In anticipation of the Buckeye’s victory over Georgetown tonight, here is a clip of Thad Matta (in)famously recycling his chewing gum:
Archive for March, 2007
April Fool’s Day prank ideas
Scott Adams (Dilbert) has several April Fool’s Day prank suggestions. Be sure to read the comments for a slew of additional ideas.
Pastafarian Pirate pulled from public school
This article from metro.co.uk reads like an April Fool’s Day joke:
A student has been suspended from school in America for coming to class dressed as a pirate.
But the disciplinary action has provoked controversy – because the student says that the ban violates his rights, as the pirate costume is part of his religion.
Bryan Killian says that he follows the Pastafarian religion, and that as a crucial part of his faith, he must wear ‘full pirate regalia’ as prescribed in the holy texts of Pastafarianism.
The school, however, say that his pirate garb was disruptive.
Pastafarians follow the Flying Spaghetti Monster (pictured) and believe that the world was created by the touch of his noodly appendage.
Furthermore, they acknowledge pirates as being ‘absolute divine beings’, and stress that the worldwide decline in the number of pirates has directly led to global warming.
Please click through and read the entire article. Priceless.
Almost opening day!
It’s baseball time again and former MLB commissioner Fay Vincent has posted his five favorite baseball books on OpinionJournal.com:
- “Men at Work” by George F. Will
- “Eight Men Out” by Eliot Asinof
- “Highpockets” by John R. Tunis
- “The Glory of Their Times” by Lawrence S. Ritter
- “Veeck as in Wreck” by Bill Veeck
Written in 1990, Men at Work is the newest volume on the list.
My favorite baseball books are “Summer of ‘49″ by David Halberstam and “Ball Four” by Jim Bouton.
What are your’s?
IT nightmare
GULP!
From USA Today:
Perhaps you know that sinking feeling when a single keystroke accidentally destroy hours of work. Now imagine wiping out a disc drive containing an account worth $38 billion.
That may be how a computer technician at the Alaska Department of Revenue feels after deleting applicant information for an oil-funded sales account — one of state residents’ biggest perks.
While reformatting the disk drive during a routine maintenance check, the technician mistakenly reformatted the back up drive as well and, suddenly, all the data disappeared.
But the dread didn’t really set in until the department turned to its third line of defense, back up tapes that are updated nightly, only to find those tapes were unreadable.
You gotta feel bad for this guy.
Our public library
The WSJ has a wonderful, and bittersweet, article on public libraries and their place in today’s society.
Wonderful, because the article reminds me of the special place that libraries have been to me and my family over the years. As a kid, I would check-out 20 books at a time- exploring as much as reading. There was so much to discover and the library was my portal.
Fortunately, I fell in love with a woman who also loves books. We are able to share booklists and favorite passages. Stacks of books cover each of our bed stands.
Now, we’re a family of five and it just isn’t practical for us to buy every book that we want to read- there just isn’t enough shelf space. Our library “holds” the books that we want until we get around to reading them.
Bittersweet, because (as the article points out) the role of the library has evolved and kids today are morelikely to use a library for its computers and story hours than for checking out books. Exploring is done through mouseclicks, not by running one’s eyes up and down a book lined shelf. Not better, not worse- only different.
The Westerville Public Library, which was a big reason why we chose our community, needs to pass a 0.8-mill replacement levy (on August 7th) in order to maintain the level of service that we adore and have come to expect. Without the levy, the library will lose 30% of its operating budget and would likely be forced to cut services.
If you live in Westerville, please support the levy.
Saturn’s geysers
From foxnews.com:
Scientists believe heat from radioactive decay inside a tiny, icy Saturnian moon shortly after it formed billions of years ago may explain why geysers are erupting from the surface today.
I prefer my theory of some sort of flatulent underground Saturnian whale species…
Starbucks Launches Record Label
Starbucks Gossip has the news that Starbucks is launching the Hear Music record label. Paul McCartney is rumored to be the first artist to sign with the new label.
Here is the official press release regarding Hear Music.
Save the Streams!
Internet radio (at least as we have come to love it) faces extinction.
Get the whole story on savethestreams.org and take the time to sign the petition.
(Thanks to Bijanblog for the tip)
