Rants and musings, without care for substance.
Posted in housing, in the news, money, politics on Sep 25th, 2008
I usually don’t watch the news, but while at the car dealership yesterday I had some time in the waiting room. On the one hand I don’t feel that the taxpayers ought to be bailing out either individuals or corporations that made poor financial decisions. Like a friend helping out your friend because they made [...]
Posted in in the news on Jul 28th, 2008
When you drive to work every day, the buck stops with you. You know from experience how long it takes to get home, probably down to the minute. You know that if you leave the house 3 minutes later it’ll take an extra 17 minutes to get to the office. You’ve got a good handle [...]
Posted in food, healthcare, in the news on Jun 12th, 2008
How the hell didn’t I hear about this salmonella in the tomatoes debacle? I must not be paying attention to CNN when I’m at the gym or maybe it was first announced on that one day when I missed the gym. Missed, like I was looking the other way and it snuck past me. Skipped [...]
Posted in complaints, culture, in the news on Apr 4th, 2008
The weight of everything is being lifted, one bit at a time. Lots of little things that I’ve been working on have finally come to fruition. My tax returns are completed and mailed. I contracted to have a new and improved splash image created for my placeholder site and am pleased with the results. Over [...]
Posted in housing, in the news on Mar 6th, 2008
It seems that the local police department has a Vice Squad and that they’ve recently been active in my community. My HOA just sent out an email stating that the squad started an investigation based on a resident’s tip.
“As a result of this investigation the following female was determined to be managing this sexual enterprise [...]
Posted in food, in the news, plans on Jan 3rd, 2008
When you’re craving a plate you just need a plate. It’s that simple.
Not unsurprising to anyone who went to school in Rochester, that desire doesn’t weaken after a few drinks. At 4am on New Year’s Day, a man drove his Cadillac through the brick wall of Nick Tahou’s building downtown. The Democrat & Chronicle has [...]
Posted in in the news, oddities, web sites on Dec 21st, 2007
For those who need additional reasoning to have some of the late-night weekend sex or a horrible (but sourced, damnit) pickup line for trolling, here it is (courtesy of them thar Intarweb tubes).
Tomorrow, December 22 at 6:08PM GMT is Global Orgasm time. For us East Coasters, that is 1:08am 12/23/2007
(Sat night/Sun morning Saturday morning).
For more [...]
Posted in in the news, money, politics, the system on Dec 10th, 2007
On November 19th, the Maryland General Assembly voted to increase the state sales tax 20% (from 5% to 6%). At the same time they added computer support services, data center support, custom programming, consulting, and disaster recovery services to the list of services that will be taxed at the new rate (up from 0% previously). [...]
Posted in in the news on Nov 14th, 2007
There’s been a bit of hoopla making its way around the grapevine concerning the conviction of the 19-year old involved in the shooting at Annapolis Mall last November.
“After three and a half days of testimony about the Nov. 18, 2006 shooting, 19-year-old Javaughn Norman Adams was convicted of two counts of attempted second-degree murder [...]
Posted in in the news, site news on Aug 6th, 2007
I was quoted in today’s issue of Express. For those of you outside the DC metro area, Express is a free daily mini-paper published by the Washington Post. It has sudoku, crosswords, and enough news for metro riders to get the general idea of what’s happening in the world in four stops or less. I [...]
Posted in boozing, culture, film, in the news, money on Jul 25th, 2007
I predict that Emma Watson — who plays Hermione in the motion picture adaptations of J.K. Rowling’s bestselling series — will be in and out of rehab before the filming of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is completed.
Think I’m wrong? Take a look at Google Images.
I fear that she’ll follow in the footsteps of [...]
Posted in complaints, in the news, television on Jun 12th, 2007
Don Herbert — known to the world as “Mr. Wizard” — died today. Poor guy had bone cancer. He was 89.
I remember watching the show on Nickelodeon in awe, long before Bill Nye’s funky routine hit the screen. Hell, Bill Nye probably grew up watching Mr. Wizard too. I didn’t know this, but “when Late [...]
Posted in advertising, boozing, humor, in the news, oddities, television, web sites on Jun 11th, 2007
If you query “retarded wheelchair semi“, you find this jewel. A man was taken for 50mph ride when his wheelchair somehow got lodged in the front grille of a semi parked at a gas station. Neither the police nor the driver of the semi believed the initial reports from passing motorists that there was indeed [...]
Posted in food, in the news on Jun 7th, 2007
According to the Democrat & Chronicle, applications have been filed with Howard County to build a Wegmans in Columbia. It’s about bloody time the Rochester-based grocery store brought their fresh produce closer than Baltimore or Virginia. From the first time I stepped into the produce section of Wegmans while at college I was hooked; the [...]
Posted in advertising, culture, food, healthcare, in the news, oddities on Jun 2nd, 2007
Driving through Severna Park last week I noticed that the 7-11 on the corner of Benfield and Jumpers Hole had removed all references to Citgo in favor of a generic 7-11 logo. I suspected that they weren’t too keen on Hugo Chavez’s behavior. It turns out I was right, although late with the news as [...]
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