Drainage
Drainage Originally uploaded by Linkmeister. Day 41 of miserable weather. If you think I ought to get over it, I would, but it’s so rare that it dominates every news program and every waking moment. Update: Three hours later, sunshine.
Archive of entries posted on March 2006
The Cos had something to say about this
This comedy routine is appropriate for our current weather: Whoompa, whoompa, whoompa, whoompa Noah! Somebody call? Whoompa, whoompa, whoompa Noah! Who is that? It’s the Lord, Noah Right! [snip] What’s going on? How come you want me to do all these weird things? I’m going to destroy the world Right! Am I on Candid Camera? …
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Lost, Season 2, “Lockdown”
At least, I think that was the name of tonight’s episode. If so, it’s a clever pun. Did we ever learn how Locke got stuck in the wheelchair in the first place? ‘Cause I thought for sure we were gonna see him injured in that flashback tonight.
Socked in
Week6weather Originally uploaded by Linkmeister. See that streetlamp in the background? There’s an entire mountain range behind it, trust me. From NOAA: NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HONOLULU HI 300 PM HST MON MAR 27 2006 …BEGINNING OF SIXTH WEEK OF EXCESSIVE RAINFALL IN HAWAII… SINCE MID FEBRUARY THE UPPER ATMOSPHERIC PATTERN ACROSS THE PACIFIC HAS BEEN …
Snappy answer
Here’s the best unanswered question I’ve seen about immigration: Why don’t workers have the same rights to cross borders that corporations do? I don’t suppose Lou Dobbs, James Sensenbrenner or Tom Tancredo have an answer to that, but I’d love to hear them try.
Bloggers Cook!
ATCT1 Originally uploaded by Linkmeister. Ginger of Hackenblog had an inspired idea a while back; she decided to create a cookbook to help raise money for Doctors Without Borders. She solicited recipes from other bloggers, and she got lots (including one of mine). The cookbook can be purchased at Lulu for a measly $15, and …
Anatomy of a Phish
The entire content of an e-mail I got today: From: “service@MYBANK.com” Subject: MYBANK Account Security Measures Notification [ Account Suspended 02:45:10 DST-0400 UTC] To: linkmeister@gmail.com HERE YA PUT THE HTML OF THAT WILL BE SHOWN ON E-MAIL. Training 101, huh?
Holy Cow!
Do you believe in miracles? YES! I attended two classes at George Mason between my junior and senior years of high school, so I (now) consider myself an alum.
Si se puede!
Bob Chamberlin/LAT Plane Wreck at Los Gatos The crops are all in and the peaches are rotting, The oranges are packed in their creosote dumps. They’re flying ’em back to the Mexico border To take all their money to wade back again. Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita, Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria. You …
When will they ever learn?
Julia suggests “Post an anti-war song.” Fine by me. When you look into a child’s face And you’re seeing the human race And the endless possibilities there Where so much can come true And you think of the beautiful things A child can do How long — would the child survive How long — if …