First it was the Crocodile Hunter. Now it's the Snake King. What's this world coming to?

And in not completely unrelated news I found the Pizza Place! That place that everyone looks for and no one finds. The place with undisputedly the worst "pizza" in Seattle ( Read more... )

Look out! This icicle could kill somebody!


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The snow loves Shoreline. This morning I delayed my commute to avoid any complications but as I made it past Northgate there was no snow to be seen, even though at home I had at least two inches. This afternoon same story in reverse; icy rain until Kenmore and then the temperature drops to 30ºF and big puffy snowflakes start coming down, hard. Wait ( Read more... )

At the beginning of the year it was announced that Spain was going to sell a bunch of military equipment to Venezuela. The US government immediately showed their displeasure about the whole affair and weeks later officialy banned Spain from exporting US technology to Venezuela. After that the Spanish and Venezuelan governments proceeded to beat ( Read more... )

First North Korea tests a nuclear bomb and now I find out that Hershey's bought Scharffen Berger back in July. It's only a matter a time before the world ends...


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No, it's not a breast.

With the defense budget at half a trillion dollars a year the DoD has money to burn, or at least to give some very lucrative contracts to a selected few. Nothing wrong with that, since everyone knows private companies are always better at running things than the government. Now, I had already read several articles describing ( Read more... )

I just had a blue bubble gum Jones soda and it tasted like Red Bull. I'm not sure how blue bubble gum is supposed to taste like but sure it's not like Red Bull.

Sometimes (okay, often) you hear politicans say really stupid things, and for some reason Republicans have a slight edge in this area. Anyway, yesterday I was reading the paper when I came accross this small jewel:

ATLANTA, April 17 - Gov. Sonny Perdue signed a sweeping immigration bill on Monday that supporters and critics say gives Georgia some ( Read more... )

A couple of weeks there was a good article on The Economist titled "Inconspicuous consumption" about how luxury goods are pervading society; it is becoming increasingly difficult for the super-rich to differentiate themselves from the rabble, now that every schmuck has a Louis Vuitton bag (including some of my co-workers.) This is a phenomenon that ( Read more... )

It seems god's commandments can easily be circumvented by using timers: http://www.star-k.org/cons-appl-frigidaire.htm

There are not many things out there that can surpass the comedic value of good old religion...