Or, having a firefighting college burn down.
Via Don Surber.
Archive for the ‘In the news’ Category
Carrying coal to Newcastle
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009Worried about your high school reunion?
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009Some people deal with the worry by deciding not to go. Some begin exercise programs to lose weight and shape up. This is the first time I can remember hearing of someone who hired a stripper to impersonate her and sent along a film crew.
Via the Jammy-wearing fool.
I never saw that movie …
Thursday, April 16th, 2009… but it turns out that Snakes on a Plane anticipated reality.
A Tree Grows in Sidorkin
Thursday, April 16th, 2009When I was a child, I heard playground tales that swallowing apple or orange seeds would cause a tree to grow in your stomach. After a while, I realized that those tales weren’t true.
Happy Easter
Sunday, April 12th, 2009
Small-town America
Saturday, April 11th, 2009Three quick items:
1) The town of Winfield, Missouri elected Henry Stonebraker to a fourth term as mayor – several weeks after his death. I wonder if he ran unopposed. If not, what does that say about his opponent?
2) In Lander, Wyoming, there is a parking lot on the west end of town where you can find the following three businesses: a pet boarding/grooming establishment, an animal hospital, and a taxidermy studio. I guess if the groomer slips with the shears, and the vet can’t save it, you don’t have to go far to find someone who can help you keep your pet around.
3) Buford, Wyoming, is probably the smallest incorporated town in the US. It used to be the county seat for Laramie county, but people moved away.
Miscellany
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009An assortment of links I’ve had hanging around and need to either use or forget:
Moe Lane thinks you must have a vampire problem if you have to deny that you have one.
Sexy maids. Not just for Halloween anymore (in Canada, anyway).
A couple of good cooking blogs are The Crepes of Wrath (love the name) and The Pioneer Woman.
Ruminations on work by Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs. I could probably have embedded the video here, but American Digest is worth the visit, anyway.
Some classic short stories and not-necessarily-classic music.
Bob Delaney’s Science Software.
Building a computerized security system? You may want one of these.
The Grand List of Console Role-Playing Game Cliches.
Need to generate a palette for a website?
Latin Quotes and Sayings (watch out for popups – Firefox blocks ’em for me, but lets me know they’re there).
Wanna see how you do solving math problems with a computer? Go here.
You may want to keep this in mind for the next Talk Like A Pirate Day.
And finally, somebody who’s been having fun with newspaper classified advertisements:
Update: One more story. Ladies, if you want to pick up a guy, don’t just hint about it. Come out and tell him directly. Reminds me of a button I used to have, which read, “Don’t just flirt, hit me with a clue-by-four.” I don’t know where that one disappeared to. I can’t find the one that reads, “Cooking is great – it’s a wonderful excuse to play with knives and fire,” either.
The Great Reunion
Thursday, March 26th, 2009Tuesday was the anniversary of the Great Escape, and several of the survivors are going to return to the site of Stalag Luft III to remember their companions. I’m sorry that I didn’t realize it in time. Paul Brickhill’s book is one of the first I can remember purchasing, and I’ve always been fond of the movie, even knowing some of its inaccuracies.
Consult the Book of Armaments
Thursday, March 19th, 2009Thou mayest avoid unnecessary panic.
I am woman, hear me … squeak?
Thursday, February 19th, 2009The feminist establishment has long been waging a war against men (after all, you have to work against an oppressor to become liberated, so men must oppressors if women need liberation), but it has now become absurd: Sigmund, Carl, and Alfred note the University of Connecticut police investigating an incident in which a man passed near a woman while walking down the street.
First of all, they were both walking on a public street. He passed within a few feet of her, but did not talk to her or make physical contact. What about the incident merits a police report? How does this woman expect to function if mere proximity to a male makes her call for the authorities?
Second, why wasn’t she laughed off by the authorities? He didn’t attack her, he didn’t follow her, he was just another pedestrian on the street. I’ve read about Driving While Black; this is Walking While Male, or maybe just Being Male.
She may have been afraid, but it sure doesn’t sound like he did anything illegal.