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 →
Year: 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 →
Hmmm. I would not have guessed this.
You are The Devil Materiality. Material Force. Material temptation; sometimes obsession The Devil is often a great card for business success; hard work and ambition. Perhaps the most misunderstood of all the major arcana, the Devil is not really "Satan" at all, but Pan the half-goat nature god and/or Dionysius. These are gods of pleasure and abandon, of wild behavior… Read more →
What Will They Be Thankful For?
The biggest risk we now face is that, if the United States withdraws from Iraq, the withdrawal will trigger a regional collapse. Iran will be sucked in from the east, as Iraq succumbs to a Sunni on Shi’ite civil war that threatens Iran’s own western population. Sunni insurgents trained in Iraq will flood the region as a whole, threatening to… Read more →
xkcd
Another thing that was making me smile this week is the stick-figure webcomic xkcd. Here’s my favourite one. It’s not often that a three panel strip encapsulates one’s entire philosophy. (That strip should be accessible to everyone, or at least to everyone who enjoyed, or might enjoy, The Big Lebowski.) For the most part, though, the humour here is targetted… Read more →
She’s a crooked sheriff in a real straight town
The early part of this week was kind of like the death of a thousand cuts. Lots and lots of minor annoyances, that threatened to pile up and overwhelm me. Well, actually, as soon as I started to feel sorry for myself, and make a list of all the things that were going wrong, it occurred to me that I… Read more →
While I’m talking TV
Is it just me, or… Read more →
Moderate Rejoicing
And lo, there was moderate rejoicing throughout the land, as news that the Veronica Mars Season Three episode order has been extended again, pushing the fears of cancellation yet further back: Just heard from Rob Thomas, and the CW has given “Veronica Mars” a back seven instead of the traditional back nine. This is obviously brand-new information for them, so… Read more →
Muth For Kids
Children’s books that are fun for both the parent and the child to read are a definite boon. While there is a cornucopia of great stuff out there for older kids that I would love to read to someone–hell, I often read them for myself–it’s a little slimmer pickings for picture books. And the problem of finding that type of… Read more →
My media problem
OK, I have a problem, and I am looking for some creative suggestions for dealing with it. Here’s the problem: Essentially, my CDs are taking up too much space. I have this same problem with lots of other things–I have hundreds and hundreds of linear feet of bookshelves, etc–but CDs are a special case in that I almost never actually… Read more →
Busy social schedule
Since moving to the woods five years ago, my social schedule is a pale shadow of what it once was. However, the next couple of weeks will have me back to the level I used to be at, and I’m not sure if I can handle it anymore, when combined with fatherhood and additional work responsibilities. However, I’ll give it… Read more →
