From PopBitch, quite a while back: Vidmantas Sungalai. Sungalai, a 41-year-old Lithuanian truck driver, was pulled over by police while driving his truck down the centre of a highway near Vilnius. He had 7.27 grams per litre of alcohol in his body – 18 times the legal driving limit. (3.5g/l is usually lethal). The police said Vidmantas “was of high… Read more →
Day: November 28, 2006
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Why haven’t I heard of this movie before? What appears to be a blue collar revenge noir, with both Milla and Aisha Tyler? I should have known about this. The only trailer I can find is at Yahoo! Taiwan, but it works fine: Trailer. I am quite pleased to see the return of Hot Milla to the movies. Read more →
I could be rescued by my Best Man!
My pal Ralph is now part of the Coast Guard’s volunteer Search and Rescue team. If I were in a boating incident in his territory, he might have to find and rescue me. However, since the only reason I would be on a boat in his territory is if I were on his boat, the chances of that don’t seem… Read more →
Yes, I can be in two places at once. Can’t you?
One reason posting frequency has dropped off is that for some reason I am tremendously over-scheduled at work. Not that I have a ton of actual work to do, just that I am constantly scheduled into meetings. I thought a completely full calendar was a pain in the ass, but it’s nothing compared to being double-booked. Here’s one morning this… Read more →
Acronym awareness
Note: Reading this post in Firefox or any other browser that supports the abbr tag will be a much more rewarding experience than reading it in IE. Working in the computer industry you develop a habit of talking in acronyms. I’ve often found it amusing how the acronym over time becomes the proper name for the thing it identifies–that there… Read more →
You’re in the movie now
Naomi Wolf, she of The Beauty Myth, etc, has written a piece, “The Porn Myth“, for New York that sets out her position that the rise of pornography has essentially resulted in a devaluation of sexual experience. For two decades, I have watched young women experience the continual “mission creep” of how pornography—and now Internet pornography—has lowered their sense of… Read more →
