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Jun. 27th, 2005 06:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Back to the game at hand. Not looking forward to workload or the Monday meeting, but it'll get weathered.
Some LEO that doesn't know a browser from his bunghole is trying to tell us to totally redesign our website with no security, so it's easier to use. We'll see how nicely I can package that information for the chief later on.
Didn't get to go out to a movie yesterday, but had a fine time just staying in.
How to win more coin tosses
Always call tails. On U.S. coins, the heads side, with its big, solid portrait, weighs infinitesimally more: In the course of 10,000 tosses, the lighter tails side will come up an extra 50 or so times.
8 Things You Probably thought you knew, but didn't
- An American, Abner Doubleday, invented baseball. This myth was purposely fabricated by the dangerously patriotic founder of the Spalding sporting goods company in the early 1900s. In reality, 250 years ago the British were playing a primitive version called both "rounders" and "base-ball", and Jane Austen refers to baseball by name in 1798's Northanger Abbey, 40 years before its supposed invention at Cooperstown.
- The Sphinx's nose was shot off by Napoleon's troops. Actually, it was busted off in the 1300s by an Islamic militant... they were trouble even then... who considered it a pagan idol and therefore blasphemous.
- A captain of a ship at sea can perform weddings. Seems logical enough, the couple being in international waters and all, but it ain't true: In fact, U.S. Navy regulations, and those of the navies of many other countries, specifically prohibit ships' commanders from joining people in marriage.
- Your hair and nails continue to grow after you die. Nope...but the fleshy parts of your body recede from your hair and nails, making them appear longer.
- Bumblebee flight violates the laws of aerodynamics. Nothing that flies violates the laws of aerodynamics... that's why they're laws.
- Humans use just 10 percent of their brains. Because the brain is highly specialized, we only use a tiny fraction of its cells at any one time... it's closer to 5 percent... but we use virtually all of it over the course of a day.
- Cutting/shaving hair makes it grow faster. Not by the hair of your chinny-chin-chin: How fast hair grows back, like how quickly a man goes bald, is simply a matter of genetics.
- Einstein was a crappy student. You wish. He was gifted at Latin and Greek as a boy, and doing college-level physics at 11. Yes, he got expelled from high school, but only because he couldn't master French...and as a pre-World War German, he probably assumed France would be speaking German soon enough anyway.
Hello, and welcome to my homepage. My name is Ulrich Haarbürste and I like to write stories about Roy Orbison being wrapped up in cling-film.
I spend a lot of time looking a glowing rectangles. Computer screens and windows, mostly.
I've linked to Monster toys before, but I really miss my toy wolfman lately.
Giant Popsicle Melts, Floods NYC Park (If they'd had a giant monkey, this could've been averted.)
NEW YORK - An attempt to raise the world's largest ice pop in a city square ended with a scene straight out of a disaster film — but much stickier.
The 25-foot-tall, 17 1/2-ton treat of frozen Snapple juice melted faster than expected Tuesday, flooding Union Square in downtown Manhattan with kiwi-strawberry-flavored fluid that sent pedestrians scurrying for higher ground.
Firefighters closed off several streets and used hoses to wash away the sugary goo. Some passers-by slipped in the puddles, but no serious injuries were reported.
Snapple had been trying to promote a new line of frozen treats by setting a record for the world's largest ice pop, but called off the stunt before it was pulled fully upright by a construction crane. Officials said they were worried the thing would collapse in the 80-degree, first-day-of-summer heat.
"We planned for this. ... We just didn't expect for it to happen so fast," said Snapple spokeswoman Lauren Radcliffe. She said the company would offer to pay the city for the cleanup costs.
The giant ice pop was supposed to have been able to withstand the heat for some time, and organizers weren't sure why it didn't. It had been made in Edison, N.J., and hauled to New York by freezer truck in the morning.
"My theory is that it was a combination of the heat ... and it may not have been frozen all the way through," Radcliffe said.
She said the company was unlikely to make a second attempt to break the record, set by a 21-foot ice pop in Holland in 1997.
RAINBOW PRIMATES : Christian fundamentalist monkey breeders. Explore this site at your own risk.
Jello for people that don't want to chomp on hooves -
Dear Customer,
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Try our other flavors:
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Clips from found footage festival - the last bit with the "an accident takes only a second" is pretty morbidly funny.(about the last 1/8 of the movie)
Dumb Laws, by state
Speaking of the law - in the Middle Ages, you had approximately as much authority as the sheriff to make an arrest. Thanks to the legal tradition of posse comitatus, or "power of the county," and our citizens'-rights-preserving Ninth Amendment, you still retain much of that power. Generally speaking, you can arrest and detain a criminal suspect if the crime was committed in your presence or you have good reason to believe the guy's guilty (unfortunately, he can't just look funny); if the crime is a felony; or if you can turn the person over to a real cop in timely fashion. Beyond this, laws vary from state to state: In liberal Massachusetts, you can be sued by your detainee for false arrest/imprisonment, while in badass Kentucky you're actually allowed to kill your suspect if he tries to flee.
Gorgeous landscape picture of Paris by night. If I ever start using 13 monitors, this will be my wallpaper.
1 year ago - le prince bleu, abandoned airfields, warwalking, bus census, Nepal and a sweating god, giganticus / fin fang foom, bro,
2 years ago - new ren & stimpy poor, battlestar galactica back, evil lj typo-site, physical therapy, no-call list,
3 years ago - Arsenic & peg legs, Dan's Dad out of the hospital, Kevin Prescribed daily pills, last bit of magonia (relocation)
4 years ago - nutraceutical, blackguard, caucasians pre amerind?, Santie stays, WO record sheets, Bohemian queen sends me eyeball holos!, evil news, Electron Band Structure In Germanium, My Ass, AOK scripting, Paula Poundstone arrested for child abuse.
5 years ago - Pre-breakup confrontation with April
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Date: 2005-06-27 12:12 pm (UTC)This comment brought to you by too many science classes.
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Date: 2005-06-27 01:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-06-27 12:19 pm (UTC)The no hooves jellow is a hoot. :0)
Still not sure I'm down with the way it would squish around in my mouth, though...
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Date: 2005-06-27 01:06 pm (UTC)I had to sniff around, just to be sure a little doo-bee could eat jello guilt-free! I can't do much about the freaky "I'm eating plastic" mouth feel, though.
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Date: 2005-06-27 01:27 pm (UTC)Haha..well, thank you! Are you going to try them? I might have to give myself a little push and try 'em.
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Date: 2005-06-27 01:30 pm (UTC)That's one of those myths that I can't get people to stop trying to get me to believe...just like the myths about how we catch colds.
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Date: 2005-06-27 01:37 pm (UTC)Oh..and another! The one about - if you swallow gum, it stays inside you for 10 years. ;)
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Date: 2005-06-27 02:40 pm (UTC)eww.
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Date: 2005-06-27 02:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-06-27 02:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-06-27 02:41 pm (UTC)Nah, you'll just get wet. it you lick a doorknob, grems might get you,though.
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Date: 2005-06-27 03:01 pm (UTC)Someone explained that cold symptoms don't show themselves as early as 24 hours after infection...and the getting wet thing is a myth. Not sure he believed the person who explained it.
He was from Holland...lived in England..then came here...guess it's not just an American myth.
My Russian friends used to think using ice in drinks caused colds.
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Date: 2005-06-27 03:28 pm (UTC)maybe it's frozen, germy russian water? Siberian Sinus gunk?
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Date: 2005-06-27 12:22 pm (UTC)I did think this was true. Certainly seems to when I have to shave.
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Date: 2005-06-27 01:04 pm (UTC)An Outrage!
Date: 2005-06-27 12:35 pm (UTC)Well, at least the bastards didn't go so far as to require people to actually use the toilet paper!
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Date: 2005-06-27 01:02 pm (UTC)Re: An Outrage!
Date: 2005-06-27 01:03 pm (UTC)Re: An Outrage!
Date: 2005-06-27 01:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-06-27 03:38 pm (UTC)don