Weirdness
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Mind altering visuals
Going into a meeting with a large cut on your knuckles is a great way to get people to treat you nicely.
Granted, I told the truth about how I got it (bike wreck) which in and of itself doesn’t impress people, but it is an impressive visual aid.
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Very odd
Someone just texted me a photo of a Texas-shaped waffle.
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Something that should exist
A mood tracker that one could click on during the day, say at 30 minute intervals. Assuming it was used honestly, it would be interesting to see what averages out to “fine”.
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The article I referred to at lunch
Where did I have lunch? What was the reference?
These things are a mystery. However, here is the article
Man accused of diverting others’ mail to himself
A man was charged with using scores of change-of-address forms to divert mail from all over the nation to his address in Beaver County.
Federal prosecutors this week charged Fred Hill of Aliquippa with wire fraud, accusing him of diverting mail from people both living and dead.
Postal inspectors said in court records that when they entered an Aliquippa home where Mr. Hill had stayed, they found “a significant volume” of abandoned mail along with lists of Social Security numbers and names of people in California, Georgia and Arkansas.
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Since January, Fred Hill had used the Postal Service’s Web site to file 170 change-of-address forms since January, authorities alleged in court records. The same credit card had been used to pay the $1 charge for filing change-of-address forms online, they said.170!
On another note, Ralph of Luttrell Guitars did a wonderful job installing the new FishMan pickup.
That’s been my day so far.
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Another interesting Steyn column
About the Persian Peril. It features the notable quote “Hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue”.
Meanwhile, over on FoxNews, you can read the article Academics Develop Formula for Perfect Butt.
Which is
(S+C) x (B+F) / (T-V).
* S = overall shape (a ripe peach being just about right)
* C = circularity (rounder is better)
* B = bounciness (less wobble is preferred)
* F = firmness (too much push to that cushion loses points)
* T = skin texture (no cellulite, please)
* V = the ratio of one’s hips to waist. Finally, do the math.…
But science really settles nothing, says booty expert Sir-Mix-A-Lot.“They got to be juicy, round, with a little jiggle to it,” the “Baby Got Back” rapper told The Post yesterday, laughing hysterically. “The bubbliness does matter.”
But there’s only one way to measure the most desirable derriere, he said.
“You know it when you see it,” he said. “We could debate this all day.”
Really, that was a real article.
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Amazing
Ticketmaster is now selling tickets to parking at their concerts. Bizarre.
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Amazing
Cynthia McKinney actually manages to top her “Negro Tolerance Level” quote with her most recent escapade.
Although nothing is as strange as:
Three Men Charged in ‘Dungeon’ Castration
Three men have been arrested on charges of performing castrations on apparently willing participants in a sadomasochistic “dungeon” in a rural house, authorities said Friday.“It’s extremely bizarre,” District Attorney Michael Bonfoey said in a telephone interview. “It’s incredible the amount of ways that people can find to run afoul of the law.”
Sheriff’s investigators said Richard Sciara, 61, Danny Reeves, 49, and Michael Mendez, 60, admitted performing at least eight surgeries, including castrations and testicle replacements, on six consenting clients over the past year. None of the three is licensed to practice medicine, officials said.
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Each man faces 10 felony counts — five each of castration without malice and conspiracy to commit castration without malice — as well as eight misdemeanor counts of performing medical acts without a license. Each felony carries a maximum three years and three months in prison, Bonfoey said.
Stranger still is that there was already a law against this sort of thing. How often does this sort of thing happen?
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The world is far stranger than one can imagine
Hannidate – the dating service for fans of Sean Hannity. I think a rain of frogs is next.
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Quick round up
- Blogs to Riches – a good article on the major blog players. I’m not mentioned for some reason.
- Signs That the United States is About to Bomb Iran – it’s more of what the signs would be more than an indicator of occurrence.
- Bikers roll to military funerals to oppose anti-gay protests
They call themselves the Patriot Guard Riders, and they are more than 5,000 strong, forming to counter anti-gay protests held by the Rev. Fred Phelps at military funerals.
Phelps believes American deaths in Iraq are divine punishment for a country that he says harbors homosexuals. His protesters carry signs thanking God for so-called IEDs — explosives that are a major killer of soldiers in Iraq.
A good article on some fairly spontaneous action against Phelps and his loathsome cadre. Supposedly their intention is to provoke either the police or the military into assault to they can sue.
- In the footnotes of this post, Jane Galt puts it very well with
My favorite moment in the debates came at the “town hall” style one, where Kerry told a pro-life questioner that while he personally agreed with her that abortion was murder, he couldn’t legislate his morality. Pro-choice readers should substitute the words “lynching” for “abortion” and see if this position would overcome their reluctance to vote for a Dixiecrat
That was what turned me off of Kerry too. At that time I was somewhat open to voting for him. Since the course in Iraq is set, I think the president and congress fighting all the time and getting nothing done would be a wonderful thing. Then he said that.
I would imagine his actual position on abortion is more in the middle, most likely mirroring my own strong disapproval, but that statement lost me forever. My original thought on that debate was a bit different. He prefaced that comment with a statement of his Catholicism. My thought was “that’s like saying you’re a vegetarian that eats veal”. But Jane’s remark was much better.
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Interesting
One way to separate the tech savvy from the non tech savvy I suppose.