French for Grapefruit

My daughter has started a food blog as part of a class she is taking at you-dub:

http://www.kathryn-pamplemousse.blogspot.com/

Makes me happy.

Truth in Communications

From Miriam's brother, via Miriam and Dustbury:

Hello, and thank you for calling Furndock Corporation. Your call means nothing to us because we do not value our customers or their time. If we did, we would have a human to answer our phone. However, humans cost money and your time is free, at least for us, so we have bought a cheap automatic caller direction system. Since careful programming of this machine also costs money, we have programmed it very badly which means that you will waste a great deal of time getting to the person you want, if you get the person at all, which isn't very likely. We don't give a damn how much this inconveniences you.

Substitue Verizon for Furndock and you will understand the hate part of my love/hate relationship with my "phone-internet-TV-cell phone-DVR-remote control" company.

Adam & Jamie

One of their more elaborate spectacles. Thanks to Marc.

Ah! That explains everything ...

I was over at Dustbury's and I came across this comment:

If anyone's expecting the world to end in 2012, maybe that's why both parties look like they're trying to throw the 2008 election.

"The world's ending and it's THEIR fault!"

Posted by McGehee at 9:28 PM on 26 August 2008

What's that sound?

So I am looking for information on death rates and I find a page on the CIA website, but the data does not make any sense to me. So I go looking for an explanation, which eventually leads me to their home page. The page comes up and the title starts showing up one character at a time:

CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

But what's that sound? Could it be a typewriter? The CIA is using typewriters? Of course, I could only get it to play once. Now they are listening to me.

A Wearable Motorcycle

Take a gander.

Found on Benchilada.

If it wasn't FUBAR before, it is now. . .

H/T to Ross.

http://www.stanleyfubar.com/

To get to the fun stuff, you have to enable pop-ups. It's worth it.