Stuff Update

Well, you can forget all about most of the links below; they're already gone. (except the one about TIME magazine and Battlestar Galactica) Damn that was fast. This whole internet thing goes by too quickly.

So I guess I got to tell you about them myself.

One link was to a story about a guy up north somewhere, illegally burning leaves in his back yard and apparently he catches a rat in his house. Somehow the rat is still alive, so the guy tosses the rat into the fire.

Ick.

But before going to rat-heaven (where each rat is met by 72 virgin rats, every place is a nice dank sewer and the cheese is American and plentiful) the rat apparently gets his revenge. According to the story this rat catches fire and, in the one brilliant flash of intelligence it has in it's entire tiny little rat-life, it leaps out of the pile of burning leaves with its fur on fire and more than a little upset it races back into the guys house, where it hides somewhere behind a couch and promptly sets the house on fire, completely burning it down. To the ground.

Even the police laughed, saying 'He (the guy) ain't smart enough to make up a story like that.'

Another link was to a story about an undertaker who police had found had kept the corpse of a one of his lady customers he had 'worked' on locked in a upstairs bedroom in his house for over two years.

With the air-conditioner and the TV on.

When the police found the slightly smelly, mummified body, he told them that the lady had asked for him to look out for her, that she 'was coming back.' The police believed him because, well, what other reason could there be, right? And there had been no monetary gain for the undertaker; the dead lady had left him nothing (except for a greasy stain on the recliner and a large electric bill)

I wonder what channel she was watching.

Ain't America a great nation?

Mid January Already?!

It's almost mid-January of 2006 already (can you believe it?) Here's some more random crap.

Here's proof that I'm not the only one watching Battlestar Galactica.

The picture of the one-eyed cat is true.

And this....you gotta be kidding. Talk about too much TV being bad for your health.

Random Stuff

Time for a new 2006 flavor bunch of random crap.

Warp speed, Mr. Scott! Making the jump to hyperspace....SOON!

And along a similar note, the vision of the "Firefly" 'verse of a Chinese-English future is already coming true!! Mandarin Chinese is THE world's most widely-spoken language, and it's just beginning to surface in U.S. classrooms.


And in closing our broadcast today....the "You Gotta Be Kidding Me" Dept: HA!

Happy Birthday Elvis

Elvis Presley, who would later become known as the "King of Rock 'n' Roll," was born on January 8, 1935, in Tupelo, Miss. to Vernon Elvis Presley and Gladys Love Smith. He would have celebrated his 71st birthday today.

You know the story.

A twin brother Jessie was a stillborn. Elvis began singing hymns and gospel tunes in church and at state fairs as a child. At age 18, he walked into a Memphis studio and paid $4 to record 'My Happiness' and 'That's When Your Heartaches Begin' as a present for his mother. The studio owner, Sam Phillips, recognized the teenager's talent and helped him score a record deal.

Presley was an almost immediate success, an international sensation, infusing rock 'n' roll with country music, R&B and gospel. He also became international controversy with his hip-shaking moves; it made teens swoon but their parents cringe.

Elvis also starred in 33 films as he enjoyed steady chart success from the mid '50s through the mid '70s, selling more than a billion records to date.

On August 16, 1977 Elvis died of cardiac arrhythmia -- a form of heart attack -- inside his Graceland mansion.

He has gone down in history as one of the most important figures of popular culture.

whoa....

I'm reading a book about how technology will change humanity over the next couple of decades. What boggles my mind is how he explains how fast things will change.

It goes something like this; say from 1970 to 1980 things changed. Ten years worth.

Then from 1980 to 1990, things changed but faster. We crammed 13 years worth technological evolution into those ten actual years.

From 1990 to 2000, we crammed 18 years worth of change.

From 2000 to today, we went through 20 years worth. See where this is going?

Things will now be changing even faster.

From today through 2010 we'll go through maybe 40-plus years of technological evolution. By the end of this century, the human race will pass through 20,000 years worth of technological changes.

I'm not even 10 pages into it....but so far, whoa.

The Singularity Is Near by Ray Kurzweil

(sigh of relief)

Okay, I'm back!

I was worried there for a moment, I thought I had suddenly forgot how to click "Publish Post." All I had to do was clear my cache. Simple.

I missed me.

HELLO!?!?

So I seem to be having trouble here again. My New Years post isn't showing, and I KNOW I did one (I didn't have ANY drinks that night)

Testing, testing! Is anybody there??