“We are a team of venture capitalists /project finance consultants who, a couple of years ago, were assembled by our various Governments to form a “Tenders Committee” established for the provision of financial consultation services…” [snip] “It was believed that since we would be located outside our countries we would be able to utilize and …
“The Bush campaign fully expects it will be outspent by a whole range of special-interest liberal groups,” said Terry Holt, the campaign’s spokesman. “Given that, we think our fund-raising goals are appropriate.” You know, of all the barefaced lies we’ve heard, that one might be the most blatant. Contributions of $1,000 or more made up …
This is very naughty. Very naughty, but very funny. Bad PFAW!
Those of you with large VHS tape libraries may want to read this; it’s a guide to the basics of burning DVDs from tape. Did you know the Library of Congress has put more than eight million images of historical documents online? If that’s not impressive enough, it has now put a digitized version of …
Now that was weird. My e-mail client downloaded the first six of twenty messages without a problem today, and then it locked. And it locked. And it locked. And it took three long-distance calls to the ISP to get it fixed, which included accessing the messages on the server, forwarding them to myself, and then …
Mr. Allen (all now bow in obeisance) is concerned that moving the MT-Blacklist news from his old blog to its new space caused some folks who might need updates to get lost. Be it known, then, that the Comment Spam Clearinghouse can now be found here. He wants these three points to be made Submitting …
Grantland Rice is better known for his sportswriting than for his poetry, but he worked for the nascent Stars and Stripes newspaper in Europe during WW I. He wrote this in the ’20s, I think. I found it at Poetry of the First World War. Two Sides of War All wars are planned by older …
With gratitude to and in memory of: Timberlake, Lewis G, b. 09/05/1924, d. 08/24/1993, CAPT USN, Plot: CT2 G-435, bur. 08/31/1993 Alford, James J, b. 03/16/1928, d. 12/20/1996, US Marine Corps, PFC, Res: Los Angeles, CA, Plot: CT3-K300347, bur. 01/23/1997 Thanks, Dad and Uncle Jim.
We are conducting a scientific experiment with these to determine whether one box really contains 8 servings of 16 crackers apiece, as stated on the package. Results to follow. Update: The experiment resulted in the label’s claim being accurate: 8 servings of 16 crackers apiece, although that last serving was in multiple broken pieces. We …
Mom heard a statistic cited yesterday which I thought I could verify easily. The question was “how many Americans have passports,” and the answer she heard was 44%. I went off to the Census Bureau’s site to see if I could find it, and was completely unsuccessful. I eventually wound up at the State Department’s …