Monthly Archives: May 2007

Lopsided Relationships

I have a lot of these at work I think.

Personal Responsibility Hits a New Low

Josh Hancock’s dad is suing the restau­rant that served his son the alco­hol before he got in the car and rear-ended a tow truck. He’s also suing the tow truck dri­ver and the dri­ver of the stalled truck the tow truck was help­ing. It’s impor­tant to note that Josh Han­cock had a blood alco­hol con­tent

Google’s New Motto

Do No Evil (unless we can make lots of money doing evil). Cur­rently, the zeit­geist in com­puter mak­ers is that they, not those of us that buy the damn things, own the com­puter. It comes loaded with crap designed to either steer you down a direc­tion you don’t need (Hello AOL!) or designed to be

CYA in Government Hurricane Predictions

Appar­ently, the peo­ple in charge of such things in the US Gov­ern­ment are pre­dict­ing a hur­ri­cane sea­son with more than the aver­age storms. Which of course is ridicu­lous since the sci­ence (if it could pos­si­bly be called that) is so inex­act as to be silly. They also pre­dicted a busier than usual sea­son last year

News Of the Weird

Appar­ently Earth has a but­t­hole.  I found the recount­ing of the sci­en­tific inves­ti­ga­tion that went on after the event to be fascinating.

Babies

I found these in our front bushes and K snapped this picture.  They belong to a local car­di­nal fam­ily and we hap­pily await our new cardinalettes.

Vacation

I was in Arkansas last week for a weekly trout fish­ing and golf­ing trip with my dad and an old friend.  We had a great time even though we didn’t catch nearly as many fish as last year.  We found a new course to play and stayed in a great cabin right on the river.Â