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$800 dollars of used home goods have left the premises in a pick-up and a box truck.

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Trying to keep it fresh. If only a little bit at a time.

Regular visitors to petmystone.com hopefully have noted that the header image changes each time you visit a page.

I just uploaded two new ones. F5, or Refresh—however your browser of choice does that—and you will see the random rotation.

It’s subtle feature of petmystone.com that I hope brings you back, if only for the curiousity of what you might see up there next.

No, you can’t scroll “to see the rest of the picture”; it’s designed that way. To tease you. Hahahahaha...

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Could it be that an end to the Cuban embargo is nigh?

With the Communist dictator not so well, and Cuban’s already celebrating in the streets, it could be true.

I’m told that it could be a simple as Castro’s death, that the embargo would be lifted.

Good news restaurant goers, Kramer will longer have to import Guatemalans.

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If you have Google Earth, set your pointer to 33° 48'03" N 44° 30'48" E.

The satellite image was taken prior to the precision application of Tritonal.

Tritonal is a powerful explosive compound ideal for remodeling or for the targeted elimation of Islamic terrorists. Best results when applied with Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAMs) such as the GBU-12 and GBU-38. Laser designation of application site recommended. Do not apply in daylight.

Tritonal is not available in retail stores.

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The brain trust of nerdery at my employer has uncovered the announcement that Star Blazers has been greenlighted¹ for the silver screen. Okay, the pic is just in development looking for a writer, I may possibly be setting myself up for an endless string of turnaround² announcements, but the idea of a big screen treatment is worthy of a post to petmystone.com.

Star Blazers is a fantastic story of space adventure, one that could have only been told in animation and imagined by the Japanese.

Known for its epic imagery and themes of brave sacrifice and respect for heroes lost in the line of duty, Star Blazers is the U.S. name for 1970s Japanese anime TV series Space Battleship Yamato.

More from the Hollywood Reporter…

Your intrepid editor is stealing an idea from the creator of blojsom, the software behind petmystone.com (the idea? glad you asked).

Without further delay, here’s some of the more interesting search phrases that brought people to petmystone.com in February.

• sean culliney — We know Sean, but can't put you in touch, sorry.
• jimmy hendricks picture — Nothing to see here, move along please.
• aim icon hasselhoff — Maybe you can use one of these images for your icon.
• photo of me in curlers — I would hope you would have your own pictures of you in curlers, ’cause I ain’t sharing mine (the curlers or the photos).

"Blogging" is most certainly nothing new in 2006, or for 2005 (hitting it’s mainstream stride certainly last year and during the 2004 election).

But I fear that petmystone’s tightly focused audience of mostly family “may not get it.” What is blogging? Here’s a rather frank look at what a blog and blogging should be (#5 flew out the window a long time ago; don’t be shocked by the language, we’re all adults, I think).

So your editor/writer/code pimp will help. This will be a short series of posts about blogging, and maybe along the way, readers will learn a thing or two about the tools that aid in reading "blogs," be it their current web browser or a specialized blog tool

Lesson 1: Permalinks

If you have been illegally downloading music or surfing the web for any amount of time, you are familiar with the concept of a link (or more formally a hyperlink or anchor). Permalinks are nothing more than the same, a link. The purpose of a permalink to provide a “permanent” link—hence the name— back to a specific blog entry.

Each post’s title is a permalink on petmystone.com. Do you like a particular post or photo album? Click on the title. The link will take you to a specific page for that post. It’s a simple way of adding the page to your bookmarks too. Want more options? Right-click on the title for options like emailing the link to a friend.

Do-it-yourself (or homework)

1. Find the permalink for this entry. Click on it. Add the link to your bookmarks/favorites.
2. Right click on the title. What options are available? How could you send the link to a friend by email?

I’ll cover “comments and trackbacks” in Lesson 2.

My friends at Punch Apparel love their cheap beer (any yellow fizz water in a can), but do they love it this much?

I’ll protect the innocent, or guilty in this case, but the photo you see was taken in Mexico Beach, FL, c. ’91. The original polaroid shows 315 (316 with the one in hand) empty cans of the “Beast Azul”. That’s more than 13 cases (if your high school math is failing you).

I recall we quite literally cleared the shelves of “Beast Azul” in Mexico Beach.

I also recall being at the local beach bar where some local with a guitar and mike was playing beach favorites. A crowd of rowdy friends at the bar was yelling “Freebird” and “Jimmy” … as I recall the request was for Jimmy Hendricks, yet for some reason he kept playing Jimmy Buffet. Why? I may never know.

The petmystones got a new coffee maker for Christmas. While I might not be all that great at cutting crown molding, I can make coffee.

We like a full bodied brew, not strong by most measurements of strong, but it should look like coffee not tea, i.e., you should not be able to see the bottom of the mug.

I can report this morning that the coffee maker works as advertised, and very well at that.

My friends at Punch Apparel have compiled a list of the cheap beers. I guess this is good if you have a palette for them. While they left off Beast Azul and Beast Rojo, they note how PBR got it's name.

I'm confused by the PBR story. The author clearly got his information from PBR HQ. Yet Erik Larson in The Devil in the White City tells a different story on how PBR became the "blue ribbon beer"; Erik posits Pabst earned its "blue ribbon" at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. So who is right?