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Hey kids. Here is the next exciting installment of "A Moment with Rufus", the web-video series produced exclusively by Kane, from cooler than aquaman.

In case you missed any of the other installments, I’ve set up a page on the blog that archives the episodes and provides some information about this exciting and popular web series.

Make sure you keep coming back to cooler than aquaman, as this will be the first place to get to watch the next episode.

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Okay. So here’s the deal. Here is an article about a woman fighting a family to receive her husbands pension… very sad story, true. And I am a horrible person for finding comedy in the story. But it MUST be noted.

Let’s take a look at the quotes. Then I will share my thoughts.

Prior’s parents do not think his then-fiancee Doreen Noone should be entitled to half the $75,000 annual pension…

…The Priors concede that the young couple was engaged, with a wedding date set for July 12, 2002, an $8,000 ring on Noone’s finger and contracts in place for a photographer, a church and a reception.

But the parents have accused Noone of lying to the Fire Department that the pair lived together, so that she might have a better shot at winning the $37,600 annual payout from the pension board. …

…Noone is now engaged to Prior’s best friend, a police officer.

Does anyone else here see what I am getting at…?

The fiance’s name is NOONE… as in NO ONE! I am reminded of a little passage in Homer’s "The Oddyssey" (or was it the Iliad), where Odyssesus gets out of trouble with the cyclops by telling him that his name is "Nobody", or something like that.

So basically, the parents think that Noone shouldn’t get the money. and that’s NOT a double negative. HA!

And Noone is sickened by the fight. No one is. I’d be sickened by the fight.

The parents have accused Noone of lying to the Fire Department. How do you explain that on the phone. "Who lied?" "No one." " Then what’s the problem?" "SHE LIED!" "WHO??!!" "NO ONE!" It’s like Abbot and Costello.

Noone was almost married to Kevin Prior. Seems like a closed case to me. The parents get the money, cuz Kevin was never engaged. He never was even almost married.

Though if the parent’s DO concede, I suppose that means the money would go to … wait for it… NO ONE! HA!

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It also must be noted, that KYLE notes that the man’s name was PRIOR. As in before, so we are talking about the Prior relationship, since NoOne is now engaged to someone else, the prior boyfriend’s best friend. Does your brain hurt?

Link: Gothamist: Money Fight Between 9/11 Victim’s Parents and Ex-Fiancee

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Here is a FASCINATING Rube Goldberg device. You know, like the game Mousetrap?  This one is really elaborate, and definitely worth looking at.

My only concern is… WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT TO A CREAM EGG??? THE HORROR! SUCH WASTE!

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Remember those really cool photomosaics that were all the rage a few years back? You know, the pictures of famous movie or cartoon characters or scenes of the beach or whatever that looked fine from far away, but when you got closer, you noticed that the pixels of the photo were actually made up of several tiny pictures. I used to think those were some darn cool things, especially the Disney ones. Like, you’d have a picture of Mickey Mouse, made of hundreds of tiny pictures of Mickey Mouse.

NickyNax found a program for the MAC that can do that for you.

[I] stumbled across a program called MacOSaiX that makes photo mosaics for you. You just tell it what picture you want the final product to look like and what pictures to use in the mosaic and it does all the work itself while you sit back and watch. It was quite fascinating to watch as the pieces fell into place and the final image began to emerge.

He took a picture of himself from a recent cruise vacation, and using 1600 pictures from that cruise, made a mosaic. Here’s the starter picture:

And check out the result after the jump.

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Okay. Well, it has nothing to do with Mother’s Day. And it is well after Mother’s Day. But this CAN’T WAIT for Father’s Day.

BoingBoing directs us to probably the creepiest use of photo shop ever…

 
More where that came from:
ManBabies.com

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I’ve been away for a bit… workin on mah tan… its not workin out very well…

Had some time, thought I’d update ya with whats been goin on.

Prolly won’t check back for awhile… back to vacation!

Nar 08.

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May the Fourth!

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Time to confess another obsession. I love pictures of cats. lolcats especially. I even made one once.

I am also obsessed with those commercials that are on late at night featuring Wilford Brimley.

Well, imagine my joy when I came across this:

Just fantastic!

And wait… theres more. Check out the link below. There’s not one, not two… but FIVE CATS that look like Wilford Brimley. DELIGHTFUL!

5 Cats that Look Like Wilford Brimley | Gato Island

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