OK, actually summer in suburbs. We don’t really have much of a city around here (which is okay by me). But, wherever you’re at, if you live north of the equator, summer will be here at about 7:30, my time. So enjoy the longest day of the year, ‘cuz tomorrow the days start getting shorter. I say we double down and set the clocks ahead another hour. Not today, though, ‘cuz I decided to take today off. Lets do it at noon tomorrow instead.
So, did you hear about the 8-yr old kid in Rhode Island who glued a bunch of toy soldiers to a hat as some sort of “patriotic” school project theme? Apparently, the tiny little plastic soldiers violated the school’s ‘zero tolerance’ weapons policy because they carry little tiny guns. Of course, they’re not friggin’ guns, they’re little time pieces of pointy plastic. Are we really this stupid? Really? It’s not quite as stupid as strip searching a girl on suspicion of Ibuprofen (thanks again, Arizona), but it’s still pretty stupid.
I was looking up ‘spitz’ for some reason this morning (not quite sure why). Near the top of the results was a listing for “Spitz Restaurant – Home of the Döner Kebab”, and right underneath that were image search result thumbnails showing a bunch of Spitz dogs. At first, I thought it was a menu (I was afraid Döner was some kind of dog, but fortunately it turns out to be kind of the Turkish equivalent of a Gyro, which, I suppose, could be dog, now that I think about it). Döner Kebab also sounds like something they do when they don’t get the transplant organs to the recipient in time. That’s why they use those little picnic coolers.
Anyhow, there was also a link to the website of somebody I haven’t though about in a long time – Mark Spitz.
Mark’s site caught my eye, because it says,
Mark Spitz, most notable athlete of all-time, is synonymous with excellence.
Really? Most notable athlete of all time? And most humble, too. I mean, don’t get me wrong – the seven gold medals were great, Mark. But, hey, it’s swimming. You know where you go from there? The motivational speaking circuit, apparently. Hell, I wouldn’t even rate Spitz the most notable Jewish athlete of all time (personally, I’d go with Dolph Schayes, but you could probably make a pretty strong case for Sandy Koufax or Max Baer – Jethro’s dad, the boxer).
Oh well, time to get back to work on the living room.
Good luck with that living room. One man can do a lot.
Oh, please, please, please, please, PRETTY PLEASE!
Rahm Emanuel expected to quit White House
Only have three Kings, and we’ve been out for eight hours.
How come it’s only FUX news that the WH is talking to about Rahm Emanuel leaving? 😮 (they deny it)
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/06/21/report-rahm-emanuel-quit-obama-idealism/
Caught a few coho but I’m still making peanuts.
Art, why is the highway between Silverton and Ouray called the Million Dollar Highway?
I forgot to mention another scary sign we encountered on it: Runaway Truck Ramp 2 1/2 miles.
We’re in Oklahoma, having made it through the Texas Panhandle and a place called Bushland. knew we had left Texas and entered Oklahoma when I saw a sign that said seatbelts are the law. I knew ol’ Texas would never interfere with the freedom of it drivers by making them buckle up.
It goes through some of the richest mining area’s in Colorado- mostly silver I think. At the time, a million dollars seemed like a lot of money.
You should check in on bartcop.com while you’re in Oklahoma. He’s a good guy blogger who lives in Ok City- He refers to it as “K-Drag” for knuckle-dragging :rofl2:
Isn’t Okat in Oklahoma somewhere ❓
There’s a couple of awesome runaway-truck ramps on I-70 going west on the other side of the Eisenhower Tunnel and just before coming into Vail but the scariest one is headed east into Denver just before the turn-off to Morrison. There wasn’t any place to build one going up-hill like the others so they just layed some really deep gravel next to the road going downhill.
The only problem is they put it in the wrong place and there’s still a lot more down-hill highway going into Denver and most trucks lose their brakes past the runaway-truck lane despite huge lighted signs flashing “truckers, slow down: 5% down-grade ahead!” :omg:
This took ten minutes to upload
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rlrhfqxv9JM&feature=youtube_gdata
:doh: 5% downgrade means drive faster