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Thursday, September 01, 2011
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Saturday, August 27, 2011
Koalas Asking For Water
At 120 degrees, it was so hot in Australia that Koalas were asking people for water, something that's never been seen before.
One Koala entered someone’s house, looking for water and shade, and here’s what happened when the owner gave him something to drink.
Then it bit her face off !
Hurricane Irene Preparedness
ATTENTION: As Hurricane Irene batters the East Coast, federal disaster officials warned that Internet outages could force people to interact with other people for the first time in years. Residents braced themselves for the horror of awkward silences and unwanted eye contact. FEMA advised: “Be prepared. Write down possible topics to talk about in advance. Sports...the weather. Remember, a conversation is basically a series of Facebook updates strung together.”
Hat Tip: Paul Littrell
The Sentinel
WASHINGTON - As Hurricane Irene barrels her way toward the mid-Atlantic and up the East Coast, members of The Old Guard continue their vigilance at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
While on duty the Tomb Sentinel crosses a 63-foot rubber surfaced walkway in exactly 21 steps. He then faces the Tomb for 21 seconds, turns again, and pauses an additional 21 seconds before retracing his steps.
The 21 is symbolic of the highest salute according to dignitaries in military and state ceremonies.
Members of The Old Guard have guarded the Tomb every second, of every day regardless of weather or holidays since April 6, 1948.
Hat Tip: Dave In Texas
They are soldiers from the 3rd Infantry Regiment, based as Ft. Meyer.
They are charged with the guard of the Tomb of the Unknowns. In a hurricane, in a downpour. In whatever comes their way. They don't care.
Thursday, August 25, 2011
The Hindenburg Disaster
It's practically standing still now they've dropped ropes out of the nose of the ship; and (uh) they've been taken ahold of down on the field by a number of men. It's starting to rain again; it's... the rain had (uh) slacked up a little bit. The back motors of the ship are just holding it (uh) just enough to keep it from...It's burst into flames! It's burst into flames and it's falling it's crashing! Watch it; watch it! Get out of the way; Get out of the way! Get this, Charlie; get this, Charlie! It's fire... and it's crashing! It's crashing terrible! Oh, my! Get out of the way, please! It's burning and bursting into flames and the... and it's falling on the mooring mast. And all the folks agree that this is terrible; this is the one of the worst catastrophes in the world. [indecipherable] its flames... Crashing, oh! Four- or five-hundred feet into the sky and it... it's a terrific crash, ladies and gentlemen. It's smoke, and it's in flames now; and the frame is crashing to the ground, not quite to the mooring mast. Oh, the huge manatee! And all the passengers screaming around here. I told you; it—I can't even talk to people, their friends are out there! Ah! It's... it... it's a... ah! I... I can't talk, ladies and gentlemen. Honest: it's just laying there, mass of smoking wreckage. Ah! And everybody can hardly breathe and talk and the screaming. Lady, I... I... I'm sorry. Honest: I... I can hardly breathe. I... I'm going to step inside, where I cannot see it. Charlie, that's terrible. Ah, ah... I can't. Listen, folks; I... I'm gonna have to stop for a minute because [indecipherable] I've lost my voice. This is the worst thing I've ever witnessed.
— Herbert Morrison, describing the events, as transcribed for broadcast by WLS radio.
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Friday, August 19, 2011
Friday, August 12, 2011
Happy Birthday PC !
The IBM PC is 30 today.
My first had TWO 360K floppy drives, 512 MB of RAM, CGA graphics adapter with a Monochrome monitor running MS-DOS 2.11.
Saturday, August 06, 2011
Friday, August 05, 2011
Tuesday, August 02, 2011
All Is Not Lost
Open the link using Google Chrome
When it loads it will start a dozen copies of Google Chrome. Don't worry, it is part of the show. It cleans them all up when it's done. Truly amazing :-D
Monday, August 01, 2011
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Government Commercials
So with all the monetary problems our country is having; why am I still hearing commercials on the radio telling me to be a good dad and how girls lose interest in science paid for by the government ? Really ? These are essential ?
Ambulance Runs
At least once a day an ambulance runs down Keeaumoku Street past where I work to Ala Moana Center. A good number of days there's more than one run. Wouldn't it be better to just have EMT staff there and save the time ?
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Friday, July 22, 2011
The Miracle Cure ?
It's BACON !
A bacon sandwich really does cure a hangover - by boosting the level of amines which clear the head, scientists have found.Hat Tip: Truman North
Researchers claim food also speeds up the metabolism helping the body get rid of the booze more quickly.
Elin Roberts, of Newcastle University's Centre for Life said: "Food doesn't soak up the alcohol but it does increase your metabolism helping you deal with the after-effects of over indulgence. So food will often help you feel better.
"Bread is high in carbohydrates and bacon is full of protein, which breaks down into amino acids. Your body needs these amino acids, so eating them will make you feel good."
Ms Roberts told The Mirror: "Bingeing on alcohol depletes neurotransmitters too, but bacon contains a high level of aminos which tops these up, giving you a clearer head."
Researchers also found a complex chemical interaction in the cooking of bacon produces the winning combination of taste and smell which is almost irresistible.
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Quote Of The Day
"I’d rather a President that gets migraines than one that induces them." - BigFurHat
From: iOwnTheWorld
From: iOwnTheWorld
Saturday, July 16, 2011
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Monday, July 11, 2011
Saturday, July 09, 2011
Happy Birthday To The Republic Of South Sudan
Juba, SOUTH SUDAN — Southern Sudanese and dignitaries from around the world watched the new flag of the Republic of South Sudan be raised for the first time at independence celebrations in the new country’s capital, Juba, on Saturday.
The crowd turned ecstatic as the flag was raised while the old one was lowered.
South Sudan became the world’s newest country on Saturday.
South Sudan’s president, Salva Kiir Mayardit, signed the transitional constitution and then took the oath of office with his hand on the document.
Moments earlier, James Wani Igga, the speaker of the legislative assembly, read aloud the proclamation of independence to cheers from the crowd.
“We have waited for this day for 56 years,” said James Makuach, who was among the tens of thousands of Southern Sudanese gathered under a blazing sun.
“I have only seen war, so this is an emotional moment for me. No more war,” he added.
Northerners and southerners were engaged in a two-decade long civil war that left around 2 million people dead. That conflict ended in 2005 with the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.
Funny how most articles omit some tiny details about the warring. Of all places, AOL speaks what can not be spoken.
A civil war between Arabic-speaking Muslims in the north and Christians in the south - not to mention a plethora of smaller but no less deadly conflicts - made southern Sudan a destination for UN peacekeepers and kept it well off the tourist map for the last decade.
The new country is hardly peaceful, but the erasure of borders drawn arbitrarily by colonial powers fuels hope that the racial and religious tensions that drove the conflict could be eased.
Friday, July 08, 2011
Tuesday, July 05, 2011
Monday, July 04, 2011
Saturday, July 02, 2011
Walking for Kisses
Happy Caturday !
I like the part where they're walking for kisses.
Pork Chop looks just like my buddy, Stanley H. Tweedle.
We'd never do anything quite that gay though (NTTAWWT).
Police Perusal Of Pistol-Packing Perp's Perforated Penis Pix Permitted
Perfect.
Hat Tip: rdbrewer
Meet Otis Lockett, whose penis Milwaukee cops received judicial permission to peruse photographically.
Lockett, who was shot in the groin early Sunday, told police that he was fired upon “by an unidentified person behind him,” according to a Circuit Court filing, which notes that the 27-year-old was treated at Froedtert Hospital “for a single gunshot wound to his penis.”
Since hospital workers reported that the bullet’s trajectory was a “downward 45-degree angle,” cops suspected that Lockett accidentally shot himself. Which means that the convicted felon, who is on probation, was illegally in possession of a handgun.
So, as first reported by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Detective Gena Malanche Wednesday filed for a search warrant seeking permission to have medical personnel “safely remove any bandages in the area of Lockett’s groin to facilitate photography of the area.” The resulting photos, Malanche added, would help investigators establish that Lockett was a felon in possession of a firearm.
Hat Tip: rdbrewer
Friday, July 01, 2011
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Happy Tau Day !
Tau Day, the counterpart to the idea of March 14 (3/14, as in 3.14) being Pi Day. The idea comes from “theoretical physicist” Michael Hartl who has a particular bugbear: he hates the idea of putting the emphasis on the ratio of circumference to diameter.
Something else that's special about today:
6/28 is the only day of the year where both the day of the month and the number of the month are perfect numbers: that is, a number that equals the total of the numbers it can be divided by, such as 1+2+3=6 or 1+2+4+7+14=28.
Hat Tip: Geeks are Sexy
Also, today is my birthday :-)
Monday, June 27, 2011
Lt. Dan Band: For The Common Good
Lt. Dan Band Movie Trailer: For the Common Good | Gary Sinise is Lt. Dan, Director Jonathan Flora, USO, Military Troops Documentary
Update 07/08/2011:
I tried to finish watching the video tonight and I received this message:
72 hour viewing window ?
Are you kidding me ?
WTF is this ?
I gave them my money because I thought this was a good cause.
Where do they get off ripping me off ?
Way to build good will ass-hats.
Update 07/08/2011:
I tried to finish watching the video tonight and I received this message:
"Your 72 hour viewing window has expired, please contact support@ltdanbandmovie.com if you believe this is in error."
72 hour viewing window ?
Are you kidding me ?
WTF is this ?
I gave them my money because I thought this was a good cause.
Where do they get off ripping me off ?
Way to build good will ass-hats.
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Special Kitty
I thought I'd try Walmart's Special Kitty Premium Cat Food and see if Stanley liked it. When I opened the can, there was a bunch of water and oil. It looked and smelled bad (for cat food). Stanley tried a few bites. Hours later I noticed that even the ants wouldn't eat it.
I thought of feeding the remaining cans to the strays... but I don't hate them.
I know !
Let's get Mikey !
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Friday, June 24, 2011
RIP Peter Falk
Legendary "Columbo" star Peter Falk has died at the age of 83.
Falk "died peacefully at his Beverly Hills home in the evening of June 23, 2011," a rep tells KTLA.
The actor had been suffering from dementia and Alzheimer's disease, according to his adopted daughter, Catherine Falk.
Falk won four Emmys for his starring role in the television detective series, "Columbo." He also received Academy Award nominations for movies in 1959 and 1960.
Falk portrayed "Columbo" on 69 episodes from 1968 to 2003.
He also starred in "Princess Bride," "Brigadoon" and "The Great Race."
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Monday, June 20, 2011
Sarah Palin's Stupid ?
I can't wait for the Joe Biden gaff reel.
That would be a two hour motion picture.
From: iOwnTheWorld
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Friday, June 17, 2011
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Weiner Pulls Out
This video is obviously a hack from Andrew Breitbart.
You can tell by examining the pixels.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Wisconsin Supreme Court Smack Liberal Activist Judge Upside The Head
Union thugs and Moonbat Judge Maryann Sumi hardest hit.
Madison - Acting with unusual speed, the state Supreme Court on Tuesday reinstated Gov. Scott Walker's plan to all but end collective bargaining for tens of thousands of public workers.
The court found a committee of lawmakers was not subject to the state's open meetings law, and so did not violate that law when they hastily approved the measure and made it possible for the Senate to take it up. In doing so, the Supreme Court overruled a Dane County judge who had struck down the legislation, ending one challenge to the law even as new challenges are likely to emerge.
The majority opinion was by Justices Michael Gableman, David Prosser, Patience Roggensack and Annette Ziegler. The other three justices - Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson and Justices Ann Walsh Bradley and N. Patrick Crooks - concurred in part and dissented in part.
The opinion voided all orders in the case from the lower court. It came just before 5 p.m., sparing Republicans who control the Legislature from taking up the contentious issue of collective bargaining again.
Legislative leaders had said they would have inserted the limits on collective bargaining into the state budget late Tuesday if the court hadn't acted by then. But the high court ruled just before that budget debate was to begin.
The Assembly is to take up the budget Tuesday night.
The court ruled that Dane County Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi's ruling, which had held up implementation of the collective bargaining law, was void ab initio, or invalid from the outset.
In its decision, the state's high court concluded that "choices about what laws represent wise public policy for the state of Wisconsin are not within the constitutional purview of the courts."
The court concluded that Sumi exceeded her jurisdiction, "invaded" the Legislature's constitutional powers and erred in halting the publication and implementation of the collective bargaining law.
The court added that its role is limited to determining whether the Legislature employed a "constitutionally violative process in the enactment of the act. We conclude that the Legislature did not violate the Wisconsin Constitution by the process it used."
Monday, June 13, 2011
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Star Wars: Retold
Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn't seen it) from Joe Nicolosi on Vimeo.
That's pretty much how I remember it.
Hat Tip: Carl The Zombie
This Machine Destroys EVERYTHING
It slices, it dices, makes tons of Julienne fries !
Carl Showalter sure could have used this... much better than a wood chipper !
I wonder.. can it destroy itself ?
Hat Tip: The Daily What
Jim Orsello, A Great American Hero
Jim Orsello.
Fake gator solves Woodbury neighborhood's goose poop problem
Jim Orsello is the hero of his Woodbury neighborhood for solving a miserable problem - goose poop.
His apartment complex was thrown into a fecal furor this spring when an infestation of geese carpeted lawns and sidewalks with the birds' stinky nuggets.
Orsello's solution - deception - was as old as nature itself. He installed a floating alligator head in a nearby pond. Today, the geese, and their dreaded dung, are gone.
"It worked very well," said Orsello, a 67-year-old living in Applewood Pointe, a retirement complex.
He first saw a similar decoy gator head while visiting a relative in St. Louis and ordered one online. He didn't know, however, if it would work 800 miles north of the native habitat of alligators.
Fortunately, geese aren't known for their brains. They were unable to figure out that alligators don't live in states known for ice fishing.
Orsello said the gator head doesn't fool anything else, including his neighbors and their pets. Even ducks aren't deceived, he said, and treat it like any other floating piece of debris.
But geese hate it.
The head consists of a rubber mask stretched over a frame lined with plastic foam. It can float freely in a pond, the way Orsello set it up, or be anchored to the bottom, and it comes with sinister yellow eyes to strike primordial fear into avian hearts.
Hat Tip: Nothing To Do With Arbroath
Thursday, June 09, 2011
Ohio Restaurant Closes One Week After Obama Mentions It In Speech
Click on the pic to enlarge.
An Ohio restaurant mentioned last week by President Barack Obama as an indirect beneficiary of the government’s Chrysler bailout will go out of business Sunday after a more than 70-year history.
Co-owner Richard Lawrence of New Chet’s Restaurant in Toledo says business has fallen victim to the economy and the workplace smoking ban approved by Ohio voters in 2006. He told The Blade newspaper of Toledo on Wednesday that auto industry cutbacks also hurt.
Lawrence says he used to deliver up to $300 in food per week to Chrysler Group LLC’s Jeep plant in Toledo, but now that’s down to about $100 worth.
Obama visited the plant on Friday and told workers that without them, who would eat at Chet’s or patronize other local businesses?
“And this plant indirectly supports hundreds of other jobs right here in Toledo,” President Obama said to hundreds of workers in Chrysler’s Wrangler plant. ”After all, without you, who‘d eat at Chet’s or Inky‘s or Rudy’s?”
Everything Obama touches turns to crap.
If I owned Inky‘s or Rudy’s I'd be nervous.
Gingrich Aides Quit
.Newt Gingrich’s top campaign aides resigned in a group on Thursday, saying they had profound differences with the former speaker of the House over the strategy of his bid to win the GOP presidential nomination.
Meh.
With our luck he'll pull a McCain and win the nomination anyway.
Sitting
HealthWatch: Sitting Vs. Smoking
Smoking cigarettes is the cause of so much preventable, deadly disease. But now new research shows sitting for long stretches of time may be just as dangerous.Great.
“Smoking certainly is a major cardiovascular risk factor and sitting can be equivalent in many cases,” explained Dr. David Coven, cardiologist with St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York.
Dr. Coven said several new studies show prolonged sitting is now being linked to increased risk of heart disease, obesity, diabetes, cancer, and even early death.
So soon we'll see sitting and non-sitting sections in restaurants followed in a few years by banning sitting in public places.
EDWARD
EDWARD - Electric Diwheel With Active Rotation Damping
This project by students in the School of Mechanical Engineering, the University of Adelaide involved the construction of a human operated diwheel called EDWARD. Many diwheels in the past have been human powered or powered by IC engines. This one is purely electric. It has additional functionality lacking in other models, including inbuilt dynamic lateral stability and slosh control to prevent "gerbiling" or tumbling in aggressive braking or acceleration maneuvers. The diwheel also incorporates a unique feature that allows the rider to drive the vehicle when "upside down" - keeping the vehicle in its unstable state.
This video shows the outcomes from the developments during 2010, which includes successful slosh control, swing-up and inversion control.
More information can be found HERE.
Hat Tip: Geeks are Sexy
Wednesday, June 08, 2011
Monday, June 06, 2011
Weiner's Press Conference was FAKE!!
At least SquareBoy has a sense of humor over at Daily Kos.
Go read the whole thing.
It's pretty funny. He calls out some of the stupidity that the Kos Kids tried the past week.
Hat Tip: Ace of Spades HQ
The same mainstream media that tried to convince us that everything is bad for your health and curling is the next big thing, is now trying to convince us that Anthony Weiner has given a press conference in which he "acknowledged" Tweeting certain photographs, took some questions, and apologized to everyone including his wife and Andrew Breitbart. This charade was all a right-wing fabrication.
Go read the whole thing.
It's pretty funny. He calls out some of the stupidity that the Kos Kids tried the past week.
Hat Tip: Ace of Spades HQ
Dramatic Chipmunk Breaks Out
The beginning was a perfect reproduction of the original video, they really had me.
Hat Tip: Daily Bento
Anthony Weiner Press Conference
He's sorry he was caught.
He did give an apology to Andrew Breitbart. I'll give him that.
Andrew Breitbart, Ace of Spades HQ, The Other McCain and many others stuck with this story all week. Kudos to you all.
Andrew Breitbart Hacks Anthony Weiner Conference
In an unlikely and extremely entertaining twist, Andrew Breitbart took the podium at a press conference scheduled by Congressman Anthony Weiner in New York City. Breitbart discussed the circumstances surrounding the Weinergate scandal, which was broken on Big Government and Big Journalism. He also challenged the media to name one lie he has told or reported; there was no discernible response from the crowd of Manhattan journalists.
Breitbart told a Fox News reporter, “of course this wasn’t a set up… I went to the podium because a gaggle of press people asked me.” Breitbart went on to say “Congressman Weiner made much of last week about trying to blame me…I felt I needed to set the record straight.”
I love Andrew Breitbart, like a Viking.
More at Big Journalism
Here is the full video from The Right Scoop.
D-DAY
67 years ago today.
Operation Overlord
Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon a great crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty loving people everywhere march with you. In company with our brave Allies and brothers in arms on other fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the German war machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe, and security for ourselves in a free world.
Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well equipped and battle hardened, he will fight savagely.
But this is the year 1944! Much has happened since the Nazi triumphs of 1940-41. The United Nations have inflicted upon the Germans great defeats, in open battle, man to man. Our air offensive has seriously reduced their strength in the air and their capacity to wage war on the ground. Our home fronts have given us an overwhelming superiority in weapons and munitions of war, and placed at our disposal great reserves of trained fighting men. The tide has turned! The free men of the world are marching together to victory!
I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full victory!
Good Luck! And let us all beseech the blessings of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
~ Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Update:
Saturday, June 04, 2011
Bank Foreclosure
This is too sweet.
A bank foreclosure story you've got to see to believe. A Collier County couple turns the tables on Bank of America, the bank that tried to foreclose on their home. Now, the family is foreclosing on the bank! Even bringing trucks and deputies ready to seize property.
The foreclosure nightmare started when Warren and Maureen Nyerges paid cash for a home owned by Bank of American in the Golden Gate Estates. They never had a mortgage whatsoever. But, the bank fouled it up and wound up issuing a foreclosure through their attorney.
The couple took their case to court and after a year and a half nightmare the foreclosure was dropped. A Collier County judge said Bank of America has to pay the couple's $2,534 legal fees for the error. After more than five months the bank still hadn't paid up. So, the homeowners' attorney did just what the bank would do to get their money, legally seize their assets.
"I instructed the deputy to go in and take desks, computers, copiers, filing cabinets, including cash in the drawers," Attorney Todd Allen told WINK News.
Hat Tip: The Daily What
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