the "Best" part of the State of the Union

was definitely when President George Dubble-ya Male Cheerleader Bush started talking about how we needed to take steps to ban "Human-Animal Hybrids"...wha? Thank god I listened, 'cause I was about to sink all my money into Centaurs...(btw, if you look up "centaurs" on google image search you get page after page of airbrushed she-centaurs wearing absolutely no tops straight from role-playing-fantasy world. Pretty Hilarious) Anyway, so last night after the speech I did laundry and got in a 2 1/2 hour long duel with Jen's computer-I was trying to get it to recognize this new digital camera, it was refusing...I did everything, uninstalled and reinstalled the software, changed the batteries, delved deep into the menus for every preference, option involving cameras & scanners, opened the computer to make sure something wasn't loose (this was the problem once when our monitor wouldn't work) finally, ended up going to the store to get a new connector cable, they didn't have it. I came home, defeated and pulled the cord out of the USB port on the back of the computer-then I looked at it, and blew into the cable, in this fashion that you use to nurse an ailing Nintendo cartridge back to life. Plugged in the cable, and lo and behold, pictures began transferring. Oldest trick in the book. I swear to god if you ever get something repaired all they do is breathe really heavily over every inch of it. Anyway, I got it all working so that I can bring incredible photographs like "Can...of Olympia" or "Corner of the apartment (Where the Lamp is)"