Hawaii is contemplating sending their excess trash to Oregon via barge so maybe you can hitch a ride back on it when it returns back to the island. I’d book a flight for the trip back to Oregon, as the ride back here would smelly really bad.
Category: Sad
Dad Of The Year
This dad’s last act saved his daughter’s life.
With an out-of-control car bearing down, Joseph Richardson grabbed his 4-year-old daughter and held her up out of harm’s way.
It was his last act — and one that apparently saved his daughter’s life.
Iron Chef Japan Is Back On TV
I like Iron Chef America, but the original Iron Chef Japan is entertaining in its own way. It’s back on TV, but it’s on the Fine Living channel, which, unfortunately, we don’t get on basic cable here. But thanks to the magic of the interwebs, you can watch them online.
Stupid Lawsuit For The Day
Monster Cable — the company that makes those horrendously overpriced audio and video cables — is suing Monster Mini Golf because it claims the mini golf course are “”are likely to cause confusion” with it’s brand.
This is the same company that sued Disney for Monsters, Inc. (the movie) and the Boston Red Sox for “Monster Seats” on the big green monster.
“MySpace is the anti-Christ for children”
I couldn’t agree more with the Dad in this story (though I think I’d even go as far as removing “for children”) about the cheerleader who got the hell beaten out of her by some classmates over some text messages and MySpace trash-talking (full story here). These idiots even thought it was a brilliant idea to post their felony acts onto YouTube and MySpace (video can be seen here).
Why does this remind me so much of the infamous Summit High School girls, just with more physical violence? What is wrong with people these days that they seem to think this is OK? Where were these kids’ parents growing up? I mean, the kids were sitting there in their holding cells and “one asked if she would be able to make it to cheerleading practice the next day, while several others joked that they wouldn’t be making it back to the beach anytime soon.” Personally, my concern wouldn’t be cheerleading practice, it’d be how to stay the heck out of prison before you become somebody’s girlfriend — whether you want to be or not.
Another Broken TV (and an Expensive Vacation) Thanks To A Wii
I work for a company that rents vacation homes. More and more of these homes have big-screen TVs, and people are realizing that and bringing their Wii with them to play with during their vacation (only a couple of our homes actually have a Wii in the home already). There are already a couple sites dedicated to what those little controllers can do to household objects if you’re not strapped in when you’re flinging them around. We’ve already had one window destroyed in one of our homes thanks to an errant Wii controller (don’t have pictures of that one), and now, the latest victim — a three-day-old 48″ LCD TV:
The folks renting the house knew they’d put a pretty substantial crack in the screen, and we knew that the next renters coming in (the same day of their departure — ’tis Spring Break after all) had already been told about the new big-screen in the home and were looking forward to it. So we had to get a new TV out there. The guest agreed to just buy the new TV (which the local BestBuy had in stock) to put in the home. The renter took the broken one home to see if they could get it fixed themselves and at-least get an expensive LCD out of the whole thing.
We’re thinking about investing in (or creating?) some of these, just to have at the office, for our expensive TV homes (and certainly for the homes that have a Wii already in them).
Note To Self
If I ever find out that I have a morbidly obese relative, don’t let them near my kids.
Spoiled Brat
Somebody needs a spanking:
Lawmakers Are Idiots, Exhibit 3812
A Kentucky lawmaker wants to make anonymous Internet posting illegal. And the fines are $500 for the first offense, $1000 for each after that, levied towards the Website operator.
This site currently has 14,695 comments (which is a small amount compared to a site like Fark — which is based in Kentucky — that has millions), and I’d say a third of those are anonymous (as I believe on a site like mine, it fosters discussion and I believe in First Amendment rights in that regard). So if this law passed, I’d be responsible for about $4,898,000.
Needless to say, the bill would be hard to enforce, but I can’t say that I’d enjoy getting a bill for nearly $5 million.