In Sliema, Malta
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In this spirit, I hereby propose introducing a new section to the standard scientific manuscript: the Disacknowledgements Section.
(via marginal revolution)
Help Wanted
Who’s still looking for a job?
I’ll be out at Wild West Town this afternoon if you’d like me to pick up an application.
Donley’s Wild West Town (Union, Illinois) NEEDS YOU!!!!
SUMMER & FALL JOBS AVAILABLE NOW
Now hiring full and part time in all positions with immediate start dates.
ACTORS
PONY HANDLERS
TRAIN ENGINEERS
JANITORIAL
CLERKS
BLACKSMITHS
FOOD SERVERS
ROPERS
TRICK SHOOTERS
GOLD MINERS
MAGICIANS
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ARTISTS
TOMAHAWK THROWERS
This just in…
We’re cordoned off y’all!
They say there’s an armed man in this house across the street. Lucky, the people who live there weren’t home. I think they’re getting ready to send in a SWAT team.
new London Double-Decker
Quite a bit nicer than a certain Olympic Mascot.
headline of the day
Is Dora The Explorer An Illegal Immigrant?
West End Market
My friends Joe & Rachael Ringenberg run a little beach-side market during their summers on Nantucket. They’re both incredibly savvy when it comes to design and their shop is sure to be stocked with classic literature, wayfarers and wine-in-a-can. I suggest we all tell our vacationing friends to patronize their establishment and if we’re lucky, we might be able to pick up a few things through their website soon.
Dumb and Dumber Challenge:
Thoughts?
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Jordan was carrying a number of good luck charms, including a pair of kangaroo testicles given to him by a friend who has cancer.
“That’s the one that probably meant the most. I know it might sound odd,” Bailey said.
My login still works!
I’m here. I haven’t given up on clusterflock. I hope you guys haven’t given up on me. It’s been a turbulent time, this past year especially. Everything mostly even-ing out to more than wonderful outcomes all around. Better than I could even imagine, really. Tonight, I’m at my new apartment, in a favorable neighborhood, with a favorite wine in a favorite glass, having installed my new favorite curtains and a favorite rug. I’m also listening to undeniably my favorite album (iTunes told me) and sitting in my favorite chair. Hi Five.
flashed back to acid trip i once had
Like your light operetta with a lil’ science fiction? Prefer your sci-fi with singing? Well, weirdo, you’re in luck because a new production of Gilbert & Sullivan’s H.M.S. Pinafore has been mashed up with none other than… “Star Trek.” Why not? Jon Mullich directs his outer-space operetta, with notable cast member, bass baritone opera singer Jesse Merlin on (the) deck as the Captain of the ship.
Time Lapse Shuttle Launch
ShipYourReptiles.com
Via Erin.
Another Bourgeois Divorce
Yet another transcript from my public law librarian friend.
Caller: I need to find out how to get an annulment ’cause we only been married 8 months.
Librarian (in a tired monotone): I will read to you from the statute. Texas family code section 6. There are seven categories for which you can get an annulment. 1) Underage 2) Under influence of alcohol or drugs 3) Impotency 4) Fraud, duress, or force 5) Mental incapacity 6) Concealed divorce 7) Marriage less than 72 hours after issuance of license.
Caller: Well, this is what happened, we were only together for 8 months and–
book burning, history of
I love the photography as much as the content.
Some cars for Deron and Sheila
From the Classic Car Museum in Qawra, Malta. This first one’s a Bugatti.
You’ll have to forgive the overbearing flash on these. The light wasn’t sufficient inside to take without flash, and my camera is just a simple little Nikon CoolPix.
Distance
Once, someone wanted to sell me his house — instead of to another person — because we had the same saw.
everything you ever hoped for
There is loads more. (via)
Poker Face (Lady Gaga Cover) – Two Door Cinema Club
In an awesome conflagration of our collective interests, Lady Gaga, covers of her songs, and Two Door Cinema Club, I present two versions of Poker Face. I listen to half of each one and that is usually enough.
Rice Belt Warehouse Inc, Bay City, TX 77414
Senators have no idea how to use ATM
Sen. Ben Nelson (D), for example, told the Omaha World-Herald this week that he has never once used an ATM, relying on bank tellers instead. His Nebraska colleague, Sen. Mike Johanns (R), has used his ATM card fewer than five times. And Sen. Charles E. Grassley (Iowa), the ranking Republican on the Finance Committee, told the newspaper that he has a bank card but doesn’t use it for cash.
“I’ve never used an ATM, so I don’t know what the fees are. It’s true, I don’t know how to use one,” Nelson, 69, said.
But Nelson added: “I could learn how to do it. . . . I swipe to get my own gas, buy groceries. I know about the holograms.” Nelson’s office did not respond to a request for comment Thursday.
Wish me luck
I’m off to look for water heaters.
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“He just does his thing every day. If someone shot him and shot him good, he wouldn’t have cared because he wouldn’t have known,” Lawrence said.
PacMan’s Anniversary
Cory M writes:
You can play PacMan on Google’s homepage today in honor of the game’s 30th Anniversary. Just click Insert Coin.
If you double click, you can play Ms. PacMan — but it didn’t work quite so well when I tried it.
stolen valor
A Texas man with no military experience tricked the Army into letting him enter a reserve unit as a noncommissioned officer earlier this year, a deception that placed an untrained soldier in a leadership position in a time of war, an Associated Press investigation has found.
The records show that Johnston’s only military experience was attending part of a 12-week Marine officer candidate course for college students in 2004.
His former wife:
“I don’t know who Jesse Bernard Johnston III is, but I do know he is not the man he claimed to be,” she stated in the affidavit.
