Open Threads

I have been without a watch for going on ten years. Well, sorta. I have a timex od green watch that I wore when in uniform, but I have no civvy watch and have basically gone without one for the past decade. There really was no reason. I have been either a student or a teacher the past ten-fifteen years, and I would just got o class as a student when I saw most people moving with a purpose, and now I just use the computer to look at what time it is before heading to class early.

At any rate, to make a long story short, I am looking at watches. What do you recommend? I like the look of some Tag’s, but I really like the price and utility of the Seiko kinetic watches. I also absolutely detest things clinging to me, and weight is an issue. Furthermore, I don’t want to spend a small fortune on a watch.

Wristwatch QuestionPost + Comments (45)

Camp Sheehan is no more:

The Camp Casey Memorial on Prairie Chapel Road was removed by thieves earlier today. Not a single item is left at the memorial site.

Crew members working for McLennan County said they witnessed items being removed by an unidentified individual and contacted their office to inform commissioners.

Upon arrival at Camp Casey, honor guard members who had been at the Crawford Peace House immediately called McLennan County Sheriff’s Deputy R. Polansky to report the theft.

Has anyone seen Karl Rove in the past few days?

Very InterestingPost + Comments (33)

This is the weirdest thing I have read in a while:

An Australian man built up a 40,000-volt charge of static electricity in his clothes as he walked, leaving a trail of scorched carpet and molten plastic and forcing firefighters to evacuate a building.

Frank Clewer, who was wearing a woollen shirt and a synthetic nylon jacket, was oblivious to the growing electrical current that was building up as his clothes rubbed together.

When he walked into a building in the country town of Warrnambool in the southern state of Victoria on Thursday, the electrical charge ignited the carpet…

Firefighters cut electricity to the building thinking the burns might have been caused by a power surge.

Clewer, who after leaving the building discovered he had scorched a piece of plastic on the floor of his car, returned to seek help from the firefighters.

“We tested his clothes with a static electricity field metre and measured a current of 40,000 volts, which is one step shy of spontaneous combustion, where his clothes would have self-ignited,” Barton said.

Strange enough for you?

Shocking NewsPost + Comments (30)

Am I the only person on the planet who didn’t know Bush was addressing the nation tonight?

Jeebus. Take a day off reading blogs and watch the news, settle d0wn in front of the tube with some Choco-Mint Chip ice cream and a two-hour CSI (that I missed earlier in the year), and Bush is addressing the damned nation for an hour. Will this really take an hour? I can do it in thirty words:

Howdy folks. Bush here.

A hurricane came.

It was big.

Killed lots of people.

Our response was not what we wanted.

But we will rebuild.

Think permanent deficits.

Night.

Now on with CSI before my ice cream melts.

DAMNIT TO HELL!Post + Comments (75)

Jeff Goldstein has a long post up on the levee breaches and why it took so long to plug them (something I find interesting, since it still boggles my mind that the solution was ‘big sandbags,’), and when you are done reading that, go hit his tip jar, as he had to move to a dedicated server.

Also, you can treat this as an open thread on the Roberts confirmation hearings, which I am too busy to follow. If anything interesting happens, let me know.

Go Help JeffPost + Comments (14)

Trying out the office digital camera for something else, so I thought I would bring you some shots of the roommate:

People who pose cats for a living do not earn enough money. If I could figure out how to turn the flash off on this thing, I bet he would stop scowling, too.

Tunch ShotsPost + Comments (30)