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June 23, 2005

Canadian couple suing others for own lack of foresight

Get it? "Fore"sight? Maybe it will make sense once you read the article, which is about how a couple is suing a golf course that is located next to their million-dollar dream home because stray balls keep damaging their property.

Hey, here's a tip: Before building your million-dollar dream home, check to make sure there's no golf courses in your backyard, and then you won't have this problem.

Posted by Jan at 12:36 PM | Comments (2)

Boat owner nearly auto-Darwinates

How do you even get 262 gallons of fuel into a 200-gallon tank? Is there something I'm missing here? Was this boat located in a bubble existing outside our space-time continuum and therefore not subject to local laws of physics?

Posted by Jan at 12:18 PM | Comments (1)

June 22, 2005

Bronchitis Sufferers Can Skip Antibiotics

In fact, my Darling WIfe has always felt that taking them for bronchitis is dangerous, building up the body's resistence to antibiotics.

Posted by Eddie at 04:19 PM | Comments (0)

Bronchitis Sufferers Can Skip Antibiotics

In fact, my Darling WIfe has always felt that taking them for bronchitis is dangerous, building up the body's resistence to antibiotics.

Posted by Eddie at 04:19 PM | Comments (5)

Photo of (yester) Day

It's nice that they let people dance around on the rocks at Stonehenge once a year.

This picture reminds me of the road trip I went on with my husband a few years ago. He demanded that we drive 30 miles out of our way to Alliance, Nebraska, so that we could see the world-famous "Carhenge." This would be a life-sized replica of Stonehenge that some guy built in his back field out of junked cars. Apparently he got a bunch of family members to help him out one year when they came over for the family reunion. (I bet that was a memorable party.)

We happened to be at Carhenge during the solstice, so of course my husband got up to go take pictures at dawn. He informed me that he noticed the alignment hadn't been properly corrected for the different latitude, so the sun didn't come up over the headstone like it was supposed to. I in turn informed him that he was a gigantic nerd.

We got some good pictures out of it, though.

Posted by Jan at 09:46 AM | Comments (2)

I guess that's why we call it Hooterville

The tragic story of a down-on-her-luck prostitute who apparently has less brains than she does... well, anyway, you wouldn't think it would take a supergenius to notice that your john is wearing a police shirt, has a police radio in his front seat, and bears a strong resemblance to the local police chief.

Posted by Jan at 09:34 AM | Comments (4)

And I thought Australian candy was gross.

Anti-drug advocates are all in a tizzy because of this stuff, which frankly sounds like about the most disgusting candy I can think of; even worse than those god-awful Australian musk sticks, or the blood-flavored licorice you can get in Germany.

Posted by Jan at 09:30 AM | Comments (1)

June 21, 2005

Nifty.

Somebody who apparently has way too much time on his hands combined 2000 US Census data with Google Maps to come up with this neat little app. It'll give you the census data for any area in the United States, down to the level of a city block.

After panning and zooming for about five minutes, I got it to tell me the data for my own city block (actually, our block is a little bit weirdly shaped and truncated, so it's the data for the few blocks surrounding also): 1,272 souls, living in 630 housing units.

Probably could have continued to sleep at night not knowing this information, but still, fun toy.

Posted by Jan at 09:55 AM | Comments (0)

It's all about the Poles

Hello? Is this thing on?

I would like to kick off the self-announced triumphant return of Infinite Comments from what was threatening to be an Infinite Vacation with this nice little story about how Polish immigrants are totally dominating new startup businesses in the Netherlands.

The Dutch are cool with it as long as they are kept well-supplied with pierogi, of course.

Posted by Jan at 09:47 AM | Comments (2)