- The Reno News and Review has audaciously suggested that people can be religious and non-conservative simultaneously. I don’t know where they got their information, but the article attempts to share the news with the Democratic Party, whoever that may be. I think they’re that softball team running for president. Anyway, the article linked above […]
Monthly Archive August 2003
Indulge me for a moment:
One of the perks of my job is that I’m in a unique position to track down a nugget or two of local folklore, usually learning something and very occasionally letting the hot air out of some nonsense. I have always loved debunking urban myths, or as it is known by […]
1. I am thinking of making this the background on this page. Then we’ll see who’s color blind.
1. Someone go here immediately and reassure me that I actually saw it.
The bassist from Phish was arrested! He took a nine-year-old girl to “a secluded area” and took… pictures of her. As a critical news reader, I would say that last bit is missing at least one crucial adjective, wouldn’t you? The parents have already issued a statement calling the whole thing a misunderstanding… I […]
Someone showed me this Friday, and I nearly wept with laughter and embarrassment: this is an ad for my very first computer.
Yeah, that’s right! 128 KB of memory, and a 16-bit processor. (Take that, Nintendo of 1985!) It runs cartridge programs, and it only weighs as much as a refrigerator. For a mere $1000, how […]
When I was in college, a woman was killed in my neighborhood.
(”My neighborhood,” the one I live in now, not “my neighborhood,” the one I lived in in college. As I remember my college neighborhood, the bodies were stacked like cordwood, waiting to be picked up out on the curbs along the block. My junior […]
My frustration with trolls briefly claimed the life of phobia earlier this week. It was not so much a hate crime as it was a crime of passion. Over at Trevis’ site, one of the more irritating users gave himself a cute new little secret identity and started with the anonymous bigotry and picking fights […]
America Suffers Power Outage; Iraqis Say, “Yeah, Sucks, Doesn’t It?”
This morning, though few may have noticed it, a power outage robbed the web of this… thing for several hours. This was probably a minor speed bump in most people’s days, but without those links on the left side of the page I am lost. The workday’s just not the same with nothing but work […]
“Let’s remodel the zoo!” they said. “Let’s make it look like Jurassic Park, with lots of open air and fewer big fences!” they said.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Officials at the St. Louis Zoo were taking steps Thursday to modify a cheetah yard after one of the big cats was able to escape.
The 3-year-old female, […]
So obviously, the color scheme is new. Route all complaints through the “suggestion box” topic to your right.
I like it, myself, but I am often gently reminded that my taste cannot be trusted. If nothing else, it certainly screams “me” to me.
Unfortunately, I sent the style sheet off to be uploaded and then promptly forgot […]
James is the #1 most common male name.
3.318% of men in the US are named James.
Around 4,064,550 US men are named James!
-some unverified facts from the good people at http://www.namestatistics.com/
(Apparently, 1250 Americans share my last name. I can think of five of them. I’m afraid I’m going to need to see that […]
A woman came into the research center on Friday, apparently looking for our help on some project she was working on.
“Excuse me,” she said to the librarian working at the research desk, “I’m interested in your materials on Lewis and Clark. I came to look at the photographs from the expedition.”
“The photographs… taken by Lewis […]
I’ve wanted to do that since the day Ryan got me this friggin’ application. Let the visual assault begin!
I have just read that Jessica Lynch’s family has mulled over a variety of offers to tell her compelling, courageous, inspiring story of one woman’s struggle to get lost and then shot. They have apparently settled on a book deal. I’m not sure what approach they plan to take, but I believe its tentative title […]
…Eddie Silva’s article about the State Fair in today’s Post-Dispatch is some of the most snide, pretentious, condescending shit I’ve read in a long, long time. “Enjoy your Hank Williams Jr. from the Poultry Barn, you backwater mouth-breathers. I am a hip urban sophisticate, and there’s espresso to drink. Felliniesque espresso. I mean, I’m from […]
One of us… one of us…!
Millions doing away with their landline phones
My building is like a halfway house for the inexplicably askew.
By now many of you are familiar with Volkswagen Driver and the madness that swirls around him. He’s like Kramer, but with heads in his fridge. You’ve seen him. The way he sometimes roams the hall in a pair of running shorts and long, white […]
BERLIN (Reuters) - German police have arrested a man for firing potatoes at passers-by with a home-made bazooka, authorities in the western city of Essen say.
“It was like a bazooka that fired potatoes,” a spokesman for police in Essen said on Friday. “Jolly dangerous from close range.”
Police said the weapon consisted of about 1.5 metres […]
Beware the wrath of the Motor City Madman!:
(Springfield-AP) - Ted Nugent says Governor Rod Blagojevich
(bluh-GOY’-uh-vitch) is more than welcome to visit the rocker
backstage before his performance at the Illinois State Fair.
In fact, the gun-rights advocate known for the hit tune “Cat
Scratch Fever” is itching to tell Blagojevich how much he dislikes
Illinois’ gun laws.
Nugent says his […]