with one last breath

My mom expired at 09:51 AM and with it, for the time being, this blog.

miss you mom.

.:scribbled by tonednbuff at 11:08 PM

 
EU: Entirely Useless
The European Union plans to institute new "working at height regulations" in July, the BBC reports, and professional mountaineers in Scotland are understandably piqued. "An MEP [member of the European Parliament] has suggested that, as the regulations stand, teams would have to display signs warning that mountains are high."

.:scribbled by tonednbuff at 10:39 AM

 
Circular saw won't hurt finger

Amazing video of a circular saw that can tell the difference between wood and skin. Link

.:scribbled by tonednbuff at 11:09 AM

 
Let's blame Bush

Now Bush's being blamed for not invading Afghanistan in 1998! Here's the passage from MSNBC:

The report revealed that in a previously undisclosed secret diplomatic mission, Saudi Arabia won a commitment from the Taliban to expel bin Laden in 1998. But a clash between the Taliban’s leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar, and Saudi officials scuttled the arrangement, and Bush did not follow up.

What was Gov. Bush supposed to have done in 1998? As Instapundit asks, "Why didn't he send the Texas Rangers to finish off Bin Laden?"

.:scribbled by tonednbuff at 3:08 PM

 
poor inmates, as if they're the victims

Canadian prision guards no longer allowed to wear protective gear in maximum security prisions becuase it might hurt the inmates' feelings.

.:scribbled by tonednbuff at 3:23 PM

 
y'all come again ya hear?

Thanks to pat and glo for coming all the way out here to plain ol' indiana to visit tina and with me as a bonus. It certainly was a blast...so when you coming again?

it was such a chore coming into work today...as it prolly will this whole week...

.:scribbled by tonednbuff at 2:24 PM

 
friday five
after a long absence, here's the friday five again:

If you...
1. ...owned a restaurant, what kind of food would you serve?
It would be a tapas bar. Finger foods and appetizers w/ different kinds of drinks, a great relaxing atmosphere to just enjoy friends, talk and snack.

2. ...owned a small store, what kind of merchandise would you sell?
A women's clothing store, a la "Forever 21" or "H&M". If you look at the trends and who shops at these stores you'll know why, financially, they're great stores.

3. ...wrote a book, what genre would it be?
Either a murder mystery with a FBI or CSI element to it or a action/adventure book involving a special forces elite group saving the world.

4. ...ran a school, what would you teach?
If i ran the school, I'd wanna be the principal seems like a pretty easy job. But if I were teaching, I'd definitely want to teach History or Physics.

5. ...recorded an album, what kind of music would be on it?
If we're assuming I'm recording an album I'm gonna assume I'm great at the guitar. So I'd either be doing music like lenny kravitz, elvis costello, eric clapton or john mayer, josh kelly, justin timberlake...haha.

.:scribbled by tonednbuff at 10:43 AM

 
madness

So originally, I was gonna come in and post a quick thought on the upcoming presidential elections. But as part of my morning routine, I hop on CNN and take a glance at what's going on in the world...and I get hit with this... assasinatin attempt on the current Taiwanese president running for election.
There's a small picture gallery where you can see the bullet hole in the windshield and the blood on his belly.

This is crazy folks...it was going to be a close election and now I wonder how it'll turn out. I hope he recovers well and wins tomorrow's election.

.:scribbled by tonednbuff at 9:16 AM

 
zooom
So work finally set me up w/ broadband yesterday afternoon and it's been great. Unfortunately with the pager they dropped on me, this means that if my system goes down at 2 am, I'll be expected to log in and fix it. But, hey, free broadband...can't lose there.

Anyway, here's something interesting:

Check out this optical illusion, staring at the central blinking green dot will cause the three stationary yellow dots to intermittently disappear. At first, I wondered if I was being fooled by the animation software and that the yellow dots really were disappearing. But of course every time I looked directly at the yellow dots they never wavered; they only disappeared when I looked at the green dot.

.:scribbled by tonednbuff at 2:15 PM