I just got an Olympus Evolt E-300 on a whim at Fry's today. Sales guy told me how he applied for computers / audio but was put in cameras (which he knew nothing about). He learned about the cameras by purchasing all the expensive cameras and returning them he says (no joke!). There is a 15 day period after you purchase something where no open box ( Read more... )

I've been up looking for my birth certificate. This is not cool...I have no idea where it is! I recently moved so it couldbe around here but I'm now doubting it. I've been tearing apart my ( Read more... )

Weird train of thought just now, and an even more strange set of events. Check this out:
I was sitting on my bed leaning against the wall while gnawing on a great Italian ( Read more... )

Found story here: http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4087919
"Mermaid" here: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=574&u=/nm/20050202/wl_nm/life_peru_mermaid_dc_1&printer=1

In other news… (while looking for the story elsewhere)
Google cache: Related to mermaid article search
Newkirk in the news

"Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)"
Phi*lol"o*gy (?), n. [L. philologia love of learning, interpretation, philology, Gr. : cf. F. philologie. See Philologer.]

1. Criticism; grammatical learning. [R.] Johnson.

2. The study of language, especially in a ( Read more... )

I saw pictures of some of the most beautiful nacreous clouds above Antarctica today while browsing the archive of the EPOD from 12-10-2003

I saw pictures of some of the most beautiful nacreous clouds above Antarctica today while browsing the archive of the EPOD from 12-10-2003. http://epod.usra.edu/archive/epodviewer.php3?oid=167296

( Read more... )