Archive for March, 2007
True grit — Another first for Eric
Eric tried grits for the first time (ever) today. I don’t think he likes them. He mixed them with butter and salt. My mother indicated that he might try them with cheese next time.
A $1 parking ticket? How cheap!
ABC News: $1 Parking Ticket From 1980 Paid Off
A $1 parking ticket from 1980 has been paid off, after the offender sent the payment along with a $3 late fee to police without giving a name.
When I left Memphis, I folded up a hundred dollar bill, stuck it in a library book, and dropped [...]
Rats from a sinking ship — but why did they get on?
Delta Air plans for stock to trade on NYSE in May | Transportation | Reuters
Existing shares of Delta will be wiped out when the company emerges from Chapter 11. Delta has said it expects to have a market value of $10 billion.
I’ve done some profoundly stupid things in my life… The most recent didn’t involve [...]
Gmail down — someone send up a flare!
Dammit. I need my Gmail.I like the idea of moving as much of my life as possible to web-based apps — mainly ’cause I have access to them everywhere — but when one of them breaks, it’s a pain. I continue to applaud Google and gmail, though. I understand brief outages.Technorati Tags: Gmail, google, outage, [...]
Secular legislators?
God’s dupes – Los Angeles Times
PETE STARK, a California Democrat, appears to be the first congressman in U.S. history to acknowledge that he doesn’t believe in God. In a country in which 83% of the population thinks that the Bible is the literal or “inspired” word of the creator of the universe, this took [...]
