Archive for January, 2006
Wednesday, January 25th, 2006
Thank you, Captain Obvious
Study: Not enough metals to meet demand
Yale University scientists studying supplies of various metals have determined the Earth might not hold enough resources to meet indefinite global demand.
Did some of them previously believe that there were infinite supplies of anything?
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Wednesday, January 25th, 2006
“Do as I say, not as I do” Department
Unions staff picket lines with homeless
U.S. union organizers are recruiting homeless people to staff picket lines, paying just above minimum wage and not offering healthcare benefits.
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Friday, January 20th, 2006
You must stir it and stump it and blow your own trumpet
From the Houston Insider, January 17, 2006:
The audience could not get enough of Joe Carl White, who appears as Sergeant Schultz and Dr. Freud. He is hilarious.
If you are coming to see the show this weekend, be aware of construction on 59 and Montrose that will close the bridge:
Here’s a way around it:
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Sunday, January 15th, 2006
Life in the Montrose
Meant to post this last week, from one of my neighbors on our civic association mailing list:
Sunday (today) at 8am we had an unwelcome visitor outside
our house . . . on top of my car.
One of my neighbors pursued him when he ran off in order to help the
police nab him. [...]
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Saturday, January 7th, 2006
Where do you want to go today? Wasn’t Apple already there yesterday?
Re-Introducing the Real Windows Vista at Tauquil’s Blog
Nice merge of part of the keynote at CES demonstrating the ‘exciting new features’ that are coming in Windows Vista later this year that have been part of Mac OS X for almost a year.
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Friday, January 6th, 2006
Tree bragging rights
Ok, earlier I posted about the tree I put up that Libby had left behind. In the comments, David and Libby have been having a “mine’s better” contest. David has been yelling at me about not putting up the picture of his tree, so here it is, all 14′ of it:
It went up [...]
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Friday, January 6th, 2006
Life in the Montrose
[been a while since I did one of these]
Driving back from the show last night, I saw an interesting-lookin lady walking along Montrose: pink mini-skirt with matching high heels, fur jacket, skinny legs, shoulder-length bleach-blonde hair. As I passed her, I saw that it was actually a man. First transvestite hooker (I [...]
