The Red Light Camera near us
Thursday, July 31st, 2008 Posted in Odds & Ends | No Comments »A few people I know have been ticketed via a red light camera at a local busy intersection. The camera is only focused on the right hand turn lane and busts people for not coming to a complete stop on ...
Prince Charles Awesome "Oops"
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Prince Charles met a woman at a high class polo tournament at the sort of place where the royalty hangs out. They chatted and it turned out that she was a dancer. According the Prince Chuck, Prince Harry "loves a ...
THIS GUY can’t stand being caged?
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »I resisted writing about the Hungarian crazy man that abducted his daughter and force kept her in a super bunker under his house while fathering several kids with her. I resisted because it was so foul that I didn't want ...
My Mom’s Quran
Monday, July 28th, 2008 Posted in Odds & Ends | No Comments »Last weekend while I was doing yardwork at my mom's, she stopped to tell me something. She had a look of concern on her face, so I was a little concerned right away too. She said "Did I show you ...
I’m a Sextillionaire!
Friday, July 25th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »In Zimbabwe, I'm a Sextillionaire. That's a 1 followed by 21 0's or 1,000,000,000,000,000 000 000. I like the sound of that, but if it is in Zimbabwean dollars, it doesn't mean a thing. The current inflation rate there is ...
World’s Oldest Bible Goes Online
Friday, July 25th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Apparently there's a version of the bible that written in the 4th century and was discovered in the mid-19th century and has been stored and preserved in museums and libraries ever since. The book has a very interesting history and ...
10x too little and 10+ years too late
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in Odds & Ends | No Comments »In 1989, the Exxon Valdez, with a very drunk captain and other drunk crew members, hit a reef in the Prince William Sound of Alaska. The resulting 10 million gallon crude oil spill is one of the largest in the history ...
World’s largest crab
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »Some schmoes in the UK were diving at a shipwreck and found a huge crab. The news article said "It weighed 17lb and had a shell width of 12in while each of its massive claws was as big as a ...
Don’t leave pressurized <anything> in your car
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in Odds & Ends | No Comments »One of the guys I work with grabbed a can or pressurized air to take home to clean his home computer. He put it in his car at lunchtime. When he left for the day he found that the can ...