A high-tech machine used to sniff out explosives has been sitting idle at a Lambert Field checkpoint since June because airport and security officials disagreed on where to put it.
Tonight, it will be disassembled and put in storage.

…Lambert’s unit, which never has been plugged in, is the only one being mothballed.
So, all clear for your [...]

What a weekend that was! It’s hard to believe it’s really been 24 years since the last time the Cardinals won the World Series; it seems like we’re in the running at least as often as Nader. Fans were out in the streets banging pots and pans; everybody I knew called everybody else I knew; [...]

I have let a lot of fun stuff go this week for the sake of tone.

So, that’s over. I miss the arbitrary.

-Google has launched Google Alerts, which notifies you when new mentions of things you care about are on sites you care about, or blogs, or the news, or whatever. I approve. Link
Seriously, this is one of the many excellent features that Google offers to keep you busy online while they slowly take over the world [...]

It really did just eat that whole goddamn thing.
Gahhh.

Ach!
It just erased my day 6 post!
It’s gone. It was so long, too. It was probably the best one ever.
Oh, that is f***ing depressing. I have to rewrite that whole goddamn thing?
No. Not today. I’ll try that again tomorrow.

Yay for a town full of happy people, first of all. The Cardinals have won the world series, and for the first time all day people aren’t honking their horns in frustration. People are out on their lawns banging pots and pans; fireworks are going off; New Year’s Eve has spontaneously broken out. I wish [...]

10/29/06: Daylight Savings Time ends, and your time becomes standard again. Spend wisely all the daylight you have saved. Spend an extra hour of it on sleep while you can, or join me for an extra midnight hour of “X-Men: Legends,” which will eventually steal all the daylight I have if I don’t beat it [...]

Do you have any idea how many more hits this site has gotten since I linked to that Google Bl*g and snarked about it? I’m linking to that thing every day from now on.
“Google added a new feature to Google Maps today. I approve. Link“

-Yay for people who would pay hundreds of dollars for tickets to something that can be rained out. I admire and aspire to both your optimism and your wealth.
-Yay for the people behind the reporter who see they’re on the news and immediately turn into chimpanzees. Now I know that we are #1.
A few months [...]

Slow motion water balloon!

On Jan 1, 1600, the human population was 536,870,911. If the first vampire came into existence that day and bit one person a month, there would have been two vampires by Feb. 1, 1600. A month later there would have been four, and so on. In just two-and-a-half years the original human population would all [...]

-Sean Hannity is really hanging in there with the “Michael J. Fox just acts afflicted for ads” angle. For the record, Fox’s erratic movement in the ad is a result of taking Parkinson’s medication, not going off it. So add that to your list of things Rush Limbaugh knows nothing about.
-Google.com doesn’t want you to use ‘Google’ as [...]

I am not a Superman fan; I have been fairly clear about this. No flaws, no conflicts, no ambiguities, not a single trait that makes me relate to or root for him. Every time he’s facing down a “bad guy,” it’s inevitably some poor shlub who’s just trying to take over Cleveland like you or [...]

-Iraqi TV has its own Daily Show now, a nightly program called “Hurry Up, He’s Dead” on which a man dressed like Bootsy Collins reads the day’s news.
-My friends in Zombie Squad are now a part of Wikipedia canon. I’m not in Zombie Squad, but I am so happy it exists. It’s a great/hilarious organization [...]

It is easy to poke fun– obviously– but opening yourself and your own interests and beliefs up to the kind of mockery I usually dish out here is a whole ‘nother matter. You spend enough time snarking, and before you know it you’ve spent ten years online cultivating the image of a bitter old crank without any [...]

If you’re going to make a movie poster out of an image everyone has seen, why doctor it? Isn’t the nudity an essential component of the original image’s point? I didn’t take art appreciation.”We’re a’gonna twangily rage against the machine! Safely. Please love us.”
Speaking of celebrities, image, politics, and offending me: Parkinson’s sufferer Michael J. [...]

The new 100 ounce Wehrenbarrel is now available at the movie theater chain throughout the St. Louis area. The 100 ounce drink holder was designed to celebrate the theater chain’s 100th anniversary and is reportedly the only theater company nationwide selling the size. The Wehrenbarrel sells for $8.00 filled with your favorite soft drink. (UPI [...]

Chuck Berry is celebrating his 80th birthday tonight with a big concert. I can all but see the venue from my front porch, and tickets were probably about $20.
Why did I not go?
Is it because he’s been a filthy old man for as long as I’ve been alive? Is it because we saw him a [...]

A lot of people will really lose their minds when you describe something nuclear as “nookyoolar.” Sometimes it bugs me– like when the speaker actually owns and operates nookyoolar weapons– but that’s one I’m usually able to get past.
My dad and I get together sometimes after work to grab a bite and gab like two [...]