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It’s been a while since I’ve done this… but let’s play the Friday 5!

1. When was the last time you had a needle stuck into you? Monday night. I was having to use a needle to get a splinter out of Brandon’s hand. To try and convince him that it wouldn’t hurt, I stuck the needle up under the top layer of skin on my hand (like you used to do in elementary school).

2. Who among your friends is the easiest target for needling? My hero, Andy.

3. What’s something you can confidently do with a needle and thread? Sew on a button.

4. About how many phonograph records do you have in your home, and when’s the last time you dropped a needle on one? Total guess: about 25, all in storage boxes. I haven’t listened to one since probably 1992.

5. Someone told us the other day about someone at a party using a flavor injector to spike a watermelon with vodka. Is this brilliant or is this stupid? As opposed to cutting a chunk out of it… brilliant.

Brian’s deli.cio.us links for May 8th:

• HOWTO: Make a hidden storage disk! - James Bond Cool.

…as Shakespeare would have penned it:

Vincent: And know’st thou what the French name cottage pie?
Julius: Say they not cottage pie, in their own tongue?
Vincent: But nay, their tongues, for speech and taste alike
Are strange to ours, with their own history:
Gaul knoweth not a cottage from a house.
Julius: What say they then, pray?
Vincent: Hachis Parmentier.
Julius: Hachis Parmentier! What name they cream?
Vincent: Cream is but cream, only they say la crème.
Julius: What do they name black pudding?
Vincent: I know not;
I visited no inn where’t could be bought.

(Scene 2.2. I also recommend Scene 33.2)

My friend, Wes, is going on a Mission trip to Venezuela on May 13th. He’s put up a special blog for a limited time. He’s posting one-sentence prayer requests leading up to the trip, and will try to update it while he’s away.

If you’ve got a few minutes, pop over and lift him, his family, and the trip up in prayer. Thanks.

Brian’s deli.cio.us links for May 7th:

• $8,600 Craftsman 1470 piece tool set: your house is doomed - Father’s Day is just around the corner.
• Frustrated Massachusetts drivers try to sell their gas-guzzlers - Did anyone *not* see this coming?

I received a newsletter from Woot today. 5 of the last 6 times that I received a newsletter, Woot held a Woot-Off on the following Thursday and Friday.

It might be worthwhile to stay up until midnight CST tonight.

…to Dirty Jobs.

Mike Rowe, you’ve come a long way.

Birmingham’s Mountain Brook Inn was demolished today.

It closed several years ago. When I used to work on LakeShore Drive, we would frequent their restaurant. They had one of the absolute best buffets in Birmingham.

(HT: LeadingZero).

Well, well… My “Economic Incentive” showed up today. I wonder whose economy I need to go stimulate??

So, if you were going to fight the depletion of forests around the world, what would you do?

Raise and/or Donate money?
Give a speech?
Have your Chest Waxed?

Wow… Hope Chewbacca doesn’t hear about this.