Randomness

[Aquarius]

Insane Phone Bill

I don't know what I'm more amazed by: the size of that bill, or the fact that even though the Lions lost (typical!), it wasn't by much!

[Entilzha]

Saw it too today. Nice bill for a game.

[Alelou]

See, if newspapers die out, who will help you when a company decides they're gonna stiff you just because they CAN?

Buy a newspaper, people.

(Ignoring the fact that this story was in fact on the web...where it was free...sigh)

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

See, if newspapers die out, who will help you when a company decides they're gonna stiff you just because they CAN?

Buy a newspaper, people.

Hear, hear! (Says the guy who is a newspaper editor)

*****

The world's longest ear hair

Eeeewww... just eeewwww...

[Linda]

I have the solution! Tell the guy's wife to drug him and cut off his ears. Sell the ears to a museum. That way, they have money and also keep proof for the record of longest ear hair.

Now isn't that logical?

So why doesn't anyone ever like my ideas?

[Alelou]

Does anyone speak enough text or whatever this is to translate for me? It's the only comment left at the Commander Tucker Falls in Love trailer video on YouTube:

"ohhh.. Tucker:PxDD (L)(K) yeahh.. csok kiss"

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

Since Tuesday the annual nation-wide book sale has been going on in Sweden, and today I went on something of a shopping spree... Together with the books I bought last week at a discount book store in Stockholm I've now purchased the following:

1) Swedish astronaut Christer Fuglesang's account of his space mission
2) och 3) Volumes 1-2 (of 3) about the History of Slavery from prolific Swedish historian Dick Harrison
4) Adrian Goldsworthy's biography of Caesar
5) A small book about the Battle of Teutoburger Wald
6) A book about the home decorating styles (or should I say lack thereof) of various dictators
7) Young Stalin biography by Simon Sebag Montefiore
8 ) A book about the Hungarian uprising of 1956
9) A History of Genocide by two of my old professors
10) The Philosophy of Evil

And I've a few other books as well that I want but haven't gotten (not yet, anyway). Go figure!

I really need those extra bookshelves now...

[Alelou]

#6 sounds pretty horrifying. Dictators aren't known for their restraint in anything. (Your #10 seems to sum up some sort of general interest here.)

Unrelated:

All sorts of cool Google things you may not have heard about before:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/26/techn ... ue.html?em

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

#6 sounds pretty horrifying. Dictators aren't known for their restraint in anything.

Exactly! Which is why it's so morbidly fascinating.

(Your #10 seems to sum up some sort of general interest here.)

Heh, well I am a cynical bastard with a deep interest in history...

[JadziaKathryn]

Does anyone speak enough text or whatever this is to translate for me? It's the only comment left at the Commander Tucker Falls in Love trailer video on YouTube:

"ohhh.. Tucker:PxDD (L)(K) yeahh.. csok kiss"

Oi. I know the : P is a smiley face with a tongue...

[enterprikayak]

...and

XD

...is like when Cartman on South Park squeezes his eyes shut and laughs...

[Escriba]

At least here. Again. It's so good to be home again

You couldn't imagine the weeks I've had. Seriously. They're been... weird. You could say they're been exciting too. But in the bad sense.

First, I've practiced as an authority in my own town. Which is crazy, really. I mean, I'm working as... here we call it "Judge of Peace", which isn't exactly a judge, judge, more like an ombudsman, although I have some competences (small) in my town. And there is this little stupid line about me being an authority inside the town. Which is a decorative thing, more than anything. Or that what I thought. The thing is that in... I don't know, all the years that the post exists, the Judge of Peace has never had too exert any kind of power. When it had to happen? When I'm in the post. Of course. I don't want to bore you with details, just saying that there was a drunk husband beating his wife and the policemen (town policemen) had to put him temporarily in the little jail that exists in the Town Hall and for that they asked my permision. My permision. I mean, c'mon, that's ridiculous. Worst of all: the wife withdrew the formal complaint and now I feel awful.

The second thing. I'm studying to be a Judge (real Judge) as you know. I go every week to my "trainer's" house to test me. He is a Judge (only Judges can prepare you for the exam), and Judges here have bodyguards (most of them, anyway). The other day I was late for the test (I was in a traffic jam) and since I didn't warn him, he thought that I wasn't going to come. So he called his bodyguard (because that is what he does: he calls him, and the bodyguard goes up to his floor to accompany him from there.) In that moment, I called him from the intercom. So I suppose he told his bodyguard to take the elevator and go down again (to the entrance.) I didn't know anything of this, by the way. So here is the image: the bodyguard was going down on the elevator and I was waiting it. I was wearing a black waist-lenght jacket, I had my head tilted, so the long hair was covering my face, and I was trying to take out my chronometer from my pocket. In fact, I was trying to take it out frenetically. And that was what he saw when the door of the elevator opened. I swear, he took his hand to the place where he hides his gun. Until he noticed my books. We watched each other for a moment, with the same face of shock. That would be a very stupid accident. It sounds more dramatic than what it was, really, in fact, when I think about it now I think is kind of funny, in a very weird way

Third. Police had arrested a terrorist on my town, so we've had a rough night here. Yipeee! I just LOVE the place I live in Today we had elections here, so it's been even worse. Fortunately, this guy hasn't won. Well, he has, but he can't govern (yes, this is a real ceremony, where the people were dressed as Star Trek TOS crew, because they say that he looks like Spock. The HERESY!! )

After all this it can't be worse, can it?

[justTripn]

Wow you have some interesting stories!

[Alelou]

That's wild.

[panyasan]

If I was Spock, I would be insulted. The guy doesn't look anything like Spock. So he won, but can't govern? Something to do with forming a coalition of parties? Nice to hear more about your studies and your interesting stories, Escriba, I think you're going to be a fine jugde.