UtterlyBoring.com is produced by Jake Ortman (e-mail, resume), a 30-year-old dad, percussionist, freelance Web designer, consultant and jack-of-all-trades computer geek, living in Bend, Oregon. He created this so that his expensive journalism and technology degree isn't getting totally wasted. In addition to editing this site in his free time, he is the IT Director and Ad Designer at both Sunray and Discover Sunriver. He has LinkedIn, MySpace, Facebook profiles if you're trying to stalk him.
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If you're reading this, you have too much time on your hands.
I bit the bullet and added ClubRum to the list of mailing lists that I'm a paying supporter (currently, the Langa List is the other). The daily ClubRum mailings are a riot, and I'll certainly be renewing. Especially when these good ones come across the list:
I sure got a lot of strange looks, carrying a dead zebra, a rotting antelope and a suitcase full of rancid prairie dogs. That's the last time I try to board an airplane with more than two carrion items.
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I can think of no better reason to treat my fellow human beings with kindness than that the human condition is already fraught with so much suffering and injustice. I sure as hell hope someone else can think of a better one, though, or I'm gonna kick myself for being such a wimpy-ass do-gooder.
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I wish I had a dollar for every time I've woken up naked and hung over next to a monkey. Then I'd have a dollar *and* one helluva story to tell the grandkids.
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I had a dream that Britney Spears rubbed her breasts in my face and Jennifer Lopez gave me head while Salma Hayek sucked my toes and the Olsen twins videotaped everything. I would have kept dreaming it, too, if I hadn't set off the smoke detector.