Friday, August 19, 2005
Funny Stuff From George Carlin
"A lot of people worry that their drinking water isn't safe, because it contains things that cause cancer. Not me. I don't care if the water is safe or not, I drink it anyway. You know why? Because I'm an American and I expect a little cancer in my water. I'm a loyal citizen and I'm not happy unless government and industry have poisoned me a little every day."
Kim's Law #7
The earlier I have to get up in the morning, the louder and longer my neighbor will play his music at night.
What Can Kill You
Fifteen days ago, I read that smoking can kill you;
The next day I stopped smoking...
Twelve days ago, I read that too much red meat can kill you;
The next day I stopped eating red meat...
Eight days ago, I read that drinking can kill you;
The next day I stopped drinking...
Yesterday, I read that having sex can kill you;
This morning I stopped reading.
The next day I stopped smoking...
Twelve days ago, I read that too much red meat can kill you;
The next day I stopped eating red meat...
Eight days ago, I read that drinking can kill you;
The next day I stopped drinking...
Yesterday, I read that having sex can kill you;
This morning I stopped reading.
Stupid News Story of The Day
(Someone's been sleeping in MY bed, and there he is!)
Drug Suspect Found Asleep in Woman's Bed
ARNOLD, Pa. - The bed may have felt just right, but police say the way a drug suspect got there was all wrong. Police charged Ernest Demar Boyd, 32, with breaking into a woman's house and falling asleep in her bed.
Authorities also said they found Boyd with a white powder and 17 white rocks, which they said are drugs — or a substance meant to look like crack cocaine.
"What is that? It looks like soap to me," Boyd said after police found the rocks in his pants pocket, along with some cash, according to a criminal complaint.
Boyd was charged with possession with intent to deliver crack cocaine, drug possession, distribution of a counterfeit drug, receiving stolen property and robbery.
Police charged Boyd with robbery because they said he took $20 from the woman when she tried to wake him up early Wednesday. Boyd told the woman to leave him alone, so she called police.
It was not immediately clear if Boyd had an attorney.
Thursday, August 18, 2005
Stupid News Story of The Day
(Sometimes it's just better to let them get away)
Fisherman dies chasing fish that stole his pole
BERLIN (Reuters) - A fish caught in an east German lake near the Polish border not only got off the hook but also lured a 46-year-old fisherman to his death, police in the eastern town of Eisenhuettenstadt said Tuesday.
A police spokeswoman said the fish pulled the fishing rod out of the man's hands and dragged it about 100 metres away from shore at the Kleinen Pohlitzer lake near Eisenhuettenstadt. The man took off his clothes and swam after the pole.
An eyewitness said the man reached the rod floating on the surface but then suddenly stopped moving. The witness, 54, swam out to help him and pulled the fisherman back to shore, where he was later pronounced dead, police said.
"I know it sounds like an incredible story but it really happened," an Eisenhuettenstadt police spokeswoman said. "It was apparently just an ordinary fish."
Wednesday, August 17, 2005
Rest in peace, Stuckey. You always kept the fish tank algae free. The other fishies will miss you.
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Fake News Story of The Week
Dozens of spectators were killed and several other injured when Hans Huge, a favorite in the long jump, fell while landing. Hans Huge, the only giant in the competition, landed his jump and then lost his footing, careening some 200 feet into the spectator section. Hans expressed his sorrow at the unfortunate event, saying, "I am truly sorry for any damage I caused by my accident. But it is not my fault that I am so...huge. I am only human. I can fall down just like anyone can." In better news, Hans Huge did set a new world record on this jump, which is not much of a condolence to the families of those killed.
Kim's Law #6
Bigger is not always better.
No, I am not talking about THAT (dirty minds...tsk tsk - hehe)...I am talking about things in general. Like this apple I had for lunch the other day. It was big and red and round...the biggest apple of the bunch. It looked great, but it tasted nasty!
No, I am not talking about THAT (dirty minds...tsk tsk - hehe)...I am talking about things in general. Like this apple I had for lunch the other day. It was big and red and round...the biggest apple of the bunch. It looked great, but it tasted nasty!
Quiz Time
Your Scent is Pumpkin PieWarm, comforting, and a bit old fashioned You've got what men want - believe it or not! What Scent Are You? Take This Quiz :-) |  |
Silly Stuff
Here is something I stole off of someone's blog who stole it off of someone else's blog - hehe
1. YOUR PORN STAR NAME: (Name of first pet / Street you live on) Honeybear Mountain View
2. YOUR MOVIE STAR NAME: (Name of your favorite snack food / Grandfather's first name): Fritos Clyde
3. YOUR FASHION DESIGNER NAME: (First word you see on your left / Favorite restaurant): June Mc Clintocks
4. EXOTIC FOREIGNER ALIAS: (Favorite Spice / Last Foreign Vacation Spot): Rosemary None (I have never been in a foreign country - lol)
5. SOCIALITE ALIAS: (Silliest Childhood Nickname / Town Where You First Partied): Kimmawimma Bakersfield
6. "FLY GIRL/BOY" ALIAS (a la J. Lo): (First Initial / First Two or Three Letters of your Last Name): K. Per
7. ICON ALIAS: (Something Sweet Within Sight / Any Liquid in Your Kitchen): Peppermint Milk
8. DETECTIVE ALIAS: (Favorite Baby Animal / Where You Went to High School): Puppy Maricopa
9. BARFLY ALIAS: (Last Snack Food You Ate / Your Favorite Alcoholic Drink): Chips Mai Tai
10. SOAP OPERA ALIAS: (Middle Name / Street Where You First Lived): Lynn River
11. ROCK STAR ALIAS: (Favorite Candy / Last Name Of Favorite Musician): Whatchamacallit Page
12. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: ( First 2 letters of your first name and the first 3 Letters from your last name makes your first name. Take the first 2 letters of your mother's maiden name and the first 3 letters of the city you were born in): Kiper Masan
1. YOUR PORN STAR NAME: (Name of first pet / Street you live on) Honeybear Mountain View
2. YOUR MOVIE STAR NAME: (Name of your favorite snack food / Grandfather's first name): Fritos Clyde
3. YOUR FASHION DESIGNER NAME: (First word you see on your left / Favorite restaurant): June Mc Clintocks
4. EXOTIC FOREIGNER ALIAS: (Favorite Spice / Last Foreign Vacation Spot): Rosemary None (I have never been in a foreign country - lol)
5. SOCIALITE ALIAS: (Silliest Childhood Nickname / Town Where You First Partied): Kimmawimma Bakersfield
6. "FLY GIRL/BOY" ALIAS (a la J. Lo): (First Initial / First Two or Three Letters of your Last Name): K. Per
7. ICON ALIAS: (Something Sweet Within Sight / Any Liquid in Your Kitchen): Peppermint Milk
8. DETECTIVE ALIAS: (Favorite Baby Animal / Where You Went to High School): Puppy Maricopa
9. BARFLY ALIAS: (Last Snack Food You Ate / Your Favorite Alcoholic Drink): Chips Mai Tai
10. SOAP OPERA ALIAS: (Middle Name / Street Where You First Lived): Lynn River
11. ROCK STAR ALIAS: (Favorite Candy / Last Name Of Favorite Musician): Whatchamacallit Page
12. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: ( First 2 letters of your first name and the first 3 Letters from your last name makes your first name. Take the first 2 letters of your mother's maiden name and the first 3 letters of the city you were born in): Kiper Masan
Blast From The Past
Here's a little tune that some of you may remember, albeit an annoyingly catchy one. I am sure it will get stuck in some people's heads...as it does in mine from time to time.
weird song, isn't it - I think it was done by a group called Barnes & Barnes or something back in the '80's.
Fish heads fish heads roly poly fish heads
Fish heads fish heads eat them up yum
Fish heads fish heads roly poly fish heads
Fish heads fish heads eat them up yum
In the morning laughing happy fish heads
In the evening floating in the soup
Fish heads fish heads roly poly fish heads
Fish heads fish heads eat them up yum
Ask a fish head anything you want to
They won't answer they can't talk
Fish heads fish heads roly poly fish heads
Fish heads fish heads eat them up yum
I took a fish head out to see a movie
Didn't have to pay to get it in
Fish heads fish heads roly poly fish heads
Fish heads fish heads eat them up yum
They can't play baseball they don't wear sweaters
They're not good dancers they don't play drums
Fish heads fish heads roly poly fish heads
Fish heads fish heads eat them up yum
Roly poly fish heads are never seen drinking cappuccino
In Italian restaurants with oriental women yeah
Fish heads fish heads roly poly fish heads
Fish heads fish heads eat them up yum
weird song, isn't it - I think it was done by a group called Barnes & Barnes or something back in the '80's.
Funny Stuff From George Carlin
"I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer's disease where they slowly began to recover other people's lost memories."
Stupid News Story of The Day
(A laptop. A laptop. I'd sacrifice my dignity for a laptop!)
Va. Laptop Sale Turns Into a Stampede
RICHMOND, Va. - A rush to purchase $50 used laptops turned into a violent stampede Tuesday, with people getting thrown to the pavement, beaten with a folding chair and nearly driven over. One woman went so far as to wet herself rather than surrender her place in line.
"This is total, total chaos," said Latoya Jones, 19, who lost one of her flip-flops in the ordeal and later limped around on the sizzling blacktop with one foot bare.
An estimated 5,500 people turned out at the Richmond International Raceway in hopes of getting their hands on one of the 4-year-old Apple iBooks. The Henrico County school system was selling 1,000 of the computers to county residents. New iBooks cost between $999 and $1,299.
Officials opened the gates at 7 a.m., but some already had been waiting since 1:30 a.m. When the gates opened, it became a terrifying mob scene.
People threw themselves forward, screaming and pushing each other. A little girl's stroller was crushed in the stampede. Witnesses said an elderly man was thrown to the pavement, and someone in a car tried to drive his way through the crowd.
Seventeen people suffered minor injuries, with four requiring hospital treatment, Henrico County Battalion Chief Steve Wood said. There were no arrests and the iBooks sold out by 1 p.m.
"It's rather strange that we would have such a tremendous response for the purchase of a laptop computer — and laptop computers that probably have less-than- desirable attributes," said Paul Proto, director of general services for Henrico County. "But I think that people tend to get caught up in the excitement of the event — it almost has an entertainment value."
Blandine Alexander, 33, said one woman standing in front of her was so desperate to retain her place in line that she urinated on herself.
"I've never been in something like that before, and I never again will," said Alexander, who brought her 14-year-old twin boys to the complex at 4:30 a.m. to wait in line. "No matter what the kids want, I already told them I'm not doing that again."
Jesse Sandler said he was one of the people pushing forward, using a folding chair he had brought with him to beat back people who tried to cut in front of him.
"I took my chair here and I threw it over my shoulder and I went, 'Bam,'" the 20-year-old said nonchalantly, his eyes glued to the screen of his new iBook, as he tapped away on the keyboard at a testing station.
"They were getting in front of me and I was there a lot earlier than them, so I thought that it was just," he said.
Tuesday, August 16, 2005
Last Thoughts For Tonight
Here it is, coming to the end of August, and we are finally getting a break from the triple-digit temperatures that have plagued us for the last few weeks. AMEN! BUT...and there is always a BUT... it is supposed to get back up to the triple digits by the weekend. Figures! Oh well. You can't always have everything you want.
The weekends always pass by so fast, and the work week always seems to drag on. It is only Tuesday, and I feel like it should be at least Thursday. I guess that's wishful thinking for you. At least it is Hump Day tomorrow. Of course, I have to work on Friday, which is just going to make the week seem even longer. Plus, I have a lot to do on Friday after work....go to AAA and renew my membership and pay my car registration... go to the radiologist for an x-ray... go grocery shopping (ugh!)... and maybe get my tire fixed (it has a slow leak). Oh yeah, I also need a new windshield wiper refill and a new signal light for my car, since my front left turn signal is not working. Damn...there goes my Friday.
I have been so tired lately. It must be the heat. My doctor's appointment went pretty well last week. All systems go. My white blood cell count was a little low and so was my iron level, but the doctor says that is kinda normal for people taking Plaquenil and who have arthritis. I am not worried about that. Of course, the lower iron levels are probably contributing to my fatigue, but what can you do? Liver and kidney tests were A.O.K, as was my blood sugar. The inflammation level was up...to 54 this time, but the day I went to the doctor I was in the middle of a pretty mean flare-up, so I expected that. The doctor ordered me to get a chest x-ray, so I will have to go on Friday after work for that. It is a standard test she said. Nothing to be worried about. I also have the trip to the opthamologist on the 24th to look foward to - haha. I hate having my eyes dilated!
I found out over the weekend why it is so important to let your contact lenses soak in the cleaning solution for the required length of time....because if you don't let them soak long enough for the solution to dilute, putting your lenses in your eyes can be freaking painful!!!!! Yeah...the burning sensation was NOT fun. Let that be a lesson to me.
My SPAM inbox count is now up to 4785.
Gas is freaking expensive! The lowest price in town at the moment is $2.61 a gallon and the highest is $2.99 a gallon (for regular gas - premium is even higher!). It keeps going up and up and up....will it ever go back down again? Please say yes!
And with that thought, I am gonna hit the hay.
The weekends always pass by so fast, and the work week always seems to drag on. It is only Tuesday, and I feel like it should be at least Thursday. I guess that's wishful thinking for you. At least it is Hump Day tomorrow. Of course, I have to work on Friday, which is just going to make the week seem even longer. Plus, I have a lot to do on Friday after work....go to AAA and renew my membership and pay my car registration... go to the radiologist for an x-ray... go grocery shopping (ugh!)... and maybe get my tire fixed (it has a slow leak). Oh yeah, I also need a new windshield wiper refill and a new signal light for my car, since my front left turn signal is not working. Damn...there goes my Friday.
I have been so tired lately. It must be the heat. My doctor's appointment went pretty well last week. All systems go. My white blood cell count was a little low and so was my iron level, but the doctor says that is kinda normal for people taking Plaquenil and who have arthritis. I am not worried about that. Of course, the lower iron levels are probably contributing to my fatigue, but what can you do? Liver and kidney tests were A.O.K, as was my blood sugar. The inflammation level was up...to 54 this time, but the day I went to the doctor I was in the middle of a pretty mean flare-up, so I expected that. The doctor ordered me to get a chest x-ray, so I will have to go on Friday after work for that. It is a standard test she said. Nothing to be worried about. I also have the trip to the opthamologist on the 24th to look foward to - haha. I hate having my eyes dilated!
I found out over the weekend why it is so important to let your contact lenses soak in the cleaning solution for the required length of time....because if you don't let them soak long enough for the solution to dilute, putting your lenses in your eyes can be freaking painful!!!!! Yeah...the burning sensation was NOT fun. Let that be a lesson to me.
My SPAM inbox count is now up to 4785.
Gas is freaking expensive! The lowest price in town at the moment is $2.61 a gallon and the highest is $2.99 a gallon (for regular gas - premium is even higher!). It keeps going up and up and up....will it ever go back down again? Please say yes!
And with that thought, I am gonna hit the hay.
Monchhichi, Monchhichi...
For some reason, I now have that old "Monchhichi" song in my head, along with the Heat Miser song. Oh whoa is me. Does anyone remember the Monchhichis? They were these cute little monkey-looking dolls with one of the world's most annoying commercial songs....
Monchhichi, Monchhichi,
Oh so soft and cuddle-ly,
With their thumb in their mouth they're really neat,
Fun to wiggle their little feet.
La la la
La la la
Happy, happy monchhichi.
(I love you Monchhichi!)
I don't know why I have this song in my head. I haven't even thought about these silly dolls in ages.
Stupid News Story of The Day
(Good cheese comes from happy cows, and happy cows come from...Russia?)
Stone the cows? Russia uses pot as animal feed
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's long winter will just fly by for a herd of Russian cows which, a newspaper reported on Tuesday, will be fed confiscated marijuana over the cold months.
Drug workers said they adopted the unusual form of animal husbandry after they were forced to destroy the sunflowers and maize crops that the 40 tonnes of marijuana had been planted among, Novye Izvestia daily reported.
"There is simply no other way out. You see, the fields are planted with feed crops and if we remove it all the cows will have nothing to eat," a Federal Drugs Control Service spokeswoman for the Urals region of Sverdlovsk told the paper.
"I don't know what the milk will be like after this."
Drug use in Russia took off with the decline of the Soviet Union and police have been fighting drug smugglers -- often shipping heroin from Afghanistan -- for years.
Such large hauls are relatively common, although they are normally burnt.
Monday, August 15, 2005
New Pictures!
I posted some new pictures of Devil's Postpile and Little Lakes Valley below, as well as details of the area on my other blog. Enjoy!
from left to right...Peppermint Peak, Bear Creek Spire and Pip-Squeak Spire - on the Little Lakes Trail near Tom's Place, CA
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View from Little Lakes Trail - that pyramid looking peak is Peppermint Peak - the next 3 peaks, left to right, are Bear Creek Spire, Pip-Squeak Spire, and Mt Dade
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Funny Stuff From George Carlin
"One driver you don't want to get behind is any man over seventy wearing a flannel cap with earflaps. In August. Keep your distance!"
Stupid News Story of The Day
(Further proof that the world is full of weirdos)
Police hunt nappy-clad man who pesters women
LONDON (Reuters) - Police said on Monday they were searching for a man wearing just a nappy who approaches women late at night and asks: "Are there any baby changing facilities around here?"
Cleveland police said the latest incident occurred around 11 p.m. on Sunday when he surprised a women walking her dog in a play area in Eaglescliffe, near Middlesbrough.
Police said no one had been assaulted by the man but described his behaviour as bizarre and a cause for concern.
"There have been several reports of him having been seen in Eaglescliffe dressed only in a nappy and we are keen to trace him and speak to him," police said.
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