http://www.dangerouslogic.com/blog/ Brandishing dangerous logic in the fight against dangerous stupidity. en-us parking_god@yahoo.com 2009-05-08T11:40:22-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 This is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site, subject to copyright and fair use. http://www.dangerouslogic.com/archive/001447.html [H/T Daily Telegraph Sign Language, where there is a good-sized collection of funny signs and examples of Engrish] Tags: Daily Telegraph funny signs Engrish... 1447@http://www.dangerouslogic.com/blog/ General Weirdness 2009-05-08T11:40:22-05:00 http://www.dangerouslogic.com/archive/001446.html For a while now, Comcast has been advertising how much better their high-speed Internet is than DSL; for example, they used a pair of low-speed turtles (but I repeat myself) named the Slowskys to contrast the old and busted DSL with teh new hotness of cable modemity. Since I've been workin' teh newer hotness of FiOS for about two years... 1446@http://www.dangerouslogic.com/blog/ General Weirdness 2009-02-10T13:06:10-05:00 http://www.dangerouslogic.com/archive/001445.html Sometimes you have to endure a Carter to get a Reagan. We survived Jimmah; we'll survive this.... 1445@http://www.dangerouslogic.com/blog/ Political Stupidity 2008-11-05T19:06:11-05:00 http://www.dangerouslogic.com/archive/001444.html I take full responsibility for Michigan's loss to Toledo last Saturday. In all my 35+ years as a fan, that was the first game I'd seen at Michigan Stadium. Clearly, I am a jinx. I did get one picture that seems to summarize things this year - good effort, lots of promise, but blown up and ultimately futile. It's Sam... 1444@http://www.dangerouslogic.com/blog/ Michigan Football 2008-10-16T21:37:22-05:00 http://www.dangerouslogic.com/archive/001443.html Seen on a local church marquee last night: Every life is sacred and a gift from God So if you put your baby up for adoption, would that be considered regifting?... 1443@http://www.dangerouslogic.com/blog/ General Weirdness 2008-10-01T06:30:42-05:00 http://www.dangerouslogic.com/archive/001442.html Our financial sector is in near-meltdown. Meanwhile, China successfully completes a manned space mission. Twenty years from now, will we look back on this week as the beginning of the changing of the guard?... 1442@http://www.dangerouslogic.com/blog/ General Weirdness 2008-09-29T16:17:21-05:00 http://www.dangerouslogic.com/archive/001441.html It's pretty well established that Vladimir Putin wants to bring back the Soviet Union; his actions (Medvedev? Who?) in Georgia point pretty strongly to that. In true Soviet style, he's trying to blame the U.S. for the Russian invasion: MOSCOW: As Russia struggled to rally international support for its military action in Georgia, Vladimir Putin, the country's paramount leader, lashed... 1441@http://www.dangerouslogic.com/blog/ Political Stupidity 2008-08-29T16:33:31-05:00 http://www.dangerouslogic.com/archive/001440.html Let me get this straight - not only did the first female Speaker of the House not get a headlining speech at her party's convention... "Now we have Nancy Pelosi bloviating, and I say that in an affectionate way, behind us," [Bill] O'Reilly said. "It doesn't seem like the crowd is on the edge of their seats." Fox's viewers weren't... 1440@http://www.dangerouslogic.com/blog/ Political Stupidity 2008-08-26T12:58:02-05:00 http://www.dangerouslogic.com/archive/001439.html Did you settle for the Smart fortwo passion... ...because you couldn't justify the extra $26,000 for the Smart Crossblade Limited? Well, don't despair, because if you bought one of the 43 fortwos recalled for defective paint, you could end up with a Crossblade at any moment: According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the faulty paint was applied... 1439@http://www.dangerouslogic.com/blog/ Roadgeekery 2008-08-25T09:20:56-05:00 http://www.dangerouslogic.com/archive/001438.html Memo to the U.S. Olympic women's Gymnastics team: your pratfalls in the team competition had absolutely nothing to do with the age of the Chinese gymnasts. (not that it would have mattered - I think gymnastics is rigged worse than pro 'wrestling' and almost as bad as figure skating) Not to put too fine a point on it, but if... 1438@http://www.dangerouslogic.com/blog/ Sports 2008-08-15T09:00:49-05:00 http://www.dangerouslogic.com/archive/001437.html Actual headline on the Fox News Channel, about five minutes ago: What Can You Do To Protect Yourself From Vampire Bats? Tags: Fox News Channel vampire bats... 1437@http://www.dangerouslogic.com/blog/ Media Stupidity 2008-08-11T09:41:45-05:00 http://www.dangerouslogic.com/archive/001436.html California just enacted a new law requiring that people who use cell phones while driving also use hands-free devices. I wonder what happened to the accident rate last week, since all these people are now distracted by fiddling with brand-new (and unfamiliar) hands-free devices.... 1436@http://www.dangerouslogic.com/blog/ General Weirdness 2008-07-10T14:56:32-05:00 http://www.dangerouslogic.com/archive/001435.html I have this really really tattered Red Wings car flag. It's been with me since just after the '97 Cup-winning season. After the 2002 Cup-winning season, I bought a new car flag to succeed it. I'm as superstitious as the next hockey fan (maybe we get that from the players), so naturally I thought that my choice of when, where,... 1435@http://www.dangerouslogic.com/blog/ Sports 2008-06-05T11:22:07-05:00 http://www.dangerouslogic.com/archive/001434.html The Vatican has announced that there are now more Muslims than Catholics: Islam has overtaken Roman Catholicism as the biggest single religious denomination in the world, the Vatican said on Sunday. Monsignor Vittorio Formenti, who compiled the Vatican's newly-released 2008 yearbook of statistics, said Muslims made up 19.2 percent of the world's population and Catholics 17.4 percent. That's all well... 1434@http://www.dangerouslogic.com/blog/ Official Stupidity 2008-03-31T17:24:37-05:00 http://www.dangerouslogic.com/archive/001433.html I'll be converting to Movable Type 4 in the next few days. Hopefully that'll be the impetus I need to blog more often. Update 8 MAR 08: Since I haven't upgraded since I originally installed MT2.6(!) back in July of 2003(!!!), I have to upgrade to MT3.3 and thence to MT4.0. Things may go wonky, perhaps seriously so, over the... 1433@http://www.dangerouslogic.com/blog/ Administrivia 2008-03-07T18:27:24-05:00