Monthly Archives: February 2007

Paraglider Survives Ride to 32000 Feet

It’s amaz­ing what humans can withstand.

February 17, 2007 – 11:12 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Comments (0)

Suing Telemarketers for Fun and Money

Yup, you read it right, you can sue tele­mar­keters when they ille­gally call you and they have to pay $500 a pop.  These days, you don’t read much that is actu­ally friendly to the con­sumer or end user so this makes it even bet­ter news.  I might start answer­ing the phone again.

February 13, 2007 – 9:14 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Legal Affairs | Comments (0)

The Largest Drain Hole in the World

Some really kick-ass pic­tures plus the repeated use of the term “glory hole” makes this a must see.

February 13, 2007 – 9:10 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Pictures, Random | Comments (2)

Belize Pictures

We’ve loaded our Belize pic­tures up for the world’s enjoyment.

February 13, 2007 – 4:03 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Pictures, Random | Comments (2)

True Environmentalism

Nancy Pelosi, the new Demo­c­ra­tic leader of the House, wants a Air Force jet to ferry her back and forth from Cal­i­for­nia and other such places.  This in and of itself is not a prob­lem as the pre­vi­ous Speaker got the same treat­ment after 9/11.  Prob­lem is, Pelosi wants a BIG jet, not a scrawny …

February 8, 2007 – 10:08 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Politics | Comments (4)

Meaning

I’ve always found the fig­ure of Sisy­phus fas­ci­nat­ing and appar­ently so did Camus.  If life is truly absurd, as Camus believed, how do we find meaning?  Sisy­phus gives us a clue, lend­ing evi­dence to the idea that the jour­ney, not the desin­ta­tion, is what truly gives mean­ing to some­thing. In today’s world of instant grat­i­fi­ca­tion …

February 7, 2007 – 11:10 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Philosophy | Comments (0)

A Lack of Energy

Some days, I just don’t feel like writing.  Actu­ally, that’s not entirely true, men­tally I want to write some­thing, I have this crav­ing to put words down, I just have no fuck­ing clue what I might write about.  Which makes it difficult.  But mostly, it’s a lack of energy, one that I’m sort of guess­ing …

February 6, 2007 – 3:55 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Comments (0)

Ignoring Bad News

Today, a report came out with the num­bers for Amer­i­cans’ sav­ings rate for all of 2006 and the num­bers aren’t good.  For an entire year, Amer­i­cans had a neg­a­tive sav­ings rate mean­ing we spent all of our dis­pos­able income and even dipped into sav­ings or bor­rowed to spend some more.  This makes the sec­ond year …

February 1, 2007 – 8:11 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Money, Random | Comments (0)