The caption under the picture reads:
"The words highlighted above are the perfect summation of how I feel about my father. However, we are bound like a book, and I believe our words, like a novel, are already written. Read this post which is so dear to my heart and let me know your thoughts. I think anyone with a father can relate somehow to this piece. Maybe Ethers, you can give me SOME hope? If we keep using the book analogy...and the picture above....the page is not fully printed. Maybe there's time to add more text to it."
This is a blog that is so touching, so well-written and anyone with a parent can relate to. This is a must-read. Really. Unbelievable. The best post I've read in forever. I cried.The caption under the picture reads:
"The words highlighted above are the perfect... more
This player jumps and turns just perfectly to let his opponent accidentally drop him for the count. http://yesbitch.net/2009/video/soccer-direct-hit-nut-shot/This player jumps and turns just perfectly to let his opponent accidentally drop him... more
This week's funniest videos! See the baby from Nirvana's album cover for Nevermind all grown up! iPhone app reviews, the best burrito I've ever eaten! and Carl Sagan and Steven Hawking Autotuned, the catchiest tune you've heard all week.This week's funniest videos! See the baby from Nirvana's album cover for Nevermind all... more
Here is a sentence with so many strange and wonderful parts in it that it's best just to let it speak for itself:
A Lufkin man drove his $2 million Bugatti sportscar into a Galveston-area lagoon after being distracted by a pelican.
First, who spends $2 million on a car? And second, of all the places you'd expect such a person to be from, Lufkin would be right behind oh, say, La Porte. Third, you've got the whole aspect of the vengeful, possibly jealous, pelican. It's pretty much the signature bird of the island, of course, so it's symbolically lots better than if the driver had been distracted by a grackle shitting on his precious windshield.
Finally, there's the lagoon. Ain't got no lagoons in Lufkin.
The driver, who was uninjured but no doubt very pissed, refused to give his name (or probably much else information besides "Goddamn bird"), but the Galveston County Daily News was able to piece together the story.
The man, who was on the island looking for real estate that we'll guessing he will now never buy, was driving along the frontage road of I-45 just south of the levee near Omega Bay in La Marque.
He was driving a Bugatti Veyron, a very limited-edition car that has 16 cylinders, four turbo-chargers (but only two seats!! Come on!), a car that can do more than 250 mph when it's not being attacked by pelicans.
The driver told police the bird distracted him, and he "dropped his cell phone" (good move using a cell phone; you don't want to be paying close attention when you're driving a $2 million car), went across a patch of dirt and into about two feet of a saltwater lagoon.
We're thinking of the line in Risky Business, as the Porsche repairman looks at the recently submerged Dad's car Tom Cruise is desperate to get fixed: "Who's the U-Boat captain?"
Saddest line ever written about the semi-demise of a $2 million car:
The Veyron's powerful engine gurgled like an outboard motor for about 15 minutes before it died.
As Jimmy Webb once almost wrote: "Galveston, oh Galveston -- I can see your seabirds flying / While I steer the car I'm driving / Into a lagoon / And I curse you, Galveston."
A massive 2007 electrical blackout in Brazil has been newly blamed on computer hackers, but was actually the result of a utility company’s negligent maintenance of high voltage insulators on two transmission lines. That’s according to reports from government regulators and others who investigated the incident for more than a year.
In a broadcast Sunday night, the CBS newsmagazine 60 Minutes cited unnamed sources in making the extraordinary claim that a two-day outage in the Atlantic state of Espirito Santo was triggered by hackers targeting a utility company’s control systems. The blackout affected 3 million people. Hackers also caused another, smaller blackout north of Rio de Janeiro in January 2005, the network claimed.
Brazilian government officials disputed the report over the weekend, and Raphael Mandarino Jr., director of the Homeland Security Information and Communication Directorate, told the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo that he’s investigated the claims and found no evidence of hacker attacks, adding that Brazil’s electric control systems are not directly connected to the internet.
The utility company involved, Furnas Centrais Elétricas, told Threat Level on Monday, it “has no knowledge of hackers acting in Furnas’ power transmission system.”
insulatorA review of official reports from the utility, the country’s independent systems operator group and its energy regulatory agency turns up nothing to support the hacking claim.
A woman who had tried to pass the written exam for a driver’s license almost every day since April 2005 has finally succeeded, on her 950th attempt. The woman, Cha Sa-soon, 68, spent more than $4,200 in application fees, but until Wednesday had failed to score the minimum 60 points out of a possible 100 needed to get behind the wheel for a driving test. She finally passed the written exam with a score of 60, said Choi Young-chul, a police official in Jeonju, and now she must pass the driving test. Ms. Cha told The Korea Times that she needed the license for her vegetable-selling business.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/05/AR2009110505644.html... more
This week on infomania cable news knows its not the quality of election coverage that matters but the quantity. Al Roker is stealing jokes from 'The Girls Next Door.' Levi Johnston is all out of secrets. Sergio counts down the hottest songs in the land. And Brett scours YouTube for the best Deathcore metal screamers.
infoMania is a half-hour satirical news show that airs on Current TV. The show puts a comedic spin on the 24-hour chaos and information overload brought about by the constant bombardment of the media. Hosted by Conor Knighton and co-starring Brett Erlich, Sarah Haskins, Ben Hoffman, Bryan Safi and Sergio Cilli, the show airs on Thursdays at 10 pm Eastern and Pacific Times and can be found online at http://current.com/infomania/ or on Current TV. And make sure to check out our facebook profile for special features at http://infomaniafacebook.com.This week on infomania cable news knows its not the quality of election coverage that... more
Phillies Fan FAIL, Halloween Plans, scary movies, crazy midwest kids build a Ferris Wheel out of HAY! Star Wars Uncut, and crazy Japanese inventions, this week on The Failing English Show, Episode 003 | Strikes Back!Phillies Fan FAIL, Halloween Plans, scary movies, crazy midwest kids build a Ferris... more
The side-view mirrors should have the following message: Warning, guy who jumps on car is even dumber than he appears. http://yesbitch.net/2009/video/car-roof-jump-fail/The side-view mirrors should have the following message: Warning, guy who jumps on car... more
The Daily Mail are back in the Twitter trending topics, this time for writing a piece on science in the followup to the controversy surrounding the sacking of former drug advisor Professor David Nutt, who spoke out against the government's drug policy.
In the article the Mail take a swipe at scientists, calling them arrogant gods of certainty, before kindly reminding readers that Hitler believed that science was the only truth. The scientists on the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, who are up in arms about the government ignoring their advice over how harmful drugs are, are then compared to Nazi scientists from WW2.
"I am not suggesting that any British scientists are currently conducting experiments comparable to those which were allowed in Nazi Germany or in Soviet Russia. But I see the same habit of mind at work in Professor Nutt and his colleagues as made those mad scientists of the 20th century think they were above the moral law which governs the rest of us mortals."
The article was originally accompanied online by a picture of Hitler but this has since been removed.
Screengrab of the article before the Hitler pic was taken off: http://twitpic.com/o4c25The Daily Mail are back in the Twitter trending topics, this time for writing a piece... more
