Year: 2010

  • Spring… I can see it coming

    Saw a guy on the corner of Fairview and Saint Clair on my way home picking up his laundry; and he was wearing cheap junky flip-flops.  Ahhhh, 40F in Minnesota; time to wash the car!

  • How about the Dalai Lama?

    People with no data aren’t worth listening to.Michael Jones, Google’s chief technology advocate

  • In honor of the winter Olympics, a little known fact…

    The first testicular guard (“Cup”) was used in Hockey in 1874, and the first helmet was used in 1974.That means it took 100 years for men to realize that their brain is also important.via email from John Treworgy, Tue, 2 Mar 2010 20:07:53 -0800Or… they realized their brain was important and 100 years later that…

  • How to get a free magazine…

    I inadvertently overpaid my bill from Time Magazine, and got this nice postcard in the mail from them…Maybe I should do something like the Lazlo Letters, but pay all my bills over by $.10 and see what happens.

  • That’s the definition dumbass

    Tigers’ Cabrera quits drinkingDetroit Tigers slugger Miguel Cabrera wanted to clear a few things up after the ugly incident last fall, right before his team surrendered the American League Central Division title to the Twins.First, he’s done drinking alcohol.  And he’s not an alcoholic.“You guys write in the paper ‘alcoholic,’ that’s not right,” the Detroit…

  • Thoughts

    Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit – and man is his mown garden.John Leonard

  • We’re the best…

    …in the world at being second and third — if the just completed Winter Olympics are any indication of our ability to compete.Makes you wonder what we could do if we had universal health care and took care of all our citizens, like they do in the rest of the first world.  I wonder what…