March 29, 2004
Update and More
And just to offer a little more for your interest, I offer this. It is an interesting site detailing campaign financing, via slashdot.
November 18, 2003
It's The Word of The Day
I missed it last Thursday but I will report it now. Obfuscate was Dictionary.com's Word Of The Day last Thursday.
So for those of you confused by the title of this blog you don't even have to take the time and energy to look up its meaning. Just click on the link above.
November 14, 2003
When A Man Becomes A Women to Become a Gold Medalist
Hmmm...
I just don't have the time or even the words to talk about this. I mean what can you say? This probably means that there will be a rush on sex changes for mediocre male athletes. If you just can't make it as a man, why not try as a women.
October 24, 2003
Anyone Have $845,000 To Spare?
If you have that kind of money, please share. I want this.
First Mr. Africa is a white male dressed as a bullfighter!
The title says it all. But if you want to know what the heck I'm talking about, go here.
August 27, 2003
More Frivolous News
I just don't have the time or patience right now to make any real posts, so I just continue in my job of reporting the random news that I run across while mindlessly surfing the net to avoid doing real work. So here is the daily take.
The minor league baseball Pacific Coast League suspended every player, but one, from the Portland Beavers for chasing a fan through the stands and then beating him. What was the one guy doing while the rest of the team was fighting?
On Father's Day in 1997 the Charleston RiverDogs were going to give away free vasectomies at the game. The event was cancelled because of complaints.
This is funny because we have all seen those stupid and confusing warnings and symbols on every bit of packaging that we receive.
August 25, 2003
Paying More for Matching Limbs
In an act of incredible insensitivity a black women who is to undergo a foot amputation was told that she would have to take a white prosthetic because black ones were more expensive. Once again I'm not even going to attempt to comment on this.
Stealing Jesus
I'm not even going to comment on this. There just isn't anything that I can say.
More Disturbing Ways To Die
Now to add to the growing list of disturbing ways to die. (Maybe I should create a category for these). A Cambodian teen died when a fish that he had caught jumped in his mouth and suffocated him. Somewhere a PETA member is thinking, "serves him right for thinking that he is better than the fish."
August 19, 2003
And While We're All Still Disturbed...
And on that same disturbing note of freak accidents, a man was killed when his hair got caught by a roller coaster that he owned at Paradise Amusements in Idaho. Passangers of the ride watched as he was carried 40 feet in the air by the train, scalped, and then dropped on his back on a fence that ultimately killed him. There are going to be some therapists working overtime some time soon.
Stuck In An Elevator With A Headless Man
This is terrible. Can you imagine being stuck in an elevator for 20 minutes with someone who had just been decapitated? What are you thinking about while you are waiting for them to get you out? I don't think it would be about lunch. I don't think that I will rush to get on an elevator any more.
"Elevators and escalators kill about 30 and injure about 17,100 people each year in the United States." What? 30 people dead and more than 17,000 injured. I didn't realize that these things were so dangerous.
August 18, 2003
This Is Your Brain on Drugs
Once again Ozzy Osbourne proved himself to be the poster child for why not to fry your brain with drugs. In the time-honored tradition of the Chicago Cubs having celebrities lead the singing of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" during the seventh-inning stretch, Ozzy Osbourne was invited to lead the song yesterday. Needless to say Ozzy has spent most of his life destroying his brain and there is not much left. Listen to the results.
[I don't know if this is legal but I recorded this from ESPN Radio because I couldn't find it anywhere else. If someone knows that it is illegal I will remove it. The quality is also not the greatest because it is recorded in this way and at one point you will hear laughing, which is the hosts of the show laughing at Ozzy].
Continue reading to sing along with Ozzy.
One, two, three, and ... let's go out to the ballgame, let's go out to the hghdfh, take me hdsgd areng tdgu, I don't remember what I have to do, ragh garef rata da ra rame, adu dda da dgd ddf, dor eag rea, two, three strikes your out at the ol ball game. Yaaaaayy! [Now let's get some runs]. Yeah let's get some runs, c'mon.
August 12, 2003
Magic Toilets
I have several friends that all but refuse to use public restrooms because of the germs. If they are forced to use such facilities they will basically wrap their hands in paper towels so that the germs on everything that they touch will not be passed to their skin. Well it looks like the Japanese have invented one part of the solution to this problem, Toto. With the combination of faucets that turn on automatically and doors that open automatically you might not have to worry about picking up the germs from every disgusting person that never learned to wash their hands. You might just be able to stop at that gas station and feel cleaner in the bathroom than out behind the tree.
August 11, 2003
Another Reason to Love The 700 Club
Did you know that almost every disaster that has taken place on American soil can be directly related to a pending U.S. foreign policy decision that would lean in favor of the Palestinians? Well, if you don't know then you haven't been paying attention. You need some education so read this article. I'm glad they pointed this out to me. I was missing the obvious meaning of these signs of God.
[If you don't know me and you missed the dripping sarcasm go back and reread this post with the appropriate inflection in your mental voice.]
August 07, 2003
And Another One Enters the Race
And adding his names to the list of crackpots running for Governor in California ... Gary Coleman. The choices just keep getting better. Also officially announcing his intentions, on the Jay Leno show, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
July 18, 2003
This is Sad
I don't really know how to respond to this. A 15 year old, 308 pound sumo wrestler died in Japan. It is sad that someone would be that big at all, especially at that age. It is awful that he would die as a direct result of the stress that his weight put on his heart.
July 11, 2003
Stonehenge
I'm glad we finally know why Stonehenge was built. I've always wanted to visit Stonehenge, but with this description I'm not quite sure I want to visit any more.
July 09, 2003
Antigravity
This is very cool. I told you that 1984 is getting closer every minute. Something about this really fascinates me.
Privacy
For all you conspiracy theorists/personal privacy nuts out there, it looks like you have one more thing to worry about. It seems that 100 retailers have joined together to research and develop a system to replace the familiar UPC barcodes that are so ubiquitous. The catch is that this new system will use tiny computer chips and antennae to broadcast information about the product to whoever wants to know. The stated purpose of this is to alert the retailer to important information about the product and make checkout easier. However there are a plethora of privacy issues to consider as well. Chief among these is what is to stop someone from using the merchandise that you purchased to spy on you?
I think that privacy issues are really going to be coming to the forefront even more in the next several years. These issues have been in the forefront for techie types for a while, but I have a feeling that it is really going to come to the attention of the average person in the next couple of years. It feels like 1984 is getting closer every day.