So this happened…classy. A police officer was assaulted on the job in Iowa City, Iowa. The cop stopped to talk to a man because he was disrupting traffic. They got into a struggle, with the man choking the officer before fleeing. A local news reporter posted a screenshot of the reward/wanted poster on Facebook. And [...]
Arrrrrrrr
September 19, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day! According to the Official Source of All Factual Information on the Internets: International Talk Like a Pirate Day (ITLAPD) is a parodic holiday created in 1995 by John Baur (Ol’ Chumbucket) and Mark Summers (Cap’n Slappy), of Albany, Oregon,[1] U.S., who proclaimed 19th September each year as the [...]
Happy 20th Hubble!
April 24, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Image via Wikipedia Wow it’s hard to believe it’s been 20 years since the Hubble Space Telescope was launched on the back of the space shuttle STS-31. I remember at first all the jokes about its technical problems, it had poor eyesight, and needed many repairs. HST was not going to give up the fight [...]
Get off of my cloud
January 17, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Image via Wikipedia I’ve been listening to all this talk of “The Cloud”, which to me is the new Web 2.0, which replaced the dot-com boom, which used to be the new black. And I think it’s interesting, while also being a load of crap. Users are encouraged to think they can rely on the [...]