Its retirement never even merited a notice on the drive-through menu, much less a memorial service with Homer Simpson-esque eulogies. But over the summer, when customers were distracted by Coffee Coolattas and maple-frosted scones and such, Dunkin’ Donuts took a step that left some loyalists with an empty, funereal feeling, twisting them in knots like the snack whose passing they now mourn.
You, too, can join Kenneth Copeland’s “special forces” team!
Mach .92 – Spreading the word around the world at 600MPH!
As you know, Gloria and I have been believing God for two Cessna Citation X’s so that we can better fulfill the calling of Kenneth Copeland Ministries—to take the Word of God to the world—from the top to the bottom and all the way around.
I’m thinking that God wants me and Becky to take the word of God to Houston this winter at 183 mph starting off at 0-62mph in 4.5 seconds, so we are praying that God will provide us with two Ferrari 360 Modenas — please, help us find this dream.
Cuba second from last, just ahead of North Korea
Reporters Without Borders is publishing its second world press freedom ranking. As in 2002, the most catastrophic situation is to be found in Asia, especially North Korea, Burma and Laos. Second from last in the ranking, Cuba is today the world’s biggest prison for journalists. The United States and Italy were given relatively low rankings.
Here’s a quiz that tests your memory of lyrics instead of song/artist. I really want to see how Betc does on this since she sings along to EVERY song on the radio.
Mac users installing the new OS upgrade are having their external hard drives wiped of all data. Despite what PC-philes will say, this only points to the equivalacy of the platforms. This could happen in any OS so you should always have a backup…Always have a back-up is getting harder and harder, though, now that we all have large external drives. I know this because I lost a drive last weekend and had to pay $100 to recover the data. (Oddly, I can recover the data, but the drive still won’t format…)
Think I’ll try this after my first marathon instead of the IronMan. Who’s with me?
You’ve all probably noticed the CGI Timeouts occuring here at the BPB. The general cause is that MT(Movable Type – the blog tool we use) rebuilds archives every time an entry or comment is made. I have tried to fix this problem by removing the “Category” Archives. A) I don’t think they are used…at all. 2) Each entry had to be stuffed in an Archive that was numbering in the 500+ range, which takes to much CPU — I think. So, here’s hoping I’ve cleard out the problem.
Happy blogging!
(trying again…)
Dig it. I did the scary one, my dear bride did the middle one, and Jake wanted the smallest one.
Read more!Fire away, folks. As a middle-class, white, Republican (At least until the primaries) male I’m the last acceptable target for humor in the US. The powers that be have declared that it’s no longer kosher to make jokes like “Fight inbreeding, ban country music,” or to wear overalls and buck teeth for halloween. “I can’t think of any instances where it’s OK to make fun of someone who lacks medical care,” says Rubin, an American studies professor at the University of Massachusetts in Boston.
Cletus the-slack-jawed Yokel is now officially a disenfranchised minority. But it’s still OK to make fun of the group you claim Foxworthy, who defines “redneck” as a “glorious absence of sophistication,” has never been the subject of protests, despite the subject of his humor. His audience knows his “redneck” jokes are inspired by his own experience, he said.
But does it run Linux and has someone ported Doom to the new optical processor?
Spending long stretches of time reading can cause headaches! (I know you are all shocked.) And some parents were so concerned about the effects on their children when reading the latest Harry Potter tome that they took them to the doctor to find a rememdy.
A Washington doctor warned that he has seen three children complain of headaches caused by the physical stress of relentlessly plowing through the epic 870-page adventure.
The worst part is that some parents decided it was better to drug their kids than to actually implement some discipline.
The obvious cure for this malady — that is, taking a break from reading — was rejected by two of the patients, Bennett said, adding that the children took acetaminophen instead.
And extremely sad. A Houston Police Detective was found shot in his cubicle at HPD headquarters downtown. He was apparently a good fella – One of those (long term) investigations yielded results this week, with the arrest of Anthony Allen Shore, who was charged Monday with four counts of capital murder in connection with the deaths of three girls and a young woman. Smith had been involved in the probe of the September 1986 killing of 15-year-old Laura Lee Tremblay, one of Shore’s alleged victims.
There’s no word if this may have been suicide.