AOL continues to send its users onto the increasingly speedy information superhighway in brightly colored, beeping golf carts.
– one of my favorite quotes from “Here Comes Version 8.0” in this Fortune magazine article online
Heh heh… not much more I need to add to that 🙂
While I guess this isn’t breaking news at this point, I just heard that the winner of the Miss N. Carolina pageant resigned after “her former boyfriend had contacted the Miss America organization, saying he had nude photos of her” unbenownst to her when she was changing clothes.
Lordy, and to think that this woman had the audacity to be NAKED during the process!
Actually, in this article, it’s shown how other beauty queens have been adversely (perversely?) affected as well. Only in America…
Trying to raise funds for their new uniforms and having ceded bake sale rights to their Girl Scout counterparts, the Boy Scouts resignedly put themselves up for rent in this remote area of Costa Rica.
Okay, okay, so perhaps it was just a typo, but this was indeed a sign near one of the volcanos in Costa Rica. I’ll post a more scenic picture later 🙂
In a usergroup dedicated to troubleshooting of a particular software app, one frustrated user posted a note titled, “Can’t get it up on a Mac!”
The immediate reply, I felt, was on target and priceless:
“Red wine and a Barry White album might do the trick.”
The UCSF Pain Clinical Research Center is seeking healthy volunteers between the ages of 18 and 60. If you do not suffer from any chronic pain, you may be eligible to participate in a research study of experimentally-produced pain and analgesic medications. Participants must be able to come to the UCSF Pain Clinical Research Center for five sessions at least one week apart. Flexible scheduling and paid participation.
Part of me wonders about self-selection biases. What if they get a whole lot of S&M folks with high pain tolerances? Does this mean the experiments are then going to result in super-weak pain drugs? Or maybe I just have too vivid of an imagination? All I can say is… I’m not rushing to sign up!
Oh, and the title of this entry? It refers actually to one of the (many) strange annual parties I enjoyed while living in Northwestern University’s Willard Residential College (dorm).
EDITED July 5, 2021 to note:
Um, just to clarify… the above-mentioned parties included neither actual whipping or beating. And “body” equalled t-shirts. There was pain, however, in the day-after hangovers.
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Cow statue with Adam (left and right respectively) in London, England
All the way from Chicago to London! And yes, there’s a non-Brit mad cow admirer on the right. Wonder who it could be?
Okay, just to provide a minor amount of amusement for those folks who’ve scarily stumbled upon my oh-boy-is-this-under-construction Web log, I submit for your viewing pleasure this strange-but-true photo taken in Strasbourg, France last year.
Bonus points to those who know what it is. Extra special bonus points to those who have no frigging idea what it is, but are brave or entertaining enough to throw out a guess or two via the comments option below.