“Don’t know what to get Dad for Father’s Day?”
How about his very own town?
Archive of posts filed under the Amusing/Interesting/Appalling category.
Various amusing or interesting topics, or things that shock and appall me. Kind of a miscellaneous bin.
Ordering Checks, Revisited
On the topic of ordering checks… I called them back today, hoping to get some confirmation that I’d actually placed an order. After laboriously entering all of my information — again — the system again cheerfully told me that my last order was placed three years ago, and shipped the next day. Fortunately, it also …
“$45 Emergency Menu for 4 to 6”
This is an older posting that I just discovered. It sounds doable.
Sagging Pants: a Major Problem?
Yesterday I saw an article that said that the Dallas city council was considering banning “saggy pants.” Today I see that they’re not the only ones. I can fully sympathize with their moral outrage. At a gas station in Virginia, several years ago, I had the misfortune of seeing a brother whose pants were cut …
“Pac-Man Skull”
Good Lord, they’ve found Pac-Man’s prehistoric ancestor! 😉
For Those With More Money Than Sense…
Got a few million burning a hole in your wallet? Here are a few suggestions for wasting it: A million-dollar ice cream cone (and you can’t even eat it!); two million dollar rims (what, they don’t even spin?); and a million-dollar laptop (it doesn’t say what speed it is, dammit).
Thief Left Holding the Bag
But you’ve got to admit, she has balls.
Perfect Desktop Background Pictures
I found a bunch of perfect desktop background images for my Linux machine today, via Boing Boing: pictures of milk droplets falling into coffee, taken with an extremely high-speed camera.
“Man Freed From Restaurant’s Exhaust Vent”
Once again, truth proves to be stranger than fiction.
Coby MP-C7052 MP3 Player — ouch!
“It is a rare day indeed we come across a piece of technology that so utterly fails at its intended purpose,” opines CNET editor Jasmine France, “but American electronics manufacturer Coby has managed to produce just such a device […] we were a bit surprised at the atrocity of this digital audio player.” Editor’s rating: …