I just can't resist ...

I hate getting sucked into a television show but Hell's Kitchen has me hooked. My vote? Keith baby. He's calm under the gun, kinda dumb, tough to offend or piss off. Looks to be a perfect personality for the high intensity position of chef. We'll see.

"Say Lou, didya hear the one about the guy who couldn't afford personalized plates so he went and changed his name to J3L2404? "

--Marge Gunderson, Fargo
Ohio vanity plates I've seen driving the streets of Columbus (updated as I see 'em):

EQULIZR - my new neighbor, yikes, behemoth lexus
ITS ME OK - blue minivan
SWE PEA - what else, a green vw bug
MINI HUM - honda element
OPOSSUM - chevy tahoe
THAT CAR - a local!
MALIGLU* - artcar
TOYART* - artcar
PLAID* - artcar
ARTCART* - artcar
ARTGEKO* - artcar
OHCORN* - artcar
GENIUS - frugal, old toyota corolla
NVMYMPG - prius
CYNIC - coooool plate
ICE CREM - mini van filled with kids going to get ice cream no doubt
Y AMIN OH - don't know, i like it here
UR A RAMP - a hummer h2, should've read "i am a asshole"
U PRAY - nope, I don't
PZLPCE - puzzle piece, how cool is that?
TLC ASAP - er nurse?
MAN TO MAN - a manly man in a manly ford f-150, manly
OSU HART - my neighbor and apparent alum
I AM LONG - um ... a tall dude, i guess
LIV2EAT - beamer, very cool
LVDOGS - acura, dog lovers are simply better people than the rest
LAS LAF - a big ugly white thing that cut me off this morning on high
6 VOLTZ - blue minivan
LOWR CO2 - ford escape hybrid
GASSVR - toyota prius
IOPENIT - suv, unlocking service
OCRUSH - you guessed it, another vw bug (orange)
SUSPEND - scion xb
EBAY IT - white saturn vue
DTH EATR - so astounded by the plate, i don't remember the vehicle
DQ 4LIFE - suv, someone passionate about the chili dogs at dairy queen
7 BOYS - gmc, denali, the only justified use of an suv
ACME AIR - red honda element
PIERCED - pickup truck
LOK IT UP - tricked out honda
GRR8DAY - way too happy suv driver
MUSTARD - yellow chevy hhr
KATCHOO - a beater, license plate was the best part
INABOX - white scion xB, the one that looks like a box
MITY BUG - vw of course
IMG OF U - ford explorer, local business owner
BUCKEYZ - chevy van
LAMINAT - honda element
MOTHMAN - subaru, cousin of mothera
MACMOBL - vw golf, what is it about mac users and vw owners?
SPACEBUG* - an old vw beetle painted with holographic paint
GET FUN - mini cooper
JP SELLS - realtor in a stupid hummer h2
ION - as in accelerator, model was fast and slick
GOT EGGS - behemoth red ford f-350
MINI PIG - mini cooper
ZAMBONI - scion xb, the boxy ones that look like a zamboni
TAHOLLA - ford escape (means direction, way in finnish)
FAST LN 1 - red ford-f150 (race fan)
BUG CAR - what else, vw bug
AMBIGRM - chevy "art" car (very decorated)
POOPY - chevy
COMPANY - big, big chrysler
CHEVRE - chevy cavalier
ZM ZM ZM - miata (free advertising for them, thanks Jason)
GRNEYEZ - hyundai, oddly, NOT green

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It's better than Netflix

Columbus Metropolitan Library was rated by someone (?) as the best library in the nation. I'm not sure which organization gave this award, but it's certainly good enough for us. We just borrowed Supersize Me. It only took a few days on the waiting list and we were able to borrow it for 2 weeks! With a crazy wild kid running around, sometimes it takes 2 weeks to get 100 free minutes to watch a movie, so it worked out well. And the book selection hasn't failed us yet. And, the bonus ... it's next to Big Park. So, we can go whenever we want and Frankie can go nuts in the playground.

...and they even have a blog.

The beginning of a brilliant idea

Yesterday I took a day off to take Frankie to see large farm equipment at COSI.

In the afternoon, we stopped by Barnes and Noble to spend some time in the childrens' section. I wandered off a bit and noticed Frank Warren's PostSecret, the book. He's the creator of one of the most popular and simple sites on the web, PostSecret.com. I'm always fascinated how a site becomes popular (a conspicuously absent phenomena from the book Tipping Point). He said he took 3000 blank postcards with instructions and left them around galleries and inserted into them into library books. Then, it took off. The book said he's received over 10,000 postcard confessions. This guy is my current idol. Simple idea and it gives so many an outlet. The site's updated weekly and is definitely worth a visit.