Whether you’re an adoptee, or gave someone up for adoption, or just have a ton of common sense, I would appreciate some advice.

I was talking to my younger sister and she brought up the names of some of the people we used to know in high school, and I did a google search on one I’ll call “Brenda Yarverver”. (The name is made up for reasons that will become obvious. This is going to sound like a Dear Abby letter or something, just giving you fair warning.)

I found an adoption site that mentioned Brenda Yarverver. The girl that posted it said she was looking for her birth mother, Brenda Yarverver. She said she was given up for adoption and wanted any information about Brenda.  All the details posted matched everything I knew about Brenda Yarverer, including her unique name and other information.

Here’s the sticky part: The last time I saw/heard from Brenda she was unwed, pregnant, doing drugs and involved in criminal fraud. As a matter of fact, that’s why I stopped associating with her because she seemed to be heading in a totally different direction than I.

So, do I email the girl and tell her, “Sorry, I don’t know much about your mom, the last time I saw her, she was asking me for money while high as a kite, pregnant with you and dating a man that had her using stolen credit cards?”

Is it better to leave her in the dark about her mother, or do you think she would rather know the truth? Personally, I can’t decide if I would rather know or not. What do you think?

I was going to write a humongous post about intellectual rights, but it’s Friday night and I try not to think hard on weekends. Watch this video and I may just get back to this subject on Monday, if I am still of the same mind:

Okay, maybe that poor skunk petting woman in Pennsylvania isn’t the only one that has problems identifying felines. I just wonder if the kind soul that made this poster ever managed to house break the “lost cat”?  (Click on thumbnail, then click it again for large image)

A woman in Pennsylvania received a smelly surprise when the neighbor’s cat she thought she was petting turned out to be a skunk! Not only did she get sprayed, but the skunk ran into her home and police officer were there for hours, trying to remove it. There’s no word on the condition of either the woman or the skunk, but I imagine both of them were quite surprised. Between you and me, I thought that things like this only happened in Warner Brothers cartoons. I mean, even if she overlooked the facial differences,  didn’t she notice other dissimilarities? If the fluffiness of the tail wasn’t a good clue, how about the big white stripe?  How could someone not know the difference between a cat and a polecat? Sacrebleu!

I just added a Daily Dilbert widget in my left column, so hopefully I’ll be able to keep up with it on a daily basis. I love Dilbert, but I tend to forget about Dilbert.com . Come to think of it, I also forgot about the DilBeriTO and was pleased to find out they may start marketing it again.

Recently, I was helping someone set up a blog, and they asked if they could skip using Askimet because they didn’t want their readers to have to wait for their comments to be approved. I told them that spammers could drown a blog with their spam attacks, but I thought I would also provide visual proof. Here’s a screen shot I just took:

Hydrox cookies are back for their 100th anniversary celebration and available for a limited time at your local grocery store. Personally, I would like to buy every pack in the metro Phoenix area and store them away for the future, but that probably wouldn’t be feasible right now, and besides, if I did that, then no one else in my area could discover their great taste and why they are far superior to Oreos. Don’t get me wrong, an Oreo isn’t horrible, and if you’ve never tasted a Hydrox, then you have no basis for comparison. However, many cookie purists maintain that Hydrox was the first of its kind on the market and Oreos are nothing but a cheap knockoff. Personally, I think that Hydrox do taste a lot better than Oreos, they seem to have a lot more chocolate flavor, while Oreos just seem to be sugar that’s colored to look like chocolate. Also, the Oreo filling seems like white sugary goo when compared to the Hydrox. Imo, the Oreo became more popular not because its a superior product, but because of superior marketing.

And yes, I know that Hydrox contains gluten, so I won’t be able to partake of them for now. I think that’s why I plan on stocking up on them so that I can indulge myself once I go off the gluten free diet. Then again, depending on their shelf life, maybe I’ll get a case of them for each person on my Christmas list this year.