Drove to LV on Weds 5/21; Roger flew in that evening. Drove to the South Rim on Thursday, met up with Michael Hunter and his friends Bill and Melanie. Roger had managed to score 2 spaces in the Phantom Ranch dorms, but MPH didn't mind doing a rim-to-rim day hike and Bill & Melanie were planning on puttering around above the rim mostly.

( Day 1, South Kaibab Trail to the Tipoff, Tonto Trail west to Indian Garden and Plateau Point, Bright Angel Trail/River Trail/Black Bridge to Phantom Ranch )

If I knew the commenter (it's a FOAF) I would followup "Well of course they did."


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Kevin Bacon bacon portrait

Relatedly, I was not aware of what people are calling an easter egg (though it doesn't quite feel like the right term if you ask me) but you can Google for "(name) bacon number" and Google will compute it for you.

More fake petitions for Thaddeus McCotter discovered

Hey rcfox, this guy must be a Democrat, right? I'm sure if he were a Republican it would have been mentioned in the first paragraph, per your usual gripe.

Other Facebook links:

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via rcfox, video of the San Diego fireworks fiasco in which an entire fireworks show was compressed into 15 seconds, blamed on computer error:

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If you ask me, this was way more awesome than the intended version could possibly have been.

/. notes that it's not the first time it's happened.

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via fich on Facebook:

Burger King Offering Bacon Sundae

The world's second biggest hamburger chain on Thursday is launching several pork, beef and chicken sandwiches as limited time offers. And for a sweet ending, the company is also offering a bacon sundae -- vanilla soft serve with fudge, caramel, bacon crumbles and a piece of bacon -- that started ( Read more... )

Further to the previous entry, my boss mentioned bacon ipsum: "Does your lorem ipsum text long for something a little meatier? Give our generator a try...it's tasty!"

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Restaurant kitchen door in Logan airport:


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ncbi_rofl: The best use of CAT scans to date: bacon quality prediction

Nice Christmas gesture: on hearing that today's Bills-Pats game was under threat of local TV blackout, a local businessman bought up all the remaining tickets so that the game would be shown on TV, and donated the tickets, which "will be distributed to various military and local youth charitable organizations in the Western New York community ( Read more... )