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Telectroscope
An artist’s vivid imagination turned reality by use of fiberoptic communication. On display until June 15th.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,357307,00.html
Beer Gadgets
Neat little accessories for the modern alchoholic.
http://www.oddee.com/item_95814.aspx
Point Well Taken?
[quote][b]Man cuts car in half to make a point [/b]
TREDWORTH, England (UPI) — An outraged British man said he sawed his son’s car in half after local authorities clamped it for no reason.
Ian Taylor, 40 of Tredworth, England, said he was so upset to find his son’s Ford Fiesta was impounded, he was prompted to use a power disc cutter to chop it in half to stand up for his beliefs, the Sun reported Monday.
Taylor said the car was registered to be parked off the street, but the clamper nailed him because two inches of the back end was sticking out of the driveway.
“I had to make a point. The vehicle was totally legal where it was. It was a drastic step but I stand by my decision,” Taylor said.
Taylor said he told the clampers they could take the back end of the car because it was the section that violated the rules.[/quote]
That aughta show ‘em.
Homer Humor
Classic Quotes by Homer Simpson (1955- ) Power plant worker, astronaut, grease collections/sales, mayoral bodyguard, sports mascot, sanitation commissioner, et. al.
When will I learn? The answer to life’s problems aren’t at the bottom of a bottle, they’re on TV!
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When I look at the smiles on all the children’s faces, I just know they’re about to jab me with something.
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I’m normally not a praying man, but if you’re up there, please save me Superman.
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I want to share something with you: The three little sentences that will get you through life. Number 1: Cover for me. Number 2: Oh, good idea, Boss! Number 3: It was like that when I got here.
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How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive?
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Operator! Give me the number for 911!
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Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It’s what separates us from the animals. Except the weasel.
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Kids, just because I don’t care doesn’t mean I’m not listening.
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Maybe, just once, someone will call me “sir” without adding, “you’re making a scene.”
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Oh, everything’s too damned expensive these days. This bible cost 15 bucks! And talk about a preachy book! Everybody’s a sinner! Except this guy.
And the Winner is….
[quote]Man who lost homes in Katrina claims $97M Powerball prize By MELINDA DESLATTE, Associated Press Writer
2 hours, 53 minutes ago
A construction company owner who lost two homes in Hurricane Katrina claimed a $97 million Powerball prize, a jackpot won off a ticket he bought at a convenience store where he stopped to buy his wife a gallon of milk.
When he turned in the winning ticket, Carl Hunter became the largest Powerball winner in Louisiana’s history. He won the jackpot in January, but the 73-year-old small businessman waited nearly four months to claim the prize.
An avid lottery player, Hunter said he already had bought a Powerball ticket on Jan. 16 at the gas station less than two blocks from his home in the New Orleans suburb of Metairie. But he stopped at the station again that day to buy milk — at the request of his wife, Dianne — and got a second “quick pick” ticket.
“I had some change, and one dollar was used to buy this ticket,” Hunter said Thursday at the Louisiana Lottery Corp. headquarters in Baton Rouge, where he claimed his prize.
“It’s all about milk,” his wife said, smiling.
The couple, surrounded by cameras, was decidedly low-key about the multimillion dollar win, saying they didn’t have specific plans for the money — besides retirement and the rebuilding of a camp lost to Katrina.
“I’m retiring, you know, naturally,” Carl Hunter said.
Hunter took a lump sum payment that will give him $33.9 million after taxes, according to lottery officials. Asked why he waited so long to turn in the winning ticket, Hunter said he wanted to wrap up some of his construction work and finish his outstanding contracts. In fact, Hunter’s wife Dianne said he was still at work this week.
“I don’t think about buying elaborate cars or homes,” Carl Hunter said.
Hunter said he owned two homes that were destroyed in 2005 by Katrina, and he and his wife moved into a Metairie home she owned after the storm, the home that was near the gas station where he bought his winning ticket.
The multimillion dollar win wasn’t Hunter’s first winning lottery ticket. He said he won $5,000 off a ticket a few years ago.
West Metairie Shell, the gas station where Hunter bought his ticket, will get $25,000 for selling the winning ticket. The station, tucked among brick ranch homes and raised wooden houses in a middle-class neighborhood, lost its roof during Katrina, and the store was looted.[/quote]
So, the problem isn’t that the guy is old or that he and his wife already had enough money to own three houses or that they’ll probably die before they even get to send half of the money. The problem isn’t that this guy’s already one the lotto once ( c’mon, a measley $5K?)…. THEY WON $97 MILLION DOLLARS!!! After taxes? $33 million.
Taxes suck.
Great American Road Trip
So these three guys decided to travel through the lower 48 states of the continental U.S….. In 5 days!
greatamericanroadtrip.us
I am the Worst Driver Ever.
I’ve suffered through backing into a tree, running my rear wheel off the bridge in my own driveway while back out, and countless amounts of curb-hitting and parellel parking nighmares, and still mnaged to rate myself as “not-that-bad” on the driving scale. Until today.
I pulled my Civic into a spot next to an SUV this morning when I got to work. Since the lots at my office building are pretty tight when it comes to backing out, I try to pull into a spot where there’s only one car next to me and the spot on the other side is free, which leaves me some room. It’s always a gamble, though: either park clear across the parking lot or hope nobody parks next to you.
Long story short, the free space gets taken. The space in front of my gets taken, so there’s no chance of pulling through that one. What’s worse? The effing Toyota Tundra parked behind me. So I couldn’t get out of my space. Stuck. I was forced to go to the crappy little rip-off deli.
Why do I think I’m the worst driver ever? This isn’t the first time it’s happened to me. Actually, it’s the second time in 2 months.
Florida's Staying Classy
So, reading through my daily dose of strange news this morning, I noticed something well… strange.
First, I’ll summarize:
A kid calls the cops because he gets robbed by men he’s attempting to sell drugs to. Kid ends up getting both a felony and a misdemeanor possession charge.
A few teenagers get caught trying to steal a small alligator from a miniature gold course. This I just don’t get. Why does a miniature gold course have a gator in the first place?
In any case, the strange thing is that both of these dumb events happened in (you guessed it) South Florida. The next time someone asks me why I would move here from Ft. Lauderdale, I’ll just tell them I got sick of living in a city where the classiest people are tourists.
On another note, they are selling the Santa Monica Pier ferris wheel on E-bay, in case anyone has $50K burning a hole in their pocket.
Too Much Time on His Hands.
[quote]Company impressed with proposal hack
SEATTLE (UPI) — Officials with a Seattle video game company said they were delighted rather than irked to hear of a man who reprogrammed their game for a wedding proposal.
Bernie Peng, of Jersey City, N.J., said he spent one month reprogramming his girlfriend’s favorite game, “Bejeweled,” to display a wedding ring and a marriage proposal when she achieved a high enough score, the (Newark) New Jersey Star-Ledger reported Tuesday. His girlfriend, Tammy Li, reached the high score and subsequently accepted the proposal.
Officials with PopCap, the company that created the game, said they usually take issue with their games being reprogrammed, but they were so impressed by Peng’s story that they offered to pay for part of his wedding and offered to supply free copies of “Bejeweled 2 Deluxe” to guests at the August wedding.
“Most video game companies would frown on people manipulating their games,” said PopCap spokesman Garth Chouteau.
“But it won him a woman,” Chouteau said. “As a bunch of geeks we have to say, ‘Bernie, hats off to you.’”
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