Few things are more boring than sitting around watching a backup run. I’ve got an emergency that involves getting a laptop reconfigured and off to someone who had their’s stolen last night out of their car in Portland Oregon.
Paint drying, grass growing and bits transferring. This has to be the 4th level of Hell.
Do you want to be a writer? Stephen King can teach you all you need to know in 10 minutes.
“Everything You Need to Know About Writing Successfully – in Ten Minutes”
(Via Kottke)
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Harry Truman is president of the US Julius Rosenberg and his wife Ethel are found guilty of conspiracy to commit wartime espionage President Truman removes General Douglas MacArthur from his command in Korea from making unauthorized policy statements Inauguration of transcontinental television with President Truman’s address at the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference Scientists develop UNIVAC I, the first mass produced computer Rush Limbaugh, Tommy Hilfiger, and Orson Scott Card are born he Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger is published Disc jockey Alan Freed uses the term rock and roll to describe R&B, in an effort to introduce the music to a broader white audience New York Yankees win the World Series Los Angeles Rams win the NFL championship Toronto Maple Leafs win the Stanley Cup I Love Lucy debuts |
Direct link to a Flash animation of the proposed diving/swimming venue for the 2008 Olympic Games in Bejing.
Pretty damm impressive, hope they manage to build it.
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A golf cart built to resemble a Hummer.
I guess this is for insecure male golfers in the same way that it’s big brother is for insecure male drivers.
No thanks, I’ll pass.
Today’s “winner” is PFC Lynndie England, she of the Abu Ghraib prison abuse stories. Loveable Lynndie is currently facing a military tribunal in Germany and yesterday an Army investigator told the court that she said the shocking pictures were taken “just for fun”.
Hopefully Ms. England gets a chance to see just how much fun prison is from the other side of the bars.
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Sir Francis Bacon
>“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
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