My Wife - Cruel to the Last Drop

My better half has come to a conclusion after last night’s attempt by the power supply to crush my left pinky. Her conclusion wasn’t:

You are a wonderful man beyond description
You are the best thing to ever happen to me
I’d die w/o you

Oh… No. No, no, no, no, not those. What was her conclusion?

That I [...]

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And Now for a Bottle of Whine

Gotta whine a bit today. Can’t be helped.
It all started out in the foggy mists of time, a long time back, in the murky period commonly known as “last night at 11:30pm”. As I was lifting a constant-current power supply (10A) to get ready for a copper-etching session, I did experience an Incident.
The Incident [...]

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Where has all the style gone?

Spurred by Stoaty’s post in The Weasel Times and Stoat Intelligencer I had to wonder… WHY do we not have more grace in our furniture, buildings, bridges, condoms, gummi-bears, etc.? And I don’t mean “why don’t we have boobs on our furniture?” I mean art and attention to detail and perhaps more than [...]

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Space Exploration Fueled by Killing Trees (cool)

Japanese Scientists, Origami Masters Hope to Launch Paper Airplane From Space
Yeah, too cool.
Right up until you read that there is no way to prove a damn thing because they can’t track it.
Oh.
Well why the hell didn’t you just take the money and go find the best sushi house in the country and invite the neighborhood? [...]

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A Quick and Shameless Weekly World News Plug…

Didn’t dig up much original stuff tonight, but there was something I had to mention. Heard it on BBC News Hour this morning (radio), where a gentleman was saying that there were going to be ordinances in this one area of England to get people healthier. Naturally, the rationale that it was a [...]

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Open Mouth, Insert Foot. Feet. Lots of feet.

In the “Ginormous Understatement of the Decade” Award category (Master Class), first place goes to H.R. Clinton for her gaffe referring to her courage under fire, regaling us with the tale of the First-Lady-seeking sniper (and reminding us of how she couldn’t remember a damn thing in Whitewater):

“I did make a mistake in talking about [...]

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Don’t believe everything you read…

Have people lost their MINDS? Where’s common sense?
I wonder if we’re not separated from barbarism by only two weeks like some have claimed, but considerably less in many instances.
- LK
Posted originally here: Craigslist Hoax

Oregon man’s property ransacked after Craigslist hoax
10:29 AM PDT on Monday, March 24, 2008
Associated Press
JACKSONVILLE, Ore. — A pair of hoax [...]

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A Bit of a Hiatus

Sorry folks. Been out for a while. Family tragedies happen and everything else has got to give. Especially blogs. I’m dedicating this to my mother, who would have loved to see some of this wild stuff in this post.
Taking it really slowly, I’m starting up again. Let’s have some fun, [...]

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I never knew…

Cruising down the highways of the internet, and the back roads, and the alleys, the sewers, and LO! Yes, even the bowels of the net, one can glean nuggets of the informational type that possess great value.
For instance, armed with new information I can raid the medicine chests of others to aid my hamster [...]

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A Man, a Plan, an Idiot Friend, a Gun, and… oh hell, just read the story.

Now, seein’ as how I grew up in the NorthWest and lived for a time just two cities away from Pasco (three cities are mushed into one, really - the Tri-Cities) I had to post this. I am of the opinion that you have to elect to be this stupid. It can come [...]

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