Monthly Archives: July 2005

Quenching the thirst for art

The sculpture, a plastic bottle of water full of melted ice from the Antarctic, was intended to be a telling comment on the dangers of global warming Initially, the artist trying to convince me that a bottle of water was art was going to be my idiot of the day.  However, his attempt became moot when: Rather than musing on… (more…)

Safest and Riskiest Cities

Expanding on the Safest and Riskiest cities by things like terrorism, hurricanes, severe thunderstorms, and earthquakes, ranking the cities based on crime shows a different reality: Metropolitan Area Sev. Thund Hurricane Quake Terror TOTAL Crime San Jose, CA 1 1 3 1 6 -16.87 San Diego, CA 1 1 2 2 6 7.46 Austin, TX 3 2 1 1 7… (more…)

Safest and Riskiest Cities

In what I think is a sign of the times, Risk and Insurance webpage is now including risk of terrorism in their list of safe and dangerous places to live.  I toyed with their list just a little bit to get an idea of where to live if you’re kinda paranoid about anything: Metropolitan Area Sev. Thunderstorm Hurricane Earthquake Terrorism… (more…)

Bill Gaines

William Gaines, founder and publisher of Mad Magazine interviewed by MichaelRead. MichaelRead:. “Mad is now in the running for being one of the longest lived humor magazines. Did you think it would have as long a run as it has?” William Gaines: “In perfect hindsight I have to say yes since Mad hit a chord transcending generations meeting the need… (more…)

The Night Tickler

Police in one Florida community are on the lookout for the naked tickler. Investigators believe one man could be responsible for a series of bizarre break-ins. Victims said a naked man has entered their rooms while they were sleeping and tickled their feet. The naked tickler struck again in New Smyrna Beach this past Saturday and Sunday. Ohhhhh-Kayyyyyy

Ah’m Given her all she’s got, Cap’n!

James Doohan, the burly chief engineer of the Starship Enterprise in the original "Star Trek" TV series and motion pictures who responded to the command "Beam me up, Scotty," died early Wednesday. He was 85. Although his signature on the show was being the receiving end of "Beam me up, Scotty.", "Ah’m given all I’ve got!" was my all-time favorite. … (more…)

Debra Lafave and Pamela Turner

OK, we got this part-time model, full-time reading instructor, fresh off her honeymoon to her newlywed husband  whom she has dated for a long time.  What to do?  Screw around with of her students.  That’s pretty stupid folks.  She’s busted big time.  The boy told all pretty quick, so the police taped her phone calls with him ( supposedly on… (more…)

Spacetofill HAD to ask…. What’s a migas?

So Storm HAD to answer: Migas are a Mexican breakfast meal (they were apparently made "mainstream" in south Texas when former Gov. Anne Richards frequented a restaurant in Austin every Saturday to have them for breakfast).  Basically, its a scrambled egg combo using tortillas (there is no written recipe here…its largely by taste and feel). 2-10" tortillas (we’ve been using… (more…)

JALAPENO CHICKEN

Another recipe from Stormwarning.  This guy likes to cook!  For lunch I cooked my specialty, frozen pizza.  I’m quite certain Storm’s Jalapeno Chicken is much better! 1 dead chicken (no kidding!), cleaned, cut up, with the skin and fat pulled off MARINADE:1/2 c. (more or less) juice from pickled jalapenos1 dash cayenne pepper sauce2 tbsp. finely chopped jalapenosEnough water to… (more…)

Pfc. Stephen Tschiderer

This story is too cool.  Pfc. Stephen Tschiderer was shot in the chest by a sniper.  Gets up, gets to safety, and when the sniper is injured, applies medical treatment to the sniper. Here’s the link to the story AND the video.  Be sure to watch the video.  It’s unnerving, but not gruesome or shocking. On a personal note, I… (more…)

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