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One of the projects I worked on recently was the local water safety program. See, there are hundreds and hundreds of miles of aqueducting canals that make agriculture in this area possible. Each year, the local DWP (called the IID - Imperial Irrigation District) launches a big campaign to dissuade kids from swimming in the canals, since doing so often ends in death when the children experience currents much, much more intense and canal banks much, much steeper than they’d expected.

Starting this year, our office was tasked with devising and coordinating the annual water safety efforts. My role was to come up with the entire logo-and-theme package, plus develop a website, plus produce the images that would be used on billboards across the county all summer long.

I saw my first one on Friday:

From my humble li’l Photoshop file to a massive billboard… It made me feel good (even if this billboard appears to spring up out of a junkyard).

This made me smile (and, yes, giggle):

Britney

The patron saint of this site, Britney hates with unparallelled fervor.

Thanks for the link, Ames!

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1. Finale:: Angel
2. Martial arts:: academy
3. Flirt:: with danger
4. Energy:: bar
5. Flavor:: crystals (d’oh!)
6. Guess?:: Anna Nicole
7. Accomplishment:: proud
8. Prom:: date
9. Diploma:: on the wall
10. Bloody:: yarmulke (From Jon Stewart’s “Message From a Jew” - see the “more” link below)

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Okay…

So forumulating a list of Friday Five questions has proven not to be the quick thing I’d anticipated it being. Some topics that I might do at some future point:

• Design a Magic card (or five) to represent me
• Childhood memories: school, places I’ve lived, friends, etc.
• What five superpowers would I love to have?
• “Cast” a movie based on a book, comic, story, etc.

As you can see, I could clearly use some help in coming up with other themes.

Also, since the questions aren’t always going to number five, and since I might not always do them on Friday, I’m going to start calling these things memes.

Anyway, here are this week’s questions, pilfered from The Daily Dirt:

1. What is the word you know how to say in many different languages?
Thank you, grazie, gracias, merci, danke, domo arigato.

2. What is your favorite word to say?
onomatopoeia
(And, though it’s not a real word, strategery.)

3. What is the word you love to hear?
love

4. What is the word you are always embarassed to say?
Any of the too-many racial epithets. Even if I’m quoting something someone said, I still stumble and get real quiet if such a term comes up.

Don’t need ‘em; don’t use ‘em.

5. What is the word you’re constantly saying?
“Well…”

Oopsie. I just realized I forgot to come up with a Friday Five last week.

I have a few questions/topics in mind, but I’d still welcome any input that y’all care to share.

Comment away!

If you’re interested in the outcome of my Survivor plea to help Rupert get the dinero but didn’t get to see “America’s Tribal Council,” the outcome is below, hidden behind a cut tag for the benefit of anyone who plans to watch it later (courtesy videotape, Tivo, or whatever).

Drumroll please….

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Survivor: All Stars just ended last night, and for the first time ever, the producers are giving the audience members a say in who wins by granting the Survivor of the audience’s choice a second million-dollar payout.

I’m asking for your help in getting Rupert the moolah.

Head over to the Viewers’ Choice voting page and cast your vote, if you would, for Rupert.

I really hate them.

Over the last few days, I’ve had three different lowlifes spam the comments of my blog with their stupid fucking products. Hey shitheads: Knock it off!

I’ve deleted all the offending non-comments, but since I know that the sort of prick who would spam my li’l blog isn’t going to be the sort to heed my request (as angry as it may be) to stay away, I’ve been forced to enable comment moderation.

The only change you should notice is that your comments won’t automagically appear in the blog; I have to approve them first.

Feel free to continue to comment; I have no intention of censoring anyone other than the dumbass motherfucking pieces of shit who think that this is a great fucking venue for their “exciting commercial opportunities.”

The Friday Five is dead.
Long live the Friday Five!

I’ll be continuing the F5 tradition (well, the one where I write something, not the one where I flake), either with questions of my own or, hopefully, questions from my reading public. All three of you.

This week’s questions came from Amy, who writes,

No more Friday Five?
Well, we can’t have that!

Thanks, Ames! Here they are!

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