If you don’t watch Bones on Fox. You should…
Tonight, the main character insinuated that Jesus was a Zombie. Pretty damn funny.
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"This appears…"
If you’re not aware of the man who has been arrested and charged with murdering a young girl with plans to eat her, go to the link.
In the linked article is this quote:
“Regarding a potential motive,” Purcell Police Chief David Tompkins said Saturday, “this appears to have been part of a plan to kidnap a person, rape them, torture them, kill them, cut off their head, drain the body of blood, rape the corpse, eat the corpse then dispose of the organs and bones.”
This “appears” to be the case? How many cases similar to this does this police chief see? It seems they know some terribly specific details to have it only “appear.”
Of course, this quote probably falls into the same category as expecting athletes to have something lucid and cogent to say at the end of the game. The police chief’s expertise is crime, not public speaking, so I will give him the benefit of the doubt.
But, my first read of that sentence was, “Huh?”
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That's a Lot of Paper
I work for an Engineering Consultant firm. As part of our job, we prepare plans and a step in the Georgia Department of Transportation’s plan review process is to plot multiple (11) sets of both full-sized (22″x34″) and half-sized plans. For submittals like this one, we utilize a firm that specializes in plotting large quantities of papers. For example, here you see the Transportation department gathered around half of our most recent submittal. Wow.
From left to right is: Anthony Prevost (standing), Me (sitting), Scott Griffin, Rick Hartline, Sharonda Ivy, Laura Muddiman, and Erica Appleby. The featured pile of paper (only Half of it) is the I-520/I-20 interchange in Augusta, Georgia.
I’ve never had plans delivered on pallets before. This has really made my week.
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Flying Spaghetti Monster Runs Amok!
Kansas Board of Education member Connie Morris comes face to face with his noodly appendage and was not touched.
All Hail the Flying Spaghetti Monster
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Life on Earth is 135' Long!
This link, stolen from Pharyngula, displays the evolutionary timeline on one webpage. If you printed it out, it would be 135′ long.
Clicking to the right over and over again gives you a feeling on just how long 3.5 billion years is.
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Wal*Ocaust: Part Deux
You may remember my original post concerning the Wal*Ocaust T-shirts.
Well, Wal-Mart has filed suit to prohibit the sale or production of the wal*ocaust logo. Check out www.walocaust.com for details.
Again, I don’t really have an opinion about this, but it is certainly interesting.
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Microsoft Word Help
I found a glorious site yesterday that deals with all sorts of the common issues you run into if you use Microsoft Word. The Word MVP Site will give you definite ideas of what to do and what under no circumstances you should ever do, and it will tell you why! The why is the part that presents itself to me as the most useful. It’s all well and good to lay down the law and say never never never use Master Documents, but going a step further and explaining why it’s a bad thing improves my understanding. Thanks, Word MVP!
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Bending the Brain
If you are a Math dilettante, do not go here to Good Math, Bad Math.
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Scary Robert Jordan News
In the past, the wife and I have joked about how devastating it would be if J. K. Rowling died before finishing the seventh Harry Potter book. I have joked similarly about how world-destroying it would be if Robert Jordan passed on before he completed the Wheel of Time series.
Well, poking around the Tor website I found this:
I have been diagnosed with amyloidosis. That is a rare blood disease which affects only 8 people out of a million each year, and those 8 per million are divided among 22 distinct forms of amyloidosis.
Ahhhh!
Bad Bad Bad BAD!
Thankfully, he is undergoing treatment at the Mayo Clinic and I expect he will be with us for a good while longer. Median* life expectancy is 4 years with treatment, which is heartening.
As mentioned above, we all joke about our Authors and the effect they have on us by meeting, exceeding, or failing our expectations, but we don’t often talk about how their work impacts their lives. If it takes a sabbatical for Mr. Jordan to complete his recovery, I take it on myself to give him my blessing, as a fan, to take as long as he needs.
*Median does not equal average. Median means half the values are above that number and half are below. On a bell-curve, this would equal or be very near the average, but diagnostic-survival curves are not bell-shaped. By definition, you cannot be diagnosed after death and “die before diagnosis”, so the curve will be right-skewed with a long tail. Better explanation here.
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Computer Operations
In case you’re looking for a reason to stare endlessly at you monitor, try this link. It will demonstrate the actual operation of your computer.*
*yanked from a friend, Chris Schierer
The Evil Eyebrow
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