27
Apr
sumotori
Funniest thing I’ve seen in a long time. Apparently it’s also/really a game, but the video is wonderful by itself.
Archive for April, 2007
27
Apr
27
Apr
the new car
C’s driving it home from ‘bama as I type. I dropped her off, signed a slip of paper, and left. I can’t stand that scene; every time I speak to a car salesman, another piece of me dies.
I did look inside it and watched it get turned on. It’s a Prius. It will be the first car I’ve ever owned that, when sitting in the driver’s seat, it’s not immediately obvious how to make it go.
23
Apr
Jury nullification
Jury nullification - Wikipedia
Jury nullification is a de facto power of the jury, and is not normally disclosed to jurors by the system when they are instructed as to rights and duties.
This totally changes how I’ll behave if I’m ever on a jury. Not that I’d tell the judge that.
23
Apr
the wonders of battery backup
Last week I shrewdly bought an APC power supply with an extra battery attachment for the oncoming hurricane season. It’s that thing above. Right now, for some reason, our house is without power. Has been for about 15 minutes. Yet here I am, posting a post on my blog. In fact, I could post even more posts; I could do it for another, let’s see… 173 minutes.
I win!
20
Apr
motherfucker turned white as a ghost
“The world has stopped revolving around you, Mr President.”
“You’ve got to be shitting me, Condi.”
“I am absolutely not shitting you, sir. Have another helping of whatever it is motherfuckers are eating these days.”
14
Apr
Live birdies!
A remote cam 70 feet in the air in Maine watches birdies sit and tweet and occasionally fly off. Baby birdies are in there, too; at least one was borneded this week.
12
Apr
Vonnegut
Author Kurt Vonnegut dies at 84 - CNN.com
“I will say anything to be funny, often in the most horrible situations,” Vonnegut once told a gathering of psychiatrists, according to the AP.
Smoking kills. You at 84.
01
Apr
Que Ser
Draft of climate report maps out ‘highway to extinction’ - CNN.com
“The worst stuff is not going to happen because we can’t be that stupid,” said Harvard University oceanographer James McCarthy, who was a top author of the 2001 version of this report. “Not that I think the projections aren’t that good, but because we can’t be that stupid.”
Oh, I beg to differ, perfesser. We can easily be that stupid. The question is whether or not we’ll get lucky.
