Sexy shirt

This reminds me of many years ago, back when I actually had to do an honest day's work to make a living, one very early morning on the bus on the way to my shitty work I saw a pretty woman with the sun shining through her white shirt. Sure put a shine on that morning.

Sydney Habor 360 panorama

Sydney Habour 360 panorama.

This panorama site is Danish, it seems. (Though English languaged, if there is such a word.)

Most strained analogy ever?

Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.
-- Ivan Pavlov

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What can I say? Woof!

Quickly Mail a Link in Safari

Quickly Mail a Link in Safari
Reading a Web page in the Safari browser and want to send the URL to a friend via email? Simply press Command-Shift-I to open a new email message with the Web page title as the Subject line and the Web page URL in the message body.

[Thanks to TidBITS.]

Actor needed for emotional role

[Real ad from Craig's List.]

Actor needed for emotional role � One day high pay

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Date: 2009-04-17, 12:52PM EDT


My deceased aunt gave my two kids a Cocker Spaniel a few months back. The dog has been a terror and become overwhelming for me. I am a single father raising two young children. I cannot face telling the kids that the dog must go. I have found a good home for the dog, and just need someone to transport the dog, and play the villain.

Premise: You will be the dog walker hired by daddy (me) to walk Skittles. I will introduce you to the kids, and you will tell them you are going to help Skittles get her exercise when Daddy is too busy to walk her. At that point you will walk Skittles to your car and take her to her new family 20 minutes from my place. Then return holding just a leash. The story will be that Skittles broke free of the leash and took off. At this point prepare for crying, things being thrown at you, and possibly cursing. My kids are young and dramatic, their girls.

Pay will be $500. The job will take roughly 2 hours at best.

This job is ideal for an actor looking to diversify their role base, or someone who genuinely likes to make children cry. Acting experience is a plus, but not necessary. Please inform me of any prior experience in this kind of situation.

Infallible

An older man approached an attractive younger woman at a shopping mall. 'Excuse me; I can't seem to find my wife. Can you talk to me for a couple of minutes?'
The woman, feeling a bit of compassion for the old fellow, said, 'Of course, sir. Do you know where your wife might be?'
'I have no idea, but every time I talk to a woman with a figure like yours, she seems to appear out of nowhere.'

GoTopless.org

[Thanks to Maurice.] GoTopless.org, article. -- home page.
"U.S.-based organization GoTopless.org claims that women have the same constitutional right as men to go bare-chested in public. In Columbus, OH, where it is already legal for women to go bare-chested, GoTopless will be part of Comfest 2009 to encourage women to exercise that right."

Me? I'm all for it. Equality über alles.

By the clean end

[Thanks to Ian.]

There is an annual contest at Texas A&M University calling for the most appropriate definition of a contemporary term. This year's term was "Political Correctness."

The winner wrote: "Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end."

This same doctrine also alleges that the use of the word "turd" MAY be offensive to some undefined minority, probably the same minority that, in the later 19th century, insisted on calling piano legs "limbs" and advocated using plaster to cover the not-to-be-observed portions of classical sculpture.

Perhaps, in order to avoid the remote possibility of being offensive to any potential offendee, we should substitute "firmly cohesive excremental matter" for turd.

Friction

The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.
-- Frances Willard

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
-- Booker T. Washington

These two quotes were right after each other today in the quotes service I use. I find it interesting, because they say almost the opposite things. I agree far more with the first one.
Some people stay in a situation where they have a ton of opposition, because dammit, they are not gonna give up, they will stay and fight! Where another person may look at the situation and think "maybe this only feels important because I'm getting all that opposition. Maybe if I take a step to the side, I can avoid all this time/energy wasting fighting, and get a lot more done."

More Andy Goldsworthy

More Andy Goldsworthy.
There's a very good DVD about him.

Lit up frog.

Lit up frog. From Geo.
by James Snyder who wrote:

This is a Cuban tree frog on a tree in my backyard in southern Florida. How and why he ate this light is a mystery. It should be noted that at the time I was taking this photo, I thought this frog was dead having cooked himself from the inside. I’m happy to say I was wrong. After a few shots he adjusted his position. So after I was finished shooting him, I pulled the light out of his mouth and he was fine. Actually, I might be crazy but I don’t think he was very happy when I took his light away.

Dolphin in love

Dolphin in love. And they blame men for not being able to resist women? At least we're the same species!
(On further viewing, it seems to be a trick he taught it, and he's baiting it with a fish. The tail motion is just the dolphin trying to get further up. But it does look funny.)

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Well, at least this guy is a primate, and who can blame him?