Health story of the Week

During the summer time, it’s even more common to come in contact with animals. Heck, when I went running yesterday, I saw a wild deer. I tore off after it in hopes to a barehanded kill, but the doe was too fast for me, next time, Bambi, next time.

In any case, no matter where you go, be it countryside or the city, you are in danger of being attacked by animals. Stay alert, everyone. And don’t let the bed bugs bite.

Reach out and touch someone?

There seems to be a lot of this going around lately: a toll free number listed on a Web site has some kind of typo, which leads to people seeking help or information and instead getting a sex hotline. Mistakes will happen and this may just happen often enough that this blog no longer needs to point it out to people.

Except when it’s a sexual assault hotline listed on the Florida attorney general’s Web site.

‘A very nice woman’

It seems naked people are everywhere, this week. Not only are they found riding bicycles in Europe, they also use cars to get around in Germany.

On Sunday customers reported a blonde woman wearing nothing but golden stilettos stepped out of her Ferrari. She walked into the shop and bought some cigarettes and most likely inspired roughly 50 adult films.

Key quote: “‘I wasn’t surprised because she’s come in naked before–she’s a very nice woman,’ Swoboda said, adding none of the other customers were bothered. The woman could have faced charges of creating a public disturbance if anyone had complained.”

Take that, recent Pixar movie

Anyone can who has been to a grocery store in the past 20 years can tell you that there are a ton of different flavors of potato chips available to consumers. Salt and vinegar, sea salt, barbecue, salt and pepper, french onion and so on.

But now there is a new flavor out now. Fried mouse and barbecue chips are the new craze, according to one man in Montana. The man claims he found a fried mouse in a bag of barbecue chips. So look for that flavor soon, kids.

Interesting side note: in Canada they make ketchup flavored chips.

Turncoat of the Week

As in every war, the War on Animals has its enemy sympathizers. No better example of that is there than Zoey the Chihuahua. Under normal circumstances, the breed of dog with have nothing short of a massacre on its mind–and, of course, shivering.

But when Zoey’s master’s 1-year-old came in contact with a rattlesnake, it was all slow-motion body guard action with the dog. Zoey took all the bites, saving the toddler, then made a miraculous recovery. This blog votes for a reprieve.

The McBournie Minute: Our robot masters

Tons of movies, and probably a book or two, have been based on the theme of technology becoming too powerful for mankind to control. Take, for example, the 1997 chess match between Deep Blue and Gary Kasparov, machine defeats human.

Now we have Japanese dancing robots, dolls that can feel our touch, cell phones that can recognize our voices. Slowly but surely, we are losing out hold of the reigns of our servants. One day they will rise up against us.

Then again, maybe not.

A computer program made at the University of Alberta called Chinook, plays a perfect game of checkers. It promises that if you play it, the best you can hope for is a tie. This would have been an incredible step 10 years ago, but we already know computers can beat chess masters. Checkers is even easier to master. Next we’ll have a computer that can play a perfect game of Sorry!

As long as we keep these machines interested in the simple games, they won’t have time to plot the day they take over control of the world from us. They may even get dumber.