Seriously, how could a mistake like this not get noticed ahead of time?Britain's second-largest city, Birmingham, has a new skyline — only it belongs to its Alabama namesake.Birmingham City Council distributed 720,000 leaflets that praised residents for exceeding recycling targets, carrying a message that read: "Thank You Birmingham." The message appeared stamped across a photograph of the city's
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Showing posts with label randomness. Show all posts
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Budweiser is not real beer
Posted on 7:32 AM by jackline
Belgian brewer InBev SA has purchased American brewer Anheuser-Busch for a cool $52 billion, and some people are upset about the loss of a piece of Americana to foreign interests.I, on the other hand, think this is a good deal. Because now, under European guidance, maybe Anheuser-Busch will quit brewing that disgusting swill known as Budweiser and start brewing real beer.Seriously. Budweiser is
Sunday, June 22, 2008
George Carlin
Posted on 10:38 PM by jackline
I just discovered that George Carlin has passed away at a Los Angeles hospital.My shock and grief over his death is suitably expressed through his "Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television:"SHIT PISS FUCK CUNT COCKSUCKER MOTHERFUCK TITS!George Carlin was one of my favorite stand-up comics. When I was a kid I used to sneak to the downstairs television after my parents were asleep just so I
Thursday, May 8, 2008
The noise that teenagers hate
Posted on 9:48 PM by jackline
By now just about everybody has heard of "The Mosquito," a device developed in Britain a few years ago that is designed to repel loitering teenagers by emitting an annoying, high-frequency sound that only they can hear. The device takes advantage of the natural tendency of people's ears to lose the ability to hear very high-pitched sounds as they age; as such, the noises these devices emit do not
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Monday, January 14, 2008
18 stunning bridges
Posted on 7:28 PM by jackline
Two be sure, three of these eighteen bridges don't exist yet and one is still under construction, but I agree that the ones this site has chosen are pretty cool.I can only say that I've actually been on two of these bridges: Tower Bridge in London and Erasmusburg in Rotterdam. I've also seen the Akashi-Kaikyo, albeit from a bit of a distance:Believe it or not, I have yet to make it out to San
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
This blog is lame
Posted on 4:29 PM by jackline
In 2006, I posted 130 entries on this blog.In 2007, I posted 102.That's pretty lame, especially considering that I didn't really start this blog until late April of that year.It works out to 8.5 entries per month in 2007, compared to 14.4 entries per month over the nine months this blog was active in 2006.Hopefully I'll be a little better about writing entries in 2008.
Saturday, December 8, 2007
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Following up on old news
Posted on 10:39 AM by jackline
Lori and I have returned home after an enjoyable, if not short, week in PV; I have a post or two about that trip that I'll write shortly. First, there are a couple of follow-ups to previous posts of mine that I wanted to note:Last January, I wrote about the unbelievable story of Genarlow Wilson, a young man from Georgia who was sentenced to ten years in prison because he, when he was seventeen
Friday, October 12, 2007
Light blogging
Posted on 9:48 AM by jackline
Apologies for the lack of posts lately. Between work, the start of football season, my parents' return from their two-month-long western journey, my brother-in-law Danny coming to visit for a couple of weeks, and other events, I just haven't had much time to write anything lately. That's probably going to continue to be the case for the rest of the month, as Lori and I are going on vacation the
Saturday, September 1, 2007
But I don't *feel* that old...
Posted on 7:23 PM by jackline
My first day of high school was exactly twenty years ago today; September 1, 1987.I began graduate school ten years ago last week.Time flies.
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Late August randomness
Posted on 2:22 PM by jackline
August is mercifully coming to a close. I get to spend the final week of it up here in Dallas; nothing to do but work and wait for Friday, so that I can fly back home and decide which sports bar I'm going to go to on Saturday to watch the Coogs play Oregon. I'm not expecting the Cougars to win this one (which, in the eyes of at least a couple of hyperbole-prone posters on one particular UH sports
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Tuesday, July 31, 2007
An industry dedicated to screwing its customers
Posted on 7:02 PM by jackline
I recently screwed up and paid a credit card bill late. I forgot to make the payment until after the 5 pm EDT cut-off, and got hit with a $39 late fee.The funny thing is this: I actually made this payment two days before the actual due date. But it was still considered late.Why? The due date fell on a Sunday. However, payments made after 5 pm on Friday are not processed until the following Monday
Thursday, June 14, 2007
Alternate "Sopranos" ending
Posted on 2:34 PM by jackline
Okay, I'll admit it. I liked the way it ended. But for those of you who, four days later, are still griping about the manner in which The Sopranos ended, here is an alternate ending with a bit more "closure" that you might appreciate:Video via Max Silvestri.
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Jennifer's boyfriend
Posted on 1:11 PM by jackline
It's a phenomenon I've observed and wondered about since high school: why some of the nicest people in the world choose to go out with complete assholes.I am not referring to good-looking women who are with men who are only physically unattractive; this happens quite often and studies have indicated that a majority of women, when looking for a mate, value personality or financial success over
Saturday, May 26, 2007
Women in art
Posted on 9:30 PM by jackline
Somebody forwarded this to me - a take on 500 years of womens' portraits in western art - and thought it was cool enough to share:
Thursday, May 10, 2007
Why isn't anybody watching TV anymore?
Posted on 6:10 PM by jackline
This AP article about dwindling TV veiwership, and the implications it has on the advertising dollars that the networks depend upon for their survival, was interesting.In TV's worst spring in recent memory, an alarming number of Americans drifted away from television the past two months: More than 2.5 million fewer people were watching ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox than at the same time last year,
Friday, April 27, 2007
Okay, some of you people out there are just nasty
Posted on 8:31 AM by jackline
While doing my semi-regular perusal of this site's visitor paths on StatCounter, I discovered that somebody came across this blog while doing a Google search for nude pictures of children's musician Laurie Berkner.I don't know what disturbs me more: that somebody would be looking for naked pictures of her, or that this blog would be involved in such a search...
Friday, April 20, 2007
The search for answers
Posted on 11:34 AM by jackline
I hadn't planned on writing anything about the Virginia Tech massacre. What kind of insight could I provide, after all? What could I say about the horrible event that hasn't already been said by somebody else?But, in the wall-to-wall media frenzy that has followed this tragedy, one particular and oft-repeated phrase has caught my attention: "the search for answers." People, naturally, want an
Saturday, April 14, 2007
Blog update and other thoughts
Posted on 6:21 AM by jackline
As is obvious, I haven’t been very active with this blog lately. I've been busy with other things, and there just hasn't been anything I've felt a pressing need to write about. After all, it's too early in the season for me to begin fretting about the Astros, even though they stumbled out of the opening gate (and yes, I know that they're now on a three-game winning streak), and I just haven't had
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