I remember being at a friend's house once. He was making a phone call for some reason, and realized that he had dialed a wrong number. So he left a prank message on the wrong number's machine, and hung up. I was horrified at this, and wanted to know why he would do such a cruel thing. After all, wasn't using the phone terrifying and awkward enough ( Read more... )

Ship Island is one of the barrier islands off the Mississippi Gulf Coast. There is a commercial ferry that brings tourists to and from the island twice daily to swim on its beaches, walk through its dunes, and explore historic Fort Massachusetts.

( Girls, dolphins, memories... )

Saw this on marinshellstone's journal. Looked like something to keep me occupied for a half-hour or so.

1. Choose 12 books that you like.
2. Write down the first sentence or so of each of those books.
3. Let other people try to figure out the titles.
4. Cross off books as they are guessed, let us know the correct answers and who guessed them.

( The list )

So today I happened to be comparing the packaging on Schick's Quattro razor with trimmer, which comes in two flavors-the kind "For Women," and the "Titanium" kind for everybody else ( Read more... )

From Terry Pratchett's Unseen Academicals:

I have told this to few people, gentlemen, and I suspect I never will again, but one day when I was a young boy on holiday in Uberwald I was walking along the bank of a stream when I saw a mother otter with her cubs. A very endearing sight, I'm sure you will agree, and even as I watched, the mother otter ( Read more... )

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This is an article that illustrates a very important point about the world economy.

Revealed: The ghost fleet of the recessionAt issue is the fact that Western retailers are expecting relatively low consumer demand for the holiday season, and therefore aren't ordering as much stock. This means that the shipping industry, which historically has ( Read more... )

You know, the more I hear about the health care debate going on right now, the more I'm reminded of this story I read once. It involved a protagonist who was trying to run a health care system that served its patients in the best way possible, on the basis of the best available objective scientific knowledge, but who was impeded at every turn by ( Read more... )

Even Wal-Marts and storage places can be cool looking when the landscape forces them into an interesting terraced design.

Driving on the interstate is a lot less interesting than driving on highways.

There is no swirling energy vortex at the end of I-40. I always thought there would be when I was a kid.

The bottlecap from the Jones soda I had at lunch informed me "You will succeed at your current plans." Given that all I was doing today was driving a lot without any plans, how is that applicable? Also, "except in bed ( Read more... )