Creepy Children's Gap Ad
posted over 2 years ago | 2 comments
This commercial started about a month ago. I hate it so much that I have to leave the room or change the channel if it comes on. I was interested to see if other people found it creepy, so I googled "creepy Gap ad" and parts of the "lyrics", and f...
Guns
posted over 3 years ago | 0 comments
I do not believe in guns. I will not have one in the house or near me. I asked a roommate to move out once when I discovered she was keeping a handgun in my house. I dumped an irritating old friend when she kept telling me I needed a gun because a...
Hillary Supporters are Still Mad. I know I am.
posted over 3 years ago, updated 4 days later | 1 comment
No, I will not vote for McCain. Obama will get my vote in November, even though I do not believe his idealism trumps his lack of experience. But, he won't get my effort, not a single thin dime, or my heart. I stay angry for a long time, and the di...
BlueTools and Their Bluetooth Headsets
posted over 3 years ago | 1 comment
From Salon,com:
Column | 2007.10.17
Why are Bluetooth headsets so lame?
In search of a hands-free phone headset that won't make people hate you.
By Farhad Manjoo
What exactly do we hate about the wireless mobile headset? I ask as a fellow hater ...
Column | 2007.10.17
Why are Bluetooth headsets so lame?
In search of a hands-free phone headset that won't make people hate you.
By Farhad Manjoo
What exactly do we hate about the wireless mobile headset? I ask as a fellow hater ...
It's a Convention, Not a Coronation
posted over 3 years ago | 0 comments
It used to be that it took a bunch of ballots at the National Convention to choose a ticket to run in the national election in November. Franklin Roosevelt won the nomination in 1932 on the fourth ballot. The last time there was any sort of contes...
The Search for Perfect Coca-Cola - The Real Thing
posted over 3 years ago | 5 comments
Every year around Easter, Coca-Cola produces old-fashioned Coke for the Jewish holidays. This product is usually only found in large metro areas and in Jewish delis and such. There are websites devoted to the yearly sightings of it. It is only pro...
Costly animal intelligence and Republicans
posted over 3 years ago, updated about 7 hours later | -2 comments
From the NYTimes:
May 7, 2008
Editorial Notebook
The Cost of Smarts
By Verlyn Klinkenborg
Research on animal intelligence always makes me wonder just how smart humans are. Consider the fruit-fly experiments described in Carl Zimmer’s piece in the...
May 7, 2008
Editorial Notebook
The Cost of Smarts
By Verlyn Klinkenborg
Research on animal intelligence always makes me wonder just how smart humans are. Consider the fruit-fly experiments described in Carl Zimmer’s piece in the...
Chickens and T. rex
posted over 3 years ago | 1 comment
Scientists study evidence modern birds came from dinosaurs
Ancient proteins add weight to the theory that modern birds descended from dinosaurs
By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID AP Science Writer
The Associated Press
It looks like chickens deserve more respe...
Ancient proteins add weight to the theory that modern birds descended from dinosaurs
By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID AP Science Writer
The Associated Press
It looks like chickens deserve more respe...
Gang of 4
posted over 3 years ago, updated 10 minutes later | 2 comments
I have a bachelor flock of roosters - 4 Leghorns and a fluffy Bantam.I adopted the Leghorns from some people who were being terrorized by them to keep the Bantam safe. Frizz had been living with a friend, Ralphie. But, Ralphie was slow and stupid,...
