Return of the evwhore link dump
The gout-stricken foot is doing much better; maybe popping ibuprofen has helped. I'm about to do a 2.5-day off-site team building thing for work, which includes some sort of ropes course on Thursday. Right now I make it about +130 that I'll be able to participate in that.
The Smoking Gun: "After realizing she had left one of her 10 children at a restaurant the prior evening, a Texas woman dialed 911 and calmly told a police operator about the missing member of her brood."
The worst part? They were there to celebrate the birthday of one of the 10 children. Guess which one.
city-wide wifi in San Jose?
Speaking of wifi, homeless people as roving wifi hotspots at SXSW: "Passers-by may then pay what they wish either in cash or by PayPal to get online 4G networks via the Wi-Fi device that a homeless person is carrying and the proceeds go to the Front Steps Homeless shelter in Austin."
In which I once again get my news from The Onion's American Voices feature: LSD might be a good treatment for alcoholism
Wesley Crusher saves the day again:
"It's using all the power," he typed to me. Then, and I swear to whatever god you believe in that this is true, he followed that up with: "I'm givin it all I can, Captain!"
Profile of a Real-Life Jedi Academy: "Jedi Grandmaster Flynn Michael, a sound engineer and (by his own proclamation) an 'over-the-top geek,' connected the ideas of the Jedi with dance, martial arts, sword-fighting and Tibetan Buddhism to form the curriculum."
The Smoking Gun: "After realizing she had left one of her 10 children at a restaurant the prior evening, a Texas woman dialed 911 and calmly told a police operator about the missing member of her brood."
The worst part? They were there to celebrate the birthday of one of the 10 children. Guess which one.
city-wide wifi in San Jose?
Speaking of wifi, homeless people as roving wifi hotspots at SXSW: "Passers-by may then pay what they wish either in cash or by PayPal to get online 4G networks via the Wi-Fi device that a homeless person is carrying and the proceeds go to the Front Steps Homeless shelter in Austin."
In which I once again get my news from The Onion's American Voices feature: LSD might be a good treatment for alcoholism
Wesley Crusher saves the day again:
"It's using all the power," he typed to me. Then, and I swear to whatever god you believe in that this is true, he followed that up with: "I'm givin it all I can, Captain!"
Profile of a Real-Life Jedi Academy: "Jedi Grandmaster Flynn Michael, a sound engineer and (by his own proclamation) an 'over-the-top geek,' connected the ideas of the Jedi with dance, martial arts, sword-fighting and Tibetan Buddhism to form the curriculum."