No Words
Of all the things I wanted to wake up to this morning, CNN.com declaring in the largest letters possible 54 DEAD IN MISSISSIPPI Levee Breached in New Orleans wasn’t one of them. I’m sure that number will rise, as these…
Category Observations
Apparently The 419 Scammers Have Stumbled Across Monty Python
419 scammers, in an effort to be taken seriously, have taken to sending messages that, while still stilted in their composition, actually tend to spell things correctly. However, their choices of nomenclature can result in some unintentional hilarity. To wit:…
Stupid Google Tricks
Looks like Google included an Easter Egg in its release of Google Talk: Hunt the Wumpus. Now that’s an Easter Egg done right.
For The Wages Of Sin Are $143.37
…To paraphrase Romans 6:23. You see, there is precisely one traffic light in the city of Philadelphia that is monitored by a traffic light camera. Two weeks ago, I ran a single red light in the city of Philadelphia on…
Never Mess With A Dead Man’s Widow
Juan Cole, Middle Eastern Studies professor extraordinare is an ever-cheerful [Sarcasm! -ed.] voice on the US’s progress in Iraq, faithfully tallying the body counts and finding the cloud in every silver lining, at least when it comes to our mission…
Unsurprising Vanity Plates Noted On My Commute
Observed on a red Mazda RX-8 turning in to Abington Hospital: PA plate “DR PETE”. Observed on a silver Toyota Prius headed West from Philadelphia: “LAWPROF”.
Competition, Big 10 Style
You’ve got to hand it to the Iowa Hawkeyes – they sure know how to make a visiting team feel wanted. What better way to reaffirm the perceived masculinity of a visiting football squad than painting the visiting locker room…
Ah, To Be Mango!
Proof, once again, that vanity can do very, very strange things to people: Meet the Real-Life ‘Ken’ Doll. I feel sorry for the poor guy. He actually thinks he looks good, as opposed to hideous. And not just ordinary hideous,…
Celebrity Blogging, Or: Jeff Bridges Is A Strange, Strange Man
I came across mention of an interesting game in my daily flitting about the Internet[s] the other day, but slipped into that game link was a far more intriguing fact: Scott had stumbled across the game via Jeff Bridges’ site.…
Retail Avarice
What is it about the Home Depot? Is there a pheremone that they’ve locked on to that causes Y chromosomes to hum like a plucked string? I’m not much of a handyman, as my wife can tell you, yet today,…
