I dreamt last night that my sweetie was writing a “ransom note” to a co-worker in alpha-bits, and she had me sort the letters out in a fresh box while preparing the text for the note.
No glue or anything on the letters, just arranged on his desk, warning him that doom was soon to befall him… and I think it was implied that he was to eat the note after reading it. I’m not sure… it was a little hazy on that point.
I wonder how the plan of coming revenge on the ‘mad knocker’ is coming along?
Paula Poundstone, Still Blaming It On The Booze, Gets Off Scot Free
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Comedian Paula Poundstone was sentenced today to five years probation, 180 days in an alcohol treatment program and told she could never be a foster parent again after she pleaded no contest to child endangerment charges.
Stupid Jedi Mind Tricks.
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It’s official: “Jedi Knight” is ON the list of religions for the 2001 UK census. A campaign to get people to write the entry on their census forms has succeeded in the term being included on the list of religions, alongside Church of England, Roman Catholic, Muslim, Buddhist and Hindu.
Free Electricity!
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A traveling salesman was in the Jefferson County Jail last night on charges of violating Kentucky’s consumer-protection laws in what authorities call a ”free electricity scheme.”
Dennis Lee of United Community Services of America was arrested about 3:30 p.m. Monday at the Holiday Inn on Fern Valley Road, where he was scheduled to conduct a seminar, said Todd Leatherman, director of the consumer protection division of the attorney general’s office.
He travels around the country promoting the Hummingbird/Sundance generator, ”a possible Free Electricity machine nearing completion,” according to the Web site.
The site also promises, ”we will mix up a fuel consisting of equal parts of pickle juice, soda pop, water, sugar, crude oil or old transmission gear oil, gas, soy sauce, even human urine, and a touch of perfume for smell and shake it up and run an internal combustion engine using that as fuel. . . .”
His site is a winner. http://www.ucsofa.com/ Make sure to check it out.
Why do newspapers never give the links to the sites they are covering in their stories?
Art Nouveau photos , thank for the great link,
Great architecture, too.
chimera ky-MIR-uh, noun:
1. (Capitalized) A fire-breathing she-monster represented as having a lion’s head, a goat’s body, and a serpent’s tail.
2. Any imaginary monster made up of grotesquely incongruous parts.
3. An illusion or mental fabrication; a grotesque product of the imagination.
4. An individual, organ, or part consisting of tissues of diverse genetic constitution, produced as a result of organ transplant, grafting, or genetic engineering.
Chimera comes from Latin chimaera, from Greek chimaira “she-goat, chimera.”
tantivy tan-TIV-ee adverb
At full gallop; at full speed.
noun
A fast gallop; rush.
adjective
Swift.
interjection
A hunting cry by a hunter riding a horse at full speed.
Of obscure origin, perhaps from the sound of a galloping horse’s feet.
That’s not popcorn….that’s a human BRAIN!
AIEEEIEEEE! I can hear them laughing..smacking lips and staring… Who’s next? You know Chimps have the strength of a dozen men. And these guys are eeeeeeevil.
baby hit the sack early….
what to do, what to do?
Make deviled eggs, that’s what!
🙂 yum!
Then, maybe some writing in..been on code for so long, I’ve been neglecting creative plots.
“It… bit… his.. head… off… like a ging-er-bread man!!!!!”
*waves pineal stalks around
Just installed starry night – backyard., and it’s fricking *amazing*. a total hoot.
has a 15 day trial period, and I think most people that are willing to sit through a 15 meg download (on dial-up- busy server, to my laptop it took about an hour, on dsl, it’d probably shoot down in 10 minutes or less) it’s a ton of fun. Even more so on the laptop, because you can take it outside and do stuff, compare to the real stars. more fun than just astronomy, though is the “view from any point” stuff…I like flying back out into space, and looking at satellites orbiting earth, and such. It’s peaceful, listening to soft music, imagining ones self in a out in vacuum.
The following are some of the reasons that XP feels to me like a downgrade rather than an upgrade.
http://web.archive.org/web/20011013031959/http://www.xs4all.nl/~dromero/diplomacy.swf
Mississippi School To Move Into Last Century
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The Tate County (Miss.) School Board has decided to stop electing separate black and white high school homecoming queens and courts – next year. Opponents of the practice have filed a formal complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights and had sought to invalidate a Sept. 18 election of two slates of candidates.
They term the outdated practice “racist” and illegal. A similar situation at Hernando High School in 1997 was investigated by the Office of Civil Rights and led to race-neutral elctions there.
CIA, We Did Not Teach Bin Ladin
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Numerous comments in the media recently have reiterated a widely circulated but incorrect notion that the CIA once had a relationship with Usama Bin Ladin. For the record, you should know that the CIA never employed, paid, or maintained any relationship whatsoever with Bin Ladin.
recherche ruh-sher-SHAY, adjective:
1. Uncommon; exotic; rare.
2. Exquisite; choice.
3. Excessively refined; affected.
4. Pretentious; overblown.
Recherche comes from French, from rechercher, “to seek out,” from re- + chercher, “to look for, to seek.”
chichi SHEE-shee, adjective:
Affectedly elegant.
noun
1. Showy stylishness
2. A person with such quality.
From French of the same.
Thank you