I just love the lead on this story: “Zyness O’Haver may have suffered from one of the worst cases of cold feet in the history of marriage. After almost 78 years of living with Sallie Warren, he finally decided to pop the question and the Oklahoma City couple became husband and wife on Wednesday.” Cold feet? I think that’s frozen feet, at this point. But the couple have had kids and have grandkids, but they just never went through the formal ceremony. I thought it was bad when some friends of mine took 6 years before getting married (even though they had planned on getting married for about 5 of those years).
Month: April 2003
Polar bear’s crankiness caused by marital problems
From the full story:
Authorities at Dublin Zoo, worried by the erratic behavior of their female polar bear, commissioned a study to find the problem and discovered she simply had a bad case of marital stress. Experts monitored the behavior of the bear and her mate and concluded the female’s constant, agitated pacing of their shared enclosure was due to the male.
I’d change my company name
Mammoth Erection is a rather unfortunate name for a construction company (work safe, don’t worry). Link via Davezilla.
What is the worst search engine?
Google, the smartest engine of them all, tells all.
Spring Break is over, studs are off, so the snow’s back
Typical Central Oregon weather. The date that everybody in the state had to have their studded tires off is April 1st. I had mine off on the date. I woke up this morning, and drive to work on 4-inches of the wet, sticky, white stuff on the road. Cars in ditches all over the place, and I slid around a few times, too. The snow is still on the roads, and the mountains got a bunch of snow over night. Wish I was still a skiier.
Floppy RAID
This has absolutely no useful purpose, but still shows that given freely available toys and a bit of free time, geeks will do just about anything just to try it.
Stay the hell out of the ocean
Otherwise these giant squids will get ya. Amazingly, the one that was caught was only a kid, and was going to grow up another 150 kilograms (for a grand-total of 300 — or 661 pounds). Link from Dave Barry.
“The Mother of All War Websites”
This site’s title is boastful, but I’m starting to agree with them. I’ve been, generally, hesitant about posting war sites just because there hasn’t been just a one-stop-shop for a bunch of stuff. It is loaded with war video feeds, online webcams, and links to worldwide reporting from the war. One of the links seems to be a Reuters feed from Baghdad. You can watch CNN life feeds (the stuff that’s not on the air) from their satellite.
I doubt this site will stay up for too long, so enjoy it while it lasts.