First Ever
October 31, 2008
I just made my first ever political donation. I donated $10 to help elect William Russell, who I had never heard of until this evening. When Glenn Reynolds made the suggestion of helping the opponent of John Murtha (D-Pennsylvania) in their battle for over Murtha’s congressional seat. I just plain don’t like Murtha and thought, “Hey, why not make a political donation to help him get unelected?”
Noticed
October 30, 2008
One thing I’ve noticed as a result of my accident that is pretty frustrating is my minor memory loss. I like to sing along to my iPod music when I am in the car but, lately, I’ve noticed that I cannot remember the words to songs that I’ve known for nearly 20 years. For example, I was listening to “Here Comes the Sun” by The Beatles this morning but was completely mixed up ok the words. I’m pretty sure that they didn’t change the words recently, too. They didn’t did they?
It’s an odd feeling to not remember stuff.
Chicken
October 26, 2008
Seriously, what the hell!?
Three Oklahoma City men were arrested after playing “chicken” with a police car. Police said a 23-year-old man drove his car at the oncoming patrol car driven by Capt. J.D. Reid and didn’t move until Reid swerved out of the way. Reid then chased the car until it crashed. The driver was found inside the car, another 22-year-old man was found lying outside the vehicle and a third man was found hiding behind a traffic sign.
Two of the men were hospitalized and the third was treated and taken to the Oklahoma County jail where he’s being held without bond.
Police say the driver apparently decided on a whim to play chicken car and didn’t realize the car was a police car.
Oh, like it would have been more acceptable if it hadn’t been a police car. Idiots.
“Before you were formed in the womb …”
October 17, 2008
LAWSUIT AGAINST GOD DISMISSED for failure to obtain personal service. But Ilya Somin objects: “I’m not entirely convinced that the ruling is correct. After all, if God exists, he must be omnipresent and omnipotent. Therefore, it logically follows that he can be served with court papers anywhere; after all he is present everywhere in the universe at all times. Indeed, service of process is a pointless formality when it comes to God. Since the Lord is omniscient as well as omnipotent, he surely knew about Senator Chambers’ lawsuit even before any process servers were sent out. Indeed, he must have foreseen that Chambers would file the suit long before Chambers himself knew that he would do it.”
Yeah, wasn’t there something like that in Jeremiah? “Before you were formed in the womb, I knew you would sue me. . . .”
Cajun DUI
October 14, 2008
I received this from my boss today.
Recently a routine police patrol parked outside a bar in Houma, Louisiana. After last call, the officer noticed a man leaving the bar so intoxicated that he could barely walk. The man stumbled around the parking lot for a few minutes, with the officer quietly observing.
After what seemed an eternity in which he tried his keys on five different vehicles, the man managed to find his car and fall into it. He sat there for a few minutes as a number of other patrons left the bar and drove off. Finally, he started the car, switched the wipers on and off (it was a fine summer night), flicked the blinkers on and off a couple of times, honked the horn, and then switched on the lights. He moved the vehicle forward a few inches, reversed a little and then remained still for a few more minutes as some more of the other patrons’ vehicles left.
At last, when his was the only car in the parking lot, he pulled out and drove slowly down the road. The police officer, having waited patiently all this time, now started up his patrol car, put on the flashing lights, pulled the man over, and administered a breathalyzer test. To his amazement, the breathalyzer indicated no evidence that the man had consumed any alcohol at all!
Dumbfounded, the officer said, “I’ll have to ask you to accompany me to the police station. This breathalyzer equipment must be broken.”
“I doubt it,” said the truly proud Coonass. “Tonight I’m the designated decoy.”
Barriers
October 12, 2008
I just finished watching an episode of Extreme Engineering called “Holland’s Barriers to the Sea” and it was pretty interesting. It was about how the Dutch have fought off tides and floods for the last 2000 years (undoubtedly the fault of President Bush) and they’ve had some major innovations over the past 50 years to help “stem the tide.” One of the interesting things is that they cut over to New Orleans for some comparisons and dire predictions. This episode was produced a year or two before Hurricane Katrina hit and they mentioned how the levees may not hold during a big storm, etc. It was pretty interesting, really.
Saguaro Chipping
October 12, 2008
I found this article about micro-chipping saguaros somewhat interesting.
just noticed
October 10, 2008
You know, I just noticed that I haven’t posted anything in 9 days. That’s a long time. Perhaps I’ll remedy it.
Three
October 1, 2008
You know, I never realized that I had never seen Star Wars Episode III. I started watching it a few minutes ago and thought to myself, “Self, this is stuff I don’t recognize. Could it really be?”
Sure enough, it is.
The Epitome of Hyperbole
October 1, 2008
I just finished watching some standup by Brian Regan. It was called The Epitome of Hyperbole and I recorded it a couple of nights ago on Comedy Central and it was pretty funny. I like how his humor is clean as it’s something I could let my kids watch. In fact, I may just do that!
