NYC Woman Finds Python in Her Toilet
“And when she brushes her teeth, she said, ‘I’m looking over my shoulder.’”
Update: WARNING. Mute your computer. The article opens on a page with a LOUD advertisement.
October 18, 2007
October 16, 2007
NYC Bride Sues Florist Over Flower Color
NYC Bride Sues Florist Over Flower Color [AP]
The florist sez he told her he probably couldn’t match exactly the color she wanted. He provided pastel pink and green hydrangeas when the bride wanted dark rust and green ones.
Ruined her day, it did.
Bride is an attorney and is suing for $400K in restitution and damages.
And get this: the original flower bill was for $27,435.14!
Yikes. I hope her dear husband knows what he’s getting into.
October 15, 2007
CAN-SPAM works?!!!?!
Nice coupla guys.
Harsh sentencing of Kilbride is credited to his attempts to prevent a witness from testifying at the trial. Kilbride received six years in prison and Schaffer received a 5-1/4 year sentence. Each was fined $100,000 and had to forfeit $1.1 million of their porn spam profits. They also had to pay $77,500 in restitution to AOL, which claimed 1.5 million of its customers complained about their spam.
September 25, 2007
September 23, 2007
fan mail
Fan mail.
Well, maybe not fan mail per se but at least someone agreeing with my LETTER TO THE EDITOR in today’s Chronicle.
The letter was a rehash of a recent post wherein I gave my oh-so-lucid opinion re where Don Fisher should put his Contemporary Art Museum.
Fan mail’s nice …
July 19, 2007
No harm. It was missing ‘the part on top that goes boom.’
Missile found in Florida junk yard
Thursday, July 19, 2007
“If you left a surface-to-air missile lying around in a scrapyard in Florida, then some people would like a word with you.
“Authorities say that the Patriot missile was discovered lying in a scrap metal yard in Ybor City, Tampa, which is on the west coast of The State of Never-Ending Weirdness.”
[...]
July 8, 2007
Must be almost time for the All-Star Game
Sure, I know. The game isn’t until Tuesday, but we already have the Goodyear blimp circling around between the ballpark (hidden behind the Embarcadero Center towers) and the pyramid.
For Villaraigosa: Sex, lies and eyes that pry
For Villaraigosa: Sex, lies and eyes that pry – commentary by Timothy Rutten in the LA Times.
Is this affair a newsworthy tidbit? Is it any business of ours? Is it the business of people who watch Salinas on Telemundo or who live in the city for which Villaraigosa is mayor?
Is it newsworthy only as relates to whether Salinas should’ve kept covering the news? Had she told her bosses about the relationship? Does it matter whether Salinas and Villaraigosa were “just friends” or lovers? If she told her bosses “just friends” and not “lovers,” should that have affected the limits her bosses put on her reportage?
Oh, the questions, the reckless behavior, the conflict-of-interest.
Does it even matter except as a way of selling the news in an industry where the more news sold the better?
My favorite part of Rutten’s commentary is his reprise of the late Abe Rosenthal’s standard in such cases:
It doesn’t matter if a reporter sleeps with elephants, so long as they don’t cover the circus.
July 2, 2007
[UPDATE 2] Angora fire
254 homes destroyed. According to the Stanford update, all of the camp staff members with houses in the area came through with houses intact.
Cause of fire: illegal campfire in an area where campfires are never never ever allowed.
June 27, 2007
And as long as we’re discussing pain and fashion
On Your Feet by January W. Payne (yes, no kidding, payne) Washington Post Staff Writer. Subtitled: How do shoes affect your feet? Is there a good way to walk in heels? Want to know about Morton’s neuroma? How about hammertoe and pump bumps?
A quick snippet from the middle:
One of trendiest shoes this season is YSL’s platform “Tribute” — with a tottering 5 1/2 -inch heel. Often painstakingly selected to complete outfits, shoes like these put stress not just on feet, but on ankles, knees and backs, contributing to the approximately $3.5 billion spent annually in the United States for women’s foot surgeries, which cause them to lose 15 million work days yearly.
Ouch.
(mentioned in the comments tail of the previously mentioned aetiology post)