Susie's Comically Large Laptop

Susie's Comically Large Laptop
Originally uploaded by conradh.

This laptop is certified as an ocean-going tug, requires a crew of 17 and a licensed pilot for operation, and makes a loud beeping noise when it's being backed up.

Hurdy Gurdy Guy update

He's also got an LJ now! changeng is him.

Hey everybody!

Stuart Pearson here. The guy with the slinky from www.stuartpearson.net . Summer is here and everyone seems to be shiny. Are you shiny? Here's a test - face your mirror and squint your eyes so that you can barely see yourself. Do you see a glow around you? I bet you do - you're a shiny kinda person.

There's a few schedule changes coming up, so if you were planning on witnessing the drunken bachanalia(?)my shows are increasingly becoming, check the changes below. To read how odd they are becoming, go to my website and read my new blog "Tales From The Coffeehouse".

Also, wednesday night will witness the debut of my new drum machine - it's a 12 inch tall motorized monkey that bangs cymbals. Along with the toy piano I dragged out of a dumpster last week, I'm now rocking harder and slamming out the block rockin' beats. My monkey needs a name! Please send suggestions to chang.eng@verizon.net .

Also, I need new photos for my website! I see people taking pictures of my nitwittery, so please send me some! I'll give credit under each photo and post your website addy if you wish.

( schedule follows )

Retirement collapse alarm

Are pension funds the next S&L crisis?

The Economist thinks they might be. Boy, wouldn't that be fun!

Scenes from the war

Friend
Originally uploaded by NikonShooter.

There are a lot of good photos from the war on Flickr, some of them like this one quite moving.

The Plague Ship arrives at Réunion

From the always-cheerful Pro-Med list:

Source: Independent online (IOL), Wed 22 Jun 2005 [edited]
article link


Seychelles: ship quarantined off Reunion - undiagnosed fatal illness
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A French medical laboratory in Lyons has dismissed any likelihood of
Marburg hemorrhagic fever on board the bulk carrier Clipper Lancaster.
The ship is being held in quarantine off the Indian Ocean island of
Reunion. The nature of the mystery fever that claimed the life of a
Rumanian seafarer and left a 2nd sailor seriously ill remains
unidentified, however.

The 2 seafarers, members of a crew of 22, became ill soon after the 28
429 dead weight tonnage ship left Durban on 5 Jun 2005, where it had
stopped briefly to refuel. The surviving crewman has been responding to
treatment. Before calling at Durban, the ship had loaded lumber at
Pointe Noire in Congo Brazzaville and had called earlier at Angolan
ports. A serious outbreak of Marburg fever is raging in northern
Angola.

Authorities in La Reunion said the vessel would be allowed to continue
its voyage to China once the body had been removed. A postmortem would
not be performed.

[byline: Terry Hutson]

I coulda been an achiever.

My Adderall XR™ anti-ADD medication trial package came with a reassuring booklet, a less reassuring set of pharmacological explanations of how it might mess me up, and a fridge magnet. It's the "Adderall™ Achievers!" package, you see.

Usually the fridge magnets and other tchotchkes go to the physicians for advertising purposes, so I was puzzled at first. On closer inspection, it turned out to be a picture frame fridge magnet. The idea is that your bad kid, who is totally humping the pooch at school and is going to die in an alley, has just become a model of studious perfection and will now get a picture on the fridge in this special frame that says: I'm an achiever!

I think some Photoshop is in order. I'll try to think some things up. In the meantime:

humor site whacked by Fed law

http://www.gapingmaw.com/

It was a funny site. It had naughty pictures on it, which were funny. They had to take it down because of a law about porn, which this site is not. The law does not stop porn; it just makes it more expensive to have anything to do with naughty pictures, so that only people who sell porn will be able to show each other naughty pictures.

Those of us who just want to have a laugh or look at a naughty picture our friends made are SOL.

I really hope Scott Ritter is wrong about this

The war with Iran has already started.

I'd love to dismiss it because Ritter has a loud mouth and because it's on Al jazeera.

But Ritter has been right way too much, and if they're the only ones who'll print it, maybe that's because it's true?

I'm not such a big fan of the New Necessary 581% Paranoid Lifestyle, here.

Date a crank!

http://vegweb.com/personals/

Some star members:

Future mogul with perfect hair

Typical saturday night with cheesecloth

I am Lutheran and I just learned to make rice milk!

I think she understood, though I left with only the dessert.

Actually most of these people seem okay. It's surprisingly not much crankier than any other Internet dating site.