Via: Flickr Title: Verbena By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 3 Jul ’06, 6.09pm CDT PST
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Let’s face it, I have no friggin’ clue who reads this stuff, or if I have readers at this here point. I have a stats page, which I check now and then and note that “readership” seems to be going up. But when I dig into said stats, it appears that many of my readership seem to stop by for a few seconds to attempt to leave spam in the comments before leaving. Or, they’re using an image from here as an avatar at MyDumbass or PrincessMarySueFanfic.com There are at least one or two of you, because you comment, and…
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Tikaro.com: John Young’s Blog: “Young man! Do you want to learn electrical engineering the seven passwords of the Gnomon?” …well, you know the obligatory ingredients of a supervillian’s lair? * Underground * Big, heavy, inscrutable machinery * Some kind of platform or catwalk * LCD monitors bolted to the walls * Some kind of big blackboard with lots of math on it. The damp, flyblown, and utterly terrifying unimproved basement space two stories underground had ALL OF THAT, including twelve classroom chairs jammed next to a big blue boiler, facing a six-foot concrete platform, in back of which was mounted…
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CNN.com – Man behind anti-Clinton ad convicted – Jun 28, 2006 EDINBURG, Texas (AP) — A political consultant whose company was behind a television ad accusing the Clinton-Gore administration of giving away nuclear technology was convicted of child molestation charges. A jury deliberated almost two days before convicting Carey Lee Cramer, 44, of aggravated sexual assault of a child, two counts of indecency with a child by contact and one count of indecency with a child by exposure. He was cleared of nine other charges Tuesday. Oh, ho ho ho ho. How very delicious: a Rethugnican political consultant getting hard…
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Obama: Democrats Must Court Evangelicals | Chicago Tribune Obama ROCKS. Right on. RIGHT on: WASHINGTON — Sen. Barack Obama chastised fellow Democrats on Wednesday for failing to “acknowledge the power of faith in the lives of the American people,” and said the party must compete for the support of evangelicals and other churchgoing Americans. “Not every mention of God in public is a breach to the wall of separation. Context matters,” the Illinois Democrat said in remarks to a conference of Call to Renewal, a faith-based movement to overcome poverty. “It is doubtful that children reciting the Pledge of Allegiance…
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Vt. man creates the backyard Zamboni – Yahoo! News Recently, a customer in California wanted one of his ride-on ice mowers with a Bambini pull-behind resurfacer to create a 10,000-square-foot skating surface for her children. But the client also wanted to remove snow from the outdoor pond. Renzello, who had been thinking about putting his inventions into one machine, said he had the answer. He combined all the technologies into the Bambini Revolution. It will clear snow, scrape ice smooth and leave a layer of water on the ice to bring it to a glassy finish. The scraper blade smooths…
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Officials criticize ‘Hooters for Neuters’ – Yahoo! News LOS ANGELES – Several city officials on Tuesday sharply criticized a planned bikini contest to raise money for spaying pets, saying the “Hooters for Neuters” event was degrading to women. Unacceptable! Incredibly offensive! And completely degrading to OWLS, too!
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Father Jake pointed out a helpful sermon when he visited a friend’s parish after General Convention’s painful close: the rh[ ] factor: Blowing the “still” The British Navy has a strange custom. If there’s a sudden disaster aboard shipo, the “still” is blown. It’s a whistle that calls the crew to a moment of silence in a time of crisis. When the still is blown, people aboard know that it means. “Prepare to do the wise thing.” They tell us that this moment of calm has helped avert many a catastrophe. The General Convention ended just four days ago but…
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You know, it’s a little bit funny, as the family joke has it. David and Ginny should never attempt an “easy home installation” without having a backup plan that doesn’t include having to find obsure little details on home-repair troubleshooting websites. Or needing a time out. Still, we eventually succeeded – at least, David figured it out while I lent immoral support. David attempted to install some double-wide blinds in the bedroom while I was away this morning. I returned to find him stumped, because one bracket was too tight, causing all the other brackets to fail to engage. Thus,…
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Here is a nice, but boring, image of a pretty fountain. It’s not as elaborate as the one at the Bellagio Las Vegas, but it’s in a nice setting. See? Nice, but static. Now, try this on for size: 101 two-liter bottles of Diet Coke. 523 Mentos. It’s a little bit art, it’s a little bit science, it’s a hell of a mess when they’re done. Do not attempt this without safety glasses and lab coats. EepyBird.com – Extreme Diet Coke and Mentos Experiment via AKMA: 2 Degrees of Eepybird