I know some people who might say this. I may or may not be one of them. I gradually woke up stiff as a plank in a hospital ICU. There were tubes up my nose and down my throat, wires monitoring every function, a hell of a pain all over my head and a gorgeous …
Monthly Archives: July 2015
Verizon VelaSense: A Useful Service I’m Not Sure I’d Use, And Not Just Because The Press Release Is A Little Insulting
I don’t know how much Verizon paid Jay Croft for this advertorial puff piece on its new VelaSense blind person helper app, but they might want to see about getting their money back. Even if we look past all the silly hyperbole (Technology worthy of a Hollywood sci-fi movie?” It’s a cell phone camera and …
Preaching To Bears
This one’s pretty good, though I can’t help but wonder why it’s so oddly specific about where these guys are from. A priest, a Pentecostal preacher, and a Rabbi all served as chaplains to the students of Northern Michigan University in Marquette. They would get together two or three times a week for coffee and …
After Everyone Got A Fairview, Police Had To Carter Away
And now, Today’s reminder to stay off the drugs. Police responded to an intersection in Fairview Shores, on the northern outskirts of Orlando, Sunday night after reports of a naked woman walking in traffic, the Orlando Sentinel reported. They found Amie Carter, 31, strutting in the street and wearing no clothes. She appeared to be “under …
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Get Your Heads On Straight, Mom And Dad. You’re Really Taking A Chance Here
Here’s a sentence you don’t hear very often, I hope. Drunken Yahtzee argument. According to documents filed Tuesday with the charges, Traill County sheriff’s deputies were dispatched about 2:34 a.m. De. 18 to 120 4th Ave. SE in Mayville on a report of a scared boy who called to report a domestic dispute that became …
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The Possibly Long Awaited Return Of That Wrestling Fact Or Fiction Thing
This is the part of the song where I say it’s been a while since we’ve done this talking wrestling thing and then get right into it because I have no good reason for why we haven’t. The column these questions came from is here if you’d like to read it too. 1. John Cena …
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Bad Bet
This one’s a bit of a groaner, but I laughed. An archaeologist was digging in the Negev Desert in Israel and came upon a casket containing a mummy. After examining it, he called the curator of a prestigious natural-history museum. “I’ve just discovered a 3,000 year-old mummy of a man who died of heart failure!” …
Southern Ontario Is Getting Another New Area Code
I’m sure this is old news to some of you, but I’m putting it here so that next June when people start giving me strange phone numbers I won’t have to puzzle over where the hell they live. I did that forever when they brought in 226 back in 2006 because I somehow missed that …
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That Was A Pretty Sweet Home Run Derby
I don’t have any super deep thoughts on it since the sort of person who can sit and over-analyze a game who’s object is essentially to hit batting practice really really far is the sort of person who needs more things to do, but I have to say that I absolutely loved this year’s Home …
There’s Video Of Last Year’s Tim Hortons Snake Toss
So remember last year when some guy threw a snake at the woman behind the counter in a Tim Hortons? Turns out there’s video of the incident. After watching it, it looks as though the news got the story wrong. It doesn’t look at all like an argument over a food order. It’s more like …
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