So I turned in my grades (yay!) and can now share my favorite picture story of the semester. Just amazing.

The multiple-Agent-Smith fight scene from “The Matrix,” cast with infantile canines, aka, puppies! See for yourself at Cute Overload.

Yes, I do take requests, whenever possible. And I'll be honest — this song scared the ess out of me. This recording is the second time I'd played it start-to-finish. The only edits I made on the recording was to take out the empty air before I started the song and after it was over.

In other notes, I recorded it last Friday and it nearly killed me to hold off on posting it until today. Dying to know what y'all think. Mwah! Happy Summer!

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The domain name I made up and somebody bought from me is called CoolOrTool.com. I thought up the name while watching an episode of “Little People, Big World,” because I can never decide whether Matt Roloff is cool or a tool. Thanks, Anand, for the thousand bucks I'll be receiving in the mail from escrow.com, and best of luck with your new domain name; I hope it makes you a lot more money than a thousand bucks!!!

In the meanwhile, I know that my clever little brain is worth at least a cool grand. And that's, well, cool!

Now that I know a little more about Garage Band, I've re-encoded the first New Music Wednesday tune to mp3, for your listening and iPod enjoyment. Bon appetit!

The Butte Humane Society earned second place in the Zootoo Shelter Makeover contest, and received $50,000 in prize money.

Nora was in the top 10 for the Fangoria Spooksmodel contest and though she didn't win, she did get to go to Los Angeles (which isn't a prize, in my opinion, but some people like it there) and made lots of valuable contacts.

Thanks, motormouthers, for voting!

Usually, I wait until a blog has been online for a month or two before adding it to my ever-so-exclusive blogroll. Not with this one. Randall Gamby is blogging about IT security and seeing as the guy holds super-maven-guru status on all things security related, I'll personally guarantee his blog will be a worthwhile read. Motormouth sez, “Check it out.”

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A card, smutty books, and free chocolate: sounds like a darn fine Mother's Day to me!

All I'm going to say about this is, this is a song of great social and political import, and I might have been half in the bag when I recorded it last night, because it just seemed right that way. Enjoy!