Archive for the Everything Else Category
For this reason alone, I would like to have goats!
There’s a neat place in Tiger, GA called ‘Goats On The Roof’ that has… well, goats on the roof (website). I’ve not been there, but Cindy has (and brought back a T-shirt!).
I’ve never owned goats, never been around goats, and never eaten a goat. But they seem like interesting animals, and they’re good for keeping the grass cropped. There are, in fact, companies that rent out goats for grass cutting. Google uses them, and they made the news a while back (sorry, no link).
We’ve got 2.2 acres, and we’re not in a sub-division. I’m pretty sure we’re zoned for goats, since other people have some, along with chickens and cows. But our property is rather hilly, and very difficult to fence. So I guess I won’t have goats, or a goat tower, until we move to 500 acres in the country (right after we win the lottery)…
An interesting collection of painted hands. I especially like this one and the giraffe.
Too cute!
From Gizmodo…
According to one of the comments:
This was a publicity stunt for Leb Heir hydraulics, showing the strength of their retrofitted system.
The tower was made for it, as was the quick connect where the bucket is, there was also another quick connect on the body of the excavator that allowed it to anchor to the tower.
I can only conclude that the driver must be totally bats**t whacko.
Wonderful video of a Japanese zoo preparing for a rhino escape. Watching it without sound makes it even funnier.
This weekend was the SVRA season finale at Road Atlanta. A friend of ours, Colbi Bradley, raced a 1972 MGB GT 300 horsepower V8 (group 8AP) and a 1970 Lola T-200 Formula Ford (group 2FF). Overall, she did well.
In the group 8AP race, she placed 2nd in class, and 4th of 19 overall. For the group 2FF race, she placed 3rd in class, 11th of 14 overall.
Colbi comes from a karting background, racing since she was 4. She most recently raced 125cc shifter karts, before moving into full size cars.
Collection of photos from the Road Atlanta SVRA Season Finale on 2008/10/19, and some selected photos on Flickr.
Years ago, I remember staying up late to watch Saturday Night Live. Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase, John Belushi, Gilda Radner. Jane Curtin, Laraine Newman, and Garrett Morris. It was funny. It was cutting edge. It was great.
After 1980 or so, I pretty much stopped watching it. Other interests, playing on my Apple II and Z-80 CP/M systems, tinkering on the car, etc. Every so often I’d catch an episode and think “It’s just not what it used to be…”
So this weekend, Sarah Palin and Tina Fey were on. I thought I’d give it a watch, since I’d seen one of the Tina Fey segments in a YouTube video, and Sarah is pretty hot. So I tore myself away from an ARM7-based embedded Ethernet project I’ve been working on, and plunked down in front of the tube at 23:30.
The opening segment was funny. The next half hour, of which 15 minutes was commercials, absolutely sucked. Not just bad, but BAD. Stupid bad. So bad, I let TiVo finish recording it, and wandered off to bed, hoping that it will look better in the morning.
Sunday evening I decided to watch the rest, or at least fast forward through it. More total suckage. More commercials. Even MORE commercials. And then there were some more commercials. Oh wait, here’s some more SNL. The ‘Weekend Update’ (still running, after Dog knows how many years) was mildly amusing. Not much Sarah action in it, and I despise rap “music”, but it was cute.
And the more commercials. A 3 minute SNL segment, surrounded by 10 minutes of commercials.
Then I realized SNL was simply so bad that they had to run lots of commercials, because the commercials were more entertaining than the show! In fact, two of the commercials actually made me laugh. Unlike the idiotic “MacGruber” sketches. Of which I had to suffer/fast-forward through three. Insanely stupid, and I swear I saw the same ones 3 years ago by accident.
And some crap of businessmen sitting around the table calling each other ‘Fart Face’ or something. After 30 seconds of that, I fast-forwarded to the next segment, er, I mean, commercial break.
The rest of the show is seriously unmemorable. I’d rather have a migraine than sit through and hour and a half of this garbage. Why is it even still on the air?
I understand that SNL experienced it’s best ratings in 14 years. *14* years. The last best rating was in 1994. That was so long ago, I can’t even remember what happened in 1994. Wikipedia says Burt Lancaster died in 1994. Maybe that’s why there’s been no better ratings since then…
I doubt Lorne Michaels will ever read this. I’m sure he gets plenty of hate mail and doesn’t have time to read blogs. I can only assume that having been in the television industry as long as he has, the “this is funny” judgment brain cells have died. Because if he had functional brain cells, he’d realize the crap he’s allowing to be produced under the title “Saturday Night Live” is complete disrespect to the comedic geniuses that built the show.
Lorne, cancel SNL now. No one will miss it. In fact, consider broadcasting a test pattern. It’s funnier, and far less annoying. Or run more commercials (preferably ones with kittens and puppies, people like those). Or run the old shows. But get these no talent-hacks off the air and back to the Wal-Mart cashier positions you stole them from.
After the agony of watching this episode of SNL, be assured I won’t be watching any more. I’ll stick to sitting in the front of the PC with my dog at my feet, swilling Diet Coke.
Title says it all 
A friend of mine sent me this link to the ‘Fundies Say The Darndest Things’ website.
This particular link is to the top 100 list, and contains such gems as:
I can sum it all up in three words: Evolution is a lie
and
To say the Bible was written by men and may contain inaccuracies completely contradicts the word of the Bible.
There’s just so many great quotations, it’s hard not to quote them all. Read and enjoy. And then go mock a fundie.
From Fox News:
Blonde Swedish twins stopped traffic Friday, literally, as they darted back and forth between oncoming vehicles on a busy highway before being hauled away, kicking and screaming, by authorities.
Remarkable CCTV footage posted by the Sun of London shows the young women throwing themselves onto the M6 motorway in what could best be described as a real-life game of ‘Frogger,’ the object of which is to cross a busy freeway without becoming road kill.
The video shows one of the women getting hit by a van. She miraculously gets back up and tries to run back onto the highway. Her sister, the Sun reports, was hit twice by oncoming cars.
Police tried to detain the women, who struggled free to race back onto the road. The bizarre “game” ends when the twins are eventually forced off the highway and taken to an ambulance by force.
Link to The Sun with CCTV video footage.