A man in Joplin, MO became so frustrated when his digital converter box wouldn’t work that he shot his tv.
He wound up in a brief standoff with police who responded to the shots fired call.
Oh yea, and he was drunk too.
I mentioned in a post yesterday (actually it was just REALLY EARLY today) that I am going to schedule a doctor’s appointment to take care of a nosebleed issue. See, I’ve had chronic nosebleeds for almost as long as I can remember. For most of my life, it was an on-again, off-again problem… I might [...]
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Smurfs, Belgium is producing a commemorative Euro coin featuring a Smurf.
I would LOVE to find one of these!
Some of you may know that my older sister collects Smurfs. As a child, she began collecting smurf figurines and other smurf items, and she now has a huge collection of a couple thousand Smurfs.
Needless to say, she was thrilled when she read this and discovered that this year, the Smurfs will debut as a [...]
How far you go in life
depends on your being tender with the young,
compassionate with the aged,
sympathetic with the striving,
and tolerant of the weak and strong.
Because someday in your life
you will have been all of these.
-George Washington Carver
From my mother’s page-a-day calendar:
Before he became President of the United States, Woodrow Wilson was a college professor. From 1902 to 1910, he served as president of Princeton University. During his tenure at Princeton, one of his duties was to expel playwright Eugene O’Neill, who threw a beer bottle through Wilson’s office window.
To all my readers who remember Billy Ray in all his achy breaky glory…
I want to be the first to tell you that the mullet is making its great comeback right here in the heart of the midwest!
I know this because I’ve seen it amongst the most influential demographic: the early-elementary kids. Every single kindergarten, [...]
3D Mailbox is an email program that adds a touch of adventure to your email. In one version, new emails are represented by avatars. Good emails are sexy models, while spam emails are goofy sumo wrestlers. In another version, all emails are represented by airplanes. Good emails go to the terminal (or to various hangars), [...]
Follow Cost is a site that shows you how annoying it can be to follow a particular “tweeter” on twitter. Helpful if your cell account only allows a limited number of texts!
Here’s some recent unusual facebook friend requests for your amusement.
First, we’ll take a look at “Mike Baldwin”. He’s a democrat who lives in Kansas City and graduated from the same high school as me, two years before me. Aside from being a democrat, he looks reasonably legit. I’ll probably approve him. (Note to all my [...]