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Friday, May 23, 2008

I want to Work Next To This Guy
 

Whaterver he is doing, he is doing it right:

Alatanbagen Taoqi, 60, from China's ethnic Daur minority, was in an office building when it collapsed during the May 12 quake, The Nanjing Morning Post said. He was the only person in the building to survive, the report said.

In 1976, he survived an earthquake in Tangshan city in northeast China that killed almost a quarter of a million people. He was trapped under a pile of bricks for 10 days before being rescued, the paper reported
I'll just hang out next to you, if you don't mind, Mr. Taoqi.



Well, Really, Isn't That a Given
 

Turns out some other loony Brit tried to off himself and others at the food court of the local mall. Was a Timothy McVeigh type loony or something more insidious (and 21st century)?

Police are hunting for the Muslim extremists who allegedly radicalised Nicky Reilly, the 22-year-old suspected of setting off a nail bomb in a restaurant yesterday.

Locals claimed that the 22-year-old changed his name to Mohammed Rasheed last year and would meet men in a cafe and at the King’s Fry fish and chip bar near his home in Plymouth, Devon.
"Muslim Extremists?" Isn't that the only kind there is? And what does it take to be a member of the highly regarded Muslim faith?

Deputy Chief Constable Tony Melville last night launched a plea for information on Mr Reilly's movements and took the unusual step of releasing a picture to assist the investigation.

He said: "Our investigation so far indicates Reilly, who has a history of mental illnesss had adopted the Islamic faith.
Now, doesn't anyone who adopts the Islmamic faith pretty much have to have a history of mental illness? Believing in made up stuff. Revering the words of a whacko who thought he could talk to god? Banging your head on the floor and not eating bacon will get you into hevean? What the hell?

Who in the Islamic (or any other) faith isn't just a little (or a lot) bonkers? They all claim to have the key to eternal life and yet they are all different. Which one is the real religion? My bet is on none of them.


Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Bloody Brilliant
 
Yeah!



Sunday, May 11, 2008

Infantile Obsession Again
 
How's about some Hee Young Park:



Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Why Bother?
 

We have all heard about the applaing story of the crazy dude in Austria who had seven children by his daughter and kept most of them in the cellar for 24 years. Reading about this nonsense I stumbled across this bit:

Fritzl, an electrical engineer and businessman, faces charges of incest, abduction and imprisonment and could serve 15 years in jail if convicted. He is on suicide watch.
Two things struck me about this. One, why would this guy ever see the light of day ever again? In know he is old and won't last long in jail (we can only hope) but for taking away multiple people's chances at a good life, he should forfeit any that he has left.

And two, why put him on a suicide watch? Go ahead and let him off himself and save us all a lot of drama.


Saturday, April 26, 2008

Damn Straight
 
You have to love this commercial:



Friday, April 25, 2008

Return of Infantile Obsession
 
Korean Lady Golfer bellybutton pics!

Na Yeon Choi:



And Song Hee Kim (just a hint):



Monday, April 14, 2008

Blogger Fishing
 
I think this is called blogger fishing. It is where you randomly go to blogs set up no blogger (blogspot.com) and see what people are writing. Turns out it is not too much.

We'll start with country specific blogs:

http://japanese.blogspot.com/

Wednesday, May 23, 2001
Hi my name is David
I am studying japanese.
This site is all about the Japanese language.
You can learn it online right here.
posted by David at 3:28 AM
I guess there isn't that much to learn about the Japanses language, because that was the only post.

http://korea.blogspot.com/

Monday, September 10, 2001
testing
posted by General at 7:29 AM
Well, you fail. No more posts after that. But look at the date. I hope the guy wasn't flying that day...

http://korean.blogspot.com/

Sunday, November 03, 2002
folks, finally, the news of the bloggers has reached me!
i will report everything about korea. what's happening. what this country is like.
what are the things the koreans say, etc., etc.
posted by Jihwan at 11:34 PM
Seems that one post later the news from Korea dried up. Thanks for the 6 year old update, Jihwan.

http://china.blogspot.com/

Tuesday, April 17, 2001
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posted by Jack at 8:51 PM
Yeah? Well same to you, ya little &%%$*((@!

A blog called Write in English My vacabulary

http://english.blogspot.com/2000_11_01_archive.html

scrutinized
To look at critically or searchingly, or in minute detail
Of accounts and tax returns; with the intent to verify
posted by Peppermint at 17:56
Seems no one is voracious enough to actually want to read this list of "vacabulary"

You know what? This is futile. About 90 percent of all the sites I stumble across on blogger have not been updated since the internet dark ages. What is it with people who start a blog for one post and then quit but never go back and delete it?

I have 1,740 post under my belt and am starting to feel the lethargy. Maybe this is what I need to push me back into posting more.

Probably not.


Tuesday, April 08, 2008

I Can Tell You Why it Made No Money
 

Seems there is this old Soviet made "space shuttle" bumming around the world and you can pay to see it. Why?

The Technik Museum Speyer bought the decommissioned Buran space shuttle and had it shipped from a junkyard in Bahrain to Rotterdam.

After arriving in Rotterdam last week, the 37-meter (121-feet) shuttle was re-assembled and lowered onto a raft of barges for its trip through the Rhine to Speyer. The shuttle began the 620-kilometer (385-mile) journey upriver on Sunday.

The Buran -- the name means "blizzard" in Russian -- was built by the Soviet Union as a near-copy of the American space shuttles that made its first flight in 1977. The Soviet Union feared that US space shuttles would be used for military purposes, and began developing their own copycat spacecraft technology in the late 1970s.

The shuttle which is on its way to Speyer is named the Analog Buran. One of several test models, it made 25 suborbital flights between 1985 and 1988, before the program was abandoned as the Soviet Union broke apart.
So the Soviets stole plans from the US to make a space shuttle. Built one that never made it into space and now is on its way to Germany to be put in a museum...

A decade later, a team of Australian entrepreneurs purchased the Analog Buran and put it on display during the 2000 Summer Olympic Games in Sydney. However poor ticket sales grounded their plans to take the shuttle on tour, and it sat neglected for a year until a new company purchased it and moved it to Bahrain. There, it anchored an exhibit during a summer festival in 2002, before being shipped to a junkyard to wait out a legal dispute between its new owners and its Russian manufacturers.
Again, why would anyone pay to see a decomisioned non-space shuttle? I have been to the Udvar-Hazy Smithsonian museum in Virginia and seen the shuttle Enterprise. It is kind of cool but it has never been to space either. It was built for wind tunnel testing and other reasons but it never had engines. Would I pay to see it? No way!

The museum is building a new exhibition hall to house the Russian space shuttle alongside items like space suits and model satellites. "Apollo and Beyond," as the permanent exhibit will be called, is scheduled to open to visitors this summer.
Sounds like some sort of "Reptile" museum you see on the side of the road with frogs and snakes and giant paper mache dinosaurs.


Tuesday, April 01, 2008

Scrambled Eggs Super?
 

What the hell is a "professional egg thief?"


A professional egg thief who illegally collected more than 7,000 birds' eggs has been jailed for 23 weeks.

Richard Pearson, 41, of Phelps Place, Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, had eggs from many rare birds such as golden eagles, peregrine falcons and ospreys.

At Skegness Magistrates' Court Pearson admitted five charges of illegally stealing and possessing the eggs - one of the largest hauls ever recovered.

The prosecution likened his collection of illegal eggs to "Aladdin's cave".

In addition to the jail sentence, Pearson was ordered to pay costs of £1,500.

















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