Finally, we come to the end of a very long week. Too bad there’s still Friday to have to get through. And it’s still too damn hot (and, yes, as I previously acknowledged, it gets hotter elsewhere, but if you choose to live in those places, that’s your problem; as for me, I now have one more reason to move to Canada). The new oil cap may or may not be working, which I suppose is a good thing. It all depends on if they see the pressures they’re expecting to see. If the pressure drops, then oil is most likely leaking out into the sea bed, and I guess they’ll have to open up the cap again. Let’s hope that doesn’t happen. I think three months of this is enough. It’s just too bad that this will all be soon forgotten until it happens again in an area where it’ll get noticed by the media.
The Droid X came out yesterday, and sold out pretty quickly. The biggest complaint from the professional reviews I’ve seen so far is that it’s “too big” at 5 x 2.6 x .4 inches. I guess if you want a 4.3 inch screen, you gotta expect it to be a little bigger than a phone that’s, well, smaller, but at less than the width of an index card, I think it’d fit quite nicely in my shirt pocket. But, alas, I really have no need for it. I guess I need a job where I spend a lot of time in airports or something.
The Iroquois National team is still stuck in NYC. Something tells me the Brits won’t back down. They love their bureaucracy even more than we do (hell, probably almost as much as the krauts do).
Oh well, I guess it’s about that time.
I dunno PJ, I sure do love my light saber ap on my iphone. It’s gotten me out of tight spots. :doh:
My, you sound like a Republican there…love it or leave it.
Where’s the :love: buddy? Sometimes folks need to live where jobs take them, ya know. We are all human beings and the heat is no better for someone like me than you. :hot: Stay cool, EVERYONE!
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Now on to more serious matters:
Catholics angry as church puts female ordination on par with sex abuse
the first story:
Vatican makes attempted ordination of women a grave crime
Having ‘chosen’ to live and pay in San Francisco, I cannot complain and feel very lucky and not smug but sympathetic for those who do suffer through harder climates. I lived for many years in that same climate back in Richmond that pj enjoyed that summer in DC so I do not complain about the fog even when it seems like it is never going away or not being able to grow tomatoes or the earthquakes or the second hand pot smoke or the pervasive progressive values and tolerance because I choose to be here. I never was much of one for swimming at the beach either.\\
I will bravely be headed 90 miles from here this weekend to Sacramento for a ‘retirement party’ for the guy who started Tower Records. Estimated temperature 100-110 °F. Probably won’t have a computer though so I won’t be able to complain about it.
:hot: :fire:
second hand pot smoke or the pervasive progressive values and tolerance
I can’t imagine how you put up with that.
If I had it all to do all over again it would have been “pervasive second hand pot smoke and progressive values and tolerance”.
A mid-summer Friday news dump preview
Manchin to announce Byrd replacement at 2 p.m. Friday
Apple Is Not Expected to Recall Troubled iPhone
Well now, OKat, had you not said:
I wouldn’t have brought it up (talk about sounding like a Republican: “quit whining you latte sipping East Coast Liberal Elites. Out here in real America, we know what real heat is!).
😎
Apple has a news conference today. I think they’re gonna announce iTape – a new brand of white duct tape – for use in fixing phone reception problems for people who insist on holding their phones like phone.
$29.99 for a custom-cut 6″ strip, with a 30-day warranty against it coming off. But you can get a year of Apple care for it for only $59.99, and then you can just bring it in to any “genius” and they’ll replace the tape for free.
News from warmer climates…
Arizona Halts Photo Enforcement of Speed Laws
Happy %#@! Anniversary, First Parking Meter Installed 75 Years Ago Today
Maybe this was McVeigh’s problem.
Just one of many great songs written by Hank Cochran who passed yesterday morning.
🙁 :gate: :blues:
Good for us:
Yes we are, Tracy. But then, we get pretty excited when anything actually happens around here.
well, I didn’t mean THAT. But I do accept that I I deserved a retort. :spank:
On this morning’s local
noisenews, the ladies were saying that PETA’s advisory to put ice in your outdoor pets water was absurd. Now, I haven’t seen that advisory so don’t know if it’s true. But ’round these parts, bacon is a vegetable so caring for animals in the heat is a stretch.Speaking of which, I saw a bunch of baby buffalo today when I was driving to some hearings. OMG, they are so darn cute!
And Vern, where do you find that stuff?
iTape :rofl2:
Vernon- thanks for the mamm….., no, I’m not going to say it. Let’s just say it evoked one of the greatest TV interviews ever. Richard and Liz were on with Mike Douglas ( or was it David Frost? 🙄 ) Anywho, they were obviously tripping- how do I know that? Because Sir Richard said they were tripping. Liz walked right up to the camera and there hanging between the most famous breasts in show buisness before Susan Sarandon was the Hope diamond that Dick had just bought Liz….., :boobs: :hot:
I think I was :bong: at the time.
Hey, if anyone needs some heat, it’s going to be 100 in Denver tomorrow- but it’s a high, dry heat. :billcat:
NY specializes in wet, icky heat. Complaining is a way of preserving one’s sanity.
I saw a black bear in Anchorage today. Weird. All the years I lived here and that never happened.
Hookers, booze, and bears. Oh my!
Hookers freak me out.