Monthly Archives: June 2006

Fear and Loathing in Bluegrass Music

You may think you’ve seen fright­en­ing things on the Inter­net, you may even think your­self immune to the ter­ri­fy­ing things found on the web. But noth­ing, nay noth­ing, has pre­pared you for what quite pos­si­bly could be the most degrad­ing thing I’ve ever seen on the Internet. Trust me, it’s com­pletely safe but your san­ity isn’t.

June 8, 2006 – 6:27 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Internet/Technology, Random | Comments (3)

Fun with Flash

This is def­i­nitely worth wast­ing 3 min­utes of your life for. Via The Daily Grind.

June 7, 2006 – 10:20 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Internet/Technology | Comments (0)

The Nanny State

I under­stand enforc­ing laws and all that but this is ridicu­lous. If your own cat bites you, you shouldn’t get six tick­ets. That ani­mal con­trol offi­cer sounds like he prob­a­bly flunked out of the police acad­emy and is tak­ing his inep­ti­tude out on who­ever he runs into.

June 6, 2006 – 8:01 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Dallas Affairs | Comments (0)

In Remembrance

62 years ago today, the United States invaded France at Nor­mandy. My grand­fa­ther was a para­trooper that day and was for­tu­nate to sur­vive. He landed in a tree, break­ing a leg and hang­ing there for 2 days. Had he landed suc­cess­fully, odds are he would have been killed as many of his friends were. I …

June 6, 2006 – 10:59 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in National Issues | Comments (0)

Random Garden Update

We went off the deep end again this week­end and started a new flower bed/garden project/“we must be insane idea” idea this week­end. As they usu­ally do, this started on Fri­day night after one too many beers. We’ve been talk­ing about extend­ing our cur­rent peren­nial bed in a big way but as usual, a “big …

June 5, 2006 – 7:33 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Gardening, Random | Comments (1)

Diet Coke + Mentos = Cool Video

This is what hap­pens when geeks get bored.

June 4, 2006 – 2:02 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Comments (0)