Archive for September, 2005

Which Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle am I?

Thursday, September 29th, 2005

Take the quiz: “Which Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle are You?”LeonardoYou’re mature and get the job done. You are a natural born leader, and normally want to be the better of the group. You take your job seriously. You must! It may NOT be a game. When you select a sport, or something you want to [...]

OkCupid Politics Test

Monday, September 26th, 2005

You are a Social Liberal (65% permissive) [...]

Group Lists 13 ‘Most Corrupt’ in Congress – Los Angeles Times

Sunday, September 25th, 2005

Group Lists 13 ‘Most Corrupt’ in Congress – Los Angeles Times
Ah… Mad Max. I’m glad I’ve been out of her congressional district for 5 years now. But hey, the business of her family members is their business.
At least the group that put this together seems relatively non [...]

Which cute and fuzzy animal am I?

Saturday, September 24th, 2005

You Are A: Bear Cub!
Bears are strong and independent creatures who roam in the forest in search of food. Bears are usually gentle, but anger one and be prepared for their full fury! You’re big, you’re tough, you won’t back down from a fight — classic attributes of a bear. Intelligent and resourceful, though [...]

LAX Music Video?

Thursday, September 22nd, 2005

LAX Music Video
LAX has a music video? And it’s a country music video? There must be something very wrong here, but I’m not sure exactly what it is. It’s probably better not to think about it too much.

strange thought

Thursday, September 22nd, 2005

One of the strange thoughts I had yesterday, was that “what if the decrease in hurricane attivity from the 1960s to 1990s was from the increase in oil production in the Gulf of Mexico, and the related oil leaks and spills”. As I prevoiously linked to(I’ll update with the url later today), oil spread over [...]

Which Historical Lunatic am I?

Wednesday, September 21st, 2005

Which Historical Lunatic Are You?From the fecund loins of Rum and Monkey.
A minister’s son from Simljan in Austria-Hungary, you were precocious from an early age. At three you could multiply three-digit numbers in your head and calculate how many seconds visitors to your home had lived. In awe of your older brother Dane, you shot [...]

emergency landing

Wednesday, September 21st, 2005

holy!
Big props to the Jet Blue pilots today. That was a great landing, I watched it live on Channel 7 news. For a twisted landing gear, it didn’t even collapse.
Excellent job to Jet Blue.

End of summer BBQ!

Tuesday, September 20th, 2005

It’s time again to do another Bill’s BBQ and Sailing activity!
I’m looking at Saturday, October 1st, from noon till about 7 or 8pm.
I’ll be sending out email invitations in a day or two, but if you don’t get one and read about it here, just put your name down and stop on by! [...]

Almost Before We Spoke, We Swore – New York Times

Tuesday, September 20th, 2005

Almost Before We Spoke, We Swore – New York Times
Two parts of this article really struck me. First, that men curse more than women (we all know that!) , unless the women are in a sorority! Looking at my very small antidotal evidence, I’ll buy that.
Second, at the bottom of the first page, that hearing [...]