Posted by: Helen at July 27, 2004 04:07 AM (pS7+B)

7 Hmmm... Somewhat stronger threats than I was expecting... Is there any way I can blame this on Ilyka? I swear I was going to do a "what my blog has meant to me in the first year" type of post to introduce Protomonkey. Until I saw the tombstone generator of course - that set off my mischievous inner imps (yes, I have more than one - it's a terrible burden). Promote the new site to your heart's content. I sure will be!

Posted by: Jim at July 27, 2004 05:19 AM (behRF)

8 I think we both had the same idea... I've been working on a separate site, a more personal site where I'll post something completely different than wetwired... http://www.sixofnine.net

Posted by: pylorns at July 30, 2004 05:23 PM (FTYER)

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There were a lot of excellent captions submitted. The first place entry gets 5 Snooze Points, the second place one gets 3 and the third gets 1. There were also a lot of crappy entries but don't worry - I won't take any points away.

Winner
"Amazing new ironing board allows women to simultaneously iron, rub pussy." - Rube

Second Place
"Ever the thrifty spender, Jim has discovered a new way to get LW that black fur shoal she always wanted. The neighbor will never miss the cat anyway." - Clancy

Third Place
"Ironing bored." - Tiffani

Posted by: Jim at 08:27 AM | Comments (3) | Add Comment
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Won't be here today. Sorry, y'all. Just too busy today with all the clean-up from yesterday and then the relaxing and stuff. Bear has requested chicken wings for his B-day dinner so we'll be doing those tonight.

The party was a smash, thanks mostly to Trey. Everybody else took off at around 4:30 pm but Trey stayed and we had some lovely conversation to the setting of the sun. Not only did Trey charm Lovely Wife and I, he was also adopted by Bacon. (Click for mondo size.)

I think Bacon had just stuffed a handful of Nerds in his mouth. Either that or he's turning into a weasel.

So anyway, big news tomorrow with more party pictures and maybe some house pictures too.

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My little blog is a year old now. Celebrate and rejoice!

Many of you weren't expecting this post until tomorrow since the oldest archive post here is from July 25 of last year. Fooled you! (And me.) Seems the first two posts from the Blogger incarnation of this weblog were lost in the move. The actual first Snooze Button Dream post was Thoughts on snooze buttons, posted July 24, 2003. Thusly a blog was born. (I've reproduced that post in the extended entry here, just in case Blogger is still going psycho on my archives.)

As it is Saturday this is about all you will get from me but expect big news tomorrow. more...

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Update: This post will be up top until Friday morning. Theoretically unlimited points are available. (Points are realistically limited by physical laws.)

I recently implemented a tweak shared by The Bartender to put a Best Of list in my sidebar (it's under "Linkage"). This is neat as it handles things dynamically whenever I put a post into the "Best Of" category.

My problem is that for the past 6 months or so I hadn't updated any of my best link categories so my "Best Of" has a whole lot of best posts that aren't in there. What I'm looking for are what posts y'all think are good enough to be considered some of the best things I've written. I'm looking more for the anecdote style (story, humorous semi-fiction, kids, etc) posts.

Nominate a post that you think is worthy. If I agree and put it in the Best Of category, you get a point. Just one at a time and first come, first served please. That way it'll be a bit more fair for the out of country readers. As soon as I reply with a yay/nay on your submission you can nominate another one.

I've also got some on the Best Of that probably shouldn't be there. Instead of nominating one to go into the category you can nominate one to come out of it and that'll be for points too.

Even more points: One point each for artist and debut album for the song that inspired the title to this post. No searching, y'all!

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...I'd put my money on one of these readers to win the very long running points contest:

Mike the Marine, 34 points
Rob, 34 points
Tiffani, 33 points
Simon, 32 points

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What was my first blog called? 5 points for the first person with the correct answer (and no searching). A handful of bonus points also available for especially vulgar humorous guesses.

Um...no. Nobody got it yet and I think I see why. Back a few months ago if you Googled "Jim Peacock's first blog" it was in the top 10. That doesn't work any more. In fact, if I didn't know where this thing was I don't think I could find it now either. I'm raising the reward to 10 points and opening it up to searching however you want.

Just a note - we're looking for the name of the blog, not the URL. As an example, this blog is Snooze Button Dreams, not www.snoozebuttondreams.com.

Finally, there are a handful of folks that get a point each for answers that made me smile:

DeAnna: Snooze Button Queens (Not that there's anything wrong with that)

Jen: An Udder Blog (References to my cow sucking picture get extra points for the nostalgia factor)

Jen (again): glennreynoldsismybitch.blogspot.com (Oh-freakin-yeah, baby)

Claire: spamload.blogspot.com ("Spamload" would be an excellent name for a heavy metal group)

I'll still hand out points for these types. Hey, we can use all the humor we can get, right?

Posted by: Jim at 02:51 PM | Comments (33) | Add Comment
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1 Snooze Button Queens

Posted by: DeAnna at July 07, 2004 03:12 PM (IdVP4)

2 Ouch!

Posted by: Jim at July 07, 2004 03:16 PM (IOwam)

3 Peacock Feathers? I got nuthin'

Posted by: Jennifer at July 07, 2004 03:42 PM (DdBLw)

4 Yeah, I guess so.

Posted by: Jim at July 07, 2004 03:44 PM (IOwam)

5 Udderly Fantastic?

Posted by: Jennifer at July 07, 2004 03:51 PM (DdBLw)

6 An Udder Blog? K, I'm quitting while I'm behind.

Posted by: Jennifer at July 07, 2004 03:58 PM (DdBLw)

7 Ooh, I like that last one.

Posted by: Jim at July 07, 2004 04:00 PM (IOwam)

8 Jim's Pet Peacock

Posted by: Clancy at July 07, 2004 04:29 PM (EGVPL)

9 ummmmm, Snooze Button Dreams?

Posted by: tommy at July 07, 2004 04:36 PM (2i1GN)

10 ohhh, ohhh - tommy's on the right track... How about: snoozebuttondreams.blogspot.com

Posted by: Clancy at July 07, 2004 04:54 PM (EGVPL)

11 blogspot.com was part of the url but there were no snooze, button, nor dreams involved. Really looking for the name in any case. I'll open it up to searching as of midnight tonight (EST).

Posted by: Jim at July 07, 2004 06:10 PM (bmLWy)

12 Wasn't it something to do with smurfs?

Posted by: Simon at July 07, 2004 09:23 PM (FUPxT)

13 Ok, one last guess; peacock.net. I'm sure that came later, but I know you have the domain, so that's my last gues...

Posted by: Clancy at July 07, 2004 10:00 PM (spFWA)

14 glennreynoldsismybitch.blogspot.com

Posted by: Jennifer at July 07, 2004 10:39 PM (GALhr)

15 Damn, Jennifer got it. Or at least what it SHOULD have been, :-D

Posted by: tommy at July 07, 2004 11:13 PM (2i1GN)

16 spamload.blogspot.com ?

Posted by: Claire at July 07, 2004 11:26 PM (l1oyw)

17 I know I am too late and I have nothing at all humorous to add, but like SImon, I thought it had something to do with Smurfs. Wasn't it something about choking them?

Posted by: Helen at July 08, 2004 06:03 AM (Ih7rj)

18 Wow, Simon and Helen have memories of the Gods. The Smurf thing was from one of my very first posts and has to do with how I met Lovely Wife. Of course that's not the right answer for this trivia question but if it was, boy would you guys have nailed it!

Posted by: Jim at July 08, 2004 02:54 PM (IOwam)

19 Coulrophobia not Hoplophobia?

Posted by: Jennifer at July 08, 2004 03:12 PM (9idqe)

20 I've got a touch of coulrophobia but only for the ones who are hoplophiles. They stash 'em in their shoes you know.

Posted by: Jim at July 08, 2004 03:16 PM (IOwam)

21 " 'Spamload' would be an excellent name for a heavy metal group." or a last name for a porn star. What the hell kind of rock music is this guy listening to?

Posted by: shank at July 08, 2004 03:21 PM (+4mO/)

22 That's right-Simon and I ARE gods, baby. And we have been around your blog almost as long as one

Posted by: Helen at July 08, 2004 03:35 PM (fZQxB)

23 I'm glad Jim's finally realised we are Gods. I fully expect an altar to both of us some time soon. As for this first name, I've now wasted 20 goddamn minutes and still no luck. Maybe it was: suckacowudderuntilasmurfturnsblue.blogspot.com but I've passed the point of caring. Now WHERE'S OUR ALTAR?????

Posted by: Simon at July 09, 2004 12:22 AM (OyeEA)

24 Sh!t but it just hit me that I know what it is... I recall you once had a discussion with Emma and your first blog was Apropos of Nothing and you were Sir Apropos. Here's the proof. Fuck I'm good. You'd better make that one mother of an alter. Helen can be my high priestess...she'll have some very special duties to perform. Bhuhahahahahahahahahha

Posted by: Simon at July 09, 2004 03:23 AM (UKqGy)

25 Get the fuck out-Simon is more of a God than I am, no less! Ahem-oh Lord Simon, what can I do to please you today?

Posted by: Helen at July 09, 2004 05:41 AM (0os5y)

26 That's it! Simon is truly a Snoozegod. We shall have to work up a caricature for him along the lines of Snoozebob. The corpse of Apropos of Nothing may still be viewed. Longest wake I've ever heard of. All the points are belong to Simon.

Posted by: Jim at July 09, 2004 05:48 AM (bmLWy)

27 ZeroIntelligence.net do I win the cheese wheel?

Posted by: Rachel Ann at July 09, 2004 05:55 AM (XcgK/)

28 nope can't be your first unless you wrote it and then left and came back... off to explore more...

Posted by: Rachel Ann at July 09, 2004 06:39 AM (XcgK/)

29 ZeroIntelligence.net was my fourth blog out of five. Three are currently active (Memeblog with Simongod is the other one). Three blogs. Am I a glutton for punishment or what?

Posted by: Jim at July 09, 2004 07:42 AM (IOwam)

30 Now the truth comes out. Jim is actually EVERYONE. jim is even me. Which begs the question as to why his back isn't hurting from all the house cleaning. 5 blogs!!! wow. (anyone knowwhat is up with blogrolling?)

Posted by: Rachel Ann at July 09, 2004 08:27 AM (XcgK/)

31 Ah, but my back is hurting! Spooky...

Posted by: Jim at July 09, 2004 09:19 AM (IOwam)

32 Excuse Mutton Screams Hannibal Lecter: And what did you see, Clarice? What did you see? Clarice Starling: Lambs. The lambs were screaming. Hannibal Lecter: They were slaughtering the spring lambs? Clarice Starling: And they were screaming. Hannibal Lecter: And you ran away? Clarice Starling: No. First I tried to free them. I-I opened the gate to their pen, but they wouldn't run. They just stood there, confused. They wouldn't run. Hannibal Lecter: But you could and you did, didn't you? Clarice Starling: Yes. I took one lamb, and I ran away as fast as I could. Hannibal Lecter: Where were you going, Clarice? Clarice Starling: I don't know. I didn't have any food, any water and it wasvery cold, very cold. I thought, I thought if I could save just one, but - he was so heavy. So heavy. I didn't get more than a few miles when the sheriff's car picked me up. The rancher was so angry he sent me to live at the Lutheran orphanage in Bozeman. I never saw the ranch again. Hannibal Lecter: What became of your lamb, Clarice? Clarice Starling: They killed him.

Posted by: John Hudock at July 09, 2004 06:11 PM (BZXAA)

33 OK, if I can get Helen to do to me half of what she does with Mr Y, then forget about that Altar. Otherwise Simongod will do nicely.

Posted by: Simon at July 11, 2004 06:27 AM (dVD1m)

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There are a bunch of new faces in the ol' blogroll. Some are shiny new and others are long overdue. I've been terribly lax about updating this thing. As recompense for my near-malicious negligence these newcomers get a special introduction here instead of the normal stealthy addition I typically use.

Bloviating Inanities - Sorry, Bill. This link should have been up there many moons ago. It got missed somehow (probably my subconcious at work).

It's All About De - DeAnna was one of my first readers and one of the first blogs on my blogroll. Somehow she got dropped (I think it was when we moved her to Munuviana). That's not really important right now. What's important is she just had a terrible loss. Would y'all take a minute to drop by her place and offer condolences? Thanks, I appreciate it.

Memeblog - Stay tuned for all of your meme needs. Hurry please, it's getting a bit weak from lack of participation.

New Blog Showcase - Now this one is going strong! This blog lets new bloggers showcase a bit of their best for the enjoyment of all.

Precinct 333 - Writen by Texas Teacher, a long-time commenter at my serious blog ZeroIntelligence.net. Well written and topical, poli/educational for the most part.

Random Penseés - Found from tracking back comments or maybe from the New Blog Showcase. Fantastic mad writing skillz. Talk about erudite - if I could write half as well...

Where the Dolphins Play - Found this one through Texas Teacher's blog. Hey, if a liberal writer can get on Precinct 333's blogroll that's good enough for me. Who am I kidding? Of course that's not enough for me. But after reading this for a couple weeks the Dolphin definitely passes the SBD Blogroll Getin On Challenge.

Willow Tree - I tracked back Rachel Ann from comments and then promptly forgot about her (gimme a break, I been distracted lately!). She politely reminded me and even went so far as to turn on her syndication feed just for me. You just can't beat service like that!

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1 Oh, my goodness. Thank you very much for your terribly kind words. I just stopped by to see what you were up to and found this. I'm a little surprised, but very grateful. Encouragement like this is rare but keeps me writing. I think I'm blushing. Thanks again!

Posted by: Random Penseur at July 08, 2004 04:21 PM (LlPKh)

2 Thank you J-Snooze

Posted by: DeAnna at July 08, 2004 07:36 PM (IdVP4)

3 You are the linkage king.

Posted by: Simon at July 09, 2004 12:25 AM (FUPxT)

4 RP - "terribly kind"; that's what I'm talking about! It's like Gevalia chocolate for the eyes. You're very welcome, DeAnna Thanks, Simon. I do try.

Posted by: Jim at July 09, 2004 05:40 AM (bmLWy)

5 Ok, now I will blush. Also, thanks for seconding my nomination over at mu.nu. I'm deeply appreciative!

Posted by: Random Penseur at July 09, 2004 11:54 AM (LlPKh)

6 Many thanks for the mention and the praise. I'm trying to getPrecinct 333 running with some serious hits before school starts, but two weeks of jury duty is putting a crimp in that.

Posted by: TexasTeacher at July 10, 2004 11:02 AM (B4xBC)

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The default submission email address for the Bestofme Symphony (bestofme@jpeacock.net) has been shut down. If you mail to it you'll get an auto reply saying that submissions can't be taken at that address anymore. Basically it's been getting to an unhandleable (is that a real word?) spam load (that sounds vaguely dirty, doesn't it? "spam load". i like it). It started getting viruses. Today it started receiving regular targeted attacks from an email server somewhere out there. It was past time to put that old submission address out of its misery.

From this point forward the submissions for a particular week will go to the email address that the host specifies. For this week they should go to gcruse at netscape dot com. The submission address will be sent out in the Bestofme Reminder mailings. I recommend that you join the list if you haven't already so you won't miss where to send your submissions.

Now for the really big announcement:

The Bestofme Symphony is Moving

This is unrelated to the item above. I've been too busy to give the Symphony the attention it deserves. I've neglected to get reminder emails out several times, most notably the past two weeks in a row. I've just got too much going on at the moment.

Fortunately for the Symphony (and all y'all) Gary Cruse has agreed to take custody. Y'all know Gary from his blog The Owner's Manual and from the many Symphonies that he has hosted. In fact, I think he's posted more than I have at this point.

I'll be cleaning up Symphony posts here to point over to Gary's place. Please help me to spread the word about the move as well as the new submission method.

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Due to the special holiday schedule (i.e. because your dumbass Symphony coordinator neglected yet again to put the reminder up) the Bestofme Symphony will be posted tomorrow instead of today.

Take advantage of this extra day to send in those submissions. Send them to bestofme@jpeacock.net and they'll be in Tomorrow's edition at WetWired.

The only requirements are that you think the post is good and that it be at least 2 months old. It doesn't even have to be from your own blog. It just can't get any simpler!

The basics of the Bestofme Symphony.
Want to host a Symphony?
Get reminder emails.

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