This is bizarre
Fireworks during the eclipse later this month? Is the flea market management unclear on the concept, or has it no sense of the rarity of the event? What do you think?
Archive of posts filed under the Weirdness category.
Some Texans are bonkers
And their Governor is a fool. Apparently there’s something about the office itself which makes its occupants even more stupid than they started out to be. That’s harsh, Link! Well, sorry, but it’s true. See, there’s this US military training operation called Jade Helm (.pdf) being planned by the US Army. Its purpose is to …
Disappearances
It is extraordinarily bizarre that an airplane could just disappear, but Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 isn’t the first to do so. Time magazine has enumerated six others from history. There’s Air France 447, the one many newscasters have mentioned as a parallel situation when discussing speculating about what might have happened to Flight MH370. There’s …
Even for Oklahoma
This is bizarre. Even from a state which elected Tom Coburn and James Inhofe, instituting a citywide dress code which insists that the only school colors kids can wear are those of the U of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State U? Parochial, provincial, xenophobic; pick your adjective. News9.com – Oklahoma City, OK – News, Weather, Video …
Fantasyland
Listening to the hourly NPR newscast at 11:00pm HST (5:00am EDT) I heard Senator John Kyl of Arizona say we won’t default on our debt. “We can’t. The Constitution won’t allow it.” Er, what? Senator, unless you and your colleagues in Congress vote to increase the debt ceiling, we certainly can default. How would the …
Last night I had the strangest dream
This needs explanation (or exorcism): Last night I had a really odd dream. I was stuck in traffic on one of the main roads into Honolulu in a British Racing Green 1979 Triumph Spitfire, a car I actually owned and drove from 1980 through 1985. I had turned left off a side street onto the …
It’s OK, Russell Crowe’s not among them
This is definitely intriguing. An archaeological dig near York in northern England may have uncovered a gladiator cemetery. About 80 remains have been found since the investigation began in 2004, with more than half of them decapitated. Researchers believe they may form part of the world’s only well-preserved Roman gladiator cemetery. Kurt Hunter-Mann, a field …
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Oddities of packaging
I was given six pairs of socks for Christmas, and they came in a resealable bag. Huh?
Excess packaging
We just got a box from Signals which had two Christmas gifts in it — two items made of cloth. The items were in a box about 2 feet long, 1 foot wide, and 6 inches high, which was ridiculously large. Worse, the items were surrounded by a zillion stryofoam peanuts. I imagine there’s a …
Notable SF writer visits Creation Museum
Let me say this much: I have to admit admiration for the pure balls-out, high-octane creationism that’s on offer here. Not for the Creation Museum that mamby-pamby weak sauce known as “Intelligent Design,” which tries to slip God by as some random designer, who just sort of got the ball rolling by accident. Screw that, …
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