Holy crap, I am a giant idiot! This was supposed to get in my holiday post under the I’m not supposed to ever leave because stuff happens while I’m gone files. Shame on me for forgetting! Smack smack smack! I come back from holidays, and Steve keeps mentioning that I have one important email. I’m …
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The Long-Awaited, Long Holiday Post
I always write a post about the holidays. It’s just a matter of when. I’m crazy, and want to get through the easy stuff first before I sit down and crank out a giant epic. But it seems writing the holiday epic has become the thing I’ve done since Steve and Matt let me come …
Oh! Christmas Tree!
Over the holidays, I heard about a lot of people getting real trees, and I found myself thinking about this little gem of a story from Ernie’s House of Whoop Ass. Steve sent it to me last year, and I’m amazed that I hadn’t linked to it before, but apparently, I am a giant fool. …
Just What All Kids Need: A Robotic Hamster
Here’s another example of a story I saw before I left, but didn’t have the brains to deal with it in the way I wanted to. The story is about Target firing employees for buying Zhu Zhu Pets. Yeah, target can be dickheads. But what the story made me do was wonder why the Zhu …
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The Councilors Are Full Of Air, Just Like Balloons
Here we go again with the UK. I was going to say that it didn’t take me long to find some UK silliness this year, but this is a story from November. I’m just seeing it now. A business somewhere in the UK, wherever Solihull is, decided to tie balloons outside their store to draw …
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It’s A Not So Wonderful Crash
I like a Christmas movie now and then, but it’s never a good time to settle in to watch one when you’re a police dispatcher. Somebody hit a deer, and called in that their car was stuck in the road with its lights off. It took 9 minutes for that message to go out because …
Christmas Cone Update
Well, it looks like the Christmas cone of Poole has been replaced with a real tree. Yea! I think it’s hilarious that the cone was put in because the tree could fall on someone, or teenagers could steal its decorations or otherwise vandalize it. What was the big reason for the cone going away, besides …
Another Kind Of Self-Expression
Now there’s an art class not many will soon forget. A high school teacher decided to check on a student’s art project. She walked up to Martin Guerrero’s desk, and as she did, she noticed that he was staring into space. As she got closer, he whipped it out, said “aye mami” and started to …
Caught With His Pants Down
I saw this story before I left, but my brain was too scuttled. Then I meant to get the story up yesterday, but I couldn’t remember where I saw it, and google wasn’t helping me out. Alright, first we need a theme song. Ah, now the tone is set. Our main character, Hector Quinones, was …
For Those Who Don’t Do Oggs.
I figured I’d post this here. For anyone who couldn’t open the White Christmas file because it was an ogg, and for anyone who couldn’t play the synth carol because they were all oggs, I’ve converted them to mp3’s. Here’s White Christmas and the Synth Carol in mp3. Enjoy.