Step on brakes and Rudolph’s target lights up and legs wave. Awesome.
Archive for November, 2007
It wasn’t a jump over a fountain, or line of school buses, or in a rocket off a cliff that finally did in the World’s Greatest Daredevil. It was a pretty ordinary death by Evel’s standards.
Knievel had been in failing health for years, suffering from diabetes and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, an incurable condition that [...]
The ASPCA has released this list of items imported from China that contain lots of lead. Please keep these out of the mouths of your children:
Bullets
Helicopter Blades
Heroine Spoons
Christmas Light Cords
Traffic Cones
We’re not good at growing things at our house. We do OK with the indestructible plants, philodendron and cacti and those ones with the big leaves that get real droopy but perk right up when they get water.
Now we have something growing that has to ripen. We’re not sure how to know when it’s [...]
Play this in background as you read. Going for an ambiance here, so humor me.
I like dark skies. Only at night however. I like sunlight. But I digress.
There is Dark Sky Association. I would have preferred to join the Dark Sky Cult of the Unlighted, but this will do.
The Dark Sky Association.
Here is their [...]
I submitted these items over a few weeks time, turns out yesterday and today they all hit the pixelways:
Letter to Editor of USA Today
Food review for Roadfood.com
Travel column for Boomspeak.com
Which is worse? Me thinking I have something of value to say? Or the fact that I’m bragging about it?
UPDATE: Just found out that SIL knows [...]
What is the fewest number of words you can use for a Haiku? I want the Haiku, not the number wise guys!
You can’t use refrigerator.
UPDATE: Here’s my first attempt:
gentlemanliness?
now discombobulation.
misunderstanding!
Chris has thrown down a mighty challenge: three word haiku. However, he had to add a qualifier so that it made sense.
So Haiku in three words!
Sixty years ago today, the morals of America started their distinct downward spiral as Edwin Land introduced the first Polaroid Camera. It was on that day, that guys everywhere decided they needed - wanted - desired - a nekkid photograph of their girlfriend.
In 1963, Land invented instant color photographs to better help the fledgling industry [...]



