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I didn’t learn this stuff until high school, in Oceanography. Now I’m worried the US is falling behind Europe in education.

Teh funnay.

“Well, even accepting your idiotic premise, the tsunami was caused by an earthquake, so…”

“You admit the Bush administration angered the earth gods then?” one reporter interjected.

“No! There is no relation between the White House policies and the tsunami!”

“Then why weren’t there tsunami during other presidencies, such as the revered Clinton administration?”

“Yeah,” another reporter followed up, “Why won’t Bush ever admit to a mistake and that he has angered the spirits of nature?”

I invested a whole semester of typing—yes, typing…on typewriters— class to learn the QWERTY layout. You’ll be hard-pressed to make me change.

Personally, I got a new wall calendar

What we could have learned last year.

This is the most handy:

19. The collective noun for rhinos is “crash”.

To whom it may concern:

I was off last week, and spent the entire time either sleeping or sitting in front of my television watching the Return of the King DVDs*. It won’t happen again. At least not until next Christmas. So, I’m back; rested, tanned**, and ready to face the new year.

Also, I have two weeks worth of work to get done this week, so posting may be spotty.

*This is only a slight exageration. I also watched The Terminal and something else that I can’t remember right now. Obviously not worth the late fee I have on it.

**not tanned. This is Idaho.

Because when you think world shaking, you think Boise.

Don’t call Americans stingy, okay? It upsets them.

The nerds are sending out a robot to trample the crowds and cause chaos. Ooo, pretty!

Quakes reaching a magnitude 8 are very rare. A quake registering magnitude 8 rocked Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido on Sept. 25, 2003, injuring nearly 600 people. An 8.4 magnitude tremor that struck off the coast of Peru on June 23, 2001, killed 74.

Seems like they aren’t that rare at all. Wasn’t there one Thursday too?

In case you need a major award.

A fantastic idea.

Dropping its daily diet of stories on crime, corruption and evil wrongdoing, Germany’s top-selling Bild newspaper printed only good news in its Christmas issue.

via Fark

It’s the American way.

“I’m an American, I love my country,” said Mr Seidman. “But, no, we’re not always masters of subtlety and restrained good taste. We go all out sometimes.”

The Washington State governor election.

I don’t get it. How does it work exactly?

Does he realize that he can upload different music onto them? Then one of each color would be plenty.

DO NOT dishwasher flimsy plastic lids.

/I’m sure the plastic will eventually burn off

Harsh, but funny.

Jonah Goldberg on Christmas

If minorities want the majority to be tolerant of them, minorities in turn need to tolerate at least some of the norms of the majority. Simply because there are more Christians than Jews or Muslims or atheists, doesn’t mean that Christians should always get the shaft. That said, Christians — or at least the politically organized ones — don’t do themselves any favors when they start talking like just another identity-politics group. Christians seem to be complaining more this year than usual about the war on Christmas, even as they are finding more success. Arnold Schwarzenegger renamed the governor’s “holiday tree” a Christmas tree. George Bush is the first president ever to include a quote from scripture on his Christmas card. Besides, once “Merry Christmas” becomes a political statement, everyone loses.

And Simpson’s quotes.

On Rumsfeld.

Donald Rumsfeld is no Les Aspin or William Cohen, but a rare sort of secretary of the caliber of George Marshall. I wish he were more media-savvy and could ape Bill Clinton’s lip-biting and furrowed brow. He should, but, alas, cannot.

Rumsfeld is the only polititian I can stand listening to, because of his forthrightness.

It doesn’t matter.

A Christmas Carol revisited.

Jessica Simpson: Three ghosts haunt Ebeneezer Scrooge. They both teach him a valuable lesson about life.

via Instapundit

Someone is throwing rocks at us.

New York City comedians are upset about their pay and may strike. Oh no.

Three hundred comics cannot be ignored,” Meneve said.

On the radio this morning I heard that the Democratic leaders were asking Rossi to concede. Like, you know, they did when Rossi won the first two ballot counts.

Yes, we can all breath a sigh of relief. Enterprise will explain where the ridges came from.

Michelle Malkin on Christian persecution around the world. Here’s another place you can help out that I recommend.

So, not a lot happening in Alaska, eh?

H2G2 update, with video.

CBS gossip.

I saw something astounding this morning. A Coca-Cola truck! Yes, I know, I didn’t think they let them into Pepsi country either.

We’re offended when the heathens celebrate—a commercialized—Christmas and we’re offended when they don’t want to.

Jeff Jarvis says it well.

On Alexander Flew’s recent shift.

Indeed

via Instapundit

Because little kids have no imagination.

Nokia is here to help.

In keeping with my Catholic and Coffee theme. A coffee bar on the roof of St. Peter’s Basilica.

via Fark

Since it’s snack time let me tell you a little recipe I made this weekend. I’ll call it: Bleu Cheese Hamburger. If you don’t like bleu cheese, you won’t like this at all. It’s loosely based on Red Robin’s Bleu Ribbon Burger and Tako’s steak topping.

Ingredients:

hamburger
garlic powder
salt
pepper

crumbled bleu cheese
butter
salt
pepper

Preparation:

Take hamburger, however much you need to make enough to feed everyone. Add salt, pepper, garlic powder, etc. to taste. Shape into patties. Cook on medium heat. Or medium high if you like a nice rare hamburger. Mmmm, rare hamburger. Make sure you flip the burgers once each.

Take (1) part butter to (3) parts bleu cheese. (One tablespoon butter and 3 tablespoons bleu cheese makes enough for 2 burgers. Three if you’re stingy. You’re going to have to do the math here if you are making more than two burgers.) Smoosh together using your favorite utensil or fingers. Add salt and pepper to taste. Smoosh more.

Remove burgers from pan when sufficiently heated. Apply topping. Cover loosely, let rest 5 minutes. Serve on crusty rolls with the usual suspects.

Nifty idea, but that’s some nasty “coffee”.

UPDATE: And not so much an update as a related thought that isn’t really deserving of a new post. Anyway, Earl Grey, hot, is teh nasty, but Stash Double Bergamot Earl Grey is darn tasty.

In an effort to help spread the pope’s message, I didn’t get you anything.

So, a huge percentage of the humvees already have been up-armored. Imagine my surprise. Way to take a non-issue and run with it guys.

I know a few guys who crochet, but they just make beanies, not models of mathmatical equations.

So, I can keep my SUV?

Wanna see some bad acting? Barney-cam.

It’s like a whole nother world.

But it’s my freaking money. Just stop taking it from me and let me save, spend, or invest it however I see fit.

Belarus is selling old Soviet junk.

via The Corner

Carl’s Jr. is here to help start your day right.

Carl’s Jr. on Wednesday introduced the Breakfast Burger, a hamburger topped with a fried egg, hash browns, bacon and cheese, that weighs in at 830 calories and 46 grams of fat.

Also,

“Obviously, the health of its customers is not one of Hardee’s top priorities,” said Marion Nestle, professor of nutrition at New York University.

And why would it be?

COROLLARILY, there’s this story.

The Love Shack burned down.

Ursula K. Le Guin wants to clear something up about the Sci-Fi Channel adaptation of her books. (I vaguely remember reading the books decades ago, but I couldn’t wrap my head around them at the time.) But she says this,

I think it is possible that some readers never even notice what color the people in the story are. Don’t notice, don’t care. Whites of course have the privilege of not caring, of being “colorblind.” Nobody else does.

Is it true? I don’t know. Should I start caring what color your skin is?

In case you haven’t gotten my Christmas present yet, here’s an idea. I have the perfect place for it right in my basement.

Instapundit asks

WHAT’S FUNNIER THAN mass slaughter of Republicans?

Well, mass slaughter of Democrats, obviously. All those old hippies running around, with no guns to defend themselves. Hilarity ensues.

Oh, wait, that’s not funny. Sorry, my bad.

From The Corner

ANTI-COMBUSTION [John Derbyshire]
A reader tells me: “Yesterday NPR aired a piece in which the reporter set up a clip of someone by saying she was from an ‘anti-poverty’ organization. As contrasted with all those pro-poverty organizations?”

Yes, I believe it’s called “the Republican party”

/I keed, I keed

If I were, you know, giving gifts I would be hard pressed to wrap them better than Amazon.

FCC to allow cell phones on airlines. But the best part is this:

Currently, the only way passengers on domestic flights can communicate with the ground is through phones usually built into seatbacks. That service isn’t very popular: It costs far more than conventional or cell phones — about $3.99 a minute — and the reception often is poor.

Then one paragraph later:

Verizon Airfone, which is the only company that offers seatback phone service, maintains that letting one company handle the service would ensure the best quality.

Oh yeah.

Tom Ridge realizes too late that no one takes his rainbow of fruit colors seriously.

This is why I live in fear of global warming. Oh wait, no I don’t.

“For instance, often women don’t know how to swim, so in a flood situation that can lead to a higher instance of death or injury,” Angie Daze, a program manager with a Canadian group called Reducing Vulnerability to Climate Change, said.

…

Women are highly dependent on the environment for their family responsibilities” in developing countries, said one environmental worker based in Bangladesh.

I think that has more to do with the grinding poverty in Bangladesh than their gender, as mentioned here.

New-fangled eyeglasses.

Wil is on to something here.

Whoa! A remix of my favoritest oldies song. (direct link)

The rovers are still rovering.

Open the Amazon box that came today or wait until Christmas?

And boy, is it heavy.

$26,500 for a freaking imaginary island!

The fact that they plan to, and probably will, make money off of it doesn’t make me feel better.

According to Right Wing News.

I have wondered about this. I’m still not sure if I agree, but it’s something to think about.

Washington’s recount continues apace.

UPDATE: A visual representation of the situation for the reading impaired.

A temporary tax on alcohol—to fund the Civil War—has been lifted.

Something sure happened.

It was mentioned here back in October. I still think it was the lettuce.

300 pound woman has a 66 pound cyst removed surgically. WARNING!!! teh nasty pic. And there’s a video but there’s no way I’m watching that.

UPDATE: Yes, the news is so underwhelming today I have nothing better to blog about. Somebody say something outrageous or do something.

Nobody crosses the Mob, er, I mean, Italian businessmen.

And just a reminder Return of the King comes out TOMORROW! w00t!

Star Wars Lego video game.

Dave Barry heals the division.

Yes. This is called ”diversity,” and it is why we are such a great nation — a nation that has given the world both nuclear weapons AND SpongeBob Squarepants.

How to become Rich and Famous in the blogworld.

via Instapundit

Poor? Need free software? The Open CD 2.0 is here for you. As soon as I fix replace my hard drive at home, I am so getting this.

via Slashdot

Is Europe the Ents? If they are, does that make America the Entwives?

Walking in a winter wonderland snowglobe.

Pleeeeasse, Chriiiiiistmaaasss, dooonnn’t beeee laaaaaaaaaate!

Warning! I could only get it to work in IE. Oh, wait, Opera too. Still not Firefox though, my l33t internets skillz have failed me.

Like those nifty calculator watches that were so cool amongst the nerds back in my day.

Why are the British people putting up with this crap?

A little bit about former-atheist philosopher Flew’s conversion to deism.

Scott is on a roll. Especially this one.

And speaking of coffee, a guy came through today that was a dead ringer for Macgyver/Jack O’Neill. Of course the 30-year old beater Ford he was driving and his lunchbox caused me to doubt it was actually Macgyver, but it livened up the morning. And he tipped well.

Sorry kids, actual work is interfering with blogging. Hopefully it’ll all calm down by tomorrow. To make up for it, here’s a picture of a bunny with a pancake on its head.

So, Norm Mineta is staying on as Secretary of Transportation.

Disney is throwing it’s weight behind Blu-Ray DVDs.

Of course, the real question here is when is Disney going to release Rocketman on DVD? Any DVD format will do, just release it already.

That one day, any person, of any economic class, will be able to afford toner cartridges.

I think this helps.

The brain-in-a-dish was DeMarse’ idea.

For future reference, brains-in-a-dish is never a good idea.

Dick Clark is a robot, how could he have a stroke?

UPDATE: I guess technically he would be an android. Sorry, my bad.

A collection of Jonah Goldberg quotes over at Right Wing News.

Okay, the story isn’t that interesting, but the subhead on the frontpage is great (in the box near the top).

I know I’d feel safer with one of these.

Lileks goes off on Morality

Where do tourists buy stuff that says “Coeur d’Alene” or “Idaho” on it. I need gifty things for Christmas and I’m guessing I won’t be able to pick them up online where I normally do my shopping.

Alton has a holiday recipe up.

And speaking of which, did you know you can get custom printed M&Ms?

This week’s Amazon Theater is a refreshingly normal one.

86% remission of leukemia with this new pill.

Ben Stein on post-election Hollywood.

via Inoperable Terran

This sort of thing just amazes me.

“The results show that people can learn to use scalp-recorded electroencephalogram rhythms to control rapid and accurate movement of a cursor in two directions,” said Jonathan Wolpaw and Dennis McFarlane.

Who wouldn’t “scope out” a building before attacking it? That’s like saying, “and we think they were upset at us”.

Does the future really need an oral history of Ted Kennedy?

via Fark

The Satsuma tangerines are 10 times better than those other ones that start with an F. No seeds. Tangelos trump all though.

Carry on with your lives.

Young people are used to using and getting information from the internet.

via Slashdot

Dumb dopers.

Elven magic is what makes Google so delicious.

Intel cans Pentium II.

Yes, I’m actually typing this on the Lappy 486.

A scientist claims that soon we may be able to live to be 1000 years old. Think of the Social Security. Of course, I’m really used to being alive and wouldn’t mind keeping doing it for a long time.

And the opposing view. Sort of. More like the doubting view.

via Slashdot

What is with the freaky picture Drudge has up right now?

“Progressive” equals “classical liberal”? Dumb political correctness.

The special edition LOTR trilogy is available. I would have thought they would wait 6 months.

See beautiful Zimbabwe and lose weight.

via Inoperable Terran

Suprisingly, the Nazis have nothing to do with it.

I don’t know if I want to live in a city full of dirt dumpers.

The Pentagon’s job isn’t to do news, it’s to fight wars. And hopefully they will use whatever tools necessary to do the job. Within reason. Of course, that’s the rub.

Equal is suing Splenda.

William Shatner does Rocketman. Where could I have found this before the internet, I ask you.

via The Guardian

Careful with your Lava Lamp.

A bit on the Ukraine troubles and how to solve them.

I’d figure out a way to fill it.

4-wheel drive is the greatest thing ever. When there’s snow on the ground, 4wd does nothing against the solid sheet of ice built up around the stop signs. Of course, my vehicle turns like a cow in 4wd and gets cow-like gas milage, but that’s not all bad.

This’ll go well.

VDH on Alexander.

Alexander the Great is third-rate Cecil B. Demille in drag.