Month: October 2004

Yes, I know…

…the quantity of links has dwindled the last few days. I’ve been busy as heck with work, helping my dad get all of his stuff in order for some patents he’s going to apply for (never thought my dad would be an inventor, but he is), and am just all-around tied up (we’re also considering doing a re-finance on our house, so that’s taking time to research). I’ll have a bit of time tonight to plow through my submitted links and flagged feeds and will get some content ready for the rest of the week.

On another site note, I’m pretty dang sure I have MT-Notifier up and working. Basically, what it allows you to do is subscribe to comments on each entry. Just check the box when you make a comment, and see if it works. If it doesn’t work for you, please let me know so I can test it, yell at the author. If it does work for you, let me know so I can praise the author. If it’s something I did wrong, let me know so I can yell at myself. I’m also doing some general clean up of templates around the site, and will be setting some of my templates for dynamic publishing here soon (making rebuild and posting times a ton quicker).

October 13, 2004

Good News, Bad News

The good news? You just won the lottery. The bad news? You won’t be able to enjoy it.

October 13, 2004

Bush, Kerry Allowed To Carry Weapons In Final Debate

The entire piece is hillarious. Snippet:

“We’ve heard the criticism that the debates have been too choreographed and controlled,” said Jean Stovall, a spokesperson for the committee. “Hopefully, the promise that gunfire could break out at any moment will go a long way toward changing that perception.”

But the last line of this is priceless:

In other campaign news, President Bush toured areas devastated by Hurricane Ivan, and Sen. Kerry toured areas devastated by President Bush.

Thanks Barney for the link.

October 13, 2004

Rat: It’s Whats for Dinner

Cambodians love their rats, and as soon as the monsoon season ends, they’ll start cooking them up:

Soeung Thy is praying for the monsoons to end so he can begin frying, grilling and currying rats to satisfy the hundreds of Cambodian villagers anticipating his feasts.

Sitting in his small, unnamed restaurant ? believed to be the first in the kingdom to specialize in rats ? the 27-year-old says he started cooking up rodents to wild acclaim two years ago in the southwestern village of Phum Bek Kroang.

“At first I just cooked them for my family to eat, but guests who tried them said they were tasty, so I started selling a few fried rats to the villagers,” he said. Business boomed so he devoted his menu to them.

Thanks to Cheryl for the link.

October 12, 2004

The Michigan Absentee Ballot is NOT a Problem

Thanks to one well-linked LiveJournal post, everybody’s in an uproar thinking that there’s going to be a pile of ballot fraud and problems with Michigan’s presidential election because of this mis-print (and it was a mis-print, not some vast conspiracy). People need to calm down, as only about 69 of those ballots were printed, and they’ve since been replaced. Heck, even the person that originally noticed the mistake and gave it to her friend (who then posted it on LJ) didn’t want it blown out of proportion.

Take a deep breath, everybody. Besides, if somebody was going to fix the election, do you think they’d use obvious method like this?

Link via Al’s Morning Meeting.

October 12, 2004

Does Electricity Travel Through Toilet Paper?

When I was in high school, my house was TPed a couple of times, but never quite to this extent:

  

These pictures were sent to me by Barney. He received them from somebody who lives on Delaware Avenue here in Bend, saying they saw this on the 900 block.

My guess it’s been there for a day or two. Why? Because on Saturday it was homecoming for Summit High School, and the Deleware block is in Summit HS territory. If a TP job like that was going to happen, it was going to happen then, and it was probably done Saturday night. It’ll probably be like that until it snows, because I know there’s no way in hell I’d try to get that toilet paper off the power lines.

Which brings up another question: How conductive of power is toilet paper? A great deal of that toilet paper is running across those power lines. I know that’s something they don’t want to just hose off. Personally, I’d let nature take care of it, and just live with the new decorations for a while.

October 11, 2004

Rest In Peace, Superman

Christopher Reeves: 1952-2004. He was a super hero, indeed.

October 11, 2004

A Flattering Picture of Kerry

I’m sure the Republicans say this is his better half. Thanks Barney for the link.

October 10, 2004

Resort Offers Menopause Weekend

I work in the tourism industry, but I have to say that this is not something I would think about offering to our guests. I can see lots of arguments about how hot or cold the thermostat is to be set. Thanks to Barney for the press release (which I’m copying onto this extended entry, as I can’t find the release online anywhere)

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October 10, 2004

Do As I Say, Don’t Do As I Do

Firefighters managed to set a house on fire during fire safety training in an adjacent structure. Full Story. The only fatality was a pet Chihuahua named Nubin (and those are obnoxious little dogs anyway, so it was probably karma). Thanks Cheryl for the link.

October 10, 2004