Surfing The Web So You Don't Have To
Apparently the early seasons of Sesame Street were so risqué that producers of Sesame Street decided to label early season DVDs of the show as “adults only.”
I watched those early seasons, as PBS was the only channel we got where I lived when I was little, and I turned out fine. Now excuse me while I go smoke, drink, and snort cocaine, followed by my nightly beating of my kids and wife.
Apparently Nintendo has been offering repairs to the nearly 25 year old Nintendo Entertainment System, but has now deciding to stop repairing them due to lack of spare parts (more comment at BetaNews). It’s sad, really, as I’d love for my old NES to work again so didn’t have to run emulators on a PC to play the old classics.
But it does say a lot about Nintendo as a company that they’ve supported the product for this long when most companies out there won’t support their products for more than a year.
I briefly mentioned how I thought the worst thing about Mac was their fans, and I’m glad (and sad) to see that I and the article I linked to were proven right (the reaction was to this post where Anil is spot on).
If you’re going to steal a printer that’s used to print driver’s licenses, don’t call the manufacturer for help with it.
A one-year old managed to wander and fall into a family pool. He was pulled out by his mom and he was resuscitated by rescue workers. The boy suffered severe brain damage and cannot walk, talk or even swallow. We won’t get into why the parents or grandparents weren’t watching the little boy around the pool, but to make things worse, one of the rescuers is suing alleging that the family “left a puddle of water on the floor that afternoon, causing her to slip and fall.”
First we have these winners:
A man and a woman were arrested Sunday after police said they left their two children in a sport-utility vehicle while drinking margaritas in a Hutto restaurant.
The kids were one-year-old and five-years-old, and were in there for a half hour.
But they have nothing on this lady as she is inarguably the worst mom of the year:
SCHENECTADY — In what one officer called one of the most despicable acts he can recall, a Saratoga County woman is accused of prostituting herself and then snorting cocaine from the stomach of her newborn son while breast-feeding him.
Wow. Just wow.
After threatening legal action against a local woman for trying to hang up a clothesline in her yard, Brooks Resources has now decided that instead of taking advantage of the international coverage and being the good guys in all this and show that they’re a good green company, they’ve decided to just postpone dealing with the matter.
I had a power supply literally blow a gasket (actually, a capacitor) here at the office because the fan died in it. Since I’m in Sunriver, I had to drive to Bend to get a replacement, so I called my wife to see if she wanted to have lunch while I was in town. We went down to Pilot Butte Drive-In (where I don’t go much any more since they close so damn early) for a burger, and as we were sitting there, this family of four walked in, dressed as pirates. The mom, the dad, and their two little boys (probably six and eight years old or so). They were even talking like pirates. I wonder why the kids weren’t in school (assuming they aren’t homeschooled), but I digress…
It wasn’t until I was leaving that I realized today is International Talk Like A Pirate Day. Flickr is awash with pirates (including some booty), and the whole Web is enjoying this “holiday” that Dave Barry helped popularize.
But am I the only one that thinks the whole thing is just stupid and sees this as yet another excuse for people to do stupid and silly things (like St. Patty’s day)? When I told folks at the office here what today was, they were basically saying the same thing: Does anybody really give a rip?
Leona Helmsley stiffed two of her grandkids out of any inheritance, gave five million to two other grand kids, several million to her brother, but her dog (yes, her dog) came out the best of all with $12 million to his name. Like Jack said, bitches stick together.
And this time, he’s from Bend.
(VIRGINIA CITY, Nev.) – A Bend man is in custody for leaving his two-year old girl alone in an automobile at a Nevada brothel for more than two hours. Deputies investigating the case at the Mustang Ranch say the outside temperature was 95 degrees.
So now we’re nationally infamous for deadbeat dads, obscene real estate prices, being a top place to go to die, and having a ton of people in huge amounts of debt, among other things.