Thursday, April 03, 2008
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
I could care less about the pot but........
Friday, February 15, 2008
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Remember, they have no fear of humans!
"The giant rat is about five times the size of a typical city rat," said Kristofer Helgen, a scientist with the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. "With no fear of humans, it apparently came into the camp several times during the trip."
What they don't say is that it ate three researchers!
Monday, December 03, 2007
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Monday, May 07, 2007
My old friend the Dalai Lama visited Chicago the other day
"So I jump ship in Hong Kong and make my way over to Tibet, and I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas. A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock. So, I tell them I'm a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald... striking. So, I'm on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one - big hitter, the Lama - long, into a ten-thousand foot crevasse, right at the base of this glacier. Do you know what the Lama says? Gunga galunga... gunga, gunga-galunga. So we finish the 18th and he's gonna stiff me. And I say, "Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know." And he says, "Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness." So I got that goin' for me, which is nice." - Bill Murray in Caddy Shack
Okay, he may not be a personal friend but he will say that he is everyones friend.
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
A little something for TR
Tax his land,
Tax his bed,
Tax the table
At which he's fed.
Tax his tractor,
Tax his mule,
Teach him taxes
Are the rule.
Tax his cow,
Tax his goat,
Tax his pants,
Tax his coat.
Tax his ties,
Tax his shirt,
Tax his work,
Tax his dirt.
Tax his tobacco,
Tax his drink,
Tax him if he
Tries to think.
Tax his cigars,
Tax his beers,
If he cries, then
Tax his tears.
Tax all he has
Then let him know
That you won't be done
Till he has no dough.
When he screams and hollers,
Then tax him some more,
Tax him till
He's good and sore.
Then tax his coffin,
Tax his grave,
Tax the sod in
Which he's laid.
Put these words
upon his tomb,
"Taxes drove meto my doom..."
When he's gone,
Do not relax,
Its time to apply
The inheritance tax.
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Welcome
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Thats it, game over dude....
Killer Chimps Make Spears, Hunt Bushbabies
The researchers saw 10 different chimps fashioning spear-like tools to forcibly jab at nocturnal primates known as lesser bushbabies (Galago senegalensis), which sleep inside hollow branches or tree trunks during the day.
After their attacks, the chimps sniffed or licked their weapons, as if to see whether or not they shed blood.
"I was flabbergasted," Pruetz said.
Previously, researchers had spotted one chimpanzee using tools to flush out mammalian prey, specifically employing a branch to rouse a squirrel.
However, Pruetz and her colleague, Cambridge biological anthropologist Paco Bertolani, saw something far more complex. The chimps routinely broke off branches, trimmed them of twigs, leaves and bark and sharpened the tips of their spears with their teeth.
There was just one successful attempt in 22 recorded instances of the chimpanzee hunts with their spears.
"Still, this involves significantly less energy than in chasing down monkeys, so it is not surprising that it evolved," Pruetz said.
Run away, run away! This is just practice for when they make their bid to take over the world!
Friday, February 02, 2007
Another sign of the Apocolypse!
Multicolored Snow Falls Over 3 Siberian Regions
MOSCOW — Strange colored snow that fell in three different Siberian regions is not toxic and may have been caused by dust and soils blown into the atmosphere from neighboring Kazakhstan, a Russian emergency official said Friday.
The snow, which fell Wednesday afternoon, was yellow, green and orange and covered more than 40 square miles in at least three provinces, said Emergency Situations Ministry spokesman Viktor Beltsov.
Initial tests in three main cities in the region — Omsk, Tomsk and Novosibirsk — showed the multicolored snow was not harmful and he refuted earlier reports that said the snow was oily or foul-smelling.
Next it will be raining FROGS!
