Sat, 30 Sep 2006 at 10:38 pm


North Berwick Cleans Up After Tornado

WCSH6.com - People In North Berwick Clean Up After Tornado

I just heard from my mother yesterday. She said that her sister’s, my aunt Rose’s, house was almost hit by a tornado that plowed through their back yard.

According to Aunt Rose:
“I looked out the window as the wind started picking up. I saw a white sheet moving across the back yard, through the trees. When it passed, all the trees were gone. I was screaming, Bob (uncle Bob) was yelling, it was terrifying.”

Aunt Rose’s house took some damage, but it is mostly intact, and both her and Uncle Bob are fine.

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Sat, 30 Sep 2006 at 11:46 am


NH Blog Con

Blog Free or Die!

george says

The New Hampshire Blog-Con is only 2 weeks away. Visit the official web page to get all the details.

Hope to see you all there!

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Fri, 29 Sep 2006 at 6:45 pm


CNN Fact Checks Inhofe’s Diatribe Against Global Warming

Read This Article on Sen Ihnofe, global warming, and CNN

My opinion of the mass media just ticked up a notch. Amazingly, CNN was actually doing what could almost be called. . . dare I say it . . . Journalism?

The background is that Republican Senator James Inhofe went on a 45 minute diatribe in congress on how the science of global warming was nonsense, and that the whole thing was a big hoax.

CNN, in an unprecedented display of journalism, aired a brief segment that dismantled Sen. Inhofe’s lies and misinformation. It did my heart good to see this. Maybe there is hope for the infotainment industry after all.

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Thu, 28 Sep 2006 at 4:04 pm


Lab Safety

No chemistry site is complete without a mention of laboratory safety.

blonde chemist
Obviously a real scientist and not just a model, is injured in a dangerous conflagration ignited by some chemicals or something

There. Now if you don’t know everything there is to know about lab safetly, I don’t know what else I can tell you.

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Sun, 24 Sep 2006 at 10:52 am


Mass Media

sunday supplement

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Sat, 23 Sep 2006 at 11:57 pm


Party Pictures

Had a great time at the party. Writing this while half asleep and half in the bag. had a great time. Need sleep.

As Edgar Allen Poe said: “sleep, those little slices of death. . . how I love them.” Or something like that. Whatevah.

K and K
K and K singing some duet song thingy

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Sat, 23 Sep 2006 at 5:25 pm


Party!

Tonight, Original Cindy and I are having a party. We shipped the kids off somewhere (I can’t remember. . . its somewhere around nearby I think), we bought some alcoholic beverages, and made lots of yummy foods.

There will be three couples and a single. Our plan — that is to say, its Cindy’s plan and I got to say “yes” — is to do some Playstation Karaoke and then get completely innoculated and falling down drunk.

There will be pictures. Hehehe. . .

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Sat, 23 Sep 2006 at 3:50 pm


Better Tanning Through Chemistry

Fair-skinned folk can rejoice. According to a report in ScienceNOW: Better Tanning Through Chemistry — ScienceNOW, There may be a way to get a real tan using chemistry.

tanning

Right now there are a number of fake-tan products on the market. Unfortunately, they all simply dye the skin, and can make you look like some weird, orange-skinned freak. However, in this latest study (which, disturbingly, involved shaved, mutated, mice), the “stuff” chemically alters your skin to provide the identical end-result of having an actual tan — And without the skin cancer.

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Wed, 20 Sep 2006 at 6:32 am


The 10 Percent

Well, thats it folks, the cats out of the bag. Apparently, lots of men who are married, who love their wives, and who insist they are straight, are actually running around with other men.

According to a new study (ABC News: It’s Not ‘Straight’ or ‘Gay,’ It’s What You’ve Done) 10 percent of men who were married and who identified themselves as straight also claimed to have had sex with a man in the last 12 months.

The lesson? If you are a married woman, and you suspect your guy is cheating on you, consider going beyond the usual — sniffing his clothes for perfume, checking his collar for lipstick, etc. The best tactic, as this study shows, is to have a friend call your husband anonymously and pretend to be a conducting a scientific study. Things that a guy wouldn’t tell his best friend (unless he’s sleeping with his best friend, I suppose. . . ) he will cheerfully spit out to an anonymous caller claiming to be conducting a poll or survey.

Humans are so weird.

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Tue, 19 Sep 2006 at 1:00 am


Talk Like a Pirate Day!

Yarr!

Today is Talk Like a Pirate Day

Talk Like a Pirate Day

Lets start with a fun little commercial for ABC Network’s Wife Swap — With PIRATES!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqw7_g4s5xY

And of course:

Top Ten Pickup lines for use on International Talk Like a Pirate Day

10 . Avast, me proud beauty! Wanna know why my Roger is so Jolly?
9. Have ya ever met a man with a real yardarm?
8. Come on up and see me urchins.
7. Yes, that is a hornpipe in my pocket and I am happy to see you.
6. I’d love to drop anchor in your lagoon.
5. Pardon me, but would ya mind if fired me cannon through your porthole?
4. How’d you like to scrape the barnacles off of me rudder?
3. Ya know, darlin’, I’m 97 percent chum free.
2. Well blow me down?

And the number one pickup line for use on International Talk Like a Pirate Day is …

1. Prepare to be boarded.

For more fun, any comments to this post will AUTOMATICALLY be translated into pirate-talk! Shiver me Timbers! Make a comment, and tell us how YOU are going to celebrate Talk Like a Pirate Day.

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