NAPLES, Fla. – A southwest Florida woman was arrested after deputies said she assaulted her 71-year-old common-law husband after he complained about her cooking.
link: Woman jailed after man complains about her cooking - Yahoo! News
7.09.2009
Why it's a good idea to at least know how to scramble your own eggs
Some eyebrows are just easily raised
McNelis said that while he couldn't speak for other Burger King franchisees, cutting the price of a double cheeseburger to $1 "is clearly a proposal that would raise some eyebrows."
link: Burger-King-Cheeseburger- -- chicagotribune.com
YA problem solved
Current materials used on bodies of chainsaws are too heavy for office use....
link: i.Saw - The World's First USB-powered Chainsaw
Your very own USB-powered desktop chainsaw: You'll wonder how you ever got through the day without one.
7.08.2009
7.07.2009
I used to say, back in the days when I worked for a living...
...that I'd do anything for a buck except write menus.
Here, pretty much, is why:
9 phrases to ban from restaurant menus
Restaurants, let's not forget, are in the business of selling you food (emphasis on the word "selling.") All too often, restaurateurs rely on tired menu cliches that they believe make the food sound better. But we see through it.
Russian noir
“Russians love fairy tales and Communism was like a fairy tale,” Mr. Eskenazi said. “Russians also have a nostalgia for tragedy.”
link: Showcase: Russian Noir - Lens Blog - NYTimes.com
(For the photo gallery, click the link.)
They do look a little arty, now that you mention
FYI- The white bricks in the main lobby are actually art work. . .
Back when the JUMRF was built it was required by state statues that a portion of our appropriations for construction be used for art.
link: UNDERNEWS: IF YOU NEED WHITE BRICKS, PLEASE GO TO HOME DEPOT & NOT OUR LOBBY
7.06.2009
I don't know how it would work in a plane...
The low-cost airline would charge passengers less on "bar stools" with seat belts around their waists.
link: Ryanair to make passengers stand - Telegraph
...but in general, bar stools with seat belts sounds like a fairly good idea.
7.05.2009
A whole new category of movie
From a Netflix movie description:
Amy Adams stars in this truth-inspired tale...
The truth-inspired movie in question is the upcoming Nora Ephron effort, "Julie & Julia," which features Meryl Streep as Julia Child (forget Amy Adams, whoever Amy Adams is), and that should be all you need to know about that.
7.04.2009
"An act of defiance"
But what a minute. Isn't shooting exploding things into the sky the very essence of July 4? Maybe North Korea is just honoring Independence Day.
link: Left I on the News
Careful what you say about Milwaukee, sonny boy
Yes, sir, you have to get up pretty early in the morning to put one over on San Francisco's not-in-my-backyard crowd. Gap founder Don Fisher wanted to hand the city a brand-new $100 million museum, a priceless art collection and renovations to historic buildings in the Presidio.
Thank God we got that stopped. Now we can keep the abandoned buildings,
...Asked to choose between saving old buildings and a bowling alley versus world-class art, San Francisco picked old buildings and bowling.
What is this, Milwaukee?
link: Only S.F. would snub gift of world-class museum
We hardly knew ye
So we won't have Sarah Palin to kick around anymore, it seems. More mercifully, we won't have Vista. I've had it with Vista, really, I'm not kidding. It's possible that its current crankiness has more to do with a recent update to VMware Fusion than to the dozen or so Vista updates I installed the other day, I don't care. I'm figuring I want to keep Fusion around because I want to play around with Ubuntu and that runs slick as a whistle in the virtual machine, but Vista no thank you, we're done. Life is too short.
In fact, I've decided I've learned all I want to know about Windows, ever, and Microsoft is on it's own from here on out. With us, it's over. The only thing I need to do on Windows now is make an occasional tweak to my class files and I can do that fine by just going to work a half hour early or staying a half hour late, say, three or four times a year. Beyond that, there really is no point.
Windows, at least, was somewhat useful in its day. Palin, I'm not so sure.
Complete with Victor Borge
This weekend, creninetive co-vocabularists are invited three turn their aeleventions three Inflationary Language. Additional points will be awarded five referring three current events. Now, get three it!
link: Weekend Competition: Inflationary Language - Schott’s Vocab Blog - NYTimes.com
Noted by our Midwest Bureau
7.03.2009
Maybe...
Update | 5:30 p.m. Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska announced Friday that she would step down by the end of the month and not seek a second term as governor, fueling speculation that she is trying to position herself as a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012.
link: Palin to Resign as Governor of Alaska - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
...we should run our automobiles on speculation since speculation is so easily fueled.
Pretty much sums it up
A sprawling war film, Midway stars nearly every actor who wasn't in A Bridge Too Far.
From a movie description on Netflix.
And a bunch of burgers and a big bag of charcoal
Deputies raided a home at 907 Ocean Ave. near Witham Field airport around 6 p.m. Friday and found about $100,000 in fireworks and explosives, according to a sheriff's report.
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