J.K. Rowling has spoken out on her website about spoilers of the upcoming seventh (and last) Harry Potter book. She adds a bit at the end, though. Even if the biggest secret gets out – even if somebody discovers the Giant Squid is actually the world’s largest Animagus, which rises from the lake at the …
Monthly Archives: May 2007
Legalisms
“What do you call 1,000 lawyers at the bottom of the sea?” “A good start” “Why won’t sharks eat lawyers?” “Professional courtesy” “Why are there so many lawyers in the United States?” “Because St. Patrick rid Ireland of all the snakes” I received an email today with the following disclaimer. I’m sure you’ve all seen …
Personal Organization
Almost a year ago, I posted about Getting Things Done, a method of organization and productivity that David Allen (the author) espouses and which has taken society by storm. GTD, as it is better known, has several steps, and it boils down to never letting anything get away from you, except by choice. No more …
This Week in Traffic: 21 May 2007
Domestic Terrorist Activity Local terrorists are trying to shoot down aircraft in Lexington, KT. Sort of… Electronic Speeding Citations No more getting out of speeding tickets because the officer screwed up the make of your car. Now they’ll scan your VIN and off you go. Nifty Transportation Movie The movie is made from images found …
Taunted by a Clown
Yesterday I participated in a service project with the Georgia chapter of ITE. We adopted a piece of Cumberland Boulevard to take care of as a part of the Cobb county Adopt-a-Mile program. We found some interesting things during the litter clean up: panties, shoes, a rancid dead racoon, a credit card, 1 dollar, and …
Favorite Photo of the Week
I don’t know why. I just like this image. In case you don’t know what this is, it’s a drainage hole on a roadway bridge. The water just falls through into the stream below. This would not be used like this if there weren’t open water underneath.
Happy Birthday, Evil Eyebrow!
Today is the Eyebrow’s 2nd birthday. This entry was posted to the minute of my first blog post ever. Yay for the Evil Eyebrow! Since it’s its inception, I’ve bumped up the frequency of postings a bit. We’re averaging about 10 or so a week right now. That may drop because there are plans to …
Geocaching Travel Bug
Once upon a time, a long long long time ago (2001) I discovered this Geocaching* thing. It sounded cool, so I bought a global positioning system (GPS) receiver and went looking for the nearest cache to me, which at the time was 45 miles away in Plainview, Texas (looking today, I see there are now …
Alarm Clock with Retracable Snooze
I need this alarm clock. It might get me out of bed and awake rather than like the last several days where I don’t even remember turning off the alarm.
uTube.com
This story dropped into my reader today. It’s about how the Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment corporation (utube.com) has diverged from their product line and stuck Ringtone ads at the top of their website. It is a serious dichotomy. They apparently are being swamped by mistyped YouTube.com url’s and decided to cash in. 1102 Edit: …