Category: 40yrs
Another Senseless Physics Related Tragedy
Homeless Guy Smashes Other Homeless Guy Upside Head With Skateboard During Quantum Physics Argument:
A homeless man is on trial in San Mateo County on charges that he smacked a fellow transient in the face with a skateboard as the victim was engaged in a conversation about quantum physics, authorities said Wednesday.
I should have a joke here, but I got nothing.
Thankfully though, Opus3 at by invitation only Stellar Parthenon BBS does have a joke:
Actually, a common occurrence in physics departments, where the people look homeless…
He so owes me a screen wipe.
Deep Thought*
Farrah Fawcett died today, when she got to heaven god told her she could have one final wish.
She said she wanted all of the children on the Earth to be safe.
Shortly after Michael Jackson died of a heart attack.
*Not my thought though, it’s been floating around the web.
A Question Regarding Atheists
This cartoon seems to imply that some sort of latte is is the holy sacrament of Atheists.
If this is the case, is it a full caf, half caf, skinny, mocha, soy, or what?
Or do you, like us God fearing folks, just kill each other over disagreements about what sort of sacrament is appropriate to drink, as is traditional?
Too True, Healthcare Edition
Locking Small Children in Car Trunks
And why this can be a good thing sometimes.
My wife is driving a rental car, because an adjuster is looking at her car, a 2008 Dodge Avenger.
While loading the trunk I noticed the emergency release handle on the latch (see crappy cell phone pic)
It’s there to deal with the problem of small children locking themselves in the trunk ans suffocating.
In condicting human factors resarch on how to make the use of the device as easy and intuitive as possible, at one point, researchers locked children in trunks of cars, and observed their progress on infra red cameras.
It’s kind of neat.
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Japanese-English Translation Fail
20 Pictures That Give Steroids A Bad Name
This is Just Wrong
Brilliant
Because There is a Critical Shortage of Ivy League Grads Who Have No Foreign Language Skills at the CIA
The CIA is launching a recruitment drive among laid off investment bankers, because, well, I guess they are sick and tired of people who can learned Arabic, Farsi, Pashtun, and Chinese from their parents, because they don’t fit in at the country club.
Too True
In the Event of Rapture, I Do Pet Sitting
Seriously, for only $50.00, people in the Kansas City area can get someone to take care of their pets while they go to heaven.
He’s an atheist, so there is no risk of him being taken too.
I wonder how much he made.
Makes me think of the Depeche Mode song, Blasphemous Rumor.
It’s Good to be the King
H/t WallStreetJackass for the Pic.
So, Just How Broken is the Defense Procurement Process?
Well, the contract for the Navy’s A-12 stealthy attack plane has finally been officially canceled.
What, you don’t remember the A-12? Dick Cheney canceled it.
Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney canceled it, in 1991, because it was late, over budget, and overweight, and the US Court of Appeals has finally ruled, 18 years later, that the government was justified.
18 bloody years.
Pity the Idle Wealthy
It appears that the New York Times considers the plight of trustafarians, slackers, who, upon graduating from college, continue to depend their parents to bank roll them as they, play in rock banks and organize beauty peagants for the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn.
I’m not sure which is more disgusting, the trustafarians, or the editors who thought that this deserved ink.
All’s Well That Ends Well
Natalie’s home, and back asleep, and we just woke her up to get her temp, and it’s normal, though my daughter is not going to school tomorrow regardless of her temp.
It Never F@$#ing Rains, but It F@$#ing Pours.
Posting via mobile from the GBMC ER.
Natalie just came back from a school camping trip,and she is spiking a fever of 102.8, shakes, stiff neck, sensitive skin, and coughing.
It could be, from a jelly fish sting, or from swimming in the bay, but what do I know, I’m an engineer, not a doctor, dammit!!!
Wy Wife Was Just in a Car Accident
Thankfully a non-injury auto accident.
Status of car is OK, but with an added dent, and she’s off to the chiropractor.
From her description, theother car, which apparently had blowout, and spun into her, was more seriously damaged, and she ended up pointing the wrong way on I-83, she got lucky.
Her back is bothering her a bit, probably because she tensed up, so she is at the chiropractors.
Quote of the Day
I can only conclude that in order to run for governor in Texas, there is some sort of an IQ test involved — if you pass it, you become ineligible for state office . . .
On the fact that Texas Governor Rick Perry, who had said that he would decline stimulus funds, and had actually talked secession, was in fact spending stimulus funds on remodeling the governor’s mansion.