glacier

Dammit, the guy in the cube next to me just Raptured, now I have to do his workload, too. End Times suck.

Yeah, but the rovers keep on a-roamin'

Support your right to arm bears.

Maybe Bush assumed that landing on a carrier under a "mission accomplished' sign met his Nat. Guard commitments

Another killer congressman... Janklow Ran a stop sign at 80, t-boned a motorcyclist, and claimed low blood sugar for his defense.

a pitchfork?

I wonder if there is still time for him to be called up...

Vagitarians eat out Imagine no hypothetical questions.

Two quick points regarding helmets - While protective, they are relatively limited in their ability to physically protect the head - the helmet, by necessity of design, protects the skull against impact, but not the brain - e.g. a significant blow to the head (especially off-center) can cause the brain to slosh around, which is where the dain bramage comes from - even if the helmet protected the skull from fracture. No helmet in the world protects your brain. Secondly, the standard helmet impact test (UIAA/EN) is to drop a 5kg weight 2m on a helmet on a mannekin head. If the impact force is less than 10 KN, the helmet passes (discussion here). This test represents a common real-world condition - a brick- sized rock kicked off by your partner from a few feet up, a dropped piece of gear from higher. Pritchard (& his Dr.) is correct - a helmet won't protect your noggin as effectively from a larger blow, and may transmit force - I know - Several years ago, I pulled a rock the size of a city phone book onto my partner from 30 feet up and knocked him into a coma - the helmet didn't do much good. I wear mine, tho' - for the bumps and dings - it's very effective, and for someting more severe, it may well make the difference between a minor head injury and a serious one.

Fondled some a few weeks ago - will definitely be using them to replace/upgrade some of my older cams... I like the alien'style loop - a bit easier to get teh thumb into that nteh knurled knob in the current model. And the weight difference is notable, even on the medium-sized models.

From TNR: http://www.tnr.com/blog/rnc?week=2004-09-01#top MILLER ON MATTHEWS: Zell Miller made it quite clear that he has nothing but contempt for John Kerry. But he apparently wants to duel Chris Matthews. Last night, about an hour after delivering his jeremiad to a packed hall in Madison Square Garden, Miller--who was still inside a then-emptying Garden--did an interview with Matthews, who was on the "Hardball" set a few blocks away. Matthews, who like many in the press was taken aback by the harshness of Miller's speech, asked Miller repeatedly if he really believed Kerry didn't want to defend the country, and Miller replied by ticking off some of the weapons systems Kerry has voted against. When Matthews asked which of those programs the U.S. had used in Afghanistan, Miller essentially accused Matthews of reading from Kerry campaign talking points: "I knew you was going to be coming with all of that stuff," he told Matthews. "And I knew that these people from the Kerry campaign would be coming with all this kind of stuff." So things were already combative when Matthews tried to make an analogy that Miller evidently misunderstood. Matthews asked Miller whether conservatives accusing liberals of not wanting to defend America when those liberals vote against a weapons system was the same thing as liberals accusing conservatives of wanting to starve little kids when they vote against some social programs. But Miller seemed to think that Matthews was accusing him of wanting to starve little kids. The Georgia Senator erupted: MILLER: I am not saying that. Wait a minute. MATTHEWS: That kind of rhetoric is not educational, is it? MILLER: Wait a minute. Now, this is your program. And I am a guest on your program. MATTHEWS: Yes, sir. MILLER: And so I want to try to be as nice as I possibly can to you. I wish I was over there, where I could get a little closer up into your face. (LAUGHTER) MILLER: But I don't have to stand here and listen to that kind of stuff. I didn't say anything about not feeding poor kids. What are you doing? The interview continued in this vein. Here's a particularly fun bit of the transcript: MILLER: Get out of my face. (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) MILLER: If you are going to ask me a question, step back and let me answer. (LAUGHTER) MATTHEWS: Senator, please. MILLER: You know, I wish we... (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) MILLER: I wish we lived in the day where you could challenge a person to a duel. (LAUGHTER) MILLER: Now, that would be pretty good. Don't ask me--don't pull that... (CROSSTALK) MATTHEWS: Can you come over? I need you, Senator. Please come over. MILLER: Wait a minute. Don't pull that kind of stuff on me, like you did that young lady when you had her there, browbeating her to death. I am not her. I am not her. MATTHEWS: Let me tell you, she was suggesting that John Kerry purposely shot himself to win a medal. And I was trying to correct the record. MILLER: You get in my face, I am going to get back in your face. Miller's threats worked, because, for the rest of the interview, Matthews was surprisingly soft-spoken and docile. And when it was over, he invited Miller to come on his show again the next night. "And, by the way, you will help our ratings tremendously if you come over tomorrow night," Matthews said, "because everybody thinks you are going to beat me up."

Here's a litany of articles regarding Bush's resistance to science - I'm trying to find a couple of articles I've seen (Slate? New Repbulic?) describing this adminstration as being anti-scientific, but no luck so far.

Great...another hurricane... My engineering firm, in its infinite brilliance, has its corporate email server in Tampa, which shut us down for two days when Charley rambled through. Great planning by an international engineering firm -

The saga continues - what's up with his hair? It looks like he had a close call with decapitation, too.

Speaking of which... BERLIN (Reuters) - A man caught having sex with a blow-up doll in a busy public shopping arcade had to be physically parted from his rubber lover and escorted away, said police in Stuttgart Wednesday. The 38-year-old man was caught with his trousers down early Monday evening after alarmed witnesses alerted the police. "It was real, he was caught in mid-action with the doll," said a press spokeswoman. Police said that they had considerable difficulty separating the drunken man from his partner.

Not a bumper sticker, per se, but it was on a car...

Yup, there's some fun hunting...

I dunno, but there has to be a country song in this somewhere.

Find the Playmate of your birth month. Warning, here be boobies.

Met Fleblebleb and headed to Lworth for a couple of days of granite- Saturday - did Bale-Cramer and Regular Route on Careno - 4 stars all - However, we made the poor decision to walk off rather than rap, so had a joyous bushwack down between laps of the rock, which required serious rehydration and a nap. Sunday - checked out Clem's Holler/Special Spot- Did several pitches at CH until the shoes started to melt and the tips were trashed - will definitely return when it cools off.

Dumber than curling?

If you've ever wrestled yer hound dog away from a gator...you might be a redneck.

NBA vs. basketball

My understanding is that, behind oil, email scams are Nigeria's second largest source of revenue.